escrito por Joel Russell on HISPANIC BUSINESS Magazine
lunes, 31 de octubre de 2005
...Fortunately, international race car driver Milka Duno
has both charisma and skill at winning the checkered flag. A former
model with four master's degrees, the Venezuelan-born Ms. Duno scored a
marketing win in 2004 when she appeared in TV and magazine ads for the
launch of the new Pontiac G6.
It was Pontiac's largest Hispanic marketing campaign ever, according to
the company. And in July 2005, Pontiac announced she would appear in a
new campaign for the G6 coupe and Solstice models...
Venezuelan singer Irene Farrera plays the quatro, a four-string guitar.
She demonstrates maracas, a kind of round, and serenades, which she
notes is a major part of Venezuelan culture.
Venezuelan model and actress Patricia Velazquezwas appointed UNESCO “Artist for Peace” on 11 June 2003 by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO.
Patricia Velazquez was born in La Guajira, one of the poorest regions in Venezuela.
From a modest background, with schoolteacher parents, Patricia had
planned to work in the oil industry when, by chance she was spotted by
a model scout and launched into a modelling career...
Javier Téllez was born in Venezuela
in 1969. His parents were psychologists, and as a child he was familiar
with the environment of psychiatric hospitals. That environment is the
raw material for much of his work. Some of his early installations
recreated hospital settings, and he has used psychiatric patients as
performers in videos. In a striking piece titled ''Bedlam'' at P.S. 1
in 2000, visitors sat inside a large wooden birdhouse to watch an
employee-training film showing restraint techniques used at the Bethlem
Royal Hospital (once known as Bedlam) in London. The implication was
that confinement is an existential condition; everybody, in or out of
hospitals, is to some degree cuckoo...
