{"id":335,"date":"2015-07-31T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2016-02-22T18:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:09:25","slug":"front","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_1' class='avia-section main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-shadow avia-full-stretch av-parallax-section avia-bg-style-parallax   av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-100 container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch' ><div class='av-parallax' data-avia-parallax-ratio='0.3' ><div class='av-parallax-inner main_color  avia-full-stretch' style = 'background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url(http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Amazeballs-hz-1030x608.jpg);background-attachment: scroll; background-position: center center; ' ><\/div><\/div><div class='av-section-color-overlay-wrap'><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link '  aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-335'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  \" ><p><div style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1 meta-heading blockquote modern-quote   '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Amazing Barbershop<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:16px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><div style=\"padding-right: 100px;\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">All it takes to go into business is a comb and a razor blade. After that it\u2019s about relating to people, making them smile, and giving them a haircut that makes them feel so good about how they look that they will definitely be back next time. This makes barbering the most democratic of professions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In a country like Haiti, with staggering levels of unemployment, barbershops and <em>salons de coiffure<\/em> are everywhere; you don\u2019t need a fancy education or powerful backers to open one. It\u2019s an obvious business for the self-starter, the person who looks around at a landscape of sparse opportunities and says \u201cI\u2019ll make my own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For the same reason, there is a lot of competition. One of the ways barbershops and hair salons announce their presence in the hectic and colorful business landscape of urban Haiti is by decorating their establishments with large portraits of popular musicians, athletes or models copied from haircut catalogues and hair-care product packaging. Called <i>poste<\/i>, from the english word &#8220;poster,&#8221; these painted heads immediately recall the barbershop sign-boards that are widely used in Africa. In recent years, however, the Haitian paintings have been getting larger, there are more of them, and the technical skill of the painters has radically improved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Amazing Barbershop is a website, book project and exhibition concept that celebrates the thriving tradition of tonsorial art in Haiti.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It includes hundreds of images of beauty salon and barbershop art in both country and city and interviews with the artists responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   \" ><p><div style='height:90px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:16px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/examples\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/commissions\">Commissions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\">Contact<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inthefieldrecording.org\" target=\"_blank\">In The Field Recording<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"avia_codeblock_section  avia_code_block_0\"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_codeblock '  itemprop=\"text\" > [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid=\"0\"] <\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-blank.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}