Archive for 'Profiles'
Band Profile: The Bowerbirds
Tell us more about your sound & influences:
We are an acoustic band, playing I guess what people call either Americana, indie folk, or nu folk. We don’t really like any of these terms. We are influenced by 70s music, other current indie musicians, jazz, african harp music, traditional western and eastern european music.
The songwriting is [...]
No Comments »Profile: ShopLuella
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Lily and Brian Booth at their home studio in Raleigh. A husband and wife team of artisan jewelry designers, they are passionate about pursuing their craft and it is evident in their stunning work.
Tell us more about your work, what you & Brian do [...]
Profile: Pox World Empire
Zeno Gill is the driving force behind Pox World Empire, a collaborative record label and production studio based in Durham. The label features North Carolina bands North Elementary, Schooner, and Nathan Oliver, among others. Pox is about to release Compulation Volume 3, a cd featuring a host of talented local musicians.
Photo by Ashley Melzer
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Profile: Modern Fabrics
Tell us more about Modern Fabrics:
Modern Fabrics is a mom-n-pop fabric reclamation company targeting excess contemporary interior textiles left over from the manufacture of contract furniture. These fabrics are new and current designs by leading design houses. (At this time, we rarely handle discontinued fabrics, mill overruns, closeouts, or residential grade fabrics)
We started Modern Fabrics [...]
Brian Walsby
Brian Walsby is a North Carolina comic book author, illustrator and musician. He will soon be releasing his 4th comic book, entitled Manchild 4. Check out his website for more details on upcoming events related to the book release. In addition to his art, he has played drums alongside Mac McCaughan and Ryan Adams, among [...]
Bifocal Media
Bifocal Media is a music label & video production company that specializes in promoting edgy underground artists. Their label roster includes striking bands of past & present: Braid, Des Ark and The Cherry Valance, as well as print projects like Brian Walsby’s “Manchild” comics. In addition, they produce multimedia content for more main-stream clients like [...]
Featured indieNC Designer: Sonya Coulson Rook, Metamorphosis Metals
Tell us a little more about your business and how you got started:
My business started as a hobby and has slowly grown from there. I first started making jewelry while studying art in college. I tried working in several different media before a professor suggested that I take a Metal Design class. [...]
Bake It Pretty, Amanda Krueger
Amanda Krueger runs the online shop Bake It Pretty from her Asheville home. Her boutique specializes in cute, vintage-inspired items to decorate food and baked goods, all of which you didn’t know you needed until now. Who can resist a forest-themed cupcake complete with tiny deer and mushrooms? Read on for our interview with Amanda [...]
¡Perfecto! Short Film
Recently, ¡Perfecto!, a short film directed by Blake Edwards and written by Erin Fede of Charlotte took 1st place in Project:Direct an international film competition sponsored by YouTube, Moviefone and Sundance Film Festival. Hundreds of movies were submitted, a panel at the Sundance Film Festival narrowed those entries down to ten and then YouTube users [...]
Art-O-Mat
Art-O-Mat is a clever, portable gallery showcasing tiny pieces of artwork in vintage cigarette machines. Founded in 1997 in Winston-Salem by conceptual artist Clark Whittington, the machines were first used to display his own work at a solo art show but soon morphed into a unique, traveling, multi-artist gallery.
The goal of Art-O-Mat is to make [...]
