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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) —  As artists go, Gear Duran is both unconventional and remarkable. Combining state of the art technology, like digital illustrators and 3-D computer imaging, with more primitive tools like spray cans, he makes still images and ideas come alive. “So I kind of took that video game, comic book style into the spray paint arena, where I just kind of naturally started doing stuff more character-based,” said Duran. Much of his work until now, could probably be characterized as avant-garde, even eclectic. His latest love however, The Vegas Golden Knights. “Actually, hockey was one of those sports I genuinely liked growing up,” said Duran. “Like no one believed that they (Knights) would make it this far. I mean how long did it take the Capitols to get here? Like 44 years to get here. We got here in how many days?" Without the help of a single paintbrush Gear “sprays” a determined James Neal and a steadfast Marc Andre Fleury, leaving no detail behi...

At the age of 13, Rebecca Black's music video, Friday, became a worldwide viral hit for all the wrong reasons. Now, aged 20, she has told BBC Radio 5 live that it's taken her years to get over the trolling she received. Friday was released on YouTube back in 2011. It was dubbed "the world's worst song" by critics, and quickly became one of the site's most disliked videos, attracting thousands of comments from internet trolls. Rebecca said it hasn't been easy to shake off the abuse: "I saw everything. When I started reading those negative comments I just couldn't stop - I just kept going and going and going. "People commenting don't think a real person has to read this and move on with their day." Rebecca revealed she hadn't actually seen the video before it went live: "I saw it the minute it went on YouTube like everyone else. "We thought, 'it's not like this is going to go anywhere'. ...

UPDATE: After repeatedly pushing back the start time, Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s Kids See Ghosts listening party has been delayed. The WAV app’s stream for the event has gone taken down and currently shows an error message. A collection of journalists and insiders have been bused to an undisclosed location in the Los Angeles area, with footage surfacing on social media. It looks like the WAV app is becoming the destination for Kanye West album rollouts. Much like last week’s release of ye , the G.O.O.D. Music founder and Kid Cudi will be streaming a listening party for their collaborative project Kids See Ghosts on the app. This event is being held in Los Angeles as opposed to Wyoming, which played host to the ye listening party. The disorganized nature of the proceedings in Wyoming led to its host venue, Diamond Ranch, instituting a no rappers policy in the aftermath. West and Cudi’s listening party was first announced by the latter’s manager, Den...

“I don’t necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker,” writer-director Ari Aster tells me hours before his debut feature Hereditary screens at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival. It’s a surprising observation: Hereditary premiered to acclaim at Sundance, immediately sparking talk of an Oscar nomination for actress Toni Collette, and critics preemptively hailed it as the scariest movie of 2018. (It arrives in theaters on June 8th.) The film is a slow-motion nightmare, recalling 1960s and ‘70s classics like Rosemary’s Baby and Don’t Look Now as it tracks the disintegration of a family after the death of its matriarch. It’s stylish and unnerving, the rare kind of film that burrows into your psyche and lingers there afterward. It is unquestionably a horror film. And it’s the polar opposite of the measured, 31-year-old director. Aster is quiet and thoughtful, carefully considering every answer behind long pauses and expre...

A New York medical examiner has ruled that Kate Spade's death was caused by suicide, two days after the fashion designer died in her Manhattan flat. Spade's body was discovered on Tuesday by a cleaner in her Park Avenue home. Federal health officials said on Thursday that US suicides had risen by 30% since 1999, and presents a "growing public health problem". Her family said that Spade would have liked if her death could help shed light on mental health issues. Mental illness 'doesn't discriminate' High school handbags and the New York City dream Kate Spade: A legacy of fashion in photos "One thing we feel is that any talk that they do that helps somebody else - Katy would have liked that," her 89-year-old father, Frank Brosnahan, told the Kansas City Star. "She was always giving and charitable. If that helped anybody avoid anything - fine, she'd be delighted." Mr Brosnahan added that the iconic designer had ...

Holding honest conversations around mental illness can be difficult and potentially triggering for some. There is always a sense of anxiety or fear that seems to surround opening up about mental illness for the first time. But in an eye-opening new interview,  David Harbour opened up about his own struggles  with bipolar disorder and the honesty he displayed is so reassuring. Harbour has been acting for awhile, with his first television appearance dating back to 1999. But, Harbour has gained increased fame for his role the Netflix series  Stranger Things  as Police Chief Jim Hopper. As a result of the role, according to  The Hollywood Reporter , Harbour received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2017 and a Golden Globe Award in 2018. This year, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Harbour has clearly become one of  Stranger Things  many acclaimed actors...