Fri - March 14, 2008

3 Thug Mice - Support the Hood Not Hollywood


Old Buildestroy partner in crime Steve Marcus has really outdone himself from our early days of animating together. One of the first
After Effects jobs I ever did was with Smarcus. He got us the gig to make a cartoon for The Red Hot Chili Peppers world tour stage
show, for the song Californication. Later that year they played it on MTV Music Awards when the Chili Peppers performed that song.
Well Mr. Smarcus had put some really raunchy words in Japanese during one part, and MTV Asia played it all the way through to
the horror of thousands of proper japanese families and of course MTV. But they never asked our permission to show it so take that.

Years later we haven't grown up much and Steve's latest offering is an amazing world that he created called 3 Thug Mice. It follows
the exploits of NYC's nastiest critters starring some of the illest characters in the known world. From Kool G Rap and RA the Rugged
Man to Min, Fuzz, and Ket. Each week brings a new episode of hilarious shit, you gotta watch to understand how Steve's humor goes
down. So check it here on the weekly: 3thugmice.com. There's been talk of turning it all into a feature film too so help support.


Oh yeah my favorite part of the site is this crazy scene with the whole cast. Roll over each one and click to hear a soundbite from
the actor. It's tight and he's got some real underground people on this joint. There's also a Flash game where you have to blast on
piglet cops and turn them into ham.


Posted at 05:51 PM    

Fri - May 11, 2007

KET-ISM


My good friend Alain "KET" Mariduena (who happens to be the creator of the best magazine hip hop ever had: STRESS)
was brought up on charges related to graffiti in NY. This dude is a NY original subway painter and went on to become
very influential as a voice and consultant for the culture. He launched Complex magazine for Ecko as well as helping to
keep Ecko "Getting Up" video game on point. He established a publishing company and put out some amazing books
on the culture. http://www.fromheretofame.com





He's a great dad and strong positive Latino figure encouraging youth. He's facing serious time for aesthetic crimes
on circumstantial evidence. Major hard time for graffiti that he was not seen committing...

There's a major crime going on in your city within 10 blocks of you right now, graffiti is the least of our worries...
Most often "graffiti cleanup" is used as a fake ass way for politicians and law enforcement to SEEM as though
they are cleaning up CRIME.

To make it worse the politicians in NY have it in for Ecko because of their graffiti video game. So half
of this battle is simply because Ket acted as a consultant to Ecko on a few projects:

http:www//supportket.org/site/


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