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Guests learned about the latest products from blu, including the brand’s ever popular e-cigs. Passed hors d’oeuvres were provided by Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill, and the complimentary bar flowed with Avion Tequila, Tito’s Vodka, Belaire Champagne and Heineken beer. Daye Jack (Photo: Ryan Troy/World Red Eye) There were also performances from blu Brand Ambassador Daye Jack, DJ Sandman and DJ Irie, which took place on a balcony decked out in “scratchiti” Plexiglass. Rick Ross (Photo: Ryan Troy/World Red Eye) Miami hip-hop kingpin Rick Ross performed his signature anthem “Hustlin” as a tribute to his late friend and longtime manager, Black Bo. The Plymouth Miami Beach (Photo: Ryan Troy/World Red Eye) For more information, visit the mall’s website.Models Joy Corrigan and Sofia Resing, Maxim’s Finest winner Olivia Burns, artist Marco Santini and Matt Kessler of blu were among the lucky attendees. Höller’s Aventura Slide Tower is open to the public on Monday through Saturday from 10am-5pm, and Sunday from 12pm-5pm. When I ventured that the slide was the best thing about Miami besides the beaches, his face lit up. When I noted that I could see the slide surviving for centuries, through hurricanes and flooding, Höller seemed to find that a bit dramatic. The idea, not the execution, is where he thrives. He could tell me all about plant diseases and pests, but engineering was not his forte. In school, he noted, he studied plant pathology. “If I was able to do that, I would be very proud of myself,” he said. When I asked Höller if he had done the math for the engineering of the structure, which consists of 2 opposing chutes that bring passengers down to the ground in clockwise and counterclockwise directions, he laughed. "I trick them into singing a few months early," he told me.Ĭhloë Sevigny after a run. Beyond his obvious coolness, there is something really sweet and goofy about the artist, who professed to me that he keeps songbirds in his home in Stockholm to keep the darkness of winter at bay.
Chloë Sevigny was at the event because she is a close personal friend of Höller’s. The truth was that Höller looked even more awkward in the context than I felt - based in Stockholm, he has a serious, intellectual European look about him - and I so desperately wanted him to like me. I assured him that I could, and giggled nervously. “I like to bring my work outside of museums,” Carsten Höller shouted at me over Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” “Can you even hear me?” The vibe was something between a toddler's birthday party and an episode of My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The music that blasted from the loud speakers included all of the top pop hits from the last decade, and in the time I wasn’t talking to someone, I enjoyed sitting on a bench, and bopping my head along to the beat. It was certainly not like any I have attended, mostly because it was so much fun. There were roaming magicians performing card tricks, and flash dancers who performed with unfettered joy, and mimes soaking themselves in the Haas Brothers’ fountains. I can’t speak for them, because introductions did not foment conversations, but I assume that the event was like no other art opening they had ever been to. Like me, they were there to attend the event celebrating the unveiling of recently commissioned artworks, including Höller’s slide. On the day I visited the mall, the artwork had drawn some bona fide celebrities, including Chloë Sevigny, Karolína Kurková, and Harmony Korine, the director of Spring Breakers.