Monthly Archives: May 2011

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Contest Red Bull Grand Design Challenge

by Shop Keeper
May 3, 2011 - 12:25 pm

Red Bull Moto GP Grid GirlsChinaShop is hosting an online contest inviting designers, fashionistas, and motorsport enthusiasts to design the 2011 Red Bull Grid Girl outfits for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix (July 22-24 2011) and Red Bull Indianapolis GP (August 26-28, 2011) MotoGP races.

What’s MotoGP, you ask? It is the world’s premier motorcycle racing series, where the riders can go over 200 mph on million-dollar motorcycles. With 18 races in 13 countries, it is the two-wheel version of Formula 1.

The Red Bull Grid Girls help to keep the festivities interesting. Every year a group of very hot – and I’m sure, talented – models are chosen to help start the race and help celebrate at the finish.

Red Bull Grid Girls

Red Bull hosts both American MotoGP races, and would like a different, new design for the girls to wear at each one. You don’t have to be a race enthusiast in order to desire to see an outfit you conceived on the girls. You don’t even need to know how to sew! Red Bull will take care of getting the outfits constructed, all you have to do is come up with an innovative, creative, classic, tasteful yet sexy design. Think in terms of an entire look including perhaps a hat? belt? shoes? etc. Start doodling on those drink napkins NOW!

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Art Gallery Between Cries and Whispers : Abstract Explorations at Sam Lee Gallery

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
May 3, 2011 - 12:11 pm

A piece of abstract art can mean something different to everyone whose eyes come across it. When strategically arranged in a gallery, those individual paintings mix, mingle, and exchange a dialogue amongst themselves to create a cohesive theme. Such is the case in the “Cries and Whispers” exhibition currently on display at Los Angeles’s Sam Lee Gallery. According to the gallery staff, “Cries and Whispers” looks at abstraction from a multi-faceted perspective, exploring the different ways in which visual devices are employed through a paramount usage of line, color, and content.

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Gallery Music Red Bull Thre3style Blows Through Chicago

by Max Herman
May 3, 2011 - 12:10 pm

Sure just about everyone with a laptop and a playlist wants to be a DJ nowadays, but a true selector is often judged only by how well they can connect with a crowd. Red Bull Thre3Style, a new, countrywide competition series, is weeding out the wannabes and finding the top crowd-moving DJs in each city. The format features eight competitors who are given fifteen minutes to garner a response using music from at least three genres. On the Chicago leg of the Red Bull Thre3style tour held at The Mid, the competition largely took the challenge seriously and pushed themselves to dig deep in their Serato playlists to come up with party-worthy sets.

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Music 6 Minutes with Scott Bartenhagen

by Dustin Downing
May 3, 2011 - 11:56 am

Scott Bartenhagen 2011

One goal of my planning for coverage in Austin this year was to really map things out. Get down exactly where/when I wanted to be and to do some great research on those bands I was to cover. But, I found that to be terribly boring and completely unlike me, so I just stopped this band for 6 minutes on the street. Lucky me, they’re really good…

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Gallery Music Coldwave is Coming

by Courtney Dudley
May 2, 2011 - 10:44 am

There is a new-old music trend a-brewing and its headquartered (surprise!) in the underground clubs and venues of New York City.

Coldwave is a term traditionally used to describe a group of European post-punk psychedelic experimental bands in the late 70’s and 80’s that you’ve probably never heard of. Taking notes from the Cure, Joy Division and Siouxsie and The Banshees, Coldwave draws inspiration from punk and goth styles and then chills everything out a whole lot. Think multi-layered analog synths, deadpan vocals and lyrics that would bring yo mama to tears and you’ve got the idea.

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Music DJ GETLIVE! Wins Red Bull Thre3style Brooklyn

by Shop Keeper
May 2, 2011 - 10:44 am

Red Bull Thre3Style Brooklyn Winner DJ GETLIVE!

The Brooklyn event had $1,000 and a trip to Washington DC for the East Coast Finals on May 3 at stake. Each DJ put down one electrifying set one after another, but it was DJ GETLIVE! and his opening set that left the crowd cheering and the judges impressed. He must have made quite an impression getting the night started but it was up to the remaining 8 DJ’s to out-mix and get the crowd behind them. GETLIVE! had the crowd going crazy from the minute his first song played to when he stepped off the stage with his insane mix of hip hop, electro, pop and metal – System Of A Down’s “Chop Suey” which went down like a dream.

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