Stonethrow’s 2K8: B:Ball Zombie War

Posted by ryan as Hip Hop, Illustration, Music

Here is an animated advert for stonesthrow’s 2K8: B:Ball Zombie War.

It features music samples from “MF DOOM, J DILLA, MADLIB, Q-TIP, TALIB KWELI, PERCEE P, GUILTY SIMPSON, J.ROCC, KOUSHIK, JAMES PANTS, DAM FUNK, CX KIDTRONIX, BARON ZEN, QUASIMOTO. Animation by James Reitano/TFU Studios. The guy with the beard is named Lord Wigflip!”

30 Rock Showcases Incredible Collab

Posted by ryan as Hip Hop, Humor, Music

The latest 30 Rock was entertaining as always but what was great about this episode was all of the cameos for the Milton Green Kidney Now benefit show. During this song they had two Beastie Boys and Talib Quali rhyming together and it was clear that if these guys got together and flowed that shit would completely kick ass. I’m just saying…. and hoping that they do that.

At the time of this post the latest episode is not posted online just yet. You will be able to find the episode here at 30 Rock’s Hulu page.

Paper CD Case

Posted by ryan as Tutorial

I always forget how to fold these stupid things so I thought I would post a video so I can just quickly find it on my site. Fast forward to the middle of the video because the guy talking about how cool a paper cd case is about as interesting and relevant to gettin this task done as reading a dictionary. All kinds of information, but most of it doesn’t help you write your paper.

Izza Kizza

Posted by ryan as Hip Hop, Music

Its only a matter of time before this dude blows up. It may be too out there for some, but I’m calling it. Just saying, only time will prove this one.

I'm The Izza Kizza

Power Up Foundation

Posted by ryan as Design, Portfolio, Web Devlopment

We recently launched a new website called Power Up Foundation. I am very pleased with the way this came out and I am sure it will continue to evolve over time. The top bar only has a small flicker of progress as we just launched the site, but there are many versions of the animation at the top that will change as funds are raised for their cause. As the success of the campaign continues the site will become a great deal more colorful.

CP+B Wake Up

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Humor

Remember when CP+B made commercials that had humor in them? Mocking previous burger commercials with lines like meat and cheese and meat and cheese. That to me was classic. They went on to create a few commercials in this series that are gold.

CP+B + Zune = Fail

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Bummer

I got to tell you this latest campaign that Crispin Porter + Bogusky has put together for Microsoft is just all around bad. Its almost hard to believe that a creative firm like CP+B would even want to even try to rep such an unreal slant on Microsoft versus Apple products. I’m willing to bet that they don’t use M products themselves. But lets give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they just really like the challenge of trying to trick the world into believing that getting a Microsoft product instead of Apple is a great deal and you will be happy. That may even prove true, as long as you never look into to Apple products and really compare them. That’s what they should add to this campaign. “Hey you, don’t use Apple products, they cost too much. Don’t worry your pretty little head about this one, Microsoft has you taken care of. Just please quickly leave that Apple store and come with me down to Best Buy and lets spend $1500 bucks on a machine that you can patch every month or so. Its one hell of a bargain.”

As far as this Zune commercial is concerned, this is ridiculous. I just got to say the whole $15.00 a month or your music player is worthless over the get a music player that you can fill with music the way the rest of the world gets music is just dumb. How dumb are potential Zune buyers? Apparently CP+B thinks they are real dumb. You find it, you can keep it!

Manga Face Avatar

Posted by ryan as Fun & Games, Illustration, Interweb

I just created the closest looking avatar that I could from the site Face Your Manga.

Its based off of my current Twitter picture here. Even though you can’t tell in this picture, my beard is far redder than my hair.

Happy All Up Under The Covers Day

Posted by ryan as Humor

Awkward As Awesome

Posted by ryan as Fun & Games, Humor, Interweb

Oh man I love the internet. From random to the surreal, it pulls all the punches. Check out the great site www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com.

Here is a little sample to give you an idea of the sheer genious of this site.