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City Soles: Telling The Real Story of Artisan Shoe Designers by Scott Starbuck
Scott Starbuck of City Soles, an independently owned artisan footwear retailer, seeks to create the documentary Telling the Real Story of Artisan Shoes.
The KickStarter campaign launched April 21, and has already raised $9,400 towards the $30,000 goal. The documentary will tell the story of artisan shoemakers from around the world including the conflicts they face in a fast fashion world.
Starbuck offers backers exclusive and unique offerings for supporting the documentary. View the KickStarter campaign, here.
- Ever want to create your own shoe line?A $5,000 pledge will give you access to work with Italian manufacturers and have the finished product sold at City Soles.
- A $2,500 pledge will give you two pairs of custom, handmade Italian shoesfrom a designer featured in the documentary along with a hand signed certificate of authenticity from the designer.
- A $1,000 pledge earns you the title Associate Producer,and your name in the opening credits. You will also be a VIP guest at the documentary launch party in Chicago.
About City Soles:
City Soles is a designer shoe boutique and online retailer featuring unique fashion footwear for men and women from across the globe. City Soles seeks to provide sophisticated, luxurious, and all-around avant-garde merchandise to their customers.
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Check This Out – Page One
Working at an almost 30 year old publishing firm, this trailer went through the office and has evoked many, manyyy opinions. Page One is the limitedly screened film about the ‘goings on’ during one year at The New York Times, when print editorial first met its biggest threat… online mass media. Check the trailer below, i’m dying to catch this film. As mentioned, several people at my office were able to view a screening and definitely came back with plenty to talk about.
Produced by Magnolia Pictures of Ong Bak & I’m Still Here, the Joaquin Phoenix moc-umentary.xoxo.
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Year of 9th Wonder
In spirit of this upcoming weekend’s Pioneer DJ Stylus Awards in Toronto, I feel this video comes from a relevant home. LRG presents: 9th Wonder, “The Wonder Year” Documentary.
This piece follows one full year in the life of Grammy award winner, North Carolina native, hip hop producer, DJ, University Lecturer, and Rapper, Patrick Douthit… better known as 9th Wonder.
Beginning his career as producer for hip hop group Little Brother, and since leaving the group in 2007, 9th has also worked with Mary J Blige, Jean Grey, Weezy, Wale, Jay-Z, Drake, Erykah Badu… and the list continues. 9th’s production style has been known to sample greats like Curtis Mayfield and Al Green. Throughout the video 9th takes us through the neighborhood where he grew up, introduces us to his craft and verbalizes the mind state that creates hits and wins awards.
I’m so excited for this video to drop and while the release date is still yet to be announced, word is that one will need to vote the showing in your city. Peep the trailer below.
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What Up With Joaquin?
While home sicky-icky, I stumbled across this flick on Joaquin Phoenix called “I’m Still Here” and couldn’t help but hold the channel… shot in documentary-style, the camera follows Joaquin (pronounced WAH-keen) and his battle with drugs after his announcement to leave acting and focus on a RAP career.Catch the official trailer…I won’t spoil the film, but I will tell you that I couldn’t resist doing more research and (while it was totally worth watching) theres more to this story… First, I was literally in tears watching, as Joaquin Phoenix is an actor that I literally grew up with; my Mum and her friends were a huge fan of himself as well as his brother, River Phoenix, who’s tragic overdose was tossed across the media in the early ’90s. Truth is… the film is a mok-u-mentary that Phoenix and directing partner Casey Affleck created to explore famosity, the relationship of the media and the consumer by literally exposing the celebrity. This was done, under the awareness of very few people, to make it all the more real… and impactful!
