Congrats to Eric V for submitting the winning name for our Tomahawk Girl contest. The graphic will forever be known as Maddie the Tomahawk Girl named after Braves great, Greg Maddux. The timing was perfect and we couldn’t deny the name, given that Maddux’s #31 jersey was retired over the weekend.

Other honorable mentions were:
Darrell Sabbs – Lil’ Bearfight (referencing our favorite boys night out ritual)
Chris W – Georgia (plain and simple. We loved it.)

All winners will be notified by email. Your prizes will be mailed out after that!

Also, thank you to everyone that submitted a name. They were all really good and some were hilarious. We’ll be in touch about some special things to come just for you all.

Show your support and send ATL’s finest to Lollapalooza. Right now, Rob Wonder is sitting at #3 on the list. All he needs is a few more people to sign up and vote. If he wins, everyone will drink for FREE at El Bar on a special night with Klever. All you have to do is leave a comment on his profile page after voting and you’ll be on the list!

Voting ends today. Let’s do this… VOTE HERE

Awhile back, I gave everyone a preview of some behind-the-scenes at Megan Huntz’ lastest photo shoot by Jorge Menes of EC. Well, Jorge has sent over his images and I decided that this week’s Photo Friday was an appropriate venue for debuting the new looks.

Check ‘em out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

We spent all of Wednesday on location at the studio of Atlanta photographer, Hannibal Matthews. Known for his star-studded client list, he was commissioned by XTM Online to shoot a lookbook for their fashion show, Exposure, that we’re participating in on August 7th. It’s inspiring to watch Hannibal work and we’re in love with the bang-up job he did for us and the other designers with Exposure. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of his photos start to appear in our PROCESS Gallery (hint).

Name:
Franco Roberts

Aka:  
According to Cory Sontag… “Tight Pants”

Website:
xtmonline.com

Where are you from?
Born in S.Carolina, raised in Saudi Arabia and finished high school right here in GA.

Who do you work for? 
XTM, Inc.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
I’m currently working on the relaunch of XTM Online, I’ve got a full interactive website coming August 7. I’m also working on the EXPOSURE fashion show which is August 7. I think PROCESS is featuring their line in the show, but let me double check on that. I’m also working on some film projects, but you’ll hear more about that later this year. And hopefully I can graduate from GA State this year.

Who would you love to work with?
I’m currently working with a lot of the people that I wanted to work with right now with the Exposure show. If I’m not working with them right now, I have plans to work with them. Things are just moving very quickly for me. 

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
I love my black on black vans but I don’t know what I would do without my Red Olympic Dunks. 

What’s on your iPod right now?
keep a little bit of everything on my Ipod from Outkast, DMX and Common to Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, and Bloc Party. Although when I’m writing I try to listen to jazz. It helps me be a little more creative. 

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
I’ll take a slice of green olive pizza from Rosa’s any day of the week. If you don’t know where it is don’t worry about it. The lines are already long enough. Oh yeah, I can’t forget about Papi’s on Ponce. 

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Home!!!  I really don’t go out much. 

What are your Pet Peeves?
People that play games. If I wanted to play a game I would pick up a joy stick.  

Shout outs?
What up “B”,  XTM Crew,  Eric, Cory Sontag, Mary, Serious Ron, No Brakes, Standard Crew, Street Local, Shih, EC/PROCESS, IMBYU, MNDFRM, SOLE Crew, Wish Crew, Phonz, and everyone that’s showed support.

Rob Wonder remixed Passion Pit‘s The Reeling for Lollapalooza’s Last Band Standing contest. The artist with the most fan votes will be invited to play the festival in Chicago’s Grant Park this summer.

Rob asked us to put together some cover art for the track and he uploaded it to his contestant profile here. Please go to the following link to hear the track and take 2 minutes to vote for him. You can vote once a day, until the contest ends on the 20th, so make sure you do the right thing to send some ATL steeze up to Chicago. You know he’s gonna show the world how to hold it down Atlanta style…

If you’re one of those people that’s always talking about how “Atlanta needs to come together, work together and get on the national radar some more”, you need to do your part right now. Rob will represent.

Vote to send Rob Wonder to Lollapalooza

Meet Shane Smallz & Myk Pate. These dudes are some of our favorite people to hang out with when we’re in Charlotte. They also make it down to the A often, so get familiar! They were recently featured in a Creative Loafing blog called Who Shot Ya.

We intentionally gave our Tomahawk Girl graphic a generic name because we want our crew/readers/fans to come up with a name for her. The direction of the brand is ultimately dictated by you. So, come up with something clever and email your ideas to and we’ll choose a winner on Monday the 20th of July.

Not only will the winner receive creative bragging rights, but they’ll also win 3 Process tees (including the newly-named Tomahawk Girl tee), a cap, stickers, and additional goodies.

EC blog readers: Leaving a comment on this blog post counts as a submission as well. Happy naming!

Listen to Cartel’s new single, Let’s Go, on absolutepunk.net right now. The song from their new album, Cycles, hits iTunes on the 28th, but be one of the first to hear these hometown heroes right now!

This week I bring to you a pretty interesting story. Guillaume and Remi were recently the winners of the Grand Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant which is a pretty big photojournalism contest put on by Paris-Match, a French magazine. Their essay depicted the trials and tribulations of students and the things they need to do to survive. The images make for a really interesting photo essay except for one small thing… they were all staged! That’s right, all the images from the award winning photo essay by the two students were all staged by the two which they revealed at the award ceremony. After looking at the images from the previous years winners the previous years the two art students thought the images looked more like vacation photos than photojournalism. They did it to prove to everyone that the styles used so often in most photojournalism work could be staged and still have the same effect. The images are pretty awesome and to know that they are all staged makes me wonder about what other photos that you see in the newspaper and in other news sources are staged too. If you can read french you can check out the story here or check out more after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »