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Exposure provides a forum for student groups and area non-profits at Michigan State University and the Greater Lansing area. On the show, you'll hear discussions about the groups themselves as well as the relevant issues of today.
This is exposures on Impact 89 FM.
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Tessa Kresch:The show that lets you know about everything that goes on at the MSU campus that you otherwise might not know about. Tune in every Sunday at 9 AM. I'm your host, Tessa Krusch. Welcome to exposure. Hello.
Tessa Kresch:Hello. And welcome back to exposure. You are listening to the final episode of season 14. I'm your host, Tessa Kresch. Today, I'm here with the student organization, N Crowd, a safe space, a fashion magazine, and a nonprofit organization for creatives at Michigan State University.
Tessa Kresch:Ncrowd's purpose is to give black students platform to express their creativity through fashion and other creative outlets such as photography and art. Thank you guys so much for joining me.
Maddie:Thank you. Thank you
Brendon:for having us. Thank you.
Tessa Kresch:Of course.
Maddie:You have such a great voice. I'm like, I hope I
Damond:That was fire.
Brendon:Yeah. That was all. That was all.
Maddie:Thank you so much.
Tessa Kresch:I appreciate it.
Damond:Could you
Tessa Kresch:guys start off by introducing yourselves for me?
Maddie:I'm Maddie Encomitcia, vice president of Encrowd. I'm a junior. Excited to be a senior next year. And my major is advertising management and advertising creative. And it is such a pleasure being here.
Damond:What's up? I'm Demond Hardwick, the president of NCrowd. I'm a 4th year apparel and textile design major with a minor in business management. Yes. It's a pleasure.
Damond:Thank you for having us.
Brendon:What's up, y'all? My name is Brandon Sims, apparel and textile design, 3rd year major, model director for NCROWD. It's so nice to be here.
Brandon:So we are Brandon Williams, director of photography for NCROWD and cofounder information science major, and it's a pleasure to be here today.
Tessa Kresch:Alright. So I know I gave a little bit of a background of Ncrowd, that it's a creative fashion magazine on campus, but in your own words, what exactly is Ncrowd?
Brendon:A lot of people ask, like, that all the time. Like, models ask that all the time. True. So I tell them it's just being in the now. Like, really just understanding that this is your time to shine.
Brendon:This is your time to do whatever you trying to do. Whatever you're trying to embark on, whatever endeavors, like, it don't matter what it is. Just do it. You know? And this is a time to feel free and just have fun.
Maddie:So the n and n crowd is now crowd. With that, I feel like NCroud is a place for everybody. I've never like, this past semester has been awesome. Like, everyone feels like they're doing something which is ex exactly what it should be. And I think people do come to us, like, college is scary, graduating's scary.
Maddie:It's like you want experience and, like, you you you need something now. Like, you gotta get that experience. You know? I feel like everybody has that. Like, I just posted on LinkedIn this morning, and I was like, so excited, thrilled to announce to you guys.
Damond:Just to quickly kinda touch on what NCROWD is. Just with, you know, me being a cofounder, I've just been blessed to, you know, see NCAR grow over these last 2 years. And it's really just like a family, especially this semester. With me personally, like, it's been my favorite. Not only with me just being president, just more so, like, who I have, like, beside me as a team.
Damond:These 3 amazing individuals right here, it's just been a blessing. You know, models, photographer photographers, videographers, like, we've all just, you know, created a community where everybody like, every creative can come and just, you know, network and just, you know, be around and be happy to to be around. So it's just been great.
Maddie:Yeah. Family for sure.
Brandon:Mhmm. I agree. To piggyback on what he said, like, also being a cofounder of this organization, it's been a blessing to see the community that we have built so far, to even be able to say that we had a sold out fashion show. The whole whoever, you know, moms, dad, auntie, uncle, everybody came out, Students, everybody came out to see the fashion show that everybody worked so hard for. Photographers, media, state news came to cover it and did an amazing job.
Brandon:And it's just it's surreal to see that we have all these people that want to deal with this and see what's next. Yeah.
Damond:Most definitely.
Tessa Kresch:Yeah. So you mentioned that you guys are cofounders. I'm curious what inspired its creation.
Damond:The the founder shout out to Takai Taggart. She originally kinda came to me, Brandon, and Leah, and a a couple others. I'm just about starting a organization where us creators can come together. Because my freshman year at Michigan State, I actually didn't start off as a apparel and textile design major. I ended up changing my major my second year.
Damond:And I was trying to kinda network with just other creative individuals around me, and it was kinda hard to do so because it was not really a lot of fashion programs, like, just around, you know, for me to kinda get familiar with. But we all came together and kinda just, you know, came up with the idea of in crowd and just having it, you know, be what it is now. And I'm just, like I said, blessed to be here.
Brandon:Yeah. I can remember the first kinda, like, meeting that Takai, Mando, Leah, and Jordan, we all had and ideas that we had that day. Like, the first thing that we said, we're like, yeah, let's let's try to do fashion a fashion show every semester. I'm thinking like, how are we about to do? How are we about to do that?
Brandon:Like, who about to come out to to see a fashion show? Who's gonna be designers? Who's gonna model? But over time, as we built and just kept having meetings and, you know, just doing photo shoots, raising awareness of what we had going on, It didn't seem to or building the team also. It didn't seem too crazy as of idea as when I first heard it.
Brandon:And just, you know, for us to have our 3rd one, it's crazy.
Tessa Kresch:And for those who weren't exactly part of its creation, how did you guys get involved?
Brendon:Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Maddie:Oh, okay. Okay.
Brendon:It is so crazy. I didn't look up to these 2 last year because I just transferred here from Kellogg Community College, and I ain't know where I was gonna go. I I thought I was about to go to because my people's from Albion, Michigan. Shout out Albion College, but no. Couldn't go there.
Brendon:There was too much going on. And then I just got into some crazy, like, something crazy with my life, and then Michigan State, like, just knocked on my door. Like, it was a whole little invitation to come on here. So I was like, man, when I first got here, I was already taking pictures, already doing stuff with the clothes and everything, and then I've seen in crowd tryouts or whatever, like, casting call. Dude, I was so scared.
Brendon:I was so nervous. I ain't had no friends. I ain't know nobody. I mean, me and Dema had a class, and I just shook him up and just was just very scared. So it was like coming into here from that point to now, now we all so close.
Brendon:We go to class together. We're doing work together. We are actually doing something on campus. It's like, this is all that I wanted to do. This is what I dreamt of.
Brendon:Like, this is crazy for real. Like, this is really what I dreamt of, and then Mhmm. See them where they at now. I'm so proud of him, And I appreciate y'all so much.
Maddie:Man, I appreciate all 3 of you so much. I actually stylist now. But she had just walked in their spring semester fashion show last year. And I went to it, and I actually saw a couple of my friends from the city of Detroit, and it was like both and just like, I don't even know. It was just all my friends were there, Ace.
Maddie:It was crazy. So I was like, wow, there's so many familiar faces. Like, how did I not know about this? And so finally come next semester, she's like, you gotta come with me, just come to a meeting. And Brandon came up to me at the meeting and he's like, you gotta be like, apply for like creative director or something.
Maddie:Like, you gotta like come out. And like, since then it's just been like, I don't know. Like, I was just like, yeah. Okay. Like, I applied, and I was creative director last semester, and I'm vice president this semester.
Maddie:And I'm so blessed for real. Like, I've man, so blessed. So that was, like, my sophomore year. Before that, I was in BIM, and it was like my freshman year. I was like, I need something creative.
Maddie:I was gonna go to Columbia in Chicago, but my dad was so hard. He said, you've gotta go to say I want to say I'm like, damn. Oh, I was like, okay. Okay. So I go to stay and Vim was like my saving grace.
Maddie:I was like, oh, creative space, but I just never was a creative director there for a little bit. Thanks to Haley Pogue. And once she left, she was a senior. I was like, oh, I don't wanna be here anymore. And crowd fell.
Maddie:It was like a blessing. Seriously.
Tessa Kresch:That's awesome. So it seems like being a part of it has enriched all of your college experiences.
Damond:Yes. Yes. Most definitely.
Tessa Kresch:That's awesome. I understand that a fashion magazine consists of a variety of teams in order to make it all come together. What kinds of teams are involved in Ncrowd?
Brandon:So we have a lot of teams. We're not Wait.
Maddie:Wait. Can I pause you for one second? We are like a full blown team. All of us as one, though we are separated into groups of photographers, fashion directors, modeling directors, events, secretaries, and then operations, which is, like, Dimon Dany, president and vice president. But we have really let everybody just have a voice because I'd say we understand, like, perspectives of just one individual is just not comparable to all of our minds together making this huge masterpiece.
Maddie:I would say we're like one big team. Everybody says everything. We'll have meetings where we're just like, okay, What do we do, guys? And everyone's just it's like a messy organized chaos meeting, but it all comes together once we get some notes down.
Brandon:Yeah. And that's one thing I can say that I appreciate because like Mady said, you can only from being one individual, you can't see everybody's perspective from you can see yourselves, but it's better to get everybody's perspective. And I feel like having a big team definitely helps, and you can see that from, like, the last show that we did. I can't say that, like, it was, like, everything that you've seen at that show, everybody had like a say in it. Everybody says something like, oh, maybe we should move this here.
Brandon:And like, that happened. You know what I'm saying? So it was just
Brendon:Everybody had
Maddie:a voice. Yeah.
Brandon:Everybody had a voice. Even when we do photo shoots to even we do meetings and stuff like that. Everybody has a voice.
Maddie:Even the models are like, oh, wait. What if I wear this instead? Or, like, what if I pose like that? You know, like, everybody.
Tessa Kresch:That really speaks to the safe space that you guys emphasize.
Damond:Yeah. Most definitely. Yeah. And I would like to say, like, with me being a president this semester, that's one thing I've kinda, like, put emphasis on, like, everyone being able to have a say so just because I feel like other people's perspectives are just as good as mine, and they may be better than mine. Yeah.
Damond:They enrich it. So, like yeah. Exactly. Whole picture.
Maddie:So, you
Damond:know, I've for sure put emphasis on that, and I'm glad I did because, like, they both said the fashion show, like, was everybody working together, everybody, you know, making that happen. And it was a sold out show, so, I mean, we did.
Maddie:Yeah. We
Damond:did our thing.
Brendon:Man, shout out all our general members and volunteers that came out.
Damond:Shout out to them.
Brendon:Oh my god. Dudes from across Michigan coming here just to come help us.
Maddie:Yeah. There was, like, Shannon, she, Kim.
Brendon:Yeah. Thomas. Tom. Tom. Shout out.
Brendon:Thomas.
Maddie:Man, she, like, put our runners together, but, like, who would have put the runners together? Who would have built the curtains? Or who would have Yeah. Shannon had her first fashion show, like, a year or maybe, like, even months before this. And she's like, you just did it like your first fashion show, but she knew what to do.
Maddie:Like, without her say, like, I would have been running around without, like, I needed 2 of me that day. She came and I was like, perfect. Can duplicate myself. Like It was like It was it was so good.
Brendon:It's like, yo, it was like a yin and yang type of kid.
Maddie:It was
Brendon:so great. They were so cool.
Brandon:I ain't even gonna lie.
Tessa Kresch:Speaking of the fashion show, you guys do one fashion show a semester. Right?
Brendon:Yes.
Maddie:Spring semester, we do a fashion show.
Tessa Kresch:One fashion show a year?
Brandon:We so when we first started, we did do 1 each semester, but that's our goal to do 1 each semester. But definitely 1 a year for sure.
Tessa Kresch:Awesome. Can you walk me through what it takes to produce a fashion show?
Maddie:Oh, man.
Brandon:Oh, man. I was waiting tears.
Maddie:Yes. It takes
Damond:To sum it up. Set to sum it up.
Maddie:It's fashion?
Brandon:No. For sure. Yeah.
Maddie:I felt like it went by so slow but so fast. I think it started what would you guys say the start date was that we started preparing?
Damond:A month ago?
Brandon:A month before. And we like March. A month. And we put out tickets, like, 2 weeks before the show.
Damond:Yeah. And then Yeah.
Brendon:Everything was crunch time. It was crunch time.
Brandon:Time. Anything we did was, like,
Brendon:we gotta do it now. We gotta do
Damond:it now.
Maddie:Yeah. Speaking of now, crowd. Speaking of
Brandon:now crowd.
Maddie:Like, I okay. So we started a month before. The 1st week was, like, reach out to designers. Everybody, like, everybody, you know, like, whether it's a state student, whether they're from Detroit, reach out to designers. Like, we want at first, we were thinking less than
Brendon:We were thinking like 20. I ain't even gonna lie. We was thinking a lot of designers and we had to bring it down.
Maddie:Yeah. It was that. Because we all just knew, like, shout out all of our connections and networks. They've definitely got us through, like, like, they're just the best. But because of Friends of Friends, we got 15 designers, had a little designer meeting, and then we allowed them to pick out models based on the casting calls we had while we were finding the designers.
Maddie:So we gave them kind of the creative freedom to, like, really just lay out their collection on the individual they want to and the order they want to, that sort of thing. So really, it was like Damond, Angel and I talking to all the designers, trying to figure out their order, making sure there's not, like, duplicates. And that took a lot of organizing. And Brandon started coming through and was like, okay. Like, let me help.
Maddie:Let me make Excel sheets. Shout out Brandon for all the Excel sheets. Seriously, he's a god with it. But yeah. So once we got all the Excel sheets, it was, like, rehearsal time.
Maddie:There's a lot of, like, crazy questions in between. Like, am I walking for this designer? And then we had a designer drop out last second. And Brandon's like, it's okay. Like, I'll just get Hoodie to fill the gap.
Maddie:We're like, okay. So we had to, like, switch the music for, like, his walks, like, get that in the playlist, that sort of thing. And also a performer didn't show up. So
Brandon:artist. So he just filled it.
Maddie:Also filled it. Yeah.
Damond:Yeah. It
Maddie:worked out perfect. Perfectly.
Tessa Kresch:That's awesome. So you said you had around 15 designers?
Maddie:15 designers and 5 performers.
Tessa Kresch:And who were those people? Are they students or locals?
Brandon:Some were students. One of the designers also is one of the Incrow's cofounders, Leah, Gabriel. But most of the designers were either from Michigan State or just designers from Detroit or not even Detroit, like, just
Damond:University of Michigan.
Brendon:Like Just Michigan is all Yeah. Just the whole meeting.
Brandon:The whole the whole state. And one of the designers, Kyra's creative, that was her first fashion show. She killed it.
Maddie:Oh my gosh. I actually actually
Damond:a lot of the designers' first fashion show.
Brendon:Yeah. That's true.
Maddie:And they did amazing. I walked for Kyros creative. Ioana Azzar, I think is how you pronounce it. I'm not sure. But she's amazing.
Maddie:The her collection was awesome. I also watched for Keyon. He's a student here. His brand's Counterfeit Smiles.
Damond:Shout out Counterfeit Smiles.
Brendon:I have my brand for the first time out there. I opened and I performed, and it was crazy. That was so fun.
Maddie:Running out as he's performing, and all his models are walking all at the same time to start us off.
Brandon:So crazy. Shout out to Kenny Moss. That was her first performance.
Maddie:Yeah.
Brandon:Ever she came out floating on a hoverboard.
Maddie:Yeah. She had she had
Brendon:a hoverboard. Flow like that.
Maddie:She posted a TikTok on how she made it. She, like, went to Joanne's, got, like, the, like, cotton, and then, like, dyed the cotton, like, pink blue. And it was she taped it all to her hoverboard, like, put cardboard and then, like, glued it all on. So we're
Tessa Kresch:having to unread. So when exactly was this event?
Brandon:It was April 6th. April 6th.
Tessa Kresch:Do you think that the next event will happen around the same time so I can mark my calendar?
Damond:Oh, we're actually planning a fall show. We're gonna probably have more details on that soon. So nice. Yeah.
Tessa Kresch:And you guys also have a magazine. Can you talk to me a little bit about that?
Damond:So our spring semester of 23, we kind of published like a digital magazine, which featured one of Michigan State alums, MacKay. His brand is greatness in disguise, And the magazine that we published kinda just featured, you know, his brand and, you know, kinda how he came up as, like, a designer and things like that. We've been working on publishing more, and we're gonna get that, you know, intact soon. So be on the lookout for
Maddie:that. As
Brandon:far as the magazine, yeah, we're definitely looking to add on and work with creators or not just designers, but creatives that attend Michigan State. But we're also gonna open it up to these people in Michigan as well. Anybody really who's, like, creative and has good energy because that's what we like to surround ourselves around. All our models, all our designers, volunteers for the show, and just in general, anybody we work with all has really good energy. And that's what we really look for.
Tessa Kresch:I mean, after all, it is a very it's it's new. It started in 2022. So there's a lot more to evolve. But how has it evolved in the last 2 years, would you say? Wow.
Brandon:Exponentially. Yeah. Crazy. So fast. Just the growth of everybody that's been a part of, in crowd and just seeing, like, day 1 to now.
Brandon:Like, even our photo shoots look way better than what they did when we first started.
Damond:Yeah. Most definitely. Just Yeah. Because I've been here since me and Brandon have been here since, like, the start. So just seeing, like, Eboard, not not necessarily only just eBird, but, like, the general members and everybody just evolved, like, as people, as creatives over the last 2 years.
Damond:A lot of, like, clothing brands, like, Brendan started his clothing brand up. A lot of other people have just embarked on new journeys. So not only has, you know, NCROWD evolved, but, like, us as individuals, I feel like we've evolved a lot. But NCROWD has been amazing. I I don't think like I've ever thought that it'll get to this point necessarily so quickly, but that just, you know, goes to show how much we actually, like, love in crowd and have been putting in the work in day after day, week after week to, you know, beat at this point.
Damond:So it's just been amazing.
Tessa Kresch:I'm sure that feels really rewarding to see it all happen and to be a part of it.
Damond:Exactly.
Maddie:I feel like a good example of it is I watched, like, Marcel and Zaria. They're just 2 awesome individuals who help out in teams with our eboard and are also general members. But I watched them meet and then, like, from there so it was last year last year's spring semester. Watched them meet. This year's spring semester, they had a photo shoot concepted together with all of us.
Maddie:Like, we threw I think it was Brandon who came out. Yeah. Brandon came out, was our photographer. But they're just getting their own shoots in now, like, that sort of thing. And just just like the friendships in there are so crazy too.
Maddie:Like, everyone's hanging out out outside of Encrowd now working on
Brendon:their own projects.
Maddie:But yeah. So it's a good place for people to connect. Yeah.
Tessa Kresch:Most definitely. Yes. What would you for people to connect.
Damond:Yes. Most definitely.
Maddie:Yes. Definitely.
Tessa Kresch:What would you say sets it apart from other fashion magazines or creative organizations on campus?
Maddie:Family. Yeah. Over corporation. Definitely. Like, you're when like, the first thing I feel like we say when we come to meetings is, like, speak up you guys.
Maddie:Like, go come on. Like, let's get involved. We always have our icebreakers where, it's interactive. Everyone, like, stands up and, like, hops in. We'll play like this or that.
Maddie:But that's, like, everyone's talking. Like, I don't think anyone kinda feels like, oh, I'm gonna do homework in this or something. You know what
Tessa Kresch:I mean?
Maddie:Yeah. And I think that's awesome. It's like a hangout. Like, oh, I get to hang out with that in crowd
Damond:at 6. Yeah. Most definitely. And I just feel like a lot of us are just, like, crazy talented too. Like, I know other magazines, you know, may, you know, be as well.
Damond:But this group of people that I've, you know, been with the last couple of years, I've just seen, like they're just talent talented, and it's just been crazy just to, like I said, see everybody kinda grow and evolve. I think that's what really sets us apart. Like, everybody has a special talent in their own way, and it's just been been great to see.
Brandon:Yeah. And I would say also talent, energy, and family vibes. Like, even though maybe somebody who's newer, they haven't, they might not have as extensive of a portfolio or whatever, but you can tell from like meeting somebody's creative energy. Like, okay. You got it.
Brandon:You just gotta have a platform.
Maddie:They just grow. They take off being like, I swear everyone in our circle, like, I'm so proud of, like, each and every one of them for excelling in it. Because, like, they will come with just a little happy whether it's sewing or whatever. Next year, they're a designer, full blown, like, 2 collections. Like, it's crazy.
Maddie:It's motivating to be around, I'd say, open minded people. People who, like, wanna talk with, like, just actually have a conversation. It's not business. It's friendship. And, like, that kind of love gets us a lot of places.
Brendon:And I'll say, for example, I'm shouting out a lot of people, but shout out brotherly.
Maddie:Yes.
Brendon:That dude takes a picture of everything. And from last year to now dyeing his hair, painting his nails, just going to New York, like, being really creative with not only his self, but the people around him and just changing his ways up.
Maddie:He's in the studio now.
Brendon:No. He's in the studio. He's in the kitchen. He, like, he's doing things. He wants to I don't wanna spoil nothing of that
Maddie:man's future. Yeah.
Brendon:Yeah. That dude is crazy. One out of many individuals that are doing crazy things that are connected to NCROW, not even within. Like, he's connected. Like, he's just a outer resource.
Brendon:That's so crazy. It's a bunch of outer resources compared to what's within. We're doing a lot of different things. We just had a barbecued. Yeah.
Brendon:We just had a barbecue, like, host a family, chill, 2000s Yeah. Wear your little swag or whatever and have fun. Like, it was really cool.
Maddie:Making food for each other. Like, that's family.
Tessa Kresch:That is. How many people are involved?
Maddie:Oh, gosh.
Brandon:Making the food?
Tessa Kresch:No. Just in the organization. But
Brendon:I can't even say a number.
Damond:It's like We do have 15 e board members though.
Tessa Kresch:Okay.
Damond:And we have a lot of general members, models who participate in the shows.
Tessa Kresch:Huge family. Huge family.
Maddie:Yeah. Huge family.
Tessa Kresch:And what other kind of bonding events, much like the barbecue, do you have?
Brendon:We have game we had game night. We all play video games with each other and got pizza.
Maddie:That was with Jordan. I know. Esports. Players Club. Yep.
Maddie:Yeah.
Brendon:Real Ninja Turtles.
Damond:We haven't had that many, like, bonding, like, as a whole org, but I think that's something we wanna, like, kinda pick up because I feel like it's always good vibes when we do, like, come together. And it just shows, like just goes back to show how, you know, open, you know, as we are, like, you know, welcoming welcoming people in and just, you know, make it in a safe space.
Tessa Kresch:Yeah. And what opportunities does Ncrowd provide for skill development and professional growth among its members?
Brandon:Just like industry, like, not exactly industry experience, but being around people that have industry connections or have been in those type rooms as far as create creativity. Just being able to network, ask questions for those who wanna know more Mhmm. As far as skills. Like, if we have a photographer next year, even though I'm about to graduate, I'm not gonna be the main director of photography, but I'm still gonna teach them how to work a camera and how to, like, be a good photographer.
Damond:Yeah. Most definitely. Mhmm. And at our meetings, we tend to have, like, workshops. Like, we have branding workshops where one of us who has the experience goes and just talks about, like, branding or just being a creative just to kinda give, like, free game to others, like, beginners that may wanna, like, embark on our journey as being, like, a clothing designer or whatever it may be.
Damond:And we just try to help out in that way just to give people, you know, a head start, I guess, with giving them knowledge, you know, from our journey.
Maddie:I did say I posted on my LinkedIn today because I have on my resume, and I've been asked about it at every interview I had this year after the career fair. And I can tell it's just I can talk all about leadership. I can talk all about teamwork and the actual stories involved of just even how we got through the fashion show, like acting on the spot, you know, staying organized in chaos and just, like, time efficiency. It's everything. It's every it's, like, it's actually everything.
Tessa Kresch:Seems like real world skills that you're learning. Yes.
Damond:Yeah. Most definitely.
Maddie:Yes. People skills. Yeah. For sure. People skills.
Brendon:Unlike the model side of things, the people skills comes in with, like, just being confident with yourself. Like, going outside, just be confident. Throw on what you wanna throw on in the morning and look sharp for class and get your a's and b's. Even the c, you still pass. Yeah.
Brendon:You know? So it's just I say a lot from from casting calls to rehearsal, I've seen so much growth that I was proud of, and it was like, I'm not alone within this. Also, I have Markela. She helped me with getting models together, and then it was like, I'm just a little bit of a oomph. It's for them niggas do they thing, and it was so cool.
Brendon:I don't know how to explain it. And then within showtime, everybody did so great. Like, I go back to my performance. We have in casting calls what we say is, like, a focus test.
Maddie:Mhmm. This is a great lesson, actually.
Brendon:At them. We're jumping in the air.
Maddie:What? We're jumping jacks. Just so they they are forced to walk straight down their walkway aisle and just not like, you gotta keep a straight face. You gotta keep those arms very fast. You have
Brendon:to be calm. You goo.
Maddie:And we're we're we're clap like, clapping, like, just being obnoxious, and they're all
Tessa Kresch:just, like not not
Brendon:not not
Maddie:not. Serious. Yeah. Yeah. Because you don't want them to smile.
Maddie:They gotta stay focused.
Brendon:Right. And then Brandon's flashing them and everything. Yeah.
Brandon:Like, what's my camera? Where's my camera?
Tessa Kresch:Okay. Nothing serious.
Brendon:Camera with his camera in it, you know, just to get them prepared.
Tessa Kresch:So Absolutely.
Brendon:It's not nothing unexpected.
Maddie:Yeah. But, like, not laughing like that. Like, saying bad focus. Like, you gotta be confident. Like, that that like, man.
Maddie:Yeah. Yeah.
Tessa Kresch:And speaking of the show, I wanted to ask this earlier. Can anybody attend these shows?
Damond:Yes. Yeah. We post tickets, to the public and promote weekly. So, yeah, anybody can come. Most definitely.
Tessa Kresch:And where can people see your post? Do you have social media or a website you wanna promote?
Damond:Yes. So our Instagram is ncrowdmag.
Maddie:Just ncrowd and then not magazine, but mag.
Damond:Yeah. M a g. Then our website is encrowd.xyz. That's great.
Tessa Kresch:Alright. Do you guys have anything else you'd like to add? Anything you guys wanna shout out?
Damond:Okay. So my brand is Couture Culture. I founded Couture Culture in May of 2022. So Couture Culture is basically like a temp contemporary streetwear brand, and I design a lot of pieces that resonate with cultural influences. And the 3 at the end of couture, the number stands for just the determination to kinda just chase your dreams and, you know, do anything in life that you wanna do.
Damond:And, yeah, I've been at it for 2 years, and, you know, I love being a designer, entrepreneur, and a brand owner. My website is coutureculture.org, c o u t u r three, culture, culture.org. And you can also find me on Instagram and TikTok at Couture Culture.
Brendon:I like to shout out Stacy's Pandemonium. I just started this right after our in crowd spring 2024 fashion show. It's nothing dedicated to anything. I just did have a friend that passed away, though, that I I do wanna always show love to. So this is really just something that I'm doing to keep my mind intact.
Tessa Kresch:That's awesome.
Damond:It's real.
Brandon:What's up y'all? Brandon Williams, owner of Beewell Visuals LLC. Been around since 2019, and my photography focuses on fashion and just lifestyle content in general. Kinda dabble in a lot of different areas if, you know, whoever I work with, basically, I try to adapt to whatever they need. But I might mainly focus on fashion and, like, lifestyle content.
Brandon:If you want any more information, bewillvisuals.com.
Tessa Kresch:And that's it for our show. Thank you to our station manager, Delaney Rogers, general manager, Jeremy Whiting, and program director, McKenna Lowndes. And as always, thank you to you, our listeners. If you like what you've heard, come back next week. I'm Tessa Kreis.
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