Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get that many views.

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Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

my hits:

( ^ think I have this one already)

^ McLean looking LEAN (making the ladies swoon back in the 70′s or whatever)

^ /25

^ THATSA THWEE COLER PATCH!

These next two are hilarious, can’t believe Topps actually did this:

^ That’s noted “bloggist” Chris Harris of http://blog.stalegum.com/

I even got a 3D parallel of him!

NICE!

Overall I give this box/product 5 out of a possible 5 knife slashes.

here’s the video:

Originals from Beckett:

Let’s zoom in on the top right:

What the? It looks like some pissed off demon guy is staring at me!

Lets up the contrast!

Actually that didn’t really help or hurt any, if you don’t see him I’ve created a handy labeled version:

And now the lower left:

Doesn’t really look like a face or anything at first glance, but after staring at it for awhile I was able to determine that it is in fact a collage of hellish faces twisting in agony, HELL SELL!

That’s not even mentioning the weird Beckett logo embed on the lower right, what’s up with that?

So here they are, first up is June:

Special Gold Standard edition:

July edition:

August:

And September:

In addition to the above, I’ve done some video/audio editing and motion graphics for Tracy on a number of his recent videos, I’ll put together a reel of that at some point.

That background animation was 12 gigs uncompressed Quicktime animation, just about blew up my laptop rendering it.

here’s all the cards I got from ebay (didn’t use all of them in the video):

Kobe’s:

/49

USA Jersey/AU /49

/25 AU/PATCH!

Larry Bird Solid Gold redemption (back)

Grant Hill Auto:

/25

The rest, in slide show form:

http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee168/tom505/Gold%20Standard/?albumview=slideshow

All my “Topps-themed” videos can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TomtheRipper407#grid/user/91BB76B5220E8AC0

The “Panini Unwrapped” and “Beckett Box Busters” bumpers can be found on their respective videos although the motion graphics are presented in their entirety (sans audio and normal speed) below:

Access the page by click the tab at the top or clicking here:

http://tomtheripper.wordpress.com/big-hits-vids/

Here is the card (they all have the same background):

upper right crop:

^Looks like a couple skulls on the bottom, upside down. If you move up and to the right you can see plenty more, plus there’s one of those weird demented looking elves near the top, sort of like:

from the Leviev ad

upper left:

lower left: (top right of image, two big ol alien eye sockets!)

lower right: (upper right again, plus all sorts of other vulgarities)

previously in subliminal advertising:

Leviev

Sage’s Alien Skull

Pretty Little Liars