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.

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.

Oh yes, two of my favorite artists and close friends together again. The last time we were all in SF together was in 2002 for their collab show at 111 Minna, after we had all been on the road with Galactic doing the Sight of Sound tour. I was filming the whole thing and documenting the rockstar painter mashup.

This show promises to be extra crazy. Buildestroy will be creating projections for the show and installations. Also will premiere some pieces from the Ghetto Defender film with Doze. Come check us Bay Area Massive!

Youtube Video Preview of the Rubicon Sun show

Youtube Video of David Ellis’ Robotic Musical Owl from the Show

My good friend John Narun was CD at Venano, Inc. on the project of creating a jumbo screen film for each song on the album to compliment the stage show. So with Jason Whitmore fresh off of the Ipod light streak spot he did at Exopolis we got to do the graffiti handstyle streaks that we’ve all been waiting to see. Who cares about abstractions, let the streaks have meaning. Oh yeah Sprint jumped everyone else on that one, except us, and ours was for Xtina so now what? Buildestroy didn’t animate any of this, we just caught tags and throw ups and abstracted wildstyle letters. My LA homie Trixter got down with me on this one too.

PS: It’s 4 minutes long and 23 MB, I won’t be hurt if you only last 1/2 way through..

http://www.buildestroy.com/XTINA.mov

My good brother MED relaunched our clothing line with our own retail store and the sickest tattoo shop ever seen. My crew is coming up large, we got Bay Area homie Metal Man Ed to come and recreate 4 NY MTA subway trains to scale, down to the rivet. Tuff City partnered with Montana paint to have one of the most extensive collections of aerosol paint for sale in New York. There’s also a legal wall there in the alley for anyone who buys a certain amount of paint can do a burner. On the roof they installed a life size side panel of the MTA train with windows and everything, for us to piece when we want. Some of the best tattoos, airbrushing, and piecing going down at Tuff City. Also a full music studio and the Buildestroy East Coast Headquarters housed at Tuff City. Check for MED, CES,and YES2. The Grand Opening in July was nuts. Right near the Bronx Zoo and Fordham University, so don’t be scared of the Boogie Down BX.

650 E. Fordham Rd. Bronx, NY 10495 • 718. 563. 4157

The TCS clothing line collabo with Buildestroy. Here’s some of the designs from Summer 07.

The week of June 11-17 was a rainy mess in NYC. My flight from LA took over 18 hours and involved  me renting and driving a car from Philly to NY. Together with Heroic, 3RingCircus, Wondermint, and  Network I threw a party for the good people who attended the BDA/Promax event. All I can say is prayers do get answered as the rain forecast miraculously went from 80% chance to 0% on the day of our party. This only matters because the Buildestroy parties usually involve live music and live art. To do these things properly we needed to be outside, on a rooftop, in the middle of Times Square! Check the results:

My crew in NY is strong, so there was a good presence of artists and musicians. Not to mention the industry folks who showed up and had a great time. Open bar usually leads to a good time by all. Thanks to CES, DOZE, CYCLE, and BOUNCE for painting my wall, and MED for illegal Times Square billboard throw ups!

Yeah all this being chained to the computer shit sucks! I prefer to burn the crap out of my hand and breathe molten lead fumes! Here’s my latest stained glass creation: 300 pieces and 400 watts! My good friend Alex Dervin of Network invited me to do my version of the Bus project for the Group show “blood, sweat, and tires.” I wanted to get my major shine on…

In the last post I linked to some of David’s sites. He has been a huge inspiration to me over the years ever since Doze introduced me to him. The technique that he developed known as “motion painting”, I have used in a recent network rebrand for LATV. It’s a time lapse technique that I first became involved with in a prior Sesame Street project the year before the one in my last post. I wanted to take the technique even further this time filming all of the painting on green screen so we could isolate the layers and create 3D space. Painting was done by me (STAT7), BOUNCE, TRIXTER, ARIEL, and Marcos Vaz.  

Buildestroy LATV Rebrand

David Ellis (SKWerm) also used the technique most recently in the KnowAids PSA (VISFX done by Mass Market):This spot also features long time BUILDESTROY collaborator Doze Green.

http://www.buildestroy.com/AIDS_PSA_WEB.mov

Currently putting the finishing touches on The Grouch’s “Artsy” music video. Should be a youtube favorite, we decided to remake the most “artsy” commercials and videos. The song is really clownin’ on the hipster scene so we wanted the visuals to take it even further. It’s been alot of work but coming out real funny. Should be ready to be on the new reel in June.

Also trying to put the finishing touches on the “Ghetto Defender” project with Doze Green’s paintings turned into a 15 minute animation exploration. Easily the best project I’ve ever been able to work on. It took funding it myself to make it happen, but such is art. Lots of super talented audio and visual collaborators, making it happen as well. Look on buildestroy.com for the project to be released sometime in the future..