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my online identity has been erased and the blankness of this current website's aesthetic is representative of that erasure. When I have made a decision about what my online identity will be on the internets, the look of this site will most likely reflect that.
Just trying to test out this mobile blog thing I’m doing his from my phone
[ Read More → ]My mother forwarded this email to me, I think its relevant. If you don’t know who Touissant L’overture is read this and then google that name. An active understanding of history is the only path to understanding the present.
While I was watching the news today (01/13/2010) concerning the earthquake, reporters constantly reminded us [...]
Jessica is a friend of mine and a dope artist don’t m iss her show (you only have 7 more days to see it!) Check out all the information below.
JESSICA ANN PEAVY
She Knows Something You Don’t Know
Video Screening at Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Between S4th & S5th Sts
January 7th -January 18th
Opening and Food Tasting [...]
[ Read More → ]I wasn’t prepared for this process. I just spent the last few days making a very bad animatic. Don’t know what an animatic is? well here is an example of a good one.
You are apparently supposed to edit together your storyboards with the exact timing of all the character and camera movements. Maybe the task [...]
Another call to action from my mother, listen to her, I do and look how far it has gotten me. If you listen to her this time you might wiggle some affordable healthcare out of the deal.
hello all– please join me in signing the petition below from Credo. it is important for president obama and [...]
A couple weeks ago, Blitz the Ambassador got back in the studio to record a Live EP for MTVu’s House Band series. The album was recorded and filmed, at Royal Blue Studios in Brooklyn, a completely analog facility run by platinum engineer/producer Robert Honablue (Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & the Family Stone, Leonard Bernstein, [...]
[ Read More → ]yo, lets help the immensely talented director Ya’ke get his film made. His track record speaks for itself Cannes, Student Academy Award Nom, etc etc
The film is called Katrina’s Son, check the links for detailed info below. He needs financing, anything you can do will help!
http://www.exodusfilmworks.com/katrinasson.html
http://exodusfilmworks.blogspot.com/
I religiously love good music.
I have a lot friends who know this about me.
A friend, who is also a constant source of good music, is Nick James.
I met Nick James, aka Nick Loves The Kids, in Oakland several years ago, introduced by Chinaka Hodge (a very talented Writer & Performer), with the words, “he’s sort [...]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
[ Read More → ]The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) is seeking visual, performing, literary, musical and cinematography artists who are either living and working in Brooklyn or have been forced to relocate as a result of gentrification, to submit work that visually represents their own perspectives and opinions on gentrification in the borough of Brooklyn.
The exhibition [...]
Check this out if you are in the NY area
Art for Change is an organization that provides a forum for creating innovative art and media programs that inspire people to take an active role in social justice.
Celebrating art, activism, social justice….and the sneak peek of our new Art for Change [...]
don’t miss it, It’s gonna be funky.
[ Read More → ]well, It’s official, the fundraising push has begun. We have gotten off to a decent start $530.00 of $5000.00. I’m sure if you are reading this blog entry then you are aware of what the film is about and how cool it is and whatnot and why you should support us with financing. (If you [...]
[ Read More → ]I met james through the IFP narrative lab he is a talented writer director producer and apparently a helluva vegan chef. (owns 2 resteraunts in the greater DFW area) I really like this video, it fits my new music video ethos that calls for all the sound to be recorded locally, go ahead blaze that [...]
[ Read More → ]My initial thought is that this movie has already been made. It was called ”I’m gonna get you sucka!” After seeing a littler more press, Black Dynamite seems like it will be more homage than spoof. Ill check it out.
YouTube – Black Dynamite @ 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
My Mother’s thoughts on the protests against President Obama’s speech to school children… (I share her opinion)
This furor is sadly reminiscent of towns in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and in Little Rock, Arkansas in the mid fifties. Immediately following the passage of Brown v Board of Education, rather than follow the law of the land [...]
found this at the spout blog, right up hwuf’s alley. but damn 5000 submissions already! that is crazy…
The Sundance Film Festival has announced that in 2010 they’ll launch a new programming sidebar called NEXT, designed to reflect the fact that “a new aesthetic enlisting low-and no-budget filmmaking techniques has been on the rise.” According to [...]
Bill moyers has been knocking these idiots out the box on the healthcare issue. You can watch his show for free by subscribing to his podcast thru itunes, otherwise check your local listings. I know I’m preaching to the choir because I’m sure the 4 people who read this blog are already for single payer [...]
[ Read More → ]My mother is directing great theater, if your in the dallas area please attend.
r.t.w. ~ reading the writers
Readers Theatre Series Showcasing Great Black Theatre @ the South Dallas Cultural Center
Contact: VICKIE WASHINGTON – vw4854@yahoo.com Phone: 214.669.2708
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
WHAT: Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean | WHEN: Sunday, September 20, 2009 [...]
malakai, originally uploaded by Terence Nance.
this is my niece she says hi…
[ Read More → ]Yvonne connected me to this through a really nice blog called shadow and act, It is terrible news. As the blogger stated IF ANY FILM NEEDS to be directed by a Black Woman It’s this one, I know several personally who would shame Tyler back into the hole he crawled… let me stop.
Check for the [...]
My absence will not go unexplained. I was stricken with an Influenza which my doctor said may or may not have been the pig flu (which I learned from the video above is actually a flu cocktail of man flu, bird flu, and pig flu.) The doctor said that I am to treat them the [...]
[ Read More → ]It’s called why do you hate us, my mother sent it to me, she is my blog’s other ghostwriter. She doesn’t think a child wrote it as is reported, I must say that It sounds like an adult attempting to sound like a child (check this quote: “It doesn’t take much effort to produce a [...]
[ Read More → ]My blog ghostwriter Tramaine sent me this email and It’s a good context to view the new trailer for Chris Rock’s doc, “Good Hair.”
I’m excited about seeing the film and hope that he doesn’t remain to lighthearted and objective. For the issue to be done justice the film at some point must spell out the [...]
and listened to nina simone while doing so… the movie is on the horizon!
[ Read More → ]Clearly what is wrong with these pictures is much more obvious than pt. 1 of WIWWTP. But this is much funnier.
[ Read More → ]Ok I’m finished being inflammatory for the evening. But this film will be used in my thesis, which you can read here in the coming months, its called “the wet dreams of well intentioned white men”
[ Read More → ]The Melody is amazing, soulful and original. This is the type of music you don’t listen to, but rather you feel.
The Faculty and I will be playing August 15th, 9pm, at the Brooklyn Lyceum, located at 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11215.
This is the first show in over a year that will bring back the [...]
I really cannot afford to be doing any of this today, seriously.
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