Fathers day with Holly Stephey of Red Velvet Media

Please Come spend some time with me as I talk about Fathers day and Talk to a few fathers I know :)) Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio...
This is a day of celebration :)

Red Velvet Media talks aboutQuadrophenia..A way of life..

This week on Blog Talk Radio I will be talking to Alex G. MardikianClick here to see Alex in his Von Dutch days!
Alex takes Quadrophenia on as a great passion for all and is making the dream come true with his ideas of bringing back the WAY OF LIFE and the Mod:)
Tune in to Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio this Friday at 2pm PST/5est to hear what he has in store for all of every age!Click here to go to show page!

Quadrophenia
If you’re from the United Kingdom and you’ve watched Quadrophenia (1979), for you it would be a film about your country in the 1960s but for everyone else unfamiliar with the Mod culture, it would probably not make so much sense. The film written and directed by Franc Roddam has been classified as an A-grade cult-classic, an influential factor of the Mod-revival of the 1980s and above-all just a damn good film. The film stars Phil Daniels in perhaps the most important performance of his underrated career and Sting (yes, the musician) in his first ever appearance on film. Surprisingly, even though Phil Daniels carries the entire film on his 21-year old shoulders, most of the publicity material and other marketing mostly featured the then rising music star Sting, who appears for less than 10 minutes in the entire film. Ray Winstone is featured in one of his earliest roles giving a short but memorable performance as a kind-hearted rocker.









Quadrophenia was made in 1979, a time when Mod culture had completely disappeared and the bohemian lifestyle of the rock music scene caught mass appeal. The film is set in 1964, the peak point of the Mod revolution and the crucial year of the infamous Brighton riot, often cited as the biggest fight between the Mods and the Rockers. The film’s name is taken from the famous album by The Who with the same name. Ironically, many of the famous Mod bands including The Who turned towards Rock music once the Mod culture started to decline in the mid-1970s.

For further understanding of the film and this article, here’s a crash-course in Mod culture.









Mod Culture 101

Here’s an excerpt from the Culture wiki:

“The mod subculture began with a few cliques of teenage boys with family connections to the garment trade in London in 1958. These early mods were generally middle class, and were obsessed with new fashions and music styles, such as slim-cut Italian suits, modern jazz and rhythm and blues. Their all-night urban social life was fuelled, in part, by amphetamines. It is a popular belief that the mods and their rivals, the rockers, both branched off from the Teddy boys, a 1950s subculture in England. The Teddy boys were influenced by American rock n’ roll, wore Edwardian-style clothing, and got pompadour or quiff hairstyles.

Originally the term mod was used to describe fans of modern jazz music (as opposed to trad, for fans of traditional jazz). Eventually the definition of mod expanded beyond jazz to include other fashion and lifestyle elements, such as continental clothes, scooters and to a lesser degree a taste for pop art, French New Wave films and existentialist philosophy. The 1959 novel Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes has often been cited as an inside look at the late 1950s teenage London culture that spawned the 1960s mod scene.

Mods gathered at all-night clubs such as The Scene and The Flamingo in London, and Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester, to show off their clothes and dance moves. They typically used scooters for transportation, usually either Vespa or Lambretta. One reason for this is that public transit stopped relatively early, and scooters were cheaper than cars. After a law was passed requiring at least one mirror be attached to every motorbike, many mods added 4, 10, or even 32 mirrors to their scooters as a mockery of the new law.

Members of the rockers subculture (associated with motorcycles and leather biker jackets) sometimes clashed with the mods, leading to battles in seaside resorts such as Brighton, Margate, and Hastings in 1964. The mods and rockers conflict led to a moral panic about modern youth in the United Kingdom.”

Red Velvet Media and Five Hundred 45's:)

This week on Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio we talk to Spencer drate and Judith about there new book Five Hundred 45'sCLICK HERE TO SEE SHOW PAGE AND TUNE IN!

A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record


FIVE HUNDRED 45'S
By Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz

Since its birth in 1949, the 45 has provided a creative outlet for graphic designers and artists, who have used the seven-inch record sleeve as a canvas, a place to experiment visually and to express the aesthetics and sentiments of the times. In FIVE HUNDRED 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record (Collins Design; Trade Paperback Original; June 1, 2010; $29.99; 9780061782411), Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz have created an amazing anthology of more than 500 examples of great record sleeve design. Organized thematically, with graphically compelling pairings on every spread, this book covers every genre of music and great musician from 1950–2000, from the swing of Frank Sinatra to the early rock of Elvis Presley, from Bruce Springsteen to Blondie, from the Pretenders to Nirvana. Music fans, vinyl freaks, graphic designers, and pop culture enthusiasts will be inspired by this visually rich, diverse collection and consider it a must for their libraries.


The book also includes an introduction by Lenny Kaye, guitarist for the Patti Smith Group and music critic, and essays on the subject of the 45 from a music industry and graphic design perspective by Bruce Licher, acclaimed album cover designer; Tom Hazelmyer, owner of record company Amphetamine Reptile; Stuart Goldman, avid 45 sleeve collector; John Foster, principal at the design firm Bad People Good Things LLC; and Eric Davidson, associate editor at CMJ. It is a lush and wild ride through designs that are just as iconic as the music they adorned.

About the Authors

Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz are creative directors, graphic designers, and writers who have designed album art for U2, Lou Reed, the Ramones, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, the Beach Boys, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, and Dave Valentin, to name a few. Both are the recipients of many album-packaging awards and have judged album designs for numerous organizations in the music packaging industry. Drate is a member of the Grammy Award committee for record design.




Drate and Salavetz have been interviewed regarding topics in the music industry on MTV, VH1, Fox 5, and major magazines. They have written and packaged numerous pop-culture books, including Swag-Rock Posters of the 90s and Beyond (Abrams Books), The Independent Movie Poster Book (Abrams Books), Pure Animation (Merrell Publishers), Motion by Design (Laurence King), The Art of the Modern Movie Poster (Chronicle Books), and their first book, 45 RPM: A Visual History of the Seven-Inch Record (Princeton Architectural Press). They both live in New York City.

FIVE HUNDRED 45s

A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record

By Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz

Collins Design; Trade Paperback Original

On Sale June 1, 2010

480 pages / $29.99 / ISBN: 9780061782411



AUTHOR READING FOR:

FIVE HUNDRED 45s

By Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz

TUESDAY JUNE 8, 2010 BROOKLYN, NY

Word

@ 7:30pm, 126 Franklin St.

Red Velvet Media and Band of innocence!

Join me as I talk to Robert Agnello about his project Band of Innocence.. This is a way cool concept and not a show to miss tune in:))

This is part of the concept..
In the beginning Mother Nature and the Gods created the Earth and filled it with
life... the elements, plants, and animals. Then they created man and all lived in
harmony. As time passed a shadow invaded the world.
A darkness. This shadow caused man to separate from the original, harmonious
ways the Gods had intended for him.
Seeing that man was turning towards the darkness, rather than to the light of the
world, the Gods hid their powers in an amulet along with a sword of light and a suit of
armor that only the most innocent could wear.
It was an innocence that could only be found in children.
This is when the Band Of Innocence was born.

Red Velvet Media talks to Morrison Hotel

Make sure to tune in to day at 2PST /5EST to hear the Morrison Hotel show Live from NYC!
Holly Stephey of Red Velvet Media will go live from NYC!
Click here for the Gallery!

Red Velvet Media and Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio

So much happening in the world of Red Velvet Media BlogTalk Radio as well as our own Red Velvet Media company!

Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio has been doing a series of Angel shows and the response has been tremendous....

We Have many new shows on Movies,Music ,ETC!
This Friday join me as I talk to Aaron Zych from the Morrison Hotel in NYC!

***Friday May 7Th Join Red Velvet Media & spencer Drate as we talk to Aaron Zych from the Morrison Hotel Gallery in NYC . Aaron is the Gallery Director at Morrison Hotel Gallery where Rock and Roll legends photography is on display . We will be talking about the days when The Legends were photographed and the photographers who shot them . http://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/default.aspx

Other shows up and coming are exciting and a must for all.. Please tune in to the Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio show page for further scheduling.
If you are interested in being on the show
Please email me direct holly@redlvetvetmedia.com

Just One of the Many photographs at the Morrison Hotel on display now!

Red Velvet Media and Earth day, Blogtalk Radio and so much more!

I am so excited! It rare that I come across a company that I totally fall in Love with and I have with the following company ..
The Idea and the way the products are presented go all along with my love for Peace, Earth Day, Music and the total message of Love and Peace...
The site is called Click here to go
Watch the video it's super cute and has all the information about her fantastic Ideas and things she is personally making to help bring about an awareness to the world .. she is super nice too so, go ck it out and do it for a good cause .. the world ..
She has a face book too so its under the name of her company:)) annatarian.
She makes fabulous clothing and Jewelry all with a Idea and affirmation in mind ck it out!


**Second~ Earth day is almost here and I will be doing a special radio show that day with some cool surprises and announcements.. Mother earth Needs your Love so tune in on the 22ed of April ...On Red Velvet Media Blog Talk RadioTune in here:)
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.



Third and lastly..
We are excited that Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio will be on the air every Friday at 2PST/5EST. Click here to tune in
Make sure to tune into hear the series on Angels shows and other cutting edge topics ranging from Music to film , books , Motorcycles .. and who knows what else..
Spencer Drate and Glenn Kidd will be regulars on the show along with my other Fellow Angels Xany Rudoff artist, Judith Furedi Lennon extraordinaire and author of Dear John Lennon and many others! How can I forget to mention"Jimmy Mack: and all the fun people that call in.. we are never boring and I promise you this show will make you smile , bring back memories and create new ones..
Tune in and Love Peace and happiness..
Holly (Red Velvet Media)

Red velvet Media talks about Slash's new Album:)) Angels all around and Ron English!

Slash’s new album dropped this week: It’s a major collaborative effort with musical heavyweights… and visual artist Ron English. Barely concealed within the paisley swirls of the album cover are a number of Ron English angels. How many? Here’s a hint:

Red Velvet Media Talks about Rock and roll Gods Past and present!

Join us today on Blog Talk RadioTune in here
This is one of my faviorite Subjects ,,,MUSIC!
This is one show you dont want to miss..
Stay tuned Tomorrow is the first day of SPRING! YES!

Red Velvet Media and H2Om Launch 2010! Introducing New products!

**Please Join Me as I talk to The founders of H2OM today on Red Velvet Media BlogTalk Radio about the new product release!TUNE IN HERE
H2Om Introduces five new exciting eco friendly water products this year! The 1 liter and 1.5 liter 100% recycled RPET, BPA-free, no leach bottles, plus a designer refillable collection. Green has never been so beautiful!
H2Om is thrilled to announce the arrival of their new 1 liter and 1.5 liter bottles, as well as the H2Om signature series refillable containers. H2Om bottled water is award winning natural spring water, no flavors or additives. First in the US to be in 100% recycled RPET, BPA-free, no leach material. Featured in TIME magazine and the Wall Street Journal. A favorite among Hollywood's A-list celebrities. Also featured in the "We Are the World" 2010 video. Specially designed positive themed labels inspire individuals to create daily intention for positive, healthy lifestyles. The new H2Om refillables showcase beautiful custom mandalas and positive intentions. Reusable, BPA-free, durable and 100% recyclable. H2Om is a partner with Carbonfund.org and a carbon free company. H2Om's philosophy demonstrates unprecedented concern for people, our precious waters, and for the health of the planet.
These Products are Available only through H2OM....


visit www.H2Omwater.com

Also Joining H2Om founders on the show will be prosperity mentor Marilyn Jenett, founder of the Feel Free to Prosper program, speaking on the power of our words and how our subconscious mind has the ability to manifest all that we desire. She will also discuss Universal laws and principles for changing your life by changing your words, thoughts and feelings. Marilyn states that, "Every word we speak, every thought we think, and every emotion we feel is recorded in the subconscious mind. Through repetition or with enough faith or emotional impact, the subconscious will accept our words as a command and will create subjectively and also attract and magnetize circumstances, conditions and persons to ensure the manifestation of our “order." Even words spoken casually can bypass the conscious mind and drop into the subconscious and take root. It has been said, “the subconscious mind cannot take a joke.” Seemingly harmless expressions, if accepted by the subconscious, can produce undesirable results in our lives."


visit www.H2Omwater.com
Lex Lang and Sandy Fox - founders of H2Om Water with Intention, the original natural spring water product promoting positive energy and intention since 2006, will join us live from the largest natural health product show in the world, Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim California. This year they launch their exciting new line of inspirational products and the nation's first 100% RECYCLED RPET plastic bottle, completely eliminating their dependence on new petroleum and virgin resources. They will discuss the positive power and impact that colors, mandalas and our words have on our daily lives, and why it is so important to consciously create positive intention in your life. In the Spring of 2009 TIME Magazine recognized H2Om as the leader in this movement and wrote "Move over organic, fair trade and free range, the latest in enlightened edibles is here, food with positive intentions." and dedicated a full page to the company and their mission.

Red Velvet Media and Global Warming with Alec Loorz

Today On Red Velvet Media BlogTalk Radio I will have the privilege of taking to Alec Loorz..
I am excited because Alec stands for so many things we wish as adults we could do.. He has a vision!
Please Tune in today at 2PST on
BLOGTALK RADIO TUNE IN HERE
This is one show you will not want to miss!
Alec Loorz is one of the leading voices in the US on the issue of climate change, calling the "ruling generation" to consider the needs of his and future generations in their actions. Now 15 years old and a sophomore in high school in Ventura CA, Alec has been a climate change activist for 3 years and spoken to over 20,000 people and given over 100 presentations and keynotes throughout the country. A passionate advocate for the youngest and future generations who will be affected most by decisions made this year, Alec inspires youth to get involved in bringing about change in their families, their schools and their communities. Currently the youngest trained presenter of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth presentation, Alec founded his own non-profit called Kids vs Global Warming when he was 13. Their mission is to inspire youth to lead the way to a sustainable and just society.