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First Fashion Show on the Great Wall of China - That the World Almost Didn’t See…

by admin on October 22, 2007

“It was the first fashion show on the Great Wall of China and Fendi wanted to make sure the world knew about it. They turned to Vidicom to blast video and audio globally. So far almost 100 million TV viewers globally and millions more on the web have witnessed Karl Lagerfeld sending 88 Fendi clad models strutting the longest runway in the world…

“It wasn’t easy building the Great Wall 2000 years ago with 300 thousand troops…and trying to broadcast an event from the wall seemed just as difficult. Over its 25 year history, Vidicom has untangled production challenges worldwide as a matter of course. However, China was a first. Vidicom electricians and engineers overcame exploding cables from inadequate power sources, space limitations and government censors. Chinese government restrictions threatened on location satellite feeds. Plan B’s and C’s included throwing tapes off the wall to rush the content to permanent satellite facilities in Beijing.”

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Painting Project Lets Children of 9/11 Put Loss on Canvas

by cferer on February 24, 2004

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: February 24, 2004

Two-and-a-half-year-old Andrew Cappers yesterday showed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg where his hand, dipped in paint and pressed against a small piece of canvas, had left its mark in memory of his father, James C. Cappers.

Andrew’s handprint appears in one of scores of canvas panels now on display at the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West, in an exhibit of work by children who lost their parents in the Sept. 11 attack and in the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

The display, which will remain at the museum through May before traveling to schools and art centers around the country, is a therapeutic art project conceived by 16-year-old Ali Millard, who lost her stepfather, Neil D. Levin, in the 2001 attack.

After viewing the collection of panels at the museum - a montage of fire trucks, American flags, rainbows and heartbreaking stick figures in stovepipe hats - Mr. Bloomberg reflected about the work. “There’s nothing more poignant than a child remembering a parent,” he said, adding, “You wonder many years from now when they look back what they will remember and what they will think.”

Almost 200 children, from toddlers to teenagers, painted the one-square-foot canvases.

Ms. Millard, whose mother, Christy Ferer, is the mayor’s liaison to the families of Sept. 11 victims, said she encouraged children to reflect on memories of their parents, rather than on their deaths. One little girl painted a panel of mountains and streams to remember a summer vacation with her family.

The project, “Art for Heart,” was coordinated by the 92nd Street Y and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Some of the early canvases were displayed for troops in the Middle East, and during the second anniversary event held at the World Trade Center site.

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