Recently, our buddy Aaron with The Joneses let us delve into his back stock of items from seasons past. We’re stoked on finally scoring the gear we previously missed out on. I’ve been chatting with Aaron a lot lately about his line, our line, his plans for the future, and his Spring/Summer releases which will be debuting in Charlotte on April 17th at Niche.
We’ve also been slowly discussing a The Joneses x PROCESS collaboration… more details to come once we decide what we want to do!
As Georgios and I were leaving Philips Arena last Friday night, we received a phone call from one of our buddies who was reaching out to us on behalf of the one-and-only, Usher. As crazy as this sounds, he’d previously seen a few PROCESS pieces at Black Sheep in Charlotte last fall and wanted to pick up a few fitted caps and tees directly from us.
It is a huge compliment for someone with his star-power to show support for what we love doing. And it was important for us to deliver the order to his studio in person. He was super-nice as we chopped it up about “the PROCESS” and a few of his future endeavors. Plus, he gladly let me snap a pic of him in his new PROCESS x Estate LA Fitted too!
Since we’re on the subject… I know this is a re-posted song, but it’s one of my favs from the past year:
So this week I am going to introduce you to one of my favorite photographers of all time. His name is Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson is a photographer unlike most others in that his productions for his images are probably the most elaborate I have ever seen. His images are narratives in themselves which leave the viewer with numerous story possibilities. Its pretty amazing when you look at these images in person and can see all the details up close and tell all of the time and effort that is put into making a single image. I once saw a lighting diagram for his images and its incredible all the lights that are used to make a single image, but I guess that is what you get when you hire a Director of Photography to light your images for you. Either way I hope you enjoy the images and if you’re interested in hearing a better explanation of the process involved in the making of his images you can see an interesting interview here and there is a really awesome interactive article with production photos here.
Jack White has another new band, The Dead Weather. Although it’s a similar sound to what you’d expect from Mr. White, it’s also different (at least on this track) because he’s playing drums! Alison Mosshart of the Kills, is the lead singer; Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age plays guitar; and Jack Lawrence, from the Raconteurs, is the bassist. If you’ve ever listened to the Kills, you’ll be familiar with the presentation of Hang You From the Heavens. I guess it remains to be seen if this is just another side-project, or if this is the future of Jack White’s musical endeavors. I can’t wait to hear the album that officially comes out on June 9th (it’ll probably hit the blogosphere way before that).
Here’s another clip from our recent Charlotte trip. Yes this is very childish, but it always gets a laugh out of me. Thanks again to Hadi for bringing the camera! Don’t be the first to fall asleep!
A couple weeks ago the crew went to Charlotte for Laced Up and to visit our friends in the Queen City. We were lucky to have Hadi and his video camera capturing a lot of the hi jinx from that weekend. This was taken about 5 minutes after we did some Bear Fights with Myk from Danger Means Nothing escorting us through the city… hilarious! Shouts to Nikki Reid aka Party Wolf for having a good sense of humor afterward.
A while back, I mentioned this project as we had just completed designing the mark for Yaari.com’s rebrand. Since this project was deeply a social-networking site with lots of bulk, EC was challenged with making hierarchical decisions on content as well as coding the CSS for the newly relaunched Yaari.com. After handing over our comps, we’ve been anxious to see the results over the past few months. It’s great to see our work come to life. That’ll never get old.
There are a few new websites we’ve recently completed that are about to launch very soon. Stay tuned for updates!
“Yo Chief, is that a blue dishwashing sponge on your head?”
UNLESS you were born a biter! This is clearly a rip of our skulled-out Chief Nokahoma fitted and it’s soooo busted! Stick with the O.G. PROCESS Nokahoma Fitted unless you like aligning your personal brand with, crusty embroidery, ineffectual design, and other posers. Damn! What a disgrace.
A message to the designer: If you’re not from the A, don’t touch our icons. Jam out some of your weak-ass “noncepts” on the Boston leprechaun.
Who do you work for?
I’m the executive director and founder of Essential2life, a non-profit working with at-risk high school students with Atlanta Public Schools in the areas of leadership and visual-arts.
What are your Current Project(s)?
March 28th we are having our second annual Through Their Eyes event. This event provides a creative outlet for the untold stories of reality as seen through the eyes of Atlanta’s urban youth through photography and journalism.
Who would you love to work with?
Seth Godin / Kevin Carroll
If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep?
My NIKE running shoes.
What’s on your iPod right now?
Radiohead.
What’s your Favorite ATL food?
The Kit Kat Bar at One Midtown Kitchen. It’s the best dessert in the ATL.
What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Wherever my kids are!
What are your Pet Peeves?
People who want the government to fix their problems and individuals who don’t realize the incredible talent within our city with youth.
On March 28, 2009, the youth of our city will capture the images and stories very seldom heard or rarely ever seen in the 2nd Annual Through Their Eyes Art Gallery hosted at Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge.
This year 20 Atlanta Public School students will come together to document their life, schools and community. Using their creative abilities and interpretation, they will capture their realities through the lens of Holga and film cameras.
Epidemik Coalition has worked with some of these students through Essential2life’sPUSH program. They create some amazing work with what little they have. It will be worth your time to stop by Octane and check out their documentary photographs of their everyday life. Join us in supporting Atlanta’s next generation of creatives.
March 28, 2009
Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge
7:30pm - 9:00pm
After Party & DJ 9:00pm - Close
Although admission is free,
donations are gladly accepted.
From time to time, the crew at Standard will ask us to design flyers for their upcoming parties, events, and in-store appearances/performances. This week, we’re excited that the event involves hip-hop-blog-friendly rapper, Wale. He will be hanging out with us from 5 to 7pm before his ATL show later that evening. Dubbed, a “Listening Party”, the only thing I could imagine we’d be graced with hearing are tracks from his super-hyped and anticipated LP, Attention Deficit. The first single, Chillin’ featuring Lady Ga Ga, is poppy, nostalgic, and full of name-drops and product mentions. It’s definitely going to be a summer jam (whether you want it to be or not).
So before everyone out there starts to freak out over the name of this weeks photo friday take a second a listen to the story behind the images. My little dead dick is the photo essay from Patrick Tsai and Madi Ju. The story goes that the two meet over the internet and after a bit of correspondence via the interweb the two finally meet in person in Macau, China. From there they quit their jobs and both moved to China to pursue their love. In the process they took some amazing images of each other and their daily activities. The two unfortunatly broke up two years after getting together. The images here come mostly from the beginning of their relationship and are a very small portion of the whole body of work. To me its a great story and the images are beautiful and totally set the mood for the entire story. As far as the name goes, I have no idea where they got that from but the images are still awesome.
I’ve been working on this art project for the past few days. I can’t tell you much about it yet but there will be more images coming soon. Check back with the site to find out more.
Where are you from?
VA/GA & I currently live in Charlotte, NC
Who do you work for?
I work inhouse for a firm, freelance as IMEK Design & promote/curate events as Kitschworth.
What are your Current Project(s)?
Working on a couple websites including new site for Suite Sole (Charleston), couple art projects & doing a monthly event called SWARM with Niche & Black Sheep on the Camden block here in Charlotte.
Who would you love to work with?
Parra, Jeff Staple, Wes Anderson
If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep?
DC x Michael Leon - “STACKS” Artist Editions
What’s on your iPod right now?
Mostly hip-hop/electro/dub-step mixtapes & a little metal…
What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Love that Highland Bakery!
What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
El Bar, MJQ & in the Wrangler
What are your Pet Peeves?
liars, name droppers & fanatics
Shout outs?
Camden block (Crooks), ATL crew, Dr. Jones in Chicago & Dougie in NY
A couple weeks back, our friends from freshiam.net came by our studio with Dosa Kim to discuss the collaboration we did with him for the PROCESS line. It was a completely natural decision for us to reach out to one of our favorite ATL-based artists to contribute to our line. It’s definitely been a popular graphic among our customers. Make sure you snag yours in the PROCESS Online Boutique before they sell out.
Last Friday, we arrived in Charlotte about 3 hours before the Laced Up show at The Forum with our custom custom PROCESS Chukka boots in hand. Just enough time to drop them off with the show’s coordinators, grab a bite to eat, and get back to the show. Thanks a million to our Queen City friends for showing us around town, giving us the VIP treatment, and for the endless hospitality.
Shout outs: Radar for letting us crash at his pad and for the endless shenanigans (videos will surface on the internet), A.C., Camila with Blu Magazine, Myk with D.M.N., Shane, BLNGxBDGT, Bobby and Niche, Josh and Black Sheep, Ryan O’Malley for the sweet prints and the basement tour of the Davidson College archives, and everyone else we met or forgot to mention.
While I was surfing the internet this weekend I came across a pretty interesting new photography project called The 50 States Project. The states project, run by UK photographer and art photography curator Stuart Pilkington, is comprised of 50 photographers, one from every state and a series of assignments given to the photographers. They are given 2 months to work on the images in whatever way they see fit and then the results are posted on the website. The list of photographers working on the project is a pretty interesting group of people with some of my favorites like Jeremy and Claire Weiss and Brian Ulrich submitting images. Its a pretty good start and should be an awesome project to keep checking up on throughout the rest of the year. Here are some of my favorite images from the first project entitled people.
Part of the our crew will be heading up to Charlotte for tonight’s Laced Up sneaker event at The Forum. We were given this pair of Vans Chukka boots a few weeks back and the first thing we had to do was mask the soles with tape before we sprayed the canvas sneakers with the color we wanted. I don’t want to give away what our custom sneaker looks like, so I’ll leave you with a hint. It was inspired by the Bombera illustration Georgios made for the PROCESS line. If you’re in Charlotte, come out tonight for the big reveal. Everyone else, stay tuned because we’ll have photos from the show and more making-of shots very soon.
You may have seen this skate deck being passed around at the PROCESS launch Party at El Bar on Friday night. Our friend, Josh Tuminella created this custom skate deck as a gift to us. Josh and I had a conversation the other week at the IDSA portfolio review about this new process of designing skate decks that he was working on for his thesis. The more and more he told me about it, the more I became intrigued. So Josh decided to make a board for us in honor of the launch.
Well, you may look at it and say it’s just another laser cut skate deck that you see at art shows. But there is more that meets the eye. What’s so special about this deck is that when you grind on the board, it begins to reveal a hidden secret. Once you grind away the Process logo, it reveals the EC logo underneath.
We still haven’t grinded on the deck or attempted to reveal the EC logo because we love the deck the way it is and also because none of us have skated in years. If we do, you will be the first to know. Any experienced skaters want to help us out?
Josh, hit me up, I have some great ideas. Nokahoma skateboard?
Here are some selects from the PROCESS Launch Circuit events at El Bar that took place from 10pm to 3am last Friday. I’ve never seen so many people packed into the EL at once. It’s great to see the right people in our city have our back! THANK YOU ATL!
There are a ton of photos from the night that I wasn’t able to post. To see the full photoset, head over to John Ellis’ website here.
