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Archive for the ‘Interesting Stuff’ Category
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1Tyme4UrMind – Catch Wreck x Rah Intelligence x Rene Dongo
On his birthday, my man Catch Wreck released his latest video 1Tyme4UrMind, the second leak off of his new project ADHD. Again, stellar production by Rah Intelligence of Retrospek.
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Lost Art of Advertising
Yesterday sitting in the Top Secret Lab and talking of print and promotion with Catch Wreck, discussing the downsides of homogenized Pen and Pixel style pop advertising, I felt compelled to show some of the pieces we looked at in the History…
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The Helmsplitter EP
Just in time for the holidays, FREE MUSIC! The Helmsplitter EP highlights unique voices in the Boston area through spoken word and music. Recorded / Produced by Daniel Fairclough and Rene Dongo. Shoutout…
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Spiritual Doom
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Found an interesting
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Jailbirds
We’ve been working on info graphics for class recently and my classmate sent me this example he found. Its by Frank Chimero and is a brief look at some of the horrifying stats about prisons in this country.
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Reading the Matrix
On Friday in class we watched a really interesting video of Jonathan Harris speaking at an AIGA event about coding, technology and the impact it has on human life. To me it was a fascinating and astute observation of…
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The Printed Word
Thursday we had a visiting artist in our printmaking class. Jacqueline Barrett who does amazing lithography, silk screening and photogravure work, mostly utilizing fragments of text and forms of her own creation. She works…
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I Declare War
I’ve been loving the new videos from The Getback click recently and Rafael Casal‘s “Up Your Sleeve” is no exception. I think this is one of the best videos he’s done, visually and conceptually and as always…
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Boston’s Own: Rene Dongo
The latest Boston’s Own episode, part of the series Dante Luna is producing, presented by Scope Urban Apparel, is on Rene Dongo, local filmmaker who I initially met through his work on Catch Wreck‘s music videos.
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Signed.
There’s been a million things going on so I’m finally getting around to putting up a few pics from Saturday’s trip to the Rob Stull Signing at The Million Year Picnic, one of the oldest local comic shops. I…
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Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms
“Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms” ~The Hatch Brothers
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Showtime
This feels like it has been the week of art shows. One of my favorite projects has been designing a flyer for Rob Stull’s Signing at The Million Year Picnic on October 2, celebrating the release of the…
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Peddlin’ Music
So I guess I’ve been pegged as the stop-motion-hip-hop-music-video-loving guy so here’s the latest favorite: Fatgums and Bambu “Peddlin’ Music.”
One of the most comical, simple and well done videos of it’s kind, this…
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For Jobs and Freedom
On August 28, 1963, civil rights leaders, most notably Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” This event, which drew hundreds of thousands of supporters to DC was where the now historic “I have a…
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Smokin’ a broken Wu-note
Designer Logan Walters has a project he’s been working on brilliantly entitled the Wu-Note Project, recreating WU covers as iconic Blue Note covers.
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When Hip-Hop and Comics Collide
Saw this the other day on Ivan Rott’s blog Brilliant Corners. An artist kennykeil who does amazing comic / pop culture posters did a series of Superhero CDs covers based on Hip-Hop classics – combing two…
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F*CK YOU
As Catch Wreck astutely noticed, this song is fast becoming the new anthem for a lot of people. What did it for me was actually not the song by Cee-Lo (which is dope, dont get me wrong), but my…
