AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Just wanted to say Hello. Brand new member of AMP.

I'm a clown, performer, actor, and director based in Yonkers NY (although just recently-- before that I was in Providence, RI and still maintain my ties in that community.

Ewww, what's that under my nails? Ah, yes, I remember now....red, green, purple clay......How nice to wake up with clay under my fingernails again.....and to sleepily brush glaze onto a few pieces while waiting for the coffee to brew.

My current passion is an alternative photographic process called Polaroid transfers. Each polaroid transfer is hand-made by the photographer using specific materials and equipment to achieve a desired effect. A transparency is projected on to professional Polaroid print film and as development begins, the print and chemicals are prematurely separated. The image is transferred on to dampened watercolor paper for a unique image which has a dated artistic photo-painting appearance. Exposure, development, pressure, time, paper and other variables make each print an original mono-print. Since the negative is destroyed in the process, no two images will ever look alike.

Picture it, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2006 - Najmi's Spirit on the floating stage with the Wicked Tinkers, the finest pipe and drum band in the land......feels like it was a dream. Our first "big" venue, a whole five minute dance. The universe still owes us ten more minutes of fame.

The newEar + TIMC collaboration worked out smashingly. Performed Friday the 15th of September at Unity Temple on the Plaza and rocked it up. I posted a video unresort.com made on You Tube at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnyZ6EJzvtY

Hi All,
I am working on coordinating a Community Belly dance{other styles also} Recital for Dec 9th in Fort Collins, CO 2-4ish.

Teachers If you will be in the area & are interested in a performance time spot for you and your students, please feel free to contact me before Nov 10th '06.
10-15 min will be allowed, no registration/performance fees.

Celebrate the beautiful learning process of dance.
Community Student Showcase!
-Shahravar

Hello,

My name is Gil, I play in an alternative rock band from Jerusalem, Israel called missFlag.

The reason I'm here is because we're looking for help.

Lemme first tell you a little bit about ourselves:

We formed the band a year and a half ago, and recorded our first E.P january of this year. You can hear the E.P on our MySpace page, www.myspace.com/missFlagmusic, or on our website www.missFlag.com.

Thanks to the E.P we got a very successful L.A producer called Guy Erez interested in us. This producer has worked with the Gipsy Kings, Ryan Cabrera, Jennifer Love Hewwitt, Randy Coleman and many more, and he also wrote the "Crash" soundtrack... in other words, a real big shot.

So, the interview went very well and she said that even if she doesn't hire me, she'll give me writing assignments. And there are benefits after 90 days. She said she'd call by Wednesday and I haven't heard from her yet.

So now, of course, I'm agonizing over leaving the present job. How many jobs are out there where you can put on a belly dance performance for a sweet little lady in a wheelchair? I'm reminded that this kind of gratification is worth far more than the paycheck.......which is already gone before it's arrived, again.

The past few weeks have been a dark journey but I survived the fire, I think.......This is life and I'm still here under protest......let me remember that we're all spirits living in a human world rather than the reverse.

It is finally cooling off in the air as fall leans in a bit closer to snow(where I live)
Holiday's are coming soon solstice or X-mas or what have you.
I've been busy adding a few new Coin jewelery creations(pic's are so hard any tip's out there?)
& T-shirt/Hoodie designs of cute Oriental Victorian postcards.
Visit my Souk Shop If you are interested.
Happy Shimmies! Shahravar
www.shahravarbellydance.com

Hark!