A few months ago I saw The Manhattan Project for the first time. What an awesome movie. Thought I’d pay tribute and make a retro poster for it.

This is the new logo we designed for the RollerHouse brand. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have stickers made?!

We just found out that our house music video was accepted on Kickstarter. It only took two days to hear back! Stoked. Oh my goodness the work starts now. In order to add a little personality to our cause, we’ll be shooting a short video where we introduce ourselves and give a run down about the goals we envision. A good exercise for any project in general. After that, we’ll be reaching out to everybody and then some…

Last year I had the sudden urge to buy a pair of quad skates. I don’t quite remember what threw me over the edge and made me purchase some Riedell R3s but oh boy did I need them. Actually, I think I was absorbed in youtube watching videos for another project and stumbled upon jamskating. Then my head exploded.

The best way to describe jamskating is break-dancing on roller skates. It’s intense and artful, something you definitely need to see to appreciate. These people can tumble, spin and freeze while on skates?! Insane.

What really drew me to the whole scene was the music, or lack there of. Usually coupled with hip-hop or old-school funk, jamskating hasn’t seemed to venture far enough down the road I dreamt of taking it. This is where house music comes in. Deep house has the soulful grooves to compliment the rhythm of skating while maintaining a solid bassline that can be choreographed to. Some favorites like Deeper (Baggi Begovic Dub Mix) by Copyright and Coyu & Uner’s Raw Sweat are perfect examples of what jamskating could match to. Can you picture it? Epic. So why hasn’t this been done before? Well maybe it has… I just can’t find any of it!

Ready to start a new project, I took a rough idea of the music video to my friend Priscilla Boksan, attorney turned film/TV producer and she was hip to it. We discussed a shooting schedule and planned to prep for two months with a tentative shoot date in late May. This gives us only a short window for pre-production, but working in bursts can do wonders for personal motivation.

Our first priority is to get a Kickstarter campaign going. We’ll need the funds to cover the impending doom of costs like production insurance, location/permit fees, equipment rental and happy tummies. Onward ho!

I recently re-did the site and gave it a stylish new look. I designed the banner using a font I’ve been wanting to feature in a project for quite a while: Post Office. Since I use wordpress, I like flexible themes that allow me to be creative while still maintaining a sense of order and minimalism. Luckily, I stumbled upon PageLines and their theme Platform. I’m testing out the free version for now and so far I’m loving how clean and customizable it is.