DISTINCT IVE AFALL 20 11 Styl. Ce OM FALL 2011 ECO FASHION TRENDS AMERICAN HERO shameless JeWelRY J.R. MARTINEZ SINGER/SONGWRITER GIVE AWAY JENNIFER WARNES LEGENDARY WOMEN REGInA TAYLOR BLAZE THE TRAIL BReaking FRAn DREscHER the silence on SPEAKS OUT AbOUT CANCER ovaRian canceR 2 A Distinctive style . com A Distinctive style . com 3 4 A Distinctive style . com A Distinctive style . com 5 www.mauricegainen.com the sound of An International Journey of fReedom Music Creation By Stacey Kumagai Freedom means different things to passion for music, spending time with His father, who was a well-known (1964 different people. It is something many live loved ones and being inspired by life’s Academy Award) Jewish author was told to experience and strive to find in their journey and the journey of others who he should leave right away, so they fled to lives all over the world. It can take on a have become part of his life’s musical Israel. He was driving me to the airport different note of understanding from tapestry. and we were talking. He said, ‘When I was many growth perspectives of what it “The inspiration for the theme came a kid in Czechoslovakia and I heard The means to be truly free. As a five year-old from the song and the song inspiration Beatles, Stones, Jazz, Blues, the BBC and child, Composer-Musician-Producer and came from a visit with George Grosman in Voice of America, that was the sound of Master Engineer, Maurice Gainen found Toronto in 2009. He was one of the first freedom to me.’ “I said, wow, that is a freedom on a piano built in 1923, in his people I met when my family moved to great song title, you should run with it!” family living room. Today, The Sound of Israel when I was in 11th grade. As a “When I got back to LA, it would not Freedom is more than just the title of his teenager in Czechoslovakia in 1967, he leave my head. I called him and said, Dude, new album. For Gainen, freedom is doing was awakened to Russian tanks rolling remember that sound of freedom stuff we what he loves independently, sharing his down his street in the middle of the night. were talking about, when I said you should 6 A Distinctive style . com write a song? Well, I just wrote it, but you from numerous music publications from that transcends airspace via cyberspace – have to write a verse about your experience Music Connection to Billboard Magazine , a world-fusion CD he produced with an growing up in Czechoslovakia,” explains he plays the flute and saxophone effort - entire cast of thirty-eight musicians via the Gainen. lessly and produces music and video internet with vocals and music performances Music truly sets people free in many creatively, with dedication and passion. from yes, all seven continents! “Music is a ways. In The Sound of Freedom music video , While most may marvel at these talents great unifier,” explains Gainen. His next Gainen adds colorful notes with his sax - alone, what some may not know is that work will come in July 2012 with his own ophone to the lead vocals of Grosman in Gainen is also an accomplished Master works tentatively called World Jazz Czechoslovakia via Toronto, Immaculee Engineer in music. “I am blessed to get Remixed with video shoots in Brazil and Awino in Kenya, Africa and Jamal "General" paid to wallow in the best music ever Africa for the new CD. Patton in South Central Los Angeles, who created of all types. Too many to list, but “There is more great music out there punctuates his story with Rap-style lyrics. just for starters, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, than one can absorb in a lifetime…great They share their true-life stories in the Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, musicians in big and small cities all over song’s lyrical message. These real-life Sinatra, Marvin Gaye. I have Mastered 140 the world. You just have to make a little experiences are what make freedom worth compilations for Starbucks, often getting effort to seek it out. A lot of very worthy celebrating as they discover themselves the opportunity to make the songs sound stuff gets left behind or not supported and their own life harmony by what better than they ever have through enough. I am in as much control of my they’ve endured and overcome in hard restoration.” destiny as anyone can be. All I have to do times. Also making an appearance with his While most of Gainen’s time is spent on is stay focused and break the silence in a soulful, gritty back-alley blues vocals is remastering legendary artists, he’s kept positive way,” concludes Gainen. blues great Mighty Mo Rodgers. true to his own self-imposed ‘my own CD Maurice Gainen is breaking the silence, After studying at Berklee College of every two years’ deadline to create the indeed. If you listen closely, you may Music, Gainen’s music journey has been music he wants to produce. His other actually hear the sound of freedom . Now both an interesting and successful one. inspiring works include Jazz World Colors that can be music to anyone’s ears. Receiving accolades on his music performanc e and Jazz Flute Jams . But it is 7 Continents A Distinctive style . com 7 8 A Distinctive style . com A Distinctive style . com 9 “I want to design furniture that grows up out of th e floor” Verner Panton, Architect and Designer veRneR Panton was one of the most in - design chal lenges in unconventional ways. made of enamel or plastic—into a unified fluential designers of the 1960s and ‘70s. Verner Panton, born 1926 in Gamtofte, gesamtkunstwerk, Panton's interior instal - Born in Denmark, Panton relocated to Denmark, studied at Odense Technical Col - lations have attained legendary status. The Switzerland in the early 1960s. He lege before enrolling at the Royal Danish most famous examples are the "Visiona" became known for his original and imagi - Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen as an ship installations for the Cologne Furniture native designs in the field s of furniture, architecture student. Fair (1968 and 1970), the Spiegel publish - lighting and textiles. Installations such as He worked from 1950-52 in the archi tec - ing headquarters in Hamburg (1969) and the legendary ‘Visiona’ exhibition demon - tural firm of Arne Jacobsen, and founded an the Varna restaurant in Aarhus (1970). strated Panton’s masterful use of colour, a independent studio for architecture and Panton's collaboration with Vitra began hallmark of his work. design in 1955. His furniture designs for the in the early 1960s, when the firm decided “I want to design furniture that grows up firm Plus-linje attracted attention with to develop what became his best-known out of the floor. To turn the furniture into their geometric forms. In the follow ing design, the Panton Chair, which was something organic. Which never has four years Panton created numerous designs for introduced in 1967. legs." seating furniture and lighting. This was also the Pushing materials His passion for bright colours and geo - first independ - to their limits was a metric patterns manifested itself in an ently devel - passion of this Dan - extensive range of textile designs. By fusing oped ish architect and de - the elements of a room—floor, walls, ceil - product by signer, who always ing, furnishings, lighting, textiles, wall panels Vitra. approached A Distinctive style . com 11 12 A Distinctive style . com THE UNSEEN WAR ON AMERICAN FAMI LY FARMS The government needs to stop harassing small farmers, private food buying clubs and co- ops without food freedom…. we are not free. ameRicans’ Right to access fResh, healthY foods of theiR often drive out of business small farms. These farmers have choice is undeR attack . Farmageddon tells the story of small, proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through regulations and excessive enforcement actions. violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies , Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, and seeks to figure out why. encourag ing farmers and consumers alike to take action to Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four preserve individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and children turned into an educational journey to discover why farmers’ rights to produce these foods safely and free from access to these foods was being threatened. What she found unreasonably burdensome regulations. The film serves to put were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over policymakers and regulators on notice that there is a growing small family operated farms selling fresh foods to their com - movement of people aware that their freedom to choose the munities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety foods they want is in danger, a movement that is taking action problem s—most often the industrial food chain — policy makers with its dollars and its voting power to protect and preserve the and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and dwindling number of family farms that are struggling to survive. 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