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SNAP! SPACE By Hadley Bushard
For years SNAP! has been known as “THE” annual art event to attend for the weekend and get lost scouting new and upcoming artist pieces and see amazing shows. Finally founders, Patrick and Holly Khan have permanently created this space we love to see every year. They turned an iconic, 5000 square foot building in the Mills50 District neighborhood into a must see gallery and indoor/outdoor event space that is community driven, featuring local, national and international exhibitors. See Page 2
THOMAS KORTHUIS: “Creativity InMotion” By Amileé Legard
So I arrive 10 minutes early, which is a complete rarity, and find myself pleasantly relaxed while I (who has absolutely no real knowledge of technology) await my interview with Thomas Korthuis, the 32-year old Founder and CEO of Orlando based branding and design studio, Creativity InMotion, Inc. He walks in right on time – 3pm sharp, and is not the typical “tech guy” I
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expected. I guess I expected this super nerdy, antisocial (pale) dude in a Star Wars hoodie. Come to find out he does love Star wars, but is originally from Amsterdam, speaks three different languages, and has a very cool, calm energy about him. After we said hellos and got semi antiquated, the first question I started with was See page 5
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I first experienced this space for their grand opening in January of this year. I love spaces I can get lost in and really feel the art speaking to me. My
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favorite artist being showcased for the grand opening was Rebecca Rose, with her unique use of
Throughout the night (at each event) I overheard whispers of “Wow. This place is something out of New York City,” and “What a great feeling to be surrounded by true art and real people who appreciate it.”
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was another breathtaking event. The exhibition “examines the transitional and transformative state of an idea, an individual, or a collective as it evolves into a distinctive form or realization. An unconfined
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definitely made their mark in Orlando history!
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THE MONTH OF
APRIL
WARHOL + DALI Warhol at the dali.... Art. Fame. Mortality. Currently the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Salvador Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg, Fl. A short trip outside of Orlando, will land you amongst one of the most extensive privately owned Salvador Dali Collections. Salvador Dali is known for his technical skill as a painter and the shocking quality of his imagination. Warhol: Art.Fame.Mortality runs until April 27, 2014. For more info Check out: www.thedali.org
RUN OR DYE Celebrate being alive by having colored powder thrown at you. April 5, 2014 @ 9AM Osceola Heritage Park www.ohpark.com Price: $42-$47
HAIRSPRAY Musical: Tracy Turnblad and her quest to be on the Corny Collins Show starts April 25th 2014. More info check out: www.Gardentheatre.org
Beauty + Beast A classic tale of love and acceptance April 12th 2014 @ Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. www.orlandovenues.net
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THOMAS SYNNAMON Photographer
Q: Can you tell us about yourself and your photographic background?
well I am from Philadelphia, moved to NYC about 20 years ago, I waited tables and was a bartender. I then started doing costume
designs for dance companies, then I worked in widow display for
Barney's New york and a few other stores. I always had an eye for photography, but didn't have the patience to learn film
photography, so I started to teach myself to shoot with a digital camera. It was a lot of playing with lighting and settings on the
camera, a tone of self portrait, and then I taught myself how to use photoshop.
Q: What inspired you to become a photographer? I loved what you could come up with and capture it in a photo, and how lighting can make a simple image have such emotion
so thats what I wanted to do. I try to give an image a feeling, so the viewer can make up their own story about the shot.
Q: Do you prefer strobes or natural light?
strobes are great because you know what your going to get with the settings, natural lighting - you have to constantly check your settings as the light may change, but I have been doing more natural lighting shoots and I do love. Tommy Spence @ AIG Model & Talent
Q: What is your mental checklist before a shoot?
Management
am shooting at a location, I like to scout it out first, so that when I am
Just making sure that everything is charged and ready to go, and if i ready to shoot I know just what I want to get.
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Q: How spontaneous is the shooting process for
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well, I try to have an idea of what I want to do, but a lot of the times
you?
it changes, I might see something or get an idea in the middle of a shoot and it can just change the hole thing.
Q: Is there anything we can expect from you?
I am working on my next book and getting more work published. I just want to enjoy the work and be as creative as I can.
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actually make it run. And that’s if you were lucky enough to
have a hard drive big enough to store the actual program. In which case if you didn’t, you would of had to of searched through your old floppy discs and insert that into the
computer and go through that nightmare all over again. So
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using these programs made me very comfortable in that type
of environment, which is the exact environment that hosts and powers anybody’s website. Even with all of the advancements
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Q: At what point in your life did you know you wanted to work in the tech industry?
in technology, writing commands for your computer to do
something specific is still, in a sense, the backbone of creating websites. So, by having that type of experience I have been able to custom build my own web hosting, and that hosting
I was 8 years old – your typical rambunctious little boy,
service houses custom built websites. Each line of code has
down in front of a computer and challenged me to figure
allows for really unique web design.
me something to do, but within a short while they heard me
Q: Would you say coding is the most tedious
probably driving my parents insane – when my dad sat me out a flight simulator. I now know he was just trying to give yelling from the back of his office, “I can fly, I can fly!” I have been fascinated with computers ever since.
Q: So what about the flight simulator interested you?
been written specifically to do a specific command. And that
job on the planet?
YES. No doubt. It involves keeping track of every single
painstaking line in the code and its interconnection to other
lines in the code. Each dot, comma, or semi-colon you put in the wrong place has a huge affect on whether or not your
There were a lot of individual moving parts that connected,
website is going to work. But, a lot of great developers out
unless I knew how each piece functioned individually. It was
and frameworks for everyone to use. I can’t even begin to
like one giant puzzle, and I couldn’t figure out how to fly
there are making this job far less tedious by creating libraries
a really fun challenge, and honestly, I don’t think my parents
express my gratitude!
matter. It was my childhood version of our generations’
Q: So then, tell us a little bit about the
expected me to figure it out so soon – or even at all for that Angry Birds or, “shut up and play with this Ipad.”
Q: So, after you realized your fascination
with computers at a young age, where did you go from there?
background of your company. How did you become to own your own business.
I’ve worked with a lot of multinational companies as sort of a Creative Director or Advisor – responsible for creating their “look and feel” and understanding how their image can be
I started to literally break them apart and put them back
portrayed in web design and other digital expressions. This
started working with DOS, Windows XP, then I switched to
customer sees), to back end development (which are what
of that experience proved to be extremely useful later in
breakdown, back end analytics, content management
together again. I was a Norton Commander junkie and
would range anywhere from front end development (what the
Linux and permanently ended up loving the Mac OS. And all
the “administrative back offices” see) in support of technical
life.
systems, accounting software – all that really, really boring
Q: What is Norton Commander?
the natural evolution of that process. Having my own
websites. I wanted to focus on a greater, more sustainable
picture. So in 2013 I brought on a partner, who just so happens to be my fiancé, Jessica Gibson. She has a really creative eye, especially for detail, with extensive knowledge in Advertising,
Marketing and PR, and she was exactly the bridge the company needed to branch out into other directions. So we re-branded
at the end of 2013, totally overhauling the website with a new
logo and brand “image” – and now it has become a full fledged branding and design studio where instead of coding all day, I more oversee and conceptualize the combined vision of the
client. I really enjoy getting involved in understanding a client’s business aspirations and vision for their company. After you truly appreciate what makes a client unique, the fun part is translating their message cohesively across all virtual
platforms. This process is, in essence, establishing their brand
identity and what their mark on the world is going to be. So the question is, what can we create that represents each client’s
unique solution – and how can we make that message unified
and organized for everyone to see? My goal is to help clients develop an image that they will stand behind and feel proud of. That’s what I now love to do.
Q: If you had to choose a visionary in the
tech field that has molded your growth in some way, who would that be?
I have 2. I gotta go with the classic, Steve Jobs, and the not so
common household name, Sergey Brin. Despite being called an overly critical dictator, Steve Jobs had a grander vision of the world and knew how his products could affect culture and
society. The world has permanently been changed because of
his views and persistence, that’s really something to admire in a person. As for Sergey Brin, who is not only the one of the CoFounders of Google, he oversees Google X, their semi-secret facility dedicated to creating technological achievements.
Their driverless cars and not-so-stylish futuristic glasses are the products that will set the tone for the future. And, if I didn’t run the risk of being split in half by their secret Jedi light sabers, I
would sneak into that facility in a heartbeat. Or maybe I could just call him? That would probably be a better idea.
stuff nobody cares about. My company, Creativity InMotion is company allows me to utilize my unique skills in a structured
An ancient (but awesome!) program that brought out its last version in 2000, ha!
Q: What do you mean by, “all of that experience proved to be extremely successful?”
and creative way to help clients express their unique image out into the world.
So, in 2003 I moved from Holland to the U.S. and found myself in the unique predicament of having to create my own job and figure out how I was going to make income in a new country.
So I officially launched in 2004 while still keeping contacts and clients overseas. And that’s been my main source of work
When I started using them, DOS and Linux were the types
ever since.
you wanted to use it effectively) instead of pressing the
Q: So how has your company changed from
of programs you had to actually write out commands for (if mouse, which in turn, tells the computer what to do. So for example, instead of pointing and clicking to open up the
game Frogger (another ancient program, God I feel old!),
you would actually type in the command to get you to the directory, and then type in the command that included the name of the program, and then type in the command to
then, to now?
I had been wanting to take CIM to the next level for quite
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Attending Aveda and having that education that pushed me to be the best was a huge part of my motivation,
while attending school they incorporated me in a Fashion show/Competition Named "Cirque du Aveda"..over 400 people attended and there were 25 different models
competing. I was shy to enter but another student and I teamed up and won first place "Best Overall." It was an
amazing show and feeling, After that day I knew that this was gonna be my life...Creating Beauty.
Q: What are some of your accomplishments? Photo by Jonathan Croft
I'd have to say I'm a “rookie” in this industry compared to some of the many talented artists I've met through the years, but I am proud to say I've worked with many
amazing companies and even more incredible clients. I've worked with groups like Flashes of Hope - a Foundation that does makeovers for terminally Ill children and their families, Reebok - where I had the chance to cut and
style hair for many models, Rappers and even producer (Swizz beats' family). Miami fashion week - where the models and styling never ended, Awaken Magazine -
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where the creativity and fashion never end. RAW
Orlando, Ellements Magazine, Art of Shaving, Endless Fashion Shows in Miami and Orlando, tons of photo shoots, and many hair shows. My months are full of
clients, artists and models who inspire me to strive for
“... I enjoy watching and letting my everyday life inspire me...” Q: What are your short and long time goals?
Some of my short term goals for this year are spending more time traveling, giving back my community, and
changing lives while doing it. Within the next couple of
months I'll be creating events that include cutting hair for the homeless and another where I can go to hospitals and cut hair for those that aren't able to leave.
Q: What do you feel that you give back to the city of Orlando?
I give the city of Orlando my heart, I spent summers in New York but Orlando was my stomping ground. I've
seen it go from trees and tourists, to a city people have come to love. The city has changed for the better and I give it my best, I don't come from wealth, and I was
raised by a single mother with three children. She always taught us to never forget our struggles and where we come from and to help to anyone in need.
Q: Where do you see yourself and career
more and I learn so much from them. I would like to
going in the near-future?
people I meet that make my job worth calling an
Well this year is off to a great start - my clients are
thank them for my success thus far because it's the
Tell me a little about yourself. Where are you from?
accomplishment.
contracts are coming in and bookings are steady. This
Q: Do you consider yourself an artist?
Well, I was born in New York and moved to Orlando
when i was 13 - originally my family is from Medellin,
Colombia. I graduated from Colonial High School here in
Orlando and I attended the Aveda Institute. I love learning it's a passion for me. I believe the best way to learn is by allowing yourself to see beyond what is physically in front of you.
Q: When did you realize that you wanted to become a hairstylist?
I've always known I wanted to do hair, I picked up my
first clipper when I was 14, and my first pair of shears
two years later. Now making it a career, I never thought
Of Course! a Hairstylist is an artist. An artist is someone
who is skilled in a certain task. And as a hairstylist we are skilled in the “art of beauty” we inspire people to be
classic styles. I'm looking for the next best thing for MAZO Professionals - my brand.
Q: When you're gone, what would you like people to remember you as?
those things that were old in that person and creating
I'd love people to know that I'm a spiritual person, a
Maybe a newer way of thinking, what we create is
and close friends. I'm all about loving people, creating
anger, hate or anything that is the opposite of beauty.
gone I don't want my loved ones to cry I want them to
not only taking the old and making it new, we are taking something new in them. Maybe a higher self esteem,
funny guy and a family man - by family man i mean blood
beauty. That includes removing stress, depression,
leaders and changing lives. It's in my blood. When I'm
That is what makes me and everyone in this
throw the most insane party imaginable.
industry.....artists.
Q: Where do you get your inspiration?
heart has always called me to the beauty industry. It's my
could be a million dollar art piece or a piece of trash on
to a hair show with a friend in 2006 and I couldn't believe
easily find it by going on Google but what's the fun in
this. My original plan was to become a mechanic but my
I get inspired by everything. People, places, things.. It
passion, my art, it's where I get to express beauty. I went
the floor, everything in this world has inspiration. I can
the things I saw, and deep down..I wanted to be that.
that? I enjoy watching and letting my everyday life
Q: What was your first/biggest show or
the wisdom that my mother has passed along. Inspiration
really want to pursue hairstyling?
year I'm focusing on my roots, education, barbering, and
beautiful, when we style, cut, color, or blow-dry, we are
that. It was actually my family who pushed me to pursue
photo-shoot that you did that made you
having a great year which makes my year great as well,
inspire me. From situations I've lived and even down to comes in many shapes and it's just up to us to find it.
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