How Disney’s Ban on Costumes Inspired an Underground Style Subculture – Broadly

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Side Show at Theater Memphis

For the past two weeks, I have had the opportunity to help build some amazing costumes for Theater Memphis’ production of Side Show. Come and see!

Watch “My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage” on YouTube

Great video showing the love and magic behind cosplay!

Making of the Grizz Bear coat

It all started with an idea, we wanted something to wear to Grizzlies games that would really show the pride we have for the team. First we took measurements, picked fabric, and finalized the design. Then we got to work.

First the fur was cut and stitched together making the base of the coat. 

Then the old fur was removed from the bear face and replaced with the matching blue fur from the coat. 

Everything was covered except the eyes, nose and mouth.

A little fur styling and a bit of a trim was needed to make it more bear-face-like. The head was then attached to the coat base and made to be worn as a hood. 

Then a lining was attached in a nice light blue that matched the team’s color scheme. A little finishing here, a little finishing there, and done! 

We hope that the coat is enjoyed not only by the customer who ordered it but by the whole fan base for The Memphis Grizzlies. Please keep an eye out on Fox Sports South and ESPN for the Grizz Bear Coat on the side lines at any Memphis Grizzlies game in the FedEx Forum. 

If there are any orders or inquiries about getting your own Grizz Bear coat or any other great costume please feel free to email me at aperelfashion@gmail.com

Flower Tutu

Bodice and attached Basque $175

Tutu with Glued on flowers on Spandex Panty $75

Don’t miss The 2nd Annual Mid-South Renaissance Faire – see you there!

Queen Photo by Gary Cox

‘Million Dollar Quartet’ worth more than that to Memphis

I made the grey poodle skirt in this photo!!! Made and rented many items to MDQ. Just goes to show how well this show supported its local vendors.

Photo – April 8, 2016 – Dressed in period costumes, extras from the “Million Dollar Quartet” television show linger inside the Arcade restaurant after shooting wrapped there. Filming began this week for the show, an eight-episode series about the birth of rock and roll that will appear on CMT (Country Music Television) in November. (Brandon Dill/Special to The Commercial Appeal)

By John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal

“Million Dollar Quartet” more than lived up to its name by spending more than $6.3 million during 69 shooting days here this year, according to the annual report of the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission.

Scheduled to be released during the Film Commission’s quarterly board meeting Wednesday at the Malco Studio on the Square, the report demonstrates the importance of a single major production on the health of the local film industry.

However, the eight-episode CMT drama about the Memphis birth of rock and roll was only the most prominent of 74 productions — including feature and short films, TV programs, commercials, corporate films, music videos, still photography shoots and Web projects — that were shot with commission assistance during the 2015-16 fiscal year, according to Film Commissioner Linn Sitler.

“It shows that we’re back, basically, as a production center,” said Assistant Commissioner Sharon Fox O’Guin, who said the past year was the best for the local film industry since the 1990s, when such projects as “The Firm” with Tom Cruise and “The People vs. Larry Flynt” with Woody Harrelson were based in Memphis.

Compiled by O’Guin from mandatory production reports filed by commission “clients,” the report concludes that $8.5 million was spent locally during 299 local production days last year. This “direct spend” — a huge return considering the Film Commission this year operated on a $350,000 budget, O’Guin argues — ranges from local salaries to hotel expenses, supply purchases, construction costs and more.

In addition, Mid-Southerners filled 1,760 cast and crew jobs during this time (912 of these jobs were on “Million Dollar Quartet”). The jobs ranged from the creative and technical to simple labor work, so “anyone from any walk of life in Memphis could have worked on many of these projects,” O’Guin said

In comparison, commission clients spent only $1.4 million and employed 845 locals during the previous fiscal year.

Produced by Nashville-based CMT and Los Angeles’ Think Factory Media, “Million Dollar Quartet” probably spent close to another $11 million in Tennessee outside of Shelby County to qualify for the state rebates necessary to lure “Quartet” to Memphis in the first place. (The producers also considered shooting in more financially friendly if less Elvis-authentic Louisiana.) Much of the additional money likely was spent on salaries and possibly on music licensing rights.

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Learn to Sew with Alex

Maker Fair attracts artisans to City Hall

Article and photo from the Commercial Appeal.

June 21, 2016 — Costume designer Alexandria Perel sets up a small tent outside of City Hall at the start of the Memphis Maker Fair featuring wares from local artists and artisans sponsored by the organization Made By Project. (Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal) Image credit: Jim Weber
More than a dozen artisans displayed products Tuesday as Mayor Jim Strickland kicked off the Memphis Maker Fair at City Hall.
  
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Memphis Makers Festival

I am here today at the Memphis Makers’ Festival, located infront of City Hall. The Mayor just spoke about how to help Makers in Memphis be able to grow their businesses.

Leading up to this festival, I had the honor of helping develop a survey that is geared to help Makers talk about what they need as local resources. If you are a Memphis Maker you can find the Survey at madebyproject.org

Please check out local media and learn more about what Memphis is doing for Makers!