Bruce Yi is an emerging hip hop producer in Brooklyn, NY. His unique beats combine his understanding and respect for hip hop culture with his classical music training.
His first big break came from Etan Thomas' album, "More than an Athlete" on the track "Wasted Talent" released in 2005. This track gained exposure on 95.5 FM WPGC-FM in Washington DC and led to Yi's move to Los Angeles where he teamed up with independent rap artist Johnny Polygon from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi have performed at numerous Los Angeles venues, including The Knitting Factory, The Canyon Club, and the Velvet Jones. They have played alongside respected acts such as De La Soul, KRS-1 and The Beatnuts.
Their new 2007 album, "Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi Present: Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi" features tracks (such as "Lay Around") that have been previewed on Music Nation, where it held in the Top 10 most listened to tracks for more than 2 weeks.
Yi's uniqueness derives from his non-traditional roots,
where he has lived alongside folks of diverse ethnicities and classes. He says that this perspective has set him on his current path "to highlight everyday injustice and fight for equality through his music."
Growing up in TN, Yi studied the violin and saxophone, and graduated with a music degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 2003. Although Yi chose to follow his hip hop roots, his formal training offers a unique and lyrical spin on traditional beats.
Yi fights for himself not only through beat-making and producing, but also in the boxing ring, where he has been the 2002 Chicago Golden Gloves Featherweight Finalist, 2003 Chicago Golden Gloves Bantamweight Finalist, 2004 VA State Featherweight Finalist, and 2006 California Golden Glove Semi-Finalist.
His first big break came from Etan Thomas' album, "More than an Athlete" on the track "Wasted Talent" released in 2005. This track gained exposure on 95.5 FM WPGC-FM in Washington DC and led to Yi's move to Los Angeles where he teamed up with independent rap artist Johnny Polygon from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi have performed at numerous Los Angeles venues, including The Knitting Factory, The Canyon Club, and the Velvet Jones. They have played alongside respected acts such as De La Soul, KRS-1 and The Beatnuts.
Their new 2007 album, "Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi Present: Johnny Polygon and Bruce Yi" features tracks (such as "Lay Around") that have been previewed on Music Nation, where it held in the Top 10 most listened to tracks for more than 2 weeks.
Yi's uniqueness derives from his non-traditional roots,
where he has lived alongside folks of diverse ethnicities and classes. He says that this perspective has set him on his current path "to highlight everyday injustice and fight for equality through his music."
Growing up in TN, Yi studied the violin and saxophone, and graduated with a music degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 2003. Although Yi chose to follow his hip hop roots, his formal training offers a unique and lyrical spin on traditional beats.
Yi fights for himself not only through beat-making and producing, but also in the boxing ring, where he has been the 2002 Chicago Golden Gloves Featherweight Finalist, 2003 Chicago Golden Gloves Bantamweight Finalist, 2004 VA State Featherweight Finalist, and 2006 California Golden Glove Semi-Finalist.
RPGFan is a website devoted to electronic role-playing games for console and PC, both domestic and imported. Its content includes previews, reviews, and news of recent and upcoming RPG releases. The site also contains RPG screen shots, editorials, fanart, fanfiction, and website links for users to contribute to.
RPGFan was launched as LunarNET in 1997, then changed its name to RPGFan in 1999, and is now a subsidiary of Cerebus Media Group Inc.
Staffing has changed immensely over the course of RPGFan. Current general content is managed by the webmaster, John McCarroll. The soundtracks section is managed by Patrick Gann, the reviews section by Damian Thomas, and advertising and business operations by Stephen Harris. RPGFan offers banner advertisement programs for game publishers and developers on a monthly basis.
History
On December 1997, Mickey Shannon established an RPG-centered website called LunarNET. At first, the site contained news, release dates, an editorial list and archives, but after its first redesign new sections were added, such as reviews, previews, links, pictures and FAQs. In 1998 LunarNET received attention from larger gaming websites after publishing rare Final Fantasy VIII screenshots and a video from the latest Sonic game, Sonic Adventure, the quality of which had been better than in other Sonic videos on the Internet.
After two years of operation, LunarNET was renamed to clarify that the site focused on RPGs in general and not just the Lunar game series. On March 3, 1999, the site was relaunched as RPGFan. Until February 2000, RPGFan had been redesigned once; additionally, it had obtained several new editors, although Mickey Shannon, the original founder, announced that he was going to leave RPGFan, later stating, “I eventually lost interest in games, and I'm still not really sure why, but eventually quit in March or so of 2000”. Despite the claim, he recreated LunarNET, which, unlike the previous version, was exclusively dedicated to the Lunar series.
In 2000, RPGFan could no longer use the server of the GameFan Network. A replacement server was provided by GameGlow Network. However, GameGlow was shut down only a couple of months later, and RPGFan had no choice but to use the server of a small company named EasilyHosted.com (that, in fact, already hosted the sites connected to GameGlow’s server). After some misunderstandings concerning unpaid bills of EasilyHosted’s owner, RPGFan was temporarily put on the server of a friend of the owner. While using this particular server, RPGFan was redesigned to its current form. In 2001 the site signed a one year contract with CIHost.
In April 2008, the website published their 1000th article in the Soundtracks section of the website.
RPGFan was launched as LunarNET in 1997, then changed its name to RPGFan in 1999, and is now a subsidiary of Cerebus Media Group Inc.
Staffing has changed immensely over the course of RPGFan. Current general content is managed by the webmaster, John McCarroll. The soundtracks section is managed by Patrick Gann, the reviews section by Damian Thomas, and advertising and business operations by Stephen Harris. RPGFan offers banner advertisement programs for game publishers and developers on a monthly basis.
History
On December 1997, Mickey Shannon established an RPG-centered website called LunarNET. At first, the site contained news, release dates, an editorial list and archives, but after its first redesign new sections were added, such as reviews, previews, links, pictures and FAQs. In 1998 LunarNET received attention from larger gaming websites after publishing rare Final Fantasy VIII screenshots and a video from the latest Sonic game, Sonic Adventure, the quality of which had been better than in other Sonic videos on the Internet.
After two years of operation, LunarNET was renamed to clarify that the site focused on RPGs in general and not just the Lunar game series. On March 3, 1999, the site was relaunched as RPGFan. Until February 2000, RPGFan had been redesigned once; additionally, it had obtained several new editors, although Mickey Shannon, the original founder, announced that he was going to leave RPGFan, later stating, “I eventually lost interest in games, and I'm still not really sure why, but eventually quit in March or so of 2000”. Despite the claim, he recreated LunarNET, which, unlike the previous version, was exclusively dedicated to the Lunar series.
In 2000, RPGFan could no longer use the server of the GameFan Network. A replacement server was provided by GameGlow Network. However, GameGlow was shut down only a couple of months later, and RPGFan had no choice but to use the server of a small company named EasilyHosted.com (that, in fact, already hosted the sites connected to GameGlow’s server). After some misunderstandings concerning unpaid bills of EasilyHosted’s owner, RPGFan was temporarily put on the server of a friend of the owner. While using this particular server, RPGFan was redesigned to its current form. In 2001 the site signed a one year contract with CIHost.
In April 2008, the website published their 1000th article in the Soundtracks section of the website.
WikiZnanie () is a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the FreeBSD Documentation License license and created in 2003. It uses the MediaWiki software. The name derives from wiki and znanie, which is Russian for knowledge. It is considered the largest Russian-language wiki not owned by the Wikimedia Foundation
In 2006, WikiZnanie added over 100000 articles. As of August 2009, WikiZnanie has over 112,000 articles (compared with over 427,000 on the Russian ). The main part (about 95-98%) of its content comes from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which was published in Imperial Russia in 1890-1906.
WikiZnanie differs from the (and Russian ) project by licensing under the BSL DPL (instead of GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0) and displaying of commercial ads on article pages. It also allows original research (which must, if possible, use the methodology of scientific research) and encourages "multiple points of view" rather than "neutral point of view" in articles. It has servers in Moscow for faster access to pages from Russian territory and uses advertisements to secure financial support.
The author and webmaster of the project is Andrey Vovk (wznan:user:Vovkav).
In 2006, WikiZnanie added over 100000 articles. As of August 2009, WikiZnanie has over 112,000 articles (compared with over 427,000 on the Russian ). The main part (about 95-98%) of its content comes from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which was published in Imperial Russia in 1890-1906.
WikiZnanie differs from the (and Russian ) project by licensing under the BSL DPL (instead of GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0) and displaying of commercial ads on article pages. It also allows original research (which must, if possible, use the methodology of scientific research) and encourages "multiple points of view" rather than "neutral point of view" in articles. It has servers in Moscow for faster access to pages from Russian territory and uses advertisements to secure financial support.
The author and webmaster of the project is Andrey Vovk (wznan:user:Vovkav).
VJ Tell-X (birth name: Daniel McNeil) is a Calgary-based mashup Video Jockey known for his integration of video clips with music. Having mastered the merger of vinyl turntables with digital video, Tell-X premiered as Canada’s first analog video turntablist in late 2007.
Growing up in Nova Scotia, Tell-X took an interest in music at the age of 8. At the age of 12 he began experimenting with records and a tape recorder found in the basement. Technical aspects of music and reproduction led him to study Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
The founder of Hi Tech Productions at the age of 17 forged a new road for technical and innovative show designs for DJs and entertainers. This pushed the company to have the second-largest mobile DJ market share in northern Nova Scotia by the mid-1990s.
Currently the co-owner of the Alberta’s Best DJ’s Network (consisting of 6 DJ and production companies), he has toured Western Canada, parts of the Western US coast and down to Mexico performing music video manipulation.
Tell-X has worked with:
* DJ Skribble
* Mark Farina
* DJ M1
* DJ Sub Zero
* Tim Fuller and Sean DeMitrie
* Adam K
* DJ Miss M
* JT Donaldson
* DJ Danny Diggs
Growing up in Nova Scotia, Tell-X took an interest in music at the age of 8. At the age of 12 he began experimenting with records and a tape recorder found in the basement. Technical aspects of music and reproduction led him to study Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
The founder of Hi Tech Productions at the age of 17 forged a new road for technical and innovative show designs for DJs and entertainers. This pushed the company to have the second-largest mobile DJ market share in northern Nova Scotia by the mid-1990s.
Currently the co-owner of the Alberta’s Best DJ’s Network (consisting of 6 DJ and production companies), he has toured Western Canada, parts of the Western US coast and down to Mexico performing music video manipulation.
Tell-X has worked with:
* DJ Skribble
* Mark Farina
* DJ M1
* DJ Sub Zero
* Tim Fuller and Sean DeMitrie
* Adam K
* DJ Miss M
* JT Donaldson
* DJ Danny Diggs