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Rats Spring/Summer Items
March 19th, 2008 |
Rats has long been a personal favourite of mine and they continue to produce the goods under the watchful eye of W)Taps Tet with very limited numbe rof items making production. The latest items to drop is a long sleeve ‘Surfer’ tee featuring a rendition of the Rats logo along with the well known ‘Way [...]
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Interview With Three Thug Mice Creator Steve Marcus
March 19th, 2008 |
Three Thug Mice which we recently previewed here on SlamxHype is a cartoon series that features voice overs by Kool G Rap, Ra the rugged man, MIN ONE, and many others. Alan Ket calls it "violent, funny, and a real New York production". 00 Gallery put together this interesting interview with the creator Steve Marcus, once you are done make sure you head over to the Three Thug Mice website every week as a new episode drops.
Steve Marcus, what’s up?
Just keeping my head up while I got my nose to the grindstone, eye on the ball and pedal to metal all at once so thanks for this opportunity to represent.
Allow us to have you introduce yourself. How did the Three thug mice project start?
It started with some experimental animations with a character that became Vic, the mouse in the wife beater, RA the Rugged Man does his voice in the cartoon now but then it was just one mouse and Vinny Vella who was in “Casino” and was my neighbor in Little Italy did the voice for that experiment – that was before You Tube and since have just kept developing the Three Thug Mice world.
How does a thug mouse deal with an insider rat?
In May, Three Thug Mice will launch a 12 part mini series. It’s a whole story and insider rats get dealt with so be sure to check it out.
How did Min1, R.A. & Kool G. Rap get involved?
Well, Min-One is a dear friend and I got a lot of love for him, we were roommates for awhile and we were really focused on playing video games, and would go totally mental playing WWF Smackdown on the Nintendo. There was a lot of screaming and yelling and we would shake the whole building together, What’s a few body slams between brothers when the competition gets heated, right? When I started doing the first animations I called him up and asked if he would be the voice of Tic, the little mouse, he just came over and we did it. He’s got a great voice and I know a lot of people who try to impersonate his voice but there’s only one and only Min-One, He’s second to none.
I met RA thru some mutual friends and he’s a lover of cartoons, boxing and also makes films and awhile back I did some animations for a music video of his. I called him and asked him to the voice of Vic, the mouse in the wife beater and he came thru the lab and did some recordings. Going to see him tomorrow he just finished a new film so check for that.
Kool G Rap, I actually met recently thru a kid I know since he was like maybe 4 years old. Back in the day, I used to live in a storefront and I bought a big monkey wrench and would open the fire hydrant for the kids on the block in the summer time. I held the key to Tar Beach back then, anyway I got to know everybody in the neighborhood and lived there for a long time, and had cones and would block off the street and have Bar-B-Q’s and big ill parties and we threw down for our block, young and old and I watched a lot of those kids grow up and become men, women and even parents. So one day I’m walking thru the old neighborhood and ran into one of those kid’s fathers and ask how his son was doing, he said, “he’s doing music, some hip hop thing”, so I used to go to their house for Sunday dinners back in the day and called his son, my boy, Lil’ Vinnie, and is now a young entrepreneur who started Well Connected Entertainment. I asked him what was going on and that I was making some cartoons and needed music, he came thru and linked me with some beats from Supreme, a young beat maker from Texas and asked if I wanted to link with Kool G Rap, I said sure and Kool G Rap came thru with his wife, Ma Barker on a Sunday afternoon and did the voice over recordings for Brik, The mouse in puffy with a du-rag and MA Barker did a voice over too. They all did a great job and feel fortunate they blessed my project.
Is there a feature coming?
Hope so – Got a feature film script ready to go so I guess if enough people wanted to see the feature we’d make it.
We noticed a trailer on Heavy.com. Was this produced in 2004?
Yea that was produced in 04, that was a fully independent production, and not only did we make but I took my lunch money and did the paperwork to protect it legally, you know what that means heavy.com stole it – you think I got any money, respect or props from heavy.com? Hell no!!!! I was asking my homie for train fare.
"Support your hood, not hollywood" …What if hollywood comes knocking at your door with some licensing & money talk?
We want to keep it independent and make more cartoons. I refuse to be censored and demand the freedom to keep making my art. I want to give the people cartoons that aren’t toy endorsements for billion dollar companies but my dad’s not the president of the pancake house and baby needs new shoes, landlord’s knocking at the door and the electric can be turned off at any moment, better call while my phone’s still on. . .
The amount and quality of content on the website is very impressive. From the concept to the webdesign & promo, what was the key to bringing this baby to life?
Could not have done it without my tightly knit group of loose cannons. We were on the grind for the past 10 months, 18 hours days, 7 days a week.
The characters and "Behind the scenes" section reveals you’ve got an understanding of the graffiti culture. Did you have to do any formal research?
I’m an OG and been around the block so many times, I stay home now.
You’ve worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
I did, is the glamorous answer but truth is I worked with some good people in their production crew – that animation was also independently produced with my homie in the home lab – which was a sick and twisted location in Brooklyn with a mentally unstable neighbor who would go bezerk because we would be “typing too loud” , eventually came to a baseball bat stand off in the stairwell – regardless of the depraved location, that animation won the adobe after effects something or other award. Got my mom and pops backstage for the shows, they had fun.
Are you essentially a hiphop person?
I’m essentially me, one of kind, an original and I was and still am, part of the city where hip hop was born. NYC is also home to NYHC and I was a dedicated CBGB Hardcore Sunday Matinee devotee. Those 2 scenes sprouted from our city’s economic despair and they both influenced the world. I was there in the 80’s – 90’s and still here, doing what I do, being myself.
Do you support the slaying of pigs?
The slaying of pigs for food is not halal or kosher. But if you eat ham sandwiches that’s fine with me and If you don’t eat ham sandwiches that’s fine with me too.
I don’t judge a man by his sandwich choice.
Could Three Thug Mice be set anywhere else than NYC… How about South Central LA? …Brazil’s Favelas?
Yea Yea – Let’s get them on road – I’ll carry their luggage to brazil.
What’s next?
Hopefully a Three Thug Mice feature film but, Dirtballer, my production company– home of outlaw cartoons has got some new ideas in the works.
Any shoutous, beef, promo?
Yes yea nuff respect, deep thanks and may JAH BLESS Ket, Stick, Made Mike, Nicky Dimes, J Dawg, John Joseph, Taminika Outlaw, Kool G Rap, RA The Rugged Man, Min- One, Chase Jones, 530 Media Lab, The Big Man Spyro P, Kevin Done, Joe G, Ryota and the foxy Jenny T – Max, my brother R.I.P., wish you were here homie.
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Design Hotels Yearbook 2008
March 19th, 2008 |
Design Hotels Yearbook 2008 is an impressive book which is published annually, paying tribute to the finest archicture and most interesting hotels around. Avaialble now at Design Hotels and Amazon "The Design Hotels Yearbook 2008 is an exclusive collection of the most attractive international design hotels. The comprehensive and elegant hardcover presents a wide range [...]
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Sideways: A Smart Art Project
March 19th, 2008 |
"Sideways: A Smart Art Project" is a publication from the people of Smart Car, this book showcases countless amount of ecentric works of art along with looking at the inventive side of the environment and contemporary motoring. Sideway is compiled with various works of art from 100 different artists that make for a diverse cross [...]
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Unkle’s James Lavelle Interview
March 19th, 2008 |
The release of Unkle’s most recent single Restless, which features an interesting video clip has already enjoyed a lot of success in its short existence. In addition Dazed Digital caught up with James Lavelle and put together a small interview while he was down under at the Big Day Festival’s in Sydney in Australia and [...]
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Best Of Alphanumeric Mixtapes
March 19th, 2008 |
Alphanumeric released the first in a series of sought after mixed tapes in 1998 featuring then underground dj’s Green Lantern and DJ Camilo to name a few. These mixtapes, originally in cassettes ofcourse, were released seasonally and quickly became a collector’s item. For 2008 Alphanumeric put together a limited edition double CD “Best Of 1998-2001 [...]
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The Generic Man Fall/Winter Footwear Preview
March 19th, 2008 |
From there studios in Las Feliz and Milan, Brandon Day and Kevin Carney of Generic Man source the finest matrials to use for their footwear production which has been a huge feature of their work since the label was reborn in 2006. This preview of what is to come from Generic Man in Fall features [...]
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100th Issue of Design Taxi
March 19th, 2008 |
Taxi Design Network are celebrating their 100th issue with an epic collective featuring "one hundred things you may or may not know about Taxi, one hundred quotes and perhaps most interesting the 100 covers to have featured on the publication and much more goodness.
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Tiny Mammoth Winter 2008
March 19th, 2008 |
Raph of Blank has been a prominent part of the Australian scene for more than a decade and his latest move proves how adaptable and talented the designer is. Spending much of his time producing a childrens label called Tiny Mammoth the final outcome is something you can sit back and admire. Raph has a [...]
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A Damien Hirst Piece Goes From Fish n’ Chip Shop To The Auction Block
March 19th, 2008 |
The title of this article should really sum up the events but none the less during the 90’s post his now famous Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living also known as Shark which was first shown at the Saatchi gallery in London. Although before he won the prestigious Turner Prize Hirst [...]
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