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Modern Impressionistic Artist................................❦ Leonid Afremov
❦ Born July 12th 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus - Died August 19th 2019 in Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.

❦ On 17 May 1990 the Afremov family entered Israel in Ben Gurion International Airport. They had to give up their Soviet citizenship in favor of Israeli. To this day, Leonid Afremov and his family are citizens of Israel only.

... ❦ Because he was a recent Russian immigrant, the locals considered his work as having little value. Galleries took paintings for 50 shekels - 15$ and were reselling them for 500 to 5000 shekels. When Leonid confronted galleries about the extremely low prices, he always received the same answer, you a Russian immigrant,
❦ During the early 1990s, Leonid Afremov was mainly working with watercolors and acrylic. He was experimenting very little with usage of the palette knife. He was painting what people were buying, with very little artistic freedom.
❦ In 2005 Leonid Afremov vacationed in Playa del Carmen and Cancun for the first time. Since then he was visiting the Mexican Caribbean 2 to 3 times a year and completely fell in love with the area. Eventually in March 2010 Leonid decided to take on early retirement recommended by his doctors and moved to Playa del Carmen, a popular resort town near Cancun. Where he recently passed away with his whole family around him.

❦ Hope your weekend was pleasant..........*Have a great week ahead.........Stay safe.
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★ Just when it seems that the high-speed connective power of social media has been harnessed mainly to bully and harass and to coalesce hate, there comes the evolved flash mob.

★ Flash Mob Shocks Tradeshow Visitors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=376uYzj2...
★ Flash Mob-Hamburg Singt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WILvbFx...
★ Flash Mob Ottawa Greek Festival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDgpXWk...
★ Flash Mob at St Pancras International
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnYpCiw...
★ Flashmob-Grease - Central Station
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hlvRNg...
★ Flashmob-It's raining men
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVayaDM4...
★ Flashmob-KLM Airline Portugal
... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9A-WiHr...
★ Students flashmob a Wedding Ceremony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OdHY7it...
★ Flashmob-I Will Survive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jil-SbVS...
★ Flashmob in Manchester - Greek Zempekiko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJM5qjbj...

-Extra little treat-
★ Watch this 92 year old dancer shocking everyone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPDu575...

★ The musical performances are such shining gifts to the unsuspecting audience, and the pleasure they inspire, seen in the faces of the young and old, is their gift to those of us who weren't lucky enough to be there............★ Have a wonderful weekend........Stay safe my friend.

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Award Winning FX Short Film............................................. ABE
★Abe was programmed to love. Until recently, he had a family: he was living with them, cooking, helping them in every aspect of their lives – it was a servile situation, but he didn’t care, because he felt loved. Then, suddenly, everything changed and his “family” stopped loving him. The lack of affection shook the robot, undermined its mechanisms. They tell him that he’s only a machine, a mere application, but he feels otherwise: he’s aware of himself and his emotions, and this situation leads him to perform horrific acts. The lack of love from the people around him is unacceptable for Abe, who begins to ‘fix’ all humans he would like to receive attention from.

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★While human beings endowed with reason and conscience are able to maintain a balance in front of the rejection from others, no one taught Abe what is right and wrong, he doesn’t have a sense of morality. If this lack of common sense would seem to be the discriminant that separates the artificial intelligence from the human, but it’s actually quite untrue. Like any serial killer, Abe doesn’t have control over his impulses, and does everything to satisfy them. This is the idea behind the short: it is not his artificial side, but his deeply human instincts that make him dangerous. This is how science fiction and horror combine in a perfect way............RunTime 8min..➤ vimeo.com/64114843

Enjoy....Have a wonderful week.....Stay safe
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Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children........*Stories to fuel your mind.
The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language.
For the millions of adults who grew up watching him on public television, Fred Rogers represents the most important human values: respect, compassion, kindness, integrity and humility.

The Life And Work Of Fred Rogers.... getpocket.com/explore/item/mr-ro...
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The trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood dropped.....Starring Tom Hanks..It ends with a New York subway car full of people, all different ages, races, genders and professions, singing the theme song from Mister Rogers Neighborhood as Mr Rogers (Tom Hanks) watches. Anyone who grew up in the United States and Canada between 1968 and 2000 will recognize the tune. And anyone who grew up watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood likely can't help but well up as Mr Rogers smiles, claps and says, *That was wonderful

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood tells the story of Fred Rogers
Official Trailer... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLEPhfE...

Inspire Kindness.....Have a wonderful weekend........*Hope your well.....Stay safe
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🔸 May your new month be filled with no regrets or letdowns but breathtaking moments and immeasurable happiness.....*Have a great weekend and a wonderful month ahead....Be well.

Hauntingly Beautiful Abandoned Planet.........◆ Photographer Cinematographer Andre Govia
◆ Andre Govia describes himself as addicted to decay. The U.K.based..Worldwide urban explorer Govia brings you the definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography. Andre takes us on a journey behind the facade of abandoned buildings to discover the hauntingly beautiful discoveries within.................*Welcome to Never Never Land.
◆ Abandoned buildings have been always forbidden places for us, full of mystery and intrigue. Govia, takes us to the magical world of the abandoned hospitals, asylums, schools, houses, hotels and about anything else you can imagine that might be abandoned across Europe, with the astonishing collection of photos he is taking about 17 years. He visited over 22 countries, explored more than 800 locations and published a breathtaking collection of his photos, called Abandoned Planet. Andre Govia is not only a passionate adventurous photographer but also a successful cinematographer. He is known for his work on............... Who Needs Enemies (2013), The Search for Simon (2013) and Essex Vendetta (2016).
... ◆Govia’s approach to photography is very cinematic–he aims to create an ambiance that will really put the viewer in the scene. The curiosity of an abandoned building has a certain allure.
◆ He and his adrenaline junkie buddies have Fright Night down to a fine art, exploring places caught in a time-warp, locations where history is frozen in time, and capturing ghosts of the past. It’s downright spooky to view his artistic photos around Halloween. Be ready to take a trip through some of the creepy, haunted locations. If you like abandoned, creepy, spooky, scary or haunted, then you could disappear for hours into Andre’s photo-stream....
◆Andre Govia Photo-stream...... www.flickr.com/photos/andregovia...
◆Andre Govia Abandoned Planet.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuQhip5...
◆ Have a wonderful weekend...........Stay safe
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Spanish Photographer-Painter.........................◆ Eugenio Recuenco
◆ Recuenco was born in Madrid Spain........*During the first steps of his career, being attracted as well by photography, he specializes in large format paintings in which he included pictures of his own. However, in his own words: As I could not find a public interested in four-metres-wide canvases, I focused on photography. Then he begins collaboration with the main Spanish and International fashion magazines Vogue Spain, Madame Figaro, Wad, Vogue, Spoon, Planet, Vanity Fair, Stern, Kult, Twill, GQ, Marie Claire,Vogue UK, Zink, Nina Ricci, Diesel and Yves Saint Laurent. He decides to move to Paris so that he could submerge in the painting trends being developed there.



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◆ Have a great weekend.........Stay safe
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Sting and Cheb Mami - *Desert Rose
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gzqsmx1...

*Have a great week.........Stay safe my friend.

*Have a safe and wonderful weekend......Be well.

................ May good health and happiness locate you as you start this new month. May it be filled with exciting experiences and great opportunities....*Happy Month of October........Have a great week.....Stay safe.

*Have a wonderful weekend.........Stay safe

?️ Multi-Award Winning 3D-CG Animated Short Film.....................★ Garden Party
*An abandoned mansion and its frog inhabitants...Garden Party, which has a more sinister human plot happening parallel to its animal tale, allowed the two worlds of animals and humans to come together, and in a humorous way.

Run-time: 7:16min...➤ vimeo.com/239295615

?️ 3D-CG Animated Short Film.............................★ Maestro
*Best known for their 2018 Oscar-nominated short *Garden Party, which features impressive amphibian animation, Illogic expands their animal exploration with Maestro to include birds, squirrels, hedgehogs, and deer. As in their previous work, the collective continues to explore the question of what animals do when humans aren’t watching, and the animations continue to be surprising.
... Run-time: 1:54min➤.... vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/35...

★ Have a wonderful week.........Be well.
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⭐*Life is a continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lessons along the way. Some of these lessons come from experience, yet there are others that we learn watching others or reading in books for example. No matter how much we learn from the books there is a significant difference between practical and theoretical experience. Furthermore, there are many life lessons that we simply cannot learn until we face certain situations in our life. Most people would say that there are some lessons that come too late, catching us off-guard.

◆ Your life is now.
We keeping waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness.But this is it. Your life is right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love your life right now, and you'll have an amazing life.
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◆ Kindness matters.
Small expressions of kindness have an enormous positive impact on other people and on your own happiness.It doesn't take much to be kind. Practice it every day, in every situation, until it's your natural way of being.

◆ Age is a number.
When you're twenty you think fifty is old. When you're fifty, you feel thirty. When you're seventy, fifty looks like adolescence.Our chronological age doesn't have to define us. Don't allow a number to hold you back or prevent you from being the person you are inside.

◆ Grudges cause pain.
Holding on to a grudge is like injecting poison into your body every day. Forgive and let go. There's no other way.If your ego is preventing you from forgiving and letting something go, then tell your ego to take a hike. It's getting in the way of your happiness and well-being.

◆ You can't control others.
We want people to think and behave as we do. We want them to accommodate us and live the way we think they should live. We want to change them.But with awareness, we realize we can't and shouldn't try to control others. Instead, embrace differences and honor the uniqueness of the people in your life.

◆ You can handle it.
Whatever you think you can't handle, you actually can.You have more strength, more resilience, and more inner wisdom than you give yourself credit for. You'll get through it and survive — and maybe even be better for it.

◆ Gratitude multiplies happiness.
Consciously focusing on all you have rather than thinking about what you don't have is a far better use of brain power. Gratitude fosters positivity and well-being.

◆ Please yourself first.
Pleasing others for approval and acceptance might feel good in the short term, but eventually, you will lose yourself and feel resentful.Please yourself first and give to others based on conscious choice, not the desire for approval or feelings of guilt.

⭐ Have a great weekend.......Stay safe.
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Have a great week ahead..........Stay safe

Jaclyn Moriarty is a award winning Australian and the best-selling author of novels for young adults including Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Year of Secret Assignments, and the Colors of Madeleine trilogy. Jaclyn grew up in Sydney, lived in England, Canada and the US, and now lives in Sydney again. She studied English at the University of Sydney, and law at Yale University and Cambridge University, where she was awarded a PhD....* I would like to recommend the adult debut novel from Jaclyn...*Gravity Is The Thing.

If you love the feel of the paper between your fingers as you read a great book, this is a true page turner, I always travel with a novel mostly for the plane going and returning home, this book did not make it to the trip home, had to finish it.
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Gravity Is the Thing is a smart, unusual, wickedly funny novel about the search for happiness that will break your heart into a million pieces and put it back together, bigger and better than before.

Astonishingly wonderful and magical and moving and uplifting - Marian Keyes

Hope you had a wonderful summer.....Have a great week......Stay safe
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Inspirational True Stories.....

A Little Hurt...............By Joseph J.Mazzella
I was laying on my bed relaxing after a long day. Music was playing in the background and I was taking the time to read a good book. Just as I turned the page an old song started playing that always reminded me of my Mom. I put the book down and listened. Even though it had been 23 years since cancer had taken her from us, sometimes it still felt like it was only yesterday. I closed my eyes and allowed the flood of memories to wash over me. I thought of Mom’s sparkling eyes and shining smile which lived on in the faces of my own children. I thought of her sweet voice and gentle laugh that never failed to lift my spirits. I thought of how she brightened up every room she walked into. I thought of how she was a friend to everyone she met and how her kindness touched the hearts of so many. I thought of how she made this world a better place just by being in it. And my heart ached as I thought of how I still missed her so much. I wiped the tears from my cheeks as the song finished, looked out my window at the night sky, and sent an "I love you, Mom" from my lips to Heaven’s ear. Now some people would ask why I didn't shut the music off the second that song came on. Why did I subject myself to the pain it brought? I think the answer is that sometimes you have to let in a little hurt in order to let in a lot of love. Sometimes you have to open your heart in order to truly live. Life here will always be a mix of the bitter and the sweet, but you can’t shut down your soul. At times you have to embrace the pain and then let it go. When you do you will find that what is left is love. May you always keep your heart open to love. May you always keep your heart open to messages from Heaven. They can come at the strangest times on the winds of a memory or the wings of a song.
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Experience The Beauty Of Life And Of You...............By Patti Hatzistavrakis
Life is busy – we hustle from one place to another, engrossed in our electronic devices, books or simply looking away to avoid making eye contact with the human race, including ourselves. Never stopping to take in the tranquility of the ocean, the art spray painted on a building or the beauty of the sunset. Most of us aren’t awake for the sunrise and are not truly present at important (or even ordinary) daily happenings. We miss life as it passes us by and wonder what we did with the daylight...We continue on this treadmill, this sprint, this exercise in getting it all done – but seem to have little to show for it. Time is all we have on this earth. Friends, lovers, money, and experiences all come and go, leaving only memories – if you are lucky enough to remember. The good, the bad, the remembered, the forgotten, the happy, the sad, the ordinary, the extraordinary; makes you YOU...Live, dream, make it come true. Anything less is not living, it’s merely existing. Existing is just going through the motions, without thought or emotion. Cry, laugh, scream, love; do whatever you have to live life. Honor yourself by not taking life, or a day, or an experience for granted. Fulfill your dreams, make things happen, see the beauty that is around you and create more...Make the most of the time you have on this earth. Be positive, helpful and understanding. Share peace and happiness. Give love. Give yourself. For those are the things that live on and make a difference, beyond your time, beyond your life.

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama

Happy Friday.....I will be leaving this Sunday for Greece will be back in four weeks...Have a great weekend and a wonderful and safe month of August, see you when I get back.....*Be well my friend
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happy birthday to you dear and many more years to come,

Surreal Scenes of African Animals Playfully Living Life....By art photographer Thomas Subtil, from Paris, France.......*HAKUNA MATATA*

The surreal artworks are composed of pictures he took while traveling in Kenya combined with his imagination to transform them into surreal new realities. Featuring animals living by the popular Swahili motto *Hakuna Matata* meaning no worries.





Have a safe week ahead........Be well.