On a particularly average Tuesday morning, an editor’s phone vibrates with a new Instagram notification. A private message including a forwarded post from Armando Cabba’s account with no other details. The coffee has just been poured and the day has just begun. Up until this point there’s nothing strange or completely out of the ordinary at 10:07 AM until the post is revealed to be a very clear realistic erotic painting. After the sudden rush of excitement, viewers typically ask all the what, why, how, and who about the work before visiting Cabba’s profile itself. The collection of beautifully rendered…
Author: Martin Moseley
Boston celebrity fashion designer Steves Peeps revives Surf fashion. Celebrity designer Steves Peeps is prepping for his fashion line. The looks include everything from hard rock and emo to surf inspired and glam. A few pieces are going to be early 2000s surf inspired. Some pieces take inspiration from early 2000s hits The OC and Mtv’s Laguna Beach. The necklaces designed take inspiration from the 2002 movie Blue Crush. Steves Peeps was discovered by Lady Gaga’s best friend Lady Starlight on the old social networking website Myspace.com. Follow Steves Peeps here: https://www.facebook.com/StevesPeeps https://twitter.com/StevesPeepsNews
Tsvetta Kaleynska is a CEO, an author, TV commentator and female empowerment leader and she seems to do it all. Women immigrants have played a dynamic role in transforming societies globally, in every aspect we can think of. URBANISTA strives to continually promote inspirational stories from around the globe, this time coming from New York, USA. We recently had the pleasure to connect with Tsvetta Kaleynska and hear more about her incredible story and work. Tsvetta is a well-known social media intelligence guru globally, an immigrant CEO and TV commentator on the topics of A.I. and female empowerment. She has…
Video killed the radio star, her career role model Hans Zimmer and his The Buggles bandmates prophesied. We learnt from model turned filmmaker and film score composer Nicole Russin-McFarland, the Internet killed the oughties Hollywood star making method of “don’t call us, we’ll call you.” Nicole, who wants to hop to it working for the studios after the COVID-19 rubbish passes, is a household name from promoting her shoestring budget filmmaking and orchestral scores “like it were Gone With the Wind. I can’t stop until people finally pay attention to my work, and when they do, I do it again.”…
Shop Floor are an emerging art duo based in Withington, Manchester. Inspired by Minamilst, Bahaus art work but certainly not limited to this. The company (consisting of Tess Parkinson and Adam Porrino) create a range of pieces, including original paintings, prints, coasters, cards, tote bags and much more. They even create Spotify playlists accompanying their artwork. (Link below) The work is primarily sold online through Depop and you can keep up to date with their new pieces through Instagram. (See Links below). It is an exciting time for the emergence of Shop Floor into the new Withington creative scene. Local…
An Interstellar, detoxifying mask infused with activated bamboo charcoal that peels off to reveal a brighter and cleaner complexion. Benefits include: ⬛Deep Cleaning to remove daily pollutants which harm and age the skin ⬛BAMBOO CHARCOAL – Helps to remove dirt and other micro-particles from the surface of the skin which helps you to achieve a flawless complexion and fight acne ⬛SEA SILT – Rich in beneficial ingredients such as oxygen purifying Clay trace elements sulfur mineral-rich sea salt and organic components ⬛KAOLIN- improves the skin’s balance and decreases levels of poor clogging oil’s dirt and toxins. Can also help to…
Liverpool dance company Movema have teamed up with a local youth and community centre to tackle violent crime. In November 2019, Movema secured a grant from Merseyside’s Violence Reduction Partnership’s (VRP) sport-sector fund, coordinated by public health charity Healthy Stadia, to extend their youth outreach programme “Unlock the Box”. The project provides preventative activities to young people in areas of high risk to violent crime such as knife and gang culture. VRPs are designed to bring a wide range of partners, including the police, local authorities, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key stakeholders together to adopt a public health approach to tackling serious…
Teatro Pomodoro in assocation with UNITY Theatre Liverpool presents… ‘Sirens, Men and Crabs’ April 23rd, 24th, 25th, 2020Unity Theatre, Liverpool Liverpool’s international theatre troupe, Teatro Pomodoro, are returning to the city with a new show this April, entitled ‘Sirens, Men and Crabs: A Shipwrecked Odyssey.’ Debuting at the Unity Theatre from April 23rd to 25th, this brand new show will turn Ancient Greece upside down in a surreal clown odyssey. The show welcomes audiences to a world where the Sirens are the unsung heroines, Ulysses will never be the hero he wants to be, and Giant Crabs are taking over. Having been developed with the artistic input of Petra Massey…
Give Poetry a Chance! celebrates one-year anniversary with a published collection of poets’ work in support of Scouse Kitchen Gazing up at a Glastonbury Festival poster with the words ‘Give Peace a Chance’ splashed across it, Daniel Cullinan could never have imagined in that moment just exactly what this seed of inspiration would germinate into only one year later. Cullinan, from Maghull, had long been writing poetry since his days living in Vietnam but after that poster caught his eye, he began to post it online under a new alias- Give Poetry a Chance. Soon after, David McTague (founder of…
Tell us what “Tourette Syndrome” is, and how it looks, and feels like on you. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes people to have involuntary movements called tics. There are two types of tics, Motor tics [movements] and Vocal tics [sounds]. To get diagnosed with Tourette, you need to have both motor and vocal tics for at least one year. Tics and the way they appear, are individual for each person with Tourette. Meaning, no one has the exact same tics. My tics, you can say, are “socially acceptable”, they don’t appear as what you think tics would…