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Tom Ford Loves What He Does! How About You?

January 7, 2012 1:55 pm / Leave a Comment /

What can we learn from Tom Ford?

Tom Ford

1. When you can bring your passion into what you do your concept of work alters. When you are working at something that you love the last thing you want to do is stop.

2. Although we live in a material world and everyone can appreciate beauty and quality the things that are really important are out relationships with other people. What can we do that will benefit those we come in contact with?

3. Time is passing for all of us don’t wait to do what you are inspired to do. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed don’t let fear or others opinions keep you from expressing your voice.

4. Don’t be afraid of making a change. When you feel that a situation isn’t right for you rather than letting it rob you of your joy take it as a hint that making a change can open new opportunities for you.

5. Be true to who you are. Believe in yourself and what you have to offer.

Tom Ford Bio. [link]

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Art

November 22, 2011 9:05 pm / Leave a Comment /

 

 

 

 

 

We are the Arts Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization affiliated with Americans for the Arts.  We are the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Launched in 2004, the Arts Action Fund seeks to engage citizens in education and advocacy in support of the arts and arts education. The Arts Action Fund’s goals are to:

Enlist and mobilize 200,000 citizen activists who will help ensure that public and private resources are maximized and that arts-friendly public policies are adopted at the federal, state, and local levels.

Policy goals like these:

  • Increased public funding for nonprofit arts organizations in order to better serve their communities.
  • Ensure that every child has the opportunity for a comprehensive, high quality arts education in grades K-12.
  • Nurture an environment to allow individuals and families affordable access to all forms of the arts.

The work of the Arts Action Fund involves four primary components:

  1. Educate elected officials, candidates, the media, and citizens on how the arts enrich us by creating better students, better schools, and better communities.
  2. Provide advocacy training on the federal, state, and local levels—involving our extensive arts advocacy infrastructure and network to help educate and train individual arts advocates and local organizations.
  3. Evaluate Members of Congress—assessing and rating their voting records on high-priority arts issues and holding them accountable to their constituencies of arts supporters.
  4. Galvanize the voice of the public—aggressively petitioning to shape public policy for the arts and arts education.

STAND UP FOR THE ARTS IN AMERICA

Here’s how you can help:

Join for Free and Stay Informed!
Annual membership is free.  Join the movement to advance the arts and arts education in your community and across the country.

Tell a Friend
Spread the word and share what you’ve found with your friends. You can even customize the message, if you’d like.

Contact Your Legislator
Two minutes!  That’s all it takes to tell Congress to support the arts and arts education.

Donate to the Arts Action Fund
Help the Arts Action Fund advance the arts and arts education – in your community and across the country.

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Baby Boomer Web 2.0 Lock Out

November 15, 2011 3:44 am / Leave a Comment /



How are we locking ourselves out of opportunity as an age group?
Were we educated for the needs of a different time?
How can we re-invent ourselves in a digital internet web 2.0 world?

With many baby boomers reaching retirement age at record numbers. We share concerns about health care, adequate retirement income, the cost of living increases, and not totally getting the obsession with the internet. Some of us are asking the question, “Why do we have to continue to learn something new?”

We might want to contemplate:.

Taking a look at history time lines.

The War of 1812 – Beginning of the Age Of Industry

1. Baby Boomers were educated for the needs of the Age Of Industry

2. The Education System has built-in obsolescence

Fall Of The Berlin Wall 1989 – Beginning of the Age of Information

1. Education System need to be overhauled for the needs of the times.

2. With fast paced change we need to embrace life long learning

3. Proficient in Web 2.0 Learning tools.

A. google search
B. blogs / vlogs
C. video tutorials

To re-invent ourselves in a digital world we first must start with the mindset of desire to adapt to life long learning. To clarify further, we have to want to learn new learning relevant to the digital age and ever changing world of the internet Web 2.0 systems. Web 2.0 is all about interactive internet systems of communication that allow two way communication. In the past communication seemed restricted and outward bound. However is today’s world information moves at lightning speed both going out and coming in. Understanding this key fact of our current world holds the key for Baby Boomers to open the doors of unlimited opportunities open to all.
Joseph Osborne

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Posted in: Baby Boomers, Education, Philosophy

Facebook Killed The Chick Flick!

November 13, 2011 10:32 pm / Leave a Comment /

We have been defined at every turn and in our desire to fit in we have unconsciously accepted the roles that we have been assigned. Male 60-year-old disillusioned, angry and technologically out of touch. 21-year-old female looking for love, validation and understanding! Is this all there is? What about the idea that each of us is unique individual with our own special passion and gifts? If we act on our individuality will anyone still like us? We have traded in our individuality for the idea that acceptance that comes with conformity? It’s no wonder there are so many people on Xanax or anti depressants.
Well it turns out that the anonymity of the internet is allowing us freedom to escape our pigeon holes and figure out what we actually enjoy doing. Johanna Blakely has been researching the entertainment media and has taken note of a shift as more and more of us are engaged in social media. You might be wondering how Facebook killed the chick flick at this point. As we defy the demographic stereo types entertainment is sure to try to follow. I guess we’ll all have to stay tuned to see if the chick flick is really dead or just in a coma. As someone who is inspired by social progress I looking forward to changes that the rise of the individual will create.

Bill Schoenleber

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THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW 2011 [corePLATINUM review]

November 11, 2011 3:15 am / Leave a Comment /

The 2011 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is a spectacular event that benefits Enterprise for High School Students. For anyone who loves Antiques, Art, Interior Design and beautiful things in general, this is the San Francisco event of the year. The show consistently showcases the top international exhibitors vetted by some of the most discerning eyes for quality in the world.
As we have moved from the Age of Industry to the Digital Age, one can’t help but imagine a new generation of computer savvy collectors honing their vision of a new eclectic home environment that can include Antiques. corePLATINUM is aware of a transition of spending power in this new market place that is very different from previous generations. The new collector may want to integrate 18th Century French, 20th Century American and recognize how modern Art can all fit into a more casual eclectic lifestyle.
The 2011 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show was an opportunity for corePLATINUM to curate this new point of view that shows Antiques collecting is not limited to only formal environments, however, there is a need for more education on value, potential for integration into modern living and the opportunity for personal expression. In the Age of the Social Enterprise, this could be an opportunity for the beginning of the New Antiques Collecting coupled with  “Learning & Conversation.”
Joseph Osborne

THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW is the oldest continuously operating international antiques show on the West Coast. The Show features over sixty dealers from across the United States and Europe, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts representing all styles and periods including American, English, Continental, and Asian furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, jewelry, rugs, textiles, paintings, prints, and photographs.
THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW is vetted in cooperation with the Antiques Dealers Association of California to ensure the highest quality merchandise.

Benefiting Enterprise for High School Students The mission of Enterprise is to engage and empower San Francisco Bay Area youth to discover career opportunities and cultivate their individual interest through training, guidance and employment experiences in a diverse and supportive learning environment.

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The Need To Foster Creative Thinking

November 6, 2011 10:52 am / Leave a Comment /

 

At the center of corePLATINUM is our passion for art, music & style. In short creativity and how it enhances the quality of our lives from the enjoyment of seeing the results from other people’s creative expression to the passion for being creative ourselves. We have watched in frustration as the importance of the arts in education has been relegated to third tier status or less as a result of the budget wars. While the three Rs and athletics have dominated the curriculum and funding. We have been trying in vain to find ways to improve that educational system for a long time and very little has really changed as a result. Sir Ken Robinson makes several important points in this video regarding the history of the educational system and how it needs to changes to meet not only the needs of individual students but the very real challenges of the times we live in. Creativity is not just a means of entertaining us. Nurturing and encouraging it is a necessity as we face the ever-increasing pace of change in the world and the inevitable need for creative solutions to deal with the all of the challenges we are facing and will face as speed into a future that’s impossible to even imagine.

Bill Schoenleber

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Steve Jobs

October 22, 2011 8:14 pm / Leave a Comment /

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs

This video gives us a look at the mind of Mr. Jobs, the brilliant and protean creator whose inventions utterly transformed the allure of technology.  Did it all begin with early lessons learned in childhood? Steve Jobs often mentioned his father, Paul Jobs, “Paul loved doing things right.” He turned childhood lessons and inspiration into an all-purpose theory of intelligent design.

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Example: Joseph Eichler Home

Mr. Jobs grew up in Mountain View, California. He anointed Walter Isaacson as his authorized biographer in 2009. The journey began with Mr. Jobs taking Mr. Isaacson to see the Mountain View, California house in which he had lived as a boy. Mr. Jobs pointed out its “clean design” and “awesome little features.” Mr. Jobs was enamored with the concept of the developer, Joseph Eichler, who built more than 11,000 homes in California subdivisions, for making an affordable product on a mass-market scale. Mr. Jobs also showed Mr. Isaacson the stockade fence built years earlier by his father, Paul Jobs.

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