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<h1><em>Bio</em></h1>
<p><em>Fusing his hip hop roots with lush and experimental electronic composition, CharlestheFirst has developed a danceable style steeped in dreaminess and pyschedelia. Born in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Charles has been heavily influenced by nature and the adventure that coincides with it.</em></p>

<h1>CHARLESTHEFIRST TELLS A STORY THROUGH ATMOSPHERIC BASS ALBUM, 'THE ASCENT'</h1>
<p><a href="https://edmidentity.com/2019/01/06/charlesthefirst-the-ascent-album-review/">EDM Identity</a> by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cristiaan_b/">Cristiaan Broderick</a> </p>

<p><strong>CharlestheFirst combines nature and music to create the journey that is his second full-length album, The Ascent!</strong></p>
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<p>Charles Elias Ingalls, more commonly known as left-field bass music producer <strong>CharlestheFirst</strong>, released his second full-length album, <strong><em><a href="https://edmidentity.com/2018/12/22/landing-volume-098/">The Ascent</a></em></strong> last week. Over the last several years, the Lake Tahoe-based producer has steadily cemented his position as a pioneer of modern bass music.</p>
<p>Much of CharlestheFirst’s discography is embellished with found sound and other foley that add natural texture and ambiance to his pieces. <em>The Ascent</em> is no exception. The manipulation of all this ear candy in conjunction with fluid basslines, ethereal pads, and soft plucks create a very compelling soundscape. The SoundCloud genre tag is “storytelling,” which is fitting; like its title implies, the album is a journey.</p>
<p><strong>While each track is capable of standing on its own, the album really shines when listened through in full.</strong></p>
<p>CharlestheFirst takes conventions of bass music and flips them on their heads, delivering bass-centric tracks that seldom compromise melodic interest. The album showcases creative integrity that a lot of bass music leaves to be desired.</p>
<p>The emphasis placed on nature and its inherent adventure is a salient characteristic of the album. It’s beautiful and humbling, unpredictable and mysterious.</p>
<p>The 11-track album runs just under 38 minutes, with no individual track that’s longer than five minutes. That being said, there is a lot of atmosphere and movement packed into these songs, so I’m going to walk through the album and some of its highlights.</p>

Amber Tang|Charlesthefirst|Enchanted Forest

<p><em>I first saw CharlesTheFirst live￼ at a festival in Humboldt County called <a href="https://instagram.com/enchantedforestgathering?utm_medium=copy_link">Enchanted Forest</a>. After that experience, I had a burning desire to listen to his music and see him perform, again, exquisite sets such as that one I saw.￼</em></p>
<p><em>Pictured in the above video you can watch an exotic dance performed during his set at Enchanted.</em></p>
<p><em>Below you can watch a video I took myself at a CharlesTheFirst show in November 2019 in Los Angeles.</em></p>

<p>I wanted to get a tattoo that symbolized my love for bass music. So I decided to get my favorite festival's emblem the Shambhala owl, representing the Shambhala Music Festival, morphed with the bass drop, and CharlesTheFirst's crown on top.￼￼ </p>
<p>Bass music has allowed me to find a flow to life in so many different ways, from writing code, to dancing, to just pondering life itself.￼ It brings an energy that no other music can manifest. The best aspect to underground electronic bass music such as CharlesTheFirst is the experimental and rather abstract sounds expressed. In my humble opinion, there's no other genre with the same amount of freedom to explore sounds.</p>

CharlesTheFirst - A Young Pioneer of Experimental Bass Music — @West_Flow's mag on Magma

Cameroon — @arsel's mag on Magma

Filmmaking

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<p>When it comes to frames in cinematography, we tend to collect still moments from a moving picture. The moments that are collected are moments we present to the audience to bring interest in the story. Somewhere within that moment between the actor and the camera, a strong emotion was captured. </p>

<p>Environment </p>
<p>Frames don’t always include a person but indeed the environment. Set design is considered the reflection of the story and a character personality. Whenever a cinematographer capture the look in the environment, it is shared to also bring out interest in the story. </p>

Evolving in art.  — @jasmyne's mag on Magma

Finance

<h1><strong>Let’s Get Started</strong></h1>
<p>Metamask is mostly used as a chrome extension, and is excepted by most crypto platforms. Here’s how to get your free wallet started￼￼.</p>

<p>1. Start by clicking <a href="https://metamask.io">metamask.io</a> ￼</p>
<p>2. Click on the upper right hand corner labeled download.￼</p>

<h1><strong>Choose Your Browser</strong></h1>

<p>3. Choose the type of extension you want to install it on chrome for your computer, Android or iOS for your phone.￼￼</p>

<p>4. You can also add it to Fire Fox, Brave and Edge.￼</p>

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  <h1><strong>Time To Install</strong></h1>
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<p>5. Click install.</p>
<p>6. A new browser will open up to the chrome Web store.￼</p>
<p>7. Click the “Add to Chrome” and accept any drop downs that come from your web browser.</p>
<p>8. You will then be taken to your Metamask page.￼￼￼</p>

<h1><strong>Create Your Account</strong></h1>

<p>1. Click on the Metamask icon in the upper right corner to open the extension.￼</p>

<p>2. You will be asked to create a new password. Create a strong password and click create. (Make sure you write it down).</p>
<p>3. Proceed by clicking next, then accept terms of use.￼￼</p>

<h1><strong>Reveal Your Secret Phase</strong></h1>
<h1>(AND SAVE IT!!)</h1>

<p>4. Click to reveal secret words. You will see a R2 word seed phrase.</p>
<p><strong><em>(Save this secret phrase and keep it on a safe location!)</em></strong></p>

<p>5. Verify your secret phrase by selecting the previously generated phrase. When done, click confirm.</p>
<p>6. Congratulations! You have successfully created your Metamask account. A new Ethereum wallet address was automatically generated for you!￼￼</p>

New to the NFT world and don’t know where to start? The first step is creating a digital wallet! Here is your how-to-guide on getting started with a Metamask Wallet! — @GlobalLeaders's mag on Magma

Business

<p>We would like to introduce you to our CEO and Mastermind Lee Richter! Lee is an award-winning business innovator and visionary. Lee is the CEO of multiple companies and a mentor to Superheroes. She believes in the power of connection and is a powerhouse female entrepreneur and educator. Lee is a pioneer in the Crypto and NFT world and she is ready to take it by storm! </p>

<h1>Ian Abugayda </h1>
<p>After years of working directly with the CEO of the Global Leaders Collective, Ian grew into the blockchain world and crypto space by adding value and creativity to multiple brands. </p>
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<p>He dedicates his time as the Digital Creative Director for GLC helping to create and oversee NFT and marketing initiatives. </p>
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<p>Ian sees the blockchain as an industry disruptor changing the business and financial landscape as we know it. </p>
<p>He believes NFTs are a way of the future. </p>
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<p>He now spends most of his time focused on the crypto world, training for his upcoming athletic events, or playing with his new puppy.</p>

<p>Vanessa Probert is a Team Leader for Global Leaders Collective and the Social Media Manager as well as Assistant for Lee Richter. </p>
<p>She is pursuing an Associate’s Degree in Creative Media and is also learning everything she can about the Crypto and NFT world. </p>
<p>Vanessa moved to Maui, Hi from California in December of 2020 and started her business The Britt Project in 2021 in memory of her sister who passed away in 2019. Her hobbies include dancing, hiking, spending time at the beach and being a mom to her 2 boys.</p>

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  <h1>Michelle Berkley</h1>
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<p>Michelle Berkley is the Finance Administrator for all of Lee’s brands. She keeps the dollars (and coins) in order.</p>
<p>Michelle’s Top 3 Personal Values:</p>
<p>Trust, Be yourself, Fun</p>
<p>Fun facts about Michelle:</p>
<p>She went to elementary school with the grandson of the creator of Winnie the Pooh, Her family was personally invited by a member of President Obama’s team to meet him at a private meet and greet at SFO, and she is a self-proclaimed foodie. Michelle’s Hobbies include camping and gardening.</p>

<p>Riyel Manero is the Title Operations and Tech support for the Kobe Forever NFT campaign. With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, he specializes in everything Tech related and is an avid follower of Cryptocurreny and NFT.</p>

<h1>Benjamin Grauer</h1>
<p>Benjamin Grauer is the Mastermind and CEO behind Whonose Collective. The NFT Arts Company has rapidly risen to being an authority in the space, through visionary ideas implementations, and a masterful appraisal of the synergies that can be created between the existing technologies in the blockchain universe, and the Arts world.</p>
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<p>After 6 years in London as a Graduate Audio Producer, Label Art Director and Event Manager, the NFT space is the new promised land for the French Nomad Global Leader, and we’re honoured to have him as our Lead Creative and Strategist behind the Kobe Forever NFT Campaign.</p>
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<p>www.whonosenft.com</p>

<p>Robert Baëk, also known as B. Creative is a visual strategist, original content creator, entertainment marketer, and social media strategist. Robert has led multiple teams in winning highly sought after awards across all design, branding, manufacturing new technology and marketing categories over multiple platforms. His clients have included industry transformers like: RCA, Redbull, Apple, Armada Music, Ole Henriksen, Old Navy, Paramount, Faircraft, Sephora, Sony Pictures, and LyricHouse. Robert’s artistic passion ignites when creating, designing and branding movie posters, campaigns, music videos, feature films and monumental projects, and most recently, NFTs. </p>
<p>“I’m so excited to see what’s to come with all the emerging NFT platforms for creatives -by creatives. It’s truly a moment in time we get to experience true community building and inner self development before our eyes. With the surge in NFT communities, we’re witnessing the birth of a new creative renaissance era right before our eyes (and you can “b” part of it too). We are experiencing an epic “shift” in all major industries to help create a better place for all to thrive and finally “live” versus just mostly surviving.” </p>

Introducing the Global Leaders Collective team! Global Leaders Collective is an innovative NFT project launch company collaborating with artists, celebrities and companies to design and create your NFT drops! Our current NFT project is Kobe Forever NFT, stay tuned for more details! — @GlobalLeaders's mag on Magma

Photography

Entertainment

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<h2><strong>About The Artist</strong></h2>
<p>As an emerging film photographer with a spark for ingenuity, Mike Gray enthralls the viewer with his cinematic stills, close up portraiture, and staged scenes. Although Gray recently began to focus more intently on photography, with the guidance of mentor Tyler Shields, he embarked on an exploration into the creative/artistic realm a decade prior. </p>
<p>As a young child, it was clear that Gray’s artistic aptitude necessitated further cultivation. Growing up in both Dallas and Houston, Texas, his time in the South facilitated a courageous mindset that has motivated Gray to foster the poignant art he makes today. As was his dream since high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Gray has made a name for himself acting in theatrical productions, film, tv and commercials. Alongside, he also dabbled in directing and editing. Self driven and determined, Mike Gray has solidified himself as a multifaceted creator.</p>
<p>With his preferred film camera, PENTAX 67, Gray captures his subjects with vivid intimacy.</p>
<p>He is best known for elevating people of color by drawing on historic events of the past to inspire his concepts. “The overall mission is to highlight my people and put them in positions they normally wouldn't be put in years ago.” In this vein, Gray molds his own narrative in each photo he takes, warping the past to weave a better future. His documentary work from the LA Riots in 2020, along with his recreations of historical moments (the Kennedys and Ruby Bridges) elevate ordinary people to compelling figures of power. Gray’s images, layered with shock value and meaning, enable him to comment on the political and social systems of our current and past generations. </p>
<p>Although Gray constructs images of his own blueprint, he is far from wedded to a singular artistic style. Although some of his work is staged, he allows his instincts to inform his creative side. Spontaneity — on the other hand —is a pivotal aspect of Gray's documentary artistry. Gray adheres to the constant forward-moving cycle of creativity, emphatically claiming, “progression is pivotal.” His work, while distinguishable in its deliberate thematic motives, is simple in its tangible rawness. With Gray, art is not sought synthetically, but veiled right before our eyes. Gray’s photography allows the viewer to step into an alternate reality, one seen through a learned lens.</p>
<p>Mike Gray is an artist to look out for. Charismatic charm exudes from his person, and his humble stance only further portrays his authentic approach. With so much achieved from the first year of his photography career, greatness awaits young Gray.</p>

<h1><strong>BLACK UTOPIA </strong></h1>
<h2>“The reasoning behind naming the series Black Utopia, is the perfection of the world I create for each image. My goal as an artist was to put African American people in positions you normally wouldn’t see them in during the respected time period. Beauty, Happiness, Vulnerability, and Freedom are four stand out words to describe the feeling of Black Utopia. I’ve never been a fan of how my people are portrayed publicly, which is why I plan to push the envelope &amp; continue to create for change. This is the world I envision for black people.” -Mike Gray</h2>
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<h2>Only 12 editions in each size will ever be made. All prints are chromogenic prints on museum quality paper. </h2>
<h2>Contact jonathan@heitgallery.com for inquiries.</h2>

<h1>This is only the beginning for Mike Gray, so make sure you stay tapped in.</h1>
<p>For any inquiries email jonathan@heitgallery.com</p>
<p>Make sure to follow along with <a href="https://instagram.com/heitgallery?utm_medium=copy_link">Heit Gallery’s instagram</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/mikegrayfilm?utm_medium=copy_link">Mike Gray’s instagram </a></p>
<p>In partnership with <a href="https://www.508kingsroad.com/exhibitions/33-black-utopia/overview/">508 Gallery</a> we have created an <a href="https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/6356920/black-utopia">3D virtual gallery experience</a> for you to view Gray’s work.</p>
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Heit Gallery Presents: “Black Utopia” a fine art series by Mike Gray. All works available for purchase.  — @Heitgallery's mag on Magma

Mental Health

Health

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  <h1>Today's idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests. </h1>
For healing is the opposite of all the world's ideas which dwell on sickness and on separate states. Sickness is a retreat from others and a shutting off of joining. It becomes a door that closes on a separate self and keeps it isolated and alone.
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<p>Sickness is isolation. For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make the separation real and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh which it can not surmount. The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them.</p>
<p>It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again and to accept his Self with all its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered and without the unity that gives it life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal oneness of God's Son.</p>

<h1>Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. </h1>
<p>But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never really happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real.</p>
<p>Healing might thus be called a counter-dream which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.</p>
<p>Yet think not healing is unworthy of your function here. For anti-Christ becomes more powerful than Christ to those who dream the world is real. The body seems to be more solid and more stable than the mind. And love becomes a dream, while fear remains the one reality that can be seen and justified and fully understood.</p>

<h1>Just as forgiveness shines away all sin and the real world will occupy the place of what you made, so healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth. </h1>
<p>When sickness has been seen to disappear in spite of all the laws that hold it cannot but be real, then questions have been answered. And the laws can be no longer cherished nor obeyed.</p>
<p>Healing is freedom. For it demonstrates that dreams will not prevail against the truth. Healing is shared. And by this attribute, it proves that laws unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable are more potent than their sickly opposites. Healing is strength. For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome. And minds which were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.</p>
<p>Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours, how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death.</p>

<h1>His life becomes your own as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. </h1>
<p>And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you or who cross your mind or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift which you receive when you are healed.</p>
<p>Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposed to God does not exist. And who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.</p>
<p>Would you not offer shelter to God's Will? You but invite your Self to be at home, and can this invitation be refused? Ask the inevitable to occur, and you will never fail. The other choice is but to ask what cannot be to be, and this cannot succeed. Today we ask that only truth will occupy our minds, that thoughts of healing will this day go forth from what is healed to what must yet be healed, aware that they will both occur as one.</p>

<h1>We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds be healed that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. </h1>
<p>Is not a minute of the hour worth the giving to receive a gift like this? Is not a little time a small expense to offer for the gift of everything?</p>
<p>Yet must we be prepared for such a gift. And so we will begin the day with this and give ten minutes to these thoughts with which we will conclude today at night as well:</p>
<p>When I am healed, I am not healed alone.And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son, Who is my only Self.</p>

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  <h1>Let healing be through you this very day. </h1>
And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you receive, to hold but what you give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. Now we come together to make well all that was sick and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our function with this thought:
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<p>When I am healed, I am not healed alone.And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them as they are healed with me.</p>

A read about the process of true Healing - by A Course In Miracles — @West_Flow's mag on Magma

@Mj's mag on Magma

Fashion

Lifestyle

Paolo Sebastian

<h2><strong>Paolo Sebastian Couture SPRING 2021 Collection: PERSEPHONE</strong></h2>

<p><strong>DRAWING VISION FROM THE DUALITY OF SEASONS, THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVE AND THE BEAUTY OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY, PAOLO SEBASTIAN PRESENTS ITS 2021 SPRING/SUMMER COLLECTION: PERSEPHONE.</strong></p>

Take a look at the Paolo Sebastian Couture Spring 2021 Collection: PERSEPHONE — @FashionWeekNYC's mag on Magma

Karekare Beach

<h1><em>'Pterodactyl' </em></h1>
<p><em>This piece was filmed at a really special place, on the west coast of New Zealand called Karekare Beach in the Waitakere ranges. It's one of those magical places with an immensely powerful energy that channels down the windswept valley from the hills to the sea through sandunes and rocky outcrops to meet a churning ocean that has pounded these shores since time immemorial. </em></p>
<p><em>The landscape is rugged and raw and you feel like you've stepped back into prehistoric times where Pterodactyls once roamed the skies.As a young man Karekare was my escape from the city and the pressures of becoming an adult. We surfed there, we spent nights amongst the sand dunes discovering ourselves. The salt and sea air would always send me back to the world refreshed and empowered, reconnected with a vital perspective of my place on this strange rock we call home.</em></p>

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  <h1><em>Location</em></h1>
<em>Karekare is also well known for the opening scene to an incredible film called The Piano by Jane Campion which won a young Anna Paquin an Oscar at 11 years old. Set mid 19tt century the film sees the girl and her mother dumped on the beach from a ship with nothing more than their trunk of belongings and a huge Piano to begin their life in the 'new world'. That opening scene and many elements of that film truly capture that raw nature of the New Zealand west coast and native bush.</em>
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THE PIANO - Official 25th Anniversary Trailer - Directed by Jane Campion

<p>I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for about 6 years from 1999 and after moving back to New Zealand I often missed living amongst the history of old streets and the stories that came with them (there's some great stories if your into ghosts like me!). </p>
<p>But I then realized that history in New Zealand is also in the land itself… the 'New World' is in fact the 'Untouched World' and the stories are written in the landscape. With some imagination and research you can read between the lines and the ghosts of the past can be seen!</p>

<h1><em>Capture &amp; Edits</em></h1>
<p><em>‘Pterodactyl’ was originally shot a few years ago during a photowalk I hosted for a whole bunch of Auckland photographers. I used to co-ordinate and host official Instagram 'World Wide Insta Meets' (WWIM) after the Instagram team featured my cinemagraphs and interviewed me for their blog back in 2016. </em></p>
<p><em>The original shot for 'Pterodactyl' actually shows a bunch of photographers sitting on top of the hill but coming into the NFT space has liberated me to bring both edits and conceptual elements into my work that I hadn't done before and want to further pursue.</em></p>

<p>Inspired by the prehistoric raw energy of Karekare I edited in a subtle figure of a Pterodactyl perched on the hill along with an old stripped down tree (taken from one of my still photos - which ironically in real life actually sits half way up an Auckland volcano called One Tree Hill). For me the tree suited the scene for a few reasons but mainly because I love the solitary presence of a tree that remains on a rocky outcrop… a survivor against the elements.</p>

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