Nicole Abbett

Last week I had a photo shoot with local Tampa band Empire Cinema and had the pleasure of taking a few shots of this incredibly cute little dude beforehand. If you need a smile on your face, this will surely do it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleabbett/sets/72157631307024686/

Last week artist Tracey Dear lit up 5 Tampa bridges in a project titled Agua Luces. Backed by Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas, and the Lights On Tampa Committee, this will be a permanent fixture to the City of Tampa. When the installation is complete, 9 bridges will be lit in total. The Platt Street Bridge, the Brorein Street Bridge, the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority overpass, the Kennedy Boulevard Bridge, and the CSX Railroad Bridge were all illuminated in a ceremony on August 10, 2012. Whether you are on land, in the water, or in the sky, the view is impeccable. Each bridge boasts it own unique design and with the reflection of the water, the result is a gorgeous display of lights. To capture the beauty of the bridges I created a timelapse over the course of several days/nights. It’s things like this that make me happy to call Tampa my home. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/47783527

Thanks Ray Roa for the write up about our show tonight and for using one of my instagram photos in the process! Much love! Shout out to my boy Dam-Funk also for his instagram props! Don’t forget to follow myself and the other artists involved in this show. Hope to see your lovely faces tonight!

http://www.suburbanapologist.com/in-passing-subaps-top-6-instragram-accounts-to-follow/

Severn Suzuki, known as the ‘girl who silenced the world for 6 minutes’, was 12 years old when she spoke at the UN Earth Summit in 1992. She was 9 when her and her friends started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a group committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. It’s 20 years later and while President Obama wasn’t present at the Summit today, she was. It’s 20 years later and we’re still employing the same values. It’s 20 years later and this video has over 21,000,000 views on YouTube. Why? Well as Suzuki said in this morning’s NPR interview, ‘the world is still hungry to hear the truth.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0&feature=related

If you missed last Thurdsay’s Rock the Park 2 Year Anniversary show, you passed up one great show! Empire Cinema, Breakdown (with Gwan Massive) and Stokeswood put on one of the best shows yet and didn’t let the inclement weather or the lack of the usual crowd stop them from dancing their pants off. The wonderful folks at Taverna Opa in Channelside donated a delicious cake and the Sweet on the Street team from the Georgia Peach Association were there handing out the juiciest Georgia Peaches I’ve ever sunk my teeth into! For the record, I’ve eaten a peach every day since and can’t get enough. Feel free to come back and visit us anytime! Check out the photos and some of the (unedited) video of what went down. Be sure to check back later for more video clips of the Thursday night’s happenings!

 To view the photos on flickr, click the link below:

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleabbett/sets/72157630109071864/

 To view the (unedited) video on vimeo click the link below:

 https://vimeo.com/user4851474/videos

Enjoy!