Let Us Roam is a new film series produced by the German camera maker Leica. It profiles artists talking about their passion for creativity. The first installment documents “a jack of all trades, master of none,” legendary professional skateboarder Ray Barbee. Repping San Jose, California, the former Powell Peralta skateboarder talks about his photography, making music and the importance of taking time to work on your craft. If you were a person of color in the suburbs pushing a board …
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San Francisco has a rich history of graffiti art, but over the last decade or so, due to gentrification, new tech businesses setting up shop in the city, and anti-graffiti enforcement by the city, nearly every thing has been buffed (cleaned up) save for the few legal murals. Places like Psycho City (Van Ness and 12th Street), Silver Terrace park, Crocker Amazon park, West Portal Muni tunnels are all long gone, only surviving in photos in private collections or online. …
Hip-Hop and Science, something most people don’t often equate as synonymous. But check the music catalogs of Afrika Bambaataa, Ultramagnetic MC’s, KRS-One, Rakim, Del the Funky Homosapien (Deltron 3030 project especially), all the way down to the Wu-Tang Clan and many others you can find scientific references in their lyrics. GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan has been partnering up with Teachers College, Columbia University Professor Christopher Emdin on a program called Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. which uses the Hip-Hop element of Emceeing (Rap) to teach science to …
From St. Louis, Missouri five year old rapper Heir Jordin raps about Black history in the song “Proud History” penned by his father, rapper and drummer RT-FaQ of the group Doorway. The track “Proud History” came to life, when one of Heir Jordin’s teachers asked him to perform a song for the school’s Black History Month program. In the track, Heir Jordin name drop various Black heroes, heroines, icons, legends, and revolutionaries from Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman all the way …
Wars support capitalism and they pump society full of fear, paranoia and greed. Happiness is always fleeting, but it’s monetized and bottled into a product or brand. Corporations replace governments and robots replace people. Temujin Doran is a British illustrator and filmmaker known for making video essays, like his love for language and illustration. Obey is his shared perception of the current state of the world. In the nearly hour long video dude goes all the way in, plows down into the center of …
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