photo credit: Sean McGlincy

Sopo Bicycle Cooperative is pleased to present their first ever Bicycle Frame Show, a group show of bicycle frames designed on and transformed by local artists and artist collectives. The show is at Green Certified Radial Cafe in Candler Park. Frames are on sale now for $200 each. Unsold and For-Auction-Only frames will be auctioned during the closing reception on Saturday, April 26, between 7 pm and 11 pm. The party features performances by Hot Toddy’s Flaming Cabaret, Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, and Lindsay Appel.

All proceeds benefit Sopo Bicycle Cooperative, your 501(c)3 nonprofit community bicycle repair shop, located in sunny East Atlanta.

It’s always great to participate in fresh, local art shows. We’ve been talking with Rachael Spiewak with Sopobikes.org; helping her brainstorm ideas for this show since last December. Not only did we get the opportunity to do a custom bike frame, but she asked us to design the show poster. Don’t miss out.

My partner in crime, Georgios Saliaris, had his Flow Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival poster selected to be published in CMYK magazine’s December issue!
Click the picture for a full sized view of the work!

Check out Portfolio Center’s blog to see the other winners.

Rehab brought the house down, enduring the intense heat of the Georgia Theatre on Saturday night in Athens. Standing in the back of the room under a fan, I was still sweating bullets. I can’t imagine what it was like on stage for the Rehab boys, or Jorge Menes who popped off some amazing shots of the band throughout the afternoon and evening.

See all the photos by Jorge Menes here or by clicking the picture above.

Thanks to Rehab and Demun Jones for giving us this opportunity to showcase our design work and for taking Jorge’s rock and roll career to the next level. Special thanks to Danny Boone for the mid-show shout out to “Big Larry Larr” before “Red Water”.

Whew! What a night! ATL Kicks was a total success for Octane, Coffee Kids, and Epidemik Coalition. The turnout of people for a Wednesday night party was huge. Everyone had a great time and we raised some cash for a good cause.

Thanks to Tony, Gavin, PF Flyers, DJ Bernard, 1*FIVE*0, Luxe, Jason Kelly, Mike Germon, Evereman, Mr. Fangs, Hense, Y.O.U., Standard, King Screen, Jorge Menes, Hadi, Ross Martin, Aaron Byrd, JF, and everyone else (the list goes on and on…) for contributing artwork, promoting, and donating their efforts to make this event memorable. These people are the reason Atlanta is comin’ up.

Congrats to the winners of the PF Flyers auction!

We’ve got photos from the show taken by Hadi and Stefan K right here:
Hadi’s Flickr
Stefan K’s Flickr

You can still score our limited edition “ATL Kicks” tee over at Octane for $10. What a deal.

The event last night was a total success. The Beep Beep Gallery crew did a great job hosting and promoting the show. Once again, Hadi rolled up and took some awesome photos. Check ‘em out by clicking on the following links:

EC x Beep Beep Gallery Photos
Beep Beep Gallery After-Party @ the Local

There were a lot of people interested in our tees. As a reminder, here are 2 ways you can score your EC gear:

1) at the Epidemik Coalition Online Store
2) at Standard in Atlanta

Thanks to Steve and the rest of the crew from Beep Beep Gallery for having us take part in their awesome event. To all our friends and families who came out to show their support…Thank You!

-LL

Epidemik Coalition tees will be on display at Beep Beep Gallery for one night only on Saturday, April 7th @ 8pm. Come out and let Hadi snap your mugshot at the show and you might score yourself some EC gear. Do it!

Other artists that will have stuff on display are BLINK, Black Black label, Charstarr, Sam Mitchell, Steven Westdahl, Natasha Pantelides, Mike Germon and Rebecca White, Leuwam Tesfai, Evereman, Heather McPherson, and Destin Jacobus.

Beep Beep Gallery
696 Charles Allen Dr Ne
Atlanta, GA 30308
driving directions

Saturday, April 7th
8pm until Midnight

-LL

What a great turnout! Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support. All our favorite Atlanta friends came out and we also met tons of great new people. Octane got majorly crunk. These Here are photos of the Epidemik Coalition @ Octane show opening shot by Hadi.

The powder blue/coffee Angelica tees in the following photos were a limited collaboration we did with Octane and they are still available at Octane until mid-March. Stop by and pick yours up before they run out.

Finally thanks to Tony and the Octane staff for being so welcoming and generous by letting our crowd invade their space and by picking up our hefty bar tab. Here’s to more amazing events like this in the future. As Jessica said, “We need to have more functions like that!”

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Drop Dead Gorgeous is stylish social gathering bringing together the best of Atlanta’s fashion, music, and nightlife community to benefit victims of global child trafficking.

The purpose of the event is to help raise awareness of sex trafficking and help you realize that we can each personally do something tangible to address this issue. One simple first step is to attend the event and take advantage of the chance to purchase a “beauty kit” - a package of hair and makeup products- that will be given directly to the girls who are recovering from their trafficking experience.

Epidemik Coalition has decided to donate a custom EC kit which will include a 1-off tee designed specifically for the event, limited edition buttons, and stickers. Whoever bids on our bundle will be getting really rare Epidemik Coalition schwag and will be donating to a great cause.

Come out to Eclipse di Sol tonight (December 6th) and enjoy free Peroni beer, free sangria, delicious food and door prizes. This fun evening will be guided by a few select hosts that will also help us learn about the plight of trafficking victims in Europe and Asia.

Even though it’s studio week for us Portfolio Center brats, we’re going to go out and show our support for real people doing really good things in our community.

No excuses…don’t be a self-centered, apathetic-lazy-ass-bitch…your school work can take a back seat for a couple of hours and everyone who has a job should be off of work by 9pm. Hadi is going to be there and I KNOW for a fact he’s a busy dude (just look at all the freaking photos he took for George on his Flickr account. Not to mention the shoot he’s going to do for me on Friday).
So you really have no excuse!

Eclipse di Sol
December 6th
9 to 11pm

Dunzo,
-LL

One Chance looks fresh to death in EC custom Chicagorilla tees and if you look closely, Battle of Seattle (ultra-rare design) made an appearance too.

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Part 1

Part 2

It’s about 20 minutes long, so everyone ought to check this out because not only can you get a good overview of where EC came from, you can also check out the entire presentation including interviews and pre-show jitters. Check this out, it’s not to be missed.

So last night was our Down South Design presentation at SCAD Atlanta, and it went soooo well. Thank you to everyone who helped put the entire thing together, to the other presenters and especially to everyone who came out who is now part of the EC army. Thanks to Jared Dalcort for filming the entire presentation and grabbing photos and for being more helpful and supportive than we could have ever asked for. And, we did meet Mychael Knight. Chilled with him in the green room, and got to take some pics too. Here is our very own tentenlarry and Lacey with Mychael himself.

Here’s a swatch of our 20 x 30 inch poster for “Down South Design”. Click above to see the whole thing.

It’s awesome how us Portfolio Center brats have been invited invited to speak at SCAD about being designers in the Dirty, Dirty South. Through being part of Museum of Design Atlanta’s exhibit, To A T, we’ve gained some great opportunities and it all goes out to the amazing support we have from the EC army. Thanks guys!

Down South Design
Monday, Novermber 13th at 8pm
SCAD Atlanta

Come out and support your boys alongside Michael Knight from Project Runway, Season 3, Pecan Pie Couture, and celebrity stylist Billie Causieestko.
The event is sponsored by MODA and Alternative Apparel.

Purchase tickets Right Here

View the Poster …you could be on it! contact us if you want one.

info@epidemikcoalition.com

-LL

See the whole Creative Loafing article by clicking the picture above.

Wow. We’re officially “T-moguls”. Pick up a copy of Creative Loafing this week to see the article featuring EC or click right here.

This is totally awesome, considering all the bands I’ve been in here in the ATL that were never able to get any coverage in this local weekly newspaper. I can definitely cross “Get mentioned in the Loaf” off of my list. Personally, this is really big for me.
Let’s party!

-LL

Here’s the roll from the MODA opening taken by Hadi Seyfi. I’m putting up the whole roll, blurry pictures and all… I mean artful pictures.
Seriously though, Hadi has been doing some hot work down at PC lately. He’s only one of a very few photographers that I trust and enjoy working with.
Thanks again to everyone who came out and to everyone who has helped us out with photography and phone calls, etc. There are tons of good things that are happening with Epidemik Coalition this next year. Stay on top of it.
Shouts to our boy Jorge Menes in Germany.

-LL

See the whole roll after the jump. Be patient, there are lots of pics.
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“To A T” is now officially up and running. The turnout for Epidemik Coalition was huge and unexpected. Our crew definitely repped it all night. These are just a few photos from my camera, but they should give you a taste of what the show was like, in case you couldn’t make it out. The show will be up until January 13th at Museum of Design Atlanta.

-LL

see the exhibit after the jump.
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