Peep My Feet, Bro

A few weeks ago, Reef embarked on a 440-mile adven­ture that lasted an entire week­end. It began on a Sat­ur­day after­noon as he made his way to an event called “Peep My Feet” in Rich­mond, VA. It was the inau­gural open­ing for the mini con­ven­tion of sorts, a place where you could buy, trade and even sell footwear along with vend­ing from local, inde­pen­dent or estab­lished cloth­ing and acces­sory brands. He met old friends and made new ones, which is always good. The real rea­son we were atten­dance was to sup­port our brother com­pany, BluEm­pire Enter­tain­ment, the Mar­ket­ing and Man­age­ment entity who actu­ally spon­sored the event. In all, Reef con­nected with many dif­fer­ent peo­ple and brands that hope­fully, you will see some col­lab­o­ra­tions with in the com­ing months through the brand or with our events. Stay tuned!

Baked Goods, Cuzzo…

After that, it was off to DC to check out a pri­vate show in Adams Mor­gan called Baked Goods. Our good friend, whit­neyAB­STRAKT was the DJ and sent us the invite and with a few of our peers were on the bill, it was def­i­nitely an event worth attend­ing. The setlist included Nicos Gun, JFK , M1platoon, Kali Uchis and Meche Kor­rect. It was in an apart­ment that was con­verted into an art stu­dio so as you could imag­ine it was a lovely envi­ron­ment to meet and net­work with peo­ple. In my opin­ion, these type of events are the best to attend. Every­one killed their set and the event as a whole was an plea­sur­able experience.

Enter the Broc­coli City!

The con­clu­sion to the week­end was the Broc­coli City Earth Day Fes­ti­val at the Half-Street Fair­grounds right out­side the Nation­als ball­park in South­east DC. This fes­ti­val proved to be a unique expe­ri­ence for the team, it started off with link­ing up with a good friend of ours and musi­cian, Young Scolla. He had an inter­view with Philly’s hip-hop blog HipHopSince1987 for their new project 30 for Thirty. After fin­ish­ing up with that we ran into Phil Ade who was also on the bill for the fes­ti­val. We expe­ri­enced a bit of tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties try­ing to get into the fes­ti­val but it even­tu­ally all worked out and we and bee-lined to the food trucks which hap­pened to be one of the best things the fes­ti­val had to offer beside the music. The Broc­coli City Fes­ti­val was all about Earth Day and the aware­ness of tak­ing care of where we live. The high­light of the day was being able to get up to the stage and take some pretty nice pic­tures which you will see below.

Scolla chillin…

Scolla & Friends

Phil get­ting inter­viewed by a local radio station

Phil was gra­cious enough to let us snap some pic­tures of his performance

Views of the crowd dur­ing Phil’s per­for­mance

An enjoy­able night indeed…

 
Straight from the Inbox: Day Gather, a Daytime Mixer & Art Exhibition

(Wash­ing­ton, D.C. — June 2013) Day Gather is a day­time mixer and art exhi­bi­tion held on TODAY!! Sat­ur­day, June 15th con­ve­niently located in Adams Mor­gan. Day Gather brings together emerg­ing and mid career artists with party selec­tions from DJ MFK in the per­fect under­ground gallery set­ting. Refresh­ments will be served. Day Gather will cer­tainly be […]

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SUPA Shoes, Dude.

Recently, one of our good friends, SUPA, picked up cus­tomiz­ing sneak­ers and allowed us in to shoot the visu­als of his work. I won’t say much more and let the pic­tures do the talking.

 

It starts with a pas­sion for meet­ing the needs of a com­mu­nity you know and care about. That has to be your true moti­va­tion, it can’t just be about money. –Matt Bald­win, Baldwin Denim

 

If you’re think­ing about start­ing your own brand, be ready to die for it. Because THAT is how hard you’ll be work­ing in order to make it suc­cess­ful. This is no walk in the park. If you’re ques­tion­ing your pas­sion, your com­mit­ment or your abil­ity to ‘make it work,’ then do some­thing else. You’ll be […]

 
Dining with the Arts by the Harbor

After work on Sat­ur­day, I got on the road with one of my lady friends and headed to the National Har­bor. While Ty had his sights set on the main Cherry Blos­som fes­tiv­i­ties, I took in the sights at its art fes­ti­val at the Art Whino gallery. The event came com­plete with a DJ, wine and […]

 
Previous Works of the "Branching Out" Artists

Erik Abel Gra­ham Fran­ciose Ursula Xanthe Young

 
The Almighty Sketch Lounge

After the lec­ture with Mr. Lewin at Howard, we made our way to the Dunes for Sketch Lounge. Sketch Lounge is the brain­child of Nate Lewis and his cre­ative Somaphony team. Somaphony orig­i­nally began as a cloth­ing line like our­selves but now is cre­at­ing a name for itself in the DC arts com­mu­nity. It is […]

 
Day 3: Soho Surroundings

Our third and final day in New York brought us to Soho. The agenda was to attend Agenda, another tradeshow held dur­ing the same week as Cap­sule. Loc returned back to Vir­ginia the night before after Cap­sule, so this mis­sion was up to Brian and I. Let’s just say, it didn’t go as planned, bet­ter […]

 
Day 2: Capsule Fever

On our sec­ond day in New York, our mis­sion was to attend Cap­sule off of Pier 36. Cap­sule is an inter­na­tional fash­ion trade show held semi-annually in New York, Berlin, and Paris for dif­fer­ent brands to show their upcom­ing col­lec­tions for the next sea­son. Their offer­ings include var­i­ous styles and gen­res and are a diverse […]

 
Village Donuts Have Never Sounded So Good

Salu­ta­tions, I have been try­ing to fig­ure out a good way to intro­duce myself to the peo­ple. Should I go through this elab­o­rate spiel about my life, love of music and how it saved my life? On the other hand, should it be about how I linked up with Reef and Tom and became the […]

 
Art Galleries in Georgetown (Reef)

The Kar­mal­ifee fam­ily went to Moca DC in George­town to sup­port Cre8tive Chem­istry and Mil­liardo Enter­tain­ment at their Art Show­case Pri­vate Col­lec­tion. Moca DC was an inti­mate venue; the gallery was crowded with the guests but still acces­si­ble for net­work­ing and min­gling with each other. The show­case was deal­ing with all aspects of art from […]

 
Tonight is Rally House x Dazed Civillans present The Lemonade Stand

What: The Lemon­ade Stand is an artist show­case and cre­ative hud­dle. The over­all premise is to build up the urban cre­ative com­mu­nity in DC, Mary­land, and North­ern Vir­ginia. Ven­dors will have a chance to enhance their vis­i­bil­ity, intro­duce new products/services, and per­son­ally inter­act with cus­tomers and com­peti­tors. When: Thurs­day, Octo­ber 4th from 5pm — 9pm Where: […]

 
Brand Spotlight, Alexandra Smith of ShopALS & GoodHairBlog

Over the past few months going to DC pro­mot­ing the brand, we have begun to come across a unique set of indi­vid­u­als, other young entre­pre­neurs cre­at­ing brands and prod­ucts that deserve recog­ni­tion. We will begin a series called Brand Spot­light. Our first install­ment is Alexan­dra Smith of ShopALS and the Good­Hair­Blog. A native of the […]

 
Capture the Creativity--Swalé Tank (Dolphins)

As I’ve stated before on the blog, we embrace cre­ativ­ity in any shape/form that it comes to us. Recently I sold a Swalé tank to my buddy, Lor­raine of OyeGlam and upon receiv­ing the mer­chan­dise, she decided that it needed some “alter­ations”. When we saw what she had done, it became appar­ent that we had found another […]