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Billy The Artist Book Release: East Village Closed

Karen — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:28:28 +0000

East Village Closed – a book by Billy the Artist. Images from the desolate East Village neighborhood in Manhattan. Billy the Artist took photos of the abandoned city landscape during the Covid-19 lockdown. He then used his art to express his feelings and experiences and incorporated them in the imagery.

Billy The Artist

Billy The Artist (BTA) is an internationally renowned artist whose studio is based in the East Village of New York City. His projects and designs have been seen all over the world for such clients and global brands as Swatch, Nescafe, The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Lamborghini, Gibson Guitar, Smart Car, Suzuki, Hyundai, Toyota, Mountain Dew, MTV, Puma, Microsoft, Chock Full O Nuts, Vans shoes, New Balance shoes, Cow Parade, race car driver Danica Patrick, Fashion Week Athens, Vienna, Madrid, Design Week Milan as well as his own product line with Goebel worldwide.

Mural projects include Woodstock 99, Art Basel Miami, Casa Décor Miami, Delaguarda, The Rio Casino Las Vegas, numerous buildings in New York and Switzerland and the Broadway, National, and London productions of the musical RENT. His paintings have hung at the prestigious Forbes Gallery, The Armory as well as galleries in New York, Hamburg, Tokyo, South Korea, Mexico City, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Austin, Cleveland, Carib Fine Art in Curacao, Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, Surge Art Fair Shanghai, Foxx Galerie Zurich, and The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Billy has been published in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, US Weekly, Juxtapoz, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and numerous other magazines and newspapers around the globe.

Billy The Artist has appeared on MTV, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, TLC, DISCOVERY, 60 MINUTES and other feature programs all over the world. For the world launch of Billy’s watches for Swatch, he painted a 40×30 foot mural live in front of 30,000 people while 300 foot animated projections of his work adorned the walls of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy during the Venice Biennale. BTA was also one of the first American artists to be allowed by the Chinese government to paint live on the famous Bund in Shanghai.

Philanthropic projects include work with The American Red Cross, The Fresh Air Fund, Covenant House, St. Mary’s Foundation for Children, The JCC of Manhattan, The Breathe Foundation Brazil, and various schools both in the U.S and abroad.

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The Passing Zone: Virtual Holiday Spectacular 2020!

Karen — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:34:56 +0000

THE PASSING ZONE PRESENTS: YOUR HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR!

All the fun and excitement you’ve come to love and expect from The Passing Zone, with a holiday twist. Let Jon and Owen help you create a virtual end of year holiday event that your employees or attendees will never forget. Various levels of customization and pricing, to fit nearly any budget.

Jon Wee and Owen Morse, The Passing Zone, are one of the most accomplished comedy duos in the nation.

They’ve done it by focusing on three success principles- innovation, collaboration and execution. Those same principles can help any group achieve fantastic results, and there is no better way to bring them these key ideas than through The Passing Zone’s hilarious, energetic, and inspiring keynote.

Looking for something different? You put on a great zoom meeting last time, but now you have to top it. You need something unexpected, unique, fresh, not just the same old speaker, comedian, magician or band. You found something different! You found roaring chainsaws, cheering attendees, flaming torches and knives flying through the air! You found an experience. You found a surprise. You found genuine laughter, the kind that makes your face hurt.

Jon & Owen provide pure entertainment in a virtual setting. They can integrate themselves into the core theme of your online meeting so that their performance has some take away value and a welcome break during virtual conferences.

Corporate Entertainment

They are a natural fit for corporate entertainment and keynote speeches are their primary market. Their act is clean, so it offends no one. They appeal to all ages and all walks of life. Whether their audience group are mechanical contractors, software engineers, hairdressers, or billionaire business leaders, they are always a hit. Not only do they entertain, but they customize their performances by juggling a company’s product, incorporating slogans, and inspiring groups to be better teams.

Their corporate career really took off after a national Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) event in Atlanta, which was quickly followed by other MDRTs in Chicago and Singapore. After main stage appearances at Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the National Speaker Association, YPO, ICPA, and others, the industry took notice, and they’ve been off and running ever since. Clients such as eBay, Firestone, Old Navy, Microsoft, IBM, Kodak, and IASB have brought Jon and Owen to their events to liven things up and motivate their people. The London Business Forum recently enlisted The Passing Zone and had one of their highest-rated events ever. Their extraordinary speaking skills earned The Passing Zone the CPAE designation from the National Speakers Association and landed them in the Speaker’s Hall of Fame.

Jon and Owen have published articles on Teamwork, Work-Life Balance, and Taking Risks in countless industry periodicals including Business People, Special Events, Smart Meetings Networking Times, Financial Executives, Successful Meetings, Home Business, and many more. They were chosen as a Best Bet for entertainment by the Wall Street Journal, and Special Events Magazine named them one of the Hottest 26 Speakers.

Testimonials Virtual Meetings

“The Passing Zone gave us the boost we needed just when we needed it. Jon and Owen worked with us to create a customized video experience. They were responsive and easy to work with – and the video was right on the money. A very effective way to energize and motivate our colleagues.” – Doug Morse, CEO, Hansen Family Hospital

“The Passing Zone delivered the goods – our customized video was right on the money with a great message to energize and motivate colleagues during a very difficult period. Hats off to Jon and Owen – easy to work with, very responsive, and willing to do what we needed.” – Hansen Family Hospital

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The Passing Zone: Show & Tell – Adjust like an Olympian

Karen — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:40:55 +0000

Show & Tell

The COVID-19 crisis has messed with our world, and it has affected everyone in so many ways. Imagine the heartbreak of training your whole life to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and then learning it has been postponed until 2021. Every Olympic athlete in the world is reeling, knowing that they must re-plan and re-think, and keep training for another year. For some, that means their Olympic dreams are over. For others, this year isn’t going to be at all like they planned.

But this year isn’t turning out how any of us planned.

We need to adjust (Innovate), help one another (Collaborate), and find new ways to do what we need to do (Execute).

We are all making adjustments. Some are minor, like washing our hands, and not hanging out with friends. Others must work from home, homeschool kids, find new ways to connect with loved ones and elderly parents. Businesses will fail, some after their owners have invested everything they had, some after going into debt to get it off the ground. Someone finally got the lead in the school play, or was going to be the first in their family to walk across the stage at graduation. Some had this one shot to play in the NCAA tournament. And some will not survive the pandemic.

Whether you are an Olympic athlete or not, this moment requires that you be nimble, well-trained, persistent, patient, creative, and strong. You will need the help of your teammates, your coaches and your mentors, and you will need to reach back and lend a hand to those who are stumbling. Maybe this is the moment we’ve all been training for, without really knowing it.

We have heard the words, “We are all in this together” more often in the past two weeks that at any time in our lives. Take those words to heart, because it is the case now, but it will also be the case after this crisis is over. And it is how it has always been.

Go, Team USA! Go, Team World!

Extra Credit

We reached out to April Ross to learn how this current situation is affecting her, and this is her response:

Alix and I are in full support of the responsible decision to postpone the Games, even if a little bit saddened and thrown off by the new timeline. Right now we are just focusing on things we can do during this time to stay sane, healthy, and get better while being at home. I’ve actually been practicing my juggling periodically since it’s so good for hand eye coordination and vision work, I still have a long way to go, but the lesson I took with you guys is coming in handy right now! Going forward I know there’s only so much I can control and how important it is to really live in the present moment. I’m embracing the silver lining and taking things day by day, even though I can’t wait to get back out there!

Until next time, we’re all in this together!

Jon Wee & Owen Morse
The Passing Zone

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