Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Your Prayers Have Been Answered...

...as long as you were praying for new logo shirts from Rogue Squirrel. In that case you should be praying for world peace. Shame on you!

Anyway...

Rogue Squirrel will be printing women's logo outline shirts. You know, the blue v-neck.

We will also be introducing two new colors for our O.G. logo. Probably a greenish, blueish, brownish, yellowish, whiteish color. Check back, in the coming weeks, on www.roguesquirrel.com, then click on "store" to get your hands on one of the new colors, or if you've been waiting on a certain size.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

I Almost Forgot...More Soul Society Stuff

Here are some links to coverage of Soul Society. I could have written about this and summed it up but it would have been full of typos and bad grammar. Enjoy! Oh, and thanks to Killabeez.com for the write-up.

http://www.killahbeez.com/2009/04/20/bboybattledc/

Friday, April 24, 2009

Soul Society Workshops

Saturday, we broke it down. Sunday, we were taught how to break it down. Soul Society wasn't just a Hip Hop culture celebration on April 18th. Soul Society was a Hip Hop culture weekend. Pre-pre-party on Thursday, pre-party on Friday, event on Saturday, and ending with workshops on Sunday. Here are some pics of the workshops and lectures from Joe's Movement Emporium.

For a full list of who was there at Joe's on Sunday, check www.hiphopsoulsociety.com.

Sopheye Richard, Waaking workshop (Urban Artistry, Montreal Canada) and Rashaad Pearson, Funk in Focus workshop (Assassins Crew/Urban Artistry, DC Chapter)


BBoy ATA's bboy/bgirl workshop (Ghost Crew, Helsinki Finland)


JaQuel Knight (choreographer for Beyonce and Britney Spears)


A-tone the Hip Hop Historian lecturing about classic Hip Hop.

Marcia Howard, speaking on West African Dance.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Scotty 76 at Soul Society

See what Germany's, Scotty 76, was up to behind the Hollywood Ballroom during Soul Society.






Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Let's Make It Two In A Row!

The Rogue Squirrels met with Urban Artistry last night to settle the bill for Soul Society. Everything turned out great, surprising since it's the first year for this event. It was tough but it was definitely worth it. The feed back that we have gotten from attendees, vendors and guests alike, have graced us with resounding praise. Basically, everyone had a good time. It was a pleasure to put on an event that focused Souly (haha, funny) on the music and culture of Hip-Hop, in this area on an international scale.

I was not aware of this, but apparently this is the first time, at least I think, that a media kit has been offered as a part of a grand prize. Choreography champs, Capital Funk, and BBoy champs, Lions of Zion, both took home $1,000 plus a media kit offered by yours truly. The media kit is a professional survival package including items like business cards, logo, shirts, everything that a crew would need to start marketing themselves. Along with the physical material, Urban Artistry will help each crew utilize the tools they have been given to set them on the right track.

We are already looking to next year to make Soul Society bigger, badder, bolder, and other B words.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Let's try this again.

I think something was said about keeping this blog up to date. I guess I lied. I'm a liar. I feel horrible and I will punish myself. Bad Rich! Ok, I feel better. Now, onto business.

Soul Society is over. Rogue Squirrel and Urban Artistry put on one hell of a show. Now we need to sift through the rubble and look for survivors. It was a long, and sometimes bumpy road. From locating a venue, I believe our friends over at Urban Artistry looked at around 30 places, to printing the shirts and programs, and not to mention finalizing the vendors.

As the doors officially opened at 12 noon on Saturday, April 18th, and only staff were present I screamed "WE'RE RUINED!"

But we weren't, it was an awesome show and I'm just an idiot.

About 8pm, the Hollywood Ballroom looked like the club scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles II: The Secret Of The OOZE. By making this reference, I'm stating that the events was the EFFFING AWESOMENESS!

I'll try and upload all of the photos as soon as possible.