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Danny Fila tore it up at Into Action today!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friend of IntoAction Miami based KraveArt known graffiti artist Danny Fila created a wall with word HOPE on the former garage door of the rehab center earlier today!!!Bravo ,Danny,we can not wait for you to come back and create more fun and brightness in the lives of our students!
HOPE-is the theme that gives energy to live,hope is that light at the end of the darkest tunnel,hope is what drives one to become willing to go with thye work and get into action!
Heres some info on Danny:

Bio

ARTIST STATEMENT
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I draw from visions seen with my minds eye. Art reflects, and shapes my reality. It exposes me, and makes my character more resolute. My feet are grounded, while my head is in the clouds. I present my work where it is accessible to all. Your honest feedback is important to me, but ultimately I don’t care what anyone thinks. One of my most valuable strengths is being aware of my weaknesses, and relentlessly improving upon them. My brush is guided by intuition.

BIOGRAPHY
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Daniel Fila (born 1980 in Miami Florida) quickly gained international notoriety with his street Art projects throughout the South Florida area under the pseudonym “Krave”. The chaos and disorder of the street environment in which Fila is accustomed to working in has played an integral part in his works. Fila has a B.F.A from Columbus Collage of Art and Design. His paintings consist of an illustrative surrealist quality that accomplishes a multilayered cohesive range.

EDUCATION
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2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Columbus College of Art and Design

EXHIBITIONS
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2012 “Arte Americas”, Miami Beach convention center / The Margulies Agency, Miami Beach, FL

2011 “Freedom in Post-Graffism”, Wynwood Exhibition Space/ The Margulies Agency, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Wynwood Art Fair”, Nw 6th ave and 24th st / The Margulies Collection, Wynwood Miami, FL

2010 “The Art of Basketball”, Public Works Department/NBA Cares, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Illustrated”, Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Graffolution”, Soap Box Gallery, New York, NY

2009 “Lead Poisoning”, Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Imaginary Friends”, Latzero Fine Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
“Recently Acquired”, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL

2008 “Usual Suspects”, Gen Art/Vanguard Art Fair, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Imagine Miami”, Miami-Dade Community College/ Wolfson Campus – Wynwood Miami, FL

2007 “Esthetic Experience”, Pop-up Space/Vamp Corp, Wynwood Miami, FL
“Dimensions 07”, InnoCentre, Hong Kong, China

2006 “1st and 21st Street”, 1st and 21st Studios, Wynwood Miami, FL

2004 “Roving Fridays”, Objex Art Space, Wynwood Miami, FL
“The Yummiest vol. 5”, Pop-up Space, Brickell Miami, FL

2003 “Roving Fridays”, Objex Art space, Wynwood Miami, FL
Street Artist Collaborative, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

2002 “Escape the Mental Prison”, Solo Exhibition/ Dragonfly Annex, Columbus, Ohio

2001 “High Street”, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

HONORS / GRANTS
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2011 Best Local Artist (Readers choice) – Sun Post / “Best of 2011”

2011 Grant / African Heritage Center Artist project, and residency – Miami-Dade Parks Department

2009 Grant for Miami-Dade environmental sculpture “Parks Project” – Florida Department of Cultural affairs

2008 Express Yourself – Artist Feature / Greater Miami Conventions and Visitors Bureau / Ad

2007 Best Local Mural – Miami New Times / Best of 2007

2007 Silver Addy Award – Packaging Design / Marca Hispanic “Illustrator”

2005 Artist Residency – Bakehouse Artist Complex / Juried

2004 Cultural Art Commission – City of Miami, Department of Arts and Entertainment / Juried

1998 Deans Scholarship – Columbus College of Art and Design

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Dan Callahan did a lecture in our rehab center.Heres his blog excerpt.

Twenty Four
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“Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born … living is what you do with it.” – Jim Allen

It was April 13, 1988 I was hammered at a bar in Cortland NY. I was in college my sixth full-time year in college with only an Associates degree to show for it. I had called my mother in desperation, I was surrounded by friends that thought I was having fun, but internally I was drowning and lost. I had called her several times over the past month, always drunk and in the middle of the night. But this time was different, she said, “Danny, don’t call me back tomorrow and tell me you are fine, I am coming to get you”.

The next day April 14, 1988, my parents showed up at the pizza shop I worked at part-time. I got in the car and they drove me to see my two children in Albany and then South back to Long Island to the Veterans Hospital where I went for detox and rehab.

It has been twenty-four years today. I must admit there have been some extremely difficult life situations since that time but nothing like the desperation and pain I felt. I felt alone and lost amongst many as an active drunk! Life has new meaning, I continue to learn about myself and grow. I live by the mantra my sponsor taught me, “Life is meant to be enjoyed and not to be endured”! I can tell you this today, LIFE IS GOOD!

Go, Go, Go…

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When do you become business savvy?

Or do you ever?Have not had an experience of running a treatment center before theres things that I must juggle with on the daily basis.For one:employees and contractors and their and mine expectations,pay and letting someone go,all this is really can get very cumbersome …and it will only if I let it get to me .But if I look at all  things as what is  in it  the best for my clients and my business and most cost-effective then i stay centered and calm and ready to move on.

In the end the ultimate goal in our rehab center is to get the clients to the other side.I am to start implementing the aftercare program with video-skyping and shutterfly alumni section in the site.

And I will get into the term other side later.

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Thoughts on recovery

My executive director Carol gave me another article by one of the ex-problem drinkers – philosophers about the will and addiction and cave mentality of the users. She is an awesome source of new ideas and waves in the world of recovery. Both of us have noticed one interesting thing about the author, she claims to have been sober for the past 24 years and in recovery for the past four. That brings me back to my thoughts about why I jumped into opening Into Action. Once you get detoxed and cleaned up its time to immediately start the work. Never wait for the right time because the right time is here and now. Have you ever thought twice about picking up your drug or drink? Off course this would not cross your mind. So the same attitude of complete abandonment to the new Project should be in your mind. It does not matter if you think you can or can not, it does not matter if you believe in God or not, it does not matter if someone will tell you to wait and sleep on it. It is all about your actions to make this your final destination to get better. Not just another rehab center, your final destination!

So how do we get there? What do we do to realize there is an existing problem we can not solve. How do we find out there is a solution? Yes that’s what all our work is about, to get the client to shift through series of breakthroughs. Being able to produce the necessary changes in thinking to create a new outlook, not only sobering. Our goal is to get the client to achieve the psychic transformation where they wont have to cling to drugs and alcohol. They wont have cravings and obsessions and have to avoid people, places and things; they can just be free. That is the vision of Into Action Treatment and we will get this done with our clients step by step!

 

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Binge drinking in USA.

38 Million American Adults are Binge Drinkers, CDC Says

By Join Together Staff | January 11, 2012 | 2 Comments | Filed in Alcohol
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say 38 million American adults are binge drinkers, and most of them are ages 18 to 34. In a new report, the CDC says that while binge drinking is more common among young adults, those age 65 and older who binge drink do so more often—an average of five to six times a month.

Binge drinking is defined as men who have five or more drinks in one sitting, and women who have four or more drinks at one time, HealthDay reports.

Binge drinking is responsible for more than half of the 80,000 alcohol-related deaths each year in the United States, and accounts for about three-fourths of the more than $200 billion in costs from alcohol abuse, according to the CDC.

“Binge drinking causes a wide range of health, social and economic problems and this report confirms the problem is really widespread,” CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. said in a news release. “We need to work together to implement proven measures to reduce binge drinking at national, state and community levels.”

The CDC found binge drinking is more common among people with household incomes of $75,000 or more. However, binge drinkers with household incomes of less than $25,000 have the largest number of drinks per sitting—an average of eight to nine drinks.

While this are very interesting facts I really wonder how accurate the statistics is since drinking affects all income categories…