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Yo check this out… Tyree Dillihay presents Sn’eads – Sneaker heads on a mission for the grails. Episode one centers around the foamposite “Dirty Coppers”
UPDATE- GO now to theshoegame.com and leave R E E a comment – it’s the HEAT

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle”

Read about this historic 1957 comic book at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website

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Dig this real fresh short from Canadian animator Andre Barnwell. In the style of Les Lascars, which is a French series, and now also a feature, but this is in english so your man gets extra credit. Visit his vimeo page and holler at him, he has links to all those who aided in the creation of the short – aiight?

Concrete Immortalz comic premiere issue online. This was unveiled at wizardcon last week. The crew behind this is bringing real graff to comic-books in an urban sci-fi vein. Peep it at the website and sign up for the email list to know when the next issue drops.

Visit the Blokhedz YouTube channel and check out our latest behind the scenes video. We recently uploaded a demo of the 3D work done for our www.MissionG.com webisodes, because we’re nice like that. In the video we take you on a tour of episode 2’s “Paid in Full” courtyard set. We used both Maya and Cinema4D to model and UV the objects, with FBX and the BodyPaint exchange plugin to get stuff back and forth between programs.  All texturing, surfacing, lighting, and camera layout was done in Cinema4D and all renders are from C4D’s native renderer. 2D animation was done in ToonBoom, and the final product was composited in ToonBoom as well. We also used a camera plug-in called WFCam4D for a fisheye lens simulation needed for a long pan. In this quick peek behind the curtain,  you’ll get a close up look at the textures, geometry, and overall composition of the set. We would like to extend a special thank you to Paul Babb and the good folks at Maxon who provided us a ton of support.

Big shout out to the 3D team led by Joshua “SELF” Geisler-Amhowitz that worked stoopid hours to create this world;

Michael Gorospe, who modeled and UV’d most of what you see in this demo. Eric Bains, who assisted in the UV’ing, model clean-up, and texturing. Parker Sellers did extensive environment layout for the chase scene in episode 3 and the King Tubby set as well. Also, the South Korean emation 3D team; my mans SangHyun who did tons of camera layout and many technical director duties, and NoWon (Spelled phonetically, I’m not sure how it should be spelled) who surfaced and textured the vehicles for the series. We didn’t share a spoken language but we communicated through 3D like what!

You see it in stores, and in your neighbors’ yards and windows. People are already fixing up for Halloween. Our friend Saxton Moore is doing it too in his own way- he just released a few new tee shirt graphics on his personal site. Your man also has an illustrated book for the Halloween season as well, on the little kid tip. It’s a counting book called 13 Rooms of Halloween.

Run tell your Mummy to hook you up with a fly tee from one of our favorite artists, and if you got little ones in the house who are into the spooky and the educational at the same time make sure you check for the books as well. Be sure to peep the Throwback Thursday tee shirts also, most of which are appropriate for Halloween, as he got Count Chocula and a FrankenBerry jumpoff in the mix.

Brotherman issue numbers 3, 4, and 5 are FREE to view, now on brothermancomics.com

Brotherman comics is also offering digital comics for only $1.00 a piece, and you can download the first issue for FREE, to give you a total of 4 complete comic books for absolutely nothing. Spend a mere $7.00 on this site and get the entire collection of Brotherman digital comics. If your boy had them back when, or if you have a couple of issues, you can now get em all or cop the rest and complete your collection. If you’re a new jack/young scrapper/cool kid/new boy who didn’t catch Brotherman in the early 1990’s you can be excused for not knowing about the first comic to represent the ‘hood right. If you’re older and you never heard of it, well, you can get a late pass, but not till after you spend a little dough over at Dawud’s site as pennance. You can cop T-shirts, posters, and also trade paperback editions of the whole 11 issue series if you’re feeling extra guilty about it.

Buy this poster now! you won’t be sorry!

Blokhedz webisode #3 – Pump up the Volume – Watch it now on MissionG.com

There were 3 very talented animation directors on our project at emation studio in Seoul, South Korea. I will have to find out who was responsible for animating this shot. In any case, the pencil drawing you see is the original layout, which came with a layer which had horizon and vanishing points plotted out.
From there we used a wide angle lens plug-in for Cinema4D to match the horizon and vanishing points, and it was BIG SIXES from there!

This is the concept art for the one-of-a-kind boombox/sound system, Audio2, from the Blokhedz www.MissionG.com webisodes. He is equal parts sound system, DJ setup, recording studio, mixer, sampler, drum machine, sequencer, and multi-media playback all stuffed into what appears to be a normal looking radio. Will also get you out of a tight spot, if he’s feeling generous. See Audio2 in action in our animated webisodes on www.MissionG.com

Want to download a huge version of Audio2 for you desktop backround?

Blokhedz is no stranger to the land of the rising sun. In fact, the popular art and culture of Japan has been an influence on Blokhedz creators and twin brothers Mark and Mike Davis since childhood. Journalist Keiko Tsukada of BMR (Black Music Review) sat down with the twins to discuss their inspiration, artistic influences, and the magic and powers of the BLOKHEDZ world.
BMR is the real. They cover the music, art and politics of black music for all of Japan, much like The Source when it had some teeth.No fashion spreads, just the real dope.

See Blokhedz in Issue #25 of RIME Magazine. Continuing to bubble from the underground, Blokhedz is featured in RIME magazine’s 7th anniversary issue. You can see most of it online here at issu.com For some reason it’s in 2 parts on the web, but if you’re in the store you’ll see the magazine with MURS on the cover. Looking a little like your man from Steel Pulse, if I do say so myself. Big up to RIME magazine for putting us in their publication. Check it out, photos and interviews by Estevan Oriol, they got E-40, MURS, Sen Dog, all kind of Hip-Hop. I was gonna make a short list of what was the best stuff, but it’s all good, so go read it online, and if you’re really feeling it then support and find it at your one of your local spots.

Go check out the latest issue of LIQUIDTEKS magazine – official graffiti magazine published from the inside of the culture, not by swagger-jackers in the globo-corporate publishing complex. Bronx keeps creatin’ it.

Why follow when we can all join together? Let’s all blend together in a jumble of @’s, #’s, and tiny URL’s where you don’t know what you’re clicking on! Psychedelic! If you’re a tweeter, join up with us at this social networking love in.

If you’re not one to drink the Kool-Aid you can still see all the latest jibber jabber from the electronic tower of Babel in our new right sidebar widget!

Congratulations to our friend Mayda Del Valle, who graces the pages of O magazine this September.  Not only does this Chi-town native poetess voice MULTIPLE characters for the BLOKHEDZ web mini-series, her talents have taken her from Nuyorican Poets Cafe to Broadway to the White House, where she performed for President Barack Obama this spring! Now we’ve learned that Oprah and her mag have recognized Mayda in their FIRST EVER Power list issue that includes  20  visionary women.

We are lucky to have the poetry of Mayda on tap for the long-awaited Episode 3, voiced by the talented Lauren London.

To see Mayda in action follow this link to oprah.com

For the BLOKHEDZ  web-shorts,  check out www.MissionG.com

And comment on the page to demand your episode 3!

Blokhedz production design and background sets on Flickr, including this preview image from episode 3.