Tuesday, October 2, 2012

OS33--ROCK UNIFORM presents PROJECT:DESIGN LAUNCH PARTY @THE COLISEUM SEPT 28

Photos by Ma'atology



The table of the event sponsors



















A projected image of one of the sponsors




House band
Superhero Killer performs during the reception.






















Lead singer and bass player Donald Williams worked out the bass in a dapper gray suit.























The group's playlist.












ABOVE: Some of the 2012 Project Design Top Six designers with their friends who won attendees in VIP.The designers were Elise Lammert, Michigan native Michele Sansone, Jessica Affsprung, Lauren Bander, Ashley Ulicni and Kansas City native Whitney Manney.  (Dont know what as going on with the two ladies on the far left. LOL). RIGHT: Two lovely ladies at the sponsor table.


















Event creator Dwight Carter talking with fashion designer Steven Curd of Garic Stephens design line before the beginning of the fashion show. Stephens, who was last year's Grand Prize Winner of Project: Design, was one of the two designers featured that nite.




















On the music was DJ Needles.


















Carter welcoming attendees to the event which was a congratulatory party for this year's Top Six designers  as voted by fans on Alive Magazine's online poll and who will be featured at Project Design during the kickoff of Saint Louis Fashion Week Oct 9 at the St Louis Science Center Exploradome . 





















2011 People s Choice Winner Fashion designer Cindy Henry of Rebel Tart , the first of the two designers featured, introduces her line which she described as Betty Page meets Cyndi Lauper. 

























Chicago native designer Curd introduces his line, Garic Stephens





Here are some lovely ladies in their black party dresses who were promotional models who assisted in alcohol samples for Effen Vodka, one of the sponsors of the After Party.























The crowd








































The assistants are getting the samples prepared for the crowd.

















One of the assistants giving an attendee a sample.











NOTE: This event had a relaxed vibe as people mingled and schmoozed. To kick off the party was St Louis rock band  Superhero Killer that was awesome but it seemed as though the crowd was a bit low key for their set. The crowd was intimate (probably due to a competing fashion event held at Chase Park Plaza) but picked up when the afterparty clubbers came after the fashion show. Although the fashion show highlighted last year's winners, it would have been nice for this year's Top Six vying for this year's Project Design prize could have at least gotten some stage time (They were acknowledged by host and event creator Dwight Carter before the fashion show started). The fashion show featured last years winners Steven Curd and Cindy Henry who had some chic and unique designs and the models kept it interesting by not just walking up and down the isle emotionless. Some blew kisses, flexed their muscles, and engaged the crowd with lively smiles. In the house were music producer Willie Woods,  STL TV's Gilberto Pinella, fashion stylist Skylar Barnes, event socialite Cavalli Reese, and real estate agent Nate Johnson. Major Brands' Elson and Tre Williams and their assistant Kim Jordan arrived to set up for the After Party.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

OS32--STAGE BITZ (SEPT 27-OCT 3)


HEY OUTSTAGRS!

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN!!

TIME TO GET ON STAGE!!!


MA’AT BITZ





YOURS TRULY will be one of judges of an upcoming female empowerment reality show that will be filming in St Louis this Saturday at the Airport Hilton produced by event promoter/entertainment industry consultant Daryel P. Oliver!
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The blog OUTTOWN/OUTSTAGN has been nominated for a STL Hot List Award for Best Blog. You can vote for it at http://tigersurvey.com/Survey.aspx?id=177918
 Its listed under my name Marcus Ma'at Atkins. Deadline Oct 31.

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AND if you or someone you know are an arts and entertainment mover and shaker and would like to be featured on a future OUTSTAGN Blog, if you have an event or business you would like to advertise or in need of a photographer for that special event or photo shoot, email us at maatspear@yahoo.com




Ma’atology Productions is one of the sponsors of model/podcast host Paris Caldwell’s birthday and fashion show gala that will take place at 8p.m., Oct 12, at The Coliseum. (CLICK ON PIC TO ENLARGE)



FEATURE BITZ



When it comes to art, people have their own interpretation and understanding of what its purpose is in the world. One artist in particular is painter/visual artist C’Babi Bayoc whose been on the grind for several years with his caricaturesque style visual images.
OUTSTAGN had a chance to talk with Bayoc about his style of painting and other tidbits.





OS: So, when did you become interested in painting and at what age?

CB: i took my first painting class in college at SWIC Southwestern Illinois College back when it was BAC Belleville Illinois College. I always had an interest in art, just didn't really trip off it until I was graduating from high school and needed to major in something at junior college.

OS:When you first began to paint what types of things did you paint?

CB:I merely copied images that I thought I should paint like women, guitar players.
no imagination. Typical stuff. I did an ink of Tyson getting knocked out in
high school. That kind of got a little fire going in me. I couldn't believe
that came out of me.


OS:Are you originally from St Louis and if so, what part and of , course,
the high school you graduated from?

CB: I am from O'fallon, Illinois. I didn't move to St. Louis until I returned from Grambling State University in 1996.




OS:You have been commissioned to paint for some noteworthy people such as Prince. How did that come about?

CB:He had a show in Edwardsville, Illinois  way back in the day. He donated food to The Dignity House on Union (in St Louis) that weekend and I was asked to hang work in the gallery because Prince might come through. Long story short, his staff videotaped the work and he saw the video and was interested in purchasing some work. It was crazy! He picked three pieces and I shipped those bad boys off. A year later he wanted to see some more pics and he bought five more one of which became the cover of (his CD)"Rainbow
Children."


OS:What other noteworthy figures have bought your art?

CB:Erykah Badu, Chris Lighty (RIP), actor James Lesure from the TV show “Las Vegas”, Ex-Rams player Demarco Farr. That's all i can recall.

OS:What has been the highest figure that you’ve made from one of you paintings?
 CB: Over $10,000 dollars.






OS: Do you have a signature piece?
CB: Well, the largest audience is for the Violator Project but I don't have a signature piece yet.

OS:In your opinion, what is the state of art today in regards to its role in
our society?
CB:Art is still important on every level. Artists are behind everything from animations to storyboards for real time movies from developing cars to building furniture. I just saw a story about a hospital with a contemporary art collection that is helping heal. I have people in tears nightly as my paintings evoke memories of sadness and happiness. Art is
always needed and an important part of life.

OS:What obstacles have you been through being a painter, yet alone a painter
of color?
CB:The main obstacle that is fresh in mind is the frustration of being requested by predominantly white institutions like colleges and county libraries asking  if I'll be available to show some work in a year or two when there is a free black history month on their calendar. That's when they have a "budget."  Also,  they don't even consider you the rest of the year though people show all year.

OS:What is it about you that people would be surprised to know about you?
CB: I'm deathly uncomfortable with small talk. I’m just fine staying home renting a
movie than meeting at a bar or watching a game with the boys. I never
mastered just hanging out.












OS:This year you started painting images regarding black manhood and
Fatherhood called “365 Days  with Dad” talk about that as far as your inspiration.
CB: I've always been interested in doing a series on black fatherhood but never to this crazy ass degree. It was something that was entrusted in me to do. I'm re-inspired every time I see or hear of the craziness happening to kids and young adults like the three kids in their early twenties that died recently on the Grand bridge after running from the cops, which was in reference to some folks shooting up a house. We have to inspire men to get there ass back in the home and kiss their sons and daughters and say "I love you!."





OS:Whats next for you?
CB: I want to go large with this same series (365 ) and work on
one a month like mural size pieces, some on canvas but many on abandoned
buildings in North St Louis.  I want to make Dad's image bold and present.

OS:How can people get in contact with you if they would like to purchase
any of your work or want a piece painted?
CB: They can shout at me on Facebook






Chicago native fashion designer and  fashion show producer CleonsbyChad had his fashion show in NYC recently and to see pics from this spectacular event go to https://www.facebook.com/cleonsbychad/photos






Mover and shaker Nicole Chapmans was recently on STL LIVE to promote her new charity organization Brighter Days and her upcoming fundraiser in November. To see PART ONE of the interview go to  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcl2RTgmlMM&feature=BFa&WO list=UUWU3FRSmVSxDcuzPDQGe24g



and PART TWO at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGFlhkbxAA&feature=BFa&list=UUWU3FRSmVSxDcuzPDQGe24g

Info on her organization is at http://www.brighterdayscharity.org/



BLIND PICZ

Who was the lady that was gettin her party on at CityUltra Lounge  recently?

BLIND DISH

In the early 2000s, we got scoop from a renowned Los Angeles photographer who was instructed by this R&B group's manager to focus on its lead singer only when taking the group's promo shots. The group has won several Grammy Awards, had several group changes and the lead singer is now a major superstar hos won many Grammy Awards as well. Who is the group and the lead singer?






This week we selected as the Fashionista, KMOV and STL TV personality  Sande Stevenson, who has her own Socialite Sande series on YOUTUBE, who wore an elegant necklace on one of her Facebook posts recently. For the Dapper Dan, we chose poet/rapper Ooops who sported an off white tux with gold vest, tie and gold pocket square with white trimming. Ooops wore this ensem when he got married last weekend to poet Kels DK at The Ambassador in St Louis.

WORDZ

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Why are people breaking their necks to get the new IPhone5 and nothing changed from 4? Why were there so many mistakes with the replacement NFL referees and they are suppose to know the game?Why did a man use a loaded gun to try and  cure his friend's hiccups by pulling the trigger and accidentally killed him? Why did Presidential candidate Mitt Romney use spray tan when he spoke on the Telemundo Channel? Why did Kanye West use a look alike Kim Kardashian in his leaked sex tape? And why was the tape leaked in the first place? Why is New Jersey passing a Snooki Law when it come to filming shows in that city? Why is Lindsay Lohan gettin a chance after chance avoiding jail and still breaking laws? Why is the star of the show Animal Practice a monkey? And why did people make such a bis deal about the Tracy Morgan passed out  on the floor prank during the Emmys?






Thursday, September 27th

LOCATION: Parto Naderi Salon & Spa, 507 N. Wells St., Chicago, IL 60654
(Across the street from Sushi Samba, between Grand &
Illinois, plenty of street parking & lots, nearby to all public transportation)



TIME SLOTS: (Noon - 4:00 PM) & (5:30 - 9:00 PM)...come by anytime within the time frames listed


Please read carefully, this is a designer collective show and sizing is more exact than working with stores and boutiques. You absolutely must meet the requirements listed below to be considered.


REQUIREMENTS:


SHOWDATE, LOCATION & BE-THERE: Tuesday, October 16th - Germania Place 108 W. Germania Place, Chicago, IL 60610 (Just off Clark St., 1/4 block W. of North Ave.) - Must be available by 3:30/4:00 PM for rehearsal, hair & makeup will be provided, showtime 8:00 PM



To learn more details about the event, please view our Eventbrite page at: http://nextfashionchicago-2012.eventbrite.com/


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Singer Joseph George is having a FREE concert  at Harris Stowe State University this Friday Sept 28 starting at 7 p.m. outside on the lawn
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Voters Registration Drive at The Coliseum 2619 Washington Sat Sept 29 starting at 2p.m.

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On Monday, October 1st  at 2:30 p.m. for the popular radio show “The Arts with Nancy Kranzberg” on St. Louis’ own KDHX 88.1 FM. Supporting and celebrating the local arts scene for over twenty years, Kranzberg’s program features artists of all types and at all stages of their careers. Featuring this time will be award-winning Hip-Hop/Neo-Soul Musician, Producer, and Spoken Word Artist Aireez DaRychuss and I. We will both share some spoken word poetry and exciting upcoming events and will chat w/ our host about the arts. Hope you can tune in!!


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There will be a parade for East St Louis native Olympic medalist DAWN HARPER ON THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 2012.  BEGINS @ 10 AM @ 1005 STATE STREET in East St Louis, Ill. PROGRAM IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING @ THE CLYDE C JORDAN STADIUM. PLEASE WEAR RED, WHITE, AND/OR BLUE.





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