Allante Battle is not a painter. At least, that's what he insisted before picking up a brush last weekend and becoming the star student at the Brush Bar in Scottsdale.
The 22-year-old Tempe resident pulled a Thomas Kinkade on his inebriated (some) and admiring classmates.
Maybe he was hustling them with the "I can't paint" bit. Maybe he's naturally gifted and had no idea. Or, maybe it was the liquid inspiration from the Blue Moon beer beside his easel.
The Brush Bar is Bob Ross with booze. The downtown studio features a beer and wine bar in front and a painting area in the back, allowing aspiring Picassos to relax with a Michelob while painting their next, or first, masterpiece.
Gia Ciliento and Brett Strachan, both 26, of Scottsdale, own the place with Ciliento's father, Angelo.Ciliento and Strachan tag-team instruction and bartending, keeping the mood light and fun. An upbeat soundtrack from Ciliento's iPod helps get people singing and dancing, too.
Ciliento and Strachan were inspired by the Denver-based Canvas and Cocktails concept. The Brush Bar opened in August and has stayed pretty busy since, booking private events, conducting outreach to local schools and hosting family nights, open studio time and evening classes.
Classes range in price from $25 to $40, and include all supplies and one drink. After that, it's a cash bar. Some may want a second glass of wine, and others may pony up for a bottle. And, yes, the bar is open during the day when the studio is open for drop-in painting.
"There's no right or wrong to this," Ciliento said into a headset mike in front of a class of 19 who signed up to paint a piece called "Lover's Lane" on a Friday night.
The bar assigns paintings to various evenings throughout the month, so everyone in the class is painting the same subject. Interpretation is up to the artist. Each painter fills his own palette with squirts of acrylic paint from bottles on the side, and then mixes them according to how the teacher instructs, or how their creativity guides them.
The sample "Lover's Lane" featured a rain-slicked, burgundy-toned street, lighted by tall lampposts that reflect into the dark night sky. Battle's interpretation of "Lover's Lane" featured a slate-colored street hugged by snow-capped evergreens and lit by lamps encased in icicles.
"This is the first time I've painted on canvas before. I love it," Battle said, seated next to his impressed girlfriend, Kelsey McCormick. "I was totally thinking this was going to be paint-by-number. I didn't know what to expect."
Lindsay Nordstrom, 33, of Phoenix, was pretty happy with her efforts. She followed Ciliento's instruction as close as she could, shading where she suggested and sticking with the colors on the sample piece.
"If you lean back, it's pretty cool," Nordstrom said, taking in her painting from a few inches back. "It's pretty good. It's OK."
2012年1月3日 星期二
2011年11月22日 星期二
Romania and Serbia in cooperation with the Hungarian diaspora
Children Without Borders: Romania and Serbia in cooperation with the Hungarian diaspora
Approaching completion of one of the Romanian Association of Hungary and Serbia in EU funds implemented an initiative of the Children Without Borders. The organizers are still looking for the right to reward the best performing students.
The Senta "Ci-Fi" in the Civic Centre in Timisoara Diaspora Foundation, started together in February to December a series of programs in which the Romanian-Serbian border both sides of ten Romanian and Serbian Banat village of ten Hungarian-speaking primary school age children are involved.
The aim of the organizers of the ten-month csapatvetélked?vel colorful aspects of the Hungarian diaspora living in your little child's life - said Katalin Kovacs, Diaspora Foundation in Timisoara office manager and program manager for the MTI.
The hundreds of children participating in programs, puppet shows, science, local history and sportvetélked?ket organized. A series of events on December 3 the festival ends with children in Senta in Vojvodina.
A nice problem to the organizers that the EU was not included in the application teams pay, but experience has shown that children require, that. My options, therefore, the final addition to their supporters are trying to locate an event, such as reward those who can offer free summer camp for the Serbian and Romanian villages scattered from some Hungarian children.
Approaching completion of one of the Romanian Association of Hungary and Serbia in EU funds implemented an initiative of the Children Without Borders. The organizers are still looking for the right to reward the best performing students.
The Senta "Ci-Fi" in the Civic Centre in Timisoara Diaspora Foundation, started together in February to December a series of programs in which the Romanian-Serbian border both sides of ten Romanian and Serbian Banat village of ten Hungarian-speaking primary school age children are involved.
The aim of the organizers of the ten-month csapatvetélked?vel colorful aspects of the Hungarian diaspora living in your little child's life - said Katalin Kovacs, Diaspora Foundation in Timisoara office manager and program manager for the MTI.
The hundreds of children participating in programs, puppet shows, science, local history and sportvetélked?ket organized. A series of events on December 3 the festival ends with children in Senta in Vojvodina.
A nice problem to the organizers that the EU was not included in the application teams pay, but experience has shown that children require, that. My options, therefore, the final addition to their supporters are trying to locate an event, such as reward those who can offer free summer camp for the Serbian and Romanian villages scattered from some Hungarian children.
2011年11月13日 星期日
Solution Finder heating case
When the TE-TO Senta Sugar Factory in October notified in writing of the Senta municipality that only the 2013th April 15 until supplies district heating to the city, the souls must urgently take action in a district heating plant to state. Aniko tombstone mayor and deputy mayor Charles Cheese by public companies and joint ventures are thinking, engage in discussions with Serbian, Hungarian and Austrian investors. The sugar factory in the current heating season, the price increase requested by the board at Monday's meeting, the representatives are likely to be approved.zentai
Senta approximately 2,500 households and institutions located in the center, including nursery schools and use the sugar from the factory district heating. This form of heating the sugar factory in 2002, before privatization was cheap, but have since increased year on year in the price, which in turn triggered the dissatisfaction of users. The City Council also from time to time "was at war," TE-TO Cukorgyárral, because in many cases, the representatives did not want to accept or not the plant was found to be justified by a request to raise prices. Now the summer is done in such a case in which the representative body has not approved the plant's árkalkulációs claim that the past season related. The thing degenerated so far that the sugar factory in October, has notified the government that is willing to April 2013 to provide district heating to the town.
Aniko tombstone mayor said that the factories have long proclaimed that the heating does not pay for services, ie the local authority is aware for some time that the establishment of district heating plants must deal with:The sugar factory boiler admitted was not originally produced for district heating, it is only an ancillary activity to them, in addition to a side activity in which a small profit, but more nyűggel applicable. This we already knew, and I think we have the solutions, but now that the factory announced in writing that they were only willing to be heated further two seasons, we need to do something urgently. The municipality would enter into a contract with the cukorgyárral heating season, there is no long-term contracts, so the factory is fully acted lawfully when he decided to fall 2013 will not be heated. Two years would be very little time to build a district heating plant, but will do our best to create the. Public enterprises or joint ventures are thinking, so we hope that Serbia will soon be born in the Joint Venture Act. Austria, Hungary and Serbia are also interested. We do not want to take a loan to build a district heating plants, more competition in mind. The negotiations with interested companies are still in their early stages, we'll see what they offer, and we are from what is appropriate.
Cheese on the subject, said deputy mayor, Charles, first of all I have to decide what they want to heat raw material: The simplest solution would be for natural gas, but gas prices rise, and will not be used for heating. Far better would be a decision with biomass or geothermal heating. The biomass is cheaper and more expensive version. The more expensive when the biomass used for power generation, and there arose a waste is heated. The cheaper and agricultural by-products when used for heating. If you are thinking long term, then it's what our region would be the best moment of geothermal energy for heating, but unfortunately this will require the greatest investment. In Hungary, there have been some cities, which are heated by geothermal energy, when such a system once established, it is very economical, but the investment is huge. The future of district heating plant in the hemp plant was planned to the area, it is important is to get closer to the fővezetékhez. Since the main line of sand housing estate, this is the most sensible solution.
Aniko tombstone also said that the TE-TO sugar factory earlier this week arrived with a request for a new árkorrekcióra by the November 14 on Monday, representing the board meeting to be held matter of urgency the agenda. The factory is the square after the taxpayers 4.9 percent, the gauge should have a 5.09 percent price increase will be proposed. The city managers of the gas price increase is considered acceptable given the district heating price increases, it is likely to approve the application.
Senta approximately 2,500 households and institutions located in the center, including nursery schools and use the sugar from the factory district heating. This form of heating the sugar factory in 2002, before privatization was cheap, but have since increased year on year in the price, which in turn triggered the dissatisfaction of users. The City Council also from time to time "was at war," TE-TO Cukorgyárral, because in many cases, the representatives did not want to accept or not the plant was found to be justified by a request to raise prices. Now the summer is done in such a case in which the representative body has not approved the plant's árkalkulációs claim that the past season related. The thing degenerated so far that the sugar factory in October, has notified the government that is willing to April 2013 to provide district heating to the town.
Aniko tombstone mayor said that the factories have long proclaimed that the heating does not pay for services, ie the local authority is aware for some time that the establishment of district heating plants must deal with:The sugar factory boiler admitted was not originally produced for district heating, it is only an ancillary activity to them, in addition to a side activity in which a small profit, but more nyűggel applicable. This we already knew, and I think we have the solutions, but now that the factory announced in writing that they were only willing to be heated further two seasons, we need to do something urgently. The municipality would enter into a contract with the cukorgyárral heating season, there is no long-term contracts, so the factory is fully acted lawfully when he decided to fall 2013 will not be heated. Two years would be very little time to build a district heating plant, but will do our best to create the. Public enterprises or joint ventures are thinking, so we hope that Serbia will soon be born in the Joint Venture Act. Austria, Hungary and Serbia are also interested. We do not want to take a loan to build a district heating plants, more competition in mind. The negotiations with interested companies are still in their early stages, we'll see what they offer, and we are from what is appropriate.
Cheese on the subject, said deputy mayor, Charles, first of all I have to decide what they want to heat raw material: The simplest solution would be for natural gas, but gas prices rise, and will not be used for heating. Far better would be a decision with biomass or geothermal heating. The biomass is cheaper and more expensive version. The more expensive when the biomass used for power generation, and there arose a waste is heated. The cheaper and agricultural by-products when used for heating. If you are thinking long term, then it's what our region would be the best moment of geothermal energy for heating, but unfortunately this will require the greatest investment. In Hungary, there have been some cities, which are heated by geothermal energy, when such a system once established, it is very economical, but the investment is huge. The future of district heating plant in the hemp plant was planned to the area, it is important is to get closer to the fővezetékhez. Since the main line of sand housing estate, this is the most sensible solution.
Aniko tombstone also said that the TE-TO sugar factory earlier this week arrived with a request for a new árkorrekcióra by the November 14 on Monday, representing the board meeting to be held matter of urgency the agenda. The factory is the square after the taxpayers 4.9 percent, the gauge should have a 5.09 percent price increase will be proposed. The city managers of the gas price increase is considered acceptable given the district heating price increases, it is likely to approve the application.
2011年8月25日 星期四
Zentai Futons - Zentai Living - The Natural Sleep Centre
The Natural Comfort specialists, Zentai Living have been manufacturing Futon mattresses and Latex mattresses since 1981. We are Australia 's original Futon Company. Our company has since expanded to include a modern display of bedroom furniture and living room furniture. We are a Manufacturer & Retailer offering a direct sales service via our retail stores and via our Australia wide and International Mail Order service. Our stores are located in sub tropical Byron Bay and Brisbane . All Mail Order sales should be directed to our HQ Byron Bay Showroom/Warehouse.
We pride ourselves in producing only quality bedding products, such as authentic Futons made in the traditional style, as well as many types of foam core futons using materials such as CFC free foam, natural cotton, and pure wool as filling.
We manufacture both traditional futon mattresses which are usually all cotton futons varying in thickness from 7cm , 10cm, to 15cm. (traditionally, the thinner style futon was used in Japan on tatami mat flooring). - and we also manufacture a range of Foam - Core Futons that vary thickness from 15-18cm and thicker by request.
We have perfected our own unique method of Futon manufacture, and have been producing a superior quality futon mattress using hand made methods, which stuffing machines cannot achieve. Its all about attention to detail that makes one product superior to another. Through constant improvement and use of better quality materials, we have perfected the art of Natural Sleep over last 24 years.
We also produce a range of Timber Bed Frames, which have both posture slat systems for enhanced comfort and postural support, and solid slats for absolute firm support. All our bedframes are complimented with bedroom furniture with simple style.
Zentai also produce a range of Latex mattresses and Latex pillows which are made from 100% natural rubber. The ultimate in natural comfort. We use only the highest quality pure natural latex, regularly tested and certified by the ECO-umwelt institut in Cologne Germany . Absolutely no synthetic latex or fillers or extenders are used in the manufacture. Our latex is non toxic, non carcinogenic, hypo-allergenic, and anti-microbial.
We carry a large range futon sofa beds available in many colours. All are available with removable heavy weight coloured cotton canvas futon covers.
Recently, we have expanded to Modern living room furniture; - entertainment units, shelving, dining room furniture, tatami mat flooring, and more.
If your taste is for a simple elegant lifestyle then let us enhance your living space with our aesthetic products made for the a 'life naturale'.
We pride ourselves in producing only quality bedding products, such as authentic Futons made in the traditional style, as well as many types of foam core futons using materials such as CFC free foam, natural cotton, and pure wool as filling.
We manufacture both traditional futon mattresses which are usually all cotton futons varying in thickness from 7cm , 10cm, to 15cm. (traditionally, the thinner style futon was used in Japan on tatami mat flooring). - and we also manufacture a range of Foam - Core Futons that vary thickness from 15-18cm and thicker by request.
We have perfected our own unique method of Futon manufacture, and have been producing a superior quality futon mattress using hand made methods, which stuffing machines cannot achieve. Its all about attention to detail that makes one product superior to another. Through constant improvement and use of better quality materials, we have perfected the art of Natural Sleep over last 24 years.
We also produce a range of Timber Bed Frames, which have both posture slat systems for enhanced comfort and postural support, and solid slats for absolute firm support. All our bedframes are complimented with bedroom furniture with simple style.
Zentai also produce a range of Latex mattresses and Latex pillows which are made from 100% natural rubber. The ultimate in natural comfort. We use only the highest quality pure natural latex, regularly tested and certified by the ECO-umwelt institut in Cologne Germany . Absolutely no synthetic latex or fillers or extenders are used in the manufacture. Our latex is non toxic, non carcinogenic, hypo-allergenic, and anti-microbial.
We carry a large range futon sofa beds available in many colours. All are available with removable heavy weight coloured cotton canvas futon covers.
Recently, we have expanded to Modern living room furniture; - entertainment units, shelving, dining room furniture, tatami mat flooring, and more.
If your taste is for a simple elegant lifestyle then let us enhance your living space with our aesthetic products made for the a 'life naturale'.
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