Marty and Nick finally have a name for their podcast, Derailed. This time around, they talk a little more in depth about the whole MC Chris situation. I know we’ve officially squashed the beef with it’s two patties and special sauce, but I’m still a might bitter as is Nick from the sound of it. The lads also talk up Incredible Hulk which they got to see a sneak preview earlier in the week. Bastards! And they have a HUGE announcement about the future of Dead of Summer and a new project in the works. Kicking it up a few notches as always. Bam!

Going to be featuring some more podcasts (okay, probably just two) so I hooked up a new category. Now go check out Derailed!

[Via Derailed]

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“I watch all videos with Asian people!” HAHA!

So there’s a third crew in the Biggest Online Dance Battle in the History of Mankind. I’m unfamiliar with the Buckster here, but instead of recruiting big Hollywood stars to step his game up, he put out the call to YouTube users to send in their dance videos. And here’s their final battle response from the Buck Hollywood Dance Crew:

Dance in our urine? Eeeewwwwe!

Clearly the BHDC lack skills. But there’s something to be said about a giant collab video with random YouTubers. I especially like the guy skanking in front of the Washington Monument. DC represent!

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When last we left The Biggest Online Dance Battle in the History of Man Kind, Jon Chu and Adam Sevani’s ACDC crew completely wrecked Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux’s M&M Cru with a dance video that included Adam Sandler, Chris Brown, Diana Ross, and Lindsay Lohan. Things looked pretty bad for the M&M Cru. But don’t count them out.

This week they respond with B-Boys, B-Girls, David Blaine, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Joey Fatone, Carson Daly, Ryan Seacrest, Chris Kattan, and a whole mess of other celebs I’ve never heard of. Pretty freaking epic right there.

Looks like the next battle will be in person instead of over the interwebs. Best way to end a giant internet battle!

[Via M&M Cru]

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Is your work day sluggish because you lack super? Do you get hit by a sudden bout of anti-awesome around 3pm? Are you in desperate need of flavor kicked up to notches never before seen? Then you, my friend, are a perfect candidate to try the official snack of Super Art Fight!

Super Art Fight is all about mixing things that don’t necessarily go together for ultimate win and our official snack food is no different. Head to your local grocery store and grab a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos from the snack aisle (the bigger the better) and a thing of hummus from the deli (the tahinier the better). Go home, invite over a bunch of friends, break open the Doritos and hummus, dip a chip into the hummus, and prepare your face for super infinite flavor!

We don’t know what makes this hummus dipped Dorito so incredibly awesome. But we inhaled a monstrous bag of Doritos and hummus in a matter of minutes as we planned Super Art Fight. So. Fucking. Good. Seriously, when 3pm hits you at your little cubicle, break out the Doritos and hummus and end your day with super flavor!

To further extol the yummy virtues of the hummus, I found this little ditty on the YouTube. Enjoy your super snack!

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We’ve had some good old fashioned internet dramas regarding MC Chris’s infamous “art fag” diss. And like most internets drama, this one may have sprung from a slight misunderstanding. Nick, from Dead of Summer, has some more info to enlighten us.

I was talking to a guy who works Ottobar yesterday while I was out buying comics. He happened to work the night of the show and happened to mention that he knew Chris. Basically the story goes that Chris was told about Art Fight last minute without a heads up from his booking guy. Unfortunately, no one could tell him what AF was so- since he approves all of his openers- we got the boot. To be fair to us- it was our first bout. It’s not like we had done this in that setting before.

MC Chris was also quoted giving an open mind and interest to Art Fight. Saying that he didn’t know and-Was it something that might go along with the show? One of the ideas that came to mind was a music act. Since it was held at a rock club, you don’t expect a live comic related art demonstration/battle (even though that’s what it was billed as).

Still, he did call us Art Fags and Lame on stage. There is no reason for that. However this was a comment made at the carelessness of the club’s upstairs dj- not us. I made sure Art Fight was finished by the time he took the stage. I was enjoying the show when Chris made those comments. There was loud distorted bass coming from the direction where we just were. Which coincidentally, was not my fault. The noise was interrupting his show. I’ll give him that.

It sucks that all of this is a huge misunderstanding. His problem lies with a shitty circumstance that has nothing to do with us. It sucks but what are you gonna do?
I’m going to go see him at Warped Tour. So you can see I am a fan. I love his new album.
I’m just happy I can get back to enjoying it.

It was fun to be caught up in a psychotic art nerd drama but it’s useless to soil a name that doesn’t need to be soiled. For all parties involved. The Ottobar loved Art Fight. That’s why we’ll be back soon. The Ottobar loves MC Chris as well. It was the first venue he ever sold out. Hopefully Art Fight will have a similar story.

I have to agree with Nick. At this point, there’s no point in nurturing the drama. MC Chris was miffed at the shitty loud music and blamed us because he thought we were still arting. No one bothered to tell him we weren’t on anymore and honestly, there’s no reason that anyone would have. It comes down to a big misunderstanding all around, although, no one misunderstood him calling us “art fags.” That’s so 80’s. Oh well. Probably best to just move on and leave him be.

[Via Dead of Summer]

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You heard me, Super Art Fight is on the horizon. I will report back with the exact date when we get official confirmation, but the plan is to head back to Ottobar sometime in September to unleash Super awesomeness!

So, what makes an Art Fight Super? For starters, we bring the fight to the main stage. We will implement an audience voting system so we can declare a winner. There will be a opening art jam before the main fight. More audience participation. An actual website for the event itself. Stickers, buttons, and posters. Screen printed special editions posters. Possibly custom toys. Prizes for all. And much more awesomeness!

The details are coming fast a furious and I’ll keep you updated on our progress. I am also working on a run of limited edition screen prints for all the folks who submitted a suggestion for our first Art Fight. The ones I don’t give out, I will be selling here with proceeds going towards Super Art Fight.

Once we lock down our date and get a poster up and running, we’ll need as much help as possible spreading the word. So get ready folks, this could be the start of much amazingness!

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Nick has posted his recap of Art Fight along with some more sexy pics. Check it out to see a photo of all three panels together.

I didn’t know that MC Chris dissed us on stage. On the one hand, we got mentioned by MC Chris on stage. On the other hand, what the fuck. He already kicked us off the bill. Why the fuck rub it in? We should get a direct quote so we can use that to promote the next show, Rain-Slick Precipice style.

Despite that, we had a fucking blast. My recap will come as soon as I can get the footage cut together. And we may have some news about future shows. Despite the MC Chris hate, there’s interest from various parties for future promotions and shows. I have a feeling this is the start of something insanely awesome!

[Via Dead of Summer]

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Greg over at Grok Life came out to the Art Fight and snapped some pics. Head on over to his review of the show. Thanks for coming out, Greg! Hopefully the next one won’t be on Sunday night!

[Via Grok Life]

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Last night was a blast. Even though we couldn’t get the streaming up (I might just end up getting either small PC for live streaming events or buy one of them sexy wireless modems from my wireless provider) a massive sexy time was had by all! I have a list of big sexy thank yous to send out!

Big Sexy Thank You List in No Particular Order

• Ottobar, thank you so very much for hooking us up! The 2nd floor was the perfect venue for our first time out. We learned a lot and will be tweaking the show for much more awesome so we can eventually art the shit out of the main stage!
• Jim and Nelly from Morlock Enterprises, thank you so much for the massively sexy canvasses! They were so sexy good that you will now be the official Art Fight go-to canvass providers! Without you guys, the evening would have been an Art NOT.
• Big ups to Mason Booker of May Sun Productions for filming. The poor guy went hand-held for two hours with a front heavy camera! The VX2100 is perfectly balanced but with a wide angle lens, it becomes very front heavy. Thank you so much Mason for capturing the event. I’ll be editing through this two hours of footage to get something up for everyone hopefully sometime early next week.
• Thanks to all the fans and friends who came up to support our first show! I know Dead of Summer brought a lot of folks. I saw Greg and I think I saw CharmCityShinobi hiding in there somewhere. I’m sure I missed a whole bunch of folks who headed downstairs to check out MC Chris, but I heart you alls!
• Giant thanks to all the AZM readers who wrote in with suggestions! I’ll have to get a list of the suggestions we ended up with, but I’m going to be doing a limited edition robot print and everyone who sent in something will get a free print. This would have been less interesting without your insane suggestions so everyone who submitted deserves some props. I’ll hit you guys up once I get the print all sorted.
• Big sweaty high fives to my nemesis Nick for setting things up with Ottobar and for arting the shit out of the Ottobar. Also big ups to Chris Impink and Ross Nover who pitched in with their own canvass battle.

And I’m spent! Bloody fucking brilliant! I will do my best to get this footage edited down to something less than two fucking hours (probably five to ten minutes to throw it up on the YouTubes). If there’s interest, we might send out a longer cut to people. Will have to sit on that idea for now.

Again, thank you one and all for all the love and support. I think this is a great way to kick off something big. We have ideas for how to run the show in future, how to actually figure out who won, people to pitch the show to, and we’ve got some interest from various media outlets so who knows. The next Art Fight might just be massively more epic than last night!

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Apparently, if you updated your Macbook Pro a few months ago with the latest software update, the Ottobar wifi will not work with your machine. Poop. Tested absolutely everything but the onsite wifi. I’m updating from Chris’s Linux laptop, but it doesn’t have the right connection for the camera. So we won’t be streaming.

Poop!

BUT we are recording the Art Fight and we’ll get it out as soon as I can edit the footage together. Very sorry about this. One of these days I’m just going to fucking invest in a wireless modem or some shit.

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