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Michael Worful is having a photography exhibition featuring images from his recent trip to China at All Along Press. Friday, November 11th 6pm.

This is the trailer for “Eden”, a short-film that captures the story of Element’s women’s apparel brand and the family behind it.

I co-directed the film with my husband, Kirk Dianda. Together, we shot and edited the piece over the course of two years, as we documented all the products and personalities behind the brand. To string the story along, I created a set of handmade stop-motion animations, that not only help tell the story of Eden, but also represent the brand’s quirky personality, while detailing creativity and fashion.

Short film launches on December 1st.

Directed by:

Amber B Dianda

Kirk Dianda

Music by:

Loren Humphrey

It’s Halloween and this is how the Costa Mesa community likes to celebrate!

Click here to see more photos from the “Halloween in Costa Mesa” series.

From the beautiful haunting voices, and sweet melancholy poems of Brooklyn based band “The Gypsy Curse” comes a new album titled, “From These Broken Hands”.

Recorded live at the Cabin in Höör, Sweden, and produced by The Gypsy Curse. The album launches December 10th, 2011 but the band have released a sneak peak of two songs on Bandcamp.

Check them out here. One listen and you’ll be hooked too.

Photo by Scott Irvine & Kim Meinelt.

AR4T Gallery is proud to present a vocal and poignant solo show from Los Angeles based artist Corey Smith. Turning his focus from celebrity obsession and obsolete dreams to the unnamed citizen, Smith exposes the soft underbelly of Americana without losing the gloss.

Inspired by get-rich-quick schemes, exercise equipment, absurdity of extreme sports, weight-loss plans, and modern strategies for success and happiness, this collection exhibits Smith’s signature clean and minimalist techniques. “My work is about sharing,” he said last month while preparing the all-new works, which will be showcased all month. “I have a lot of ideas and I need to manifest them as immediately as possible, life is short.”

COREY SMITH | BECOME A BETTER YOU
November 3rd – November 27th, 2011

Thursday, November 3rd | 7:00pm – 10:00pm

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www.thecomune.com

http://ar4t.com/

Bikes for Humanity have partnered with Lend Lease who generously provided the storage containers, volunteers to assist packing, and a great mural for the project. If you are down-under on the 5th of November 2011, and have a bike to donate to improve the life of someone in Africa, please swing by Lend Lease, Barangaroo in the Sydney CBD.

Check the link for more details here.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, and to celebrate, I created this short film entitled “Happy Halloween”. The bones are hand cut from paper, which is then placed on a black background, and then I shot each frame individually, in the classic stop-start fashion.

Edited by the talented and very handsome Kirk Dianda.

I just updated my site and added a photography folio.

amberbcreate.com/photography/

Art Park presents “Phantom Moments” by their first US artist resident, Nathaniel Russell on Friday, September 23.

Nathaniel makes drawings, prints, and paintings of mysterious figures, imaginary books and posters, primitive character study, dream thoughts, and references to our common subconscious connections. His prints and drawings have been exhibited internationally in numerous solo, group, and traveling exhibitions in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Tokyo. Zines of his drawings have been published by small presses in Scotland, Canada, and Germany. If you happen to be in the beautiful Byron Bay, go check it out.

Phantom Moments by Nathaniel Russell

Friday, September 23 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

5/11 Banksia Drive, Byron Bay (Arts Estate).

Elemental Awareness hits the road once a year for their Rez tour. On the annual trip, they visit Native American reservations across the country to give back to the communities. Check out the video to see what’s gone on in the past, and for more information about this year’s tour, “The Long Strange Trip”, which has four stops, go to Elemental Awareness.