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[ad_1] Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks throughout a joint assertion with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on the National Palace in Guatemala City, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)   This Week in Latin America   May 8, 2022  By  Staff   THIS WEEK IN LATIN AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICA/MEXICO: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador toured Central America and Cuba as a part of his authorities’s technique to strengthen relations with the Latin American international locations. His tour of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, and Cuba ran from May fifth to the eighth, with Cuba as his remaining cease. During the tour, AMLO mentioned methods to develop alternatives within the area that might contribute to the prevention of irregular migration, and that intention at discovering options to the area’s issues with poverty, inequality, and violence. During his go to to Cuba on Sunday AMLO emphasized to the U.S. that no nation must be unnoticed of the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas in June. The U.S. authorities said that Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua would likely be excluded from the summit as a result of the occasion is meant for western hemisphere democracies. AMLO additionally stated that Mexico would proceed to stress the U.S. to elevate its embargo in opposition to Cuba. SOUTHERN CONE ARGENTINA: Feminist activists protested on Tuesday in help of nuns who filed a legal complaint of gender-based violence in opposition to high-ranking clergy within the northwestern metropolis of Salta. Eighteen Carmelite nuns have accused the archbishop of Salta, in addition to a bishop emeritus and a vicar, of “physical, psychological and economic violence”. The archbishop has denied the allegations. The protesters gathered in entrance of the Convent of St. Bernard holding indicators that learn “Hermana, sí te creo” (Sister, I do consider you). Organizers scheduled the protest for the day the accused had been on account of seem in court docket. However, the listening to was postponed to permit the archbishop to attend the Episcopal Conference of Argentina. The court docket has not but set a brand new date for the listening to. BRAZIL: Deforestation within the Amazon hit a document excessive for April, in accordance with government data released on Friday. There was a lack of 390 sq. miles of rainforest final month, an virtually 75% enhance on the earlier April document of 224 sq. miles set in 2021. This 12 months has additionally seen record deforestation over the first four months of 2022. The Brazilian Amazon misplaced 754 sq. miles of forest – an space greater than twice the scale of New York – from January by means of April. This was a 69% enhance in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months. Rates of deforestation within the Brazilian Amazon have surged through the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. The president has inspired elevated mining and farming within the rainforest. ANDES PERU: Peru’s congress on Friday rejected a bill put forward by President Pedro Castillo to redraft the nation’s 1993 structure. The proposal, which was turned down with 11 dissenting votes and 6 votes in favor, would have referred to as a nationwide referendum to vote on the creation of a constitutional meeting to rewrite Peru’s neoliberal-era structure. With the invoice, Castillo hoped to meet a marketing campaign promise of accelerating the state’s function within the nationwide financial system. Castillo’s 9 months in workplace have been characterised by a excessive diploma of congressional opposition and political instability. At a time of accelerating financial precarity, a latest survey

by Ipsos Peru confirmed that solely 7% of the population thought a new constitution should be a priority. VENEZUELA: The Associated Press on Thursday reported that a former mayor of the Venezuelan port metropolis of Guanta, Jhonnathan Marín, had surrendered in Miami on charges involving bribery whereas in workplace. Marín was at one time an ally of former president Hugo Chávez, however resigned and fled the nation in 2017 within the midst of an anti-corruption purge on the state-owned oil firm PDVSA. Believed to be dwelling in Mexico, Marín turned himself in on April 25 in Miami and was later launched on a $100,000 bond. The former mayor is accused of serving to an unnamed businessman pay bribes in return for profitable contracts with PDVSA and foreign energy companies, together with U.S.-based Chevron, France’s Total, and unidentified Chinese and Russian companies. CARIBBEAN CUBA: A suspected fuel explosion at a well-liked five-star resort in La Habana on Friday has killed at least 31 people, in accordance with authorities reviews launched on Sunday night. The blast at Hotel Saratoga additionally injured greater than 50 individuals, 24 of whom remain hospitalized. Rescue crews proceed to seek for individuals who should still be trapped underneath the rubble. The late morning explosion discharged outer wall particles into the streets, endangering passers-by and damaging buildings within the neighborhood. No vacationers had been on the resort, which has been closed for 2 years as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. However, employees conducting repairs forward of the resort’s planned reopening on May 10 had been contained in the constructing and are among the many victims of the explosion. MARTINIQUE: Police on Tuesday arrested five activists accused of toppling statues of French settlers on the island. The activists allegedly belong to the Rouge Vert Noir (Red, Green, Black) Movement, a Martiniquan nationalist group. The arrests had been the results of a judicial investigation into the acts that came about in 2020. In July 2020, protesters tore down statues of Joséphine de Beauharnais – who was Napoleon’s first spouse and whose household owned a sugarcane plantation on the island – and Pierre Belain d’Esnambuc – a colonizer who claimed the island for the French monarchy in 1635. These incidents adopted the extra controversial destruction of two statues commemorating French abolitionist Victor Schoelcher in May 2020. Martinique is a French territory with a particular administrative standing. CENTRAL AMERICA NICARAGUA: President Manuel Ortega’s son, Laureano, has been reaching out in latest months to the Biden administration searching for to re-establish relations with the U.S. Biden’s authorities sanctioned 10 Nicaraguan officials, and accused Ortega of operating a sham election in November. Not lengthy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Laureano Ortega quietly reached out to Washington considering discussing sanction reduction for his household and their inside circle in trade for releasing political prisoners. A U.S. State Department official stated that if the Ortegas are prepared to debate the discharge of political prisoners, Washington will interact. Otherwise, Washington is ready to use extra sanctions sooner or later. NORTH AMERICA MEXICO: The lifeless physique of Mexican journalist Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was discovered on Thursday within the northern state of Sinaloa. His physique was discovered on a mud street, wrapped in black plastic. Prosecutors stated that he died from a number of blows to the top. This is the ninth media worker killed to this point this 12 months. Due to this newest motion in opposition to a Mexican media employee, the Inter American Press Association urged the Mexican authorities to stop delaying concrete actions to cease the violence in opposition to journalists and shield their lives. The affiliation had already requested that the Mexican authorities enhance their techniques of safety for journalists.

UNITED STATES: The Pew Research Center released on Monday a report that reveals that almost 6 million individuals within the U.S. establish as Afro-Latino. That counts as an estimated 2% % of the grownup U.S. inhabitants and 12% of the nation’s grownup Latino inhabitants. The report revealed that about 800,000 Afro-Latino adults don't establish as Hispanic. The multiple dimensions of Latino identity replicate Latin America’s in depth colonial historical past when mixing occurred amongst indigenous Americans, White Europeans, Asians, and enslaved individuals from Africa. [ad_2] Source link

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vvitchella · 3 years

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Virtual Visits

I know a lot of us would like be able to visit other places right now. It looks like we won’t be able to do that for a while, but we can at least pretend!

Museums:

Egyptian Museum (Floor 1, Floor 2)

Inside the Louvre (Part 1, Part 2 (also includes Napoleon Apartments))

The British Museum

Natural History Museum, Washington, DC

National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan

Russia’s Hermitage Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Natural History Museum, London

National Museum of Scotland

Libraries:

New York Public Library Tour

Guided Tour of the Library of Congress in 360°

Boston Public Library Tour

Old Library Ambience

Ambience: Being in an Old Library while it Rains

Royal Library Ambience: Rain and Fireplace

Luxurious Study Room/Library Ambience

Study in the New York Public Library

Ambience - Writer’s Library from the 1930′s

University + Study with Me:

Columbia University, Manhattan, NY

University Lunchroom Ambience

Study with a Friend at Columbia University’s Butler Library

Study with Another Friend

Korean Student Study with Me

Walking Around Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut

Oxford in the snow (some talking)

Walk a City:

NYC Museum Mile Walk

Dubai - Marina Waterfront to Jumeirah Beach

Monte-Carlo, Monaco

Amsterdam City Center

Valencia, Spain

Historic Heidelberg, Germany

Ho Chi Minh Nightlife

Hanoi Nightlife

NYC Midtown Manhattan (Part 1, Part 2)

Walking in the Rain in Tokyo

Walking in the Rain in Boston, MA

Downtown Seattle + Top Attractions

Downtown Chicago

Downtown San Francisco

London - Oxford Circus to Bloomsbury

Prague, Czech Republic

Historic Naples

Sydney + Historical Landmarks

Caythorpe Village + English Countryside

Castleton Village + English Countryside

Walk Nairobi, Kenya

Cairo Khan el-Khalili, Market (skip intro)

Lagos Town Center in the Algarve, Portugal

Grimmelwald Switzerland

St. Ives, Cornwall

Groningen, Netherlands - Martini Tower to Groninger Museum

Walk New Orleans in the Rain

Walk Paris, France

Visit Historical Landmarks:

The Eiffel Tower

Berlin TV Tower

Saigon Skydeck (Bitexco Tower), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace

The Empire State Building

Statue of Liberty Tour

Walk of the Taj Mahal

The Colosseum, Rome

The Great Wall of China

Walk the Golden Gate Bridge

Machu Picchu (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Leaning Tower of Pisa + Extra (some talking, mute if needed)

Visit the Roman Forum

Parks + Nature:

Forest Walk - Grand Ridge Trail, Issaquah, WA

Winter Forest Walk

Forest Hike - Baker River Trail & Chain Lake Trail

Forest Walk - Middle Fork Trail in Snoqualmie

Phacelia Flowers Field

Flowery Meadow, Bird Sounds Ambience

Butterflies and Flowers in a Meadow

Relaxing Meadow and Mountains

Scenic Drives:

From Nice to Monaco

English Countryside - Buxton, Blakewell, Matlock Bath

Banff National Park, Icefields Pkwy, Alberta, CA

San Francisco Pacific Coast Highway

Byway 12, Utah (with music)

Miami, FL Drive

Mount Rainier (Foggy, forested roads) (with music)

Furka Pass, Switzerland

Public Transport:

Tokyo Yurikamome Train

Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen Train

Sea to Mountains Train, Montenegro

NYC Subway - 96th to Times Square

Norway Subway from Stortinget to Jernbanetorget

London Bus Ride - Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Regent Street

Scuba Dives + Snorkeling:

Music and some editing is just unavoidable in these kinds of videos for some reason? Please be ready to mute if needed.

Roatan, Honduras - Half Moon Bay Wall and Dixie’s Place

Florida Keys - Horseshoe Beach

Scuba Diving the Egypt Red Sea

Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia Coral Reef

Maldives Deep South Diving

Triton Bay to Raja Ampat, Kaimana

Hawaii Oahu Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving in Molokini Crater Maui Hawaii

Cafe Ambience:

There’s a lot of these that seem the same, but trust me, they are different.

Cozy Coffee Shop with Jazz and Rain

Rainy Day at Cozy Shop with Jazz

Rainy Night at Coffee Shop with Romantic Jazz

Rainy Day Cafe with Piano Music

Zen, Relaxing Rainy Day at a Cafe

7 Hours of Actual Coffeeshop Footage (with chill music)

Restaurant Ambience:

Romantic, Cozy New York Restaurant Ambience

Restaurant with Background Music

Outdoor Italian Restaurant at Night

Misc. Public Places

Staten Island Mall

The Florida Mall

Mall of America

Dubai Airport

Oceanografic Valencia, Spain (Largest Marine Park in Europe)

Tilburgse Kermis Funfair Carnival

Magical/Other Worlds:

Cozy Medieval Cottage Home with Rain and Fireplace

Magical Potion Shoppe Ambience

Witch’s Lair Ambience

Peaceful Nature Covered Subway with lofi (and cat)

Magical Forest Ambience

Witchy Coffee Shop

A Cozy Home:

Cozy Vintage Home with Fireplace and Thunderstorm

Cozy Winter Ambience with Fireplace and Snowstorm

Cozy Cabin Ambience

Randomizers:

The Secret Door: Tour random places in Google Maps.

Geoguessr: Get “lost” on Google Maps and find where you are.

Also tag yourself I’m “Peaceful Nature Covered Subway with lofi (and cat)”

#quarantine #visits #ambience #travel #also tag

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tlatollotl · 6 years

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A replica Maya artefact. Unlike many European adventurers in the 18th and 19th centuries, Alfred Maudslay mostly left the archaeological sites intact. Photograph: British Museum

More than a century after the British explorer Alfred Maudslay took pioneering photographs and casts of some of the most incredible ancient Maya objects and sites, digital technology is ensuring they can finally be widely seen.

The British Museum and Google announced the results of a project to digitise and disseminate Maudslay’s incredible collection, one which has largely kept in storage unseen for more than 100 years.

Jago Cooper, curator of the museum’s Americas department, described Maudslay, one of the first Europeans to explore and study Maya ruins, as a “visionary” and a “pioneer in visual communication”.

Alfred Maudslay created many replicas of Maya artefacts. Photograph: British Museum

Unlike many European adventurers and explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries, Maudslay mostly left the archaeological sites intact. Instead of simply taking objects he used the latest photographic technology to record discoveries and made plaster casts of the monuments.

The British Museum has more that 250 glass plate negatives from Maudslay’s travels and hundreds of casts. They are fragile, and most have been permanently in storage, but they represent some of the world’s best preserved imagery of the Maya monuments. The Google collaboration means anyone, anywhere can now access them.

Cooper said Maudslay was the man who helped introduce the Maya to the world. “He knew that these would be the best preserved examples and now 130 years later we are tapping in to that vision, we are carrying on his legacy in the 21st century,” he said.

Maudslay was part of a family that made its fortune in machine tools and bolts giving him an inheritance which allowed him to pursue his true passion: exploring for lost cities.

Maya hieroglyphs were first translated in the 1980s. Photograph: British Museum

He travelled to Guatemala in 1880 and was in charge of seven subsequent expeditions to the Maya sites of Tikal, Yaxchilán, Copán, Quiriguá, Palenque, Chichén Itzá and Ixkun.

The ancient Maya was a vast civilisation that emerged in an area encompassing Guatemala, southern Mexico, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador, with the “classic Maya” period spanning AD250 to AD900.

“They were an extraordinary civilisation who developed an extremely complicated urban landscape involving millions of people,” Cooper said.

Maudslay’s casts of Maya monuments still have untold stories, said Cooper, as the Maya hieroglyphs were first translated relatively recently, in the 1980s. Only a handful of people are able to decipher them.

Preserving Maya Heritage, a dedicated page on Google Arts and Culture, has been created to allow visitors to view the Maudslay photographs, casts and other documents. With Google Cardboard, people can go on immersive Google Street View tours of Quiriguá and Tikal.

A photograph from Maudslay’s mostly unseen collection. Photograph: British Museum

The British Museum director, Hartwig Fischer, said the collaboration offered a new dimension to how the gallery engages with the public, one which would encourage more people to come to the museum in London.

“Digital, virtual and analogue, here at the museum, coming here to engage with the objects themselves, do not exclude each other, they help each other,” he said.

If visitors to the museum want to see evidence of Maudslay’s travels they must go to a fire escape on the ground floor, off the Enlightenment Gallery, where two Maya monument lintels – plaster cast versions of the real things – stand opposite the stairs.

Cooper hopes one day there will be a permanent gallery in the museum for Latin America so more objects from the collection could be displayed.

*edited changing “Mayan” to “Maya”

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craigwinslow · 3 years

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2020: 🌘 Perpetual Pause

Every year, I enjoy making this animated map portraying my movement as a display of energy and progress through the year. Compared to a wildly active 2019, this year strikes a much heavier tone.

Ironically, the mantra I set for 2020 focused on slowing down, but this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. Cancelled, postponed, delayed. Like many other people, the majority of my work for 2020 was filed into one of these categories.

That said, I’ve been fortunate to continue work remotely, having spent most of the year getting frugal, and looking forward to whenever this ends. Aside from two camping trips, and one trip to the coast, I’ve been in Portland ever since May.

Everything considered, I strangely accomplished what I meant to do in 2020. Hunkering down led to developing a solid daily routine— a far cry from my typical pace the past few years, but one that has helped manifest normalcy and structure. It became a year to truly slow down, realign, unlearn, and reassess. The best way I can describe this year is a 9-month weird dreamscape living in perpetual pause.

Here’s what I ended up doing in 2020:

Brilliant! Jackpot (Postponed)

Right after the Tim Burton exhibit launched, The Neon Museum and I knew we wanted to follow up with a brand new, drastically bigger, better version of Brilliant! called Jackpot. The plan was to install in April, so I was fully immersed in Brilliant! Jackpot the first three months of 2020—creating the most exciting, diverse, and nostalgic version of this exhibit. Everything was ready to install in March, and then the COVID-19 shutdowns began. We remotely installed the original version of Brilliant! while we put an indefinite hold on Jackpot.

This is when everything flipped sideways.

Lockdown in Los Angeles

The biggest positive of this year? It brought my partner and I much closer together. Looking back, I can’t believe we flew to Hawaii in February, but I’m so glad we did. Early March I flew down to LA, and cancelled my return flight. Jessica and I had only been dating for a few months, and suddenly found ourselves moved in together, during the start of a pandemic. It was either going to work out, or it wasn’t.

Fortunately for us, it really worked. I lived down in LA for two months, during which Jessica lost her job due to the pandemic, and we ended up advancing rough plans for her to move up to Portland. On May 1st, we made the 15-hr drive from Los Angeles to Portland, and only stopped 3 times for gas (and one time for In-N-Out).

XR Talk Interview

I was very thankful to join Paul and Spencer on this podcast shortly after the world drastically changed due to COVID-19 shutdowns. This conversation happened as my focus turned from in-person projections to safe and distanced artwork and the ways I could take advantage of virtual mediums to bring people together. Watch here

Lockdown Letterheads

The first-ever virtual Letterheads! I previously attended Letterheads in Tokyo and London, which were wonderful experiences in their own right, but Lockdown Letterheads was special. A virtual meet-up with 24 hours of programming that any sign painter and guilder from around the world could attend! Sam Roberts, who has organized Letterheads in the past, asked me to co-host with several other Letterheads Alumni. I also led a presentation about Light Capsules, ghost signs, and shared some of Dr. Ken Jones' work.

The Wild VR Interview

I had a fantastic conversation with the team behind The Wild, a product instrumental in creating the Tim Burton exhibition at The Neon Museum in late 2019. This case study focused on my process of implementing immersive team collaboration in VR to build the exhibit from across the world before installation—an ideal tool for 2020. Read it here.

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The Neon Museum 360 Virtual Tour

We had an opportunity to create a virtual tour of the boneyard thanks to global virtualization due to the pandemic. For the first time, the museum could give anyone across the world access to experience the museum. I built and shipped a Matterport kit, then worked remotely with Steve Siwinski of The Neon Museum to execute a full scan of the main boneyard. Working with their archival team, we created over 120 informational hot spots so virtual visitors could view historical photos and information about each sign along the way.

Pre-Visualization in Ventuz - under NDA

A continuation of a secret ongoing client project, due to launch to the public next year. I've been part of a team working on real time graphics and a new playback platform for a large scale integration. The creation of a custom pre-visualization environment led into the production phase of this long-term project.

Rise Up, Show Up, Unite

A call to action in support of the Biden/Harris campaign, started by Jessica Hiche and Adé Hogue. I created this 3-dimensional looping graphic in a day, first designing in illustrator, animating and modeling in Blender 3D, then exporting from Premiere. It was inspiring to see so many other creatives using different mediums come together and express their support using the same prompt. You can see more at riseupshowupunite.vote.

Intel Creator Spotlight

It's always exciting to dive back into a previous project with newfound hindsight and experience. For this artist spotlight with Intel, I discussed my concept design and creative direction for the pre-game intro with the Trail Blazers for NBA Playoffs 2018.

Thanks to Intel for the opportunity and the editors at Art of Visuals for making magic out of the interview, b-roll, and behind-the-scenes footage we provided. Filming this in the middle of a pandemic was an interesting— but not impossible—challenge! Intel dropped off a lighting kit, and my partner, Jessica, filmed everything in 4K using her commercial photography gear.

This home studio structure ended up being advantageous for the next project...

Adobe MAX 2020 - Behind the Light, with Takuma Nakata, Sponsored by Intel

Dare I say... the most exciting thing that happened this year?! The opportunity to have a keynote spot at Adobe MAX, a conference I attended many times over the years, was quite an honor. I got to have a conversion with fellow Adobe Residency Alumni, Takuma Nakata, about where our work intersects and how light, design, and art inspire us. We wanted to push the limits of a typical virtual video interview by recording 3D point clouds simultaneously that Takuma combined together in a nature-driven point cloud backdrop. It created a very interesting and exciting way to bring us together from Portland and Kyoto in a virtual space.

ATypI 2020 All Over Conference - Light Capsules and Lettering, Projection Mapping with Craig Winslow

Another virtual conference I spoke at this summer. I dove deep into the process behind Light Capsules with a live demonstration and discussed the next iteration of the project.

Concept: Beacon

As a result of my interview with XR Talk, HELO, a global talent agency, reached out with an opportunity to pitch a project bid. This led to some exciting creative conceptual design work for a potential client.

Concept: Telescope Tree

Another conceptual design worth sharing for a project bid that was brought to me through HELO. Sketches and 3D modeling came together quickly for this concept, which was pitched as "an artistic interpretation of a holiday display."

Vivid Coffee

For the past 5 years, I have led design at Vivid Coffee, creating everything from branding and packaging to merchandise.

Vivid recently moved into a gorgeous cafe space in downtown Burlington, Vermont. We’ve been busy creating menu boards, exterior signage, neon art, as well as dozens of new roast labels, and a expansion into Snapchilled Coffee. I also helped design a mug with art by Keenan Bouchard to benefit Honduras after the Santa Barbara region was devastated by multiple hurricanes.

The list of exciting things to come in 2021 is long, as I continue to help with creative aspects to building out the new cafe.

‘Glow’ with Hueman

Dr. Mabrie and his team reached out after seeing the Lightform AR Mural I created with Gemma O'Brien for Lightform. They proposed a collaboration with Oakland-based artist Allison "Hueman" Torneros on a brand new mural for their Union Square office in San Francisco.

Hueman painted this entirely in B&W and the rest of the color was added with light. I worked closely with Hueman to brainstorm and define direction, responding to her vision as the artist to create all custom content to augment her work as a living, projection artwork.

Perhaps the most '2020' feat was creating this work entirely remotely. With help from Dr. Mabrie's team to get measurements, I built the office in 3D, and used Disguise One to show an example of the final installation. After printing a scaled-down version of the mural, I built a mirrored set-up in my home studio in Portland, for testing and perfecting the animations in person. Once the mural was painted and placed, a local installer mounted the projector, and I utilized beta cloud tools in Lightform Creator to scan, deploy content, and publish updates remotely.

Representation with HELO

After a few conceptual design bids for projects, HELO and I started to discuss what official representation would look like. They were excited about my approach, and the cleverness of my previous projects. I’m pleased to share that I officially signed on with them as my EU and US representation! Excited to see what projects we collaborate on together next year, as I set goals for dream clients and projects.

2021

I’m proud to have done so well this year, despite... 2020. My growing focus on 3D pre-visualization really thrived in this new virtual world.

I’ll admit, it’s hard to look forward to 2021. It’s going to begin the same way 2020 ended, but I remain hopeful that by summer or fall things will get moving again. Until then, I’ll continue to focus on working remotely, finding new projects, and expanding creative outputs.

An ideal 2021 for me is one where I get to see family and friends. I’m also turning my attention to my dear project Light Capsules in multiple ways: the first permanent Light Capsule installation, an augmented reality iOS app as an extension of the project and a platform for future AR capsules, alongside new projection installations.

It’s also safe to say we’ll finally see the new Brilliant! Jackpot in 2021, whenever it’s safe to bring our talented team from around the country to beautiful Las Vegas.

My mantra for 2021: Be healthy, stay inspired.

It’s a hope I share not only for myself, but for everyone else. It’s been one brutal hell of a year. —Craig

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Howard J. Rubenstein, Public Relations Impresario, Dies at 88 Howard J. Rubenstein, who softened life’s blows and polished the tarnished photos of the wealthy, the well-known and the flawed for greater than 65 years in turning into New York’s pre-eminent public relations impresario, died on Tuesday at his residence in Manhattan. He was 88. A spokeswoman, Nancy Haberman, confirmed the dying. No trigger was given. In a occupation typically regarded with skepticism, Mr. Rubenstein, the founding chairman and president of Rubenstein Associates, was typically known as a spin physician, a charlatan or worse. However with a bit assist from his associates within the information media, he publicized the triumphs of many achievers, and when crises struck celebrities, politicians, firms or cultural establishments, he was a fixer of alternative, known as in at a second’s discover to regulate the harm and restore reputations. His tons of of purchasers had been among the many best-known names on the town: Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch, the late Yankees proprietor George M. Steinbrenner third, Columbia College, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and constellations of entertainers, civic and non secular leaders, and Wall Road tycoons, their signed footage lining the partitions of Rubenstein Associates in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. His enterprise was profitable. Company purchasers typically paid retainers of $10,000 a month, whereas the most important paid $750,000 or extra a yr, based on senior associates of Mr. Rubenstein. He didn’t publicly focus on his firm’s billing practices or revenues. Estimates ranged from $30 million to $75 million in revenues a yr. In any case, they made Mr. Rubenstein rich. He was mentioned to earn $4 million to $7 million a yr. With delicate manners and a smooth voice, Mr. Rubenstein was the antithesis of the swaggering press agent caricatured in movies like “The Candy Odor of Success” and denigrated in newsrooms as a “flack” or “mouthpiece.” He didn’t inhabit nightclubs for gossip. He lived on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, the place even in his 60s and 70s he favored to jog day by day. He dined typically with company, cultural and political leaders. He employed tons of of individuals, preached ethics in speeches and articles on public relations, and impressed purchasers as diplomatic and reliable, though some rivals accused him of utilizing underhanded ways. He had been a good friend of each New York mayor, governor and United States senator because the Seventies, and made seamless nonpartisan transitions between Democrats and Republicans. “It doesn’t matter who it’s,” former Mayor Edward I. Koch as soon as defined. “It may very well be Caligula.” Certainly, together with his huge contacts in authorities, enterprise, the information media and the humanities, Mr. Rubenstein was typically extra energy dealer than public relations man, making connections amongst folks and establishments for mutual profit. He suggested politicians, devised company methods to form public opinion, represented actual property pursuits and introduced leaders of enterprise, authorities and unions collectively to make offers. His energy lay hidden in numerous favors, massive and small. However his most seen inventory in commerce was bother — a marital combat, a star blurting a racist comment, a drunken toot. His personalized rehabilitation plans typically concerned easy public admissions or apologies, then silence to include the imbroglio. The duty, he mentioned, was not protecting a lid on unhealthy publicity. It was controlling its circulate, tone and quantity. He cautioned in opposition to mendacity, though his selective “truths” favored purchasers: Individuals had been by no means fired; they left to hunt new alternatives. “When you could have a disaster, you first must ask, what’s the fitting factor to do and say,” he informed The New York Occasions in 1995. “Not what sort of spin can we placed on, however what’s the fitting factor to do. You don’t let the info dribble out. Generally you do it by holding a information convention. Different instances you do it with a written assertion, relying on how the consumer feels or the power of the consumer to conduct himself or herself in a troublesome state of affairs.” For the sports activities broadcaster Marv Albert, a troublesome state of affairs arose in 1997, when his dalliances with a cross-dresser and a prostitute-dominatrix had been uncovered by his responsible plea to a misdemeanor assault cost for biting a lady throughout a sexual encounter. After conferring with Mr. Rubenstein, he submitted to a information convention and a weeklong tour of the speak reveals — Larry King, David Letterman, Katie Couric and Barbara Walters — elaborating his denials. Then he refused to speak about it anymore. Virtually nothing new concerning the matter emerged, besides a notion that Mr. Albert had forcefully defended himself, and after a interval of withdrawal and rehabilitation, his profession resumed just about intact. In 1996, the talk-show host Kathy Lee Gifford was caught in a scandal after a human rights group reported that youngster sweatshop labor in Honduras was being exploited to fabricate a clothes line in her identify. The Rubenstein prescription in her case was deflection and rehabilitation. Ms. Gifford went on nationwide tv to say she was not concerned in manufacturing facility administration processes, then known as for investigations and campaigned for brand new legal guidelines in opposition to sweatshop circumstances. She even appeared on the White Home with President Invoice Clinton to help initiatives in opposition to youngster labor abuses. Enterprise & Economic system Up to date Dec. 23, 2020, 8:59 a.m. ET Howard Joseph Rubenstein was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 3, 1932, to Samuel and Ada (Sall) Rubenstein. His father was a police reporter for the Customary Information Affiliation, which served New York Metropolis papers, and later for The New York Herald Tribune. Howard and his sister, June, grew up within the Bensonhurst part. He graduated from Midwood Excessive College and in 1953 from the College of Pennsylvania, the place he majored in economics. At his mom’s urging, he utilized to all of the Ivy League regulation colleges and was accepted at Harvard. However he dropped out after two months and went residence, unsure what to do. He declined his father’s concept of a replica boy’s job however was extra receptive to a different. Like some reporters then, his father did a bit public relations work on the aspect, and he taught Howard the right way to write information releases and pitch story concepts to reporters. He additionally helped discover his first consumer, the Menorah House and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm. Howard arrange store on the kitchen desk in 1954. However after his mom refused to reply the house’s phone with the greeting “Rubenstein Associates,” he rented an workplace. His subsequent consumer was Vito Battista, an anti-tax Republican whose perennial quest for workplace ultimately landed him a New York Meeting seat. Mr. Rubenstein rented a camel to plug Mr. Battista’s mayoral candidacy and draped it with an indication saying its again can be damaged by one other metropolis tax. Nonetheless drawn by the concept of being a lawyer, he took evening courses at St. John’s College and earned a regulation diploma in 1959. By way of Consultant Emanuel Celler, a Brooklyn Democrat who was chairman of the Home Judiciary Committee, Mr. Rubenstein turned the panel’s assistant counsel, however give up after six months to renew his public relations profession. In 1959, he married Amy Forman. She survives him, together with three youngsters, Roni, Richard, and Steven Rubenstein, and 7 grandchildren. David, one other youngster, died in 1971 on the age of 9. Mr. Rubenstein continued to be concerned in his enterprise in recent times, however his son Steven oversaw the day-to-day operating of Rubenstein, as the corporate is now recognized, as its president. Richard Rubenstein based his personal company, Rubenstein Public Relations, in 1987. Mr. Rubenstein, nominally a Democrat, signed up a number of politicians as purchasers, lots of them — like Abraham D. Beame, Hugh Carey and Stanley Steingut — beginning careers that might result in seats of energy in Metropolis Corridor, the Governor’s Mansion and the State Legislature. By way of actual property contacts he recruited builders like Fred Trump (Donald’s father) and Lewis and Jack Rudin. By the Seventies he was representing tons of of town’s most distinguished folks and organizations. He additionally served worldwide celebrities, together with Sarah Ferguson, the divorced Duchess of York. Often he needed to drop purchasers — notably 4 state businesses after Mr. Carey was elected governor in 1974, and the Brooklyn Museum of Artwork in 1999 after his good friend Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani condemned an exhibit there. In each circumstances he was caught in a battle and deemed his friendship and loyalty to the officeholders to be the larger curiosity. The 1990 breakup of Donald and Ivana Trump put a conflict of public relations rivals on show, every with a watch on the underside line. John Scanlon, often called an aggressive disaster supervisor, portrayed Mrs. Trump as an integral a part of the Trump enterprise empire. Mr. Trump, coached by Mr. Rubenstein, performed down her duties. So who gained? Her settlement topped $20 million. However Mr. Trump’s web price on the time was estimated at $1.7 billion to $4 billion. Mr. Steinbrenner, whose harsh remedy of Yankee gamers and managers was a publicist’s nightmare, typically left Mr. Rubenstein resorting to “no remark.” Beginning a decade earlier than Mr. Steinbrenner’s dying in 2010, the publicist orchestrated a tactical retreat for “the Boss.” Reporters mentioned he was shielding an growing older man from public view, however Mr. Rubenstein provided a extra benign interpretation, saying Mr. Steinbrenner’s lowered profile “simply comes with maturity — he simply doesn’t relish publicity the way in which he used to.” One other troublesome consumer was Leona Helmsley, the resort and actual property magnate who was convicted of earnings tax evasion in 1989. She turned a logo of vanity when a former maid quoted her in testimony as saying, “Solely the little folks pay taxes.” Mr. Rubenstein visited Mrs. Helmsley in jail, and after she died in 2007 and left $12 million to her canine, Bother, a Maltese, prompting lawsuits and dying threats in opposition to the pet, he turned a spokesman for Bother, too, as curiosity peaked in its lifetime of luxurious. “The canine is being nicely cared for in an undisclosed location,” he mentioned tactfully. After Mr. Trump turned president, Mr. Rubenstein distanced himself for him. “Whereas I haven’t labored with him for greater than 20 years,” he informed PRWeek.com in 2017, “it was clear even again then that he was a extremely astute communicator.” Alex Traub contributed reporting. Supply hyperlink #Dies #Howard #Impresario #public #relations #Rubenstein

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Honduras at a glance Latin America

As stunning as it is troubled, Honduras is one of Latin America’s most off-the-beaten-path destinations, whose relative obscurity belies a wealth of natural and historical wonders. From the breathtaking underwater world at Roatan to the awe-inspiring Mayan ruins of Copan, and the wildlife brimming virgin cloud forests of the Cusuco National Park among countless others, Honduras is a powerhouse of new discoveries, unknown wonders, and a culture that’s utterly captivating.

Honduras has been fighting on hand and knees to rid itself of its bad reputation, yet a government initiative to clean up the streets (and its status) is proving quite fruitful. Just a few months ago, CNN named Honduras a top travel destination for 2016, confirming what countless others have known for years: if you’re looking for a unique, diverse, welcoming, and unforgettable new place for your next Latina America tour, you really couldn’t choose a better place than Honduras.

Then read on Honduras – All you Need to Know Before You Go and discover one of the most fascinating countries in all of Latin America.

Honduras at a glance

A country of 8.8 million people, Honduras is in Central America and borders Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Spanish is the official language yet English is widely spoken. Comprising a mix of ethnic groups, Honduras’ population is primarily Christian.

Over 60% of the people in Honduras live below the poverty line, with many having no access to fresh drinking water, basic healthcare and an education. Plagued by years of civil unrest and violence, this is a country hell bent on waking from its economically and socially catastrophic slumber.

With a government intent on maximising safety for visitors, and a tourism board zealously showing off the country’s unending treasures, Honduras is seeing a rise in tourist numbers and swiftly emerging as Latin America’s most priceless gem. For Hondurans, this really couldn’t come at a better time.

Locals are friendly and welcoming and take the safety of visitors very seriously. In many ways, this can easily feel like the safest country you’ve ever visited, and that’s precisely what your hosts want to convey. Safety precautions should be adopted, (as is usually the case when one travels) but do note that Honduras receives hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, 99% of whom go home with only happy memories and not a single sign of trouble.

Crime in Honduras is localized

There’s no denying that Honduras’ crime rate is nothing but shocking, but it helps to learn that much of it is centred on gangs and drug wars. Honduras has been plagued by political instability, internal turmoil, and abject poverty for decades. The resulting high crime rate is certainly nothing unique, unfortunately, yet much like other hot spots around the world, a great majority of trouble is not aimed specifically at tourists. Moreover, the less desirable areas are located in very remote regions of the country where police presence is virtually nil. As a tourist, your safety risks are infinitely mitigated simply by visiting the most popular areas. Obviously, this is where all the best attractions are!

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hutupistravel · 4 years

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Honduras at a glance Latin America

Then read on Honduras – All you Need to Know Before You Go and discover one of the most fascinating countries in all of Latin America.

Honduras at a glance

Crime in Honduras is localized

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religiontravels · 4 years

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Honduras at a glance Latin America

Then read on Honduras – All you Need to Know Before You Go and discover one of the most fascinating countries in all of Latin America.

Honduras at a glance

Crime in Honduras is localized

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