2010
05.08

Illuminate Your Mind

Everything has it’s beauty, but not everyone sees it.  ~Confucius

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts” - Albert Eisnstein

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle” - Albert Einstein

“When the real music comes to me – “the music of the spheres, the music that surpasseth understanding”-that has nothing to do with me, ’cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium….Those moments are what I live for” -John Lennon

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle”-St. Francis de Assisi

“This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man” -William Shakespeare-Hamlet Act I

“Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”-William Shakespeare- Twelfth Night

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”-Mahatma Gandhi

“Where there is love, there is life”-Mahatma Gandhi

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able keep our mind strong and clear” - Buddha

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present” - Jan Glidewell

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens” - Abraham Lincoln

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happend, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now” - Author Unknown

“Sure God created man before woman.  But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece”  ~Author Unknown

“Ah, women.  They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent”  ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened” – Luke 11:9-1

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”  ~William Shakespeare

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend”  ~Aristotle

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart”  ~Elisabeth Foley

“In my friend, I find a second self”  ~Isabel Norton

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2010
05.08

Sapphire Studios

Sapphire studio began in 1998 as a recording studio, label & promotion business for the band Celestial Ecstacy.  The Studio had 4 different locations throughout Santa Fe & La Cieneguilla from 1998-2008. In the early years Sapphire Studio recorded acts such as: Celestial Ectsacy, Shanahan Wood, Rudy DeVargas, Adam Picrasso, & various R&b groups on analog machines like the tascam 8 track and a tascam reel to reel 4 track.  Later Sapphire Studio worked in conjunction with Bobchak sound labs. & Imagine Studios with engineers & artists James Bobchak & Ben Callan to work on two different C.E. albums. During those years the machines used were 8 track ADAT machines. In 2004 Sapphire Studio re-located & recorded the Virgin Album with Carlo Armendariz, David Vigil, Roland Garcia, Dino Padilla, Margaret Wrathmell, Amado Abeyta, & Johnny Joe Bobchak embracing the new recording programs mixcraft.  When Sapphire Studio moved to La Cieneguilla in 2005, the studio recorded acts: Sapphire,  DJ Seda C Seamless of Flownice, Shanahan Wood, Jonathan Tercero, Young Black, Ashlee Thomas, & Elisa Bourgett. In 2006 Sapphire Studio made its final move back to Santa Fe & recorded two albums, Feather & A lizard romancer within the next two years. In 2007 Carlo Armendariz started a photography studio carrying the name Sapphire Studio for 2 years. In 2010 the members of Sapphire who initiated Sapphire Studios are working on a new album in the Sound Arts studio in San Francisco with engineer Adam Picrasso under the title Sapphire productions & Carlo Armendariz is working Freelance with Carlo Armendariz Studios & the new production Co. Spica Studios. Sapphire’s new album off the ground will be the last production affiliated with Sapphire studio.  In the decade span Sapphire Studio recorded over 20 artists, 7 albums, worked with many engineers, videographers, photographers, & producers

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2010
05.04

Equipment Resources

Music Equipment

http://www.ernieball.com/products/category-916-Nickel-Wound#

http://www.jimdunlop.com/index.php?page=products/pip&id=9&pmh=products/picks

http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=131&ParentId=254

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document/gibson/les_paul_deluxe?doc_id=100895

http://www.shure.com/americas/products/microphones/beta/sm86-vocal-microphone

http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=756

 

Camera Equipment

 

 http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product-Archive/Digital-SLR/25218/D70s.html

http://www.sekonic.com/products/Sekonic%20L-308S%20FLASHMATE.asp

http://www.smithvictor.com/products/detail.asp?prodid=75&id=12&pid=1&s1=Lighting+Kits&s2=Pro%2DQuartz+Kits+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++&nm=K70+KIT

 

 

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2010
05.04

Links

www.modelmayhem.com/carloarmendariz

www.facebook.com/people/carlo-armendariz/564354896

http://www.myspace.com/carloarmendariz

www.myspace.com/sapphire3

http://www.myspace.com/feather2819

http://www.myspace.com/celestialecstacy

http://www.digital-cameras-help.com/famous-photographer/index.php

http://www.auboudoir.com

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