Born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, Taylor grew up in Europe and Asia, where he spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs of Malaysia. Educated in the South East of England, Taylor graduated from the London Institute of Arts in 1998 with a BA Honours in Sculpture and went on to become a fully qualified diving instructor and underwater naturalist. With over 17 years diving experience under his belt, Taylor is also an award winning underwater photographer, famous for his dramatic images, which capture the metamorphosing effects of the ocean on his evolving sculptures.
In 2006, Taylor founded and created the world's first underwater sculpture park. Situated off the coast of Grenada in the West Indies it is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic. His latest creation is MUSA (Museo Subaquatico de Arte), a monumental museum with a collection of over 450 public sculptural works, submerged off the coast of Cancun, Mexico; described by Forbes as one of the world's most unique travel destinations. Both these ambitious, permanent public works have a practical, functional aspect, facilitating positive interactions between people and fragile underwater habitats while at the same relieving pressure on natural resources.
Taylor's art is like no other, a paradox of creation, constructed to be assimilated by the ocean and transformed from inert objects into living breathing coral reefs, portraying human intervention as both positive and life-encouraging. Numerous publications and documentaries have featured his extraordinary work, including the BBC, CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, Vogue, New Scientist and the Discovery Channel, yet nothing can quite do justice to the ephemeral nature of his art; for each actual visit to his sites is both unique and subject to the dynamic, fluctuating environment of the ocean.
Jason deCaires Taylor
His pioneering public art projects are not only examples of successful marine conservation, but inspirational works of art that seek to encourage environmental awareness, instigate social change and lead us to appreciate the breathtaking natural beauty of the underwater world.
Taylor is currently based in Cancun, Mexico, where he is the founder and Artistic Director of the Museo Subaquatico de Arte (MUSA).
All the news that's fit to fence off. (Photo by Maximiliano Sanvitale; Creative Commons license)
By Nick Burt,
Our tip-off came, poetically enough, from some unsolicited email marketing:
Dear Occupied Chicago Tribune: Our records indicate that a UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy) proceeding was filed against you for the domain
http://occupiedchicagotribune.org.
It was a message from a New York legal firm, offering us a defense against
an unnamed complainant who had filed to seize our domain name. But before even
checking the record, we
knew who was doing the complaining. It wasn’t the Sun-Times.
On May 24, the Tribune Company filed a Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding against the Occupied Chicago Tribune
via the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), presumably alleging
trademark infringement. We presume this, as to date, almost a week later, we
have yet to receive any formal notification that the complaint has been filed,
nor a description of the Tribune Company’s claims.
If the UDRP complaint is successful, the WIPO panel would order the transfer
of our domain to the Tribune Company. The Occupied Chicago Tribune will
appeal to the panel to dismiss the complaint.
This is the second attempt in the Tribune Company’s ongoing effort to shut
down the Occupied Chicago Tribune, despite what is agreed by multiple
legal experts as a lack of any legal grounding.
As we described in an earlier editorial, the Tribune Company
sent an attorney to intimidate us with threats of a lawsuit at the end of last
year.
The Ford Motor Company signs a "Technical Assistance" contract to
produce cars in the Soviet Union, and Ford workers were sent to the
Soviet Union to train the labor force in the use of its parts. Many
American workers who made the trip, including Walter Reuther, a tool and
die maker who later was to
become the UAW's president. Reuther returned home with a different view
of the duties and privileges of the industrial laborer - 1929
In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire
on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten
and wounding more than 160 - 1937
The Ground Zero cleanup at the site of the World Trade Center is
completed 3 months ahead of schedule due to the heroic efforts of more
than 3,000 building tradesmen & women who had worked 12 hours a day,
7 days a week for the previous 8 months – 2002
Sammy is a Hollywood stuntman, race car
driver, owner of a thriving Hot Rod Shop, motivational and inspirational
speaker, author, and mostly, a husband and father of three girls. He
has provided stunt work in numerous commercials, music videos,
television shows and feature films. Some of those films include: Mission
Impossible Ghost Protocol, Law Abiding Citizen, Red Line, The Hitcher,
The Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, Dream Girls, Deja Vu, 2 Fast 2
Furious, Miami Vice, Domino, Transporter 2, Spiderman 2, Cradle to the
Grave, All About the Benjamins, Three Kings, Wild, Wild West, Rush Hour,
Enemy of the State, The Glass House, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Swordfish.
After
traveling from city to city visiting churches, schools, colleges,
prisons, youth camps, juvenile halls and the streets, one common
denominator Sammy saw in every setting was people losing at the race of
life through hopelessness, doubt, fear and unbelief. This sparked an
overwhelming compassion in Sammy to start Winning at the Race of Life®, a non-profit dedicated to bringing hope to communities across the
country via unforgettable stunt shows, hosting individuals in need,
teaching mechanic's skills and giving children and the "young at heart"
adults the tools they need to operate well in life with their gifts and
talents. Sammy is also a much requested speaker for businesses,
corporations, and civic groups. His new business series which includes,
"3 Ways People Fail" is both motivational and innovative. Sammy has finished his first book titled: How to Win at the Race of Life. He receives numerous invitations each year to speak and is currently in development for a reality television series.
CLICK EACH PHOTO TO VISIT DIFFERENT LINKS TO ENJOY SAMMY MALOOF, WINNING AT THE RACE OF LIFE®!
Remember the fun we had last year? Well it's time to do it again.
The Juneteenth Heritage Festival rolls into Leimert Park June 16 &
17, 10am to 6pm each day. Our theme this year, "Faith, Family and the
Future."
Lots of fun for the whole family. Admission is FREE - Come on out and Celebrate Freedom.
We are pleased to announce that BALA will collaborate with Manchester
Community Technologies (MCT), the Production House, and Arts &
Culture Entertainment (ACE), to launch the Leimert Park Vision Network
Wi-Fi System which will provide FREE internet access for businesses,
residents and visitors to Leimert Park.
We'll play traditional games like bid whist, spades and bones.
Choose from a menu of the best healthy delicacies and BBQ. Enjoy Line
dancing, Square dancing, and a Cowboy of Color or two. Groove to live
entertainment and kids; there’ll be fun for you. “Lights! Camera!
Action! with Linda Long” returns this year plus face painting,
make-n-take, rock wall climbing and more.
We're gonna reach way back and rock an old school Soul Train line to
honor Don Cornelius and Whitney, then reach even further back to call
our ancestors by name. Shop for your June Brides, Grads and Dads.
Daily fashion shows with flair, Gospel music in the air, and Praise
dancing everywhere.
The Minority Aids Project sponsors the Health Ark in the Park, while
first class artists and award winning hand crafters will be showcasing
their wares until dark.
Space is limited, so go to www.blackartslosangeles.org to apply to be a vendor. Call 323/291-2024 for more information. See you there!
Join Hollywood stuntman, speaker, author and businessman Sammy Maloof as he shares a POWERFUL message of faith, hope and love with Pastor Rocky & First Lady Alnita Moore and the mighty champions at Living Hope Faith Center. Visit http://livinghopefaithcenter.com/ for details.
Living Hope Faith Center, Temecula CA 32819 Temecula Parkway Suite B Temecula CA 92592
Produced for showing to Pontiac automobile dealers. Describes the advertising campaign undertaken by Pontiac to promote the 1935 models in a variety of media: promotional booklets and brochures, newspapers, magazines and radio. A subplot shows a family whose members each express their desire for a new car in unintentionally humorous closeups; the husband and father pleases everyone immensely by purchasing a new one. Although the family looks at it offscreen and shows their pleasure, the new car is never seen. Stock shots include: a relief map of the United States with many little animated radio transmitters emitting animated waves; various shots of men and women of different classes and demographics reading magazines such as the New Yorker, Fortune, Town and Country, Time and Collier's; a rich man hailing a taxicab; hands picking up Pontiac brochures from a table until the pile is exhausted; inserts of various Pontiac newspaper advertising dummies; newspapers being printed on the printing press and coming off the press.
Animators working for Walt Disney begin what was to become a successful
five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists'
Guild. The animated feature "Dumbo" was being created at the time and,
according to Wikipedia, a number of strikers are caricatured in the
feature as clowns who go to "hit the big boss for a raise" - 1941 [Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions
tells the fascinating story of Hollywood animators, from the early days of
Betty Boop and Popeye to today’s world of Pixar. Author Tom Sito describes
fighting for unionism during the era of virulent anti-Communism in Hollywood,
in which if an artist stood up against management he or she was labeled a Red.
And he talks about the present day, in which big business is – no surprise here
– sending work offshore to artists’ sweatshops. In the UCS bookstore now.]
A contract between the United Mine Workers and the U.S. government
establishes one of the nation's first union medical and pension plans,
the multi-employer UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund - 1946
The United Farm Workers of America reaches agreement with Bruce
Church Inc. on a contract for 450 lettuce harvesters, ending a
17-year-long boycott. The pact raised wages, provided company-paid
health benefits to workers and their families, created a seniority
system to deal with seasonal layoffs and recalls, and established a
pesticide monitoring system - 1996
Tribute bands are nothing new, especially if you’ve visited Las Vegas you know what I mean. Six months ago a Tribute band called Fan Halen caught my attention, which led to meeting and enjoying other tribute bands playing around the Southland of California.
Last night I was treated to a great tribute band called INXS LVEat the New Wave Restaurantin Bellflower. I debated not going as the show didn’t begin till 11pm, but it was well worth the trip as the band rocked and made me feel good as I reminisced of days gone by.
The lead singer of the group, Brett Creswell, danced away while belting out all of our favorite INXS tunes, and even engaged the crowd that could not stand still. This added much excitement to the set as Brett danced with all the lovely ladies on the dance floor.
INXS LVE plays a tight set with everyone in the band right on track, I highly recommend seeing this band in person, and promise you won’t be disappointed in the least.
From the bands Fan Page on Facebook:
Los Angeles, CA - The tribute band phenomenon is obviously here to stay. Today with so much emphasis on pop music of the 1980's spanning all age groups we would like the opportunity to introduce to you one of the hottest tribute bands from Los Angeles CA. – INXS-IVE a tribute to INXS.
INXS-IVE is fronted by Sydney, Australia native Brett Creswell as Michael Hutchence to give the audience an authentic live experience of one of the most popular and successful groups of the 1980's. Assisting Brett with these duties is a combination of experienced musicians who came together through networking and friendship. Guitar player Don E. Sachs, graduate of Musicians Institute is one of the most sought after players in Los Angeles currently involved in multiple tribute and original projects in conjunction with INXS-IVE. Currently Don E. Sachs re-issued CD from his band Shake City is available on Amazon, and I-Tunes. Julie Dolan, not only is one of the busiest keyboard players in Los Angeles with her bands The Undercover Girls and INXS-IVE, she is also a member of SAG and her many credits in film and television can be found on IMDB.com. The solid rhythm section of Edward Concialdi behind the drums and Tris “Duke” Carpenter on bass complete the necessary foundation to re-create an INXS concert.
The success of INXS’s fourteen American top 40 hits INXS-IVE guarantees attendees will rapidly warm up to familiar songs with danceable beats. The band client list will confirm their commitment to their customer's satisfaction with a wide variety of live exposure both to public and private audiences.
In the past three decades INXS had been and remains to this day the leading supplier of first wave rock music with their unique original approach to sound and groove. You would be "hard pressed" to pass on this opportunity to hire INXS-IVE as your entertainment feature.
Band Member's: Brett Creswell - Lead Vocals Don E. Sachs - Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals Julie Dolan - Keyboards, Samples, Percussion, Backing Vocals Tris “Duke” Carpenter - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals Edward Concialdi - Drums, Electronic Drum Samples
Special Appearances By:
Dave Montgomery – Tenor & Alto Sax, Percussion
Pressured by employers, striking shoemakers in Philadelphia are arrested
and charged with criminal conspiracy for violating an English common
law that bars schemes aimed at forcing wage increases. The strike was
broken - 1805
Philip Murray is born in Scotland. He went on to emigrate to the
U.S., become founder and first president of the United Steelworkers of
America, and head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from
1940 until his death in 1952 - 1886
Two company houses occupied by non-union coal miners were blown up
and destroyed during a strike against the Glendale Gas & Coal Co. in
Wheeling, W. Va. - 1925
Thousands of unemployed WWI veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. to
demand a bonus they had been promised but never received. They built a
shantytown near the U.S. Capitol but were burned out by U.S. troops
after two months - 1932
The notorious 11-month Remington Rand strike begins. The strike
spawned the "Mohawk Valley (NY) formula," described by investigators as a
corporate plan to discredit union leaders, frighten the public with the
threat of violence, employ thugs to beat up strikers, and other
tactics. The National Labor Relations Board termed the formula "a battle
plan for industrial war." - 1936
The
AFL-CIO begins what is to become an unsuccessful campaign for a 35-hour
workweek, with the goal of reducing unemployment. Earlier tries by
organized labor for 32- or 35-hour weeks also failed - 1962 [Greed and Good:
America’s unions have always bargained over the wages, hours, and
working conditions of workers. Should unions now also be paying equally
serious attention to the "wages" executives take home? Veteran labor
journalist Sam Pizzigati thinks so. A generation ago, Greed and Good
notes, top executives averaged 40 times the pay of their workers.
Today’s top execs routinely grab over 300 times what their average
workers earn. That’s one key reason why America’s richest 1 percent now
holds more wealth -- over trillion more -- than America’s entire bottom
90 percent combined. This incredible concentration of wealth at the top,
this book’s vivid pages help us understand, is squeezing satisfaction
from our jobs, pleasure from our pastimes, even years from our lives. In
The UCS bookstore now.]
Check out one of the sexiest Corvettes ever built. Sammy Maloof and his team at Maloof Racing Engines just finished building a 385 cubic inch, small block engine for a 1962 Chevrolet with dual quads all tucked under the hood, right at 480 horsepower, 555 foot lbs. of torque, on 91 octane! Estimated gas mileage - 19 mpg. Meet Tom, the happy owner. Visit us at http://sammymaloof.com/engines Maloof Racing Engines we're making ALL your horsepower dreams come true!
May 24
After 14 years of construction and the deaths of 27 workers, the Brooklyn Bridge over New York’s East River opens. Newspapers call it “the eighth wonder of the world” - 1883
2,300 members of the United Rubber Workers, on strike for 10 months
against five Bridgestone-Firestone plants, agree to return to work
without a contract. They had been fighting demands for 12-hour shifts
and wage increases tied to productivity gains - 1995
Former truck drivers for the Los Angeles Times gathered for a breakfast this morning. In spite of how terrible the employees were treated by the Tribune Company bonds remain strong among former colleagues. And I'm blessed to be invited to all the functions, Amen!
The blog was started to talk about issues impacting the pressroom both positively and negatively. The views expressed here are not of the LA Times, but of each individual's opinion. The Pressmen's Club is composed of men and women who have printed the paper for twenty years or more. Semi-annual dinners are held in March and October. See Ed Padgett for more information.
to
become the UAW's president. Reuther returned home with a different view
of the duties and privileges of the industrial laborer - 1929
The
AFL-CIO begins what is to become an unsuccessful campaign for a 35-hour
workweek, with the goal of reducing unemployment. Earlier tries by
organized labor for 32- or 35-hour weeks also failed - 1962
East River opens. Newspapers call it “the eighth wonder of the world” - 1883 
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