The Movement Continues

Yesterday my comrade brought me to a meeting with some high school students he’s been working with around bringing Latino studies in to the public school curriculum. I came through to provide some minor design services but sitting in on…

Hear Me Coming – Daveed Diggs

I just heard the latest release from Daveed Diggs “Hear Me Coming” – definly feeling the work coming out of the Getback camp.

Becoming a Blog Builder

Like HTML, and anything else I taught myself, the blogger code was at first mistifying, then confusing, then manageable and finally now something I feel pretty confident working with and editing. This is good since traditional web pages are on their way…

Can’t write no songs about you

I have still yet to put my music on my computer and phone so I have a limited but fortunately good selection that I’ve been playing pretty heavy. Besides the new The Young & The Restless mixtape from…

Fresh Starts

Yesterday I had to make a little detour to the art store to re-up on a sketchbook. Earlier in the day I had filled the last usable pages of my previous book, leaving it ready to…

The Young & The Restless – OUT NOW

After a marathon night of uploading tracks, websites, graphics and videos The Young & The Restless Mixtape from my man Catch Wreck is AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. We coordinated the redesign of his website and twitter with the release of his…

Jay Electronica and the Boston Hip-Hop Unity Fest

Saturday Night I went to check out the 4th Boston Hip-Hop Unity Fest organized by Edo G featuring the incredible Jay Electronica.with my homie Catch Wreck (check out his recap of the nights…

Version 5.0

After weeks of tinkering and tweaking, coding and cropping I finally launched the 5th incarnation of my personal website jacobleiolf.com and blog Jake 2.0. I followed the same process as last time with as always refinements made with the…

Call Me…

This is one of my favorite videos from Joell Ortiz – classic song, and romance is so much cuter at a young age – innocence and all that good stuff. Plus you gotta love the Al Green Sample.

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Born Stress-Free

So yesterday I saw M.I.A.’s video for “Born Free” which was banned from youtube and has stirred up quite a bit of controversy over its graphic content. Naturally I loved the video and had to go check out the…

Hand Cut Type

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Unreal. Like a Dream.

So during the end of the semester I severely neglected my blog, as it was more important to get shit done than document it. One of the best things that I have yet to really acknowledge is the wonderful girl I met…

Grind Transformation

Today I passed in my photo portfolio box and my revised pieces for creative writing bringing my semester and junior year to a welcome close. Yesterday I presented my work from typography and graphic design for final review by my…

I must be a giant

Last month it was Jay Electronica, this month it’s Rafael Casal. (For all of you who ain’t heard the sh*t, next month it’ll be Catch Wreck!) But I have found my new current favorite hip-hop artist in Bay…

Introspective moments

Tonight I started falling asleep on the couch at like 8:00 which is a sign I need to get more sleep in my life. Having woken back up I am now finding myself staying that way. Its been a while…

"I Still Love Her" Video

So yesterday Rene Dongo (Boston’s resident young film-making genius) uploaded the “I Still Love Her” video he did for Rey Leon off of the upcoming EP “The Pledge” set to drop in a few short days. You can also…

The Young & The Restless – Available Everywhere May 18th

Today we converted catchwreckmusic.com to a new splash page that showcases the upcoming mixtape “The Young and the Restless.” Mostly this was based off of a promotional graphic we worked on the other day, but with the addition of some links…