Minimalist approach to Jurassic Park

Effective?

How bout...

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Source: Design You Trust, minimalistapproach.ch

Typographic Playing Cards

For all those typographers and graphic designers.













Source: Design You Trust

ABDC5 – The Regionals: South

Swagger CREW!

Watch it now before it gets deleted!

This guy that posts the video is the best, tho he's been trying to not get his account deleted after how many...lol enjoy (starts 0:56)





Source: YouTube: imNotGerardlol

ABDC5 – South Auditions Preview/News

Introducing Royal Flush

Regional Auditions – South
• Music for the Crews Includes:
Swagger Crew: "Ice Cream Paint Job" by Dorough
Royal Flush: "Wasted" by Gucci Mane
Jungle Boogie: "Bounce" by Busta Rhymes
Ghost Crew: "Android Porn" by Kraddy
X-Treme Motion: "She Ain't" by LeToya Luckett
• Seems to be more straight up dancing and no gimmicks for the South
• Bottom 3 crews battle for the last spot dancing to Baby Bash's "Outta Control"



Behind-the-scenes: South Crew Intros




Source: MTV Remote Control Blog, Blogging Best Dance Crew

Preview–ABDC5!

Ah-back to the regularly schedule posts! ABDC is back for their 5 Season and all I expect is greatness and pushing the direction of the competition far away from last season. Starts Sunday January 31 (Canada) BUT! With season 3 i was able to find YouTube clips Friday morning after the Thursday showing in the States.

So check back every Friday from the 29th (hopefully the vids will stay on for a long time before it gets deleted).


About Season 5:
• A new judge will be replacing Shane Sparks (after his arrest and allegations)
• Omarion has been announced as the new judge for THIS Season
• There will be 3 Audition Shows Split into South (This Week), East (Feb 4–US), and West (Feb 11–US)
• Each Audition show will be a battle for the top 3 out of 5 crews from each particular coast.
• Once the top 3 are selected from each coast the actual show will begin
• Highlights on the selected crews include a Canadian Crew (mentioned as Foreign?), three 16-year-old participants, a Jump rope crew (WTF?), A crew featuring two members from Status Quo who were 2nd Place after JBWKZ from Season 1 (is that even allowed?)


Competing Crews (Audition Round):

South
Jungle Boogie: Incorporating "Crakin" style
Ghost: featuring a sob story but said to be a hard hitting crew
X–Treme Motion: Booty poppin girls who "buck"(?)
Royal Flush: a crew who auditioned for every single season
Swagger Crew: Breaking away the trendy dance steps for the ATL

East
Saltare: Six of the best Jump Ropers in the USA (wha?)
Blueprint Cru: 1st crew from Montreal, Canada
Legendary Seven: Return of E-Knock & another member from Status Quo
Static Noyze: Mixture of out of the box hip-hop & contemporary
draZtik: The only dance crew from Providence

West
The Blended Projekt : Cloggers creating a new style called "blending"
BreakEFX: Breakers bringing choreography this time around
Heavy Impact/Effect: Breaking the stereotypes of big dancers
Poreotix/Poreotics: Tight–intricate crew bringing comedy to the stage
Hype 5-0: First Hawaiian crew bringing traditional dancing & hip-hop


Featuring dance footage of some of the crews





Interviews with co-creator, KB of the JBWKZ, Shane Sparks, and Poreotix




Source: Blogging Best Dance Crew, Entertainment Weekly

FP: From the Valley

Out of all 4 seasons Fanny Pak was the one crew that fully changed my mind about their whole style and talent. Proving themselves each week they are probably one of the only crews with a total different style aside from hip-hop to excel in the competition.

Sidebar: Just look at the audience's reactions from the auditions to their 5th performance.

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My Top 5 Clips from Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

After the short lived 7th month series of Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien I wanna share with you some the most funniest segments and skits on the show (like the Magna skit). I've been watching the show since it aired back in June and these clips are proof of why Conan is the most funniest late night talk show host.

Here are my favorite clips from June – September 2009:






Watch Pt 2 Here



Click Here to see when they visit the studio again for more MAGNA!



Click Here to see Conan's next big stunt.



Introducing one of the most funniest segments with Wing "like chicken wing"

Preview – ABDC Compilations (Season 2)

Over the holidays I've been working on compilations from Season 2 for the top 3 crews. Amazing each one distinct from the other which made this season more diverse. There's also another bonus compilation I made so there are 4 new compilations coming up, stay tuned.

"Graphisms"

A note from graphic designers. LMAO we're always talking bout this in class.

–Nebojsa Cvetkovic

Source: World Famous Design Junkies.

Calling Out all Star Wars NERDs

From the hypebeasts to the nerds, this is just cool. And NOW with the recent commercial...AMAZING with pop culture.



























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Source: Way More Fresher, Hypebeasts

Update from Week 2 (W-'10)

Second week going into the Winter Semester with 6 courses, 4 days a week. Already piled with readings for two design lecture courses and three studio courses. AND now with the green to go with a Strike for Ontario Colleges again I'll be affected again, but hopefully it won't be as bad as York last year (way too long). Now off to the PROJECTS!



A preview on my first Project for Typography 3.



Taking pictures at Sheridan (Oakville) for an upcoming project.



First project up on display from last year's Drawing for Design class. Previous Post



...I'll get back to you later.

Latest Dance Videos on YouTube

Crazy Billboards

Talk about "in your face advertising". Seen some in Toronto but not like this:




















Sidebar: Attn Grabbing Check



Source: Think Common

Early Xmas Present from The New Flow 935

Never imagined hearing my voice on the radio or for that matter calling and getting through. Random Tuesday morning during the start of my holiday break I got up around 7am getting ready while listening to Flow and they had a contest for Alicia Keys tickets. Its the usually contest where they sample 5 secs. of 5 songs and you would have to name the artist and title. It was just insane got so nervous when I got through my reaction was blank.

Sidebar: It was after purchasing Alcia Keys' 2nd album which got me into buying CDS again.


Making sure i got each song down while I was calling. It was funny cause I was still half awake while writing this.

The Track mix included:
No One - Alicia Keys
A Woman's Worth - Alicia Keys
You Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys
Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart - Alicia Keys
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys


Finally made a trip downtown to make it official!

Quote: Fear

It's only human to have moments of fear
and feelings of being uncomfortable
but we must learn to push ourselves
beyond our own edge.

Samantha Alonso

She's got inspiring words for days – Twitter: SammyJoFRUITION

Phillip Geniza x HDK x SR Studio TV

Awesome Pieces from Phillip Geniza in a Hoes Don't Know (HDK) and SoReal Studio TV feature.





Sidebar: Can't wait for more performances from SoReal Studios.

Source: YouTube: SorealStudioTV, YouTube: batmanflup, YouTube: aHDKproduction

Download–"What's That On My iPod"

First Download Post of 2010

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Noted: Design what you love...

Design what you love to

replace what you hate.

Unsure source from Evo. of Info. Design Class

The Ultimate Christmas Present ('09)

Only once a year...

Christmas Eve.

Over!

Proj–Event Mark

For this project we had design a "hand-made" typeface which emulated and represented a local community event. The choice of the Youth Group Talent Show (St. John Of The Cross) was based on past experience and participation and the goal to depict the kind of atmosphere and feeling when watching the show.


This was the main visual i was trying to achieve, the stage, the energy, the flow, and artistry that the show presented.


This was my second approach playing around with the pop-up but i found it too serious.



This should have been the selected font (Britannic Bold).



Needed to follow the structure but now I feel like too much is going on.



The hand-made type needed to be applied to the flyer to promote the event. Didn't really like the re-make since it lost a lot of direction.



The paragraph format is sick but is the map even that clear?


I really wanna get back to improving this project during the summer. I felt I didn't have enough time to really work on properly executing the hand-made text plus I was making this till 2am and the re-make even later into the morning.

Drake–MTV News Interview

Money Just Changed Everything...



Source: Mr. World Premiere

Avatar–Behind the Scenes

VH1 Storytellers: Kanye West

OMG This DVD is somewhat the closes thing you can get to experience a KanYe West concert (visually & musically). Out this Tuesday January 5th CD/DVD Combo.




It's so crazy, just inspired by the visuals of the stage and lights. Here's a sample.




70 Mins of Video footage and some performances/tracks that didn't air.

Track List/Performances:
1. See You In My Nightmares
2. RoboCop
3. Flashing Lights
4. Amazing
5. Touch The Sky
6. Say You Will
7. Good Life
8. Heartless/Pinocchio Story
9. Stonger

Bonus Disc
1. Homecoming
2. Paranoid
3. Street Lights


Source: MySpace: Kanye West

Tron Legacy Poster

So Sick, the composition and the way its layout is crazy.

Source: Ain't It Cool News