Archive for June, 2008
June 25thGet a free coat hanger!
I got bored and decided to make this campaign sign: Now Available on T-Shirts, Stickers, etc..
Archive for April, 2008
April 4thSome Rad 80's computers
I've had this site bookmarked since 2000, I stumbled upon some guys photo album and he had all of these family photos from the late 70's and early 80's, I was particularly interested...
December 3rd
What B-movies lack in Content
What B-movies lack in content, they make up for in graphics. Awesome.
Archive for November, 2007
November 27thSo New York
I took this the other day on my way to work. I'm pretty proud of it. Check out the larger version here
November 20th
Sunday Art Project
Heidi and I took Sunday to relax and make some art projects. We made stencils and this is what I came up with.
November 14th
New Music - Vampire Weekend
Amanda gave me Vampire Weekend the other day and I can't stop listening to it. Sounds similar to the Walkmen but way less depressing and a lot catchier. Check it out for yourself:...
November 7th
Web developer love story with a movie ending
I can't believe it. Since Patrick bought this URL and had everyone here post it on there personal blogs, this thing took off. It was picked up by the NY post ,...
November 5th
Web Developer pick up lines
A coworker of mine named Patrick Moberg made this after seeing a girl on the subway the other day. He bought a URL , and has his friends posting this everywhere. It's a great...
Archive for October, 2007
October 31stHeidi and I - Halloween 2007
Heidi and I went to Target and found these awesome pajamas made for little kids. They look great - and adding to the comedy of it is my half sized shirt. Here is the full sized...
October 29th
Three great looking movies.
Per sepolis - This one is about a girl growing up in iran when radical islamic leaders started to take power and how it affected the way she lived. It's was a...
Archive for July, 2007
July 16thID7 - Philadelphia Scooter Rally
Hostile City Scooter Club presents: Lucky Number 7. Independence Day 2007 (ID7), June 29th - July 1st. I am just a fellow scooter-ist with a video camera, this isn't an...
Archive for January, 2007
January 15thWii Sports Experiment, Results!
Over on my Nintendo Wii site, I finished my 6 week experiment. Six weeks ago, I began what has become a huge obsession of mine. It is called the “Wii Sports Experiment”. I...
Archive for December, 2006
December 13thBasicFunction Founders in the news
Just recently both Mickey and I (Dave) appeared in major print media for our day jobs. Here we are
Archive for October, 2006
October 24thTee Shirt Lab
DNA STYLELAB is a Tee shirt site based on the internet era principles of customizing everything to your liking. They've commissioned artists from around the globe to create custom...
October 11th
Digg + Wii = Wiigg.net?
From our sister site, WiiNintendo.net: Despite being affiliated with WiiNintendo.net, Wiigg is a place for ALL video games. In the most basic terms, Wiigg is a way for anyone to submit...
John Stewart dispels joke we started
A couple months ago, we ( bustedtees ) made a campaign shirt for John Stewart / Stephen Colbert for their presidential candidacy in '08. The other day, John Stewart went on...
Archive for September, 2006
September 15thLife of the Living Dead
Having come from a REALLY strict corporate job where there was a need to control every little detail about your life, I know how it is to live the 9 to 5. I was almost stuck there, and...
September 13th
From our sister site, WiiNintendo
Tokyo Press Conference Coverage Times are Eastern Standard Time 10:10 PM: REAL conference starting soon here: http://www.irwebcasting.com/060914/01/ updates to follow....
September 10th
The UNPHOTOSHOPPED Lindsay Lohan Photo
Recently, there's has been a lot of hype about the authenticity of THIS Lindsay Lohan photo that was taken where she wasn't wearing any underwear. The story has bounced around...
September 8th
Wii Wallpaper
I created this wallpaper for Basic Function's sister site WiiNintendo.net , it's an original design based off of some art work that was hangin on the walls during media events where they...
Unreleased Ramones Video and NEW songs!
Here is a video (created by Basic Function) for the classic (yet not so popular) song, "You Sound Like You're Sick", which appeared on The Ramones 6th studio album, Pleasant Dreams,...
Archive for August, 2006
August 28thFlickr adds "Geo tagging"
Watch how to use Geo Tagging: Flickr - Geo Tagging You can drag anywhere onto the map - a degree of "accuracy" is inferred by your current zoom level, so if you just want...
August 25th
Mario Hoops DS - Review by Basic Function
Video, images, and review by hey_suburbia of WiiNintendo.net aka basicfunction.com from 8/10/06 Picked up the import of this game about a week ago, despite the language barrier it was prett...
Leopard - OS X 10.5 in action
Spaces: Mail: Timemachine:
The Slowest Man on Earth reaches the masses
"The Slowest Man on Earth" video was uploaded a few months ago, it sat on YouTube for a couple of months and got a decent amount of views (Somewhere around 8,000). Then...
Phill Ryu creates new way to browse YouTube
Article from: http://phillryu.com/2006/08/25/surfing-youtube-with-class/ Well, as any YouTuber will tell you, there's a lot of crap out there, and you have to wade through it. But...
Archive for May, 2006
May 21stFound change experiment TOTALS
Despite everyones high expectations ( View my first post detailing some of the experiment and photos ) of what I found during the last year, I think alot of you will be disappointed to see that...
May 19th
New Super Mario Bros. Review
At the time of writing, New Super Mario Bros. for DS had an average review score of 93 (according to Metacritic). Most praise the game for pure platforming...
Bob Ross Wii Contest
Bob Ross Interactive LLC has announced a painting contest for their new Nintendo Wii game Bob Ross Interactive LLC is calling on the community to participate...
16 launch titles are announced, officially
We break down the strongest launch line up in Nintendo history. by Mark Bozon The date may not be set and the price may not be known, but Nintendo fans across the...
May 18th
Windows Media Player 11 Beta released
+ Enlarge Microsoft, today, made available the latest beta version of Windows Media Player , version 11.WMP11 sports an improved UI, better performance and improved library features....
May 9th
Found currency experiment
Last year around this time, I constantly passed loose change in the Quick Chek parking lot in Highland Park, NJ . No one ever thinks of picking up pennies cause they are worthless, but I...
Archive for April, 2006
April 27thNintendo Wii
Official Press Release from Nintendo: "Introducing ... Wii. As in "we." While the code-name "Revolution" expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. Wii will...
April 24th
Vimeo 4.0 launched + Firefox search plugin
Vimeo 4.0 was launched last week and is already gaining a huge fan base. Vimeo beat out youtube, google video, jumpcut, and 6 other leading sites: "If you just want to get a video...
April 12th
Red Steel: Official Press Release + New Scans
Paris, FRANCE – APRIL 11, 2006 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced the development of Red Steel™ , an exclusive...
Archive for March, 2006
March 29thMinor Threat - Love Hall - Philly, PA 1983
Not the best quality (VHS dub from 83'), but it's the full show and VERY watchable: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7276661015866522175 Love Hall Broad St. &...
March 26th
New Tee Design
Check out the new Tee. it took me alot of time, but I'm REALLY happy with the way it came out. Check Defunker soon...... hopefully.
March 25th
Nintendo Go startup screen
Watch the AMAZING secret rare undercover bootleg vhs video of the new Nintendo GO startup screen : Ok, this was a joke posted on youtube to help flame the fire on the Nintendo...
March 23rd
The Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass
Nintendo has announced the development of a new Zelda adventure hitting Nintendo DS later this year. The game has visuals mixing the 3D cel shading beauty of the Wind Waker and the crisp...
Metroid Prime: Hunters - First Impressions
Metroid Prime: Hunters takes place in between the two Gamcube titles where a ferocious race, now extinct, has left behind relics of their once powerful warrior culture. Now bounty hunters from...
March 20th
Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1
All you have to do is download the Portable Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 file below. Then you unzip the file and browse for the file PortableFirefox.exe. Just execute that file and you will be running...
March 7th
DS Lite Video hands on First Look
Released on March 2nd in Japan to surprising 'round-the-block lines, the Nintendo DS Lite is Nintendo's fresh revision of its quirky but extremely loveable...
Google's live search display
In the Google HQ in California there is a screen in the entrance hall where you can see, in real time, some of the searches that are being made in that exact moment in the search engine.
...
March 6th
TheBroken
TheBroken was a videocast that Kevin Rose had created with Dan Huard which features password cracking, hacking, social engineering, and more.
I upped all three videos to youtube, so...
Free CSS templates and icons
If you've ever spent too much time on backend programming and site mapping and found that you don't have a lot of time to come up with a design scheme, you can go to Open Web Design and...
Real Life Simpson Video
Posted this a few days ago, I see it's everywhere now. Really well done.
You can download a high res. version here:
http://www.basicfunction.com/the_real_simpson.mov
The Strokes - Live NYC
Basic Function took the PATH into NYC 3/4/05 to check out the Strokes show on 34th st. at the Hammerstein Ballroom . After downing 8 beers, a small bottle of vodka, and 4 slices of pizza...
Archive for February, 2006
February 6thFree Refills
Here is the zine Mickey, Diana and I made when we were in high school. We made this before the word blog existed.....before the internet was even a part of our lives. Back then (which is funny...
Archive for November, 2005
November 22ndInitial thoughts
Man, if this was one wasn't a lesson in following your initial instinct, then I don't know what is. There was a book that hit on this topic called BLINK . I haven't read it yet, but I'm thinking...
Archive for October, 2005
October 28thLOST, the game
So, a friend of mine was talking about how he thought it would be fun to enter the "lost" numbers on an old computer, just like in the show. So, I went home and in 30 minutes I programmed...
October 24th
Basic Function models for Maxim Magazine
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Page 57 in the November issue of Maxim.
A good friend of mine who is an AMAZING artist and who grew up in my hood, asked if Diana (Basic Function Designer) and I...
Archive for September, 2005
September 25thMiyamoto at Nintendo World
+ View Larger All photos/videos shot by BasicFunction.com
From Joystiq:
They came in droves to see this man, Shigeru Miyamoto, at his first public appearance in New York’s...
Archive for August, 2005
August 31stTrouble Everyday - Video Shoot/Edit
Shot and edited in 5 hours.
The video was shot on DVCPRO 50 in about 2.5 hours.
I took the video into Premiere and edited it for about 2.5 hours, done and done.
...
August 23rd
Lifetime Reunion Show in Philly
Lifetime was set to play on the summer 2005 Hellfest bill, but Hellfest got cancelled and R5productions was able to get together a slew of Philadelphia shows with Lifetime. "There was a...
Archive for July, 2005
July 28thInternet Explorer 7 - First Impressions
First Impression: Stick with Firefox
Second Impression: I hope they have a great deal of resources to deal with all of the bugs this thing has.
Let's first focus on the...
Archive for June, 2005
June 28thIndependence Day 05' (ID5)
On Saturday July 2nd two members of Basic Function will be participating in the ID5 Vespa Scooter rally. 100's of scooter enthusiasts from the entire east coast will be decending into...
American Pet Registry
Lately, I've been working on a huge website made to offer another place to register your pet. The site includes: cross database backend, css, php, heavy graphics, flash video, forums,...
June 9th
Philly Kids Cover
We do a 20 page glossy book once a year talking about kids stuff in Philly...hence Philly Kids.
Archive for May, 2005
May 31stFreeBSD Logo Competition Entries
The following logos are comps entered in the FreeBSD logo design competition. They currently have a cartoon devil as their mascot (similar to the way Linux has the penguin) and were looking for a...
May 29th
Alkaline Trio Live on Conan
Alkaline Trio "Time to Waste" on Conan. May 25th, 2005
Had to use a .torrent link, my server is WAY over on bandwidth....
...
May 27th
Trouble Everyday on Basic Function Records
Basic Function is excited to introduce Trouble Everyday's 3 song EP, (sympathy) to the world on June 13th! The energetic and hauntingly intimate followup to 2004's critically praised "Days Vs....
May 10th
Basic Function Live at E3
Nintendo Conference Video footage from E3. Live and uncut.
For the 18 minute streaming video click here.
Also, exclusive behind the scenes on the floor of E3 with booth babes, demo...
Archive for April, 2005
April 28thAdobe Photoshop CS 2 First Impressions
I was figuring that Adobe was just trying to boost their sales when I heard about CS2 being released, because I honestly couldn't think of any aspect of photoshop that they could improve on,...
The Bloc Killers
This is the first installment of weekly blurbs about cool and interesting new music you might not know about yet. Be warned, I am not a journalist, I can not spell, I rarely check my work...
Trouble Everyday album art
Philadelphia's Trouble Everyday were giving away a free cd of b-sides from " Days Vs. Nights " at their PIANO's, NYC show on Friday April 22nd. Basic Function designed the album art.
...
April 27th
The First Nintendo DS Flash Cart
The long awaited first flash linker carts for the GBA / SP / NDS (yes 3 in 1) will be available for puchase soon (rumors say May 2nd, 2005). Memory cart size are 512Mb to 1Gb. The unit will...
Crash Content Creative
Site of the week - April 24th-30th, 2005
[Vist Site]
"Crash Content Creative is a graphics studio devoted to ideas and communication. Not interested in flavor of the month trends or...
Tiger OS X 10.4 First Impression
I was able to get my hands on a copy of Tiger on Monday April 25th(read more, here ). Spent most of Tuesday evening playing around with some of the new features. The install went smooth...
Archive for March, 2005
March 15thTrouble Everyday Ver. II
After a year or so after designing the award winning Flash site for Trouble Everyday, We were called back in to develop a site so that lead singer, Kyle Costill (who's a little slow with...
Archive for February, 2005
February 23rdModding the Gamecube
I ordered the Viper mod chip about a month ago, but I wanted to wait until I beat Resident Evil 4 to install it because I assumed I would fry my Gamecube in the process. I ended up...
February 17th
Logo Lounge 2
If you don't have a subscription but would still like to see the best logos on the site created by top designers who often maintain low profiles, then LogoLounge 2 is for you.
Recent...
February 8th
Basic Function Messenger
Basic Function has developed a barebones Messenger Application, that will allow you to chat discreetly, while appearing to be hard at work. The current version is only available...
Archive for January, 2005
January 27thOBEY GIANT icons
If your not tired of being bombarded by Shepard Faireys OBEY empire, check out these icons for your computer. Both MAC and PC versions available. Love it.
[Download MAC Icons 1]...
January 21st
My first project working with Stereo 3D
(Co-Worker, checking out my setup on my workstation)
Over the last week or so I've been working on this Stereo 3D project. We shot the live action footage in Universal Studios in Orlando,...
January 19th
Resident Evil 4: Impression/Review
Picked this up last Friday (1/14/05) with my EB Games gift certificate left over from Christmas. Lately I've been just burning Gamecube games and playing them on my viper modded gamecube,...
Corked Fork
Site of the week - January 16th-22nd, 2005
Very nice transitions and motion. The color scheme and overall design is great. The interface seemed confusing at first, but knowing where to...
Philadelphia Newspaper: Menu Guide
This is a design I used for the front cover of the South Philadelphia Review: Menu Guide Winter 2005. Got a local Chinese Food place to sponsor the cover, so I got some extra $$ to put...
January 12th
Billie Joe Armstrong Interview
January 7th 2005, NYC Basic Function was invited to see Billie Joe Armstrong sit down for an interview with Jon Pareles of the New York Times as part of the TIMES TALKS interview series....
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0
(From Think Secret) As fevers run high a week prior to Macworld Expo, we pause to shift our focus from Apple to Adobe, which notes obtained by Think Secret suggest may unveil Creative...
Apple releases new line of products
For months it's been rumored and now it's finally confirmed, Apple has released Mac mini. The Mac Mini is being touted as "the most affordable Mac ever" - and it certainly looks...
January 6th
Review of Microsoft's AntiSpyware
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. I decided to download the beta and give it a shot....
January 4th
Dad complains over F-Word in a GBA game
Cheap dad busted. A UK man bought his daughter a Gameboy Advance and two games for Christmas, his daughter shows him the text "Fuck off and Die" in the Monster Inc. credits. The...
January 3rd
Photoshop Brushes from Basic Function
[Download Brushes Here] Taking five items from my desk, and a couple of photographs, I created these brushes from the things around me. Use them where ever you like, on whatever you like....
Archive for December, 2004
December 29thRoad Runner High Speed Online
Site of the week - December 26th-31st, 2004
[Vist Site]
Last week we featured the site " Fantasy Interactive ", who have changed the face of new media. This week we're featuring one...
December 22nd
Basic Function wins the Plastic Pilot Award
Basic Function was awarded the honorable award from Plasticpilots.com for it's Flash Portfolio. I've always been a big fan of this site and I've always enjoyed the sites that they've...
Pug Christmas Photo
Merry Christmas from Basic Function. This is our dog, Kiki.
December 21st
Fantasy Interactive (FI)
Site of the week - December 19th-25th, 2004
[Vist Site]
Fantasy Interactive is by far the most innovative company around right now. They are on the top of the game in every area of...
Firefox New York Times Ad
I donated 10$ to Firefox almost a year ago and finally got some recognition, along with 50,000 others who have donated got our names printed in the ad. This article is from getfirefox.com....
December 20th
Rasterbator
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Turn any low res web image into wall size art. This program (apparently using flash, and adobe acrobat) converts any image you want into pop art, by...
Banksy
Really cool stencil artist...take a peek some very impressive artwork.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
Vinnie's Tattoo Web Designs
2 web layouts I was working on for Vinnie's Tattoo site.
December 14th
Wall Design
Site of the week - December 12th-18th, 2004
[Vist Site]
Graffiti artists turned wall designers. It's not so much the site as it is the work that made this my SITE OF THE WEEK pick....
December 13th
The Legend of Zelda: The Outlands
GameMakr24 , created one of the greatest (and complete)NES 8-bit ROM hacks to date. I've been playing this game for a while now and I am completely blown away by the level of detail. I flashed...
PSP: First Impressions
Review written by Yongfook (Who own's both the DS and PSP and is able to provide a non-bias review of the PSP).
Picked up my PSP today (I live in Japan). I have to say, I'm very...
December 11th
Nintendo DS wireless hack
The Nintendo DS has been tunneled. What's tunneled?
Tunneling : Get a wireless signal, extract its data, send it over another physical medium (such wires, even Internet), and at the other...
December 7th
Ipod images and fonts hacked.
"IpodWizard" was able to hack the G3 and G4 Ipod firmware update and has created a small program, Ipod Wizard, that allows you to change the existing images/fonts on your ipod to whatever you...
Billy Harvey Music
Site of the week - December 5th-11th, 2004
[Vist Site]
December 6th
Firefox Extension: BBCode
bbcode
Are you a forum junkie? Myspace addict? If so, you've probably gotten sick of typing in " " commands for images, color, bold text, links, etc... Well, you can save yourself some...
December 4th
Some shots from around town.
Here's some shot's from around my house in Philadelphia, PA. I shot all of these using a Canon Powershot S410 Digital Elph , I basically just take pictures for fun and for archiving purposes. I...
December 3rd
Trouble Everyday Shirt Design
2 Color Shirt Design For Trouble Everyday/Killers Tour (The shirt sold out after two shows!!).
[Trouble Everyday Website] | [The Killers Website]
Pug OS X icons
Kiki the pug makes her Basic Function debut as the star of BF's first OS X icon pack. More packs to come, suggestions welcome.
[Download the icons, 94kb]
Forget Online Multiplayer or Mario Party...
Frogs and Flies for Atari 2600 (Or an Atari Emulator running on a Sega Dreamcast) is one of the best 2 player games ever made.
Over Thankgiving break at home, in North Jersey, my...
December 2nd
Creating a List Dropdown using Flash MX 2004 Combobox component
This tutorial will show you how to control a MovieClip and display text in a TextArea using The ComboBox Component in Flash MX 2004.
Final Result:
...
Basic Function Logo to be featured in "LogoLounge Volume II"
"Congratulations, your work has been chosen. The judging for LogoLounge Volume II, has been completed. We are excited with the exceptional quality level of work selected for this second volume.
...
Nintendo DS: 500,000 sold in first week
If you’re thinking about buying a Nintendo DS , move fast the company says they sold 500,000 units of the new double-screen game console during the first week and the supply could be...
AHP Minis almost ready for launch.
Basic Function is close to launching AHPMinis.com. The commerce site was built entirely in Flash and uses Flash's ability to communicate with web technologies, Paypal and .xml files to...
December 1st
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Finally got my hands on this ROM in early November and immediately flashed it to my GameBoy Advance(a week later to my DS) and played it until I beat it.
My first impression of the game...
Ars Thanea [ Art of View ]
Site of the week - Nov. 28th - Dec. 4th, 2004
[Visit Site]
This site had me hooked the minute I went to it. From the "construction" intro to the very intutive navigation this site...
Basic Function Beta is Launched.
After somewhat of a delay, (due to an over whelming amount of work during the past year) basicfunction.com is officially launching Version 2 of it's website. For some of 2003 and all of...
Basic Function takes Silver on Portfolios.com
Basic Function took 2nd place in Portfolio.com's Awards Show.
The Portfolios.com Award Show is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communications...