Roger Spy (March 22, 1989), Roger Spy is a London based director, graphic designer, editor, visual artist, actor and Dj.
Biography
Roger Spy is a self-taught multi media maverick who has proved himself as a versatile DJ spinning his brand of exotica in fashion, film and music industry events. Since arriving in London January 2008 he has been involved in fashion, art, music and film.
Career
Fashion
Since 2010 Roger Spy has been directing and producing videos for a variety of clients and magazines. Most notably with models such as Burberry face, Cara Delevingne. Spy also directed Nina Porter in a Dolce & Gabbana editorial for the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Wonderland Magazine. He directed a video and produced visuals with Luke Worrall for the launch of Sheer Magazine and the Billy Boyce AW10 video Lookbook, for which Logan5 composed the score. Roger edited The Greatest Story Ever Told for Piers Atkinson, directed by Ben Charles Edwards. Spy has also worked closely with Grant Thomas, whom he has collaborated with for various editorials.
Film and Music
Roger has been involved in a variety of film projects from promo videos with Ute Lemper to art presentations and short films. In July 2009 Roger Spy presented a 22 minute piece at the DNA exhibition with Arthertz at the Horse Hospital. DNA was a group show inspired and with John Foxx. Spy's work was presented along side Gary Numan, Nick Rhodes, Andrew Back, Jonathan Barnbrook, Ben Charles Edwards, Ian Emes and Alex Proyas. Inspired by Sci-Fi B movies, Roger used The Mysterians, Project Moonbase, Conquest of Space, When Worlds Collide and the silent Metropolis to marry five of his favorite Foxx tracks, X - Ray Vision, Sailing On Sunshine, Friendly Fire, Crash and Burn, a sample from Shifting City and From Trash.The video was presented once again at the closing party of the exhibition where Roger also DJed.
In July 2010 Roger directed, edited and starred in Electricity and Ghosts, a short-film that was shown at the Apple Store in Regent Street as a backdrop for Spacedog's performance as part of the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival - an internationally recognized platform for the short film genre. The film also starred Dennis Da Silva and Sarah Angliss. Since then the film has also been screened at Doyle Devere's Gallery and Kinetica 2011.
Spy made a cameo appearance in Ben Charles Edwards new feature film, Animal Charm.
Graphic Design and Art
Having had already extensive experience in designing graphics for music and fashion events, Roger presented two digital pieces at his second exhibition Mirrorball, April 2010, in Covent Garden at the Kirk Originals flagship store. In November of the same year Roger presented another two new prints of the same project, Architect, at Doyle Devere's gallery in Notting Hill.
Visuals and Promos
Soon after arriving in London Roger met club legend Rosemary Turner who offered his first gig as a visual artist, producing the visuals for Egg's Fashion Week party, Wearable Art For Durable People. Since then Spy created visuals and promotional trailers for Heaven, Embassy, Beach Blanket Babylon, Raffles and Steve Strange's THE FACE.
In February 2008 Roger worked closely with Ute Lemper, filming the rehearsals for her London dates of Angels Over Berlin Tour. He also produced promotion videos for her website and myspace.
DJ
Patrick Lilley gave Spy his first DJ gig in London at Work!, Heaven. Four days later entrepreneur and businessman Robert Newmark invited Roger to be the resident DJ at his luxurious brand venue in Notting Hill, Beach Blanket Babylon.
He has entertained a variety of crowds including the likes of Prince Harry, Nancy Dell'Olio, Lorna Luft, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and The Pussycat Dolls. It was also at Beach Blanket Babylon that Roger played at Woody Allen's wrap party for his 2010 film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.
Roger has DJ alongside Boy George, Mark Moore, Larry Tee, Reuben Wu, Dennis Da Silva, Erol Sabadosh, Jodie Harsh, Kris Di Angelis.
Also plays regularly at Dollar, Beach Blanket Babylon in Shoreditch and has had a residency Raffles.
Style
Roger is known for his immediate recognizable look, exotic style and masculinity. Although androgynous, Spy is inspired by bold artists such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie Sioux and Golden Age of Hollywood greats such as Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. Blending them together into a futuristic "alien" with an endless variety of hair colours.
Biography
Roger Spy is a self-taught multi media maverick who has proved himself as a versatile DJ spinning his brand of exotica in fashion, film and music industry events. Since arriving in London January 2008 he has been involved in fashion, art, music and film.
Career
Fashion
Since 2010 Roger Spy has been directing and producing videos for a variety of clients and magazines. Most notably with models such as Burberry face, Cara Delevingne. Spy also directed Nina Porter in a Dolce & Gabbana editorial for the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Wonderland Magazine. He directed a video and produced visuals with Luke Worrall for the launch of Sheer Magazine and the Billy Boyce AW10 video Lookbook, for which Logan5 composed the score. Roger edited The Greatest Story Ever Told for Piers Atkinson, directed by Ben Charles Edwards. Spy has also worked closely with Grant Thomas, whom he has collaborated with for various editorials.
Film and Music
Roger has been involved in a variety of film projects from promo videos with Ute Lemper to art presentations and short films. In July 2009 Roger Spy presented a 22 minute piece at the DNA exhibition with Arthertz at the Horse Hospital. DNA was a group show inspired and with John Foxx. Spy's work was presented along side Gary Numan, Nick Rhodes, Andrew Back, Jonathan Barnbrook, Ben Charles Edwards, Ian Emes and Alex Proyas. Inspired by Sci-Fi B movies, Roger used The Mysterians, Project Moonbase, Conquest of Space, When Worlds Collide and the silent Metropolis to marry five of his favorite Foxx tracks, X - Ray Vision, Sailing On Sunshine, Friendly Fire, Crash and Burn, a sample from Shifting City and From Trash.The video was presented once again at the closing party of the exhibition where Roger also DJed.
In July 2010 Roger directed, edited and starred in Electricity and Ghosts, a short-film that was shown at the Apple Store in Regent Street as a backdrop for Spacedog's performance as part of the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival - an internationally recognized platform for the short film genre. The film also starred Dennis Da Silva and Sarah Angliss. Since then the film has also been screened at Doyle Devere's Gallery and Kinetica 2011.
Spy made a cameo appearance in Ben Charles Edwards new feature film, Animal Charm.
Graphic Design and Art
Having had already extensive experience in designing graphics for music and fashion events, Roger presented two digital pieces at his second exhibition Mirrorball, April 2010, in Covent Garden at the Kirk Originals flagship store. In November of the same year Roger presented another two new prints of the same project, Architect, at Doyle Devere's gallery in Notting Hill.
Visuals and Promos
Soon after arriving in London Roger met club legend Rosemary Turner who offered his first gig as a visual artist, producing the visuals for Egg's Fashion Week party, Wearable Art For Durable People. Since then Spy created visuals and promotional trailers for Heaven, Embassy, Beach Blanket Babylon, Raffles and Steve Strange's THE FACE.
In February 2008 Roger worked closely with Ute Lemper, filming the rehearsals for her London dates of Angels Over Berlin Tour. He also produced promotion videos for her website and myspace.
DJ
Patrick Lilley gave Spy his first DJ gig in London at Work!, Heaven. Four days later entrepreneur and businessman Robert Newmark invited Roger to be the resident DJ at his luxurious brand venue in Notting Hill, Beach Blanket Babylon.
He has entertained a variety of crowds including the likes of Prince Harry, Nancy Dell'Olio, Lorna Luft, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and The Pussycat Dolls. It was also at Beach Blanket Babylon that Roger played at Woody Allen's wrap party for his 2010 film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.
Roger has DJ alongside Boy George, Mark Moore, Larry Tee, Reuben Wu, Dennis Da Silva, Erol Sabadosh, Jodie Harsh, Kris Di Angelis.
Also plays regularly at Dollar, Beach Blanket Babylon in Shoreditch and has had a residency Raffles.
Style
Roger is known for his immediate recognizable look, exotic style and masculinity. Although androgynous, Spy is inspired by bold artists such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie Sioux and Golden Age of Hollywood greats such as Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. Blending them together into a futuristic "alien" with an endless variety of hair colours.
Dr. Norman Ralph Ross (born 27 February 1924), author of Memoirs of a Tail-Gunner, father of Robin Higgins, father-in-law of Col. William R. Higgins, and the recipient of over a dozen combat medals, most notably the Distinguished Flying Cross (twice).
Norman Ralph Ross was born as Norman Ralph Rosenberg on 27 February 1924 in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Michael and Shirley Rosenberg. Michael Rosenberg, who served during World War I in the 27th Aero Squadron (the “Balloon Busters”), died in 1934 as a result of diseases and injuries from the war that had left him a triple amputee. His widow Shirley moved to the Bronx, New York City, with Norman and his younger sister, Betty.
Norman Ross graduated from James Monroe High School in Bronx, NY, in June 1941 and joined the Navy in November 1942. After extensive training, he was assigned to a PB4Y (Liberator) squadron, VB-110, attached to Fleet Air Wing 7 out of Dunkeswell, England, serving in the same air wing as Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. until the latter’s death. As the flight crew’s radioman and belly turret gunner, he flew a total of 60 wartime combat missions, primarily over Europe. His missions included an aborted crash takeoff in a plane with full ordinance, and a fatal ditching in the English Channel, with a rescue by a British submarine. After June 1945, he was transferred to a PB4Y2 (Privateer) squadron in the Pacific Theater and served there until his discharge in November 1945.
Following the war, Ross spent 6 months in the Bronx Kingsbridge VA hospital with what was then known as "battle fatigue" and since as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). This condition continued to affect him throughout his life, yet he was able to overcome the disability and find great success in his education, career, and family life.
After his release from Kingsbridge, Ross changed his surname from Rosenberg, entered Columbia University, and in June 1947 married Thelma Silverman. He eventually received his B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in English Literature from Columbia, and he and Thelma raised four children.
He got his first teaching job as a high school English teacher in 1952, and two years later moved to Sea Cliff High School (Sea Cliff, NY), which evolved soon after into North Shore High School in Glen Head, NY. Ross eventually rose to be the Chairman of the English Department, a post from which he resigned so he could coach soccer and track. His soccer teams won many championships, including the 1976 Nassau County Championship. His track teams also were very successful, producing one of the greatest mile relay teams in the New York Metropolitan area. Ross’s other achievements included a position as Assistant Professor of English at C.W. Post College (Greenvale, NY), President of the Nassau County Soccer Coaches Association, and President of the Nassau County Referees Association - a rare double honor never attained before or since.
After his marriage ended in divorce in 1977, Ross retired to Florida in 1982 and married Rhoda Tessler a year later. Always a talented actor, while in Florida, he furthered his acting career by performing leading roles in various shows including HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Music Man, Show Boat, Fiddler on the Roof, The Pirates of Penzance, and My Fair Lady.
In the late 1980s, Ross's son-in-law, Col. William R. Higgins, was abducted and then murdered by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, where Higgins was stationed as part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces.
In addition to authoring his autobiography, Memoirs of A Tail Gunner, Ross also has published Shadows in the Sunset, a collection of his poetry; as well as five volumes of Pater Noster in Condoland, consisting of essays which first appeared as blogs detailing his life as an octogenarian in Florida. A number of his blogs went on to be published in south Floridian newspapers.
After requesting that the U.S. Navy review his wartime service record, it was discovered that the Navy had inadvertently failed to present Ross with a number of earned combat medals. In a 2003 public ceremony, excerpts of which were widely reported by the news media, the Southern Command presented Ross with nine additional Air Medals and two Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Norman Ross continues to live in Delray Beach, FL with his wife Rhoda. In addition to his four grown children, he also has four grandchildren.
Norman Ralph Ross was born as Norman Ralph Rosenberg on 27 February 1924 in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Michael and Shirley Rosenberg. Michael Rosenberg, who served during World War I in the 27th Aero Squadron (the “Balloon Busters”), died in 1934 as a result of diseases and injuries from the war that had left him a triple amputee. His widow Shirley moved to the Bronx, New York City, with Norman and his younger sister, Betty.
Norman Ross graduated from James Monroe High School in Bronx, NY, in June 1941 and joined the Navy in November 1942. After extensive training, he was assigned to a PB4Y (Liberator) squadron, VB-110, attached to Fleet Air Wing 7 out of Dunkeswell, England, serving in the same air wing as Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. until the latter’s death. As the flight crew’s radioman and belly turret gunner, he flew a total of 60 wartime combat missions, primarily over Europe. His missions included an aborted crash takeoff in a plane with full ordinance, and a fatal ditching in the English Channel, with a rescue by a British submarine. After June 1945, he was transferred to a PB4Y2 (Privateer) squadron in the Pacific Theater and served there until his discharge in November 1945.
Following the war, Ross spent 6 months in the Bronx Kingsbridge VA hospital with what was then known as "battle fatigue" and since as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). This condition continued to affect him throughout his life, yet he was able to overcome the disability and find great success in his education, career, and family life.
After his release from Kingsbridge, Ross changed his surname from Rosenberg, entered Columbia University, and in June 1947 married Thelma Silverman. He eventually received his B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in English Literature from Columbia, and he and Thelma raised four children.
He got his first teaching job as a high school English teacher in 1952, and two years later moved to Sea Cliff High School (Sea Cliff, NY), which evolved soon after into North Shore High School in Glen Head, NY. Ross eventually rose to be the Chairman of the English Department, a post from which he resigned so he could coach soccer and track. His soccer teams won many championships, including the 1976 Nassau County Championship. His track teams also were very successful, producing one of the greatest mile relay teams in the New York Metropolitan area. Ross’s other achievements included a position as Assistant Professor of English at C.W. Post College (Greenvale, NY), President of the Nassau County Soccer Coaches Association, and President of the Nassau County Referees Association - a rare double honor never attained before or since.
After his marriage ended in divorce in 1977, Ross retired to Florida in 1982 and married Rhoda Tessler a year later. Always a talented actor, while in Florida, he furthered his acting career by performing leading roles in various shows including HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Music Man, Show Boat, Fiddler on the Roof, The Pirates of Penzance, and My Fair Lady.
In the late 1980s, Ross's son-in-law, Col. William R. Higgins, was abducted and then murdered by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, where Higgins was stationed as part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces.
In addition to authoring his autobiography, Memoirs of A Tail Gunner, Ross also has published Shadows in the Sunset, a collection of his poetry; as well as five volumes of Pater Noster in Condoland, consisting of essays which first appeared as blogs detailing his life as an octogenarian in Florida. A number of his blogs went on to be published in south Floridian newspapers.
After requesting that the U.S. Navy review his wartime service record, it was discovered that the Navy had inadvertently failed to present Ross with a number of earned combat medals. In a 2003 public ceremony, excerpts of which were widely reported by the news media, the Southern Command presented Ross with nine additional Air Medals and two Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Norman Ross continues to live in Delray Beach, FL with his wife Rhoda. In addition to his four grown children, he also has four grandchildren.
Models Connect LTD (est.2005) is portfolio hosting company that allows male and female models, wannabe models, modelling agencies and casting directors to register through its website. The service is only available in the United Kingdom. According to its official website, over 61000 individuals are registered and has affiliations to at least 80 modelling agencies and casting directors, however, it is not verified by any independent sources. This innovation helps recruiting talents and exposes them to modeling companies for possible employment.
BizNut, an online service that determines web traffic, ranked Models Connect at 79,085 in the United Kingdom.
Such portfolio hosting company also play significant role in helping aspiring models from getting dodged by unscrupulous and fraudulent modelling and casting outfits.
Awards and achievements
* Listed in Trading Standards Approved Traders “Buy with confidence” listing
BizNut, an online service that determines web traffic, ranked Models Connect at 79,085 in the United Kingdom.
Such portfolio hosting company also play significant role in helping aspiring models from getting dodged by unscrupulous and fraudulent modelling and casting outfits.
Awards and achievements
* Listed in Trading Standards Approved Traders “Buy with confidence” listing
Justin Watts is an American college basketball player for the . He grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and attended Charles E. Jordan High School.
Early life
Watts was born in Durham, North Carolina on July 1, 1990 to Gregory and Linda Watts. He is the cousin of NFL cornerback Hank Poteat.
High School Career
Watts was a three-time all-conference selection, and the 2008 Pac-6 Conference Player of the Year at Charles E. Jordan High School. He averaged 24.4 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game as a senior.
College Career
After receiving scholarship offers from Stanford University, Rice University, East Carolina University, Fairfield University, and George Mason University, Watts committed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 20, 2008. Watts also received interest from Clemson University, The University of Georgia, The University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, and The University of Virginia.
Watts was a member of UNC's 2009 during his freshman season. He primarily played shooting guard.
Despite being undersized, Watts moved to the power forward position during his junior season due to UNC's lack of post depth.
Early life
Watts was born in Durham, North Carolina on July 1, 1990 to Gregory and Linda Watts. He is the cousin of NFL cornerback Hank Poteat.
High School Career
Watts was a three-time all-conference selection, and the 2008 Pac-6 Conference Player of the Year at Charles E. Jordan High School. He averaged 24.4 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game as a senior.
College Career
After receiving scholarship offers from Stanford University, Rice University, East Carolina University, Fairfield University, and George Mason University, Watts committed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 20, 2008. Watts also received interest from Clemson University, The University of Georgia, The University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, and The University of Virginia.
Watts was a member of UNC's 2009 during his freshman season. He primarily played shooting guard.
Despite being undersized, Watts moved to the power forward position during his junior season due to UNC's lack of post depth.