As you now know, or should... I occasionally write and produce artwork for the700level.com (see banner). Since I hardly ever contribute here anymore, I figured I'd take the work from there and put it here... k...? Above is the most recent work... just a quick visual to show the "level" fans who's got the ball in Game 3 against the Rockies.
Pens/Flyers Game preview where I discuss the Pens' PWNership of the Fly-Guys.
What follows is a digital photo diary of the day that was Oct. 31st, 2008. The day of the World Series Championship parade for YOUR Philadelphia Phillies. To view the images, please click READ MORE.
Over 500 people on the platform of Yardley's station, waiting for an R3 West Trenton train that would never come.
The EL from Spring Garden to City Hall.
Top: South Street facing Broad. Bottom: Morris and Broad.
I count 2 in this tree on South and Broad. How many do you see...?
The scene at the South Philly Tap Room on Mifflin.
The day was a perfect storm of sorts, with a parade and Halloween falling on the 31st. Here: Reptile and Sub-Zero. Finish Him.
A haircut for the ages, found at a benefit for Wesley Major on Saturday the 1st.
Broad and Oregon, Sunday before the Flyers game.
Blame it on Tim Burton, for making that ridiculous "Nightmare Before Christmas" movie, pitting two holidays that have no business being in the same movie together... in the same movie together. Blame it on the Phillies for winning the World Series. Or their Manager, Charlie "O' Come O' Come E" Manuel, who's line, "Christmas came early, let's go" plays before most of 97.5's station identifications. Whoever you blame it on, Christmas is here... at least in aural form.
When I think of Halloween, I think of growing up. When I think of growing up, I think of Nickelodeon. When I think of Nickelodeon, growing up, and Halloween... I think of this Pete and Pete Halloween short.
After last night's check swing-strike/ball-walk/appeal-to-first-base what have you... I couldn't help but think of this. After the jump, more clips that make me think the Naked Gun might be the funniest sports movie of all time. Eat it, Caddyshack.
Man-Ram... able to will entire baseball teams into the playoffs (according to Joe Buck).
Tyler Mintz is leaving his cushy job at Charming Shoppes to go back to school. Here is our fond farewell to Tyler and we wish him luck. Here are some digix3 highlights featuring Tyler: FlipCup and Cake, Hairy, X-mas Spirit, Special Comment, I'm old, Eat at Joe's, My camera-man.
Part 3 of Super Martio Party 28 is here. Flip Cup, Excite truck, bad shirts, drinking and bowling await you... After the JUMP.
Part Two of Super Martio Party is here. Click after the JUMP for more pics and movies. Oh... and by the way. NICE SPARE.
Ana does a Joe Manning impersonation. Kyle holds court with Dan, Squeex, Rachel, and Kirk. Jessie tries her hand at Wii-bowling for the first time.
I'm popular, the swing is popular and Chad is DEFINITELY popular.
Due to a severe lack of pong balls, and a four person elimination wii-bowling tournament, many people preoccupied themselves by flipping TEH CUPS!!! Those include Kyle, Jim, Cam, Dan, Chad, Ana, Kathy, Tyler, Me and Mii.
What's inside and has to thumbs...? ERIN! Along with Meg, Julie, Wes and the stocked spice rack. Tyler and Jessie are swingers.
I call this montage, "Where the Cold Things Are..." A northwesterly wind came over the party, causing those that weren't dressed for the occasion to scurry inside and watch the Phillies.
My main bitch with her best bitch. Her best bitch with her main bitch. Her best bitch with her main bitch and two other best bitches. Or.... Rach, Meg, Meg and Barry, Meg, Me, Erin and Julie. Thank you ALL for coming.
More pictures and movies are coming. I swears!
On Saturday, April 12th 2008... a party was held in the town of Boothwyn with the theme of Super Mario Bros. The party was expertly planned and executed by the lovely Rachel, who took care of prizes and decorations and anything else you could think of that carries the Mario image. What follows over the next few days are posts bursting at the seams with photos, videos, and video game goodness. For a tour of Teh Mushroom Kingdam, check after the JUMP.
The reason for all this nonsense was my birth, 28 years and four days sooner. What better way to stave off old age than have everyone act like they're 4. Let me introduce you to an Audio/Visual wet dream.
The projector screen was more than six feet tall, a loaner from my grandfather. The projector came from a close friend who will remain nameless to protect his reputation. It took a long time to get right and at this point in the day, the whole projected gaming was still not a guarantee of working. Only when the sun went down did I know if I could pull the whole thing off.
Thirsty? Drinks included Three Olive Voldka, Absolut Pear, Captain Mo', and a whole keg of Pabst. People came bearing gift drinks of Guiness, Stella, Harp and everyone's local fave Lager.
Everything from the prizes to the plates were colorful and remeniscient of the Mario world. All of the bags had a different character on the front, while Mario and Luigi adorn the special gift bags of yours truly and the lovely Rachel (the hostess).
Gift bag prizes included Gummy Nintendo characters, mini-mario statue imports, goomba keychains and cry baby tears bubble gum.
Finally, the guests arrive and the games begin. Here is a large showing of the NES classic, "Ice Hockey."
Here's a taste of Wii-bowling projected on the big screen. More tomorrow.
and it wasn't because his new-born twin children were poisoned by incompetent nurses. No, its more because he's on 60 minutes wearing hip clothing from Modern Amusement. Why is this important? A few years ago, a former classmate of mine from Uarts named Hershel saved my life. He had a mid-mid-life crisis and decided to move to the West Coast, leaving an open position in the digital retouching field. He called me up and offered me THAT job essentially saving me from a dead-end career as a Super Fresh employee (sorry Anthony). Long story short, I'm in the field (finally) and he has a dream job working on skate-board fashion (sorta) in a place where its always sunny (not philly). Consider this post a digi-thank you, and an excuse to promote his personal blog, artraffle, which can be accessed in my "Friend with Benefits" sidebar under "King of the Jews."
Walk with me now, down the aisle of a Target store. On the top shelf, we have the best society can offer. Imagination and inventiveness. Playfulness and exploration. The youth of America on this shelf are curious and have a interactive innocence (especially in reguards to Wild Time Pin Print). After the JUMP, I provide you with visual evidence that the youth of America, the ones that "hang" on the lower shelf, have a lot of catching up to do.
We from the lower shelf... SALUTE YOU!
So close to one another, yet oh so far away. Please, help support the "lower shelf" youth of America in any way you can.
as far as Hubba-Bubba is concerned. So he, Dan Gallagher, and I are here to wish you a happy, healthy... and HOTT Valentine's (not times) Day.
Go to Macy's on Market and see the light show. Walk through the animatronic Scrooge show. Be a kid...
My dad's father, or Poppie, had two televisions at his house in Philadelphia. One had cable and the other had this fuzzy basic antenna feed that didn't offer much more than re-runs of Mamma's Family. It was nearing 7:30, and I began to pace back and forth in his living room. I had become addicted to hockey. It was all Eric Lindros' fault. That, and my uncle had bought me a nerf hockey set that I'd take out back and use to shoot pucks off various fragile objects. The Flyers were off, but a much more attractive game was on my mind. I began to watch any hockey game that ESPN or ESPN 2 (back when they showed hockey) could get my eyes on. I also became aware of the great rivalry between the Colorado Avs and the Detroit Red Wings. A video summary of their heated antics awaits you after the jump.
This very night, the two were squaring off in a revenge game on cable TV. Somehow I convinced my Poppie to turn off the horse races and turn on the game. Within the first 5 minutes, there were crosschecks, slashes, boarding, fighting, blood, guts and I think someone died. My grandfather, in a disgruntled "I can't believe you watch this stuff" manner... picked up the remote and turned it off. Hockey, especially the way it was played then, and the way it was played last night at the Wachovia center betwixt the Flyers and Penguins, isn't for everyone. I have come to realize that our brothers in the middle of this fair Keystone state hate us just as much as we hate them. I predict that the new Flyers/Penguins rivalry will equal and eventually surpass the Avs/Red Wings in intensity, violence and pure entertainment. And to think, we play them 5 more times this season.
Cliff's Notes version: Dan IMs me at work and tells me that there are these crazy stuffed animals on WhySoSerious, the viral marketing web-site for the sequel to Batman Begins, Dark Knight. These critters are holding addresses to various locations that nerds and such can bike or get their moms to take them to in the hopes of getting a package. He wonders if I, on my lunch break... wouldn't mind scoping the location out. I do mind, his brother does not... And what do you know, he enters a bakery in Germantown and receives a cake with a phone number on it, FROM THE JOKER. Or maybe it was Batman, or Robin... or maybe that Joel Schumaker guy. What happens after the securing of cakes? You'll have to visit Dan's blog to find out. He updated, its great, the world is coming to an end.
If you want to know more about the 6 minutes of exclusive footage from the Dark Knight shown in an IMAX theater yesterday, click here.
If you want to register to see those same 6 minutes at the KOP mall on Thursday, click here.
For someone else's post, this one turned out to be quite long.
It started off as an innocent night of having nothing to eat at my apartment, and nothing to do. So I picked up my life partner at work in the North East... and headed towards the Willow Grove mall. There wasn't a shopping list to fulfill or a particular store we wanted to hit up. It was just an excuse to eat crappy chinese at Master Wok... and then walk it off in the 3 floored mall. What we did find was a slew of really cool items that will satisfy ANY and ALL of those special nerds in your life. So please, READ MORE... see what I saw... and always remember, Ben Stiller sucks.
This gem was found in a hat store that wasn't Lids... but it was just like it. This is a step up from those paper hockey helmets they give out at games, but at a costly 40 some dollars. The chin strap is a really nice touch. What a night for head-gear.
This sweatshirt is just too amazing for words. Hot Topic has some primo-pop culture apparel coming out (more below). I love the Super Mario 3 instruction booklet art alot more than all this CGI 3D art you see of Mario nowadays. P.S. They had a t-shirt of Mario in the bee-suit.
I would never wear this... just thought it was interesting. Wii are the world. Wii are the children. Wii are the ones who make a brighter day, so lets start givin'.
My God... if you only knew. I had the action figures. I went and saw the movies, even the crappy 2nd and 3rd ones with Go Ninja Rap and time travel. I watched all the cartoons, even the crappy ones where Mikey stopped using his nunchuks and started using that turtle grappling hook. I used to lose my mind watching/playing the arcade game in Shakey's Pizza on Naaman's Road. I was a huge fan, and these are really really neat knit caps.
At sports and collectibles, there was a terrific buzz of activity surrounding a rather physically fit Philadelphia Eagle, and former Penn State alum/Outback Bowl MVP... Tony Hunt. Of course, I didn't know any of this until my contact at Penn State filled me in. So I took his picture on the chance that he WAS somebody... and eventually he might be.
