Stones Throw 15 Entry Big upz to the Stones Throw posse for this opportunity, mucho graciass to everyone involved and thanks for watching. I only found about about the submissions opportunity 3 days before the contest closing date so I got cracking to get something together to celebrate a tune on the Stones Throw catalog, I just got it uploaded in the nick of time. This piece was inspired for a few different reasons heres the low down.... Originally I wanted to use a different tune than Madvillains 'all caps', maybe something like a Mayer tune(cause I got a lot of lady tales to tell) or an Arabian Prince tune(cause 80's was my era). A dope video for 'all caps' had already been done before but in the end I thought f**k it, I love that Madvillain sh*t, I should do something to a tune I think is sooo hard and that I'm feelin to the maximus. The 'mecha libre' part of the video was something myself and a few mates had been working on but never totally got finished plus we had never showed it anywhere, it was a trailer for a Robot/Godzilla/Japanese style film, inspired by King Kong, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Ray Harryhausen plus many other big toxic monster robot manga Japanese cinema tings, it was a mega mix of motion graphics, some 3d zed brush modeling, matte paintings plus some live action blue screen elements, it was originally created by my homeboy Ivan Manzella and I suggested to him we use some of the clips in the mix for this Madlib tune, it was a good reason to quickly finish some of the unfinished shots out of the trailer we had been making and then put them to good use in this 'all caps' video I was creating, I felt it would work well in the instrumental parts of the 'all caps' tune and keep things in the spirit of Superhero/villain mythology which seems to be around some of the MF Doom imagery. Good vs Evil, the Toxic Sandwich of a world we be living in, feats of superhuman strength from true MCing to flying through the air to save the day, etc etc... The typography section was inspired by my love of words, fonts, letters and graphic design also my girlfriend is always saying she cant understand what the rappers are saying so I thought I would spell out these majestic super dope rhymes of the Doom, now she loves this tune and we are getting on much better, I know its not the most original thing to do, to sync words with rhymes but it was something i could do within the time I had to get this video finished within 3 days, well 3 evenings when I got home from work! I sourced all the words then synced them up and did a little grading, I think they would work amazing projected on a screen behind Doom at a live performance while he performs the song. Also I was thinking these lyrics are so hard that I didnt want to distract from the MCing with some kind of obvious hip hop style video performance. The first and last illustrations where created my Monica Laita, a wicked artist, check out her sexy girls sometime. Also thanks to Paul Weschke we shot some other elements that I didnt have time to add cause the rendering would of taken 8 hrs and I would of missed the deadline, I'm still gonna use the stuff we shot but in a different way. And finally thanks to my homeboy Rodski who first introduced me to Stones Throw music plus for schooling me on all the dope uk hip hop artists, you is a real connoisseur of fly music and always point me towards the good sh*t. Peace out, 2 B continued...