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Marcelo Claure is President, Chairman & CEO of Brightstar, the world’s largest specialized wireless distributor and a leading global services company. Since its founding in 1997, Marcelo has grown Brightstar from a small Miami-based distributor into a global business, with $6.3 billion in net revenue for the year ended 2012. Claure, who was born in La Paz, Bolivia, started Brightstar by re-selling cell phones throughout Latin America. Forbes recognized the company as the 58th largest privately held company in the U.S. in 2012, and Brightstar has been ranked as the largest Hispanic-owned business five out of the last six years.

Claure celebrated his 43rd birthday last week with an 80s themed party at his home in Miami Beach. New York based 80s cover band Jessie’s Girl, featuring former American Idol standout Constantine Maroulis, provided the live entertainment. Oh, and Marc Anthony also stopped by.

And guess who was called in to produce the video of the event? Yeah, me. Enjoy…

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Macaulay Culkin, the childhood star of the über-successful “Home Alone” films, has a new gig. He’s been deejaying once a month at a “multi-media art cabaret” in New York City. You heard right.

OK, well, it’s not really deejaying because he doesn’t get behind any DJ equipment nor is there actually any DJ equipment to be found during his monthly party. What can be found, however, is Mr. Culkin (“Mack” to his friends) hanging out at the bar, his personal iPod plugged into the sound system and a whole lot of people dancing (and drinking) to assorted pop and indie rock music (with just the right amount of old-school hip-hop thrown in) from the 70s, 80’s and 90’s. Oh, and TV screens playing vintage WrestleMania matches. That.

Welcome to Macaulay Culkin’s iPod – a monthly event held at (le) poisson rouge in New York’s West Village. I was granted the opportunity to shoot the event as well as a rare on-camera interview with Mr. Culkin himself (and party co-creator Brett Tabisel) to discuss his faux “celebrity DJ gig” (the second Thursday of every month) at the popular art and music venue.

Here’s the video (make sure to watch it in HD). Enjoy…

Mack & me after the shoot…

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