Saturday, October 23, 2010

Machete Music Tour 2010

I was given the privilege of witnessing the dress rehearsal for one of the hottest tours of the year! Friday, October 22nd, Madison Square Garden held The Machete Music Tour Concert! Celebrating the best in Reggaeton with artists Ivy Queen, Don Omar, Tego Calderon, Angel y Kris, Cosculluela, Chino y Nacho, Flex, 24 horas, and Jowell y Randy. 



Seeing all the work put behind this big entertaining event only made me want to attend a Reggaeton club with music as sensational as this. 

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Cristian Rivera Foundation (2010)



Tuesday night, Quo held the 2nd Annual Gala to support the Cristian Rivera Foundation to benefit research for Pontine Giloma. Pontine Giloma is a tumor that occurs in the stem of the brain and has poorer prognosis than less common midbrain and medullary gilomas. This normally affects children between the ages of 1 and 9. Only 300 cases are discovered in the United States each year. Radiation & Chemotherapy offer a short term treatment but a cure has yet to be found.


The foundation is named after a young 7 year old boy (Cristian Rivera)  who suffered from the illness. Its purpose is to find a cure through awareness and clinical research program funding. Many well known people come together for this event, such as producers, fashion designers, former borough presidents, NYPD deputy inspectors, actors and actresses such as Luis Guzman, rappers such as Jim Jones, Hot 97’s DJ Funk Master Flex, and DJ Camilo, and the former NY Knicks star Anthony Mason.


Dr. Mark Souweidane
has dedicated his career to finding the cure for Pontine Giloma 

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Bailando Por Una Causa

Que beneficio tan divino que compartio El Museo Del Barrio con los Latinos!!!!

Aqui Pueden ver como salio el producto final de mis grabaciones.




             


'Bailando Por Una Causa'

'Bailando Por Una Causa.' Para el beneficio de la Comicion Latina del HIV, en El Museo Del Barrio, el 5 de octubre de 2010 alas7:00 pm. o visite: www.Latinoaids.org/bailando



Sunday, October 3, 2010

FASHION WEEK 2010

Twice a year, September and February, Mercedes-Benz sponsors Fashion Week. It is a time for designers to show off their upcoming collection on a runway. Being able to cover one of these events made me feel like I was living the high life. Everything I've seen in the "elite" television series/dramas was right in front of me. When I saw last weeks episode of Gossip Girl, I felt so powerful saying to myself "Hah! Fashion week, I was there!" I saw wonderful designs and makeup artist work.







Many girls hate on models for all the wrong reasons. "She's disgustingly skinny", "Shes overweight", "She looks like a man", "Her features are too harsh", or even "Ew she's ugly".  Yet, look again, these girls are the ones walking and being photographed with pure confidence and allure. And we see this get criticized once a week on television, Americas Next Top Model for a change. Some people may agree with Tyra and the judges, and some may not. During this years Fashion Week, I met one of the judges and former photographer Nigel Barker at Barnes & Noble when he spoke to an audience about his book, "Beauty Equation". He answers your question on, "What is Beauty?". How can one achieve beauty? Is it truly about your physical appearance? Of course it doesn't tell you the silly things you don't want to hear like, "Its all about your nice personality."  Nigel Barker sums up the beauty equation with 10 essential qualities that one should have to be beautiful. He guarantees that you will find your outer beauty by unveiling it. Coming from a tall, beautiful man like himself who has been in the beauty business for years, I'd take advice from this book and use it. He looks just as great on television and in pictures as he does in person and through a lens. People tend to look completely different on and off camera but those with true beauty look just as great. So if you don't want the 10 extra pounds a camera gives you to look bad or the lack of makeup to make it seem like you wear a mask on television or film, then maybe we should start following his beauty equation and test it out ourselves.





I feel like I'm being exposed to a completely different world and I'm constantly behind the scenes but I'm loving every moment of it.