Recently George Clooney wrote and directed The Monuments Men, a true story about a World War II platoon, requested by FDR, to go into Nazi Germany and recover artistic masterpieces. Clooney’s vision of the war story, from what I’ve heard, despite its low Rotten Tomatoes rating, is “engaging,” but restrained. The 2006 PBS documentary, based on the 1994 book, The Rape of Europa is ridiculous. Rejected by Austria’s top art academies, it portrays Hitler as a frustrated artist that sought to …
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I got my Solillaquists of Sound package weeks ago, but procrastinated on posting about it. I was too busy enjoying its contents to take a picture of it. In September they started a Kickstarter and raised $16,127. Their goal was $12,000. The campaign was to fund their double album, The 4th Wall. It was their final installment to “The Listener’s Trilogy.” $60 got me three albums (five considering the double), a mini comic, and a guide to “Decoding The Listener’s Trilogy.” If you missed it, you missed …
This week is Pow! Wow! Hawai’i, when artists from around the planet descend into Hawaii and paint something stupid. They’re getting down on walls, all murals, all day. Pow! kicked off yesterday. The list of participating artists is dizzying and definitely irritating that you (me) can’t be there to witness a fresh event. Some of the more surprising or curious names that jumped out on the list include Skinner, Andrew Schoultz, Cope2, Apex, Jeff Soto, Reka, Ron English, and famed …
Street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia Curry) has recently been vocal about her childhood and dealing with her mother’s drug addiction. In the video below Swoon talks about her parents and growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her talk took place in 2013 at the Feast Conference. She also wrote a compelling opinion piece for CNN. At the beginning she describes a scene where her mother tried to commit suicide with a shot gun, but was afraid of pulling the trigger. Unfortunately her mother …
One of the great emcees of Hip-Hop passed on 14 years ago today February 7th. Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), whose name is mentioned along side other great emcees such as Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Tupac, and The Notorious B.I.G. A skilled emcee, known for his use of alliteration, internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes, who at the time of his passing had two albums out; Capital Punishment (1998) and Yeeeah Baby (2000). Pun passed away while his music career was just about to take off …
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