Ever wonder how to flash the perfect Hollywood smile next time you find yourself on the red carpet or running headlong into a throng of paparazzi? There is a secret – a "smile trigger." It is a trigger word used to form your lips into the perfect smile during or after the pronunciation of the trigger word. For example, the Olsen twins, Mary Kate and Ashley reportedly use the word "prune" as their smile trigger. Both of them use the same word and it gives them their trademark smiles. It seems that they like to have a slightly pouty smile when the cameras click. Give it a try. You can use their word or you can develop your own personal smile trigger but be careful – a little practice is probably well advised.

Dirque du Soleil

He's from the past, so he knows the future...

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This is an older photographic image that was recorded on a Kodak Tri-X Pan 100 film negative using a Minolta XGM camera with a fast f1.2 50mm prime lens. This image, shot in 1991 while the artist was attending art school, uses as its subject a goth-inspired art student. The image, both in studio production and post-processing in the dark room was fully intended to convey the look and attitude of the subject. Thanks for visiting and please come back often!

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We would like to introduce the new ShrineMaster at EricHatheway.com, El Vez Jones. He arrives here from parts unknown. We're pretty sure he comes from somewhere in South America, given his penchant for wearing colorful and finely crafted Mexican wrestling masks (el mascara). He wears a different wrestling mask to the shrine every day and he never removes his mask. El Vez always arrives at the Shrine dressed sharp in a crisp, clean white linen suit (with pocket square and matching tie). A suit of this nature would appear very wondrous to the many visitors at the Shrine, he says. We tend to agree El Vez!

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El Vez Jones The ShrineMaster

"Contact me for things like visitation hours, special tours and private tours in advance please. You will be sent GPS coordinates for the Elvis Shrine."   eMail: shrinemaster@erichatheway Visit The Shrine "Contact me, El Vez Jones, if you would like to donate an Elvis relic to the Elvis Shrine. We will arrange for the installation and the donuts."

El Vez arrives at the Shrine early every day to begin preparations for the daily stream of visitors to the Elvis Shrine. He is solely responsible for installing all of the cool donated Elvis relics on the Shrine as well as keeping the many hundreds and hundreds of candles lit within the sanctum of the Elvis Shrine. El Luchador himself, El Vez Jones, has declared that he has yet to be unmasked as a reigning ShrineMaster and that he will remain masked for as long as he is worthy of the position of ShrineMaster at the Elvis Shrine or until Elvis returns. Let's wish Mister El Vez Jones welcome, good luck and a big thank you very much!

Probably one of the first Rude Boys, or at least one of the first to sing about the Rude Boy, Dandy Livingstone is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician that was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1943. He was born as Robert Livingstone Thompson and he made his way to the United Kingdom when he was 15 years old. He unwittingly released his first record when he discovered that someone in the building where he and a friend had recorded some tracks peddled the songs to the Planetone Label without his knowledge.

Meanwhile, in London, the Carnival Records label was shopping for Jamaican vocal duo. Dandy stepped in and got the job by making double tracks of his voice to satisfy the requirement for a pair of Jamaican voices. He continued to release music using this studio technique under the name Sugar & Dandy. When live performances required the addition of a real second vocalist, Roy Smith and Tito "Sugar" Simone were called upon to fill in with Dandy.

Ska Beat Records signed Dandy Livingstone in 1967 and he made a debut album in 1968 called Rocksteady With Dandy. Of course, Rudy A Message To You scored big with listeners in the United Kingdom when it became a Top 50 hit. As his career progressed, Dandy began to make his mark as a very fine music producer. An association with trombonist Rico Rodriguez, who later played with The Specials, saw Dandy's Rudy A Message To You covered by The Specials in 1979.

Dandy found a real music home when he signed with the famous Jamaican record label, Trojan Records, in 1968. Dandy was given his own production function at the studio and he operated under the Down Town Records label during his relationship with Trojan Records. Dandy stayed in Jamaica until 1973 when he returned to the United Kingdom to continue his career as a musician and producer.

The 2-Tone ska revival in the late 1970s saw a well deserved interest in his music develop. Dandy's best known work is his smash hit Suzanne Beware Of The Devil in 1972. The entire album, currently released under the Trojan Label, is a wonderful summation of his career and his masterful skills as a musician and producer. Dandy Livingstone was a big part of early Jamaican reggae music and Jamaican ska music – there is much to appreciated from this work especially the sophisticated groove that Dandy lays down on each and every track. Very highly recommended!

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Art Deco is an architectural and decorative-arts style, popular from 1910 to 1940, that is characterized by highly stylized natural and geometric forms and ornaments, usually strongly symmetrical. Outstanding American examples of Art Deco are the Chrysler Building and Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Some of the century's most significant artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Sonia Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky, produced work in the style, as did designers of furnishings, textiles, jewelry, and advertising. Art Deco themes were often classical motifs reduced to  basic geometric stylizations. Edgar Brandt decorated wrought-iron screens with symmetrical fountains; Emil Ruhlman inlaid ebony cabinets with ivory to depict floral arrangements of geometrical precision; Rene Lalique etched scenes, such as a gracefully striding female with a wolfhound or a gazelle, into crystal or frosted glass; and Jean Puiforcat and Daum depicted abstract geometric forms.

The term Art Deco, coined in the 1960s when interest in the style revived, was derived from L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. This Paris exhibition of 1925 came midway in Art Deco's development and was a definitive display of the style. At this time Art Deco was also known as "Art Moderne" or "Modernistic"; later it was called "Jazz Pattern," or "Skyscraper Modern." The International Style in architecture developed at the same time, and after 1925 it considerably influenced the final phase of Art Deco. Along with Cubist painting and the German Bauhaus school, the work of Le Corbusier and other International Style architects effected a change from the earlier, more decorative phase of Art Deco toward a simpler, bolder approach typical of the 1930s. Art Deco emerged as a reaction to Art Nouveau. Its two forerunners were Charles Rennie Mackintosh of Scotland and Josef Hoffmann of Vienna. These men were reformers of the excesses of the Art Nouveau style, and their works in 1900 were an indication of what was to appear in the next decades.

Hoffman's austere Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1905-11), with its mosaic murals by Gustave Klimt, was surprisingly advanced for its time, and it marked the transition from Art Nouveau to Art Deco. In 1903 Hoffman founded the Wiener Werkstatte, a workshop that produced some of the earliest Art Deco designs. These concepts were introduced in Paris in 1910 with an exhibition of decorative arts from Munich and Vienna at the Louvre. On display was a new style based on a simplification of the early 19th-century neoclassical Biedermeier style and of peasant art, or Folk Art, quite the antithesis of Art Nouveau. Another significant event in Paris in 1910 was the presentation by the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev of Scheherazade. Leon Bakst had concocted oriental sets and costumes in dazzling, barbaric colors; this brought a demand in the fashion world for exoticism, soon answered by the couturier Paul Poiret. In 1912, Poiret created his own design school, the Atelier Martine, to further his Art Deco ideas.

By the 1920s the effects of cubist painting were seen in advertising and product designs. Coco Chanel used cubist colors and forms in creating women's fashions, which she adorned with Art Deco jewelry. African sculpture and ancient Egyptian and Southwest American Indian arts all had their influence on Art Deco in this decade, as did Archaic Greek art. With the influence of the Bauhaus and the International Style after 1925, Art Deco arrived at a final development that reflected the industrial age, thus achieving a reconciliation of the arts and machine production that had troubled artists and designers since the Industrial Revolution began.

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