I wanted to bring some attention to my boys that have helped me make my work be so much better and to show some of the work they do on their own.

First off is my good homie Miguel Perez aka BOUNCE - DOA. He reps Trust your Struggle crew and originally from the Bay, Berkeley to be exact. He’s been a part of many of my projects from painting in the CHAINS documentary, LATV Rebrand, and Latino FIlm Festival pieces to doing design for the Artsy video and most recently the Paris music video. Miguel is one of the illest cats I know with spray paint, marker, pen, and mouse.

OG revolutionary rapper PARIS drops his first album in years called Acid Reflex. The song is “Don’t Stop the Movement” and Paris called me to make a greenscreen music video that has him leading an ever growing mob of activists to the White House for a takeover of the crooked Bush regime. This video dropped before the election and hit MTV2 on election day.

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My first real project for Peter Spirer since I didn’t get to do too much for “Ghostride the Whip.”  This one I went extra crazy on and did a combination of 3D tracked type and graphics elements onto live action footage and also full blown 3D environments.

From the success of The Grouch “Artsy” video along with so many years of motion graphics work I got representation as a Director. My partner Ryan Flanery and I together as Secret History are now backed by a great team to make our commercials, music videos, and films. We are thankful for the support and about to move into a new office with our Production Company Bucks Boys. We are repped in the US by Tommy Labuda and in the UK by Streetlight Films. Give thanks!

So about a month after releasing it, the video got put on the front page of Youtube and Myspace, MTV2 picked it up with no payola and very little censorship, and Itunes put it for sale. We wound up with half a million views and a cult classic. We only entered it into one festival/competition which is the main one for Music Videos: the MVPA Awards.

Eddie man it was a pleasure to know you my brother. I’ll never forget skating Downtown Oakland together. Or what a great family you have with Deb and your son. A real honest to goodness down brother, funny, humble and supportive and unique. You will not be forgotten.

Did color tweaking and some title animations with Buildestroy collaborator Miguel (BOUNCE) Perez for our boy Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi. The group is VIP / Vizion in Progress from Ghana Africa and the sound is real dope. It’s a mix of African Highlife and Hip Hop. To me it’s real reminiscent of Dancehall but definitely has it’s own variations. Very melodic and the catchiest hooks, these kids are real tight. The video was shot in 3 parts between LA, NYC, and Ghana. We created 3 different looks for each section with the color palettes and title styles that fit each region. Eli is currently finishing the Documentary about this movement called “Home Grown - Hip Life in Ghana” check for it soon.

I recently designed the website for the doc film “The Row” that documents the lives of a handful of Skid Row residents and their lives, trials and tribulations. Directed by Buildestroy collaborator Camila Martins and will feature music by BD audio collaborator Asa Taccone. The website I designed is in the works (therowdocumentary.com) and the amazing portraits below are shot by Chuc Ngyen.

DJ Vlad along with my good friend Peter Spirer from Rugged Entertainment brings you the story of the Bay tracing the roots of Hyphy and Thizz to how Mac Dre came up to become one of the Bay’s biggest icons. Even people that grew up in the Bay can learn something from this joint like all that stupid doo doo dumb talk or how Hammer thought he was Turf Dancing too. I did some of the animation for it and it’s gonna be released through Image Entertainment so you can peep it on Netflix or in the stores. A must for anyone lovin’ the Bay.

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.

Check out this interview Stevie Steve on this blog called Mvmnt, he talks about our first collabo and the world of the mice

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. Word.