Tony DiTerlizzi
Tony M. DiTerlizzi (born September 6, 1969) is an American fantasy artist, children's book creator, and motion picture producer.
In the gaming industry, he is best known for his work in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering and on the Planescape product line for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. DiTerlizzi created The Spiderwick Chronicles series with Holly Black, and was an executive producer on the 2008 film adaptation of the series. He won a Caldecott Honor Medal for his adaptation of The Spider and the Fly.
Early life
Tony DiTerlizzi was born into an artistic household in Los Angeles in 1969, the first of three children. The name DiTerlizzi means "from Terlizzi", a village in Italy's Pulia province. He grew up in South Florida where he attended South Fork High School. He went to college at the Florida School of the Arts and The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale where he earned a graphic design degree in 1992.
Influences
DiTerlizzi cites a variety of artists including Norman Rockwell and Dr. Seuss as major creative influences. "Many good fantasy artists will tell you their influences are Frazetta or Boris Vallejo. Realizing this, I went for more diverse influences, since it seemed to me that most current fantasy work has that same oil-painted feel." DiTerlizzi was influenced by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Leonardo da Vinci to early 1900s magazine artists (Maxfield Parrish, Heinrich Kley) to classic children's book illustrators (Arthur Rackham, Ernest Shepard, John Tenniel) to offbeat modern fantasy artists (Brian Froud, Moebius, William Stout, Jim Henson). Another inspiration was David Trampier, who illustrated much of AD&D's first Monster Manual, which DiTerlizzi recalled as his favorite book as a child: "I would copy Trampier's drawings over and over." DiTerlizzi was a fan of role-playing game art long before entering the field.
Podcasts:
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by Beanie Sigel
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by State Property Soundtrack
Don't Realize
by: Beanie Sigel[Beanie Sigel Talking]
Somebody's burnin close to the ground
I been here before,but I aint gone lay down
naw, naw you suckas, i aint gone lay down
[Verse 1: Beanie Sigel]
Yo, Hey yo I walks like a pimp, spark wit this mack
Click lock aint a smith you tell from this gat
You fuck around and lose a leg or somethin
I laser somethin I'm a predator
Make me Schwarzennegger something
Nigga talk about a dolla aint a thing
I got da blocks boilin keep oils like bobylin
move work in and out da Tri-State
No trouble on supply weight
All bureaus five eights
Yeah, I'm in and out of state
I touched alot of states
And yeah my plate touched alot of steaks
And you crumbs can't supply a cake
And cake don't make crumbs it's true
Do da knowledge wait
I'm try to school you to some game youngin
But you knuckle head lame youngin
Swear you know the game youngin
Swear we move on the same train youngin
You on a different track
I'm the conductor yall niggas rats
[Rell: Chorus]
Yall niggas don't realize [naw yall dont realize]
What it takes to make this doe
There's no mothafuckin way that I [its right in ya face]
Can show you how we roll
Wish yall realized [yall realize what the fuck we do]
What it takes to make this cream
Things I'm makin wit my team
So simple as it seems
[Rell talking]
Uhh thats gangsta for ya gangsta for ya
[Verse 2: Beanie Sigel]
You niggas fuckin wit that bake and that come back
And always got a story like wait, I'ma come back
Sometimes you gotta go away to make a come back
And those that know when they go don't even come back
My nails dirty I aint sit on my hands
Scale dirty i aint sit on no grams
Jail worthy got dat shit on his ass
Man, hustlin all inside of me
I cop a spot, pop them numbers like the lottery
Kept my luck sevens, big fours right beside of me
Nice pick six keep so hollows all beside of me
In case them numbers on them balls jump around
I gotta make the call to come to town and dumb around
You mothafuckas betta buckle down
Before I buckle down
Naw nigga you can't knuckle now
We past dat we on another level
Like blast dat, body bag, casket, nother shevel
[Rell: Chorus]
Yall niggas don't realize [uh uh]
What it takes to make this doe
There's no mothafuckin way that I [we eatin this]
Can show you how we roll
Wish yall realized [get a mil get a free lunch ticket or sumthin]
What it takes to make this cream
Things I'm makin wit my team
So simple as it seems [simple junk]
[Verse 3: Beanie Sigel]
I sold it all
I even fucked them niggas on the dice
Bucked them niggas who was nice
Broke em all
You used to pop willies on the block
Now you pop willy on the block
So where da raw
My attitude like the state of Missouri
Can I relate to you story
Nigga naw
You talkin to the wrong one
Nigga I'm a strong gun
Yea walked in this game
But I'm in it for the long run
Till the lord come
I'm a get it till it's all done
[Rell:Chorus]
Yall niggas don't realize
What it takes to make this doe
There's no mothafuckin way that I
Can show you how we roll
Wish yall realized
What it takes to make this cream
Things I'm makin wit my team