Todd Lamb
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Todd Lamb (Born March 1976) is an Emmy Award winning American writer.
He has written under the moniker Rock Ninja, as well as his birth name. He created the popular Rock Ninja! concert reviews that recurred in The SF Weekly . In this series a ninja would attend concerts and review them in a kung-fu voice. The final Rock Ninja! piece was a meeting backstage with the Beastie Boys, entitiled "Pawns in The Sun", the series ran for two years to much acclaim but stopped in 2004.
His comedy and pranks have been featured in Stop Smiling Magazine, Larry Flynt's Big Brother Skateboarding Magazine (the publication that the TV program Jackass launched from), Radar Magazine, The SF Weekly (with those articles later syndicated in sister newspaper The Riverfront Times), The Warlock, Wooooo Magazine and Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
[edit] Books and Printed Materials
A book titled Yo, Check The Perm! was released in September of 2007. Lamb gathered 15 people in the New York area and gave them perms in an effort to make their lives more dangerous. This book contains photography of each person that received the hairdo and strange case studies of each incident. This book was featured in the October 2007 issue of Nylon Magazine. Popular culture blog jezebel.com called it an "illiterate masterpiece" in their book review
Also a series of small, humorous pocketsized books by Lamb, entitled The Big Book of Wisdom, are available through blueq press. This series features the learnings that Lamb gathered, collected in multiple travel size versions in the volumes: romance, office, and art. Swedish artist and illustrator Johan Malmström drew the illustrations that correspond with Lamb's writings. The series was created to be used in society, and was designed to be taken with when leaving the house.
Lamb was the creator of the zine titled "Brown Trip", which received praise from Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and was featured in a 2007 issue. It was a small printed booklet with hand penned art. Brown Trip was designed to test whether the reader was a hippie. Only 100 copies were created.
[edit] Film, Television, and Commercial Work
Lamb has created short films and commercials for advertising agencies Mother and Goodby Silverstein & Partners. In 2001, he founded Asparagus, a clothing company that designs its clothes to "meet the needs of degenerates". While at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Lamb created a public service announcement, directed by Jeff Goodby, for the Marin Cancer Project that won the agency's first Emmy Award.
