Dope Artists #02: Photography
Jay-Z: On To The Next One (Official Video)
Sick Movie Trailers: January 2010
Sick Animated Shorts
Return of the Music Video
Web Design
Print Design
Photomanipulation
Photography
So I design websites. I love to do it and I have for a long time. My most recent obsession (and thus, most of my output) has been WordPress blogs but my fascination is slowly migrating to jQuery. I’ve done all sorts of things for all sorts of people and even ran a few sites [...]
I don’t do a lot of work for print, I much prefer designing things that can interact with the audience, but a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and occasionally a man’s gotta design a flyer. Over the years I’ve accumulated a nice little collection of these odd jobs, so I might as [...]
The way I got into this whole profession in the first place was by tinkering around with a pirated copy of photoshop about eight years ago. Technically this means that photomanipulation is my oldest design skill. I have to admit, I don’t do it as often as I should anymore, mainly because I’m too busy [...]
I know, I know, everyone thinks that they’re a photographer, and every idiot with a camera has a dozen or so snapshots of the Eiffel tower or their puppy dog making puppy dog eyes and they all think that they should be hung up in a museum somewhere. I don’t claim to be anything more [...]
The most recent addition to my skillset happens to be the traditional art of drawing. Call me old fashioned but I had a lot of fun with this, and over the past few months I’ve gotten pretty good at it. More interestingly, having to deal with the unique issues of each medium and each type [...]
I’ve actually done a little work in film in my time and I have, among other things, a few pretty sick film shorts to show for it. I like to think that if I didn’t become a designer I’d have been a filmmaker. I spend more time feeding my cinephilia than I do feeding my [...]
Hi, kids! So I'm back again. I'm going to go ahead and skip past the part where I explain and apologize for my recent absence. As we all know, shit happens. I return to you a college graduate and a tepid, tender-footed immigrant into The Real World. No news yet on whether my naturalization has set me on the curvy mountain path to a cash-flooded, hedonistic, bohemian existence or just marching blindly into a lifeless philistinist soul-killing cubicle. I'll let you know. Seems like The Dope has been busy despite my chronic absenteeism. An inexplicably massive spike in traffic gave my ...
Okay Jay-Z, I see you're just gonna release the perfect addition to my Return of The Music Video article like two days after I publish it. Douchebag. No seriously though, this shit is crack. Even though it missed the roundup, I had to post. New hyperstylized, black and white, mini-masterpiece from Hova and Swizz Beatz. Uncomfortably trippy and yet ridiculously cool. Check it out. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU&feature=player_embedded Related posts:Return of the Music Video The Dope Sickness Launch!
Happy New Year's Eve from The Dope! Before you all go out and start the groundwork on waking up tomorrow completely naked in a inexplicable pile of some grown man's unwashed laundry, along with an empty can of whipped cream, two broken radio antennas, an illegal immigrant, plaster of paris drying on your genitalia and worried voicemails from your high school spanish teacher (or some other equally wholesome dilemma) I have some new dopeness for you. I bring, for your pre-party hydration needs, the distilled list of fresh movie trailers for January. I know this was supposed to be a monthly ...
I'm proud to present you with The Dope's first guest article, written by the newest member of the website, my roommate and long time friend, Lamont. Stay tuned for more unabridged awesomeness from us both as well as another new addition to the crew soon. - G The future of animated films is firmly based in animated shorts (see “9”, Up). As an "adult" with the attention span of a child, but little desire for show tunes and happy endings, I think this is great news. Shorts offer their creators the freedom to pursue any storyline, any topic, any means of expression, ...
A snowstorm has been beating the shit out of Philadelphia since I woke up this morning. My island boy excitement about getting a chance to work on my snowball skills didn't last too far beyond the first few minutes of bitter cold and the lovely little sensation of frozen water weasling its way inside your pants, which means I get the rest of the day in bed and you guys get a new article. Today I wanna talk about music videos. This is not the eulogy that it would have been if I had written it a year ago, the music ...
The way I got into this whole profession in the first place was by tinkering around with a pirated copy of photoshop about eight years ago. Technically this means that photomanipulation is my oldest design skill. I have to admit, I don't do it as often as I should anymore, mainly because I'm too busy designing websites. I consider photomanipulation, moreso than many other categories of graphic design, to be an art, and unfortunately art often takes a back seat to work. That being said I do have a bit of funk to show off and by God I intend to. ...
For those of you who don't know Banksy, he's the sickest street artist on the planet. I'll allow no contention about it. The anonymous English native, supposedly born around Bristol around 1974, terrorized the world with his meticulously stenciled and cuttingly insightful graffiti for so many years in succession that the world had no choice but to accept him. He went from having his pieces painted over by the government to having his pieces being sold on the spot by art directors who left it to the buyer to figure out how to remove it and take it home. In a dramatic ...
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