The B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Bill will defund the police, invest in our communities, along with much more but most importantly it will save black lives. #breathebill #nojusticenopeace #defundthepolice📢 #SaveRalph has won the @Cannes_Lions Grand Prix for Good award! 🦁
Congratulations to the Save Ralph team: @TaikaWaititi @ZacEfron @rickygervais @oliviamunn @PomKlementieff @trutriciahelfer @jeffvespa! 🎉
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3QOrjvVWe’re excited to debut Survivors of the Dog Meat Trade, a series partnering HSI w/ @SophieGamand.
The series shows the resilience of dogs rescued from S. Korean dog meat farms who've been adopted into loving homes—including w/ @guskenworthy @danielhenney! #DogMeatSurvivors 💜Animal Testing Doesn't Work.Ricky Gervais, Taika Waititi, and Zac Efron help Humane Society International Combat Animal Testing With Starry Stop-Motion Short https://deadline.com/video/save-ralph-teaser-humane-society-international-taika-waititi-spencer-susser/…… via
@DeadlineGrateful for the short commute on days like these."Static" opens February 20 at @DianeRosenstein. TY @LAmag @jeffvespa Michael SlenskeWatch @TheAmandaGorman recite her inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb” https://ti.me/3cILJoq.@TheAmandaGorman tells @MichelleObama: “I’m learning that I am not lightning that strikes once. I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon” https://ti.me/36JXo2mTIME's new cover: Amanda Gorman in conversation with Michelle Obama, Ibram X. Kendi on the Black Renaissance and more https://ti.me/3cDteBF@MilesBrown spoke to us about what got him interested in performing and his debut album #wethefuture - check it out! http://nyotamagazine.com
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FINAL: #Dodgers 4, Braves 3Arrogant, greedy, power mad, fake religious, corrupt idiots who could care less how their behavior and policies kill the people they are paid to protect.In 2018, Joaquin Oliver was shot and killed in the Parkland school shooting.
His parents used AI to bring him back to tell people how voting can prevent these kinds of tragedies from happening to any more families.
http://Unfinishedvotes.comParkland parents, teachers, and students powerfully recall the school shooting that changes their lives – and the nation“fight like hell” feels like a good slogan for the coming weeks/monthsWe have lost one of the most extraordinary Justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and landmark opinions moved us closer to a more perfect union. And her powerful dissents reminded us that we walk away from our Constitution’s promise at our peril.I showed this drawing to my 2 yr old daughter this morning and asked if she knew who it was. She smiled and said RBG.
Thank you for fighting for us all.
#NotoriousRBGI want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.""Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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#ChangeTheRef #endgunviolence #honorwithaction #rbg #ruthbaderginsburgFuck. This. Year.Hello everyone! This is Vin Scully here. Delighted to join you on twitter. Have a great day! #VinScullyFOUND! Secret photo from the plane of people dressed in black. These thugs are really going to start some trouble. #Planefullofthugs #DumpTrump2020I found secret photographic evidence from the plane.On Nov 3rd, let’s send a message to the do-nothing politicians: Our children aren’t cardboard cutouts. Either you protect them from gun violence or you’re out. #CutoutTheBullshit #ChangeTheRefVoices of Parkland virtual screening and panel discussion in two days. Thursday Aug.27th. RSVP here to join us and watch the film. https://bradyunited.org/act/voices-of-parkland… @AMarch4OurLives @bradybuzz @Team_Enough #ParklandVOICES OF PARKLAND Virtual Screening and Panel Discussion - This Thursday 7pm EST / 4pm PST. Register with the link below. Hosted by @bradybuzz
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Here are two more of his. 🤣Different day, same crazy bullsh!t.
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#FailedLeadershipI do very well on the dementia tests I constantly have to take, said the guy in charge of nukes.Photos of King Of Staten Island behind the scenes. https://instagram.com/p/CBb5RRolw4l/?igshid=ihpf56qrykct…Coming up. How we move forward.Crazy, right? I interviewed @jeffvespa, the filmmaker of "Voices of Parkland" way back in February. Before these catastrophes started eating us alive.
Listen here. And please subscribe: https://bit.ly/LB101iHeartRadio…Between 2001 and today, we all have been burdened by tragedies of all sorts: terrorism, rage, ignorance, nature, guns, guns, pandemics and pandemonium. Today's podcast explores the people who survived the Parkland shootings, just over 2 years ago. (1/2)
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It was the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and Vespa had just done a story on Kilmer’s co-star in Palo Alto, Zoe Levin, for his digital magazine Verge. The photographer did a shoot with the young actress, calling her out as one of four breakout stars from TIFF. “I don’t like the idea of ‘10 to watch’ because sometimes there’s not ten to watch,” Vespa tells DuJour. And he would know. Years of shooting new and old talent at Sundance, Cannes and nearly every major film festival has trained Vespa’s eye for spotting the biggest stars among the mostly unknown, and in Toronto, he saw something in Val Kilmer’s 18-year-old son.
At the showing of Palo Alto, attending in support of Levin and the 26-year-old director Gia Coppola (who Vespa’s known since she was just a teenager), he found a fifth TIFF star on the rise. “I watched the film and I thought: This guy is a star, period. He’s not somebody who’s trying to be one. I don’t even think he wanted to act. He’s just so natural, and he’s got a totally different look.”
Looks are important to Vespa in determining Hollywood stardom—this is a business based on image after all. “Does this person have a look that people are going to get into?” he asks. “Are people going to fall in love with that face, are people going to be interested to watch this person?” But for the up and comers Vespa features on Verge, the fewer photos on their IMDb page the better: The year-old magazine is Vespa’s platform for discovering the next big names and introducing them to the world.
Following his time at LIFE.com (and before that, co-founding WireImage), striking out on his own was a natural move for the film festival photographer. “It just all coalesced in my brain at once: I just realized that this is what I’ve been doing for so many years already. I’ve been discovering people, I’ve been the first person to photograph them and then continued to help their careers by doing articles on them and shooting them at events.” Through original photo shoots, interviews and videos, Verge is Vespa’s way of doing what he’s always done, just in a much more intentional way.
Now, instead of meeting the new faces for the first time when taking their portraits, Vespa identifies who has star potential before Toronto, Sundance or Cannes. He’ll look at every single movie on the lineup, go on IMDb and identify all the actors he doesn’t know. With a giant master list of newcomers with possible star power, he requests copies of the screeners, talks to managers, publicists, the festivals—all the legwork that any reporter might do—and determines his frontrunners from there.
“There’s a huge difference between meeting them at Sundance and photographing them, and meeting them before we get there, telling them I really believe in them and then giving them press. Once you’ve done that, no one will ever forget that. There’s a special relationship that won’t ever change.” With over 35 shoots and eight videos for the magazine to date, Vespa couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come. “Frankly, the most fun and the best experiences I’ve ever had is doing these shoots for Verge. These people are so new—for some it’s their first shoot ever; they’re so excited and it’s such a great feeling. It’s not about a business for me, it’s about doing what I love doing and I want to do it with good people and work with them in the future.”
The goal for Vespa is to build relationships that extend well into these stars’ careers. It’s happened before, with stars like Ryan Gosling, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts and Michelle Williams (see their photos in the gallery above), to name a few. For them, it’s surpassed industry-relationship status. It’s friendship. Sometimes it’s even like family.
“When we would go to Cannes or Venice, it used to be all foreign photographers,” he recalls. “I would end up being the sole American that these people recognized in a sea of a hundred photographers and journalists, so I was like a family member. Nine times out of ten, if they knew me, they’d go, ‘Oh thank God you’re here, I feel so much better now.’ Those are the cool things, why I want to be in this business: to be a part of this and these people’s lives.”
