HEY OUTSTAGRS!
ITS THAT TIME!!
TIME TO GET TOWNED!!!
ITS THAT TIME!!
TIME TO GET TOWNED!!!
As we continue to gather ourselves on this Coronavirus pandemic and public events and entertainment and leisure establishments closing, people are managing and trying to adjust to quarantining themselves at home people are trying to find ways to keep themselves busy and unbored with family, relationships and themselves.
This week's topic is: Using social media networks to create programming
As we monitor the social media sites, the trend these days have been tuning into original programming on Instagram Live.
In March, rapper/dee-jay DNice took the IG livestreams to a whirlwind of watchers with his daily CLUB QUARANTINE dee-jay spins in the afternoon and slow jams in the evening from his highrise apartment window view. After his monstrous number of watchers, many other dee-jays from across the country and the world followed suit with their own dee-jay programming.
Then, earlier this week, we got the titan of all IG lives with Timbaland and Swizz Beats series VERSUZ took off and reached its highest peak in watchers with the drama filled Babyface vs. Teddy Riley Battle. After two failed attempts (The first round with Babyface fallen ill from COVID and the second from the much memed fiasco with Teddy Rileys tech difficulties during the live stream.). The third time was the charm when the battle had finally taken place this past Monday with over 500 K people trying to log on and breaking the internet.
As we see, social media can be used when there is a captive and captivated audiences.
Meanwhile creative people have done interviews, podcasts and even private video calls as we eavesdrop of their conversations. People are using ZOOM, Patreon, and other platforms to create communication and content. So what else can be done? Its up to your imagination to create while the COVID is focusing us to lockdown and get more in tune with creativity.
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Speaking of social media, our company Maatology Productions will host a private Paint and Sip that will be livestreamed on Patreon sometime in May (TIME TBD). Male models will be posing to be sketched or painted nude by their supporters who will tune in to watch. It will cost $5 on our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/outonstage . Parts of the proceeds will be donated to a COVID foundation or cause.
We are also seeking more Models who would like to participate. You must be comfortable being nude, have a well lit area to pose, a decent sound mechanism to play music and have a decent build. If thats you, email to maat.atkins@gmail.com
STREAMING VIEWZ
While perusing through Amazon Plus and I ran into this indy black horroe film called The House Invictus. Directed by Nigerian born Uche Aguh, Invictus tells the story of a selected group of ambitious young black men who are invited into Fraternal Society House that is haunted with dark secrets about the actual house. This film gave me a bit of GET OUT and US regarding the diffrent angle of horror.
There is a plethora of religious symbolism within it mainly of Catholicism as well as homoeroticism that is rarely seen in Black film. Giving a disclaimer at the beginning of the film that the director displayed regarding its denouncing the occult, the world of black fraternal hazing is definitely on display,. INVICTUS (which also gives homage to the famous poem by poet William Ernest Henley) will get you thinking regarding black life and culture as told from te heyes of an African director. The film does a decent job in showing the comparisons and contrasts of black men and their history in this country and how America still views them as well amongst themselves.
FASHIONEERZ
This week we feature a new segment that highlight African American entertainers who were or are fashion icons who set the standards of fashion.
This week we pay tribute to the fashion stylings of singer/songwriter/producer and instrumentalist Prince as we commend the fourth anniversary of his untimely passing from this Earth.
When Prince made his splash onto the music world in 1978 with his first release For You he was a 20 year old wunderkind with an Afro.
But after that--his music genius got the world's attention as well as his fashions.
There were several iconic looks that defined Prince--the trenchcoat with black bikini underwear and boots (1979-1982), the purple coats and ruffles and hair curls (1982-1985), and the cut out butt pants (1991).
His looks were androgynous, feminine, and outrageously daring during the pre-hip hop era. But just like his music, his fashions were bold and no holds barred.
This past Tuesday, CBS televised the Prince tribute LETS GO CRAZY. One of the highlights was when soul legend Mavis Staples sang "Purple Rain" with Prince's former band, The Revolution. I did a random search on Mavis singing live in her hey dey and found a live performance of her performing with the Staple Singers in 1975 of the classic spiritual soul song, "I'll Take You There." It's a video of the group when when they performed on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert.
A liitle tidbit, Mavis created the phrase SCHMONNE that Michael Jackson made famous on the song, "Bad."
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