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flip books gone wild

JOE — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:10 +0000

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU

These wall-painted animations have become increasingly popular, but Ive never seen one so expansive – BLU must have painted an entire town to create this thing. Its a little long, but at least watch it once because the complexity of the story, paintings and 2d/3d animation is amazing.

So this is where Chris Brown has been

JOE — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:57:10 +0000

After everything that happened to dude, I figured Chris Brown would go underground and re-connect with the streets. Apparently its the streets of LA with local Tyga of Young Money (see my previous post with Tyga). The video was released yesterday so this is right out the oven. Chris Brown is rapping this time and homie is actually really good. It’s a damn good party song and sooo LA! I hope I hear this in the clubs, but I doubt it will get airplay. Regardless if the mainstream will ever accept him again, I’m on the look out of more hot sht from C Breezy.

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On a final note, that Bed Rock song is still going hard and it’s basically May.

This isnt your father’s Thriller video

JOE — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:44:24 +0000

#MusicMondays, er Wednesday. I dont know whats up with the ROC camp as of late, but they have had a string of really dark themed “music” videos. Kanye West just came out with the video for Coldest Winter from his 808’s album. Oh I know everyone loves to trash that album (especially when Jay-Z came out with his Death of Autotune song, it was cool to jump on the 808-hating bandwagon), but I personally really liked it… really liked it. I did find it strange Hova’s first single DOA knocked Kanye’s entire album concept. Imagine how that conversation panned out between the two of them: “Yo Kanye, I have this great idea for a song!”. Anyway, so new video for Kanye, dark, just like his previous video with the same director. Where the ROC videos have been tip toeing around dark themes for awhile, this video fell off a cliff OOPS, I didn’t mean to give away the ending.

When Blue Print 3 came out, everyone was singing “New Yoooork” and loving “that one song with Drake”, but I had “On To The Next One” on repeat. I mean no producer can fuse hard lyrics with a catchy, almost club beat, like Swizz can. Especially with such consistency over the years? DMX, Cassidy and my old favorite “Split These Bars” by Drag-On! So when the video came out I was like WTF did they do to my favorite song?! Visually the video is stunning, I love the black and white concept, but the themes and images that flash are unnecessary. If you search the internet people break down the single frame images that flash, specific times and all. There is already a ton of talk online about Jay’s supposed new found belief system (start to type in Jay-Z and Bing will autopopulate the rest). I’ll take it all at face value though. In doing so, I question why these videos are so dark? I can see one video concept like Micheal Jackson doing Thriller, but what does the villain of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol have to do with this song? (read the book, it’s good)… I hope they don’t ruin the video for Forever Young, should it ever be produced.

KANYE WEST “Coldest Winter” Directed by: NABIL

Kanye West “Paranoid” directed by NABIL

Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz “On To The Next One”

Maverick’s Big Wave Competition

JOE — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:29:22 +0000

While all of Los Angeles seemed to converge on Downtown LA for the LA Street Food Fest this past Saturday Feb 13, the Maverick’s Big Wave Surf Competition was held at Half Moon Bay in Monterey, CA. I’ve been to the bay before, and I can’t imagine 50ft waves barreling through. FastForward to 19:16 for a few highlights of the competition:

Its also dangerous just to watch the competition; a surge of waves hit the breakwall and a bunch of people got thrown into the water!

Call me Mr Flintstone, I can make your bed rock

JOE — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:20:36 +0000

No this isnt a new song, but I definitely think it has staying power – it’s going to be well into March or April before this song fades. While Young Money’s “Every Girl” is a single man’s anthem, this is a better all around song. There are lyrics for your headphones, bass for your car, a catchy chorus for the clubs (you know you be singing it to your girl on the dancefloor, lol), but I think it’s Lloyd’s falsetto that makes this song (in the vein of a young Michael Jackson). Gudda looks like Twista’s little brother. Nicki’s “Barbie” diamond chain is cute. Drake is obviously the highlight verse “I race for your love, shake’n'bake, Ricky Bobby” (lol). Tyga brings that Cali swagger to the group (He is also the cousin of Travis McCoy, lead vocalist of the group Gym Class Heroes). Signing to Young Money was a good move for the LA-native; it’s a better direction for his talent than “Coconut Juice”… but who the hell who told him the orange pants were a good look??

The highlight of the Los Angeles Auto Show: Lexus LF-A

JOE — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:56:13 +0000

The Lexus LF-A, Toyota’s $400k supercar, is beautiful… period. I’ve seen a bunch of pictures on the internet and none if them did this thing justice. It is very impressive when you finally see it in person. Hopefully video captures it better. It is arguably the star of the LA show; though you can hear people complain its $400k sticker is way overpriced. It may be expensive, but at a limited production run of 500 units in two years, it will be rare and its value may hold. Don’t believe? Twin Turbo Supra’s from the 90’s go for $100k+