Orange Juice in Bishop's Garden – blog for the teen web series

This weeks award for best DC film event goes too… The All Roads Film Project. The film festival is sponsored by DC based National Geographic. All films in the festival highlight minority and indigenous cultures around the world.

Selections include:

Samson & Delilah: a 2009 film from Australia that chronicles the journey of two homeless teens in the remote Australian outback who journey across the country. The film has a 100% fresh rating on rottentomoates.com and one major accolades at the 2009 Cannes film festival.

Boy: a 2009 coming-of-age film about a young boy’s life in rural New Zealand. Fatherless, the child imagines his father is Michael Jackson circa his 1984, Thriller days. However, when his father returns, the boy is forced to re-imagine his fantasies and get to know the family he never had. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was a smash hit in New Zealand.

I Am Happy: the 2010 doc follows minority children in Rio of the course of two years. Filmmakers show that human spirit and friendship can emerge even amongst economic hardship. Nat Geo is sponsoring the world premiere of the event and tickets are free.

The festival runs from September 28th to October 3rd. For more info visit: http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/event-series/all-roads-film-festival-washington-dc/.

The 90′s are back. Beanie caps. Grunge flannel shirts. Tees layered under sliky slip dresses. Thick socks with sandals. Thin braids hanging from long lanky hair.

These quintessential 90′s must-haves are now evolving from the OJBG wardrobe closest to the high fashion runways of New York. Last week, up and coming designer Charlotte Ronson sent out a 90′s themed Spring 2011 runway collection sending us all on a nostalgic trip back to the era of grunge, floral prints and hoodies.

Set to the soundtrack of relaxed 90′s hits by the designer’s DJ sister Samantha Ronson (famous for her tryst with a certain Lindsay Lohan), the collection full of mixed matched florals and faux army cargo pants mixed the girly pieces with relaxed grungy elements creating a harmonizing mix of past and present styles.

We came…We conquered…And we covered ourselves in shaving cream, toilet paper and raw eggs. Just another day at OJBG headquarters? Nope.

Last weekend, Bake Sale (formerly known as Las Hermanas) graced us in their presence to film their first music video for their single, “Hide and Go Seek.”

The concept was simple, Bake Sale and its three musicians, Kate, Jill and Julian, play a concert on the Spanish Steps; bringing their indie garage rock to the party goers of Dupont, swaying slightly as they clink their red cups in tune to the surf influenced music.

However, best friends Alex, Remi and Tamsin have others ideas. They are just not okay with Bake Sale wasting their creative genius on a crowd of such blank faced losers. So they devise a plan.

Part 1- Kidnap the Band.

Part 2- Grab multiple rolls of TP and their parent’s car and go crazy.

Part 3- Find narrow back alley and release their artistic creative by painting masterpieces…in shaving cream.

Part 4- Cover each other in the shaving cream and throw eggs EVERYWHERE!!!

Final Goal- Show the band what it’s like to truly have fun. Mission Accomplished.

Thanks again for Las Hermanas/Bake Sale and all the cast and crew that made the shoot an amazing success.

Look out for the music video shortly. In the mean time, you can all check out Las Hermanas at OJBG’s very own concert premiering during Season 3 of the show.

For more info on Las Hermanas and to download their tracks visit: http://www.myspace.com/lashermanasband.