#VISION

Production Assistant and TV Community Producer in NYC 2017

I am currently certified as a Community Television Producer at BRIC Media, thanks to my lovely instructors and classmates that have helped me to succeed!

Being a part of Broadcast Media has always been a big part of my dream as a Creative, to take part in Arts and Culture which still and always will have a high esteem in society because of Art's ability to entertain and provoke simultaneously.

This year I will take part in various productions such as Web series', TV shows and feature films, which means in this case that I will be operating in various capacities, such as Director, Producer, Assistant Director, Hair and Makeup, Set Design and Construction, Floor Manager, to name a few.

I am so excited to be a part of the changing world in 2017 and hope to be a part of some amazing projects, always meeting interesting people and helping various productions to meet their highest potential!

Niki's sites and examples of work

I'd like to take a moment to document my websites to date and discuss where I plan to go from here with my web publishing and digital design! (Please click the images for links if available)

2008-2011

My Baby!! Loved this shopping site, not currently in service.

Contracted Web-Publishing Projects

Youtube and Web Presentations

 

Coming Soon! Fashion Designer Blog and Website

Coming Soon! A Web Magazine

Next on the Agenda!

* Style blog documenting my everyday style evolution, shadowing a top NYC designer and stylist. Links to style sites and fashion blogs!

* Return of Shopping Website!!

* More Social Commentary, More Inspiration!!!

A Few Different Ways To Tie Your Sneakers

http://www.popgive.com/2008/06/few-diferent-ways-to-tie-your-sneakers.html?showComment=1216975560000#c6431700317213615363

More Female Action Heroes

Actually some of my favorite female actions stars have been Jada Pinkett and Nona Gaye in The Matrix series, obviously Pam Grier in her many movies and cameos, Jennifer Garner in Elektra and Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld Series. Lets not forget Halle Berry, Jessica Alba and Sigourney Weaver..

"Salt": Angelina Jolie is the first ambiguous action heroine

Comments (0) By Karina Longworth Wednesday, Jul 21 2010

Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie after Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the 19th Amendment: Finally, a level playing field for female action stars! This is mostly bullshit, of course — Jolie's Evelyn Salt is not the first action hero to be given a gender reassignment between initial conception and opening weekend (cough, Alien), nor is this the first stunt-heavy film Jolie has carried on her back and sold on her name. What is startling about Salt is the extent to which, in insisting on the moral ambiguity of its protagonist for most of its running time, it gives us an action-hero prototype Cruise couldn't play and Jolie was born to.

Jolie's character merges warrior and victim, ass-kicker and damsel in distress.

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Directed by Phillip Noyce. Written by Kurt Wimmer. Starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Daniel Olbrychski. Rated PG-13. Opens Friday at San Francisco theaters.

Ambiguity itself is something Cruise just doesn't do — maybe that's why, for 30 years, haters and fans have devoted so much energy to speculating about his supposed secret sex life. But Jolie is all about ambiguity, and always has been. She's an Oscar winner and an action star, a husband-stealing tattooed pin-up and an orphan-adopting mom of six. In the first scene of Salt, she is tortured by North Korean prison guards while wearing a bra and panties, her long, blond locks stained with blood like a vixen from an exploitation flick. From the start, this character plays to the star's strengths, merging subject and object, warrior and victim, ass-kicker and damsel in distress.

And hero and villain. A trusted member of a CIA team led by Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), Salt is outed as a Russian double agent by Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski), her supposed comrade, who essentially strolls into a covert CIA outpost and accuses her of treason. Salt's colleagues, taking Orlov at his word, slip into '70s-film paranoia mode and initiate an all-hands manhunt; Salt runs, managing to stay a step ahead of the feds and several steps ahead of the audience, while laying waste to dozens on either side of the apparent with-us/against-us divide.

Coded by that first virtuous victim scene as the good guy, early on Salt starts acting like a bad guy, and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer and director Phillip Noyce are in no hurry to clear up the matter of their protagonist's true allegiance. Eschewing any of the usual tricks and winks to let us know we can trust her, that her moral compass renders her many crimes as collateral damage in the interest of the greater good, the filmmakers imbue what at first seem to be rote action devices with unexpected psychological gravitas. Not until the final scene does Salt unambiguously spell out how we're meant to feel about all that's come before. Compared to a film like Inception, which is forever stopping to explain to us what we've just seen, this feels like an incredible show of restraint.

If Jolie's star persona has something to do with Salt's muddling of moral binaries, her gender inspires little in the way of action-hero subversion. Her physical disadvantage as a smaller human being is ignored — in fact, when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, she seems to be the only fighter on either side who fully knows what she's doing. And the filmmakers are not above condescendingly winking at the notion of feminine wiles. When she needs to hide from a security camera, she removes her panties and tosses them over the lens; when she needs to improvise a weapon, she concocts an explosive out of everyday items any gal might find in her cleaning pantry and medicine cabinet. She may be invincible, but her ace in the hole seems to be that she can always convince smitten men they can fuck her.

So let's not give this gambit more credit than it deserves — Salt is not particularly politically or socially progressive; stylistically, the best that can be said is that Noyce elegantly mashes up post-Bourne shaky-cam POV with gilded bombast straight out of his own '90s Jack Ryan films. Its conception of world affairs would seem hopelessly retrograde if the U.S. hadn't hauled in a sleeper cell of Russian spies just last month. That this is a would-be franchise-launcher becomes clear when the first end title card interrupts Jolie mid-dash to what we presume would have been the final action set piece; it's only at that moment that we understand we've been watching an origin story, a primer on who this antihero is and how she came to be the only thing standing in the way of the nuclear annihilation of Mecca (yes, seriously). That it flatters the audience by assuming a modicum of intelligence earns points if we're grading on a curve, but this is still closer to product than art. Highly satisfying, often exhilarating, refreshingly unpretentious product.

Graduated Haircolor in Style

Ombre Hair Color: Celebrities' Newest Trick to Looking Younger

by Grace Gold (Subscribe to Grace Gold's posts), Posted Jul 14th 2010 at 7:00AM

Rachel Bilson. Photo: Francois Durand, Getty Images

From anti-aging haircare to the perfect hair cut, Hollywood divas are always in on the latest ways to have healthy, youthful-looking locks.

And now a hair color effect called ombre is steadily becoming a celebrity and city girl favorite. "Ombre" literally means gradation in French, which refers to the dark-to-light fade of color that is used in the technique. Instead of color that starts at the root, darker roots blend into a lightened mid-shaft and end.

It's a beachier, more natural looking version of the enduring "visible root" trend.

"I think it speaks to the overall organic and sustainable trend going on right now. No one wants to spend all of their time in the salon anymore, and this look means longer time between visits because it's so natural-looking. There's no color line of demarcation at your roots," says Dimitrios Tsioumas, creative color director of New York and Boston's Mizu salons, where colorists perform the effect.

The term was taken from the fashion world, where the ombre style of diffusing color is used for fabric, and is most often seen in kimonos.

"In the hair industry, we like to translate what we see in the fashion industry into hair. We've seen many designers showcase the ombre effect in their collections. We're making it more natural and softer to fit into our current lifestyles," adds Tsioumas.

Photos: Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images | Steve Granitz/WireImage.com

Ombre can be either soft and subtle like Rachel Bilson's natural-looking locks, or play more progressive and dramatic, a la Lady Gaga's look. Either way, the shot of lightness adds a youthful look to hair, as strands naturally lighten under the sun further down the shaft from the root.

If you're interested in trying the trend out and don't live near a Mizu salon, look for a colorist with experience in painting color and highlights straight onto the hair without using foils, as that's the primary technique for the effect. Foiling can also be used, but is best applied by a colorist who has the ability to do both.

Bumble & Bumble salons also offers the ombre effect, and salons that perform the similar paint-on baliage technique could be another good place to look.

We're just thrilled to find a way to lighten up without the every-four-to-six weeks color commitment.

Like the ombre effect for your hair? Learn how to apply it to your nails. too!

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