Splash On Em
In: Eye Candy, Inks · Tagged with: B & W, Graff, Random, T-Shirt Design
Mad Science Swag
The Big Head Scientist strikes again! This is the first in a series of HTML T-Shirt designs I’ll be smashin kids in the head with goin into the holiday season. Yea it’s Hunnit Thousand now cop suttin and stop browsin!
In: Inks · Tagged with: 2010, Graff, HTML, Science Swag, T-Shirt Design
Staying Relevant AKA “Ubiquitous”
All technology will become outmoded at some point. When The Matrix came out at the turn of the century it was the height of digital rendering. The Bullet Time effect was ubiquitous and John Gaeta and his team were the darlings of the industry and tech media. However, he was hard pressed to repeat his earlier success in the sequels to The Matrix for a variety of reasons.
Chief among these was the very real possibility that the original concept for that movie was juxed (jacked) wholesale from Sophia Stewart, whose lawsuit against the Wachowski Bros was either stuck in litigation limbo, settled out of court on the DL, or simply dismissed outright last time I checked. Regardless what you believe, It’s hard to repeat creative success when the original idea is yours, but when you swagger jack someone else, the odds of replicating that spark decrease exponentially with each subsequent viewing of your work as the fans forget about you, and move on to the next ‘expeditiously’ as Joe Clark might say.
The following most obvious case for dwindling interest in a given property or product is overexposure. The movie Blade Runner gives a great example. When Rutger Hauer’s demented Roy Batty character demanded more “life” from Tyrell he was ethered with the simple yet poignant response that The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Who can forget the stranglehold that Master P and No Limit records had on the rap game in the late 90’s? Tupac had just died and Percy Miller and his brothers provided the requisite thuggin for the starving masses to the tune of platinum record sales. Nevertheless they were quickly upstaged by Cash Money records and Lil Weezy, who took their formula and essentially dumbed it down (That is-if you can fathom the intellectual distance between grunting UUUNGH and made up words like WOBBITY WOBBITY WOBBY) for a new audience. The point is that artists like DMX who used to put out two or three commercial albums a year and flooded the short run/ straight to video blockbuster category had a relatively short shelf life compared to “artists” like Diddy who seem to show up every three to four years with something new, and manage to stay ubiquitous by diversifying and never getting stuck on one specific style or promotion for any length of time. The need for this re-invention is only magnified in the social media age where sharing everything is the norm, and online inactivity is equated with death.
In: Articles, Four Basic Ideals, Industry Theory · Tagged with: Bieber, Freemasons, Illuminati, Inception, Matrix, Sad Keanu, Ubiquitous
The Second Basic Ideal
The How To Make Loot Seminar promotes the FBI or Four Basic Ideals. Today we’ll go over some bullet points relating to the second basic Ideal which is ‘Hard Work’.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it takes hard work to achieve certain goals. Successful business owners know this. That’s why they typically require their employees to work a full eight hours every day. Workers that cannot follow this simple rule are quickly demoted or laid off.
In: Articles, Seminar Status · Tagged with: FBI, Hard Work, How To Make Loot, Illuminati
Linda Le Es En Fuego
Professional Cosplayer Linda Le aka ‘Vampy’ does Morrigan from Darkstalkers justice. She’s naturally talented, a Sagittarius, and totally unawares that I will pound that ass into oblivion (with love of course). Check out the full gallery here or just click after the break and nice it up star, seen?.
In: Eye Candy, Press Releases · Tagged with: Cosplay, Darkstalkers, Gamer Chicks, Linda Le
Zuda Comics Shuts Down
DC has announced that it’s a wrap for Zuda Comics. Apparently they are making the move to the iPad and Sony PSP, but won’t be accepting any more submissions for their web comics competition. The few times I did manage to peep their site they had some decent looking visuals across the board, but seemed a bit light on the storytelling skills which is to be expected when dealing with (mostly) novices. Hopefully this isn’t the last time a big publisher gives the little guy a break. Oh well, on to the next one..
From the Zuda blog The Collective:
In: Manga Vs Comics, Press Releases · Tagged with: DC, iPad, PSP, Shut Em Down, web comics, Zuda
‘Batta Mon’ Bugs Louis Vuitton
Jacked from Pink Tentacle:
Sooo, a brand that gets bootlegged on the reg is complaining about somebody creating art with their previously bootlegged material? There is some irony buried in this somewhere, but I’m either too obtuse or too lazy to dig it up. Work with me here.
In: Illanoids · Tagged with: Batta Mon, Bootleg Art, Louis Vuitton, Nipponland
Rhymefest City Is Falling
Rhymefest and Konee Rok collabo for this moody clip off the El Che album. I dig the animated direction Fest is taking this year. Plus he is still one of the more underrated spitters out the Chi. Keep the hits coming!
In: Press Releases, Underground · Tagged with: Animation, Baby Mama Drama, Chi-City, El Che, Rhymefest
KBoom!
More Vol. 3 madness. This is directly after the Russian went on the rampage with the Ukraine Rain. Luckily for True Epic and the rest of the club goers, the FBI agent Marks can teleport. Rampart wins again, @Large Vol. 3 in stores now!
In: Illustration, Inks · Tagged with: color treatments, Superpowers, Vol.3
Look Out!
This is a re-worked color panel from @Large Vol.3 (available in stores now). I wanted to see how these looked in color and so far so good. More to come soon. Also, I got a new website and urban themed animation I’m workin on so I got that goin for me, which is nice. (Spackler)
In: Illustration, Inks · Tagged with: @Large, Caddyshack, Hip Hop Manga, Vol.3
