A year and a half after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, artist Alejandro Chaskielberg visited the small town of Otsuchi. He photographed 20 families sitting on the foundation where their homes once stood. He found contorted belongings that felt like tortured symbols of a traumatized psyche. The altered lay of the land reflects a destroyed way of life that won’t ever come back. Using colors from a photo found in a damaged photo album, Chaskielberg painted on top of these long exposed monochrome …
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I stumbled upon some clips of a CMT documentary Waiting in the Wings about African Americans in country music from 2004. Contrary to popular image and narrative of country music being mainly a white Euro-American rural based music, this CMT documentary sought to explore the contributions of African American country musicians over the years and the African influences on the early development of country music. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a full stream of this documentary. If anyone has any leads leave …
Last Tuesday July 29, 2014 Legendary Jazz drummer Idris Muhammad passed away at the age of 74 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His drum sounds are heavily coveted and sampled by Hip-Hop artists and artists from other drum-centric genres . RIP. [NY Times] [The Times Picayune][BoingBoing] Wax Poetic’s magazine interview with Idris Muhammad from 2001. [Wax Poetics] Democracy Now August 8th, 2014 headlines. [Democracy Now] The Brazilian bus magnate who’s buying up all the world’s vinyl records. [NY Times] Why nerdy white guys …
Gabi Wilson interview/performance on Sway in the Morning – Gabi Wilson is an up and coming Bay Area (Vallejo, CA) singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter, this is her interview and performance on Sway in the Morning. Adrian Marcel interview/performance on Sway in the Morning – Adrian Marcel is another up and coming Bay Area (Oakland, CA) singer/songwriter, this is his interview and performance on Sway in the Morning. Anderson Paak “Drugs” (Official Music Video) – The official music video to Anderson Paak‘s trap & b ode to short term, …
Actor Warwick Davis (Return of Jedi, Willow, Leprechaun, Harry Potter, Life’s Too Short) investigates the story of the Ovitz family (the only surviving family of Jewish little people entertainers from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany) in the 2013 documentary The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz. Davis takes a look at the persecution (and eventual extermination) faced by those deemed undesirable by the Nazi German state (Jews, Romani, LGBT, little people, disabled people etc.), and tries to discover the story behind the Ovitz …
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