Lana Layne
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Frida Gustavsson at H&M f/w 2013
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I have always felt that young talent is the heart of the entertainment industry, after all they are our future as cliche as it sounds. Disney has been a profitable young talent machine making young talent, every day house hold names.
Either you believe it to be a bias blog review or not take it as you will. I say this as a disclaimer due to the fact that I have watched personally young talent Trevor Jackson grow up these last few years through our love of capoeira.
Trevor Jackson is one to watch for, more than a triple threat, this young man is a human sponge when it comes to the arts. Music, to dance, acting, to martial arts I haven’t quite ever met a person that can excel at everything that they touch like Trevor Jackson.
His new project can be seen tomorrow on the Disney channels new movie “Let it Shine.” Far from being his first notable debut. Trevor track list of projects parallels one that many adult entertainers would strive to achieve.
From the beginning of Young Simba in the musical theatrical production The Lion King a broadway hit, current series regular in Syfy channels hit “Eureka.” in addition to be a rising star as a recording artist with influencers like Michael Jackson, Trevor Jackson has his hands in every pot in the entertainment industry and intends to rock all his endeavors to the fullest.
Despite his busy schedule in a very often at times skewed and unstable industry, Trevor Jackson stays grounded through the people that surronds him. From his extraordinary and supportive mother (far from the stage mothers that we are all too familiar with,) to his outside normal kid activities such as Capoeira and being active in his martial arts group being mentored by my very own Capoeira profesor Axe Vita.
Check out his official website launch tomorrow:
www.officialtrevorjackson.com to coincide with his new release on the Disney Chanel at 8pm “Let it Shine”
Redefining, what use to be considered an art that represented defiance and associated with society’s unwanted.
We all have heard and ventured downtown on Thursday nights for Downtown Art Walk. A night that attracted a scene of people with all alternative motives for joining in on the festivities. Either it be another night for organized bar crawls, art connoisseurs that sipped on wine to view various elaborately presented art pieces, or the foodies that had the hunger to discover and consume every food truck in sight.
Summer is here, and it is time to venture west for a whole new adventure. Being a native to LA, art was and still is all around me. Art isn’t defined by the confines of a picture frame. It is the energy of the people on the street and the clothes on their backs, the unexpected graffiti mural that is planted on a bus bench, to the artisan crafts hand made by the man sitting on the corner selling his craft for survival.
What if I told you there is a place that encompasses all of Los Angeles’ electrifying unique culture? I’ll let you on in a little secret…there is a whole new way to put the cliche Sunday Funday to work.
Cahuenga Corridor Street Market, that launched May 6th is heading full force every Sunday through summer. A all day event that all attendees are bound by similar interest. To be exposed to the unknown and underrepresented.
Cahuenga Corridor Street Market differentiates it self from the rest, collaborated “by artist for artist.”
An array art in many forms that represents the city I grew up in unique culture. Music, street graffiti art (once looked down upon) that is getting exposed and appreciated by all despite previously preconceived notions, clothing designers, and artisan crafts. This street market goes far beyond just a its name, it is a place for exposure, knowledge, and collaborative inspiration.
This day long street market is seriously one created for everyone, families, tourist, or just another native Los Angelinos like me rediscovering the beauty of LA all over again.
Don’t miss out on this new eyeopening event, where LA is truly viewed through a new lens. Inspire your senses, and get exposed to why we live and breath LA.
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Say hello to my new baby Ziggy. Boyfriend went camping…..so I bought myself a new slick violin. A girl has to keep herself entertained……
Suppport my girl Kendall Lake, partner in crime new track. Love this girl and one of the women that I can relate to, and has been a great friend during these hard recovering days.
You’ve probably seen her on True Blood but guess who she was?!?!
She’s talented and genuine and I adore here and support her through and through. She’s on the rise and off to London tomorrow because she’s getting support and radio play over there.
We will rise together, but for now when I am recovering until my time is done and off in the studio to record. Ill be cheering for her , and having her back.
The business is a competition I will agree, but there is room at the top for all of us. Haters are insecure on their talents, but our friendship proven that we are both secure with our individual talents and future joint projects. We will be poppin bottles at the top together as friends….because like I said failure is not an option.
Enjoy, and if its not your type of music….take in the lesson of being genuine supportive of different artist despite if we are all trying to make it in a complicated and often twisted unkind business.
and thats not even the beginning of what I’ve been eyeballing…ugh decisions decisions…
This was one of my first time shooting photography in a Studio when I was in college at CU Boulder 6 years ago. I remember walking through the Art Studio halls trying to grab inspiration. I really back then did not have much thought in what I was shooting.
The mind has crazy ways of self-expression if when conscientiously you have no idea. Back in college it seemed like keggers, sorority frat partys and football games. So unaware of the foundations of adulthood was being laid down like bricks on a wall.
6 years later I look at my art that I created, that did not have much purpose back then. Would now reveal so much about who I have become and will continue to grow into.
I remembered directing my friend to just represent different emotions, and I just kept clicking away. Hiding behind the lens unsure what I was going to find developing in the dark room. I was unsure back then, now I am slowly starting to make sense of it.
The unconsciense is slowly becoming part of my consciousness. Everyone has pain, physical pain is nothing compared to the emotional pain and inner demons that all of us, yes all of carry with us.
Right now, I am going through a life experience that is exhausting physically, however the emotional experiences out weight the physical without a doubt.
People say I am such a strong person. I’ll be completely honest here the first few days out of the hospital was some of the hardest for me. I remember crying myself to sleep. I remember telling my sister “why do I always have to be the strong one, why can’t some one else be it for a change.”
Everyone has their lowest dark times, and are incomparable to others. The the thing is when all reach that low point we can relate despite the variable of events that led us to that place.
I’ve had many dark places in my life, some I’ll share and some I’ll tuck away. Through out all this people keep saying over and over again with two near death experiences with my life hanging on threads within two years,”you have a very important purpose , the universe is keeping you for a reason.”
I take it with a grain of salt because I am still processing, like how I processed that picture I took 6 years ago that made no real emotional connection to me. Now 6 years later it’s like the message just knocked me out.
We bury our fears, we tuck away our secrets, protect our traumatic experiences away far back in the deepest layers (files as i say) in our minds. Hopes of forgetting. We can never lie to ourselves, and our brains are so complex forgetting is not an option.
I am the queen of “fun times” and smiley faces, despite all the tucking away, it will eventually all reveal itself. Through my life choices, how I communicate with others, and the way I view the world. All the cover ups sneaks and wiggles its way out.
remember my professor says pick objects, and I really just went and shot things at random so I thought. I took pictures of bikes on pathways, paths through my beautiful campus of CU Boulder or University of Colorado at Boulder. And then this candle…when I got back to my sorority house (yes I was a sorority girl, a Chi Omega…lived in a big movie like sorority house mansion and all , its the last picture).
Now it makes sense, relinquish my fears and inner demons, and find my truths. There is always no matter how big or small as long as I see light I can keep my faith that things will be ok.
Who would of though six years later those back then to me that young college student take pictures just to get by in grades, later would look back at them to help me process and link the lessons in life that I am learning now.
so the set finally fits,
the first is letting go…
the second was sculptures on pearl st in boulder but they represents inner demons now
the next two where my paths i took to class the equals the path of life.
the candle is the little light of hope
and lastly the chi omega house to representing truths and inner peace.
art medium: Nikon D50, Illford HP5 Plus film, MULTIGRADE IV RC PORTFOLIO pearl finish photo paper
-Helen
