Beautiful photography by Tracy Clayton. Beautiful modeling by Brandon Bloch.
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UPDATE: To allow sufficient time for t-shirt printing, voting will end on Thursday, August 12th at 11:59PM.

(re)DC is a new creative project series by ReadysetDC. We are looking at things that we see all the time in DC, and making a call to improve them. A simple concept to raise the bar.

We are starting simple, with DC’s “tourist t-shirt”. We’ve pulled together some talented artists and designers to rethink what this shirt could be. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE DESIGNS. Check out the designs they’ve put their time and sweat into. YOU vote. Look through all of the entries and make your decision at the bottom. The winning design will be “gifted” to the public, under Creative Commons (Attribution, No Derivatives). Until their is a winner, artists maintain all rights to their works.

A special thanks to Jeff Tien, Erik Dreyer, Kiril Tchangov, Elizabeth Graeber, E.B. Davis III, Adrian Constantyn, Jenny Griffith and Alex Slater for participating.

The winning design will be printed and sold for the first time at a ReadysetDC party to be announced this week. Just keep your August 20th evening available.

We have a PAIR of tickets to giveaway to a lucky reader! Please comment below with your FULL NAME and why you NEED these tickets.

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Comments will close Thursday at 9PM.

THE VERY BIG FATBACK
featuring
gogo crankin’ with
The Art of Junk

the soulful keys of
George Smallwood

plus the
Fatback DJs
and so much more!

Friday, July 16 @ 930 Club
815 V St NW
Doors @ 9:00pm
Just $10 to make you holler!

Photos by Katie Filbert and Charles Planck

During Digital Capital Week you probably attended a couple of parties and possibly some lectures. Maybe in between jotting down notes or partaking in the booze, you noticed that the Office of Planning in collaboration with the Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership was celebrating the release of their Creative Capital Report which was timed to coincide with Digital Capital Week. Creative Capital: The Creative DC Agenda is a report that is part of Washington, D.C.’s Actionomics[dc] initiative which calls on Washington, D.C.’s creative class and knowledge-based economy to ACT and CREATE. (more…)

“Soccer in the Circle” (#SITCDC) is a World Cup viewing party in Dupont Circle Park.  The photos below were taken on June 12, 2010 during the three 1st round matches.

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All photos by our friends over at VGDA Design!

View the full gallery after the jump… (more…)

Tomorrow night, we will host the second The Art of the Blog_ with David Alpert of GreaterGreaterWashington.org. It will be from 6-8PM at the DCWeek Pop-up Lab at 13th & H Streets NE (old DC Kiosk Library). We will be discussing neighborhood development and how that relates to H Street NE. This will include a talk by David Alpert as well as a Q & A.

The Art of the Blog_
Tuesday, June 15th | 6-8PM
DCWeek Pop-up Lab | 1300 H Street NE

If you plan to attend, please register HERE.

Photos above by Naz and photos below by Tracy Clayton

In one week the Dandies and Quaintrelles will invite Washington residents to bring out their best interpretation of Seersucker. The first Seersucker Social will be held Saturday, June 12th at 3:30 pm at Hillwood Estate. A summer response to the successful DC Fall Tweed Ride, the Seersucker Social will begin with a leisurely ride through Rock Creek Park and will culminate with a Social on the stunning lawn of Hillwood Estate, the former home of the Post family.

A great group came together to fight some impeding stormy weather and capture these images. We at ReadysetDC were all too eager to lend a helping hand to the DC Dandies working with Sir Eric Channing Brewer on shoot direction, photography and make-up artistry.The shoot featured items from such local  shops as; Treasury and ReVamp, Nana and Polly Sue’s and included an electic group of friends and models including; Matthew Hemerlein, dancer Sebastian Rousseau, stylist Melissa Burgos, the ladies of ReVamp, Scott Permar of Derringer Friday. A special thank you to photographer Naz and behind the scenes photographer Tracy Clayton, Cathy Chung of Treasury for styling and Lynn Rossotti of Hillwood Estate. Be sure to check out a full slideshow of the shoot here.

If you have not already, be sure to register for the Seersucker Ride and Social. And remember, while Seersucker isn’t mandatory; dress accordingly, act accordingly.

All thanks to YOUR emails, phone calls and tweets, an amendment was made yesterday for the funding of DC Streetcars. Late Tuesday evening, we sent out a late tweet about the City Council’s fiscal year 2011 budget.  We urged DC tweeples to email their council members to support funding for streetcars.

Dan Zak of the Washington Post wrote an article about 2011′s Screen On the Green and ackowledged that Jesse and his group of volunteers had successfully brought back Screen on the Green through the use of social media. By the end of the day, DC citizens proved that social media is powerful and that it can make an impact for social change.

More after the jump… (more…)