New Videos!!!

Hello all,

Hope everyone is having an excellent holiday season!

Below are some videos by the group "Improv Everywhere" and also the Sketch group: DERRICK Comedy!

Also, is a Kanye live performance and a Christmas jam.

ENJOY!



Mafia- DERRICK Comedy



GIRLS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED by KEVIN!



Keyboard Kid- DERRICK Comedy





Meet a Black Person




Frozen Grand Central

Kanye West- I Wonder (Live at Vodafone)



This Christmas- Donny Hathaway

-T. "COOL COOL ALRIGHT"

So, there are a couple of big blogs I look at...one of which is Gowhere Hip-Hop, a Chicago based blog, anyway, I stole this from them...for you!!!: ENJOY



“Well here it is, the complete series of my version of 808s & Heartbreak song covers! I begin with the initial cover for the album, and then go song by song, as they’re presented on the album, each telling a story through imagery, as a metaphor for the journey Kanye West has traveled that allowed us this genius piece of work, 808s & Heartbreak. Each cover looks to create a sort of frame by frame for the album as a whole, with imagery relating to each song, a still shot from each song that allows you to use the lyrics and project your interpretations of each song onto the piece. This is my tribute to Kanye West, whose trials and tribulations have undoubtedly made this the album of the year, if not this decade in my opinion, and a tribute to his mother Donda West as well. So I hope you enjoy this artwork, and please feel free to let me know what you think.” [Fred Hart aka Fhart06]

Fred Hart
University of Arizona [Fine Arts]
fredhart@email.arizona.edu

My favorite cover goes to:

See you in my nightmares

2nd Place:

Streetlights

What do you think??? Comment on your fave.

-T. "...can't stop having these visions, gotta keep living...."

New Fresh Gear= UnKommon Kolor!!!!

So, it's no secret here at Ancient Fortification that my boys, Blue the Great and Jeremy Biggers drop some dope shit. But, I have yet to do a feature on their clothing company,

Unkommon Kolor!!

Here is some of their latest work:

Unkommon Kolor!!! x New Era/ Unkommon Kolor!!! x Play Cloths

Custom painted New Era and Play Cloths fitteds. Can one make the word "fitted" plural? I guess we just did. Brought to you by Blue the Great and The Dude with the Beard respectively. We're all about being different here at Unkommon Kolor!!!, and what's more different than painting the under bill of a hat? Who's doing that?!?! Exactly. No one.

Also:

They have hand painted Skate Board Decks!
Handpainted and Screen printed Shirts and Hoodies!

So, go check them out at their blog:

Unkommon Kolor!!!- the blog
Unkommon Kolor- The Website/Store

In other news:

I have the Obama shirt! And I also want the following from KARMALOOP:







-T. "...GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!"

P.S. Shout out to the beautiful Andrea Hill of Candy+Andy's Legal Couture blog
"Age ain't nuthin' but a numba"

Jeremy Biggers-Photographer Extraordinaire

The FOLLOWING IS FROM:

http://jeremybiggers.blogspot.com

READ, SEE, ENJOY. GO VOTE

Clash of the Cameras

I need your help. The beautiful ladies over at http://thekommonthread.blogspot.com conducted the first ever “Clash of the Cameras” between myself and Free of http://theycallmefree.blogspot.com and I need your vote. I know the word “vote” and the whole idea of voting has been a bit over-saturated this season, but nevertheless, this is the first competition I’ve ever entered as a photographer and it would be really swell if you would do your part in helping me win. Sure the prize is nothing more than bragging rights, but a win is a win right? I’m not as eloquent as Barack, and I don’t think I could mimic his cadence through text so I’ll spare you the speech. I’ll simply post the images with a brief description to allow you some sort of insight, but first allow me to explain the stipulations of the competition. Both of us were given 10 words or phrases, and had to photograph our interpretation of each word or phrase.

My goal for each of these images was to take the less obvious route in my interpretation. Force the viewer to wonder why I chose what I did to express each concept. So lets get right into it.

Black and White: This image is fairly straight forward. Just a “black and white” image. Hard to get less obvious with something this specific.

Portrait: The first thing you notice is the macro shot of someone’s eye… but if you look closely there is “more than meets the eye”… I understand that was corny… and I’m ok with that.

CLICK IT TO TRULY SEE IT!

Greek Life: I’m not big on Frats or Sororities so I really couldn’t care less about this particular subject matter but it was on the list so I had do what I had to do. Meh…

Historic Building: I’ve always wanted to shoot the “Old Red Courthouse” and this was my perfect opportunity to do so. I used a less than typical angle to capture this red brick castle turned museum.


Finer things in Life: My original concept for this was to shoot a 5-7 yr old in her mother’s dress and jewelry or slip and her displaying the “ring pop” like she was immensely proud of her engagement ring in a larger than life condescending manner. But the people that owned the kids kept flaking so I had to use my friend’s 2 year old. Needless to say a 2 year old isn’t the ideal “following directions” type. So I tweaked the concept and essentially shot until I got an image I thought I could use.



Motion: Concert photography. Throwing your hands in the air and waving them like you just don’t care qualifies as “motion” right?


Lust: You’ll need to view this image at full size to “get it”. Its more than just two women sharing an intimate moment, which seems to be the consensus for every male's fantasy. The two women you think you see is actually one woman… twice. Showing two sides of the same coin.

The Hood: The house my family lived in when we were at our lowest point financially.

Something Dealing With the Election: Black man. Chicken. Barack t-shirt. Doesn't get more clean cut than that.


Image that reflects who you are as a photographer: I don’t really consider myself a photographer per se. I’m more of an artist with an expensive hobby. I’m essentially nothing more than a graphic designer/painter that went out and bought a good camera. I’m a nerd. And I’m also a bit of a goof ball. I’m just a big kid. I enjoy life. So what better way to tie all these things together than a photo of me in footie pajamas with a huge head and large childlike eyes, floating in space with some other graphic design elements tossed in for good measure. No, that’s not just a picture of my head on someone else’s body. I actually went out and found some pjs that actually fit me. Everything about this image was done from scratch. No, stock images used what so ever.

So there you have it. My ten images from the first ever “Clash of the Cameras”. Now that you have the backstory that no one else will have the opportunity to know, go on over to http://thekommonthread.blogspot.com and vote for me! While I appreciate any love you leave me in my comment section (hint hint) only the votes left on their site will count. Voting ends Tuesday November 25 at midnight, but why wait until the last minute? There might be lines on the last day of voting, and no one likes to stand in line. You may as well go now... you're obviously on the internet what's one more click?

PEACE
ONE GOD ONE LOVE
J

ALSO...Check out J and Blue the Great at http://www.Unkommonkolor.com for some freshgear

-T. "What she got is so Niagra..."