January 20, 2009
BE THE CHANGE, 2009

BE THE CHANGE, 2009

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December 5, 2008
Do something for yourself IN 2009:     GIVE TO SOMEONE IN NEED ______________________________      Los Angeles-based charity working to help struggling families meet ends - http://www.beyondshelter.org/home.html __________________________________      California Based Charity, because WE LOVE KIDS - http://www.trinitychildrensfoundation.org/default.asp __________________________________          “If you laugh, you think, and you cry… that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. If you do that 7 days a week, you’re going to have something special.” - Jimmy Valvano, 1993 ESPY Awards. Support the Jimmy V foundation to find a cure for cancer - http://www.jimmyv.org/  __________________________________       Do you have another worthwhile cause that WE can share with during this Holiday season? Email wcase@wideeyednation.com and WE will add it to our list here. Let’s do something good together! ____________________________________________

Do something for yourself IN 2009:    

GIVE TO SOMEONE IN NEED

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     Los Angeles-based charity working to help struggling families meet ends - http://www.beyondshelter.org/home.html

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     California Based Charity, because WE LOVE KIDS - http://www.trinitychildrensfoundation.org/default.asp

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     “If you laugh, you think, and you cry… that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. If you do that 7 days a week, you’re going to have something special.” - Jimmy Valvano, 1993 ESPY Awards. Support the Jimmy V foundation to find a cure for cancer - http://www.jimmyv.org/ 

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      Do you have another worthwhile cause that WE can share with during this Holiday season? Email wcase@wideeyednation.com and WE will add it to our list here.

Let’s do something good together!

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December 4, 2008
THOMAS HARGIS: UTOPIA MISPLACED  OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 2008, 7 - 10 PM  EXHIBIT DATES: December 6 - December 27, 2008  HOURS: 12-6 PM, Tuesday - Saturday, and by appointment http://www.thomashargis.net/ http://01gallery.com/  Utopia Misplaced, the current photographic images by Thomas Hargis suggests an ideal place or state that has been forgotten or abandoned. Utopia has never existed in the real world, yet often when we think of the past, we tend to remember it as a more perfect time, as if there was a utopia that once existed, but now has disappeared.  Hargis is attracted to HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography because of the sense of hyper reality it conveys. This technique involves taking multiple exposures of the same image and layering them to create a composite with a tonal range greater than conventional photography. This creates an effect as close to painting as it is to photography, and allows him to play with color and light in a way that he describes “dances around the edge of realism.” Though one could argue that HDR photography distorts ‘reality,’ Hargis feels it is closer to the way we experience what we see, as a picture on top of a picture. He states, “It’s like me, a Midwesterner in Los Angeles, dressed in a tailored suit with matching fedora - lost in nostalgia for a fictional past, yet with a child’s optimism about the future.”  Born and raised in Indiana, Thomas Hargis is an active cinematographer and still photographer. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television and has served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, short films and commercials. He has received several cinematography awards, including for his work on “The Book and the Rose,” which was shortlisted for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Short - Live Action. Hargis lives in Los Angeles where he continues to roam the Southern California landscape with his camera. This is his first public gallery exhibition. 143 Gallery 530 South Hewitt Street Barker Block - Suite 143 Los Angeles, CA 90013 213.689.0101 info@01gallery.com ____________________________________________________

THOMAS HARGIS: UTOPIA MISPLACED
 
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY DECEMBER 6, 2008, 7 - 10 PM
 
EXHIBIT DATES: December 6 - December 27, 2008 
 
HOURS: 12-6 PM, Tuesday - Saturday, and by appointment

http://www.thomashargis.net/

http://01gallery.com/ 


Utopia Misplaced, the current photographic images by Thomas Hargis suggests an ideal place or state that has been forgotten or abandoned. Utopia has never existed in the real world, yet often when we think of the past, we tend to remember it as a more perfect time, as if there was a utopia that once existed, but now has disappeared.
 
Hargis is attracted to HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography because of the sense of hyper reality it conveys. This technique involves taking multiple exposures of the same image and layering them to create a composite with a tonal range greater than conventional photography. This creates an effect as close to painting as it is to photography, and allows him to play with color and light in a way that he describes “dances around the edge of realism.” Though one could argue that HDR photography distorts ‘reality,’ Hargis feels it is closer to the way we experience what we see, as a picture on top of a picture. He states, “It’s like me, a Midwesterner in Los Angeles, dressed in a tailored suit with matching fedora - lost in nostalgia for a fictional past, yet with a child’s optimism about the future.”
 
Born and raised in Indiana, Thomas Hargis is an active cinematographer and still photographer. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television and has served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, short films and commercials. He has received several cinematography awards, including for his work on “The Book and the Rose,” which was shortlisted for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Short - Live Action. Hargis lives in Los Angeles where he continues to roam the Southern California landscape with his camera. This is his first public gallery exhibition.

143 Gallery
530 South Hewitt Street
Barker Block - Suite 143 
Los Angeles, CA 90013 
213.689.0101 
info@01gallery.com

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Alfie Numeric creates tender dreamscapes of raw emotion and unrestricted intellect. Capturing the most vital elements human existence in the space of a canvas, Alfie represents for authentic artists with expressions that bring us closer to the realm where our hearts and our minds are one. She is a beautifully genuine creator. ~Case Ceck out the Styles Upon Styles of Alfie Numeric and the crew… ____________________________________________________

Alfie Numeric creates tender dreamscapes of raw emotion and unrestricted intellect. Capturing the most vital elements human existence in the space of a canvas, Alfie represents for authentic artists with expressions that bring us closer to the realm where our hearts and our minds are one. She is a beautifully genuine creator. ~Case

Ceck out the Styles Upon Styles of Alfie Numeric and the crew…

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Evidence - Screening December 5th at the Zero Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA Written and Produced by Carmen Elena Mitchell Directed by Brian Ward http://www.zerofilmfest.com/

Evidence - Screening December 5th at the Zero Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA

Written and Produced by Carmen Elena Mitchell

Directed by Brian Ward

http://www.zerofilmfest.com/

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Written and Produced by Carmen Elena Mitchell, Directed by Brian Ward, Evidence is a poetic short film that ties symbolic imagery and powerful metaphor together in creative knots and clever bows. Curing high regard among underground critics, Evidence played this summer at the Frozen Film Festival in San Francisco to a wash of critical appreciation. Screening December 5th at the Zero Film Festival, Evidence is once again expected to move viewers with a collage of symbolism.

The type of film that withstands the scrutiny of multiple viewings, each experience takes on a life of its own. Depicting the uniquely human phenomenon of realizing mortality and redefining awareness of life and death, the film is a powerful story of rememberance. Evidence inspires knowledge that beyond our death we will be loved and acts as a reminder to appreciate our brief time alive with each other. Showing that a helping hand can come from anywhere at anytime, and that while the experience itself may not last, the spirit of sharing will.

Evidence stands firm as another piece of evidence that hopeful ideas and beautiful film are always a quality combination. ~Case

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October 2, 2008
Art by Mr. Brainwash Photo by Tom Brooks

Art by Mr. Brainwash

Photo by Tom Brooks

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“Say hello to my little friend!” Mr. Brainwash plastered and sprayed his work through Los Angeles over the course 2008. Photo by Tom Brooks

“Say hello to my little friend!”

Mr. Brainwash plastered and sprayed his work through Los Angeles over the course 2008.

Photo by Tom Brooks

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October 1, 2008
GZA of Wu-Tang performing at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on August 21, 2008. Photo by Tom Brooks _________________________________________

GZA of Wu-Tang performing at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on August 21, 2008.

Photo by Tom Brooks

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September 1, 2008
BANG! Fully-Loaded! Presented by Alfie Numeric and the Crew http://alfienumeric.com/

BANG! Fully-Loaded!

Presented by Alfie Numeric and the Crew

http://alfienumeric.com/

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