When life presents me with a new challenge... I accept!

So apparently a woman can train herself to pee standing up. You can do it with this labia opening technique with your fingers or get this device.

GIRLS ON WAX

Holy split banana sundae. Today we launched our web video broadcast and it was amazingly fun.

We were wondering... How often should we do this?

VOTE NOW!

East Village Radio: Two for Tennis

KRUNK PONY IS GUESTING ON THE INTERNET RADIO SHOW!
Anyone who knows me intimately knows that I am jumping out of of my wingtips excited to be guesting on Two for Tennis with Tim Love Lee and Coach. Tuesday June 22nd between 6 - 8pm. In respect to the theme of his show, I'm going to bringing records that lean towards the "weird" or "unique" side of funky dance music. I'll be sharing rare grooves that are the jewels of my collection. This is how you get involved:

• COME BY THE STUDIO on 1st on 1st and say 'what up' live!
• AIM the EVR studio at “eastvillageradio”
• Phone in on 212 254 7104
• Log on and listen live from the EVR Home Page for the Show Two for Tennis.

See ya there!

Tim Love Lee

My name is Tim Lee aka Tim “Love” Lee. I am the founder, co-owner and creative director of the Tummy Touch Music Group, a collection of music companies including record labels, a music publisher, an artist management company and a library music company.

I am also a musician, record producer and DJ.

I have made three albums. You can buy my records here.
I have three commercially available mix cds. You can buy them here, here and here.

I do a radio show every Tuesday evening on East Village Radio.

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On Monday nights I spin records for models, millionaires, movie moguls and arms dealers at the Gramercy Park Hotel’s Rose Bar. It is a constant source of amusement and rent money.

I like cycling and synthesizers.

I was born in 1970 in Cambridge, UK and now live in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Source: Tim Love Lee's Blog, Sounds Good in the Nude

DJ Morsy.com

This week I did a DJ friend's website. The awesome DJ Morsy. I surprised we got any work done considering how we were laughing our heads off. Its a one page "press kit" style site. It came out dope. Even doper than my current site. Damn.

What Really Goes on in TopShop

Yesterday I recorded myself while I Djed at TopShop. I like this gig because its relatively no pressure and I can play whatever. There are even a few natural "mistakes" but no trainwrecks. The progression of this mix is jams, then 70s, then house. Its about 1:45:00 long!


Krunk Pony - What Really goes on in TopShop Live Mix

And because I did this mix in serato only I was able to access the History Review List so here is a complete track listing. I just downloaded MixList and I will try working with that next time. It has an "Intelligent Playlisting" algorithm that lists only the tracks that you've played and not those which you have only previewed. When I play clubs and bars at night I am more picky about what I play than a daytime in-store so I preview more.

M.I.A. - Fire Fire
INXS - Need You Tonight
Blondie - Rapture
Stereo MCs - Connected
White Town - Your Woman
Private - Secret Lover
Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain
Sharon Redd - Can You Handle It
Slave - Watching You
Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine
VillA - anita (edit)
Holy Ghost - Hold on
Whispers - Rock Steady
Wanda - I Must Be Dreamin'
Whispers - It's A Love Thing
Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan - Fate (tynneterje edit)
THE B.B. & Q. BAND - ON THE BEAT
Chromeo - Sharon Redd - Beat the street
Gino Soccio - Dancer (LP Version)
Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
Gap Band - Party Lights (Morsy Mix)
Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room
Kraak & Smaak - Boogie No More_Kraak Smaaks Boogie Angst Remix
Bmore - K.C & The Sunshine Band - Thats the way I like it (Morsy Mix)
The Bucketheads - The Bomb (These Sounds Fall In
Dennis Ferrer - Change The World
Santigold - Shove It (Grandthefts Disco Remix)
Gorillaz - Stylo (Alex Metric Remix)
Miike Snow - Animal (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Rick James - Give It To Me Baby (Bardeenz Rejuice)
Telephoned - Million Dollar Bill
Telephoned - Break Up
Treasure Fingers - What Am I Supposed To Do
Estelle - Freak featuring Kardinal Offishall (Album)
Sammy Bananas - Work Me
Round Table Knights - Freak from desire
Krames - Back To Life
Sammy Bananas - Ladies
Larry Tee Feat. Roxy Cottontail - Let's Make Nasty (Afrojack Remix)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Original Mix)
Gramophonedzie - Why Dont You
Round Table Nights Calypso

Design Influencers

Was just asked to be part of a designer's focus group and had to list my design influencers. I was asked to list people who were

"design “gurus” you look to for advice (i.e. who are the equivalents

of a Malcom Gladwell in the design field)"

That was a pretty evocative call to action for me cause I am a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell (fellow Jamaican) (kind of). This also made me realize that I still haven't read, his book The Tipping Point

I never really made note of which people were really influencing me in the design field so I found the task a bit fun.

My design Influencers:

David Blatner | http://indesignsecrets.com

David Blatner is the author of 15 books on topics such as publishing, aviation, Judaism, and pi (π). He is the editorial director of InDesign Magazine and the co-director of The Print and ePublishing Conference, and a contributing editor to CreativePro.com. Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 14 languages, winning him awards and praise from readers. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa.

Source: http://63p.com/about.html

Anne-Marie Concepcion | http://indesignsecrets.com

owns Chicago-based Seneca Design & Training (www.senecadesign.com), a cross-media design studio and certified Adobe training provider. Anne-Marie has taught InDesign and InCopy to hundreds of clients across the country via on-site training and her popular seminars at the InDesign and Creative Suite Conferences. She is the co-author of InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs (with David Blatner, 2005 Peachpit Press) and publishes DesignGeek, a free tips and tricks e-zine for digital designers.

Source: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2459

Ivan Raszl | http://CreativeBits.org

Editor of Ads of the World and creativebits.

Armin Vit | http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew

Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration, a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one. While he has written for most of the well-known trade publications, he is better known for his writing on the blogs that make up the UnderConsideration online network, as well as from the books he has co-authored with his wife and partner, Bryony Gomez-Palacio — their most recent efforts being Graphic Design, Referenced and the self-published Flaunt. Armin spends a modest time on the road lecturing on any number of topics and can be found anywhere from San Diego to Berlin. Through UnderConsideration’s Department of Design he designs corporate identities, books and web sites for a few clients.

Source: Underconsideration.com

Tina Roth Eisenberg | http://swiss-miss.com

Tina Roth Eisenberg grew up in mountainous Switzerland, influenced by renowned Swiss design and a lot of fresh air. In 1999 she followed her dream and crossed the Atlantic to design in New York. Since then, Tina has worked at several prominent NYC design firms, including Thinkmap, Inc., where she served as Design Director and designed the award-winning Visual Thesaurus. She now runs her own design studio, swissmiss, with recent clients including the Museum of Modern Art and the Food Network. Tina’s aesthetics reveal her Swiss roots – she is a firm believer in white space-driven, clean, elegant design solutions. Tina is often referred to as swissmiss, her popular design blog.

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/about.html

Karizma is one of the most talented and prolific producers out there.

If you ever come see me play--you know this man is heavily in my collection. This gem here is an oldie but a goodie. The material is a little kitsch (being that this piece of music is one of the most overused in filmscores and such) (especially student films). But he pulls it off in a way that feels really mature.

Throwing down....Again

DJing really does make me happy. I love playing the game of what song would sound perfect after this one. I'm really excited about Thursday's party as it is:

• Jordan's bday party
• JOGYO is performing
• We are having a dance-off for a free T-Qualizer shirt (Shirt that lights up to the beat of the music) (Thank You LightUpDecal.com)
• And US! (Residents Krunk Pony, E¢K$, and Robbie Loggia.

Misery Loves Company

New Zealand Man gives HIV to his wife so she will resume having sex with him.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/06/2763270.htm

This Organizational Chart should End All Confusion on the Gay Marriage Debate

Amazing infographic touching on all the key points being thrown around in the debate.

Tiger Woods CG reenactment!

Chinese news station does computer generated reenactment of the Tiger Woods Scenario.

Ok so everybody is talking about this mixtape. Pretty cool on the hip hop tip. Defintitely worth a download/listen...

By the way I also Looooove the Cleveland show.

Download: Mick Boogie & Terry Urban Present Chip Tha Ripper - The Cleveland Show.zip

The Tip :: Dec 3rd 2009 :: Episode IV

Tappin' with Calvin Booker: I love percussion. And I love dance. Mix the two and you got tap. Dancing since the age of four, Calvin (from the SugarHill Artist Jams) is an original member of the 'Young Hoofers', two-time award winner at Showtime at the Appollo and performed in the off-broadway production of Fela. Catch an intimate performance with him at midnight. Watch performance here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=127580787754&subj=46301476

Get in my Cadillac Photoshoot: Take a pic in our installation.

And as always, residents Krunk Pony, Robbie Loggia, and E¢k$ bring you a sexy funksploitation of jams that are made for dancing.

10 – 11 two-for-one drinks. $3 PBR all night.

RSVP HERE!!!

Hit Me on My Twitter

At my job we recently had Biz Stone come in and have a personal Q&A with us. I got to brush up on my drawing chops and I designed this poster for this event. He was really personable and did not take himself too seriously. After everything though--I still don't see how the business model of Twitter works.

Twitter has invaded pop culture and it wasn't going to be long before someone made a song about it--or perhaps several people would make a song about it.

Here are a few that stood out to me.

Jooce - Hit me on My Twitter:
I saw the video shoot for this one at mug lounge NYC. I was DJing next and they went Waaay over their time slot. There was all underage girls and they were taking crumpled up one dollar bills and making it rain in the shoot. It was funny to see them keep picking it up and reusing it.

C Teezy - Hit Me on My Twitter:
I think this one actually used the beat from Three 6 Mafia's classic "Sippin On Some Sizzurp" which actually samples a Marvin Gaye track originally. Great to bring up U-tern's Disco Sizzurp (in his playlist) which is a sick disco version of 36M's track. He is one of my favorite producers.

Mistah F.A.B. - Hit Me on Twitter
Possibly the best sounding one. Even though he sounds almost exactly like T-Pain. In fact it almost sounds like Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain - Blame It. This song is a guilty pleasure for me when I'm getting ready in my room.

J-Eye - Follow Me (Twitter Song)
Not bad. Good harmonies

I'm barely on Twitter. I don't really use it much.

Designing your Fitness

I've always struggled with finding ways to get fit that also work with my hectic lifestyle. I used to have an $80 per month gym membership a the New York Sports Club and that didn't work out for me because:

• I hated spending that $80 per month.
• I'm a bit shy about working out.
• Every time I got in the zone I was interrupted by one of the personal trainers who wanted to sell me one of their overpriced one-on-one packages under the guise of wanting to help me out with my workout.
• Although the showers appeared clean I was still icked out.
• The whole process of packing a gym bag and going to the gym seemed to take up so much time.

I've also tried other ways to stay fit but each had their share of woes.

• I could never seem to make it to my intramural volley ball games.
• Running made my shins hurt.
• I'm too much of a hedonist to diet.

Recently I've found a new tool to help me out that I love love love. I'm doing these downloaded audio podcasts from yogadownload.com. There are a lot to choose from with a wide range of difficulty and durations. They are also the right price at $1 - $5. Way better than what I was spending at the gym. They also have a nicely designed website which counts alot for me.

I like em blasting off my computer speakers but you could also put them on your ipod. Some of the poses are a bit confusing for me but the classes also come with pdfs of the poses in order. This helps but i think it would have been even better to integrate these into the class and have it like a movie. They should try editing some together with the pose guide.

Try their free trial class 20 Minutes of Power.

My favorite classes from them:

• 8 Minute Abs I don't have time to mess around I need to hit the goods fast.
• Dawnelles Hip Opening Flow #2 Shes got a super sexy voice and it focuses on spreading your legs wider. Not too bad for the love life.

Speaking of working out. I recently designed some flyers with tear offs for a personal trainer in Park Slope. I did this under the creative Direction of TankIndustries who also had previously designed their nice logo. See pics below. Click to view larger.






This was fun to do. The bottom part tears off and become like a business card style thing. The client was awesome and even allowed for a little 'white space'. They are super happy and these rack cards represent their fun energetic outlook and even fit in a regular envelope so they can mail them to prospective or defunct clients.

Soul Finger Sam

Fortunately I was invited to play with SoulFinger Sam next week at an art inspired party called family affair in Clinton Hill.

Against the Grain in Digital Photography

I'm trying to learn how to work my camera better. I have a canon power shot S3 IS.



I really like it a lot. It has an amazing zoom. But alas, I'm still looking for ways to further reduce my digital grain with what I thought was a mid-level camera (Currently on sale for $319.99 on Amazon). Am I asking for too much?


I use this camera for my graphic design product shots, chronicling my 'DJ career, and sometimes at personal events. Because of its design its easy to hold and great for those candid shots but I am struggling a bit trying to get really professional looking product shots. Things always come out a bit too grainy for my taste. With sort of a slight RGB glow to things on the edges. I've tried using external lighting (albeit not professional) and using a tri-pod but I'm still battling with it this. Maybe there is something I'm missing... How do you reduce grain in your semi-pro digital photography?

See an example of a shot I took below.

KILL YOU TO DEATH!

Crazy life has prevented me from achieving my full nerd potential and keeping an updated blog.

Today there is a dance party in the streets (parade to Washington Square Park) I'm gonna hit up, that has an afterparty at Element. Hope its not wack. Its NY's first annual Dance Parade. Lots of dance organizations involved and is actually being used to help overturn the cabaret laws.

I recently found this old hour-long electro mix that has some really good parts in it. Especially exactly at 55 minutes. The best is when the foreign Russian sounding DJ ominously comes on the Mic.

Direct Control Radio Mix


A little Mr. Oizo never hurts, either.

Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat

3BICDP!

Yo come to the party!

brandnew

New Years is coming up. My priorities have changed so much in the past year. And I want to be even better.

My New Years resolution. (I never actually had one before).
Be more punctual.

If I can get that under control--it would greatly improve my life. For New Years, I am leaving New York and going to New Orleans. But if i was staying in New York I would be at one of these...
New Years Parties


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New Years Dream : New Years Eve

The Pleasure Corporation with the support of TheDanger and
a half dozen artist organizations is building the New
Years Eve event you dream of.

New Years Dream : December 31st through January 1st

Dozens of artists and performers are transforming two
spaces into the most decadent and intimate celebration of
new beginnings that this city has seen.  Featuring music
by Rich Medina, Adam Matta, Akim Funk Buddha, the Maracatu
Drum Core, and the Ruel String Band. Experience the beauty
& burlesque of Ooh La Luz, daring do from Poofy the Clown,
two thousand seven acts of indulgence by Boring Incorporated,
massive art and much much more.

Proceeds from this event benefit the rebuilding of the 9th
Ward of New Orleans.  The immense need continues and we
are doing all we can to support our sister city.

Save the date, full details will be revealed next week.
Two thousand seven will be the best year of your life.
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Mad Suspect New Years

Sunday December 31st
BANG IT OUT New Years Eve Party 07
w/ The Captain + Shark
Drop The Lime
Egg Foo Young
after the 4 - The Bangers

$60 -ALL YOU CAN DRINK - 10 - 4

$50 pre sale tickets available at Savalas

Savalas
285 Bedford St. bet. S. 1st + Grand St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The Rub New Years Eve Party

Sunday, December 31, 2005
The Rub New Years Eve Party
DJ Ayres, Cosmo Baker & DJ Eleven
with guest DJs Catchdubs, Caps & Jones
Rahnon's Birthday!
Free Champagne Toast at Midnight
Free food 9PM - 10PM
Party 10PM – 4AM
$50 tickets
Tickets available at TicketWeb.com
Southpaw
125 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215


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Also it would be ridiculous not to recap on the ridiculously beautiful street art show this past weekend. The line was 6 blocks long to get in to this free show. It took hours for us to get in--luckily we could take took turns holding the place in line. But it was absolutely worth it. The vibe was awesome. Some people were buying soda and giving it away.