A Winter Fashion Week for Jozi
Great news for the Fashion Industry, South Africa is now on a par with the rest of the Fashion world where two seasonal Fashion Weeks a year are the must have items. There’s not too much info at the moment, but what we can tell you is that it’s happening in February and it’s being held in Nelson Mandela Square. We love the logo!! Here’s the PR: AUDI JOBURG FASHION WEEK Dates: … 14th – 17th February 2007 Venue: Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton Designers: Gavin Rajah, Gideon, KlukCGdT, Craig Port, Paul van Zyl Couture ,Hip Hop, Gabi Rosenwerth for Rosenwerth, Sonwabile Ndamase for Vukani Collections, Fred Eboka for Eboka, Spero Villioti, Carducci, Warrick Gautier for Jenni Button and Hilton Weiner, Darkie and Lunar. More designers are to be confirmed shortly. More Information: Anneke or Candice on 021 448 2020 or email Candice here....
Catch ZUBZ tonight at Bassline
We’ll never forget the first time we saw Zubz live at the Songwriters Club in Newtown about two years ago… He had the biggest live band ever and the most awesome backing vocalists that included two of our favourite diva’s, Lois and Pebbles who simply blew us away. Zubz elevates hiphop as we know it to another level, adding layer upon layer to his songs, resulting in a multi-layered tapestry of… colourful uplifting music. Good news is his next album is out – catch him at Bassline tonight! Super MC Zubz launches his hot new album Headphone Music In A Parallel World this Thursday the 30th November at the Bassline in Newtown. R30 gets you in to this event that starts at 7:30. Get your ears ready for the surreal sonic trip super talented MC Zubz will take you on with his new album Headphone Music in a Parallel World. Don’t expect the usual hip hop album; this one sees Zubz being inspired by sci – fi and quantum physics as well as the state of the world “I called it that because it’s an out worldly sort of trip where you leave this reality and get into a parallel reality running concurrently with this one.” It’s been two years since this Zambian born, Zimbabwe raised, Grahamstown IT trained and Johannesburg based 30 year old released his SAMA nominated debut Listeners Digest, though during that time he kept on polishing his talent, “I never stopped recording – the songs on this record are tracks I recorded a year ago, and before that I was recording too.” Whilst recording Zubz (AKA Ndabaningi Mabuye) was inspired by his travels: to Zambia for the unveiling of his fathers tombstone; Cape Town where he performed with his band The Origins who also joined him at shows in Norway and Finland. “It was a period of moving around and experiencing different aspects of music, myself and people and so then I ended up seeing things with a broader lens.” Travelling gave him the space and time to think and see things in a new light. “When you travel you approach these things differently, when you don’t travel that much you forget they exist, you focus on day to day stuff that distracts you from the things that this album brings out&” His outlook was altered to the extent that when he returned he changed his album, “Before I went on those trips, I was 80 percent done with my album. But after those trips, I decided to remove certain tracks, because my mind set had shifted drastically, it had really flipped. Those songs didn’t...
Catch RESFEST in Cape Town
Filmakers, music video people, creatives, designers, dops, animators, runners, grips, dreamers, commercials directors, commercial wannabes – if you love celebrating brilliance in film, get down to the RESFEST that is stopping off in Cape Town on it’s way from Canada and moving on to Austria on it’s 43 city 10th anniversary tour. We’ve got our girl Canda to go and check it out and will let you kno… w how it goes. Website here. RESFEST 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Labia on Orange 29 Nov – 2 Dec RESFEST’s 2006 global tour marks the 10th anniversary of the pioneering film and digital arts festival, which kicked off this year with a special presentation in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, from October 19-22, followed one day later by its Paris debut at the esteemed Pompidou Center. The festival will continue on to more than 43 cities on six continents around the world, captivating audiences with its signature mix of innovative film screenings, informative panels, experiential parties and cutting-edge performances. Resfest will be screened in Cape Town at the “Labia” on Orange from 29 Nov – 2 Dec. The festival received a record 2,200 film submissions this year, with programmers viewing hundreds more in assembling a stellar collection of outstanding short films, dynamic music videos, experimental animation and cutting-edge motion graphics. In addition to Paris, RESFEST will debut in Berlin, Eskisehir, Jakarta and Lima. The festival will culminate for the first time ever in the United States, with a series of expanded seven-day events to take place in March and April 2007 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In another first, the festival will be presented in high-definition during these spring engagements. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS To celebrate this commemorative year, RESFEST will feature a pair of special anniversary programs looking back at its decade-long history of revolutionary filmmaking. Unsung Heroes: Music Video Gems from the Archive gathers directors who’ve turned the music video into an art form, with classic promos for Air, Cornelius, UNKLE, Phoenix and others, while A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films compiles milestone short form work that has become the stuff of RESFEST lore, including Michael Overbeck’s Tongues and Taxis, Bob Sabiston’s Snack and Drink and Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar. Three more thematically arranged short film programs highlight intriguing new work: State of the Art offers a collection of live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary that will point the way for filmmakers in the years to come; Out of the Box highlights the adventurous, absurd and eccentric; and Fear and Trembling examines the horror trend that has swept the film world of late. Programming...
Vote for Bevan’s ROBBIE WILLIAMS video
Many of you will remember him from the Toastie breakfast show on tv, others of you may recognise him from his hairstyle… But he’s our Bevan i’nit and he’s entered Robbie Williams music video competition! We need you to vote for his video (if you like it of course) so he can win some pounds and ‘ave it large. Click here for the site. … Here’s the deal: Robbie Williams is collaborating with seven different filmmakers to create seven original short films using the tracks from his new album Rudebox. Now he is inviting all the independent filmmakers out there to provide the eighth for his track The 80’s. The winner, chosen by Robbie Williams, Lord Puttnam, Jonathan Ross, Jules Oldroyd (Head of T4) and a prominent film commissioner, will win a ý7,500 prize. There is a further prize of ý7,500 for the winning film as voted by the public. And here’s how to do it easily from Bevs people at Comedy Underground: Co-founder of the Underground, ace director & generally cool oke, Bevan Cullinan, has, with his producer Gary, shot and entered a Robbie Williams music video competition and needs your help to vote them to the top so that they can become mildly famous overseas and win the prize money to pay for the film! The music video is very funny and features Bevan, James Cairns and Chris Forrest in a film called “LIKE A HOOLIGAN”. You’ll recognise them in the thumbnail JPEG (standing in 80’s Leotards, looking like they were dressed by the Salvation Army dance gear surplus store). What we need you to do is to go to www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts and register on the site. DON’T BE SCARED. These are nice people who don’t spam. If you are uncomfortable with providing your telephone number, put a fake one in (they’re just needing it in case you win so that they can call you, but you’re not entering a film, so it doesn’t matter). They just need you to register so that they can keep a check on allowing only one vote per register. What is very important is to keep checking for a return mail with a link that you will need to click on to verify your vote, it is to stop scam voting on dormant accounts (hope this makes sense). The votes count as ratings. Vote 1 for crap and 5 for eternal kifness (the judging is not based on the amount of votes). We’re hoping to get votes between 3 and 5, but if you feel it’s worth 5, we’d love you long time (insert nervous laugh here)! Unfortunately, if you are on...
Lotto Jeans 2 – Get your jeans for 007 from EARTHQUAKE
Many of you will remember that this time last year Represent put together the Lotto Jeans project with the young designers Earthquake. By supporting this project, Representer’s helped Earthquake get some capital together which gave them some money to grow their young business. Good on you good people. And grow they have, taking part in this years Fashion Week and expanding t… heir business substantially. Lots of Representers who bought jeans have become firm friends with our crazy boy from Earthquake, John and many Representers have bought loads of clothes from Earthquake since then. Represent! RIGHT NOW you have the chance to take part in the Lotto Jeans Project 2 which is taking place this year at Earthquake’s “The Fitting” event featuring a fashion show, dj’s, clothes being fitted and made on the spot… And of course you get to hang out with loads of Representers and like-minded people in the beautiful Jozi city. THERE’S ONLY ONE CATCH – to take advantage of this EXCLUSIVE deal, you must be a Represent Subscriber. It’s so easy – simply Subscribe!!! Here’s the scoop: Exclusive to represent, subscribers can take advantage of a second represent Lotto-style project, which will run alongside The Fitting. This year, subscribers are offered 2 pairs of pants/ shorts from a selection of 10 styles (5 denim, 5 canvas/ cargo) for the Represent nice price of R600 (items usually retail for between R350 and R400 each). The range of 10 will be on show at The Fitting, and subscribers can select their two pieces there from the garments on display and will be measured on the night to ensure that they are custom-tailored and made-to-fit. Garments will be ready 5-14 days later, with all Lotto project orders completed before 15th December (we will agree delivery dates with each individual). To take advantage, email eqdesigns@telkomsa.net on or before Wednesday 29th November. You will be sent a confirmation of order form and bank deposit details for advance payment. Represent subscribers taking advantage of the Lotto project will receive free entry into the event (otherwise R40 – R20 if you’re wearing earthquake) which includes a fashion show, earthquake store, great djs and good vibrations. COME ON PEOPLE – REPRESENT! ========================================= The Boys from Earthquake are having a major sale this Saturday at Carfax from 10 – 5. BE THERE. If you’re a Represent subscriber we have a major exclusive – two pairs of tailor-made jeans for R600… remember to take cash with you…. they don’t deal in credit. See below for the detail. If you haven’t heard about the designer boys from EARTHQUAKE then you need to get down to their...
Lavacious South African Women on the net
Represent is just one website put together by mothership SoulProviders. Check out the latest online campaign from SoulProviders for Brutal Fruit Lavacious Lemon. It’s a promotion showcasing pictures of all different kinds of SA women enjoying the latest Lavacious Lemon flavour. We thought our readers may enjoy the concept. Re… gister and vote for your most Lavacious Ladies… there are shopping vouchers to be won! Represent! Here’s more from the team: Following on from the success of the Brutal Fruit Fantasy campaign which had over 40 000 unique visitors viewing 450 000 pages during the competition, VWV in partnership with SoulProviders have launched the “Lavacious is the new Fabulous” campaign. www.brutalfruitlavacious.co.za. SoulProviders Creative Director Sarah-Jane Boden says the concept was inspired by the Japanese “Fruits” magazine which showcases street fashion and style. “During the research phase for Fantasy we were struck by the lack of online visual presence of South African women, we decided to maximize on the sampling activities and change this by identifying and celebrating women that stood out from the crowd by putting them on the net.” Lavaciously styled Brutal Fruit “style police” hit outlets throughout the country and take photographs of all kinds of Lavacious women sampling the new flavour. The public are invited to vote for their most Lavacious women online, two of whom will win a trend-seeking trip to Tokyo, Japan. Lavacious represents exotic, gorgeous, glamorous, strikingly stunning, zesty and trendy and the judges will choose the two women who most represent the Brutal Fruit Lavacious brand. “We wanted to give meaning to the word Lavacious, making it the new Fabulous and at the same time celebrate the diversity, creativity and uniqueness of Brutal Fruit consumers. The beauty of this campaign is where Fantasy told us all about the consumers desires, Lavacious puts a face to the names. Now we know exactly who is drinking Brutal Fruit.” says Sarah-Jane. “Initially we were seeking out the most trendy consumers we could find to give Lavacious a stylish edge, however as the campaign has evolved it has become more of a portrait of everyday Lavacious South African women out on the town having fun. It is a more targeted campaign as the entrants have to be in the right place at the right time to be picked, as opposed to Fantasy where any South African adult woman could enter.” Visit www.brutalfruitlavacious.co.za before the 14 December and vote for your most Lavacious woman....
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