Okay if you’re ever in need of some random mixes then check out The Hood Internet. I came across this track – really can’t discern the name of it, but it’s off the hook. It’s just a mashup of The Beastie Boys and Matt&Kim (Who ain’t half bad actually).

So listen to this first:
Good-ol-rump-shaker-Beastie-Boys-vs.-Matt-Kim.mp3 – Good ol’ fashion rump shaker.

Then listen to the original:
03-Good-Ol-Fashion-Nightmare.mp3 – Good ol’ fashion nightmare.

Not to be confused with any offspring of Mr. Roper from Three’s Company, James Roper has some incredible illustration skills.

website: James Roper

I’m just looking for some direction in terms of aesthetic, layout, usability and or course valuable information. I can be the simplest or most richly satisfying site, but it must be geared toward the creatives of the world: Communication design, web design, industrial, architectural, apparel, illustration, motion graphic, photography, even food and the written word.

My favourite is: CPLUV – http://www.cpluv.com/ . It creates a cool community for designers and professional alike to collaborate, communicate and share (can even find work!)

And yours is?

So I’ve posted some video’s before of some stop action tilt-shift photography, and I just can’t resist posting this incredible sequence at a Monster Truck Rally. The perspective is so odd it’s like a mix of hot-wheels and a Thomas the Train episode.

This year has been a year of great challenges and great obstacles – all of which have instilled a great sense of purpose, ambition and direction for me. Technology has been cited as the single fastest growing phenomenon in the shortest time span this century (want more incite check out “The Next 5000 days of the WEB“), however even with all these technological advancements the world still managed to fall into another economic dark age.

I could go into a 2008 retrospective but I think there have been more dark moments that shining moments – so all I have to say is this:

WE all have the power and ability to steer our own course in this life. It might be small compared to schematics of the universe. But the beauty of this world is not what we accomplish as individuals but what we’re able to change together. Sounds pretty tacky I know – but take a step back for once and see the world for what it is – just one big bubble. A bubble we’re all inside of, a bubble that is fragile, but also a bubble that is majestic and everlasting, giving us life. A bubble that surely can live without us if it were sentient enough to just wipe us all out tomorrow, but a bubble WE can’t live without.

May 2009 bring you all joy, peace and power. Power to live life. Power to live it well!