Damn, just saw the news that Guru died.

Not sure that I can eulogize a guy I never actually knew, so I’ll just go back and quote this post I wrote 7 years and 13 days ago…

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allow me to take you back to the early-to-mid-nineties. a young white suburban high school kid in upstate new york. sitting at his mac IIci, designing stuff in aldus superpaint. he’s listening to the friday night hip hop show on the RPI radio station.

as a young white suburban kid in upstate new york in the early-to-mid-nineties, there weren’t a whole lot of places to listen to hip hop. looking back, and looking at the crowd I was running around with, I’m not overly sure why I got into hip hop so much, while others around me didn’t. but that’s a story for another post.

this post is about DWYCK. it’s a song by gang starr, featuring nice & smooth. and somehow I totally associate that song with my high school rap show radio-listening superpaint-designing sessions. and as I said in an e-mail I wrote to fish a few months back, (which was strikingly similar to this post,) it may be one of my favorite rap songs of all time.

lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
I get more props and stunts than bruce willis

man that is so classic.

so anyway, last night I saw gang starr. along with talib kweli and common. it was a great show. of the three acts, I was looking forward to gang starr the most. because while I’ve been listening to kweli and common for the last year or two, I’ve been listening to gang starr for the last ten.

and then it happened. towards the end of the set, the opening beats of DWYCK. and nice & smooth burst onstage. the crowd went nuts. sure, some of the kids there may have had no idea what the commotion was, but the rest of us sure as hell did.

the song was incredible. crazy energy from everyone. wow.

yeah.

ok, that’s that. if you just read all this and are now thinking “DWYCK? I’ve never heard of that song,” or, even worse, “Gang Starr? who are they?” then please do yourself a favor and listen to DWYCK.

thank you.

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RIP, Guru.

Congrats to our longtime friend Brian Sacawa, who appears on this week’s cover of Baltimore’s City Paper! You’ll have to read the article to find out why he’s touching his nose like that.

I mentioned this last year, and the day has finally arrived. Friend Of Fishbucket Devin Clark has a new series on Comedy Central, and it premieres after South Park tonight. WATCH IT!

I saw an early cut of the pilot last year, and it was really funny. (and I’m not just saying that because I’ve known Devin since college and shared a studio with him in 08-09. For real!)

Here’s something that Fishbucket cofounder Chief has been working on lately: Snow Brawlin’, a wintertime iPhone snowball fighting game. (similar to the much funnier-named Nut Chuckin’ from earlier this year.)

Chief is dominating the scoreboard:

Get in on that! Brawl some snow and/or chuck some nuts. (There are free versions available too, if your snownut budget is running low.)

Looks like XXL released their list of the top 100 hip-hop websites, and two of them were created by Fishbucket! (that’s 2%, if you need help with the math…)

Here’s the (partial) list:

• (some websites)
• bbcicecream.com
• (some others)
• thinkcommon.com
• (and some more)

Check the full list at Nah Right

Here’s a little Flash piece we did for the homepage of illusionist Jason Bishop. This dude defies gravity!

thejasonbishopshow.com

Fishbucket headquarters has moved. We’re still based in brooklyn, but we’ve gone from Gowanus, with this view:

to Dumbo, with this view:

…so, while the Kentile sign is still straight-up classic, we have to admit that the move has been a View Upgrade.

At midnight tonight, the third Transformers movie hits theaters. The guys over at Robot Is The Future are releasing a special t-shirt line to commemorate this momentous event in the world of transforming robot films. (they also have a Terminator line that will be released at the same time.) These shirts will be available at midnight tonight.

Check these out, their iconic robot done up like G1 Optimus Prime & Devastator:

At one point I had all of the Constructicons and could assemble Devastator, although there always seemed to be one or two pieces that were missing and/or broken. And I remember him being really wobbly whenever he was fully assembled. These t-shirts are guaranteed to be un-wobbly and contain all necessary parts.

Check out this great new illustration of sports agent Scott Boras by our friend Jim Cooke, appearing in a new article on Deadspin.

Not familiar with Jim? Then you’re missing out. Take a look at more of his work at jimcookeillustration.com.

I’m into robots, but not quite this much… animated by Dan Meth from a real prank call to a phone sex line. (Potentially NSFW for some borderline-dirty language…)