Calling all South Florida members of the STE mathematics — community: Now’s your chance to and
The inaugural Tech Art South Florida Competition, hap UI community and highlight local talent. Participants digital art pieces that will be judged July 21-26, with the guidelines, the event will happen over Zoom.
Organizer Cristina Escalante says it’s an opportunity for place where they can make things people can interac the web is a place that offers numerous possibilities for the CEO of The SilverLogic, a Boca Raton-based softwa the event. She got the idea for the competition after Monthly Music Hackathon for many years. One Saturd artists come together to “hack” projects exploring mu would happen in South Florida, but it never did.
An ongoing campaign led by Miami Mayor Francis S touting the area’s beautiful weather and lack of incom has one problem with it: no mention of the locals. “If y without highlighting the people who make up the comm that should probably be there,” she says. Thus, Tech Art
The competition will start with a kickoff event on June 21 questions. Around that same time, sponsor Boca Code w website, since this will be helpful for participants. A pane piece on aesthetics, interactivity, and execution.
But what exactly is “digital art” you ask? It can be any bottles audibly clinking on the Jarritos soda website.
“If you don’t know Photoshop, you can do interesting thi says. “It forces you to think about making images a con
The Tech Art South Florida Competition happens via Zoo For more information, visit techartsf.com
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EAM — science, technology, engineering, art, make something truly interactive on the web showcase it for a chance at some cold cash.
ppening this summer, aims to support the UX/ can submit web browser-based interactive e winner chosen on July 31. Due to COVID-19
people to think about the web browser “as a ct with.” She wants participants to know that visual and auditory experiences. Escalante is are development company that is sponsoring being on the mailing list for New York City’s day a month, programmers, musicians, and usic. Escalante kept hoping an event like this
Suarez is luring tech players to South Florida, me tax. All of this sounds great, but Escalante you invite a whole bunch of tech executives munity, you’re leaving something off the table t South Florida was born.
1, during which potential participants can ask will be hosting a workshop on how to deploy a el from the STEAM community will judge each
ything from interactive guitar tutorials to glass
ings that are interactive with HTML,” Escalante nversation... a two-way conversation.”
om July 21-26, with a kickoff event on June 21.
MELANIE & JESSE
Belief in oneself is digress, the revolu is probably going up in an easy to sw was an idea, an i variety of forms (in itself into a brick The owners, Mela West Palm neede provide: an outle sounds without th those with less of We see you music up to those eyeba
Nah man, according to Jesse and Melanie, their because of the room to offer genre classifications everything was just in alphabetical order, and it was for people to discover new things… These days it’s Beyonce could be in hip-hop, soul, R&B and pop al artists playing with styles of music these days that is
Jesse went on to describe how he has a love of fu have now built out into hip-hop and how that build and began talking about their new classical secti classify as there are current day composers who hav work that one simply would not recognize as classic
The store was a leap of faith the couple took wh there have many been ups and downs, especially d couple quit their “day jobs” to run Rust & Wax full tim a world class record enclave where all styles are we on it. The community can only thrive if everyone su action, a revolution indeed. RUSTANDWAX.COM
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s the catalyst to leading revolutions. But I ution needs a soundtrack and these days it to be televised, marketed, and wrapped wallow package. Rust & Wax Record Shop inspired concept. One birthed through a ncluding pop-ups) before it finally forged k-and-mortar location at Industry Alley. anie & Jesse Feldman had a belief that ed, nay, was starving for what they could et for music fans to explore genre and he usual judgement that is bestowed on a penchant for deep dives into rhythm. c snobs... stow the heavy sighs and catch alls before they roll off your face.
new location is much more challenging s. “In the old space (at Elizabeth Station) s much easier for us, but also much cooler near impossible to split things into genre, ll at the same time!?” “There are so many s gets very difficult to label things.”
unk, soul, and jazz, but how those genres ds on culture in general. Melanie agreed ion, and just how difficult that will be to ve a more “cinematic-esque” feel to their cal. “Classical adjacent” she remarked.
hen they started the first version in 2017, during Covid lockdowns, but recently the me. They believe that West Palm deserves elcome, and they have staked their future upports the cause. The power of belief in
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If you’ve “Lonely Saturda you’ve Now in with ext pop mu song “G The intro Frishber she felt
Her new compo MARGO GURYAN Blackwo her career would take off, penning a number of Oliver and Carmen McRae, among others, as we David Rosner.
In 1968, her sole full-length, Take a Picture, a fla pop, led by her infectious single “Sunday Morni touches and airiness, the album’s tone is per Guryan’s Mona Lisa-smile as she looks through a as fall in love with the piano,” she says of her ear it and I eventually ended up with Jaki Byard, a g
It can be argued that her album should’ve bee the songs that made others famous would make to her dislike of the music business’ throngs of mid witnessed during her first marriage to a jazz musi
Her stepson, Jonathan Rosner, a seasoned music says Guryan’s little bit of orneriness has been a lif the stardom her talent commanded, she’s lived she wanted to create. “Music resonated the m the 60’s and the mid- to late-60’s pop,” she said during her lifetime. Since the early aughts, a serie new fans and rekindling older ones with a larger
In the summer of 2020, Vinyl Me Please, a record of Take a Picture. Most recently, watchmake “Someone I Know,” in a commercial for their some of that tough skin, Guryan confesses, “I’m new fans I’ve gained. I love my new fans!”
by Abel Folgar If you’ve ever mailed something with a bit of flair – say a letter with an envelope featuring a little doodle, or even a postcard from an exotic land with some words inspired by the scenery – you’ve inadvertently created a piece of mail art. Especially so if the receiver treasures it as a keepsake and returns to it from time to time. Call that a work in a private collection if you will. Mail Art, also known as correspondence or postal art, coined in the 1960’s and an umbrella term for any type of art form that can be delivered via a postal or logistics service, is a popular medium and interesting vehicle for creativity. Widely collected by some of the major art institutions in the world, mail art exhibits run the gamut of small objects to large and ornate works that seem impossible to have made it past the postmaster’s scale. “The movement was made popular in the 60’s and was all about taking what already existed and making it into something new which relates so much to our mission of reuse,” said Chelsea Odum, the Director of Education & Artist Relations at Resource Depot in West Palm Beach. “It made art accessible for consumption and provided artists with creative problem-solutions for what they could attempt to get away with when mailing through the postal service.” For over 20 years, the Resource Depot has hammered away at the growing waste problem in Palm Beach County, rescuing and upcycling unwanted and excess materials. Their collection of donations is redistributed amongst teachers, artists, families and other non-profit organizations that need them as a means of fostering creative, hands-on learning. Odum also runs the Depot’s GalleRE, an exhibit space for local artists who incorporate the reuse of materials and showcase of what can be done artistically with what most people discard. To date, GalleRE has hosted close to 20 exhibitions and “Junk Mail,” will be their first exhibition focused solely on mail art and reaching beyond local artists. “Every exhibition we curate relates to our mission in one way or another: Making creative opportunities and sustainable ideas accessible to everyone, while providing the resources for creative thinkers to express themselves in our community regardless of income,” she said. “We hope to include both our local makers, and creative re-users from afar.” The deadline to apply is May 29 and all works must be postmarked before or by Friday, June 4, 2021. If you feel a little bad about the mountain of deliveries you’ve received over the last year and want to flex your creative muscles while helping out the environment, a percentage of artworks sold will support the Resource Depot’s programs. Junk Mail: A Mail Art Exhibition is scheduled to run June 25 through August 14, 2021. For more information and submission guidelines, visit resourcedepot.org
bel Folgar
e ever sang or hummed along to Freda Payne’s y Woman,” Harry Belafonte’s “I’m On My Way to ay,” or Anita O’Day’s “I Want to Sing a Song” – been touched by the genius of Margo Guryan. her early 80’s, Guryan was a classical musician tensive training in jazz who fell backwards into usic after an introduction to the Beach Boys’ God Only Knows” on 1966’s Pet Sounds album. o, credited to her friend and jazz musician Dave rg, sent Guryan down a new path of creativity was not happening in jazz at the time.
wfound work in pop as a lyricist, songwriter, oser and arranger resonated with Aprilood, Columbia Records’ publishing arm. There, f hits recorded by Bobby Sherman, Julie London, ell as working with producer and future husband,
awless album of dreamy sunshine and baroque ing,” was released by Bell Records. Full of jazzy rfectly captured by the cover photograph of a rain-drizzled window. “Initially I didn’t so much rly training. “It was my parents who made me do great teacher who I loved.”
en an international hit and that singing some of e her a household name. But refusing to tour due ddlemen and ownership over artists – travails she ician, effectively ceased label support.
c publisher and co-founder of Waterslide Music, felong trait. And while she wasn’t propelled into her life on her own terms and created the music most for me with the jazz of the late 50’s through d about the fluctuating tastes in popular music es of Demos albums have surfaced, introducing r and varied catalog of her music.
d of the month club, pressed the first vinyl reissue er TAG Heuer and Porsche featured her song, Carrera Chronograph collaboration. Shedding m happy with the releases, the exposure and the
VICTOR GUDEMA
by David Rolland Though we all doodled our way through our youth, one look at a Victor Gudema painting reveals an artist with technique beyond his thirteen years. The student at Boca Raton’s Don Estridge High Tech Middle School has a portfolio filled with work that displays both a child-like sense of wonder and a master’s sense of detail. Gudema says he first got into art at six years old when he tried drawing the venus flytraps in his school science book. “Something about them made me really interested and it made me want to draw them, or capture them. They were beautiful, dangerous, scary, and interesting at the same time.” Over the next years he refined a method of creating other beautiful and interesting images. “I commonly draw on paper until I have an idea I like. Then I paint some wood and then I draw over it and then add color last until it feels done. I’m not a fan of solid lines because they look immature.”
He says it’s an artistic decision that the figures that populate his art have a surreal look. “If you’re just about making things look real, like traditional historic artists, making something that just looks like a photograph, then there’s no meaning, there’s no story. We already have photographs for that. I want people to see my images and think ‘Maybe if I keep looking at it I’ll see something more.’” Gudema has only just started displayed his art in public. He has a website gudema. com/victor/ where his art is available for purchase. This past spring his art was also displayed at both Pop Up Art at Pioneer Park and at the Art & Autism Expo. Victor’s Mom, Linda. said participating in the exhibitions was a spur of the moment decision. “He had been drawing so much, so when we heard about this little local art show we asked him if he wanted to set up a booth and display his paintings to the public for the first time. He was really into it and got all of his pieces ready. We kept telling him not to get his hopes up, there was a pandemic going on and hardly anyone would be there and he might not sell one. It was just to get out and show people. Well... he sold six. We were shocked! People just responded to them in such a positive way. It was heartwarming all of the encouragement and support he got.” Success hasn’t gone to his head. Victor says he has some -very relatable to any teenager- goals for the rest of 2021. “I’m going to eat, survive, and finish that drawing of a rustic house and a lamp with a face that I’ve been planning.” View in person at mtn space, May 4-15! Art to the Right: 12” x 12” Acrylic Paint and Ink on Wood Panel GUDEMA.com/VICTOR