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Latest Post - January 4
Jolly Adderall Fun Time!
Pretty pretty, shiny shiny.. (and introducing 'COMPS! Vol 1')
Salute .. The Ecki-boy lineage just toasted to another lap around the sun. Here’s to getting more money and chances to brighten up the room!
I know a lot of y’all can relate to 2025 being absolute hell in one way or another.. just as many ups as there were downs that deserve to be blacked out entirely. But for every monsoon of bullshit, there was always a glimmer of hope to follow.
Wanted to get this post up a little sooner but spending the last week of the year sick and stuck in bed definitely didn’t help. I been tryna view that as a sign. When shit gets less predictable than usual it can definitely be a motivator.
Between the dawn of a new year and nearly everything that's happened in the news lately, I get why some of you niggas have zero hope for the future. The mantra of “as long as I’m still breathing..” can only carry you so far.
Me tho? I been trapped in the lab and got some stuff to show off, which you can read more about below:
NEW VIDEO! - COMPS! VOL 1
To start the year off I wanted to bless y’all with something new and exclusive to the site: COMPS! Vol. 1.
What is it? Lowkey I couldn’t really tell ya because the visuals speak for themselves. I originally started this as something fun to do while buried in much bigger projects but somewhere along the way it turned into me raising the bar for myself.
For this one, I went out and shot fresh footage (which was really just to have an excuse to set the camera up), dug through AEPs that had been sitting on my hard drives for years, and even went a step further by composing some original music for the intro. Anyone with six minutes to kill should tap in. NOW.
Aside from tryna really get back in the groove as an editor, another goal with this compilation was to add some material here that was begging to be revisited, either because they were unfinished or too short to live on the site by themselves. If you wanna be cool then you could also call it a time capsule.
What originally started as a side project quickly turned into everything else you see on here: the product of many all-nighters and hardware begging to be put out its misery.
Pro tip for any fellow editors reading this: if your software isn't crashing every 30 minutes then you're not working hard enough.
Once again I gotta give my heart out to my supporters.. and it's more than safe to assume there's a lot more coming down the pipeline. Just remember this is only one domino in my operation. In unrelated news: I recently bent the knee and opened up a TikTok page after years of successfully avoiding it. Gonna use the account mainly as a video-hole than anything else, so far it's all just clips of me running the mixing boards.. which people seem to like so we're all good there. With a new year on the rise, the least you could ask for is a new audience.
Where else have I been? Well about two weeks ago, I took a trip up to NYC with the rest of Tornada as sort of a victory lap for the year. I had only been up there a handful of times but it's always a good place to do some soul searching. Personally I wouldn't live there but I'm kinda jealous of anyone who is able to walk around Manhattan with their AirPods in. That shit is heaven on Earth especially if you keep a muha on you.
Between everything we had planned, one of the main events was a private film festival organized by some of the crew, dubbed Video Deathmatch. The only rule was that everyone participating had to submit a video, sounds simple huh? I threw in a two-minute music video made from random clips in my stash (some of which ended up in COMPS!), thrown together on my phone during the flight up.
Just know that everybody's entries came out amazing and were all interesting in their own way. To name a few I gotta start by shouting out Mikel, who came through with a video called Sewer Souls. My man really brought the feeling back with him acting out skits with a bunch of Mega Man toys.. more importantly he was even nice enough to ask me to do voice work for it.
Another personal favorite that I really hope sees the light of day was HyperJam making a mock-EmpLemon video that got his editing style boiled down to the finest detail, going even as far as to use blue-tinted clips of the Simpsons. I don't even remember what brodie was talking about, something about ancient history idk.. Him dropping an informative video essay into the middle of everything else completely disrupted the room's energy and that's why I loved it so much. Gotta be honest when I say the blue Simpsons gag still makes me laugh. None of us knew what to expect, which is what ultimately made the whole night great.
The winner of the festival, Alexmigo, finally fulfilled his dream of becoming a political cartoonist with Snailpirate & Henryeyes Save Charlie Kirk! He originally made this for a parody contest but some of this shit was far too funny to be ignored. You can watch our modern Ben Garrison’s lovely thinkpiece here.
Thumbnail by @alicemargiela
Just a few days after that, I had to say goodbye to the beating heart of the economy and stumble back home. Since getting back, I haven't had the energy I probably should. Some people would call that seasonal affective disorder, I just say I used up all my holiday spirit early. Either way there was still a sense of enthusiasm for celebrating Christmas that I haven't felt in a long time. Once you're grown it just ain't the same, but we managed to make something of it and I couldn't be more thankful for that.
Also gotta wish errybody a late merry Christmas, or a happy holiday if you believe in that instead. I didn't ask Santa for much last year but I'm still crossing my fingers at the thought of a sweaty PAWG quivering under the tree. Maybe a new graphics card too but we know that's not gonna happen!! In the meantime I appreciate all the wishes I was given in return, anyone tryna send any late Christmas gifts should know where to go.
The latest haul: A new RF modulator, some Christmas #SWAG, Bakground - Schway City, Lil Wayne - Dedication 2, Standing on the Corner - gimme my gun, some Ricotta records tapes (MIKE Tiny Desk, TLOP4, and 'Pray for Presents'), The Nutshack, Happy Tree Friends, and Standing on the Corner (2025) on DVD, Billy Woods Gowillog VHS,some Ralph Bakshi tapes, Frank Ocean - Channel Orange, Mixtape by Myles Yates, and some extra Tornada zines. Let's get it.
In all honesty I got little optimism for the rest of the decade. We're already halfway through the decade and I couldn't name a single person that has fully processed that. Did you guys know that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars? Still learning about it honestly and gotta say it's kinda fucked up.. If we as a society continue to allow that to happen then it's a long way down from here…
update log
- REVAMPED ‘About’ page
- Added parallax-tilt effect to background
- Added some kind words and extra links to ‘Videos’ page
- Adjusted light/dark mode toggles
- Improved start menu icons, tryna make em' load faster
- Improved how the site is viewed on mobile devices, even though I designed this all with 640×480 16-color displays in mind.
Lemme just step back and say that 2025 was a true learning experience for everyone. Despite all the fatigue and constant headaches, I'd say mine turned out fairly close to what I had anticipated. To start I finally launched this website after years of procrastinating, put out some dope visuals both on it and outside of it, linked up with my crew not once, not twice, but three separate times. Every step taken was its own experience that I'm hoping will eventually find a way to bleed into my work. Ya boy started the year in a rut (and lowkey ended it in one) but everything I've done up to this point has been about conditioning myself to swing back harder. I may not be pulling the numbers I want yet but the real value is in having work I'm actually proud of. It's all momentum right now and we're only goin' up from here.
Wish I had more to show off but I’m broke and lowkey kinda chopped.. see ya in feb and for now just stay comfy on here, go fix yourself a plate if you need!
Salute .. The Ecki-boy lineage just toasted to another lap around the sun. Here’s to getting more money and chances to brighten up the room! I know a lot of y’all can relate to 2025 being absolute hell in one way or another.. just as many ups as there were downs that deserve to be blacked out entirely. But for every monsoon of bullshit, there was always a glimmer of hope to follow. Wanted to get this post up a little sooner but spending the last week of the year sick and stuck in bed definitely didn’t help. I been tryna view that as a sign. When shit gets less predictable than usual it can definitely be a motivator. Between the dawn of a new year and nearly everything that's happened in the news lately, I get why some of you niggas have zero hope for the future. The mantra of “as long as I’m still breathing..” can only carry you so far. Me tho? I been trapped in the lab and got some stuff to show off, which you can read more about below:
NEW VIDEO! - COMPS! VOL 1
To start the year off I wanted to bless y’all with something new and exclusive to the site: COMPS! Vol. 1.
What is it? Lowkey I couldn’t really tell ya because the visuals speak for themselves. I originally started this as something fun to do while buried in much bigger projects but somewhere along the way it turned into me raising the bar for myself. For this one, I went out and shot fresh footage (which was really just to have an excuse to set the camera up), dug through AEPs that had been sitting on my hard drives for years, and even went a step further by composing some original music for the intro. Anyone with six minutes to kill should tap in. NOW.
Aside from tryna really get back in the groove as an editor, another goal with this compilation was to add some material here that was begging to be revisited, either because they were unfinished or too short to live on the site by themselves. If you wanna be cool then you could also call it a time capsule. What originally started as a side project quickly turned into everything else you see on here: the product of many all-nighters and hardware begging to be put out its misery.
Pro tip for any fellow editors reading this: if your software isn't crashing every 30 minutes then you're not working hard enough.
Once again I gotta give my heart out to my supporters.. and it's more than safe to assume there's a lot more coming down the pipeline. Just remember this is only one domino in my operation. In unrelated news: I recently bent the knee and opened up a TikTok page after years of successfully avoiding it. Gonna use the account mainly as a video-hole than anything else, so far it's all just clips of me running the mixing boards.. which people seem to like so we're all good there. With a new year on the rise, the least you could ask for is a new audience.
Where else have I been? Well about two weeks ago, I took a trip up to NYC with the rest of Tornada as sort of a victory lap for the year. I had only been up there a handful of times but it's always a good place to do some soul searching. Personally I wouldn't live there but I'm kinda jealous of anyone who is able to walk around Manhattan with their AirPods in. That shit is heaven on Earth especially if you keep a muha on you.
Between everything we had planned, one of the main events was a private film festival organized by some of the crew, dubbed Video Deathmatch. The only rule was that everyone participating had to submit a video, sounds simple huh? I threw in a two-minute music video made from random clips in my stash (some of which ended up in COMPS!), thrown together on my phone during the flight up. Just know that everybody's entries came out amazing and were all interesting in their own way. To name a few I gotta start by shouting out Mikel, who came through with a video called Sewer Souls. My man really brought the feeling back with him acting out skits with a bunch of Mega Man toys.. more importantly he was even nice enough to ask me to do voice work for it.
Another personal favorite that I really hope sees the light of day was HyperJam making a mock-EmpLemon video that got his editing style boiled down to the finest detail, going even as far as to use blue-tinted clips of the Simpsons. I don't even remember what brodie was talking about, something about ancient history idk.. Him dropping an informative video essay into the middle of everything else completely disrupted the room's energy and that's why I loved it so much. Gotta be honest when I say the blue Simpsons gag still makes me laugh. None of us knew what to expect, which is what ultimately made the whole night great.
The winner of the festival, Alexmigo, finally fulfilled his dream of becoming a political cartoonist with Snailpirate & Henryeyes Save Charlie Kirk! He originally made this for a parody contest but some of this shit was far too funny to be ignored. You can watch our modern Ben Garrison’s lovely thinkpiece here.
Thumbnail by @alicemargiela
Just a few days after that, I had to say goodbye to the beating heart of the economy and stumble back home. Since getting back, I haven't had the energy I probably should. Some people would call that seasonal affective disorder, I just say I used up all my holiday spirit early. Either way there was still a sense of enthusiasm for celebrating Christmas that I haven't felt in a long time. Once you're grown it just ain't the same, but we managed to make something of it and I couldn't be more thankful for that.
Also gotta wish errybody a late merry Christmas, or a happy holiday if you believe in that instead. I didn't ask Santa for much last year but I'm still crossing my fingers at the thought of a sweaty PAWG quivering under the tree. Maybe a new graphics card too but we know that's not gonna happen!! In the meantime I appreciate all the wishes I was given in return, anyone tryna send any late Christmas gifts should know where to go.
The latest haul: A new RF modulator, some Christmas #SWAG, Bakground - Schway City, Lil Wayne - Dedication 2, Standing on the Corner - gimme my gun, some Ricotta records tapes (MIKE Tiny Desk, TLOP4, and 'Pray for Presents'), The Nutshack, Happy Tree Friends, and Standing on the Corner (2025) on DVD, Billy Woods Gowillog VHS,some Ralph Bakshi tapes, Frank Ocean - Channel Orange, Mixtape by Myles Yates, and some extra Tornada zines. Let's get it.
In all honesty I got little optimism for the rest of the decade. We're already halfway through the decade and I couldn't name a single person that has fully processed that. Did you guys know that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars? Still learning about it honestly and gotta say it's kinda fucked up.. If we as a society continue to allow that to happen then it's a long way down from here…
update log
- REVAMPED ‘About’ page
- Added parallax-tilt effect to background
- Added some kind words and extra links to ‘Videos’ page
- Adjusted light/dark mode toggles
- Improved start menu icons, tryna make em' load faster
- Improved how the site is viewed on mobile devices, even though I designed this all with 640×480 16-color displays in mind.
Lemme just step back and say that 2025 was a true learning experience for everyone. Despite all the fatigue and constant headaches, I'd say mine turned out fairly close to what I had anticipated. To start I finally launched this website after years of procrastinating, put out some dope visuals both on it and outside of it, linked up with my crew not once, not twice, but three separate times. Every step taken was its own experience that I'm hoping will eventually find a way to bleed into my work. Ya boy started the year in a rut (and lowkey ended it in one) but everything I've done up to this point has been about conditioning myself to swing back harder. I may not be pulling the numbers I want yet but the real value is in having work I'm actually proud of. It's all momentum right now and we're only goin' up from here.
Wish I had more to show off but I’m broke and lowkey kinda chopped.. see ya in feb and for now just stay comfy on here, go fix yourself a plate if you need!