NYC based photographer Phillip Toledano believes that every photograph should start with an idea, whether it be a single image or series. One of his ideas was to create an “external manifestation of the internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in America.” In short, Hope & Fear.

Here’s an offer you can’t refuse: The new DVD, The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration, a five disc set including the three Godfather films and two separate discs of extras. The five-disc set includes a remastered version of the entertaining, though fatally flawed, The Godfather: Part III, as well as new and recycled extras.

ReConstitution is a live audiovisual remix of the first presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. Three MIT graduates, designed a software that allowed them to sample the television broadcast in real time, extracting the video, audio and closed captioning text. This nonpartisan hybrid of video art and performance exposes the themes, content, and structure behind the sound and images of the debate.

France is the number one European producer of animation, and third on the world stage. French artists and companies have long been able to export their know-how, as well as their aesthetic and cultural vision, through feature films, television series, shorts and advertisements. Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image (School Of Visual Communication ) is a Parisian school dedicated to the visual arts. It is best known for the Cinéma Department of Animation .

Hellovon is the studio run by London based illustrator Von. His work is heavily influenced by the world of music, fashion and design and executed with a seamless blend of traditional and digital mark making techniques. The result being striking, seductive and insightful illustrations with subtle narratives and a delicate, ethereal quality.

Swimming Cities Of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the stretch of the Hudson River between Troy and the New York harbor this August 15th - September 7th. Imagined as a hybrid between boats and bits of land mass broken off and headed out to sea, the Switchback vessels will make stops in towns along the river bringing performances and music.

Art plays a pivotal role in creating cultural momentum. The Manifest Hope Gallery celebrates that role and shines a spotlight on artists across the nation who use their voices to amplify and motivate the grass roots movement surrounding the Obama Campaign. The Manifest Hope Gallery highlights the central themes of the progressive grass-roots movement- Hope Change, Progress, Unity and Patriotism.

Combining the traditions of vaudeville and music hall with Berliner Kabarett, Absinthe is a variety show on acid, features new strange and sultry acts with deliciously seductive men and women who perform amazing feats of strength, balance, danger and unfathomable flexibility - this season’s Absinthe is destined to take variety to sexy new heights. Absinthe has been called “Cirque Du Soleil as channeled through The Rocky Horror Picture Show ” by the New York Times.

London based photographer Tim Walker has established himself at the cutting edge of fashion photography. His images capture a sublime moment in time, evoking a sense of epic drama and beauty. Stunning sets and lavish locations juxtapose the everyday with the absurd and the fabulous, to create captivating, original photographs.

As a global restaurant chain with roots in Amsterdam, supperclub provides an exceptional venue for social, cultural, and fashionable events and offers a stage to the innovators of every level of artistic expression; chefs, sommeliers, dj’s, vj’s, lj’s, performers, artists, designers and creative people in general.