Yippeee!

Today heard a big bang on my door, sounded like the cops. But it was just the Fedex dude..



Ripped the box open and it was my free copy of DJ Hero, courtesy of the kind publicists over at Activision..



Thank you Jordan Dodge in particular. I was dubious at first, but the game proves that it's not only really fun and well thought out, but truly an accomplishment in just its existence!

Tagbanging

Wow, this brings back memories. As a teen I dabbled with tagging, bus bombing, typical LA adolescent behavior. But when it got to this level, I opted out. Here's a video of how stupid in retrospect, the early-mid 90's phenomenon called 'tagbanging' was..

DJ Hero Launch Event

Last night, headed downtown for the DJ Hero Launch Event..









And Ben Baller, the host of the event aka the guy with more shoes that Imelda Marcos..



The music alone is worth the buy. And you can just let the game play for your next bingo party!

Imajimation

Yesterday, Bee and I visited Imajimation Studios, where the artists designing the characters for our new animation show, work by day. They call themselves the Mad Twiinz. There's Mark explaining the process of animation..





There's Mike..



The Twiinz created the online toon "Blokhedz", which lives on Gatorade's content microsite..



A newer character..



Panels..



Vinyl Blokhedz..



Imajimation was started by Michael Schultz and his son Brandon. Michael directed a broad range of movies from "The Last Dragon" to "Krush Groove". There's his gold record for "Car Wash"..



The Twiinz created a comic with the RZA..



A vinyl Flavor Flav..



1 of 2 workstations..



Here's an episode of their online animation series "The Blokhedz"..



Talented brothers. Stay tuned for the animation collaboration :)

Art For Obama

Got a package from UPS the other day, opened it and read it, it said there was hope!



In it was the "Art For Obama" book, a compilation and reflection of the Manifest Hope campaign, which I had the blessed opportunity to capture on video in Denver and DC. There is no doubt that the Manifest Hope campaign was critical in getting Obama in office..



Also you may have heard about a month ago, but one of the critical soldiers in that campaign was recently and specifically targeted by Glenn Beck, who eventually had him ousted from his White House press job. You may know Yosi Sergant. Jeff Chang broke it down well in this article. PS to certain repubs, hopefully health care will NOT be Obama's Waterloo, nor ours. Sickened that anybody would even root for failure. Sickened!

"Muto"

Stumbled onto this little gem of a film by international artist Blu, essentially using the city as his animation canvas. brilliant and so creative..

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Hip Hop Recession

As seen on the Daily Show, pretty damn funny.

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"King of Hollywood" / Todd Bridges

A vignette with Todd Bridges. Written and directed by yours truly..

Shhhh... I'm Trying to Watch!

Read a fascinating article today about how web companies are conspiring to make your television watching experience more expansive. There are so many pros/cons here it's almost dizzying. For instance, the author writes, "Revenue loss -- hell, revenue tracking -- is a legitimate concern, but would allowing a non-subscriber to watch True Blood by linking through a subscribing friend's television cripple HBO, or expose new audiences to a program they might otherwise have missed?" I think the revenue loss would in fact be crippling. But some pros like enhancing marketing research and increased program awareness just might shadow those cons to internet behemoths like Facebook and Hulu, who will no doubt push us into a new entertainment paradigm. In fact, they won't relent until the idea of getting together with your friends on Sunday to watch Mad Men or Entourage are a thing of the past - just join the chat/watch room. While we are definitely in uncharted waters, the innovation unraveling in front of our eyes is pretty damn exciting!