ICE CUBE WPAP by NDOP

Halo kauand-kauand, mas ndop si tukang vector datang lagi neeh..

Hehehe... akhirnya mas ginuk-ginuk ICE CUBE pun aku bikin lagi WPAPnya. Kali ini photo aslinya hitam putih. Tapi kualitasnya bagus. Walhasil akupun langsung buka corel x4 ku dan mulai melakukan faceting.

Sebenarnya sangat ngantuk. Maklum malamnya tidur jam 3 pagi. Bangun jam 5 pagi. jadi pas bikin WPAP ICE CUBE itu, mata liyer liyer mau tidur aja. Tapi, warna warna di WPAP itulah yang menyemangatiku untuk terus melakukan faceting dan coloring silih berganti.

Proses pembuatan WPAP ICE CUBE kali ini saya bener bener melakukan faceting dan coloring secara langsung. Tidak aku bikin gray scale dulu atau skin tone dulu, jadi langsung aja coloring. Biar cepet jadinya.

Hmm.. sudah gak sabar pingin lihat WPAP ICE CUBE ku, nih silakan disekecakaken. Hehe...



Itu adalah ICE CUBE setelah melakukan revisi dari komen-komen temen-temen di facebook. Batang hidungnya sudah aku betulin, hehe..

Oke deh, terimakasih sudah sempet baca postingan WPAPku kali ini. Lain kalai kalau ada karya baru lagi, aku posting ya.. sip, thank you much...

KURT [MESSED UP] – WPAP BY TONI A.

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CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN
CREATED DATE: 2010-11-27

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Whitney Houston WPAP

Haloo... kawan kawanku, akhirnya mas ndop kembali lagi bikin Wedha's Pop Art Portrait nih. Kali ini yang kena sasaran empuknya adalah tante Whitney Houston.

Pingin bisa ngeliat dia nyanyi live sedahsyat yang dulu. Tapi mungkin cuma bisa mimpi saja, soalnya dia sudah kadung kecanduan alkohol sama obat-obatan terlarang, walhasil konsernya pas di Australia beberapa waktu yang lalu ditinggal penonton pada beberapa menit pertama. Kasian ya...

Oke deh, inilah WPAP Whitney Houstonku:



Mencoba memakai warna warna seadil adilnya. Jadi nggak mau menganaktirikan warna warna tersier atau warna warna kusam. Jadi saya mencoba memakai warna cerah maupun kusam lalu meramunya sedemikian ruma sehingga menjadi seimbang.

Untuk faceting saya juga mengusahakan untuk seifisien mungkin dan gak ada yang mubadzir. Tetep mengikuti faceting bidang muka dan berusaha memvertikal-horizontal-diagonalkan yang memungkinkan untuk dibuat seperti itu, dengan kata lain, tidak memaksakan.

Eh, di pagi yang segar ini, saya juga sempat bikin wallpaper untuk karya WPAP saya ini. Silakan didownload ya, ini ukurannya 1280x800px pas banget untuk wallpaper laptopmu.

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JAMES HETFIELD – WPAP BY TONI A.

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WPAP TITLE: KIRK HAMMET [METALLICA]
CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN
CREATED DATE: 2010-11-06
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KIRK HAMMET – WPAP BY TONI A.

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KURT COBAIN – WPAP BY TONI A.

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CREATED DATE: 2010-11-05
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HARUN YAHYA – WPAP BY TONI A.

WPAP INFO WPAP TITLE: HARUN YAHYA CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE: 2010-11-05 SOFTWARE: COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE

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CUT NYAK DIEN WPAP by NDOP

Ahaa... mas Ndop bikin WPAP lagi nih. Kali ini ikutan latah dengan teman teman FB komunitas WPAP yang lagi musim bikin tema pahlawan dalam WPAP. Nah, mas ndop ikutan bikin tema itu dan pilihan mas ndop adalah Cut Nyak Dien.

Cari cari deh photonya di google, dan nemu buanyaaak. Tapiii.. lukisan semua bos! Waduh, gak papa deh, toh aku juga pernah bikin WPAP dari lukisan. Itu 3 tokoh klasik (Chopin, Mozart, Bach) saya buat dari lukisan. So, sudah gak kaget lagi buat ngerjain Cut Nyak Diennya.

Ini foto aslinya:

Dan hasil WPAPku adalah..

jreng......



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Terima thank you dan matur kasih...

Koleksi WPAP nya Ndop

Waduh, aku kok malah belum nulis di sini ya? Sudah saatnya saya, atas nama Muhammad Ali Mudzofar, atau di facebook pernah pakai nama Ndop Pingin Ginuk-ginuk, Ndop Ping Suwidak Njaran, Ndop Sangune Slamet (gara gara ini saya pernah dipanggil Slamet!), trus yang terakhir ini, mas ndop pakek nama Ndop Ali Dzofar, sudah nggak pakek nama alay lagi. Hehehe...

Nah, kira kira sudah lima bulan aku belajar WPAP. Mulai karya pertama pada tanggal 10 mei 2010. Saya menggambar wajah saya sendiri waktu itu. Lalu wajahnya mbak bjork tercinta. Lalu wajah saya lagi, wajah saya lagi, wajah saya lagi, dst. Hehe..

Eh, lalu saya coba WPAP Mariah Carey lalu Ice Cube, Marilyn Monroe, lalu wajah saya lagi, lalu wajah saya lagi, hehe.



Lama lama saya bosen juga ngeWPAP wajah saya yang katanya ganteng ini. Hiyaaa.. pada fitnah semua ya, wajah begini kok dibilang ganteng, harusnya khan ganteng banget! Karena saya bosen nge WPAP wajah saya sendiri, saya pun nge WPAP wajah teman teman. Sudah ada beberapa korban saya. Diantaranya:

• Mas Prie (mas angkat),


• Mas Antown (teman blogger),


• Dwee (temannya sepupuku),


• Fariez Ahmed (dia rikues sendiri),


• Mas Gun (kalau ini buat eksperimen, hehe)


• Mas Itock (surprise)


• Mas Aryo


• Mas Wiwid (temen komunitas Ganteng Ginuk Ginuk)

Eh, nggak hanya berhenti di situ saja, koleksiku di album WPAP facebookku sudah banyak banget, ada 40 an lebih. Hehe..

Eh, ada yang rikues tokoh klasik. Dialah pak Toto. Oke deh, saya pun memenuhi permintaannya. 3 Tokoh Klasik pun saya buat WPAPnya. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, dan Frederic Chopin. WPAP nya seperti gambar di bawah ini:



Dan seperti biasa kritik saran pun beterbaran di mana. Hal itu untuk kemajuan WPAP kita. Nggak papa banget lo. Nggak usah down. Kalau down sekali kali sih nggak papa, pokoknya jangan down berkali kali. Nanti jadi berguguran seperi down down pohon yang berguguran di musim gugur!

Caranya mendongkrak semangat WPAP lagi caranya gimana? Ya istirahat dulu sebentar, sehari dua hari. Sambil lihat karya karya temen temen yang lain. Nah dari situ khan banyak komentar tuh. Baca komentar yang membangun, dari situ sampeyan sedoyo bisa dapat kuliah gratis dari master-master dan mbakter-mbakter.

Jangan kayak saya lho ya, saya ini walau sudah dikritik berkali-kali, tetep aja nggak jago-jago. Hehe.. Tapi nggak papa, yang penting ada perkembangan walau sedikit demi sedikit. Ini lo karya terbaruku yang lain. Selamat menikmati..

TETTY KADI



RUTH SAHANAYA



REZA ARTAMEVIA



Kayaknya postingan ini perlu diakhiri dengan bacaan Hamdallah bersama-sama (Alhamdulillaahirobbil 'Aalamiin). Nah, mari berkarya WPAP terus menerus sampai anak cucu kita. Ingatlah bahwa Seni Pop Art ini berasal dari Indonesia. Pak Wedha lah penciptanya. Orang Indonesia asli. Jadi semoga seni Pop Art ini langgeng sampek kakek nenek ya. Syukur syukur kalau terkenal di seluruh dunia! Aamiin..

MATTHEW BELLAMY #2 – WPAP BY TONI A.

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CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN
CREATED DATE: 2010-10-16
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BOB MARLEY – WPAP BY TONI AGUSTIAN

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MATTHEW BELLAMY [MUSE] – WPAP BY TONI AGUSTIAN

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Matthew James Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician and composer, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and main songwriter of the alternative rock band Muse.

Bellamy was ranked #19 on Gigwise's list of The 50 Greatest Guitarists Ever. Total Guitar readers voted Bellamy #29 on a list of the Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. Bellamy's riff from "Plug In Baby" was #13 in Total Guitar's poll of the Top 100 Riffs of All Time.
In April 2005, Kerrang! magazine ranked him #28 in their 50 Sexiest People In Rock poll but following an influx of letters to Kerrang!, the magazine changed their decision and ranked him #1 in their unofficial 2008 poll. Cosmopolitan also chose him as the sexiest rocker of 2003 and 2004. NME Magazine voted him the 14th Greatest Rock 'n' roll Hero of all time, ahead of John Lennon and Bob Dylan. Bellamy also won the Sexiest Male Award at the 2007 NME Awards, He won again in 2009 and 2010. Bellamy, however, declared himself "too short to be sexy" (he is 5'7"), and said the award should have gone to Dom Howard, Muse's drummer.
On 26 September 2008, the University of Plymouth awarded the members of Muse an honorary doctorate degree in arts for their work in the field of music. In the January 2010 edition of Total Guitar, Bellamy was named Guitarist of the Decade and was proclaimed to be "the Hendrix of his generation". In the Guinness Book of World Records 2010, Bellamy is credited as holding the world record for most guitars smashed on a tour. His record, 140, was set during the Absolution Tour. In April 2010, Bellamy was named the eighth best front man of all time by the readers of Q.

Bellamy's singing voice is that of a Low Tenor, his chest voice spans from A2 to B♭4. He is known for his extensive use of falsetto and can hit B♭5 in this upper register. The highest note that he has recorded with Muse occurs in the songs "Showbiz" from its eponymous album and "Micro Cuts" from Origin of Symmetry, where he reaches G#5/A♭5. In some live performances of Showbiz, Bellamy has reached B♭5. The lowest recorded note of Bellamy occurs in the "Plug In Baby" B-side "Spiral Static", where he reaches A2. He is also known for his extensive use of vibrato in singing sustained notes.

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Birth name : Matthew James Bellamy Born : 9 June 1978 (1978-06-09) (age 32) Cambridge, England Genres : Alternative rock, Progressive rock, New prog, Symphonic rock, Space rock, Progressive metal, Classical Occupations : Musician, songwriter, composer Instruments : Vocals, guitar, synth guitar, piano, organ, mandolin, harmonium, keytar, mellotron, CS1 Website : muse.mu

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SHERINA MUNAF – WPAP BY TONI A.

WPAP INFO TITLE : SHERINA CREATOR : TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE : 2010-10-03 PUBLISH DATE : 2010-10-03 SOFTWARE : COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE Sherina Munaf (June 11, 1990 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian actress, singer, and song writer. At 9 years old, she successfully launched her debut album, Andai Aku Besar Nanti. In 2000, she played a key role in Petualangan Sherina, directed by Riri Riza. She received a special award in the "Most Talented Child Artist" category in the 2001 Asia Pacific Film Festival in Hanoi for her performance. In 2001, she recorded a cover of "I Have A Dream" with Irish boy band Westlife for a UNICEF fund raising. Her uncle, Fariz Rustam Munaf is also a successful pop singer.

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YUSUF ISLAM aka CAT STEVENS – WPAP BY TONI AGUSTIAN

 

WPAP INFO TITLE : CAT STEVENS – YUSUF ISLAM CREATOR : TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE : PUBLISH DATE : 2010-04-14,18,20 SOFTWARE : COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948 in London, England), originally and commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.

His early 1970s record albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified as Triple Platinum by the RIAA in the United States; his 1972 album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit single for five different artists.

WPAP INFO TITLE : CAT STEVENS – YUSUF ISLAM #2 CREATOR : TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE : PUBLISH DATE : 2010-04-21 SOFTWARE : COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE

Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame, in December 1977, and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars away for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including 2003's World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes professionally by the single name Yusuf. His newest album, Roadsinger, was released on 5 May 2009. 

Early life (1948–1965)

Steven Georgiou was the third child of a Greek-Cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou (b. 1900), and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman (b. 1915). He has an older sister, Anita, and brother, David. The family lived above Moulin Rouge, the restaurant that his parents operated on the north end of Shaftesbury Avenue, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in the Soho theatre district of London. All family members worked in the restaurant. His parents divorced when he was about 8 years old, but they continued to maintain the family restaurant and live above it.

WPAP INFO WPAP TITLE: YUSUF ISLAM aka CAT STEVENS CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE: 2010-09-13 SOFTWARE: COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE

Although his father was Greek Orthodox and his mother a Swedish Lutheran, Georgiou was sent to a Catholic school, St. Joseph Roman Catholic Primary School in Macklin Street, which was closer to his father's business on Drury Lane. Georgiou developed an interest in piano at a fairly young age, eventually using the family baby grand piano to work out the chords, since no one else there played well enough to teach him. Inspired by the popularity of The Beatles, at age 15 he extended his interest to the guitar, convinced his father to pay £8 for his first instrument, and began playing it and writing songs. He would escape at times from his family responsibilities to the rooftop above their home, and listen to the tunes of the musicals drifting from just around the corner; from Denmark Street, which was then the centre of the British music industry. Later, Stevens has emphasized that the advent of West Side Story in particular affected him, giving him a  "different view of life", he said in 2000, on a VH1 Behind the Music programme. With interests in both art and music, he and his mother travelled to Gävle, Sweden, where he started developing his drawing skills after being influenced by his uncle Hugo Wickman, a painter.

He attended other local West End schools, where he says he was constantly in trouble, and did poorly in everything but art. He was called "the artist boy" and mentions that "I was beat up, but I was noticed". He went on to take a one-year course of study at Hammersmith School of Art, as he considered a career as a cartoonist. Though he enjoyed art (his later record albums would feature his original artwork on his album covers), he wanted to establish a musical career and began to perform originally under the stage name "Steve Adams" in 1965 while at Hammersmith. At that point, his goal was to become a songwriter.  Among the musicians who influenced him were Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, blues artists Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, John Lennon, Biff Rose (who played on his first album), Leo Kottke, and Paul Simon. He also wanted to emulate composers who wrote musicals, like Ira Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. In 1965 he signed a publishing deal with Ardmore & Beechwood and cut several demos, including "The First Cut Is the Deepest".

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WPAP GALLERY BY TONI AGUSTIAN

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STEVEN TYLER ON ORANGE – WPAP BY NAJEEB

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JACK JOHNSON #2 - WPAP BY TONI AGUSTIAN

WPAP INFO WPAP TITLE: JACK JOHNSON #2 CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE: 2010-08-30 SOFTWARE: COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE CREATOR COMMENTARY : ALWAYS LOVE HIM AND HIS SONG. REALLY RELAXING AND BEAUTIFUL LYRICS.. I ESPECIALLY LOVE “TALK OF THE TOWN” SO MUCH… Jack Hody Johnson (born May 18, 1975) is a singer-songwriter, surfer, filmmaker and musician known for his work in the soft rock and acoustic genres. In 2001, he achieved commercial success after the release of his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales. He has since released four more albums, a number of EPs and surfing movies/soundtracks. He is also known for organizing an annual event, the Kōkua Festival. He currently has sold 8 million albums worldwide. His highest–selling album is Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George, with 4 million albums shipped worldwide, due to the success of the 2006 Curious George film. He resides in Hawaii. Johnson was born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The son of well-known surfer Jeff Johnson, he took an interest in the sport from a young age - he began surfing at the age of 5. At 17, he became the youngest invitee to make the surfing finals at the Pipeline Masters on Oahu's north shore. One week later, however, his brief stint as a professional surfer ended when he suffered a surfing accident at the Pipeline that put over 150 stitches in his forehead and knocked a few of his teeth out. Jack Johnson graduated from Kahuku High School on the North Shore of Oahu. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with a degree in film. While in college, he developed his passion for music, and played rhythm guitar for the party band Soil (not to be confused with the Heavy Metal band Soil). Johnson credits his songwriting influences as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Otis Redding, G. Love and Special Sauce, Nick Drake, Ben Harper, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young, and A Tribe Called Quest.

Career Johnson's professional career began after befriending G. Love on a day of surfing. G. Love would later record Johnson's song "Rodeo Clowns" for his 1999 album Philadelphonic. Johnson sang and played on the track, and it became the first single from the album. Johnson then co-directed Thicker Than Water, a documentary surf film released in 2000. He also composed the accompanying soundtrack.   Johnson's four-track music demo soon caught the ear of Ben Harper's producer, J. P. Plunier, who worked with Johnson on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales in early 2001 with Harper and his Weissenborn lap steel guitar making a guest appearance. Brushfire Fairytales was released on February 1, 2001. In 2002, Johnson, along with his wife Kim and friend Emmett Malloy, created Brushfire Records (originally as The Moonshine Conspiracy Records) to release soundtracks for surf films made by The Moonshine Conspiracy (now Woodshed Films), of which Johnson was a part. WPAP INFO WPAP TITLE: JACK JOHNSON #1 ON WHITE  CREATOR: TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE: 2010-05-09 SOFTWARE: COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE He directed and starred in the surf film The September Sessions, released in December 2002. The soundtrack also featured Johnson. Johnson went back into the studio with Adam Topol (drums, percussion) and Merlo Podlewski (bass), who played on Brushfire Fairytales, and Mario Caldato Jr on production duties, to record his second full-length album On and On. It was the first album to be recorded at Johnson's Mango Tree Studio in Johnson's home town of North Shore, Oahu, and the first to be released through The Moonshine Conspiracy Records. On and On was released on May 6, 2003. Johnson credits most of his inspiration for this album from childhood friend Andrew Brown Johnson starred in the 2004 surf film A Brokedown Melody. In October 2004, Johnson returned to the Mango Tree Studio with Topol and Podlewski along with Zach Gill (of Animal Liberation Orchestra) playing accordion, melodica and piano, to record his follow-up to 2003's On and On. In Between Dreams was released on March 1, 2005. Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George is a soundtrack album by Johnson, released on February 7, 2006. The album also features Adam Topol, Ben Harper, G. Love, Kawika Kahiapo, Matt Costa, Merlo Podlewski and Zach Gill. It was the first soundtrack to make it to number 1 since the Bad Boys II soundtrack in August 2003 and was the first soundtrack for an animated film to top the Billboard 200 since the Pocahontas soundtrack in July 1995. Johnson enlisted J.P. Plunier to produce his fourth full-length studio album, Sleep Through the Static. It was recorded using 100% solar energy at the Solar-Powered Plastic Plant studio in Los Angeles. The album featured Gill (keys), Podlewski (bass) and Topol (drums, percussion). Sleep Through the Static was released on February 1, 2008 and was followed by a world tour. A live album and DVD of Johnson's 2008 world tour, entitled En Concert, was released on October 27, 2009. The DVD was directed by Emmett Malloy. WPAP INFO TITLE : JACK JOHNSON [ON TOWN] CREATOR : TONI AGUSTIAN CREATED DATE : PUBLISH DATE : 2010-05-09 SOFTWARE : COREL DRAW X5 PORTABLE Johnson produced Animal Liberation Orchestra's fifth studio album, Man of the World, which was released February 9, 2010. The album also features vocals from Johnson. On 1 February 2010, Johnson's official website announced that his fifth studio album, To the Sea, was in the recording process at the Mango Tree Studio, with a planned worldwide release during the first week of June 2010. The website also announced an accompanying European, Australian and New Zealand tour to coincide with the album's release on midnight 31 May. The first single from his To the Sea album is "You and Your Heart", released on April 6, 2010. While speaking with New Zealand radio station ZM, Johnson said he is constantly aiming to build relationships with local pro-environment, non-profit groups. "We try to raise money for a lot of these groups who are doing positive things in the community. We try to focus mostly on environmental education, just trying to get kids out into nature, supporting local farms and things like that."

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Background information

Birth name
Jack Hody Johnson

Born
May 18, 1975 (1975-05-18) (age 35)

Origin
North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii

Genres
Acoustic
Soft rock
Pop rock
Alternative Rock

Occupations
Singer-songwriter, musician, filmmaker, record label owner

Instruments
Vocals, guitar, ukulele, piano, drums

Years active
1999–present

Labels
Everloving/Brushfire/Universal

Website
jackjohnsonmusic.com

 

 

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MIKE SHINODA – WPAP BY SETO BUJE

WPAP INFO WPAP TITLE: MIKE SHINODA [#3] CREATOR: SETO BUJE CREATED DATE: 2010-08-24 SOFTWARE:

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Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda (born February 11, 1977) is a musician, record producer, artist, and actor. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor. He also provides artwork, production and mixing for both groups.

Early life

Shinoda was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills. His father is Japanese American, and his mother is Russian American. He has a younger brother. Shinoda attended Parkman Elementary and Lindero Canyon Middle School.

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As per his mother's wishes, Shinoda began his classical piano training with lessons around the age of six, his enthusiasm eventually growing. At the age of thirteen, he expressed the desire to move towards playing jazz, blues, and even hip-hop. During his middle school and high school years, he added the guitar and, eventually, rap-style vocals to his repertoire.
After his teens, Mike Shinoda's rap interests found a source of encouragement in Brad Delson, with whom he started to write and record songs in a makeshift studio set up in his bedroom. Shinoda attended Agoura High School with Linkin Park bandmates Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon as well as with members of the band Hoobastank. By the end of high school, Bourdon had become involved in their musical ventures. The trio formed the band Xero, and began to make a more serious attempt to pursue a career in the music industry.
After high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design to study graphic design and illustration. It was here that he made the acquaintance of DJ and turntablist Joseph Hahn, who, along with Delson's college-mate Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, was soon added to Xero's line-up. It was also here that he experienced a form of identity crisis. Years later, in an interview he said:

"I think it was probably in college that I realized that there was a difference between Japanese and Japanese-American. That’s important to realize. It’s not the same thing and then eventually with Linkin Park, I toured in Japan. I’ve been there now I think four times. I remember the first time I went, how familiar it seemed, just getting out of the plane, it smelled like my aunt’s house, in the airport, it smelled like Japan. I don’t know if anybody else even noticed it but I walked out of the plane and thought this is definitely familiar to me, didn’t even see anything yet. And then going to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, you just recognize things about the way people act, the small things that people do such as how you’ll grab a piece of paper. There are things that are more obvious like taking somebody’s business card with two hands. You don’t do that in the States. When I saw somebody do that I went, “Oh yeah, my uncle always does that,” you know. There are little things that culturally come from Japan but they also exist in Japanese American culture and it made me feel like the connection was there and I kind of hadn’t realized how much of it was there."

At only 21 years old, Shinoda eventually graduated from college with a degree in illustration, securing himself a job as a graphic designer right after graduation. With his background as a graphic artist, Shinoda has taken it upon himself in designing all of Linkin Park's artwork with Hahn, and has even designed the album cover for Styles of Beyond's debut album, 2000 Fold. In later years he would go on to showcase his art skills; he had his debut art showcase (Diamonds Spades Hearts & Clubs) at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles in the time leading up to Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight.

 

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Linkin Park

Shinoda's band (at this point called Linkin Park; used to be called Xero before a legal issue with another band) brought in second vocalist Chester Bennington, replacing Mark Wakefield. From the onset, Shinoda was closely involved in the technical aspects of the band's recordings, and over the subsequent releases that role continued to expand. Shinoda, with guitarist Brad Delson, engineered and produced the band's Hybrid Theory EP, and performed similar roles in the recording of the Hybrid Theory album. Mike executively organized and oversaw the band's remix album Reanimation (2002), contributing his own production remixes that he made in his home studio for "Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away." In his spare time, he produced and performed on a song by The X-Ecutioners entitled "It's Goin' Down."
On the second Linkin Park Warner Bros. studio release Meteora (2003) Shinoda continued to expand upon his duties as a musician and studio technician/engineer. Additionally, for the backbone of the album artwork, Shinoda collaborated with graffiti artist DELTA, graphic designer Frank Maddocks, and band-mate Joe Hahn.
By the release of the Linkin Park and Jay-Z 'mash-up' album Collision Course in 2004, Shinoda's involvement in the creation of the albums continued to grow. He produced and mixed the album, which won a Grammy Award for "best rap / sung collaboration" later that year.
The band released their latest album, Minutes to Midnight, on May 14, 2007. On this album, Shinoda shared a production credit with producer Rick Rubin, overseeing the musical evolution of the band's sound. This album was also the first time that Shinoda, best known for his rapping, sang a featured vocal. Mike sang in the songs "In Between" and the b-side song, "No Roads Left," as well as rapping and singing in the songs "Bleed It Out" and "Hands Held High." Despite the uncommonness of Shinoda-fronted singing tracks, Hit Parader ranked Mike at number 72 of the Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Mike and Rick Rubin again shared a production credit for Linkin Park's upcoming album, A Thousand Suns, due for release on September 14, 2010.

Fort Minor

Shinoda formed a side project named "Fort Minor" between 2003 and 2004 because he couldn't demonstrate as much of his hip-hop background in Linkin Park. He explained the name of his project in an interview:

“'Fort' represents the more aggressive side of the music. 'Minor' can mean a few things: if you're talking about music theory, the minor key is darker. I wanted to name the album rather than having my name on the cover, because I want people to focus on the music, not me.”

The debut album from Fort Minor, titled The Rising Tied, was released on November 13, 2005, and includes guest appearances from Styles of Beyond, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Black Thought of The Roots, John Legend, Holly Brook, Jonah Matranga, Celph Titled, and features Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) as an executive producer.
For the NBA 2006-2007 season, "Remember the Name", the second single from The Rising Tied, became the soundtrack for NBA Overtime on TNT. It was an NBA remix version, and remains the staple song for NBA on TNT to this day. Furthermore the Big East used "Remember the Name" as its theme song for the Big East Basketball Tournament in 2006.
He also scored a Top 10 smash with the surprise hit single "Where'd You Go", which peaked at #4 on Billboard Hot 100 chart.
After the release of the album, Shinoda also contributed to the iTunes Store by creating his own celebrity playlist.
Fort Minor won an MTV VMA for "Best Ringtone" in 2006, and was featured in the following films and TV programs (2005–2006): Entourage, Boston Legal, Gridiron Gang, Freedom Writers, Friday Night Lights (TV), and Numbers.
Shinoda has also continued his Fort Minor musical style in an executive producer role on the upcoming Styles Of Beyond album, "Reseda Beach" He is contributing music and vocals to the album, which was slated for release sometime in 2009. However, the album has not been released till date and Styles of Beyond is under hiatus.

Background information Birth name Michael Kenji Shinoda Born February 11, 1977 (1977-02-11) Origin Agoura Hills, California, U.S. Genres Nu metal, alternative rock, alternative hip hop, rap rock, rap Occupations Musician, singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, rapper, vocalist, guitarist, pianist, producer, graphic designer, visual artist, actor Instruments Vocals, rapping, guitar, keyboard, piano, samples Years active 1996–present Labels Machine Shop/Warner Bros. Associated acts Linkin Park, Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond, Apathy, Cypress Hill Website MikeShinoda.com

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Agyness Deyn (born Laura Hollins; 16 February 1983), is an English fashion model, actress and singer. Deyn has been hailed as "the fashion industry's next great supermodel".

Deyn is from Failsworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester.^[5][6] The daughter of a nurse, Lorraine, and second of three children she attended All Saints RC High School, as well as Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Sixth Form in Waterfoot, Rossendale.

Deyn's name was apparently coined to further her modelling career after she consulted her mother's friend, a numerology expert who advised her of the most 'fortuitous' way to spell the name 'Agnes'. It was reported that her mother Lorraine and sister Emily have both changed their surname to Deyn, while Lorraine has changed the I in her first name to Y.

Deyn's working life started serving part-time aged 13, at a fish and chip shop in Ramsbottom. Even at an early age she had an eye for style and by 17 she had already had her head shaved. "I’ve had short hair since I was 13, and when I was 17, I had a skinhead." In 1999, she won the Rossendale Free Press "Face of '99" competition, aged just 16. She then moved to London, working in a fast-food restaurant during the day and a bar at night but admits: "It didn’t quite work." During this time she says she was also at college in Hull, studying drama and music.

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