Here’s a preview of the new El Bar tee that is one of the many reasons you should pre-pay for their New Years Eve party. $20 gets you so many benefits including one of these shirts. Nothing is more ATL than this tee… except for being a Celtic hater. (Don’t pretend like you rep the A and let me see you at Philips Arena cheering for Boston. That’s negative points in my book, you poser!)

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Name:
Adam Darby

Aka:  
black Sunshine, ninjaKId

Website:
http://www.myspace.com/kyds3k
(yeah I know, working on updating kyds3k.com SOON… )

Where are you from?
Gastonia, NC. But I usually have to tell people “Charlotte” because nobody knows where Gastonia is. Sleepy Floyd is from there though!!

Who do you work for? 
Currently working at Cartoon Network on the FusionFall website as a front-end web developer. Contract is up at the end of December… anybody hiring?  :-D

What are your Current Project(s)?
Personal? Website for the Dirty South Crunkball All-Stars (2008 Atlanta Go Kickball CHAMPIONS, Brooklyn Kickball 2nd place in 2008 and 2006, 1ST IN 2007) also working on a new mix so STAY TUNED…

Who would you love to work with?
Epidemik Coalition of course… and after having worked on the FusionFall site, I would love to work for another gaming company (Blizzard, you’re in my sights!). Music-wise, I’d love to do something with Le Castlevania, Treasure Fingers, Rrrrump…

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
My Adidas Sambas - the workhorse of my shoe closet!

What’s on your iPod right now?
Really loving this band Hinterland that I found recently… Drop Nineteens, My Bloody Valentine, Malory, The Telescopes, and of course my ALL TIME favorites Lush and Cocteau Twins. I’m on a real shoegaze kick lately. Other than that stuff - Little Boots owns ALL

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Sundried tomato wings at the Local FTW!!!  Also everything at Bookhouse is AMAZING.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
The Local, Bookhouse, Graveyard and East Side Lounge… and although I long for the days of yore, MJQ will always have a special place in my heart.

What are your Pet Peeves?
Overdraft fees, bad drivers, teeth on forks, IE6 and 7

Shout outs?
My hot girlfriend Kelly, my brothers (Full Metal Lyricist and Warblade a.k.a. DANNY GLOVER), the Black Pack, Ikari Bakudan, and all the Calvin Mercer look-alikes…

Last week I mentioned that you’d be able to become an El Bar V.I.P. and not have to pay a cover during 2009. All you have to do is pre-purchase a $20 ticket to El Bar’s New Years Eve event. There are also many more benefits listed below.

Your $20 Ticket includes:
-Name on Guest List
-El Bar “V.I.P./No Cover” for 2009
-Champagne at Midnight
-New El Bar Tee by PROCESS
-Bag of goodies from sponsors such as StreetLocal, PROCESS, The Joneses, and more…
-Also, there will be a Mariachi band, hopefully playing crazy crunk covers…

The presale starts Thursday the 18th of December.

Contact for more information, or come out Thursday night and pay Colleen or Rosa over the bar.

Criminal Records asked me to design something for the holidays so I decided to make something a true music fan would appreciate. You can never go wrong with a tribute to Peter Saville and New Order. The tees will be available at Criminal in Little Five Points this week in mens & womens sizes.

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The folks at CMYK love our resident photographer Jorge Menes. His portrait of Bruce Turkel and his harmonica has been published in CMYK magazine issue #42. Nice job!

Hello everyone and welcome once again to another installment of Photo Fridayz! I want to first start out by giving a little bit of notice to everyone out there about the postcard show that is coming up this Saturday night at Mint Gallery here in Atlanta. The show is open to the public and it is recommended that everyone participate! You can present up to 4 pieces up to 4×6 in size. It should be a fun time with good people so everyone should check it out.

This week I wanted to share with you someone who I find a lot of inspiration from. William Eggleston is a photographer from Memphis and is credited with making color photography a legitimate form of art. He was the first person to have a solo color photography show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and since then has continued to create images up until this day. His images are beautiful in terms of color and composition but are also comprised of the most mundane subject matter. I could go on and on about how amazing I think he is as a photographer and it still really wouldn’t do much justice. If you like what you see in this post I would strongly recommend going out and renting William Eggleston in the Real World. Its one of the better documentaries I have seen in regards to photographers. It gives a very indept and personal look at Eggleston and his process and the steps he has taken over the years to get where he is. Very impressive and well worth the watch.

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Zoom Kobe IV sketches

I just participated in a webcast where Kobe Bryant revealed the new Zoom Kobe IV that claims to be the worlds lightest basketball sneaker weighing in at 11.6 ounces. Surprisingly, it’s a low top sneaker. The sneaker boasts technical details such as Flywire technology in the upper (which was made famous by the Hyperdunk), LunarLite foam in the forefoot, and a Zoom Air unit in the heel.

The sneaker comes out in China on January 1st, 2009 and hits US shelves on the 1st of Febraury. Kobe’s first game in the Zoom Kobe IVs is December 19th against the Miami Heat.

Check out screenshots from the webcast and photos of the sneaker after the jump.
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Our buddy Serious Ron™ personally dropped off some Holiday packages this afternoon. He laced us up with some of his new Grrrrowling Panda tees. They’re hilarious. Thanks Ron!

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We just finished the final tweaks on jamiehopper.com. As I mentioned last week, we felt that the great photography should be allowed to speak for itself. Our challenge was to find a way to amplify Jamie’s work while allowing the user experience to be both simple and intuitive.

It’s great that she was so willing to let us do what we do best: taking a design risk knowing we would land our feet. Thank you Jamie for being an amazing client and for bringing us pizza the other day. Everyone loves your site!

Name:
Rosa McWaters

Aka:  
Rosa Wonder

Website:
myspace.com/recollectionvintage

Where are you from?
I was born in Vienna, Austria then lived in Detroit for a few years, but I would have to say Georgia - I’ve been here since the Fourth grade.

Who do you work for? 
First I work for my daughter Amalee - mom is my number one job. I am also a stylist, and I have a vintage clothing shop inside of Bill Hallman called Recollection Vintage. I also work with my husband Rob Wonder to run our bar - El Bar.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
I am launching an etsy site for Recollection Vintage and as far as styling I am working with new artist Jessica Tonder and photographer Zach Wolfe.

Who would you love to work with?
Anyone inspired and creative…too many to name.

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
My Basquiat Reeboks that were a birthday present from my husband - I love them, and only 200 made!

What’s on your iPod right now?
The new cd from Rob Wonder Ponce People, I get the sneak preview haha!

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
The Bookhouse…my sister’s the chef.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
El Bar of course.

What are your Pet Peeves?
People who talk shit and they don’t know.

Shout outs?
Rob Wonder - the love of my life… My girls - Julia, Lan, Sharlene, Jessica, Michelle, Nini, Sharon, Mimi, and Rita… All my El Bar posse - Colleen, Tara, Ed, Kevin, Cristo, Cory, Lord, Rasta Root… Dax, Zach, Ryan and of course the Process and EC!!

Epidemik Coalition Holiday Tee - 2008

We created an extremely limited run of these A Pick Me Up tees for the Holiday Season. Yes, our house brand might be called PROCESS, but that doesn’t mean we’ve strayed from our EC screen-printing roots. Originally, Georgios drew our squid friend for the Breather conference in Decatur earlier this year, but we loved the graphic so much we wanted to share it for the holidays. Pick one up in your size in the Epidemik Coalition Online Store. There are already only a few left.

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Never pay a cover at El Bar in 2009. There’s a very special opportunity to become an El Bar V.I.P. on the horizon. As always, we’re in the thick of it. Details coming soon.

Yaari.com is a social networking site that connects young people through questions about Indian entertainment media. They came to Epidemk Coalition needing an identity package as well as some web-design consulting. Much of the Yaari.com community is located overseas with dial-up connections, so the challenges posed in the web design process require the site to be lightweight and easy to use while remaining young and vibrant. Now that the logo is done, we’ll start jamming on the look and feel of the site in the coming days.

Epidemik Coalition resident photographer, Jorge Menes, commissioned our former intern/illustrator E. Charrow to draw his holiday cards. I really like how the watercolors interplay with the line art. If you were nice to Jorge this year, you’ll probably get one of these in the mail.

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My buddy Logan, the drummer for Chi-town’s Crystal Gravy, sent me this iPhone photo yesterday as the stickers I worked on with his band arrived in time for their big weekend show. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing these babies all over Chicago’s hot spots.

Bear Fight - A drink, of sorts, consisting of two drinks taken one after the other. An Irish Car Bomb and a Jäger Bomb. You simply line them up and take one after the other, wait 5-10 minutes, and then you will know how it has earned it’s name.

This celebratory drink, although not invented by us in Atlanta, has been a favorite of ours lately. I know you’re thinking that we’re crazy, but you really only take on a Bear Fight when you’re looking to get the evening started without delay. Spending the holidays with good friends are perfect for taking on the Bear. The Bear Fights shown above were from a few weeks back in Austin with a crew of friends I hadn’t seen in years.

Next time you see Colleen or Rosa at the EL, tell ‘em we sent you. Be careful!

Our friend and favorite bartender, Colleen Burley, is going to be showing at the Annual Telephone Factory Art Show this weekend. Colleen will be showing in Limo Matt’s apartment, which is located on the second floor (216). The hours are Saturday from 11-7 and Sunday from 1-6. Come out and show your support.

The Telephone Factory
828 Ralph McGill Boulevard, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30306

So for this week I would like to start with a special shout out to one of my best friends, Alex Liebold. I have known Alex for a good bit now and the one thing I know is that this is one of his most favorite times of the year. Perfect example, his Last Christmas dedication website. For those of you who don’t know, Last Christmas was a song done back in the 80’s by Wham!. Alex just started it up again and his current count is up to 331 different versions of the song. Either way I am looking forward to seeing what kind of awesome versions Alex comes up with this year and if there is anyone out there that has a version that he doesn’t have send it to him and add to the list!

Now its on to the photo showcase. This week were gonna take a look at Richard Avedon. Most people out there will be familiar with his work but it is always worth taking a second look at. Avedon started his career as a photographer for the Merchant Marines back in 1942 by taking identification photos of the crewmen. A few years later he was working as an advertising photographer for a department store where he was picked up by Harper’s Bazaar which led to a staff photographer position at Vogue up until the late 80’s. He was most notable for his portraits taken with a large format camera on a white background. Avedon was the best at capturing the most revealing aspects of his subjects weather it was celebrities or the working class in the American west.

I recently came across an article on NPR about the responsibility of a portrait photographer to portray their subject in the right way. It was something that made me think about Avedon and his work and some of the complaints that people have had about him over the years. If anyone wants to hear the article you can find it here. Personally I think that the responsibility lies in the editors hands that chooses to run the photo. The photographer is simply doing what he is hired to do and that is take a photograph. Either way Avedon is a legend no matter what way you look at it.

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Autographed DJ Clark Kent/Black Friday Air Force 1 shoebox

About a week ago, sneaker fiends in New York, Boston, and Miami were camping out for these Nike Air Force 1’s that they had never even seen before. They were set to release early Friday morning, November 28th a.k.a. Black Friday. The designer of the sneaker, DJ Clark Kent, and Nike kept the sneaker a mystery for weeks, yet people were still hyped on its release.

After combing the internet for photos of the shoes on Friday morning, I was disappointed to see the lack of quality images so I got together with Decatur Dan and we made it happen. Also, word on the street is that these will be dropping in other cities soon. ATLiens, check your usual spots for more info.

Don’t forget to download DJ Clark Kent’s hard-to-find Black Friday Mixtape that he made for the release of the shoe. Note: It’s a large file, so I’ll have to take it down in a few days. Get it while you can!

Download: DJ Clark Kent - Black Friday Mixtape

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Here’s another track from Lily’s new album, slated to come out on February 9th. I love how the song starts with just piano, allowing for the drum machine to creep in, and how it gets full when the chorus kicks in. I think this album is going to be more genuine and sincere than her first. I’m looking forward to it.

Download: Lily Allen - I Could Say