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Check out Carrot Clothing….Radical designs, amazing graphic t’s…
Show some love to the new line…www.carrotclothing.net
To purchase general admission tickets in advance - click here
To purchase VIP Runway Tickets - email ambushdsm@gmail.com with the number in your party
DJ DIVERSE = Rocking the dance floor
F.A.D - Fashion Alliance of Des Moines - Website Launch Party
Benefit Raffle will profit the Animal Rescue League of Iowa
many more details still to come….
Judith Supine’s Dirt Mansion
via Wooster: Favorite Show Of 2008: Judith Supine’s “DIRT MANSION” at English Kills Gallery
If you’re in the New York area, we can’t recommend highly enough that you check out Judith Supine’s first New York solo exhibition, “Dirt Mansion” which opens tonight at the English Kills Gallery in Brooklyn.
We went to the preview reception last night and were absolutely blown away. It’s by far our favorite show this year.
Taking a page from Faile and Banksy, rather than stage the show at an established gallery, Judith has taken over a warehouse deep in the heart of Bushwick and transformed it into a full 360 immersive experience.
A mixture of large scale works and 3D sculpture, the show is a collection of what we think is Judith Supine’s best work to date.
More info can be found here.
WLTF via sexinart
WLTF - a new online photography magazine. Be sure to check out Issue #0. It’s dirty, gritty, sometimes funny, always engaging.
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Shepard Fairey, founder of Obey Giant and world-renowned stencil artist, talks to Crave about the inspiration behind his work and his motivation as an artist.
Check out Part 1 of a 4 part video series here.
Amazing stuff!
“Untitled Museum” thanks Art MoCo
Canadian-born and Barcelona-based, Michael Swaney creates surrealistic collages that are delicate works with much fine detail. Swaney’s scenes combine architectural forms as backdrops for figures that play out a narrative left to the viewer to decipher. There is recurring museum motif; the idea of artefacts is fairly strong in Swaney’s work and the mixture of elements in every composition is not dissimilar to an exhibition of the various components within every story.
Artist: Mike Swaney
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the location for the event is on the west-end of wicker park…
2606 w North Ave.
Bring a blank shirt and get a exclusive Paparazzi design screened for free or buy one for $5
please respect the spot.
there will be no ins and outs…
and the music will be winding down around 2am…
so get there early.
THEME -
Paparazzi Partay!
Bring your camera!!!
Those who don’t have a camera, pay extra at the door!
send pix to: pix@livewire.name
All photos to be posted!!!
hint: Western + Rockwell.
$5 for visitors
$10 if you don’t have a camera!
Important Note: There has been a change in the program… BANG! SALON - http://www.bangchicago.com/ has announced that they will not be able to coordinate the Fashion Show.
The DJ Lineup is the same:
Hugo Moya
Joe Vor Tech
Eric Lab Rat
Mr Bobby
+ host DJs (LIVEWIRE + DEMCHUK)
with Esc[ape] livepa performance
Live Screen Printing by: Screen Print My Life
VIDEO BY: Shudder, Inc.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 - Study of a Fallen Bird via Art MoCo
We can’t always keep up the pace, so we’re opting for (read: absolutely need) a quieter, more peaceful start to the year with A. Balasubramaniam’s Study of a Fallen Bird because we bet that’s how a lot of you probably feel right now. Follow this with Ann Hamilton’s Shell for maximum comfort and protection and Untitled (Bad Ideas) by Jeanne Silverthorne is for the particularly fragile, if not broken or shattered.
Titl Graffitis: BubbleGirls
LINK quote [Tilt is an internationally recognised traditional graffiti artist, originating from Toulouse in South France. A self declared "graffiti fetishist", he learned his trade in the streets and on trains as a youngster].
(via ponyXpress)
via Art MoCo
Jessica Craig-Martin’s photographs are large, glossy shots of the action at society dos, galas and benefits. Craig-Martin doesn’t feed us up the paparazzi standards of close-ups or designer frontals, preferring instead to zoom in on the accessories and details that sum up the whole story. The proverbial thousand words are more than adequately covered by the pug that wears a teacup, the footwear of realtors, the expectant pink satin roses or the remaining cocktail wiener. Biting commentary without saying a word.
Artist: Jessica Craig-Martin
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Really looking forward to this album, I caught a set by Mr Aoki about 3 weeks ago and I was dancing my ass off….
This album artwork is amazing too…I first saw the imagery on a poster and was in awe staring at all the details…Due to limitations of this blog I can’t increase the size of this image so make sure to go to his website to see all the details
STEVE AOKI ENCAPSULATES THE INDIE/ELECTRO MOVEMENT OF 2007 BY JOINING FORCES WITH THRIVE RECORDS & RELEASING HIS DEBUT MIX ALBUM FOR THE MASSES THIS JANUARY
PILLOWFACE & HIS AIRPLANE CHRONICLES
JAN 22nd 2008
Aoki & friends collaborate & contribute exclusive mix album out this fall (Thrive Records / Dim Mak).
Guest vocals by
Amanda Blank
Har Mar Superstar
Kid Sister
Pase Rock
Santogold
Spank Rock
Steve from Hot Hot Heat
Todd from The Faint
Uffie
Fanatic of foe, you cannot deny how instrumental Steve has been in helping define the emerging music and nightlife culture in the US today. By blurring the lines that once separated hoards of indie kids from the urban or electro fans, and divided the VIPS from the not so VIPS, what this man has created under the guise of a DJ/Party enthusiast is a lifestyle and media empire for youth today.
Dim Mak, his LA based record label has signed and released EPs & LPs for a fine feast of bands including Bloc Party, The Mystery Jets, Klaxons, The Rakes, Scanners, The Deadly Syndrome, Icarus Lines, Oh No! Oh My!, The Kills, Sean Na Na, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Whitey, Pony Up and Foreign Born to name but a few, helping acts to develop a strong and steady fan base with the MySpace hopping generation in America.
Weird Science is the name both Aoki and production partner Blake Miller from Moving Units work under; remixing tracks and reshaping them for the dance floor. Mixes you’ve likely heard would be those of The Teddybears, Peaches, The Rakes, Bloc Party, Young Love, Under The Influence of Giants and The Charlatans (UK). Some of the above you will hear on this compilation.
Dim Mak clothing is booming, with a merchandise line already making waves at key boutique stores and its ubiquitous Dino-print hoodie adorning fans and celebrities around the world… It’s clear that Steve is on to something big here in the industry. Most importantly, he “gets it” hence why so many are eager to work and collaborate on his many projects.
A cornerstone to Aoki’s success has been the ability to bridge the A-list young celebrity world with the indie hipster scene with effortless ease. For instance his now legendary Tuesday night at Cinespace in Hollywood are covered religiously by partner in crime The Cobrasnake and have hosted debut performances from Bloc Party, Lady Sovereign, She Wants Revenge, Wolfmother, Kaiser Chiefs, Editors, Spank Rock, The Bavery, Uffie and more.
Punks, freaks, indie snobs, fashionistas and black Amex-carrying NY/Hollywood “royalty” have all found homes at Aoki’s events and major publications such as GQ, Vanity Fair, People, Complex, The LA Times, LA Weekly, BPM, Paper, and Flaunt have already favorably reported on the scene and alcohol fueled debauchery that often goes hand in hand when the above are involved.
And what of the music? In a nutshell, Pillowface & His Airplane Chronicles is a mix album that captures the current wave of electro and Nu Rave sounds that in spirit and attitude have bridged the gap between punk and electro. It’s interesting to note that this emerging sound has not drawn its biggest fanfare from the traditional dance club audience; rather it’s a new wave of young, fashionable, indie-leaning music fans that are eating up these tunes. And if you’ve been to a night like Aoki’s Cinespace Tuesdays as of late, you know how energetic, exciting and debaucherous this scene is getting. The lack of punk attitude that has plagued electronic music over the last 15 years has now finally been injected, and it’s DJs like Steve Aoki who are leading the way.
Big players in this budding movement are represented on Pillowface…, from the heavily distorted disco of France’s recent heroes Justice, to the raved up Soulwax remix of the Klaxons, to the first ever US appearance of Does It Offend, Yeah?’s UK phenom (and appropriately titled), “We Are Rockstars.” Aoki contributes with the Weird Science remixes of Peaches and Bloc Party, and hidden gems from Goose and Yelle also make the cut. And just when you thought this was going to be just another mix CD, the vocals kick in. With help from his expensive rolodex of creative types whom he counts as amigos, Aoki was able to assemble an impressive list of guest vocals which are layered expertly over the mix. Todd Fink from The Faint, Steve Bays from Hot Hot Heat, Mickey Avalon, Kid Sister and a host of other uber-hip mic fiends all lend a hand to Pillowface…, making this album a true family affair. Just who says what, over what tracks and when? You’ll have to hear it to be privy to this unique collaboration, folks.
Pillowface & His Airplane Chronicles
Thrive Records / Dim Mak
JAN 22nd 2008
Tracklisting:
1. Refused - New Noise
2. Justice - Waters of Nazereth (Erol Alkan’s Durr Durrrrrr Re-Edit) w/ Pase Rock’s Guest Drop
3. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars w/ Spank Rock & Amanda Blank’s Guest Drop
4. Services - Element of Danger (MSTRKRFT Remix) w/ Har Mar Superstar’s Guest Drop
5. Goose - Bring It On w/ Todd Fink’s Guest Drop
6. Larry Tee & Princess Superstar - Licky (Work It Out) [Herve Goes Low Remix] w/Santogold Guest Drop
7. Green Velvet - Shake and Pop w/ Kid Sister’s Guest Drop
8. Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
9. The Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Re-Dub)
10. Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her (Weird Science Remix)
11. Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa w/ Steve Bays’ Guest Drop
12. Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
13. Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To (Erol Alkan’s Glam Racket Remix)
14. KIM - Wet ‘N Wild w/ Mickey Avalon’s Guest Drop
15. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)
17. Scanners - Low Life (L.A. Riots Remix) w/ Uffie’s Guest Drop
YMI Jeans held a catwalk show in LA recently hosted by actress Brittany Snow (see below). (Source: Glam.com)
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| From the Bronx to Brooklyn, the second PERFORMA biennial inundates New York with four weeks of performance art events by more than 90 artists, touching down at 50-odd institutions, both established and emerging. Organized by performance art guru RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA 07 promises to restore a salient aspect of New York’s artistic legacy with a major retrospective of Allan Kaprow, various panel discussions, “late-night get-togethers” at select bars, PERFORMA TV streaming on the Internet, PERFORMA Radio, and even historical re-enactments by Eva and Franco Mattes in the virtual realm of Second Life.Ten commissioned works anchor the biennial, including an ambitious project by Italian provocateur Francesco Vezzoli, whose one-night, star-studded restaging of Luigi Pirandello’s 1917 play Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in the Guggenheim’s rotunda kicked off the festival. As with PERFORMA 05, the projected image is important to many artists’ work; Daria Martin builds her structuralist film Harpstrings and Lava from improvisational sessions with harpist Zeena Parkins and dancer Nina Fog, while Nathalie Djurberg’s new claymation film, performed with live accompaniment, depicts the grisly story of children fending off angry canines.
Dance also plays a central role in many of the commissioned works, including Kelly Nipper’s Floyd on the Floor — a hurricane-inspired work with a gigantic parachute — at the legendary Judson Church. In the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue, Mexican artist Carlos Amorales‘ 400-piece wooden platform, Spider Web Negative (stage), resonates with subsonic frequencies as a feral-costumed Galia Eibenschutz interacts with the sculpture and viewers. At the Hudson Theater, conceptual-dance pioneer-turned-heady filmmaker Yvonne Rainer draws inspiration for RoS Indexical from Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring. London-born filmmaker Isaac Julien enlists choreographer Russell Maliphant’s troupe to transform three of his multichannel epics — True North, Fantôme Afrique, and Small Boats — into a live performance at BAM. In a multisensory extravaganza at Performance Space 122, Brooklyn noise-rock band Japanther present a wry rock opera with a set designed by Dan Graham and frenetic dance by Robbinschilds. Sanford Biggers explores the complex legacy of early 20th-century minstrel shows in his multimedia, multi-performer work The Somethin’ Suite at the Box, and Adam Pendleton presents an experimental sermon, created with playwright Larry Kramer and poets Paolo Javier and Leslie Scalapino, for the music and spoken-word event The Revival at the Stephan Weiss Studio. PERFORMA 07 also hosts Beijing-based arts organization Long March Project, which sponsors its own range of events, including The Thunderstorm Is Slowly Approaching by artist Qiu Zhijie, featuring multimedia works and a dragon dance, a series of panels at Harlem’s Studio Museum, and conceptualist Xu Zhen’s performance In Just a Blink of an Eye at James Cohan Gallery. (HGM) PERFORMA continues in New York City through November 20. PERFORMA Radio broadcasts on WFMU 91.5, while PERFORMA TV streams live online for the duration of the biennial. |
This Wednesday, sept 26th, from 8-10 - I’ll be on the friends w/Kat radio show (99.1) - Kat and I will be playing music from our favorite Des Moines Artists as well as an exotic mix International Artists http://www.myspace.com/kfmg
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Wednesday from 8-10
THEN ON FRIDAY - I’m doing a runway show @ Luxx 2060 - my last runway show in Des Moines before I move to Chicago - hope you all can come out…
My last fashion show in Des Moines Iowa @ Luxx 2060 before I move to Chicago, Salon Fusion, Ambush, Arden B, Fabrik, Cache, Melrose Boutique. Live Body Paint, live dance performance by Kenan Hedfonez Peters http://www.myspace.com/isuhedfonez
Salon Fusion
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5465 Mills Civic Pkwy # 215 - NEW LOCATION ON HICKMAN IN CLIVE
West Des Moines, IA 50266
(515) 440-6749 -
Saturday, September 01, 2007
For-profits planning events for cause, exposure
By Sarah Bzdega
Staff Writer
Saturday, September 01, 2007
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| The SWINE festival attracted about 1,000 people for an afternoon of sampling wine and pork creations. Co-host Melinda Toyne, owner of In Any Event, said the event did not bring in a lot of money, but provided exposure for her work. Photo Submitted |
In the midst of a downtown revitalization and rapid suburban growth, Greater Des Moines is experiencing another phenomenon: an increase in events. Whereas Greater Des Moines residents used to find a few festivals a year sponsored by nonprofit organizations focused on bolstering community activity, calendars are now filled with multiple offerings.
Leading this trend are a number of for-profit businesses that are creating events as a way to add vibrancy to Greater Des Moines and often to support a charitable cause, in addition to generating exposure for their business and bringing in a small financial stream.
“I think we’ve been entertainment consumers for years, and a lot of us are building businesses around that experience in Des Moines,” said Kathryn Dickel, co-owner of Swaelu Media, who is working on a citywide festival for 2008. “It’s an evolution like everything else, an evolution of the entertainment industry.”
The effect is an increase in diverse cultural offerings, which enhances the quality of life and draws people to the area, said Greg Edwards, president and CEO of the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“What we’re doing is changing people’s attitudes and behaviors and patterns,” said Melinda Toyne, owner of In Any Event, who started this year’s SWINE festival. “It’s not once a month you have an event or festival to go to. It’s perhaps every weekend or every other weekend.”
Small firms, big events
In collaboration with Doug Bakker, a former colleague who now runs a vineyard and is director of the Iowa Wine Growers Association, Toyne introduced the SWINE festival this summer. The one-day event featuring Iowa wines and pork creations from Iowa chefs on Des Moines Area Community College’s Ankeny campus drew 1,000 participants and raised $1,000 for DMACC’s new viticulture and enology program.
“The goal in the first year was to break even and then make a donation back to DMACC, which we were able to do,” Toyne said. “I recognize that as being a success.”
Though the money Toyne pocketed from the event was not enough to make up for the amount of time she invested in it, she said it gave her valuable exposure. At least one person has contacted her about a potential project after attending the event.
“They enjoyed the experience,” she said, “and therefore saw that as a reflection on In Any Event’s work.”
Though running an event can become a profitable business venture over a few years, Toyne points out that the risk can sometimes be greater. For SWINE, she and Bakker provided most of the financial backing and had to handle details ranging from insurance policies to lighting and marketing.
“[Attendees] purchase a beverage for four dollars and think it’s pure profit,” she said. “That’s very much not the case. That’s why you don’t see more larger-scale events or only see them one time.”
Like Toyne, much of Nathan Hewitt’s work is for the cause, which often is to showcase fashion, art and other talent in Greater Des Moines.
Hewitt, who provides marketing and runway fashion show and event planning services through his business, Ambush, has worked on several events, including LoveStruck, featuring Des Moines’ most eligible singles, which drew 1,000 people and raised $16,000, $6,000 of which went to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa. He also produced Glamour Girl Charm School, an edgy runway fashion show, which attracted 400 people, and Big Hair Ball through the Des Moines Art Center’s Art Noir program, which last year drew 1,000 people. Though he is moving to Chicago in a few weeks, he also is involved with planning Catalyst State: Iowa Design Weekend, which will showcase design in fashion, architecture and graphics on Nov. 16 and 17.
Most of Hewitt’s work is pro bono or for a small profit, but he said, “It definitely generates awareness for my company and for my creative input.” Even if clients are not looking for an event planner, he often acts as a consultant. Through connections from doing these events, he also has found ways to cut costs and collaborate with other people.
Still, he said, “it takes a lot of passion and a lot of energy. I don’t know if it’s my personality or if it’s just what I’m doing, but I don’t find a lot of financial reward in it.”
Companies want in
Thanks to the exposure they receive, many of these event-planning operations have found opportunities to work with larger companies interested in hosting major events.
Hewitt relates this to a lecture he attended at Iowa State University, where the guest speakers from Harvard University talked about the “experience economy” and how the service industry has evolved into needing to create memorable events so that consumers remember and connect with a product or service.
“I think you’re going to see more and more events and festivals hopefully sponsored by bigger companies and brands as they come to see more and more value from producing these events,” he said.
Hewitt is in the process of planning an event for a friend, artist Lee Ann Conlan, which in addition to having a band that does video installations and instrumental rock/hip-hop, could also feature Conlan drawing a portrait of a nude model at the event to connect people to her work, which often features nude female figure drawings.
Edwards agrees that more companies are looking at hosting events as a way to connect consumers to their brand.
“If you look at the trends across corporate America, probably in the last decade, all of these companies are now putting their names on things, from the big football bowl games to locally, like the Principal Charity Classic and Hy-Vee Triathlon,” he said. “I think corporations want to get their name out in front of the public in a different way and it shows they’re giving back to the community.”
Over the past four years, Toyne has helped organize and evolve Oktoberfest into a major event for Full Court Press Co., owners of Hessen Haus and many other bars and restaurants downtown. What started as a party in the bar parking lot has now evolved into a weekend event that expands into Fourth Street. Last year, 12,000 people attended, up from 8,000 the year before.
Though the Full Court Press owners assumed all the expense and liability and endured a couple of years before they realized a financial gain from the event, Toyne said, “it shows they have a broader goal for downtown Des Moines. Yes, they want to bring unique restaurants and bars to the area, but they also want to extend that in a natural way to a few special marquee-type events.”
However, a few other clients Toyne has worked with have decided not to pursue an event after she took them through a cost analysis and what they needed to do to make it happen. “At a glance, it may seem like a short-term investment for immediate return on a large scale,” she said, “but that’s not always the case.”
Future festivities
To lessen the risks associated with hosting an event, many event planners have collaborated with several partners, along with developing relationships with restaurant owners, musicians and other small businesses. Many also rely on sponsorships to cover a large portion of the expense.
When Dickel and her business partner, Heather Hansen, began conceiving of the FAMA festival (acronym for food, art, music and awareness), they decided to hold it the same time as the World Food Prize Harvest Festival and the Des Moines Marathon in October, so that the events could combine marketing efforts and draw more people to each event.
“It’s a trifecta that’s going to bring in an international crowd and a lot of people who are into nutrition and health. It has a lot of implications for food and the whole political dynamic,” Dickel said, pointing to how Iowa will be in the spotlight during the presidential election campaign.
The event, which has been put on hold until 2008 to allow more time for planning, will involve more than 50 locations throughout Greater Des Moines, featuring aspects of international culture, from world cuisine to international art and music. With an overall focus on world hunger, the event will also strive to raise awareness about that issue.
“There really hasn’t been a festival geared toward driving traffic into the businesses,” Dickel said. “Usually it brings everyone to a location.”
In addition to working with venues, Swaelu Media also has been working with many small businesses to receive services, such as printing and advertising, in exchange for sponsorships. The event also gives Swaelu an opportunity to integrate its work with several industries, including entrepreneurs, nonprofits and entertainment groups, into one effort, while creating a new product that the company can build upon and eventually use to generate money.
With so many people planning events of this scale, Toyne worries that competition for drawing people to an event could heat up. “If you’re the sole event, that’s more the exception to the rule,” she said.
However, Edwards believes the diversity of events will encourage people to attend several in one day. And as the city continues to grow, he expects the number of events to grow with it.
“I think we’ll continue to see some moderate growth,” he said, “I think as other new things happen around Des Moines, especially as the Principal Riverwalk is completed, I think you’ll see more events happening down there. All of the booming suburb areas are going to continue to see event growth, too, because it helps keep residents happy and enhances the quality of life.”
Des Moines Business Record - Saturday, September 01, 2007