A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born:
October 17, 1993
As a Fine Arts graduate from the University of Tampa, Melanie is known for painting photo-realistic women with beautiful hues of the rainbow. Originally from Pennsylvania, art was always her happy place and form of self-expression. Her work has been shown in numerous galleries, art exhibits, and painted largely throughout the Tampa Bay region. Melanie has painted murals and logos for various clients. She has painted for Walt Disney World, Colorado brewing company, New Belgium Brewing, local chain restaurant, Acropolis, and the first ever gay club to open in St. Petersburg. One of her biggest accomplishments thus far was being chosen by the SHINE Mural festival committee to paint a 65 foot long mural of one of her vivid women for the city. Her work can be found all over Tampa Bay and she has easily become a popular local artist loved by the community. Melanie paints in vibrant colors and makes a statement with her powerful imagery. Her work is full of energy and striking to the eye. She is inspired by feminine beauty. She uses the human form to express feelings of love and happiness to make the viewer feel as colorful and alive as the painting itself.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.