April 24th - Kids In Distress, Monarch Gala Boca Raton Resort

Kids In Distress will host the Monarch Gala, an evening of delicious food, a live and silent auction with extraordinary gifts and dancing. A retro evening featuring Let It Be, a Beatles tribute band, Kids In Distress invites guests to wear 60s inspired cocktail attire and dancing shoes. For More Info Visit:

http://www.kidsindistress.org/monarchgala.asp

Norah Silva Photography is a proud supporter of this event and organization.

Transform

Zack Arias beautifully addresses and those deep seated questions that I often ask myself in a delightfully humorous and profound emotion evoking way in this clip. Why am I doing this? What is the bigger picture? What keeps me going. What difference in the world am I making.  I all too often have looked at other photographers and compare myself to them too. I battle inner demons between finding a way to do what I love and discover it’s meaning and define how I am helping the world in some minute way and actually making money. Some times the 2 never seem to mesh and I feel caught in the middle between wanting to make a difference wanting to make money.

I have to believe that that there is a balance and there is sustainability in being an artist. It’s a strange paridigm when you feel caught between doing what’s meaningless and what’s in your heart yet you can’t quite explain why you are compelled to follow this inner drive. In the end we all need to make a living and the camera is like the paint brush it’s a tool to use to express this inner creativity. The inner creativity is a gift and not all are born with it. Those of us who have it can learn different ways to express it using different tools and developing technical proficiencies and that is a learned skill while I believe creative vision is not necessarily learned. Some have it some don’t. Some fall in love with the art they see and try to replicate that by coping it and as it is often said “Imitation is the finest form of flattery”.  For those of us that have it in us we must realize it’s a gift and sharing our vision thru our art is not only an inner calling but our duty to humanity. 

For me the Ah Ha moment came when I became more educated on how art and culture make this world a better place. There are economic studies on how bringing art in to a community helped drastically alleviate crime and poverty. Countless cities are bringing art and culture to the forefront of community redevelopment programs for this very reason. Yet despite the fact and that over 92% of americans agree it is important to support the arts only 25% support artists. That’s like believing in education yet not paying the teachers or supporting the military but not paying our soldiers.

Research shows that 1% of the images  we see are for every other possible reason then to sell you things and the other 99% we are saturated with are simply to sell us things. Are we selling our creativity to commercialism, absolutely and some of us make a very good living at it. Money = Power and how we spend it sends a very big statement.

In the last year I have had the amazing opportunity to be in a room full of artists on numerous occasions in various workshops and the common thread they all had was not about being rich and having things but every single person I listened to in some way wanted to better the world using their art as that vehicle and wanted a way to have sustainability in their career.  They wanted to make a decent living doing tremendous empowering things that would touch tons of lives. Yet many of these people struggle to make a living doing this yet they a have an amazing amount of creativity.

I myself will think more today then I  ever did on how I shop and seek out ways to support local artists verses mass commercialization. As simple as do I go to the mall or take the kids to an arcade do I go to an art opening and support a local artist or arts event.  And despite how I struggle with writing I will take an hour out of today to write this all down because I hope by sharing this it brings a fresh perspective or reiterates one you all ready have.

Florida now has an official Hasselblad Rep!

Hotwire-Digital announces Norah Silva as it’s newest team member. Norah’s primary focus will be on Hasselblad sales, service and training in Florida.

For over a decade Norah has been fortunate enough to find herself immersed in all things photographic from being behind the lens as a photographer and studio manager to being in front of the client as a photographer's representative to dealing with new business to actually working on final layout and retouching. Now she is devoted to offering South Florida photographers the finest Hasselblad equipment to bring their photography to higher creative and technical levels with top-notch customer support and training. 

To schedule a demo or for general inquiries please contact Norah direct at: 561-350-8910 or email: norah@hotwire-digital.com

About:

Hotwire-Digital formed in January 2009 by John Williams - formerly with Hasselblad and Imacon since 2002 - to meet the need of professional photographic customers and studios throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States.

The purpose of Hotwire-Digital is to provide an exceptional customer experience with Hasselblad solutions through expert advice, training, and guidance commiserate with the brand expectation. In all things, there is only one that is considered the best and this is the organizational goal that drives all decisions in the company.

Our Mission Statement: We will create value for our suppliers, partners, customers, community and our natural environment by focusing on respect in relationships, delivering expectations, and supporting ecologically responsible practices.
www.hotwire-digital.com

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Posted By Norah to Norah Silva Photography at 3/04/2010 05:21:00 PM

March Happenings

Excited to be selected to attend the  Creative Capital's Professional Development Weekend Workshop at Old School Square March 5-7th.
See http://creative-capital.org/pdp/workshops
At the core of Creative Capital's Professional Development Program is the Weekend Workshop Retreat, an intensive two and a half days described as a "crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, and promotion." Based on a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum, the workshop format employs lectures, peer critiques, one-on-one consultations, interactive exercises, handouts, and written assignments to introduce business skills to a group of up to 24 participants. The weekend begins with artists showing their work. Then, presentations by the co-leaders are followed by focused sessions in each of the topic areas. Participants are given a handbook and workbook as well as handouts on practical how-to information, and meet with leaders in smaller work groups.

March 6, 2010 - Open to the Public -Hommage - a la Femme and Artists who love them - Windisch-Hunt Fine Art
 Juried by Anette Rawlings - Director of the Andres Museum of Art in Andres, NW and Curated by The Museum of Modern Art, Bordeaux, France
My work titled “Calla Lilly trypitch” and “wheat grass” will be on display.
In recognition of Women’s History Month, Windisch-Hunt Fine Art celebrates female artists
March 6-31, opening reception March 6th 7-9 PM - featuring Aurora by Monica Craun performing her solo dance on March 6th at 7:15 and then again at 8:15. On March 12th come for the Peacock Tour Opening from 6-9.Windisch-Hunt Fine Art is located at 2911 Grand Ave, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
http://windisch-huntfineart.com 772-480-3131

March 21st, 2010 - Open to the Public - VICTORIA PARK ART AND JAZZ EVENT 
March 21. 2010, 12:00-4:00
http://www.vpca.org/
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