party like its 2099.

if you are smart, you will be at this:

if you came or attempted to come to our video premiere at bear country last month, you know that it got shut down by the police before midnight which really sucked. we were planning to go on all night. we had live bands. we had three djs. we had live comedy lined up. we had a ton of booze. anyway, being that it was ruined and a lot of people never even got in the door, i needed to re-do the party. here are all the details:

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26, 2009
DINGBATZ / 620 VAN HOUTEN AVE / CLIFTON, NJ
DOORS OPEN AT 8PM / VIDEO AT 9PM / BANDS AT 10:30PM

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
FLESHTEMPLE
McRAD
COUGH
THE DIRTY STAYOUTS

PROJECTION SCREEN SHOWING OF DIVISION EAST "TOMORROW" AT 9PM

$30 - OPEN BAR FROM 8PM-10PM AND SHOW
so basically the show plus $20 for 2 hours of limitless drinking which is a pretty good fucking deal if you ask me.

$10 - AFTER 10PM JUST FOR BANDS (OR ANYTIME AFTER 8PM IF YOU DON'T WANT OPEN BAR)

DVD COPIES OF THE VIDEO WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE. WE WILL ALSO HAVE TONS OF SHIRTS/HATS/STICKERS AND OTHER MERCH AS WELL.

COME DOWN AND DRINK YOUR HOLIDAY PAIN AWAY WITH A BUNCH OF PARTY ANIMALS.

thank you come again.

so unless you live under a rock, you knew friday was our video premiere. the night started off pretty awesome. my boy marx was killin it on the tables. party was jumpin off for a few hours. from our estimates, we had well over 200 people there. the kid who's spot it is said he thought it was pushing 300. it was packed to say the least. but as per usual, the cops came and the party was done by midnight. we got to show a stimulus promo, a sureshot promo and the division east video once before the pork chop patrol arrived. the cops were actually cool, and just wanted it to clear out a little bit, but the whole party left when they saw the lights. i was all over the place and only managed to get a handful of pictures, two being some dope reflections of the police lights haha.







the video came out really sick. we have copies for sale at division east currently.

PEACE TO:

THE ENTIRE DIVISION EAST FAMILY AND THE DIVISION EAST TEAM WHO KILLED IT IN THE VIDEO.

DAVE LEE WHO DID SUCH AN AWESOME JOB ON THE FILMING AND EDITING OF THIS VIDEO.
youtube.com/dleefilms

WARFAIR BOB FOR HOOKING UP THE FLYERS AND DVD CASES.
warfairclothing.com

COPYCATS MEDIA FOR THE DVD PRESSING.
copycatsmedia.com

MY BOYS FROM WE'RE ALL BROKEN FOR LETTING US USE THEIR SPACE.
www.myspace.com/wereallbroken

MY MAN GUTTER FOR LETTING US BORROW ALL THE SOUND EQUIPMENT AND TO GINO AND MARX FOR HOOKING IT ALL UP.
gutterchristproductions.com
myspace.com/mercilessmutilation
myspace.com/6696767

COUGH AND NJ DOTS WHO MOVED ALL THEIR EQUIPMENT UP AND DIDN'T GET TO PLAY.
www.myspace.com/njdots

AND FINALLY TO ALL OUR FRIENDS THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT. WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.

**WE KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE COMING FOR THE MIDNIGHT SHOWING AND DID NOT GET TO SEE THE VIDEO. I AM IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP ANOTHER SHOWING AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME. I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS YET, BUT I SHOULD HAVE THEM PRETTY SOON. IT WILL DEFINITELY BE AT A BAR AND WE WILL HAVE THE BANDS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO PLAY ON FRIDAY AND PROBABLY OTHERS. I AM ATTEMPTING TO HAVE THE VIDEO SHOWING, THE BANDS AND A ONE OR TWO HOUR OPEN BAR FOR A DECENT PRICE. MORE DETAILS WILL BE POSTED WHEN I HAVE THEM SO STAY TUNED**

puttin in that heavy work.

non-stop for this premiere party on the 13th. all the final artwork for the cases and disc are sent out. next up was the flyers and vip passes:

sadly enough, i have to create a hater-free version of the flyer because this blog has a lot of stalkers that don't need to know the address.

if you are down with the get down, you will get a print version of this with the address and/or a facebook invite with all the full details.

also sent out these vip passes to get printed as well. mainly for team riders, band members and anyone else that is helping in the production of the video or the premiere party. there aren't too many so don't get mad if you don't get one. it's only 5 bucks to get in <3

obsession.

been heavy grinding lately. all kinds of print and web work. for starts i finally finished a long running project for my homegirl tara. she does writing, producing, directing and voice-overs for the likes of such channels as VH1, Syfy, IFC, Food Network, TBS and a ton of others. basically she wanted a fairly plain and simple website, and we went back and forth since early this year with design concepts and changes, etc. so the final product is finally done and it will definitely blow up my spot and get me some major exposure which i am fully stoked on.

http://www.tararao.com/

next up is this major dvd release i am doing for division east. title is going to be toxic avengers. my man davy is filming and editing. it looks super sick. all shot in super8 and the soundtrack is awesome. skating is awesome. lotta fresh young talent killing it in the streets. so naturally, i have to step it up for the packaging, artwork and everything else.

layout is a 4-panel digipak 5x7. the thick cardboard joint with the plastic inlay inside and a foldout poster. it will be laid out basically like this. i have most of the front cover done, but i'm not going to preview the any of dvd artwork before the premieres. but it is looking pretty dope i can tell you that. i do have a super rough concept draft of the basic logo though:

the final version is gonna be tweeked a little more with all kinds of like toxic waste barrels and nuclear silos and all types of shit. but this is gonna be the general feel of the text.

in addition to all the print work and packaging, i'm also doing all of the on-screen stuff aka dvd menus, titles and credits. this project is definitely consuming my life pretty heavily. well that and jamesons. but what else is new.

we were originally doing the premiere for the video at the clairidge theater on bloomfield ave in montclair, but they gave us a date and then pushed it back a month so we scratched it. instead we are going to do a series of premieres at five different places. i just sent out the artwork for this ad which will be in the upcoming issue of focus.

(colors are slightly off on this because its a copy of the actual print version and doesn't show up in true form on normal monitors)

so needless to say, i've been a busy boy. i'm also trying to finish up lunch, dinner and take-out menus for the avenue bistro in clifton but i'm still waiting for some more info from them. next projects are going to be some business cards for tara (see above), possibly stickers for fleshtemple if madden and pete can get me logos and whatever i need and then my own website because i need to start really grinding and getting my name out there and stop stressing over silly little things in my life. word the fuck up.