Grammy Award-Winning violinist, Miri Ben-Ari, previously invited Talenthouse songwriters to write and record lyrics to a provided track for the chance to receive writer credit and have their song featured on the album. We do realize this announcement is well over-due and apologize for any frustration. But we are happy to announce the selected songwriter! Here is what Miri had to say:
“I had the pleasure of listening to your songs submissions. Thank you for taking the time to make the effort to become a part of my album. As much as I loved some of the performances this contest was about song writing and therefore my goal was to choose a song and not a performance. With that being said, I chose the song “heat wave” written by Sam Murray.
Congratulations Sam and thanks again to all of you!”
Sam is a musician from Clifford, West Yorkshire who loves to create music. To him it is such a joyous gift and being able to spread around a bit of joy by strumming a guitar, singing, pressing some keys or banging a drum!
Sam on being chosen:
“Talenthouse has been a fantastic opportunity for me to promote my songwriting, letting me take on creative invites whereby I can pitch my skills to major artists. I would have never had been able to let an astounding and inspirational musician such as Miri Ben-Ari hear my work without Talenthouse.”
We are beyond thrilled that we were able to be of such positive assistance to Sam! Thanks to the rest of the talented songwriters who participated in this Invite. Great job!
We just read and viewed an interview with Micah Baldwin, CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly, and really wanted to share it with you. He speaks about art and comics, founding a startup, overcoming his addictions, inspiring youth, and his tattoo collection including one he got when he started his first company!
Micah stated in his interview, “it’s important that people realize entrepreneurs are human.“ I agree! It is comforting to see someone so open about decisions he’s made in his life. This helps to create better relationships as it leaves very little room for someone to not trust your word.
Is there anything that you can take away from watching? Let us know!
Way back in April we launched a project with International fashion icon Diane Pernet in search of a fashion film that would be featured at A Shaded View on Fashion Film 2010 during Paris’ annual film festival dedicated to Fashion, Style and Beauty! If that wasn’t exciting in and of itself, superstar fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson came on board as a special guest judge.
Die hard fashionistas and emerging fashion filmmakers were given the task to create a short film around the theme of, what else? Fashion! We received so many outstanding submissions and out of these there were 9 finalists. 2 filmmakers were chosen as the winners — one by Diane and the other Tavi — and they are Anni Yi AKA Youngest Indie and Sarah Culbreth!
“Well, I first heard about this competition on Fashionista.com which led me to join Talenthouse. When I checked out what it was all about, I thought to myself how awesome and wonderful it is to help creative artists to get a chance to showcase their work and take part in really cool projects and opportunities. I’m very excited and think it’s such a wonderful site. Thanks again!” — Youngest Indie
‘Hedi Boys’ by Youngest Indie.
A tribute to the amazing Hedi Slimane and a nod to his great influence on rock and roll style, fashion, photography, and culture. This is a rock video and the playdoh characters are wearing looks from my favorite Dior Homme Spring 2006 collection.
‘Are you also wistful?’ by Sarah Culbreth
Directed by Sarah Culbreth & Chris Cameron. Clothing by Sarah Culbreth. Music by Woset
Congratulations to the both of you on jobs very well done! We’re so excited to watch what happens with your films at the festival!
Thanks again to all who submitted their films to this Invite — we appreciate your hard work and your passion. Keep it up!
Andrew Serna is a multi-talented artist located in San Jose, CA with interests in art, design, fashion and music. He likes to create logos, flyers, posters, cd covers, website banners, paintings, electronic music and he also customizes shoes, bags, and t-shirts.
Louise Rushford was born in Scotland and moved to London to study sculpture at art school. Her postgraduate studies were in Dance/Choreography at Laban Dance School and spent some years with a London-based dance company where she tried to work out how to best merge her passions for dance and sculpture. She finally decided to pursue a career in art and now in Bath, she is able to create interior works of art and design features for beautiful homes based off her inspiration from the city.
Simon Gross is a a music composer from New Zealand who has been composing for over 7 years now. He creates music in all genres including world music, new age, electronic, trance, metal, etc. Some of his influence include Enigma, Era, Toby Emerson, and Darude.
We all know Stan Lee as the father of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk, and countless other superhumans with powers that make them gods compared to us mere mortals. When Stan Lee’s not doing movie cameos or shopping for over-sized glasses, Stan Lee is organizing The Stan Lee Foundation, an organization dedicated to stamping out evil by making education more accessible to the masses and providing access to literacy, education and the arts throughout the nation.
Sadly, the Stan Lee Foundation suffers from a critical Achilles heel: it doesn’t have a logo yet. But don’t worry, true believers, you can help by submitting your logo design directly to Stan Lee thanks to the powers that be at Talenthouse.
This UK fashion duet is in the business of doing both. Alesia Rolik & Jekaterina Vasilega became Vergi in 2007 to create costumes as well as seasonal clothes for both men and women.
Vergi caught our eye at Talenthouse with their breathtaking Florence + the Machine Submission. Did they ever create a stage outfit! The futuristic designs look like could be the envy of fashion icon Lady Gaga.
The fashion duet took some time to answer some questions we were dying to ask:
First off, what inspired you to get into fashion design?
We really like the fashion industry. It is so wide, that it is impossible for the job interest to disappear.
How do you experiment with fabrics, volumes and shapes?
We first use simple fabric just to play with forms and volumes. The we look for fabrics that aren’t typically used in sewing, and transform them into wearable pieces.
Coco Chanel designed clothes for herself, do you?
Of course, we also create clothes for ourselves. One style, one kind of fabric but different cut. We make such costumes that we look together like one piece. You can easily recognize us by our clothes. We adore our brand.
What are your goals and ideals when creating a collection?
We want a woman to always be a woman: she is supposed to wear beautiful, effective and sexy clothes. What some of the youth are wearing nowadays – it’s just awful.
What’s next for you?
Plans for the future: our aim is create costumes for the cinema, theater, advertising, images for celebrities and making all that to express our understanding of fashion.
It is sure refreshing to see two designers making their visions come to light. It’s not everyday you meet designers who can successfully walk the line of costume and everyday wearable pieces, but these two are on to something! Be sure to sure to check out Vergi’s fashion lines on their website www.vergi.co.uk.
Kiera-Rose Riley AKA Kizzy has composed and written music, worked as a photographer, a journalist, a make up artist, a designer, a model, an artist, an actress and a film maker — and she is only 18 years old.
She grew up in front of the camera (her mother filmed her entire childhood) and naturally became intrigued by the camera as she saw more often than her mother’s face. By the age of 6 she was directing her mother in short films — she joined her first modeling agency at 7, stayed with it for two years, but left at 9 because she didn’t quite understand it — at 14 she was designing pieces for her clothing line where she received many offers from the public to buy but she got bored with it and stopped — she tried to return to modeling at 15 but immediately ran into the size 0 epidemic, which she fell prey to but quickly smartened up and told them no — finally, at the age of 16, she realized that her career had been in front of her face the entire time: filmmaking!
She dropped out of school to pursue her passions and has never looked back. Throughout the next two years she carved a name for herself through sheer grit, with barely any qualifications. She has filmed news events (competing with the likes of BBC for shots), interviewed British TV comedy duo the Might Boosh on behalf of Myspace, won a Green Thing film competition, and has had her films played a sold out conventions in Los Angeles as well as on the big screen at local cinemas.
1.) What is the most important lesson you’ve learned about your career?
I’ve learned that you have to make your own opportunities. You have to continue to try your hardest not matter how well you think you are doing. And most of all I’ve learned that if you want something bad enough, you can get it. I am a perfect example. I dropped out of school at 15, shunned my exams and just went for my dream. Which so far, appears to be coming wonderfully true.
2.) Which film do you believe to be the one every filmmaker must see?
American Beauty. Some of the lines replay in my head constantly. It really speaks to people on another level; behind what is being said or what’s happening in the scenes, the films meaning just touches you unexplainably.
3.) Do you have a dream project in mind? If so, have you started it?
I am a huge fan of the 90′s tv show Xena: Warrior Princess, I’m a Xena lookalike and a known film maker in the xena community. I began film making through the show. I would make little music videos for youtube, I gathered quite a following and soon turned my attention to my own projects.
Ever since the show ended the fans have been divided and petitioning over getting a movie produced. I always wanted to see one made, but was terrified of someone doing it badly just to make a quick buck.
One day, even if its a small scale cult movie, I plan to revive Xena for one last butt kicking spree.
4.) Re-makes – a new take on the original or a waste of time?
If done right, they can bring a whole new aspect to the originals. Perhaps incorporating technology which was not available at the time. Though I believe too many re makes are made simply to draw in an audience they already know is there, regardless of if the film is any good or not.
5.) What are some of the toughest things to deal with as an artist?
For me, its a constant struggle to keep my passion for film once I’m being paid for it. On my own little projects, that no one cares about, I could work all night. But when its someone elses baby they are paying you to bring to life, you really have to motivate yourself sometimes. Especially when they want something that the creative side of you cringes at. You just have to bite your lip and do the best you can for them.
I don’t know about you, but I am impressed and inspired! Here we have living proof that you can make your dreams come true as long as you’re willing to work hard at what you’re passionate about. This does not mean that I encourage you to drop out of school, however I do encourage you to find success whichever way is best for you! Because that’s the only way you’ll be truly happy
Congrats on all of your success, Kizzy! You have your whole life ahead of you and we all look forward to watching your career take off!
From a very early age Marina Kulich displayed interest in fine arts, especially painting. This interest soon turned into a passion that she focused on after moving to Canada with her family in ’97. During high school she worked hard to improve her portfolio and also worked as an assistant art teacher a few times.
She received a scholarship to Ontario College of Art where she majored in drawing and painting but also fit in photography and film classes as well. Since her schooling she has divided her interest to fit both photography and painting in her life. Both are important artistic outlets for her creative mind!
Last week’s featured musician, Chuck Treece, is getting some play on Y-Rock in Philadelphia (Channel 88.5 HD-2). He’s going to be giving a shout out to the fans of his band, McRad on Sunday, August 29 at 8PM EST – so don’t miss it! For more information on when to tune it please visit the Y-Rock website!
April Smith and The Great Picture Show are killing it lately! Not only did their song land a spot on the new Colgate Wisps commercial but, I also heard one of their songs while shopping at Forever 21 over the weekend AND, as you may have already heard, their single “Terrible Things” is all over the promotions for the 6th season of Showtime’s hit TV series Weeds! Check out the video above and join us in our excitement – *squeal* !!
Gayle Rappaport-Weiland‘s paintings have been exhibited in galleries and personal exhibitions throughout the western United States and are shown in a variety of galleries located throughout California. She brings the same originality, enthusiasm and heart to her paintings as she does to her life. Using rule-breaking techniques that set her apart from the crowd, she creates her signature work from the soul, using watercolor, acrylic and mixed media. Her qualifications and expertise, as an artist talented artist, teacher, curator, juror are widely recognized and respected.
Some of her awards and recognition include being the cover artist for the Placer County Autumn Art Studio Tour along with being voted Best Visual Artist in the Sacramento News in 2006 and one of the Best Visual Artists in the Sacramento News in 2007. Her art is represented for licensing exclusively through Studio Voltaire.
Mike Harrison is a 25-year-old graphic designer and illustrator from the UK. He’s honed a variety of skills in the fields of graphic design, illustration, motion and photography over the last 6 years or so which turned it from a hobby into a passion.
He is proud to be part of the international modern art collective Depthcore, and a member of the Keystone Design Union.
Warlock and Bradford is a tag-team of musicians who compose original music for film and television.
Movies and music have always been a part of Lance Warlock‘s life so it only seemed natural to integrate the two for a career. Growing up, his father was a stuntman and Lance would always tag along to Walt Disney Studios to watch him in action. At the age of 12, Lance was asked by John Carpenter to be in some scenes for the final cut of “Halloween II” and he couldn’t resist! From there, he had more opportunities to work with his dad on different films as extras and stunt doubles.
Leon Bradford grew up in a diverse musical family, always exposed to different types of music, and began playing the piano at the age of 4. During his music career, he’s played various roles including a composer and music producer for a national children’s educational company, a music director for a radio station, and he also opened his own recording studio where he provided production/recording services for local bands. His greatest passion lies in writing emotional instrumental music.
Having passion for music and film is their main driving force, and their ultimate goal is to get their music heard around the world!
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Sam on being chosen:
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