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Something Awesome To Do This Weekend: Resonate – 7.0 – Chicago 2012 – Year of the Dragon

shopbonn — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:45:16 +0000

2nd Tier tickets at: www.resonatechicago.net
We are super excited to announce this year’s line-up for RESONATE 7.0 . Inspired by the Burningman art festival out in the Nevada Desert, RESONATE was started back in 2006 as an experimental way to get all the Chicago area “Burner tribes” together under one roof.

Resonate 1.0 and the ideas behind it were so successful, that an entire community was created from it! Here we are 7 years later, still growing – and still nurturing art, self expression, “all inclusivity”, and community. Consistently re-inventing itself, this year’s RESONATE features more art and performance than ever. We’ve also added a NEW 4th stage inside the Metro and have completely re-designed our outdoor fire spinning stage and courtyard.

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Tickets are available here: www.resonatechicago.net and also www.metrochicago.com
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Freakeasy and greater Chicago Burningman community present…
RESONATE 7.0 – The Year Of The Dragon
Saturday, April 28th
8 p.m. – 5 a.m. – 21+

Metro Smart Bar Chicago ALL Building Event
3730 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60613
(773) 549-4140

RESONATE MUSIC

Christian Martin (Dirtybird Records, San Francisco)
Jef Stott (Sixdegrees records – San Francisco)
Gene Hunt (Rush Hour – Chicago)
Freedom Danish (The Root Sellers – Toronto)
DJ Striz
Radiohiro
MC Zulu
Justin Reed
Carla Starla
Searchl1te
Brad Miner
Marcin Albekier
Nate Manic
Duke Shin
Jeekoos
Evol (Detroit)
Adrienne Sanchez
Dirtball (Detroit)
Warp
Form
Mark Lerro w. Jef Stott (Live Oud)
Chip Powered
Jasperwocky
Sitari
Good Evening
Nick Florino – Stephanie Starnes
Environmental Encroachment!
Dixon’s Violin – Detroit

RESONATE LIVE VIDEO, LIGHTING, & SOUND

Video Janitor
Merkaba Visuals
Steve Casica – Intelligent Lighting
Fred Hahn – FOH
Antoine Kattar – FOH-Sound Lead
Onomonopia – Visuals
Sanctum FM – Audio Streaming (Detroit)
3DYOU Body Tracking Visualizations by Mindfield – Gordon Kummel
Galina Shevchenko

RESONATE TRIBAL PERFORMANCE & BURLESQUE

The Knock Knock Hot Spot Cabaret
Dakini – Circus-Burlesque (Detroit)
Shorty – Aerial Acrobat
KC Mendicino – Bellydance
Maya Sinstress & Jody Cox
KAmbata KA – Janelle Cooper
Tom Hill – Aerial Acrobat
Valhalla – Tribal Bellydance
Prabvi – Tribal Dance
Feral Minette
Dollface
Ellen Boyd – Bellydance
Ammunition
Jessica Mic Colangelo & Katie Hollingsworth
Tatiana Fonseca – Tribal Bellydance
Vittorio Carli – Spoken Word
Karima Abidine – Hoopdance
Vanessa Fae – Hoops
Ted Apke – LED
Scott M – Liquid Dance
Mitch Davidowitz – UV Flags
Delila Santos – Hoops
Loxx(ie) – Cassie Colon:Liquid Dance
Lauren Maureen Deaven – Hoops (Detroit)
Sylar Brody – Glo Poi
Acro Yoga Chicago
Plainwhite Tom- Liquid Dance
Rachel Reetz – Liquid Dance

RESONATE LIVE ART

Amy J Designs – Body Painting
Todd Genovese – Body Painting
Ramon Intengen – Body Painting
Alicia Mitchell – Body Painting
Tribe Of White Paint
Joe Gagnepain
Kumar Javvaji – Brilliantlymad
Lyll John
Zac Franzoni
Raecyne Forcia
Sean Tron
Scott Bullock
Ronit Mitchell
Iris Iris Pasic
David Hilborn
Transamoeba Silkscreening
Peeps – (Denver)
Galactic Clothing Silkscreening
Merrick Brown & Dave Garret
Steve Mathews
Knoe Ear
John Paul Marcelo – San Francisco

RESONATE INSTALLS & PARTICIPANTS

The Freakeasy – Resonate Main Gallery
Erin Banwell – Nexus BRC, SF
Water Dragon Lounge (Smart Bar) – Design: Yva Neal & Shortybell
Earth Dragon Lounge – Design: Rita A, Eve U, Marika Rika
Fire Dragon Stage – Design: Beebop & Nuccio
Ted Apke – Close Your Eyes Open Your Mind – Dream Machine
Crystal Cluster Towers re-active LED install – by Kickin’ It – Columbus Ohio
Glitter Guts Photography
Elysia Lock – “Drawing From Light” interactive install
That Guy
John Sacelli
Heather Albekier – Resonate 7.0 Design
Mr. Vibe
Fur-Tile Project
Maria Scileppi
Davidandora.com – Light install
Meeze Jetfoo – decor
Chicago Urban Ranger Brigade
Brilliantlymad – Event Video & Photography
Nicole – Energy and Bodywork Practitioner
The Bureau of Field Documentation
Poochie – Rueben’s Sound Reactive Fire Tube
Solar Beats Truck – by GOBI
The Great Lakes C.O.R.E. Project
(be an interactive part of this C.O.R.E install to be burned at Burningman!)
Resonate Healing Ashram by YOGA NOW
Rachel Dorit – “Creating Dreams” mural project
Smoke Daddy – Burningman Neon designer for “The Man”

RESONATE FIRE SPINNING STAGE & COURTYARD

Pyrotechniq
Majik Dakini – Detroit
Mike – Chicago Fire Tribe
Michi – Chicago Fire Tribe
Tom Hill – Chicago Fire Tribe
Kate – Chicago Fire Tribe
Hoodie – Chicago Fire Tribe
Tamale – Chicago Fire Tribe
Gigglebunny – Cobra Cabaret
Johnnyjuan – Deam Team Spinners
Calcifur – Detroit Fire Guild
Lady FireFox – Detroit Fire Guild
Knox – Detroit Fire Guild
Vince – Detroit Fire Guild
Root Hespa – Detroit Fire Guild
Digitalis & Glitch – Firefly Performance Troupe
DeeRock – The Gypsy Circus Tribe
Sarah Sparkles – Sparkle and Burn Hoop Dance
Ammunition – SS Triple X
Shelbear – The Cobra Cabaret
Aurora Anaya
Coelti
Liz Campanella – Fire Coordination Lead

*line-up additions and updates weekly*

Resonate 7.0 helps fund art throughout the Burningman community. Here’s a great opportunity for you to contribute to Chicago’s vibrant Burner scene while gettin’ down and dirty.

Ask First : Respect Community : Leave No Trace : Dress To Kill

Produced by the SuperFreaks that brought you The Freakeasy, PreKomp Playa Massive, Monkey’s Paw Massacre, Decompression 1-2, and Resonate 1-6!

“Resonate 7.0-Chicago 2012″ would not be possible without the help of countless community artists and VOLUNTEERS! See why ‘the Burningman community’ is what it’s all about. Burners Unite!

Resonate print and web design by Heather Albekier. Printing – Marcin Albekier.

This event is 100% FREAK APPROVED by www.freakeasy.net
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** 1st tier discount tickets for RESONATE 7.0 are available here:www.resonatechicago.net

Bonnie&Clyde’s Escapes Flood: Our New Secret Hideout

shopbonn — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:30:49 +0000

We would like to update you on the current state of affairs at Bonnie&Clyde’s.

On Monday March 6th a flood caused by a faulty washing machine from a neighboring unit caused Bonnie&Clyde’s Division St. boutique to temporarily close its doors. After a week of restoration, replacement of hardware, and assessment of damages to merchandise the store was in working order to reopen. Tragically the Bonnie&Clyde’s storefront was flooded a second time in the same manner. The damages were sadly much more significant the second time around. In this unfortunate turn of events Bonnie&Clyde’s has been forced to shutter operations at their Division St. location indefinitely.

However, these retail rebels will not let the destruction of their home base deter their mission to share the world’s most unique unisex fashion. Unfazed they have temporarily set up shop in their Secret Hideout, an undisclosed location in Chicago’s Gold Coast. Until a permanent home is found the Secret Hideout will provide an exclusive refuge for Chicago’s style seekers looking for outstanding unisex fashion.

How does one visit Bonnie&Clyde’s Secret Hideout?

Access to the Secret Hideout will be by invitation only. Current clients and their referrals will be extended personal invitations to book an appointment at Bonnie&Clyde’s Secret Hideout. Upon scheduling an appointment, clients will be disclosed a location to meet a member of the Bonnie&Clyde’s team who will then escort them to the secret showroom. Please note that clients will be requested to sign a nondisclosure agreement prior to entering the new Secret Popup location. The Bonnie&Clyde’s team promises that those lucky enough to receive an invitation will find a wealth of goods from Rick Owens to Ann Demeulemeester, Rad Hourani, Henrik Vibskov, and more. Efforts in finding them will definitely be well rewarded!

To request an invitation to Bonnie&Clyde’s Secret Hideout please contact:

info@bonnieandclydes.com

Call

773.235.2680

Ann Demeulemeester F/W12 Paris Runway

shopbonn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:42:50 +0000

Fall/Winter 2012 will mark an epoch is the poeticism of Parisian Runway Collections. This upcoming fall/winter Ann Demeulemeester’s Men’s Collection will be no different. From the exquisite foretelling that is her declarative aestheticism towards her unique and emotive style, comes a collection that breaks the silhouettes and shadow-lines of her previous men’s collections. Instead, Ann Demeulemeester draws her influence from the late nineteenth century poet Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891).

In the opening act of this prologue, she opens with a waist-length top coat and fitted trousers with an ombre pattern that continues into the top of the trousers. Other looks include sharp-contrasting fabrics, silks, tie-dyed knits, exaggerated zip-cardigans, exquisitely detailed Napoleonic tailcoats.

This collection really emphasizes Ann Demeulemeester’s strengths in creating a men’s collection which stands on its own. It is more the state of transition, the middle point, rather than a beginning or an end.

Written Silvio Pinto and Martin Narrod

All Photographs Courtesy of Matt Reeves http://www.darkroomdemons.com

Past, Present, and Fall/Winter/The Ego, The Id, and Beyond: Looking at Julius F/W2012

shopbonn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:33:44 +0000

All Images Courtesy of Matt Reeves http://www.darkroomdemons.com

From the depths of a supernatural and surreal darkness emerges the mystic black figures of designer Tatsuro Horikawa’s collection Julius. In this upcoming seasons collection for Fall/Winter Horikawa moves away from the truly distressed and destroyed fabrics that emblematize his previous seasons; instead he utilizes the wholesomeness of wools, canvases, jersey, and cotton fabrics. Emphasizing oversized details, strong asymmetry, and overflowing long drapery refined with narrow trousers and slim-fitted sleeves to create counter-balance to the latent energy in each look.

Zippers, zippers, and more zippers. Verticality and the persistence towards form and functionality; Horikawa opposes the Bauhaus and instead enriches this collection with the decadent beauty of intense emotion and demonstrative progression of the inner self. The ego and the id.

Of all the collections that I’ve seen this past week, it was this collection that spoke volumes to me. Perhaps it was the Rachmaninov I listened to while viewing the show, rather I think it is the humanness and humanity that this collection expresses. In looking at the final walk of all the models, there is a definite poetry to their homologous relation to one other. From the pensive stoicism on the models faces to the exquisite balance in each pieces asymmetry, correlating to the majestic sentiment of a voluminous collar or three-quarter length coat, every piece relates to one other in a beautifully artistic and portentous manner. The fantastic cyclical evolution that does not only evolve into the darkness, but out of it as well.

Written by Martin Narrod

Asian, Slavic, and African Flare: Damir Doma’s Fall/Winter Collection 2012

shopbonn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:07:12 +0000

East-Asian, Slavic, African, and……barbaric? These may be some of the influences running through the mind of Croatian born, Paris-based designer Damir Doma in his Fall/Winter 2012 Men’s collection. The designer whose work is usually the facet of draping asymmetrical tops and trousers, dark Romanesque cuts, and distressed hand-knit fabrics really emphasized new notions in his design propriety in his collection for Fall/Winter 2012. Instead of his typically minimal flare for a soft and cool color palette of concretes and cool grays, dusts and soft browns, and matte blacks, this season the designer has pursued a ‘larger-than-life’ palette that uses sophisticated pattern and line, deep alizarins, radiant browns given intense texture with deep hues of charcoal, and balanced with opalescent cerise beads, and rectangular mother-of-pearl-like stones. Pushing beyond his comfort zone? We think so. This season Damir Doma uses a far more, international variety of models, each ranking his own vamped version of Damir’s vision.We were extraordinarily excited to see heavy furs introduced to this seasons collection. It’s a courageous motion towards development from the more minimal collections of the past. When the last few looks arrived, and we were presented again with Damir’s expert ensembles of black we oohed and ahhed. The designer’s ability to give exquisite texture and draping in head to toe black ensembles still takes our breath away. Carrot-trousers, slouched kepi caps, and beautifully laced black loafers finished off the collection with the same unspoken refrain, ” I trust myself enough to try new things.” Needless to say, we’re hoping for an early autumn this year.

Written by Martin Narrod

All Photographs Courtesy of Matt Reeves http://www.darkroomdemons.com