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Women : A celebration of Art and Culture
Valentines weekend this year women came together to celebrate the art and culture they participate in. Henry Frederick Wischusen the 3rd helped coordinate the event at the crofoot and took a minute to explained why he is so passionate about it. There is more information on their facebook
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happy holidays !
The magic stick had a great holiday festive songs show .Happy Holidays! Tell the people in your life you care about them.
Love,
Phil
Yobi.tv show
I participated in a international contest last year. The prize for winning was 10,000 dollars and a trip to California. the video is from the trip.
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It was surprising to win and am very grateful to yobi. This season of yobi I have a feature show running everyother week. It is a lot of fun check it out.
All you aspiring video,photo,musical, and comedic creative’s out there should get involved! It is free and can be entered anywhere globally.
I really feel like the world is changing a lot right now and I’m excited to be part of it.
Thunderbirds Are Now
Thunderbirds are Now are great guys. I has been a bit since I have heard them play live. Here is a mix of new and old songs. It was great hearing the recitals play their final show at The Magestic Theatre. Some of their song will be posted here soon!
P.S.
Thanks John Krohn from Deep Deep Pink for helping with the sound.
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White Hinterland
Have you ever just wanted to club dance to ambient, chill, surreal, indie music. Well I do almost every day and that is why you should listen to White Hinterland ! I saw them October 9th at the pike room between some of my friends playing. The video isn’t the best quality but you need to hear them to really understand the above comment!
Art Prize
Last week I went with a ferndale artist friend to Art Prize in grand rapids. This was its first year of artists taking over the city and is the largest art contest to ever have been started internationally. The grand prize is $250,000 and people from all over the world came to the open-ended competition. I interviewed a few of them about their work and their feelings about art prize. Grand rapids is a beautiful place and at times I thought I was in Switzerland because the city was so clean and well designed.
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Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan has been away for a bit and it was exciting to hear him play in pontiac. He had a lot of new material which was great to hear.I recommend hearing an artist in a location that inspired some of their songs.
Matt and Kim
It seem like yesterday I was at the magic stick listening to matt and kim with about 50 people . When I went to their show yesterday there were so many people I literally thought the speakers were going to fall on me and that made me feel good. Kim stood up in the middle of the performance and personally thanked Detroit for the support. This is a group you can’t really get until you see them live. Their openness and friendly attitude is infectious.
move that bike
One of my friends is really into biking and another loves to spree. We had fun today august 29, 2009. Be careful when you hang out the back of moving vehicles! It is a lesson I was glad to have learned in thailand on a tooktook and not today 
. I sharpened images a little.
the angela duncan
The Angela Duncan is one of the best people you will ever meet. She also is a great illustrator.
Buy her Later Buddy Michael Jackson t-shirts.
All images have color adjusment but all fireworks and smoke are real!
Arabic Wedding
Here are some pictures from a wedding I did august 1st 2009. The images are the straight unedited jpegs. It was my first greek orthodox wedding. They flew a religious figure in from egypt! The best dance floor I have seen so far.
Single Barrel
Single Barrel put on a big show at the crofoot in Pontiac. If you’re not familiar with single barrel yet it is a great cause that is trying to give attention to the great music and places in detroit. Amazing night with a lot of talented artists! Above is Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
Daniel Zott and Josh Epstein collaboration = mind-blowing.
People
Here are a few of my favorite pictures of people that I shot this year. More will be posted later.
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Wedding broom hop
July 25,2009
My first broom hop wedding. They were a lot of fun. Images were not altered jpeg ( other than slight cropping).
Art Collaboration
I’m starting a project with some friends. I’m shooting images and then they are reinterpreting them in their own artistic medium.
Eventually the artwork will be auctioned off and the proceeds donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Michigan chapter .
If you are interested in being part of the project email me your info website etc… and we will see if it is a good match.
The first two of the series are below. Collaborated with Devin Sioma.
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deastro
Deastro has always brought interest to the stage. It was great to hear a full band tightly keep to the vision of their lead singer randy at the magic stick in detroit. I have been a fan for a few years but lately I have especially loved their music. MOONDAGGER is a must for this year! …
http://www.myspace.com/deastro
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The Silent Giants
Some of my friends have a printing company check them out at