Thunderdog Studios X Tribal DDB

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Our Friend Triston Eaton  along with his crew at Thunderdog Studios paint a sick mural to help celebrate Tribal DDB 10 yrs in business. Here is a press release from Thunderdog them selves.

The goal was to celebrate Tribal DDB's triumphant 10 years in business through allegory and metaphor. Paying homage to the late illustrator Frank Frazetta, I decided to anthropomorphize the accomplishments and abilities of the agency into a majestic, mythical beast ascending an ever-growing branch of time and challenge. A notch in the tree reveals 10 rings / years of growth.

The painting was executed on 49 square panels of birch formed into a grid reminiscent of the Tribal DDB logo. The imagery was created using wheat pasted paper, spray paint, acrylic paint and ink.

The three animals I’ve chosen to represent the core ideals that Tribal DDB embodies and aspires to are:

The Octopus: 
Creator, Versatile, Resourceful 
The Humming Bird: 
Timeless Messenger, Optimistic, Adaptable
The Gazelle: 
Free Spirit, Aware, Agile, Graceful 

The poster serves as a crest to represent this mythical beast and its triumphant journey. The treatment of graphics are reminiscent of a timeless coat of arms used for shields in battle and for pride of legacy. 

The poster is spray-painted through a laser cut stencil, allowing each poster to be unique with varying fields of color. Each poster features a legend explaining what our mythical beast represents as well as a field for individual numbering and artist signature.
- Tristan Eaton

CREDITS:

Client: Tribal DDB
Agency: Thunderdog Studios
Creative: Tristan Eaton & Robert Rasmussen 
Director & Editor: Robert Zagula
Artist: Tristan Eaton
Executive Producer: Sharon G. White

KAWS - Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket.

Godlike, as well as many other had peeped this at Kaws retrospective show in Connecticut at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.  I remember being in aww when I saw this and wondered if it was a future production.  I am very excited that Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket figures will be released by Medicom at Original Fake in Tokyo this Saturday August 28th, 2010.  It seems that they will be going for about $200 give or take. You know we are gonna have to get out hands on one of these, the only problem when ever you are dealing with Kaws is the how.  Expect these to blow up, because in my opinion they are the most exciting toy he has released in some time.

Mr. Nike SB x Godlike sneaker review "Hufs"

Mr. Nike SB 6 come out with a new installment in a series of sneaker reviews. Check out as he reviews the "HUFS". As always a nice clean and thorough review. Check back soon for a Godlike and Mr. Nike SB 6 cross over give away, but for now enjoy.

-GODLIKE PON

BLACKSTAR WARRIOR! A Black Exploitation film about Lando

Who's the coolest dude in the galaxy? LOL check out as Lando as he try's to fight against the oppressionof the galaxy and what "THE MAN" has to offer him. Watch as he tries to save his woman and resist temptation. Grab your self a Colt 45, sit back and relax. Enjoy the trailer and remember Colt 45........it works every time!

Here is a vintage Colt 45 commercial, just incase you forgot.

The most BALLIN' bull in the world!

This bull was scheduled for death at the hands of a Matador when he decided to say FUCK YOUR STADIUM lol and he was out. Check out this super natural shit as he jumps from section to section and fucks people up. Payback bitches!

PON x Art Of the Hustle Trading Cards

The Art Hustle trading cards are out now and available through there website http://www.thearthustle.com/. It a awesome card set Featuring me (PON) and some of Godlikes other artist friends Sket-One, Mad, Huck Gee, Andrew Bell and others.

75 artists working in street art, toy art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art, tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more.*
Inspired by trading cards produced from the 1960’s through the 80’s, the set offers up some vintage-inspired flavor including chipboard card stock and the much-loved wax paper wrapper. Cards also come with interesting facts on the backs that you don’t want to miss.
The Art Hustle is a new frontier in Art and Trading Cards, and a hell of a lot of fun. Boxes are limited

To catch THE Predator

I came across this on youtube while looking up the Alien Vs Predator roommate videos. They are real funny but I actually laughed out loud with this video. I loved the people on To catch a predator and I always wondered how no one has killed Chris Hansenyet. I wanna start with this video and the other predator videos over the next week or so. Enjoy!

-Godlike PON

To date a prospect

So I feel like some silly shit happens at the Godlike compound. Most of the silly shit happens to our apprentice, we named him prospect. We have a few videos of things we do for him, so I thought I'd kick it off with his first video. We were trying to film a profile video 'cause we were gonna find him a date on a website. The end product was much to good. Enjoy "to date a prospect"

Godlike PON

Sket-One kills is again!

Just when Sket comes up with a dope concept, he takes it one step further and kills it yet again. This is a 8"inch Dunny custom limited to only 10 pcs. He Hasn't released the drop date but we will have it posted as soon as we find out. This would look amazing next to the ketchup custom and is a must have for any Sket-One fan, epecially since the 2010 dunnys will be dropping and you could own the whole set.

Dont they look pretty side by side?

Mel Gibson Techno Remix

Lol Mel makes a come back as a techno sensation, we all knew you could do it Mel. Guest appearance from Lieutenant Dan. This is actually so very catchy,its been stuck in my head for days.

Warcraft account hacked

LOLOLOLOL WOW........literally wow, this has got to be tied for the best warcraft freak outs ever. This guy Francis gets his account hacked before the release of one of the world of warcraft updates and doesn't get to partake in the festivities. He then freaks out when his account isn't returned in a prompt fashion and chaos ensues. Enjoy his freak out.

ArcAttack = Fucking sick!

A few hours ago, art/geek band Arc Attack performed on Americas Got Talent. They are so fucking awesome and unique. They perform music through "lighting" generated from 2 testla coils. ofcourse the song they performed was a total kiss ass move for Sharron, but it worked. If you saw the audition, they did a good rendition of the Imperial march(which originally won me over) but it was a little slow starting. Watch the video and see for your self, I promise you will be amazed. Also check out more of there videos on youtube, they do "geeky" songs but they make it awesome.

Now I'll hit you with the remix

Yesterday I hit you off with the original video, today I am gonna bless you with the remix to Nas - Who's world is this? Featuring Q tip. Enjoy

-Godlike PON

Godlike family - Regret Clothing

Regret Clothing is a clothing company originally started by our good friend Billy but then quickly multiplied into a group project merging 3 other friends including my old apprentice Mike Brummet.  They just recently released These 2 designs over 2 color ways.  Over here at Godlike we are big fans of Regret Clothing and both companies are constantly helping the other to succeed.   Look out in the future for possible projects involving the both of us and don't sleep on them.  To see more of there stuff and to show some love check out RegretClothing.com

-Godlike PON

Lets take it back to 1994 - Nas - Who's world is this?

"Who's world is this?" is a Nas hit off of one of the worlds greatest hip hop albums ever, Illmatic ! This really takes me back.

Giving props to Goto-San

For ever toy collector the origin of our favorite hobby comes from Kaiju toys. Even if your not a fan of Kaiju, you have to give them credit for being around decades before this whole Urban Vinyl/Designer Toy scene. They have even influenced mainstream media with things like Godzilla, and Ultraman. Take a look in the background of every episode of Roseanne there is a Godzilla toy just hanging around, and not to mention where do you think the idea for you childhood love the Power Rangers came from (don't hide I can see your pajamas from here). I personally love collecting Kaiju but always have been turned off by the price. This video puts it more into perspective for me. I can't imagine having to be this guy and spend 50 yrs doing what hes doing, I can barely stand the last 11 doing tribal tattoos lol. My hat goes off to Goto-San for all his work. I also just wanna point out how gangsta this dude is, I bet those paints have more lead in them then a fishing weight and he's not even wearing a mask (I wonder what color his lungs look).Soon I am gonna share some pictures of my favorite Kaiju toys I own. Thanks to the Beast Bros for sharing this video with me.

Force Unleashed 2......cant fucking wait!

Just when I thought I couldn't get more excited about a game another one comes out to top it. I absolutely loved Force Unleashed 1 and now 2 looks like its gonna be as good if not better (that's saying alot). The game play on one was awesome, you were able to interact with almost everything. The only down fall to the 1st game was that it was much to easy to beat and went by to fast, much like the God of War series. If they can improve upon that the game will be unstoppable. Also in the game a new character,

• Exclusive Character: Maulkiller - In the cloning facilities of Kamino, Darth Vader created a warrior of unparalleled strength and power by combining the genetic material of Darth Maul, former apprentice of Sith Lord Darth Sidious, with his own apprentice, Starkiller. The resulting aberrant clone possessed traits from both warriors, but the crude fusion of two disparate Force users quickly produced physical and mental instabilities that led to the unfortunate clone’s destruction. For a brief time he struck fear into the hearts of all who faced him, even Lord Vader himself.

The game releases October 26th, 2010 but you can pre-order your copys now, 2 different special features if you pre-order from either gamestop or amazon. Check out any other info you may be looking for at Lucas Arts.


-Godlike PON