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.

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.

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.

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

Asif Mian aka EVAQ from Queens, NY is killing it. This video actually tops his last one for The Roots “Trilogy” (3 videos) which I thought was bonkers already. This kid is the one to watch, if I ever thought about having a partner in Buildestroy it would be him. Also this dude High Priest is from Anti Pop Consortium and now solo, so check his work out too. Niceness. I don’t know where to begin about how dope this video is so I won’t, it just is. My favorite part is the “Skuf” tags from 1999 in the background, Brooklyn stand up. It’s all in the details and Asif is extremely mindful of them. Grimey, perfect mix of live action and Vis-FX and all very in camera feeling. Pop yourself a bottle son.

I’ve always said that if I was modeling BUILDESTROY after anyone it would be Motion Theory. Simply for the fact that they reinvent themselves and their aesthetic each time and work with fine artists in such an amazing collaborative way. I had a chance to be one of those collaborating artists with them in 2003 and it was great. They mix live action and 3D animation in a way that shows so much attention and invention. Here’s a new one from them for Modest Mouse with both Guilherme Marcondes and David Ellis involved how could it go wrong? Big shouts to Matthew Cullen!

http://www.motiontheory.com/work/modest-mouse_dashboard

My good friend David Ellis aka SKWERM of the Barnstormers is a long time collaborative partner of mine. The recreation 
of his artwork in the video was amazing as is his paitnings, films, and sculptures. Here’s links to his work:

http://www.freshwatercatfish.org/ and http://www.b-stormers.com/

He and I have done some great works in the past including these LO FI animations for Sesame Street.

http://www.buildestroy.com/motion3.html