DSDrums: Travis Barker Covers "Forever" by Drake and Co.

Haha, murdering it once again...


[Via Billionaire Boys Club Blog]

DSDecides: 5 Favorite Songs Of the Week

Why are people always complaining that all music is bad now? I think they're just not looking hard enough. Here are a couple songs that have been on heavy rotation on the Ipod.


Cum - London

[I can't say I really like this song. It's only up here because of its "Really, nigga? Are you serious?" factor.]

Did It Again Remix - Shakira ft. Kid Cudi

[Love this song... also, enjoy the view.]

We Are Champions Remix - The Cool Kids & Hey Champ

[Goes extra extra hard.]

Won't Land - Wiz Khalifa

[I didn't think anyone could kill the Luchini beat, but the Wiz Kid did it. Mad props.]

Close the Door - Mike Posner

[I don't know why he didn't make this into an actual song. I'm actually kind of pissed this dude wasted such a sick beat.]

Broken Dreams - Basement Jaxx

[This song is pretty old, but I've been listening to it a lot recently. Don't worry too much about the video, its the only version of the song I could find on youtube.]

GastropoDSDs: Bave Circus

For someone that spends as much time as I do looking at art, you think that I'd have gotten more creative/imaginative as I got older. Watching this movie reminded me about those days as a kid when your imagination could really take you to all sorts of different places even though you were just looking out the window or playing with toys. As far as imagination goes, nowadays I'm content with whatever thoughts pass through my mind when I'm not doing homework.

In any case, check this short film out. I thought it was really cool and it made me kind of wish I was a little kid again.
[Via PopWhore]

Bave Circus from DuDuF on Vimeo.

Case StuDSD: 3D and Nitelite's Twerk or Treat

I mentioned Halloween in my last post. Well, I wanted to add a statement to it, and that statement is, "Eff Halloween". Also, eff Evanston police. They can suck a fat one.

With that out of the way, those of you [At Northwestern] that did manage to have fun on Halloween were probably at The Keg. If you weren't there, I apologize. If you were there; however, I hope that before you attended, you saw the flyer on Facebook. And if you saw that, I hope you saw the little DSD logo in the bottom lefthand corner.

I put a lot of work into that flyer and I thought I'd outline what exactly this "work" means:

1. Failure - I made a flyer in about an hour before the Phi Delt Halloween party [lots of fun, go to Mathletes and Athletes on Saturday] and I kind of ruhed it because I thought of it as a rough draft. Apparently it wasn't one, so this got submitted to FB.

[As always, click the image for a bigger version]

First things first, I don't like putting out any less than 100%[This is not true. I am perfectly content with 75% as long as people think and appreciate it as 100% ...but don't tell anyone] But this, DSDarlings, was absolute trash. Why?

• The fonts didn't look very Halloween-y
• The text was very random and there was no real pattern or grid explaining where they were placed.
• The girls were cute [except the one in the referee suit, take a close look at her face...] and wearing costumes, but they were in random-ass positions and I don't like random randomness [planned randomness is okay].

2. Remorse - I felt terrible that this was about to be my contribution to someone else's event. I wouldn't really appreciate if I asked someone to make that for me and I got that flyer. That's like how you feel every time you go through the McDonalds drive through expecting the plump, juicy burger in the little picture but what you get[always] is a grayish piece of flat meat that looks like Mo'nique sat on it.... and farted.

That's how I felt. So I decided to fix it. I got to work on another flyer and thought, "Think fast. How are you going to do this?"

And here is what I thought[fast]:

• Candy
• Booty
• Twerkin
• Scary but not too scary... sexy scary?
  
• Orange
• Black
• Breasteses

3. Redemption - I immediately got crackin and looked for pictures that sort of captured the ideas posed at the end of that last section and I came across some pictures, including [but not limited to] the following:

There were a couple more type of candy included in the final cut, but you get the picture.

After staring blankly at my screen for a while, I thought I'd make a bunch of bags of candy the background of the image and then make their color scheme black and orange. Then I put the girls in the middle of the picture, but they didn't quite look right. They were drawing attention away from the title and I also didn't find either of them particularly attractive. Rather than erasing them or shopping bags over their heads, I used the cutout filter to make them look a little more "cartoon-y" and then changed their colors to black and orange as well. Then I added the text and that was that.


4. Retouching - The picture still didn't look right. It was just text kind of floating with some girls in the middle on top of some candy. So what I decided to do [as always] was add layered splatters in orange and black. If I put a splatter above the girls and below them as well, it'd look like they were surrounded by it and it would give the picture a lot more dimension.

I did that.

Still wasn't feeling it.

So I decided that maybe putting a bag over their heads was a good idea. I took a picture of a brown paper bag or just some wrinkled paper and pasted it on top of the rest of the picture.

Then I blended it in to give the picture a darker orange hue and add subtle folds, creases, and most importantly, some much needed texture.

And that was basically it. I liked this picture a lot, but I guess what I like doesn't really matter much when designing something for a client. Big ups to James and Dallas for letting me do the job. I appreciated that. And here's the final picture.

[Please, please, please click the picture and look at it full resolution. It's a huge difference that you can't see on Facebook]

DSDelectable, Delightful, and Delicious: Not Quite Soylent Green

Hey, I'm back. It's been a while, sorry. Halloween was an interesting weekend and as you can see I haven't posted since then. In any case, I've more or less recovered and I have a couple posts for you guys, so I apologize in advance for spamming Facebook.

Anyways....


You see those faces? Those are cuts of meat. They're not people meat, but they're shaped like it. I don't know if I could eat that. Then again, there's probably actual people meat in a lot of the fast food I eat...
[Via TrendHunter - http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/female-cranial-fillet]