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Jonathon Prince ☰.0
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January 24, 2012
Reflections In Space
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph during Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. (UPI Photo/NASA/FILES)
January 19, 2012
Rules to Being HUMAN.
The Rules for Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will, again, look better than “here.”
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have the all the tools and resources you need; what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
- Author unknown
January 4, 2012
Bulls RUN
All eyes were on the reigning NBA MVP to save the day. And why wouldn’t they be?
With Derrick Rose leading a furious Chicago Bulls comeback against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, everyone expected him to take the final shot in the waning seconds. Instead, it was Luol Deng who upset the Hawks, as he cut backdoor off an oft-practiced inbounds play to hit the game-winning layup with 3.7 seconds left to lift the Bulls to a 76-74 victory at the United Center.
D. Rose and the Bulls started Tuesday’s contest seemingly fatigued, as they missed 14 consecutive second-quarter shots and went scoreless for eight minutes, shooting 2-for-21 in the period, to narrowly avoid setting franchise lows for points and field goals in a half. Atlanta led 38-26 at halftime as Chicago scored just three points more than the club’s fewest points recorded in a half, set on April 10, 1999, against the Miami Heat. The MVP took over in the fourth to rally his team from a 19-point deficit, scoring 11 points early in the final period, including three 3-pointers. Behind his patented crossover, Rose’s layup with 57.8 seconds left gave Chicago their first lead at 72-71. Atlanta’s high-flying forward Josh Smith countered D. Rose’s spectacular play with an alley-hoop to push the Hawks ahead, but ATL’s point guard Jeff Teague missed two crucial free throws with 17.5 seconds to go, to put Chicago away. Teague looked to redeem himself on the opposite end, but to no avail. Rose drove passed him and powered home a layup over the outstretched arm of Smith -who blocked Rose twice in the quarter- with 9.9 remaining to put the Bulls up 74-73. Deng, who scored 13 of his 21 points in the fourth, got called for a foul on the Hawks’ ensuing inbounds play, tripping as he fought over an Al Horford screen. But Horford split a pair of free throws with 7.7 seconds left, tying the score at 74, and giving Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau an opportunity to draw up the final play.
Coming out of a timeout, Rose -who Thibodeau later stated was the first option- set a back screen for Deng, who cut back door along the baseline and accepted a pass from Joakim Noah (two points, four rebounds) to score the game-winner with 3.7 left, in the Bulls improbable 76-74 comeback over the Hawks. Joe Johnson’s 3-pointer at the other end drew air as the buzzer rang out at the United Center. Rose finished with a game-high 30 points, seven assists and a block in the Bulls win.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, Johnson finished 3-of-17 from the field for 10 points and four rebounds for Atlanta. As one of his worst outings, his dismal performance on Tuesday is tied for his worst shooting effort, percentage-wise, in a game in which he attempted at least 15 field goals. Horford led the Hawks with 16 points, Smith scored a double-double in 15 points and 14 rebounds and Marvin Williams added 14 points, as Atlanta shot just 35 percent from the floor but held Chicago to 34 percent.
After handing Miami their first loss on the season on Monday, Atlanta was trying to knock off one of last season’s Eastern Conference finalists for the second straight night. The Hawks played in a back-to-back game for the third time in the first 10 days of the season and for the fourth time in five nights -all games in different cities- so perhaps it’s not surprising they ran out of gas down the stretch on Tuesday. They have a much needed day off on Wednesday before opening a home stretch of three games in three nights, starting with the Heat on Thursday and ending in a rematch against the Bulls.
Chicago has won four straight and their 5-1 start is the franchise best since opening 12-0 during the 1996-97 season. Newly acquired shooting guard Rip Hamilton, sat out his second straight game with a strained groin injury. In this truncated season, the Bulls will need their starters to be healthy if they expect to return to the Eastern Conference finals. They start a three-game road trip in four nights on Wednesday in Detroit against former Bulls star Ben Gordon and the Pistons.
January 3, 2012
The Vessel
Canadian artist and sculptor David Altmejd, who is widely recognized for his massive scale sculptures of anthropomorphic figures cast in a state of metamorphosis, recently unveiled his latest work exhibition in association with The Brant Foundation Art Study Center. Altmejd covered the space in mirrors as well as other sculptures such as The Vessel, a large-scale Plexiglass structure. Here, we found out why movement was the integral component to his inspiration.
What inspired The Vessel? It’s been said that the structure is intentionally impossible to grasp all at once – what inspired this logic?
David Altmejd: The Vessel was a movement. The movement of something that retracts a little, in order to gain energy just before throwing itself forward. Like a wave that draws back and swells with water and energy and is about to crash. Or the movement of arm that is about to throw an object. The idea of creating a sculpture that is too structurally and spatially complex to be grasped all at once comes from an interest in nature. The experience of nature is an experience of details that results in the impression of something great. In this way, I wanted The Vessel to be experienced through an infinite number of material details, that would lead to the impression of an immaterial grand movement.
December 29, 2011
The G.O.A.T
From Taschen’s release GOAT: Greatest Of All Time: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali, the greatest sportsman of the modern era is depicted in a series of stunning photographs that spans the icons boxing career. To honor this living legend, the publication recreated the vibrancy and power of the man himself in written form. Here, a selection of images historical images along with a personal note from Howard Bingham, Ali’s longtime friend and photographer on their first encounter.
“I met him in 1962. I was on assignment. I wasn’t such a boxing fan at the time. I went to the conference and took a photograph and left. Later on that afternoon, I saw him on the corner of 5th and Broadway, which is in downtown Los Angeles, about a block away from the Alexandra Hotel. I was driving down and saw these two guys just standing there on the corner in their suits. So, I said ‘Hey!’ and turned around and pulled over. I asked them if they wanted to join me and I’d show them around LA. And they liked the idea. They were just standing on the corner looking at the girls go by. And that’s exactly how we met. Thank god for that corner.” – Howard Bingham
December 21, 2011
Visual @rt by: Roy Nachum
Visual artist Roy Nachum believes his art should be accessible to all, even those who can’t see it. In his new installation Blind, (which is currently on display at Joseph Nahmad Contemporary, temporarily located at Openhouse Gallery Space), Nachum has created paintings that explore how one can really “see” art. Encouraging patrons to touch the work, the pieces are infused with poems from the artist that are written in braille, allowing the visually impaired to access the art. Life+Times spoke with Nachum about his career as an artist, his upbringing in Israel and how his goal of opening the eyes of the sighted.
December 11, 2011
Escalante National Monument
Situated on 600 acres in Canyon Point in Southern Utah, Amangiri (meaning ‘Special Mountain’), part of the Aman family of resorts, is quietly tucked into a protected valley with clear views of the Escalante National Monument. Designed to blend into the vast landscape, the large-scale structures fit in with the natural setting, creating one of the most luxe destinations for relaxation expected to be encountered.
November 17, 2011
A Shooting Star. By: Jonathon Prince
When my life is over it will have the characteristics of a ‘Shooting Star’.
Fed up with maintaining a mundane existence filled with unlimited possibilities. I’m surrounded by others within the vast space of our dark black sky…
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…(the decision is made)
…….and in the randomness of moments, for just a blip of a second in eternity, out of nowhere from the many monotonous nights above, (eyes shut) I boil from within bored of just existing, I begin to com-bust all the energy I can possibly muster, and with my eyes wide open & courageously acting on faith, I SHOOT! Shining brighter, into another existence and just like that, I’m gone…
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…gone forever to shine with other shiners, on a new dimension where shining is a way of life, but for this plain, I was used to serve as a demonstrative gift to idle stars from the Universe as to what is possible which causes those who witness (down on earth) -my Courage to Act on Faith- to pause, dream, boil and desire to shine too.
-Jonathon Prince
October 24, 2011
GoldenEye Hotel & Resort
GoldenEye Hotel & Resort, situated in the village of Oracabessa on Jamaica’s north coast is not only a picture perfect location, but it’s also deep with literary pop culture history. Owned by Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, the resort served as Ian Fleming‘s home, the exact spot where he penned all 14 James Bond novels. Here, Life+Times takes a look inside this little piece of secluded paradise.
September 29, 2011
Mile on the Moon.
RUNNER JONATHON PRINCE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO
COMPLETE FIRST-EVER ” MILE ON THE MOON”
September 20, 2011, Los Angeles – Celebrated runner and philanthropist Jonathon Prince announced today his plans to make history by becoming the athlete to run the first mile on the Moon.
With the aid of key industry partners and his global community of supporters, Prince plans to rebuild the excitement and optimism that defined the first forays into space nearly 50 years ago. Prince’s “Mile On the Moon” project will unfold over several years of intensive training, strategic partnerships and global outreach, with the goal of completing the first mile on the moon in 2016.
Prince’s “Mile On the Moon” project unfolds at the dawn of a new era in the space industry, now driven by visionaries in the private sector. He elaborates, “’Mile On the Moon’ is dedicated to all mankind as an inspiration to dream Big Dreams and realize that the sky is no longer the limit to human potential.”
Since 2005, Jonathon Prince has run over 10,000 miles in support of a cause or ideal, beginning with his “Run 4 Relief” project in which he ran from Los Angeles to New Orleans and then on to Atlanta to raise money for Habitat for Humanity post-Hurricane Katrina. He later ran from Los Angeles to Washington, DC and from Atlanta to New York to deliver hope to Americans struggling during the recession, and this summer completed a 60-day, 795-mile run down the Pacific
Coast.
Motivated by a fervent desire to ignite the imaginations of a new generation, Prince plans to harness the boundless possibility of Space to achieve his goal of becoming the pioneer ‘space athlete.” He explains, “It’s imperative to keep dreams alive because that is how we evolve. I believe this world will be a better place when more people start dreaming again and – more importantly – put action behind their dreams.”
About Jonathon Prince: International Runner, Artist, Motivational Speaker and Philanthropist, Jonathon Prince has pioneered the concept of “Social Athli-vist,” using his feats of endurance to promote positive change. He has earned widespread praise for his innovative approach to cause marketing and has been hailed by Ebony magazine as the “Future of Philanthropy.” He is proud
to appear in the Fall 2011 campaign for EDUN, the socially conscious fashion brand created by Bono and his wife Ali Hewson. To learn more about Jonathon’s philosophy and his vision for completing the first-ever “Mile On the Moon,” follow him at www.facebook.com/PrinceofStrides.
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