Get On The Bus

When The Ordinary Girl heard about adidas' Get On The Bus campaign, the first thing she thought about was a young Hill Harper. Yum. The second and third things were how well Mr Harper's aged and if Michael Ealy is better looking, respectively. And then I read the press release. To cut a long story short: adidas wants you to get on their bus and pose for pictures. We could be wrong but isn't this Maria of The Mothership on that screen in this picture?



Anyway, this campaign is a vehicle - see what I did there? - to bring awareness to the adidas Originals kicks and clothes and will travel all over the country to tell one and all about it.And no, Hill Harper and Michael Ealy are not on this bus. I checked.

What Else theblagg Gets Up To

Dude and The Ordinary Girl attended Nike x The Fader's Pitch Perfect Workshop Day on June 16. When we weren't complaining about how cold it is we were sharing revelations about how yesterday's Youth Day is really yesterday's youth day. Marinate on that for a bit. theblagg obviously had a little something to say about the proceedings - we can't help that we have the gift of the gab. And it goes a little something like this:

Me: Pssst!
Her: Hi…
Me: What kind of creative idea did you submit to be chosen as one of the 100 young people to attend these workshops?
Her: I didn’t. My brother works here so…
Me: Er, ok.

My dude nudges me to stop harassing people so we can watch The Lazarus Effect documentary in peace. You see, I’m a little confused. It’s Youth Day and under the Nike Sportswear and The Fader’s Pitch Perfect moniker, 100 young people, as well as a few members of the media, have been invited to partake in a day-long workshop (consisting of four parts: the (RED) initiative, music, T-shirt printing and film editing workshops – but more on that later) and concert at the Nike Football Training Center in Pimville, Soweto.

Now go read the rest of theblagg's two cent's worth over at The Mothership.

The Mothership In the Guardian

Black Rage Familia: Maria McCloy, Kulwano Skosana and Dzino (yep, just Dzino - one word, like Madonna)

For those of you that don't know, The Guardian is a UK publication that's known for some sick writing, yes, even on music. And if you weren't aware, The Mothership (rage.co.za to the normal folks) was recently mentioned in the 2010 FIFA World Cup story that you can read here.

We all know Maria - yes we're cool enough to have her on a first name basis and a speed dial, ha! - one of the co-founders of Black Rage as well as the online youth culture magazine, rage.co.za, is the biznis. So theblagg was most proud when we saw that Maria and their biznis was shown some international love.

So check out the article because Neil Spencer makes some pretty good points. And check out The Mothership errday allday to be kept up on the latest. And check out her vintage clothing sales in Greenside. That's where Dude bought the Puma hi-tops that look like they are stuck on yoThe Ordinary Girl always in. That is all.

Tumi performance @ The Hype Awards

In case you haven't noticed, WE LOVE TUMI!!!! Ahem...it goes without saying. I mean anyone who can maintain rocking Jordans since he was 13 is alright in our books. So you know when he hit the stage at the second Hype Awards, EbonyWoman sprung into action using her Superphotography-100x-zoom-function-able-to-download-on-computer-what-you-saw-vision...power...thingy. So courtesy of EbonyWoman's power, here's Tumi performing Usain Bolt (why oh why do bad titles happen to awesome songs?) and Bambezela featuring Brickz and Zaki Ibrahim.



Read The Ordinary Girl's review of the Awards over at The Mothership