Ever wanted to know how to make a TRUE “New York” style pizza?  I grew up eating them and I am going to show you as I visit Frank of Pizza Suprema this Saturday.

The episode will air on “The Expressionist Magazine” and right here on my website.

Pizza Suprema
1909 Collier Parkway
Lutz, FL
www.originalpizzasuprema.com

Taping:  Saturday, December 17, 2011 @ 10:00 AM
Airs:  December 24, 2011

I love art, its a part of me.  I love all aspects and I respect the vast and complicated mediums of art that surround us.  With that in mind I have decided to host my own radio and web TV show called “The World of Art”.

This series will cover these fields of art

• Culinary
• Fine Art
• Performing Art
• TV/Movies
• Music
• Photography
• Literary Art
• Fashion Industry / Modeling

Each week I will cover topics that pertain to the art world.  Callers will be allowed to call in and discuss the topic at hand.

I will interview artists, celebrities and those who work in the art industry field to expose the wonderful world of art around us.

“The World of Art” will be heard each week on Blog Talk Radio, and featured on “The Expressionist Magazine” another media project I have created to bring art appreciation and awareness to the world.  The show will be seen on my YouTube channel.

You can download or listen to the show LIVE by visiting the homepage of my website and turn the player on during syndication, or if you miss it you can play it back in our archives or download it as a podcast.  You can also visit the show page at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theworldofart and join in with the chat room where I will take questions live.

The first show is scheduled for December 31, 2011 at 6:00 PM for 30 minutes; it will be fun way to bring in the New Year.  Guests and topics are yet to be planned and booked.

I research vintage photographs all the time.  I noticed though that there were not many Native American’s in them.  I later found out Native Americans believe that camera’s capture a persons soul on paper, trapping it – so many refrained from having their photos taken.

Looking over these pictures I found something quite interesting.  Some of the photos drew me to them.  I could not help but stare at them; I could feel something off of them.  Then, there were some I looked at that I didn’t get a feeling from at all.

When I photograph people I always focus on their eyes because their eyes are a pathway to their heart.  They tell a story without words and if photographed correctly, that story will transcend to anyone that views it.

I also get that feeling off some of my photographs.  They do talk to me.

In years past, when one died all the mirrors in the house were covered with a sheet until they were buried.  People once believed that if the spirit of the departed saw themself in a mirror, their spirit would be forever trapped.

Well, a camera lens is much like a mirror in the fact it reflects an image onto a cell, thus capturing your photograph.

Eyes are also microscopic lenses and in someways even little mirrors connected to the brain.

By photographing someone, I have come to the conclusion that you can capture their soul, as long as the picture is around.  Does it trap the person on the picture?  No, not at all.  It actually creates a controlled residual haunting of that time and place with an emotion or story the person was thinking about at that time.

I believe this to be true because if a camera did capture souls it would be evident in every photo taken, but if it didn’t capture souls then you would not get the effect on any photograph.  Since I was able to feel something on certain pictures and not others, in a haunting sense, I believe it can happen depending on the individual.

So, in my opinion – in a small sense – the Native Americans are right!

During my art show on October 29, 2011 I announced that everyone that showed online (by giving us your e mail) or showed in person is in the contest for one piece of my art.

The winner would receive my “Keeper of the Night” print 6/600, signed with Certificate of Authenticty.

Today we drew names and Kristina Lopez won the drawing and will receive this limited edition piece of art off my newly released third volume of “Dreams, Nightmares, Fears and Fantasy” collection.

This year I started a pretty controversial series which I called “Reality”.  The series depicts many scenarios and real life across America, some are real life depictions and some are staged interpretations of these horrific scenarios.  I truly walk the fine line in order to make a point from observing the declining morality in our society.

I started off with 3 series in the collection: Domestic Abuse, Street Trash, and Drug Parents.  I started out with these select pieces to see how the series would be appreciated in the public before I went out to add more to it.  Surprisingly I received a great response from it and I will continue to add to the collection throughout 2012 and beyond.

The problem is finding the right people to play the parts because if they don’t believe it themselves or can be convincing, the shoot is a waste.  It also puts people in horrific replicated scenes that may be hard for them to handle, even though its a controlled environment.  So the series will come as I find the right people.  On the other hand it also takes being in the right places at the right times to capture life as it happens.  The key here is have my camera handy at all times.

My goal is to wake up society to our declining morals, expose to the world what our behavior looks like and remove those fogged glasses out of what we look through and change the future.  As I look around all I can do is shake my head in disgust at what we’ve become.

Humanity is good, there are good people out there… there are morals hidden away deep inside of us.  If we can expose these morals to those who hide them, there may be a chance for humanity after all.  As long as there is evil in the world, good will always be placed in war against it; there won’t be peace on earth.  If we use this series as a mirror to counter attack the evil we can win the war.