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Interviews
Words w/ Jennifer Wade [Against the Grain]
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“don’t feel intimidated because you only have X camera and that awesome guy over there has Y camera. It’s about the photo.”
Next up in our series Against the Grain is Jennifer Wade. A D.C. area transplant hailing from Boston, she’s making her mark on the Federal City one frame at a time…in Kodachrome slide film [...]
Music
DC Loves Dilla
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All words and photos by Tracy Clayton.
“Dilla was to hip-hop what the tree was in Avatar…”
– Talib Kweli & DJ Hi Tek
Hip-hop heads showed up to a sold-out show at the Black Cat to pay tribute to the legendary producer J. Dilla. Since Dilla’s death in 2006 after complications from lupus, I’ve been to [...]
Arts
Creators Project Kicks Off in NYC
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I’m still trying to absorb what went down this Saturday at the Creators Project in NYC, a mash-up of art and technology by Intel and Vice Magazine.
Photo: Brayden Olson
Doors opened at 2pm with a line forming down West 15th stretching to 9th. Onlookers gawked atop The Highline as the eclectic mix of partygoers entered Milk [...]
Art in the Everyday
Art In The Everday: 6.24.10
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Featuring a ReadysetDC favorite Kelly Towles, via Tekky51.
Arts
oh snap: Gaia “The Urban Romantic” Opening @ Irvine
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Photos of Gaia’s work from the opening at Irvine Contemporary last Friday. Be sure to to visit Irvine to check out the art of Alexa Meade and Robert Mellor. It’s already proving to be a great summer for art. Ready.Set. Let’s Go… (more…)
Interviews
Words w/ Twee [Live Twee or Die]
Reported by Tracy
You may have noticed the brass knuckles, sunflowers, and rain cloud wheat pastes that have sprung up along 14th and other parts of the District. After a couple of days of hunting down the artist, I finally got a phone number. The phone which I’m sure was a TRAC phone a la The Wire, just rang and rang. Finally I was able to leave a message. My call wasn’t returned until three days later. He answered, “who are you and why should I talk to you…” Not wanting to meet in person, I had to settle for a phone interview. D.C. meet Twee.
Tracy: Where the hell did you come from?
Twee: I grew up on the streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I recently arrived here, so you’ll be seeing a lot more of my mark. D.C is about to get TWEEd. (more…)
Arts
oh snap: techARTS Closing Party @ 9:30 Club
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D.C. you spoke. We listened. You chose the bands. They performed. Over 1,300 of you came out to 930 Club for the techArts closing party celebrating a kick ass Digital Capital Week. Pixels below.
First set by Tracy Clayton:
Even more from Fiz:
Arts
TICKET GIVEAWAY: The Creators Project
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On June 26th ReadysetDC will travel to NYC for The Creators Project, a partnership with Intel and Vice. The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. New York City will host the first of five global conferences, highlighting Creators’ art and music and featuring multimedia installations, panel discussions, workshops, and an assortment of live performances delivered by some of our absolute favorite bands such as Interpol, Mark Ronson, Sleigh Bells and Gang Gang Dance just to name a few.
We decided, to share the love with DC and we want you to join us. We’ve got two pairs of tickets to giveaway***. Here’s how to enter:
- Visit The Creators Project website and check out the Creators videos showcasing artists in the genres of music, film, art, design, gaming and fashion.
- Come back to ReadysetDC and post a comment here on which Creator was your favorite and why? Also, tell us why you want the Creators tickets.
- All submissions must be posted below by June 18, 2010 by 11pm EST.
Our esteemed editors will select the best comments and notify winners on June 21nd by 5:00 PM via comment here.
Check out one of my favorite Creator videos featuring Diplo after the jump… (more…)
Art in the Everyday
Art In The Everyday: 6.1.10
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Light. Lines. Curves. We dig it. AITE via jim_darling. Don’t forget our Flickr pool is always accepting camera phone photos to feature in AITE.
Interviews
Words w/ Matt Dunn [Against the Grain Pt. 4]
Reported by Tracy
When Matt Dunn isn’t walking the streets of DC with camera in hand, he’s on the X2, 70, 52 or whatever random bus route tickles his fancy, camera to his eye. In our lastest series Against the Grain we talked film, putting down the iPhone and becoming the ball.
DC = DIY
TC: How’d you get [...]
Arts
Democracy Is…
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“Democracy is for everyone…”
Last week ReadysetDC was honored to be invited by the U.S. State Department to attend the preview screening for the Democracy Is challenge at the Hirshhorn. The second annual Democracy Video Challenge is a unique partnership comprising of democracy, and youth organizations, the film and entertainment industry, academia, and the U.S. government. The challenge is simple: Create a video short that completes the phrase “Democracy is…”
Interviews
Words w/ Michael Hicks [Against the Grain Pt. 3]
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Michael purchased his first “real” camera about a year ago, but it seems he’s been photographing the D.C. streets forever. Michael put his camera down just for awhile to chat with us about his favorite photographers, his love for film and this great city.
There are a lot of people who are locally engaged and are [...]
Art in the Everyday
Art In The Everyday: 5.3.10
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AITE via spiggycat. We love the lines and composition here.
Art in the Everyday
Art In The Everyday: 4.30.10
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Via volcanojw from last evening’s Asia After Dark.
Arts
oh snap: Portraits of DC @ Social
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Many gathered last evening at Social to view the winners of Portraits DC, a photography competition by DCCAH, DC Counts and FotoWeek DC. The venue although crowded at times, no one seemed to mind getting up close and personal with the portraits, photographers and some of the portraiture subjects themselves. The winning photos were selected [...]
