PG & the african attachment (independent film production)

The African Attachment (taa for short) is an independent film production house based out of Cape Town, South Africa. Dean Leslie and Greg Fell are the founding fathers of this awesome creative house, proving that South Africa has many talents in the film industry. For those who don't know, Purple Gorilla has been in South Africa for the past month, touring and helping out at the African Attachment.

TAA have done many music videos for major South African Rock bands like aKING, Ashtray Electric, The Dirty Skirts and The Parlotones. They're also doing a documentary on Ryan Sandes called "Wandering Fever" that will take you on a journey around the world like you've never seen before! And lets not forget The African Attachment also helped out on District 9, working alongside Neill Blomkamp & Sharlto Copley.

PG will be in South Africa for one more month, working with taa on the new Thieve - Heuwels Fantasties music video. We'll also be working with Ashtray Electric... more details to come!!

Website: http://www.theafricanattachment.co.za/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/TAA_indiefilm

Original Photo: Adriaan Louw

Purple Gorilla designs for Rock For Hunger

Rock For Hunger uses the voice and talent of musicians to raise awareness and funding for the homeless population of Central Florida. Rock for Hunger is working on building the bridge between other nonprofit Organizations, companies, churches, and individuals who all see to end Poverty! (http://www.rockforhunger.org/)

For the 5th Annual Rock For Hunger Festival, taking place November 6, 2010 @ Florida Citrus Bowl, Purple Gorilla was asked to design all the material for this years festival including billboards, motion graphics, logos, animation, t-shirts, posters, flyers EVERYTHING. It's been so much fun designing for an organization with so much vision and desire to help out people in need! If you're going to be in area make sure you bookmark this date!

We'll keep you posted as the date gets closer!

http://www.rockforhungerfest.org/

Welcome from the Gorilla

Welcome to the Purple Gorilla Blog.

Purple Gorilla is an exclusive Fashion and Art line. Here we discuss everything in the urban fashion/art world, also random posts on news in the entertainment industry.

Urban fashion is real fashion, style that exudes individuality and attitude and is what the ordinary fashion savvy shoppers are wearing right now.

Urban fashion originates from the Chicago, LA, New York scene but has grown to a world wide dominate underground force! It expresses the way you feel everyday, the mood your in and is a creative, exciting way to express yourself. It separates you from the guy/girl who buys there clothes, music etc from all the commercial stores. Everyone wants what no one else and this lifestyle really expresses that in a unique way that only some can pull off and even know off for that matter.

There has been much debate in the music industry about the word urban actually acting as a euphemism for music of black origin, however, the dictionary defines it as of or living in a city or town. So what does the word urban actually mean? And more importantly, what does it mean in the context of fashion?

For the purposes of the UK Urban Fashion Awards, the word urban has been taken to mean the culture that arises in cities and towns as a result of the fusion of different cultures, lifestyles, ideas and attitudes.

Urban Fashion is edgy and reflects lifestyle, attitudes and individuality. Unlike mainstream fashion, anything goes in the urban fashion world and designers are not pressured into conforming to trends.

For more on the definition of the Urban Lifestyle, check out this link: http://octoberonline.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/definition-of-urban-fashion/

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