We always say that within life, and entertainment to be more specific there exist two types of individuals; Trend-setters and followers. Ironically, it is difficult to tell one from the next by simply looking on and judging from one's wealth, repertoire or notoriety.
Bare Jubilation, or better yet "PURE VIBES" during the college GRAFFITI experience II
All patrons wear a WHITE jersey as part of this Graffiti experience
One of the main purposes of this blog is to highlight the intricate details which go into each of our productions, from the idea stage straight through to the execution stage. We attempt to showcase the trends we have set, the things we were first to do, not merely to claim bragging rights. We write so the layman boy with a facebook account can have a genuine resource which offers a completely different perspective on entertainment; Trinidadian entertainment to be specific. It is our firm resolve that human society progresses at this advanced rate because we all are 95% followers of another scientific formula, philosophy or law. This is our formula, our philosophy for the college GRAFFITI experience.
What is GRAFFITI? Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti can be sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted.
This is an example of Graffiti Art. These three pieces were especially designed for Graffiti Glow 2010: Can't see this video? Click: for a fully interactive view of this article.
What is this GRAFFITI experience? This GRAFFITI concept was initially mass produced to the British mainstream just about 21 Years ago, for the Annual Barcardi Graffiti Party. The first to publicly bring this Graffiti concept to the shores of Trinidad was the Fuzzy Logic committee, who hosted a party called "Graffiti, the write stuff" in Space in November 2008. We at EEEmpire added our unique elements to the general concept of the traditional Graffiti concept, creating what we call the college GRAFFITI experience.
Every year when leaving secondary school to enter college, students on the last day of wearing their uniform mark to their hearts content every and anything on each other's uniforms. These marked uniforms fosilify the penultimate moments of secondary school. Our desire is to recreate this great feeling of jubilance and freedom of these events by allowing grown college students to write their own history. Tipping the skale with our unique blend of cocktails, shots and other intoxicating liquor each patron participating in the 'write up'.
Our Graffiti experience accentuates this concept putting together the following elements: 1. Body Art Body Art Caribbean, Fraud Inc and other airbrushing companies continue to work together with The EEEmpire to add this extra element to our event.
BACKGROUND: A Design by Body Art Caribbean. Free Temporary Tattoos all night long, is a permanent fixture in our college GRAFFITI experience.
INSET: Mello of Body Art Caribbean Perfects one of his designs
2. Original 'Live' Graffiti Backdrops JAP INC is our Graffiti Artist. Each year, we sponsor amazing legal GRAFFITI displays. These displays are displayed throughout the area of the event, and patrons can admire, interact and pose in front of these.
LEFT: Graffiti Art in the college Graffiti experience I | 2009
RIGHT: Graffiti Art in the college Graffiti experience II | 2010
3. Markers
All added to a theme which changes every year. In 2010, Glow sticks were distributed to all patrons. This coupled with the exclusion of all artificial or natural light except 40 backlight bulbs and two 2 feet blackligt strobes created an amazing dancefloor glowing effect.
The Interactive GRAFFITI: Patrons write\draw\scribble on each other's white clothes with Markers
This is our college GRAFFITI "experience". Especially tuned to create euphoric times permanently embedded in the memories and clothes of all patrons.
Our next installment will be held on May 29th 2011.
RSVP or just see what its about here:GRAFFITI ™ - Kaleidoscope | the college GRAFFITI ™ experience III
Each member of 3E has one thing in common, a birthday. August into September happens to be rich with limes, parties all held in commemoration of the birthday of some member. Over the past few months celebrations have been much more a joint activity than just blowing out some candles.
Since 2009, Jasanya Jones pioneered this Birthday tradition with her birthday beach lime on Sun June 16th of that year. On facebook, the albums "My Birthday Beach Lime...I love my friends" and "Skittles B'day with her 3E Family [Beach]" showcase the joy of simply enjoying an evening of relaxation as a "family". It is interesting to note that after this Jasanya suggested we have more beach limes similar to her birthday beach lime and this eventually evolved into our popular "Not another EEEmpire® Beach Lime" series of beach limes.
Here is an eight minute clip of the random action at Jasanya's Beach lime:
Jonathan Morgan spent his first week of summer vacation in Trinidad,working arduously to ensure the perfect college Graffiti Glow experience for all. Right after this, he celebrated his birthday in collaboration with the Triple E Fam, hosting a retreat and meeting for committee members only and then a lime after for family and friends.
This great event was encouraged by a very small 'Birthday Club' lime at Jonathan's St Joseph home the week before; on the day of his Birthday.
This pre lime is best explained by this video:
"What in my opinion opened the Birthday Club was the cake and lime at Jonathan's house for his Birthday, it was a close knit, quiet lime. Sometimes we should appreciate the finer things in life, aside from all the hustle and bustle and 3E Birthday club ensures that we have events which allow for this." said Ken Sambury, organizer of both the smaller house lime and the larger retreat and birthday celebration.
To date the Birthday Club has been instrumental in making the members of the Triple E Family feel appreciated not just for their business expertise or marketing savvy, but for their own individual personality blend which makes 3E a business, a committee, a conglomerate but still a family.
This club has brought Stefan Guevera to tears, made Ken Sambury smile for pictures (which he never does), and allow Jonathan Morgan to say that he is proud, not just that our profits are more than our expenditure but proud of the unity derived from our Family activities. Remarkable occasions to say the least! All those readers who may be peeved that they can't 'join' this Birthday Club are admonished not to worry, these Birthday Club activities are never exclusive to 3E members. Friends and family are usually invited and if its Ken, he may just have a Party in the PARKfor the entire neighborhood.
Triple E Games was a Sports and Family Day held on Maracas Beach last Sunday. The event was planned to distract youths from negative influences and bring them together via healthy competition.
Hosted by The EEEmpire, it featured ten fun events including five-a-side football knockout competition, a balloon squat relay, a three-legged obstacle relay, tug of war, even a beer drinking race. All events included at least one female participant.
Tishanna Sankar who participated in the five- a- side football said, “Even in the football, they made it compulsory to have at least one girl in each team. Equal opportunity is what I always say, so this was very noteworthy as I got an opportunity to participate and have fun with everyone else.”
Many youngsters had much fun on the day, but the significance of the activities transcended fun on the beach.
One of the organisers of the Triple E Family, Armani Fernandes said: “The aim of this event was to bring together entertainment groups in the industry to show that we can have harmony amongst ourselves and do something other than party.”
He explained that too many times, event planners forget to have fun and this event provided the opportunity to do so.
A proud Fernandes added: “We had the best ambience I have ever seen in a sports day. We all participated in these fun games to the back drop of coconut trees and the picturesque Maracas Bay in the background competing for our attention.”
The execution was not without hiccups, starting two hours late because of torrential rain showers and two teams never showed up. Still, judging from the responses of both patrons and organizers the event was a memorable experience.
An enthusiastic Stefan Guevara was quick to explain that the success of their event was not without assistance.
He thanked the sponsors Red Bull energy drink, SpEx Sports Equipment and the Ministry of Social Development. “I would always be grateful to them, Mr. Scoon for equipment, Minister Douglas for the prizes and Red Bull for the wings to tote all the equipment and prizes all over the beach!”
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