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Vitamin dee is serious about fun. Dee, as she is known amongst the musicians and DJ’s who frequent her imaginative landscape, is a photographer and graphic designer. Warm, playful and vividly spontaneous, Dee infuses her work with a deep curiosity of life’s mysterious extremes. Of Puerto Rican descent, Dee was raised in the dichotomous worlds of Manhattan’s Loisaida and Stapleton, Staten Island. These environs and her experience of living in two very different worlds form the foundation of her vision. Like a footloose street urchin, her sensibility is both childlike and darkly knowing, a truly unique perspective into the worlds she chooses to inhabit.
Her favorite haunts-nightclubs, various soirées and other nocturnal venues offer up some of her most treasured subjects. DJ’s immersed in deep spin, musicians and dancers entranced in groove, sexual revelers tapping out the fringes of psycho-physical rapture- all capturing the inherent ecstasy of the moment. Pure sensuality-color, texture, movement- is another source of excitement in Dee’s work. She relishes the perfection of imperfection in her various subjects.
A large collection of still photos commissioned by bands from the Indie, Rock, House and Hip Hop club scenes round out her portfolio. Most recently, she did the press kit photos for The Martinez Brothers (TMB). You will also see her work on the cover of Mr. V’s 12” single, “Jus Dance” which was released by Vega Records. Other clients include Om Records/Om:Hip-Hop, Cielo Club and Sole Channel Records.
Dee Lugo studied child psychology in college before going on to receive her degree in graphic design from Katherine Gibbs in New York. Her love of photography developed in high school, but it was during one photography class she took while studying design that she realized her potential. She currently resides in NYC and is the photo shoot producer for VEER, a stock photography company. Merging her keen visual sensibility with her love of people, Dee captures the essence of “how people make fun,” which she helps us see is an act of spirit and not mere frivolity.
-- Written by Alison Laird Craig
My Mantras for living
Happiness is permanent. It is always there. What comes and goes is unhappiness. If you identify with what comes and goes, you will be unhappy. If you identify with what is permanent and always there, you are happiness itself. - Unknown
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion” - Democritus
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."- Charles DuBois
The Concept of perfection is the most boring and soul-killing notion ever conceived within the dangerous doctrine of oblivion called Nirvana.
To tolerate minor flaws and imperfections, to treat these tenderly in one another, is one of the great Spiritual Lessons of Truth. - Linda Goodman - Astrologer
Three things that never return:
the past, the neglected opportunity,
and the spoken word.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. -Epictetus
"Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave." - sculptor Constantin Brancusi
"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
"You laugh because I am differnt, yet I laugh because you are all the same." - Unknown
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Kahlil Gibran
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -
Donald Kendall
"Please!!! If you are stuck in the "wheel" and you feel yourself getting nauseous, GET OFF!" - unknown
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” - Ancient Japanese Proverb
"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know." -- William Shakespeare
"The gods envy us.
They envy us because we are mortal. Because any moment could be our last, everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." -Movie: Troy (David Benioff - screenplay)
