..........Peace to the Babies..........: 2008

Dec 30, 2008

Ribbed for your pleasure

Stupid economy! HavMax just got laid off. But the good news is that now she can find more time to plus-up her music & graphic-artist careers. She'll be launching a new design blog soon, but in the meantime, she got busy flipping this banging new identity-campaign for Kinky Notti... right on time for creating some pre-release promo concepts.

Comments? Critiques or plus-up ideas? Don't be shy!

*****PEACE TO THE BABIES*****

Dec 28, 2008

Who's designjesse?

You know how you put your name in a google search to see what randomly pops up? Well, sometimes googling sends you a pleasant surprise. We found designjesse, some cool photographer's flickr page ((we have no idea who, but you rock designjesse)). There were photos of Kinky Notti from our show at the CRB Loft, but the dope thing about it was how we were classified in the set called "musical people" along with other banging artists like Nas & even Klaxons.

Speaking of Klaxons, we're a big fan of this video: Gravity's Rainbow. The whole psychedelic 80's, f*cked-up-on-purpose graphics, with the clever transitions thru television screens just kinda worked for us.

Another thing we're really into is worldwide street art... & apparently, so is designjesse. We loved these shots from Paris and NY that somehow, inadvertently put both cities up for comparison. And from here, Paris really seems smarter with their illustration, design-influenced graffiti, but hey.

Oui Oui Paris

N.Y. is still fly

Check out more designjesse photos on flickr

Dec 24, 2008

Eye Shine, You Shine

f*ck grills, can I get my eyes on bling?

Tshurhad is a big birthday freak. He gets all crazy about it, runnin round telling muffoccurs, "My Born Day is in 20 more days... yeah I was born Thanksgiving morning..." Then he goes through his whole story bout how his father called his grandmother to announce the 8lb "turkey" he had for her.

sick flyer design, word to HavMax

So this year Chiv Rock's B-Day spot was downtown at the oh-so-futuristic Sky Lounge ((40th floor of the new Avenue Hotel)). We were right on the Mag Mile, 40 stories up, with a ridiculous view. Plus you know we had to lock down the "Kink Suite" for a lil after-party fun. Anyway, that night Tshurhad put together this outfit that was...well...one of those "nobody could, or would, pull-it-off except-for-him type joints". All white, with lite-up glasses and pearls gallore... you know muffoccurs were dying to try on those lite-up goggle-joints just for shits and giggles.

Dude, those glasses gave a whole new perspective on "moonshine" after a shot of yak... & they had eight different settings: concentric-circles, flash on-&-off, fast, medium, slow, random... those glasses ruled like none other!

The Sky Lounge is like a secret agent hang-out. It gives the feeling of being in an airport control-room tower. And Tshurhad celebrated his bday the right way: with "first class" friends & fam...

B.Foster & Chivas "In the zone"

"and I need my Heroine Chic belt buckles.."

ChivRock & sis, Peets-o-Bot

Chivas & Shala cookin up the master plan

The Urban Upscale, Mr. Craig Elliott

Smooches from Sherri Berri

Special thanks to Ansy a.k.a. DuPeyxl for all the shots from that nite!
Check out more pics from Lick the Sky on Flickr

*****PEACE TO THE BABIES*****

Dec 23, 2008

Green Line Holiday

What started out as a nice trip to the MCA turned into a nightmare when we headed back home via the el. The green line's been under maintenance for a while so we expected a long wait, but we never expected this crazy holiday train to roll up. But still we hopped on, thinking that it'd probably take a half-hour or longer for another train to arrive.

all aboard!

They completely decked the halls with boughs of holly in that bitch. Santa even had his own car with his lil helpers giving everyone candy canes. There wasn't an inch on that train that was left uncovered with holiday cheer... they had Christmas songs playing over loud speakers and everything.

it's all in the detail

the seats were re-upholstered in the finest of holiday fabrics

they even replaced the ads with these corny lil spoofs

About 15 mins. into the trip the train stopped due to that track maintenance bullsh*t mentioned earlier. So we sat... and sat... and sat while they attempted to get everything back rolling. The holiday chear turned into turmoil and grief with every passing rendition of Jingle Bells & Sleigh Ride. Once we'd finally reached our destination and the doors opened, people ran out screaming and partially bald. It was the single most horrifying train experience of our lives.

Dec 22, 2008

One School Tour

Floyd the IVth got us a show in Macomb. The plus-up was his aunt's camper that we got to take for a lil ride. Road trippin with our fav band-friends?... come on, that's a no brainer. Besides, getting there is only half the fun.

Our only video-entertainment option: Malcolm X, the DVD

F*cking allergies

Word to BK for being the only fast-food lunch option that us veggie-lovers & carnivores could all enjoy. We saw this bitchin burger bus parked out back and knew right away that auntie's camper needed a plus-up... The Plan: install new flame broilers in the tour bus.

Show, DJ Spre, C.Y.Not, Floyd the IVth, Tshurhad Chivas, HavMax and Chae LeFunk

We performed at some WIU students' house... must be nice having the huge loft above a town-square storefront. Their only mission: to bring a hot music scene to WIU. And they were the third generation of tenants to keep this tradition alive. They rocked

"Wicker-Park Hipsters" all day.

We were plotting future college tours by the end of the night. The energy was crazy high and only escalated with every performance. We'd never seen so much tit-flashing or juke-linery before hitting WIU. We wanted nothing more than for this to become our daily life.