On the 18th we had a HUGE party here at the KAB offices. 50 casts on display from San Diego’s finest, the Fish Joint set up and were rolling free sushi all night, Honest Tea and Stone Brewery flowed freely for guests and some amazing amount of entertainment. We had a fashion show featuring casts, ball gowns from Kites from Carla Manuel, jewelry from Ginger Che and hair pieces from Devora Maximova. The UpStarts played an amazing set – so amazing in fact we have no photos as everyone was too busy rocking out, and to top it off an amazing burlesque show with Mimi Lemeaux.

All photos by the talented Donez photographer extraordinaire.

Amber, lead singer of the Glossines and Kimmy our new PR girl with their casts

Thank you to BonaDrag.com for donating hair clips for the KAB girls!

Our wonderful bartenders who always come ready to serve and dressed to the nines.

The always lovely Sarah from SZPR with her man Tyler.

Shaney Jo with Chris and Holly Kepler

Natalia of n.om and her roomie always looking fabulous at SWIV.

Tyler with the other half of the Donez brothers Anthony.

Nathan Bell and Kimmy McAtee of Pony Attack!!

Here are photos from our fashion show. It was absolutely beautiful. A BIG thank you to Devora for putting it all together and our amazing models who donated their time to come and squeeze into plaster casts and make it look effortless.

Burlesque dancer Mimi Lemeaux and her Mom.

And here is Mimi preforming… we’d show you more but…

Our first leg of the auction is complete with 50 Social Vibe balls selling and 50 hand painted casts raising $11,471.93!! We still have 30 more casts to sell and we would love to get this total up to $20,000! Here is a few of the ones that are up for bid!!

Kimmy from KAB here! We just finished our second show in the lovely San Fransisco for our traveling photo exhibition, Shot in the Pit presented by the always amazing FOX and Unite the United! The event went off with DJ’s Epcot and and Sosean and Tommy Guerrero and the Get Rad 6. The event was a private event held at the Barrel House – an amazing space that houses the advertising angency Pereira & O’Dell. Once we got there Colin from Pereira & O’Dell showed us around to his space, all the free beer, and we got busy setting up.

The ladies of KAB, Erica, Shaney Jo and Kimmy along with Colin and Erin Caruso the featured photographer before the madness began!

Here are the awesome Periera Crew setting up and checking out the awesome goodies provided by Fox!

The get Rad 6 were warming up, they had every instrument you could imagine rocking out to up on that stage, it was quite the performance.

Volunteer and SF local Gina came out to support!

Along side our supporter on this tour Yahoo!

Everyone had a few beers in celebration of such an amazing show and wonderful hospitality.

Tommy and the Get Rad 6 start to play and everyone makes their way to the front for a energetic show.

DJ Epcot with Periera

Shaney with Tommy G, Pereira and Colin – We can’t thank you enough guys for all your generosity!

Kimmy with Friend Kat

Thanks for all that came out! If you live in the LA, NY or OC watch out for us!

Hey everyone, Kimmy here again to give you a little daily insight to our artists and castees!
Today we present Artist David Russell Talbott.

Talbott painted the wonderful Brin Plourde’s cast. Brin is a friend of Amanda’s whom we shared with you yesterday. For Amanda’s birthday she invited friends to a casting party, of which of course Brin said Yes! “My step-mom died of breast cancer and one of my best friends is a five time cancer survivor at 35. She has had breast cancer three times. So this cause is very near to my heart.”

Brin showing off the inside of her cast at our San Diego’s Finest Event

David Russell Talbott’s art harkens back to the golden age of pulp illustration.  Characters reminiscent of those in hardboiled crime fiction fill his one panel stories; boxers, con-artists, hit-men, and b-movie scream queens.  His ongoing American Pulpcore series examines the relationship between society and the media during 1940’s and 1950’s. Talbott has exhibited across the United States and Europe and has been published internationally.  His artwork has been seen in JUXTAPOZ, Sleek Magazine, & San Diego Citybeat. Talbott’s Hollywood Eats Its Own art series, has just been turned into a fully illustrated book, “HOLLYWOOD PULPCORE: Rumors, Death, and Scandal inTinseltown.”

For this cast Talbott went a pit more personal with a piece he calls Spaceboy va al celulas madre. “While I was working on the cast, my mother was having surgery to remove a lump in her breast. Everything turned out fine, but the event inspired me to address the relationship we have with our mothers, and with the world around us.”

Artist himself David Russell Talbott

Help David Russell Talbott and Brin Plourde stop Breast Cancer. Bid on a cast!!

Hey everyone – Every day we are going to remind you that we are doing a online auction with over 75 painted busts by bringing you artist profiles to share.

Today we present Mike Giant.

Mike Giant painted the wonderful Amanda Nixon’s cast. Amanda Nixon is a huge part of KAB and you can read her personal story with Breast Cancer here as published by City Beat.

Here is a photo of Amanda with her cast Photo by Scott Burns

Video from Vimby.com with Mike Giant

Help Mike Giant and Amanda Nixon stop Breast Cancer. Bid on a cast!!

Shot in the Pit SF at the Barrel House with Tommy Guerrero!!

RSVP on our MFA Page!!

Hello!

Erica from KAB here! We just kicked off our first show of the traveling photography exhibition, Shot In The Pit presented by Fox and Unite the United alongside the talented Erin Caruso. It was incredible! We are in New York City at this years CMJ. It was a long night but wonderful. There were hundreds of people packed in Fontana’s Bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, anxiously awaiting the late night show with Trash Talk and The Bronx! It was great to have The Bronx be a part of this showcase, not only because we love them and they are an amazing group of gentlemen, but we have two beautiful photos of them in this collection that will be auctioned off Novemeber 26- Dec 6th! We are very thankful to have worked with Solid PR, 1000 Knives The Syndicate, Fox & Unite the United to make this show perfection.

sidenote….we got into town and were able to make it to The Syndicate’s pre party for CMJ where the …Trail of the Dead & Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s were playing. It was a great night and really got us going for the rest of the week here in NYC!

Our volunteer for the evening, Vanessa Harris!

Erica with two fans fo the Bronx from Sweden









jesica & jenna







Ken & Bryan from The Bronx

Shot in the Pit in NY is over and I patiently await photos and a recap from the lovely Erica. Until then I stole photos from Lisa our Pink Tour Manager who not only happen to be at the show but also happen to celebrate her birthday the same day. Happy Birthday Lisa!

Erin Caruso, Lisa Andersen, Lovely friends and our very own Erica Leite

Hey everyone! Our online auction kicked off on Saturday at noon and has gotten off to a great start.

Here are a few of my favorite casts:

Artist: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth

Artist: Chivo

We partnered with SocialVibe to sell one of a kind numbered pink balls and every single one has already been bid on – some even as high as $100!  We couldnt be more excited to have partnered with them on this.

Social Vibe Balls!

We want to hear from you! Which one is your favorite cast?? Extra credit points if you can find mine.

xoxo Kimmy