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Archive for April, 2010
You can tell a lot about a man by his email address. With Mikael Moore you’ll know in which folder of his mind you’ve been compartmentalized by which email address he decides to give you. Ever the student, writer, and critic, it is refreshing to see the Washington Post offer up a story on my friend and brother. I am ever his fan, supporter, and pupil so it is exciting to see the world uncover this storied career so early in its lifetime.
“Oh Denzel.” This is how most women will respond to the mention of his name. Admittedly, he is the Paul Newman of our time. Attractive and confidant, a man’s man. Always playing the strong guy, never a supporting character.
Denzel Washington is one of the most prolific actors of our time, falling just short of Sam Jackson in the ‘He was in THAT movie too?!?” category. Having had success both in front of and behind the camera, audiences are still warming up to Mr. Washington’s live performaces. [this doesn’t include acceptance speeches]
“Oh…Denzel.” This seems to be how critics are responding to his most recent foray into theater. There is, of course, the challenge of being the second, in a short line led by James Earl Jones, to play August Wilson’s Troy Maxon. But there is also, Denzel…who is always…Denzel. [See “They tried to kill my wife” –American Gangster]
I like him. I like the play. I have read it a few times. It’ll be interesting to see how Denzel reads it this summer. Count me in.
Read the full review from our friends at the NY Times.
BACKGROUND:I have taken to shooting some small installations for friends’ businesses. Recently, while in Chicago, I was able to free up some time for a dentist office owned and run by some Morehouse College brothers of mine. (I also sat down for a cleaning!)
BUSINESS:This is considered a part of the 1.5 package. It is a commercial or depiction of your business/event shot with one edit of your choice. A relatively simple feat to accomplish once you have hired me and paid the consultation fee.Enjoy.-2.0
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If you are a Blackberry user and you don’t suffer with a heavy case of the hourglassies, God Bless you. Me, I am tired of it. So all of my BBM friends (most of you aren’t my friends anyway, we just stay in contact) I will be hard to reach after June. For those of you who wanted to BBM me before and never had my pin, stay tuned, because I’ll be tweeting, blogging, facebooking and texting it to everyone I know. This of course will be in celebration or graduation of my device and my provider.
I am making the switch. You should too.
It isn’t THAT bad, but just in case we have some parents on the page. (I’m not worried about the kids). This is a put on from the fellas of the West Coast, Ro and Jon. Truthfully, I am becoming more and more lenient with rappers choice to be unsyncopated in parts. Formally known as the Silk the Shocker, it became the Eminem as he was able to fool us into thinking he was on the beat because his rhyme scheme was unique. Rob Roy challenges the meter in a truly crafty, deliberately nonchalant style that has the chorus ringing in my head since Monday.
Oh and the video is better than most. Enjoy.
1. Always bring your own washcloth (and towel)
2. Even if you have an electric toothbrush that makes you feel like you don’t need dental coverage, carry a manual toothbrush with you. It’s also a great idea to keep it in your carry-on…with some toothpaste.
3. Take a shower before you get on the plane, train, in the car, or start walking. You never know what’s going to happen.
4. If you stay at someone’s house, buy them some groceries, a bottle, a plant, anything. Just contribute to their space.
5. Have a decent pair of headphones.
6. Start untying or removing your shoes at the beginning of the security gate check in. Everyone will love you for it.
7. Two words: Hand sanitizer.
8. Keep a snack. A snickers, a granola bar, or a pack of sour skittles work best.
9. Carry cash. At least some. “I only have a card is not an excuse anymore.”
10. Keep a roll of tape on you if you can. I know, I know it sounds like MacGuvery or really MacGrouder, but tape CAN save your life.
11. Carry your carry-ons in the hand that is opposite of your boarding pass and furthest away from the gate agent. Maybe she won’t notice that you have two cameras, a bookbag, a hat box and a carry-on.
12. Three words: Frequent flier miles.
13. Call ahead to your friends in whichever city you are going to. It takes people about a week to get “free” or decide that it is okay for them to skip Glee and come out and meet you for a drink or three.
14. Charge your phone as often as possible.
15. Leave a 20% tip if it’s good 10% if it’s bad.
16. Two parting words: Baby wipes.
–See you in the skies.
So a friend of mine and I have been talking about (while trying to avoid talking about) our dear sweet Carmen Sandiego. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I fell of waaaaaay back. I have spent the past few years watching the slow death of an obsession that was born out of repeated rewinding of Sister Act 2 on VHS after school.
I saw the same interviews you saw…and the costumes…heard the stories…etc, etc…and I wanted to forget about it the way I did the tabloid reports calling my hero, “Jacko”. But it was difficult, very difficult.
Then I heard some mixtapes, The Re-education of Lauryn Hill to be specific. Within these few songs, I heard something that felt familiar. That is not to say that I disrespected the growth I had been witnessing, but I had lost contact with the voice. [Out of laziness and lack of qualifiers all puns intended]
Then some pictures surfaced and my friend and I whispered some captions.
Then I saw a very clear, very lucid interview with Ms. Hill. She wore a growth as her main accessory in this video, but spoke with a voice that was, well, familiar.
Familiarize yourself below.
Apparently, this is what 11 year old are doing nowadays. I imagine this is a function of Turn off the TV but I know when I was 11 years old, I didn’t have YouTube as an outlet.
Watch below as these two kids spoof our favorite Old Spice commercial! Parents keep in mind these kids were encouraged to use their imaginations and ALLOWED to use their parents’ cameras! ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN!!!
Here’s a bonus:
Watch the former NFL player, ISAIAH MUSTAFA, star of the Old Spice commercial as he interviews with Ellen:
I actually love Resee’s myself…just not THIS much.
Special shout out to Isis Valentino for the find.
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Earth Day
Plant a tree.
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this.album.is.jammin
This is the kind of music that makes you want to get married, just so that you can play these songs at the wedding reception. This is the kind of album that makes you want to buy a new system for your car or some Bose/Beats headphones, just so that you can have the music as close to your brain as possible. This is the kind of album that makes you move all of your furniture out of the house and put a swimsuit on. It is open your doors and windows, lay a slip in slide on your front lawn, tell the Mass Choir they can take Sunday off because we are playing “The ArchAndroid” kind of music.
It just feels so damn good. You hear me? This music will make you take off ALL of your clothes. (trust me) It will make you feel like squirting water guns, putting whoopee cushions in chairs, reading books, writing books, making new colors, and painting new numbers. It will make you want to have Toga parties and trim your hedges into the shapes of dinosaurs. It will make you bake cakes and blow bubbles, it will make you feel like having food fights. It will help you find your peace.
You’ll hear it soon! I wish I could be with everyone the first time they hear it cover to cover. This is the kind of album that will have you stand on your desk and hop cubicle to cubicle. It will make you start exercising again, just to have uninterrupted time to listen. It will transform you. It will make you believe…in yourself.
The ArchAndroid will be the soundtrack to your involvement, your ambition, and your freedom.
The ArchAndroidSuites II & III
1. Suite II Overture
2. Dance Or Die (featuring Saul Williams)
3. Faster
4. Locked Inside
5. Sir Greendown
6. Cold War
7. Tightrope (featuring Big Boi)
8. Neon Gumbo
9. Oh, Maker
10. Come Alive (The War of The Roses)
11. Mushrooms & Roses
12. Suite III Overture
13. Neon Valley Street
14. Make The Bus (featuring Of Montreal)
15. Wondaland
16. 57821 (featuring Deep Cotton)
17. Say You’ll Go
18. BabopbyeYa
As you know I have been traveling. (What else is new?) But while I’ve been traveling I’ve been shooting, not only on the #LAPTAPE, but with my Nikon D9000. The video quality is amazing, but the sound….eh, not so much. So I decided that I would break from the #LAPTAPE-only shoots and add in some of the crystal clear Nikon footage for the SHEPHERD’S WORDS video!
I set out around Manhattan during an extended trip there when I should have been trying to catch up on sleep and even got Stereo Crowd to shoot some #LAPTAPE during their rehearsal and started piecing it together.
Here is a screen shot of the piecing together of Shepherd’s Words!
Normally, the video would be done by now, but I have had a lot of editing to do with the Jane’s project–an amzing blessing in disguise. I have decided that through the rest of my travels over the next few months I want to collect as many friends as I can on camera giving their version of the hook:
I like to FREESTYLE/I like to MEANWHILE/I like to BUCKWILD/I like OOOOH CHILD!
So if you see me in your city, or if you are so ambitious as to pull out your own #LAPTAPE and shoot yourself rapping the chorus, you may just find yourself in 2.0’s next TURN OFF THE TV video!
So the little(st) homie Ladia Yates hit me up early yesterday and asked me if she should make a tutorial on how to do the Tightrope. I said, “Absolutely!” Being the youtube sensation that she is and always having her bite sized camera in her bite sized hands, she put together this tutorial for all of you that have been rewinding the Tightrope video for the last 2 weeks.
Watch and learn!!
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