Dizzy Worldwide TV Graphics Reel from Year 2000 -DizzY2K!

Check out the Dizzy Worldwide Production TV Graphics Reel from the Year 2000! It features work we did for MTV, MTV2 and many other networks. Y2K at it's best. And if you enjoy the video, you might want to get the DizzY2K Poster that was designed in 1999 by Australia's Deuce Custom Farm. 

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MTV promo graphics for Guns & Roses in Paris contest ('92-93) made by Beau Tardy on Quantel Harriet.

Sometimes the Art Director of on-air graphics at MTV, Chris Harvey, would put out an open call for a job that needed some extra attention and a fresh look. I really wanted to do this graphic open for a contest MTV was running. It was for tickets to a Guns & Roses Paris concert. I spent some time on this but it was shot down. I actually had a little argument with the Art Director over it, the one and only time we had a disagreement. It did not make it to air and I'm not sure what they ended up using. I guess I took it a little personal being that I am French...😏

MTV Show Logos by Beau Tardy in 1992

MTV Show Logos designed by Beau Tardy
in the on-air graphics department at MTV in 1992.

During the regular course of daily duties at MTV as a designer in the on-air graphics and animation department, I was often tasked with coming up with logos for show opens. Often these would be animated, but sometimes the producer just needed a digital logo to take into an edit session and composite it with other footage. These were designed on Quantel V-Series Paintbox and Harriett. The better producers would come in and sit during the session while I designed the logos, others just phoned it in. Some producers became friends and we would spend countless hours in session coming up with great ideas for graphics. These logos are for the more typical MTV fare at the time and were used by the News or Promotions department for their shows. I don't know which ones of these actually made it to air simply because I couldn't afford cable at the time in my little shared tenement apartment on Ave. B in the Lower East Side. They payed us very little and worked us like crazy. But I was happy to get my work on MTV in front of millions of people. 

MTV News graphics on Quantel Paintbox by Beau Tardy in 1992.

This one is for @DextersTechLab This is a screen grab from my work at MTV making news graphics on the Quantel Paintbox in 1992. Recued from thermal prints I kept all these years 🤯📺💫I will be making a video about this soon. 😀#MTV #paintbox before #Photoshop #90s #TV pic.twitter.com/E47uNmilvF

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Neo Yokio is Vaporwave.

or why I like Neo Yokio ( and positively hate Rick & Morty. )

Beau Tardy. Saturday, September 30, 2017.

America is a very literal country. We say what we mean and we do what we say. Our founding fathers were all men of letters, even newspapermen, all very well read. Our constitution is written on a piece of paper by these same men. The very privilege to write anything and everything is enshrined in our first amendment. We are a country run by writers, whether they be writers of laws, of contracts, of screenplays or of checks. The writers literally run the show. Until now.

The writing on Neo Yokio is the polar opposite of the pedantic, heavy handed, supercilious Rick & Morty whose editorial board is essentially reddit.com. Please deliver us from these sanctimonious, college essay driven writing stylings of today's bloggers cum screenwriters who populate new media bullpens.

Neo Yokio is refreshingly superficial, light and breezy like a menthol cigarette or a diet 7 up. It's style is tongue and cheek, self effacing, unpretentious and full of 1990s anime cliches. Neo Yokio is light on the writing, light on the social righteousness and light on the eyes. In short, it's vaporwave.

The art is where the love is. Here finally is a cartoon that recognizes that this is a visual art, not a puppet theater for frustrated pamphleteers.  From the mock 1930s Monaco Grand Prix posters, to the beautiful art deco renderings of the Chrysler Building, to the pink and blue nostalgia vaporwave skies of Neo Yokio, this is a clever pastiche and a clin d'oeil to art history.

Neo Yokio's absurdist retro futurism, the foppish cocktail parties, the mecha butler, the designer label name calling and the giant toblerones give the whole thing the feeling of an 1980s cocaine and vodka hangover that is just delightful.

 I love it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Beau Tardy/ 
www.tardyartist.com

Neo Yokio is a Netflix original production.

Created by	Ezra Koenig
Written by	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Alexander Benaim
Directed by	Kazuhiro Furuhashi Junji Nishimura
Creative director(s)	Ben Jones
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Hend Baghdady Angela Petrella
Producer(s)	Matthew Chadwick Andrew Chittenden Kris Wood
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Studio Deen Production I.G. MOI Animation Infinite Elegance, LLC Friends Night
Distributor	Netflix

DizzyTV *New Summer Episode* Retro 80s! 😎📺✨

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80s Synthwave and Retrowave!

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Pewdiepie Reinvents Public Access TV on Twitch!

Anyone remember Wayne's World with Mike Myers about two doofuses on a couch doing a Public Access TV show? Of course not, you probably weren't even born yet! Well, it looks like Pewdiepie doesn't remember either! Maybe this is a good time to insert brainiac quote "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." (Edmond Burke)

Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in Wayne's World - ©1992 Paramount Pictures

Although the movie Wayne's World was a fictitious parody of the Public Access TV phenomenon of the 80s & 90s in America, the reality is Public Access TV was a rich experimental playground for budding TV wannabees. As a free speech platform mandated by Congress in the 1970s, Public Access TV was exactly that: public access to the TV airwaves by any enterprising talent that felt like making a TV show.

Awesome shows came out of that experience, some even becoming famous like The Robin Byrd Show, TV Party, Beyond Vaudeville (which became a real TV show called Oddball) or TV with Ray Cathode that inspired MTV's AMP. (look 'em up). 

All these shows broke new ground and did things on TV that nobody had done before. Pewdiepie's show 'Best Club' on Twitch however seems to be plowing fallow ground. After only two shows he is bleeding viewers, going from 80,000 for the first episode to 18,000 for the second episode which is a dizzying 75% drop. It seems that he got the message because the next day he tweeted: "that stream was insane, was just testing it out... wasnt expecting that. will do a charity one next time".

Was it that he wasn't expecting such a big drop in viewers or that the constant begging for donations made it sound like a PBS telethon? Either way, the formula seems wrong for Twitch. A prominent feature on Twitch is the chat which is simultaneous to the stream and allows viewers to comment in real time. This is a raucous place where memes are born and trolls earn their wings. During episode 2 of 'Best Club' chatters were complaining about being ignored, even when they donated money, a cardinal sin on Twitch! 

'Best Club' episode on Twitch with Pewdiepie and Brad Woto. Looks a lot like Wayne's World to me :)

Best Club episode #2 also suffered from a rookie streamers mistake of plugging the cameras into a different input from the mic resulting in the dreaded 'audio out of sync' nightmare.

Twitch is a very different animal from YouTube. By any account this will be a head-scratcher for the producers of Best Club and it remains to be seen if the Pewds will be able to turn this lemon into lemonade.

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ATOMIKCOMIX new book!

The new book 'AtomikComix' by Beau Tardy. Coming out Feb. 2016

AtomikComix presents never before seen early work by Beau Tardy. With roots in the East Village mid-80s post punk sub-culture this book spans the evolution from underground comix to computer graphix for TV. 

After dropping out of art school in 1985 Beau focused on digital art and broadcast design ultimately ending up in the famed MTV animation department where he did graphix for MTV News with Kurt Loder, Yo! MTV Raps and The Real World.

Beau will be signing copies of his new book at Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans on Feb. 13, 2016.

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