The following was a short story I wrote for an essay contest held by The Standard Miami Beach. I ended becoming distracted by work matters and never completed in time for the August 20th deadline. However, I still wanted to finish the piece. I leave the meaning up to the imagination of the reader.

This is the place. The crowd is always here. The sun seems to always be in endless supply, bearing down hot, unrelenting, yet still inviting. It was a metaphor for the peopl...

*All Photos by Glenn Ebert unless noted

Art Basel Miami Beach celebrated over a decade of decadence, fine art, exclusive parties, and strange fai...

I’m not one to talk politics on my social handles, let alone use my personal blog to air out my partisan convictions. If anything, I try to make it a priority to not be “that guy” who uses his social media channels, specifically relentless Facebook updates, to club digital bystanders over the head with my opinion. This is America after all, and freedom of speech and constructive dissidence is...

Well the inevitable happened, and you can consider me once again inspired.  While I assumed it would happen through a more gradually retroactive process, after only 72 hours into a two-week venture into the UK, I officially fell madly in love with London.   I’ve done my best to mask my unabashed zeal for all things British to avoid looking like your typical gawking, American cad,but...

These modern times we live in are quite a contentious affair. It seems the digital era has presented a paradox of opportunities versus overwhelming distractions, and the term “content” is often the center of every struggle for every brand, be it personal or corporate.  While what I’m about to say has itself been hampered by distractions and a heavy case of writer’s block, this a lament that...

There truly is no greater joy to me than the art of traveling.  Clearly if I’m distinguishing as something as grandiose as an art form, you know I don’t take it lightly.  Traveling is serious b...

"Art is anything you can get away with." - Andy Warhol

It's been known by even the most low-brow of common man that art is a famously subjective endeavor.  It should also be stated that Miami is a notoriously fickle town, but an equally fitting setting to host the world's largest art fair.  Now in its 10th year of existence, Art...

Like every other blog post that I’ve derived in the past,this post has been a long-time coming. Not so much because it’s been something overbearingly irksome or personally weighing on me, but because it’s been something I’ve began to notice the farther down the ra...

It’s often been said that social media, and those who devote themselves to it, can be stereotyped for an array of characteristics and traits.   No different than the stereotypes which are often associated and given to you (often begrudgingly) in High School, social media se...

Tribe noun \ˈtrīb\ : a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest

a : a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers

You’ll have to forgive me if ...

I’ve been meaning to write a post of this nature as far back as I can remember, also considering since I spent a substantial portion of 2010 carousing the racks of my public library (they do still exist), Barnes and Noble, and Borders (I’m already dating myself) flabbergasted by all of the self-help, “how to use social media” guide books....

 It can be inferred that some of a New York or Parisian persuasion like their fashion week like they like their revenge; as a dish best served cold. If not mechanical, ruthless, and cut-throat. While Fashion, and Miami, often can be all of those things at time, Miami has also hinged its identity in always being t...

Graduating from college can be quite the sordid affair. Ok,in all actuality, it really blows.  No seriously, ask anyone who’s a recent graduate and is currently in the throws of making the transition from disillusioned, naïve college graduate to smug, frazzled 20-something....

Well the egg has finally hatched. The ship has finally landed, and someone let the cat outta the bag way too early. Plus, you know I couldn’t go more than a two months without devoting a post dissecting the marketing strategy of Lady Gaga. The egg, or ship...

I know I may be a little late to this party, but sue me.  I’m always a fan of showing up fashionably late, and always the exhibitionist, this post is not trying to break that trend.   It wasn’t so m...

It’s no secret that I’m a big, fat, huge, raging……..prep. If you look at any segment of my facebook photo album as a chronological timeline or a stumbling block from miscellaneous gameday tailgates &am...

Hell really hath no fury like a nation scorned.

Judging by the events that unfolded across Egypt over the past 10 days, that fire also seems

to burn faster, brighter, hotter, and louder if 2/3 of the population of such a nation consists of a disgruntled, mobile-savvy demographic of 20-somethings. Like the conflict which...

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