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Ken English, editor
Nikki Beach
Club
To
help you become more familiar with the area, we are
planning to expand our video content.
Look
at the Driving Tour page
for YouTube videos that will take you on a ride around
town. We'll be adding to the list, so check back from
time to time. If you have area area you'd like to see,
let me know and I'll see if I can post a tour for you.
Chances are that if you have an interest in specific
elements of Miami, then others will be interested as
well.
Do
you like art? Well, there are several dozen galleries in
the area. You can click on the links or visit
MiamiArtOnline
for more information. The site currently features a
video interview with William Braemer of Art Fusion in
the Miami Design District.
One
of my favorite galleries is the Jakmel Art & Cultural
Center in the Wynwood Art District of Miami. I recorded
this video on 29 December 2007 and put it on YouTube.
It's five minutes long:
Night of the Drum.
Connecting the Dots
Well, Gary Levine is at it again. Gary, for
those of you who don't know, is the guy who built his
dream, and sold it to the Neptune Society. It's a long
story. A story about eternity, the ocean and artificial
reefs.
Gary's idea was called the Atlantis
Memorial Reef. When I first met him in the summer of
2003, he had a dozen storyboards with line drawing of
columns, domes, arches and statues for an underwater
world that would be the gateway to the afterlife. It
took him more than three years to obtain the permits,
and sell the majority interest to the company that owns
the Neptune Society.
I had lunch
with Gary and he said he is working on a new project. He
said he wants to connect the ships in the Key Biscayne
Special Management Zone with an array of 'living
circles,' a mix of concrete and coral rock that will
provide habitat for small fish and some protection for
the ships that have been sunk as artificial reefs by
Miami-Dade County's Department of Environmental
Resources Management (DERM).
More on this
later...
Art of Tourism
Art Basel Miami Beach officially
began December 6th. According to the Miami Herald, show
organizers estimate that more than 43,000 people
attended the event by end of the day on December 9th.
I think there
were many thousand more, since satellite fairs such as
Red Dot, Flow, Bridge and Aqua, all on Miami Beach, do
not report attendance figures to the Art Basel
management.
On top of
that,
the galleries in the Wynwood Art District and the Miami
Design District were extremely busy each evening.
As busy as I
thought I was, I didn't see it all. I did make a brief
appearance at ScopeMiami and Art Miami, but missed Pulse
and the Photo Shows.
For more information, check out
Miami Art
Online, where you'll find links to several
post-Basel reports, video clips and photo's I took while
exploring the area by foot and pedi-cab. |
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How About Putting
Some Art in an
Artificial Reef?
Conference on
Artificial Reef
Design
May 5, 2008
Nikki Beach Club,
Miami Beach, Florida
an Ocean Realm Media
Presentation
Tune in Liquid
Lounge on WKAT 1360
AM @ 4:30 PM every
Saturday for
environmental news
and underwater
views. |
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