“Q” Quincy Perkins is a Key West-based director, photographer, producer, and editor of short films and documentaries. In fact, one of his movies, Swingers Anonymous, will soon be competing at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. Perkins, 35, was born in Key West, attended and graduated from Deerfield Academy, and attended the Stella Adler…
“P” Dawn Powell was an American novelist born in 1896 in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and she died in 1965 of colon cancer in New York. Her mother died when she was young. Her father remarried and Powell and her stepmother did not get along (as neither did her two sisters). Powell ran away to her divorced…
“O” José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was a Mexican muralist whose art depicted the social conditions of the times he lived. He was born in the state of Jalisco. His family moved to Guadalajara and then to Mexico City when he was 7 years old. Later Orozco became a follower of José Guadalupe Posada and took…
“N” I decided to look for a journalist with an “N” name and I found Naomi Klein. Klein’s subject matters are anti-globalization, anti-war, anti-capitalism, and environmental ones. What an amazing author, activist, and filmmaker I have found. Klein is Canadian and attended the University of Toronto. She went to work as a journalist before graduation.…
“M” Marina Abramović is a 68-year-old Serbian performance artist who has been on the art scene since the 1970s. From Wikipedia, performance art is described as “performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.” Following is…
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