Monday, November 2, 2009

Jin Young Yu| The Invisible People + Your Naked Eye

 
 

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I love Jin Young Yu's sculptures! They are incredibly emotive and tell stories in a way that only sculpture can. -Stories that are painfully visible, yet desperately made invisible by societal standards. Typically, I am always at peak for words when writing about art but, these pieces can easily summon you to stillness and reflection. ART!

Check out his work below and his blog here! (in Korean)






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Hey QBG Nanowrimo's!!!!

Shouts to QBG's

Danny
Mai'a
Moya

for making it happen in November.

Who else is participating this year?

 
 

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I am Nanowrimo.  Refresh, reclaim, renew.

yay! for nanowrimo!

 
 

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Luchini Fallin' From the Sky

 
 

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I think I'd rather watch this over and over for two hours.



Well, This is It won the box office this weekend.  It's made a little over $21 million since it was released last Wednesday.  Despite my unabashed love for both Michael Jackson and documentaries, I didn't see it.  When I heard the documentary was going to be shown in theaters I'd pretty much decided not to go.  But since that initial decision, I've been a bit ambivalent about it.  Part of me is really curious to peek at the genius and see Jackson's (edited) creative process.  The other part of me doesn't want to participate.  It's not really a date movie material, is it?  Wiping my salty tears with buttered fingers, leaving popcorn crumbs on my cheeks is not a good look.  And who can practice the moonwalk on a sticky movie theater floor?  Besides, I don't need corporations and other folks profiting off of my mourning.   I wonder how his mother, his children feel about all of this.

The myriad of free MJ mixtapes I downloaded at the beginning of the summer seem a more appropriate way for me to personally honor the greatest entertainer of all time.  I'm afraid that seeing the movie will do nothing but make me to dwell on the end of his life, his tragic death, and I'd rather remember the best of times.  I like the mixtapes because they lure me into rocking out into amnesia.  I forget about the fact that MJ isn't here anymore, because the music makes him immortal.  (Whoa.  That was corny.) 

Now, if they decide to show Moonwalker in IMAX theaters, I'm there.  Until then, I suppose I'll just spend my time arguing that the demo version of P.Y.T. is better than the one that appeared on Thriller.  And if I want to buy something to commemorate his life, I'll cop one of those lithographs.  The commercial for them is alarming, problematic, and funny as hell:


(Yes, you heard that right.  They said that his white suit was "as pure as his heart.")



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Luchini Fallin' From the Sky

 
 

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I think I'd rather watch this over and over for two hours.



Well, This is It won the box office this weekend.  It's made a little over $21 million since it was released last Wednesday.  Despite my unabashed love for both Michael Jackson and documentaries, I didn't see it.  When I heard the documentary was going to be shown in theaters I'd pretty much decided not to go.  But since that initial decision, I've been a bit ambivalent about it.  Part of me is really curious to peek at the genius and see Jackson's (edited) creative process.  The other part of me doesn't want to participate.  It's not really a date movie material, is it?  Wiping my salty tears with buttered fingers, leaving popcorn crumbs on my cheeks is not a good look.  And who can practice the moonwalk on a sticky movie theater floor?  Besides, I don't need corporations and other folks profiting off of my mourning.   I wonder how his mother, his children feel about all of this.

The myriad of free MJ mixtapes I downloaded at the beginning of the summer seem a more appropriate way for me to personally honor the greatest entertainer of all time.  I'm afraid that seeing the movie will do nothing but make me to dwell on the end of his life, his tragic death, and I'd rather remember the best of times.  I like the mixtapes because they lure me into rocking out into amnesia.  I forget about the fact that MJ isn't here anymore, because the music makes him immortal.  (Whoa.  That was corny.) 

Now, if they decide to show Moonwalker in IMAX theaters, I'm there.  Until then, I suppose I'll just spend my time arguing that the demo version of P.Y.T. is better than the one that appeared on Thriller.  And if I want to buy something to commemorate his life, I'll cop one of those lithographs.  The commercial for them is alarming, problematic, and funny as hell:


(Yes, you heard that right.  They said that his white suit was "as pure as his heart.")



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Tyra Banks’ Race Problem

 
 

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Tyra, Tyra, Tyra. With each new venture, new show, I am becoming increasing more disappointed with Miss Banks. Last week's episode of ANTM cinched the deal. Putting some of the models in Blackface and then simulating "biracial" looks, Tyra has officially fell over the deep end. Tyra's problems with race politics and color go deep and can be seen in any number of episodes on her show and on ANTM. A few years ago, a writer at Slate Magazine posed the question, Is Tyra Banks a Racist? Indeed, Tyra is much harder on Black women than anyone else and the quality of her programming is indeed troubling.

I have no doubt at all that Tyra Banks has good intentions but how does that saying go… the road to hell is paved with…
Perhaps the most troubling element of Tyra Banks' Race Problem is that her demographic is the 18-34 segment. In other words, young women. Young people are consuming her media in droves and her politics around race particularly are so skewed that you can't help but to prepare for the worse. A while back, I actually wrote an article for Popmatters about Tyra and some of her insanity. Tyra has been increasingly irresponsible in dealing with issues of race, gender, color, size and sexuality. This is not the first time that Tyra has used Blackface as a fashion idea on ANTM and I'm sure it won't be the last but I think Tyra needs to take a page out of Bill Cosby's book and hire someone (Dr. Alvin Pouissant) who would actually tell her when she is being foolish. If you're reading Tyra, I'm available!

 
 

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CNN Bumps Story About Ten Missing Black Women for 1 Non-Black Woman | What A...

 
 

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CNN Bumps Story About Ten Missing Black Women for 1 Non-Black Woman | What About Our Daughters:

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Now Newsweek is telling their story and asking why the rest of the coutnry doesn't know that there is a serial killer in North Carolina killing Black women. Most interesting is when they discuss Nancy Grace's decision to bump this story from her show. As you know, Nancy Grace is the pied piper of missing and murdered women and children.

But the national media did show some interest in the story after it was revealed that five women were murdered in or around the town."Nancy Grace called and wanted to have some of us on her show, but before it aired there was a white woman from Georgia that went missing. The Nancy Grace show was canceled," Knight says. HLN network, which broadcasts Nancy Grace, confirmed that Knight was booked for the show, which was ultimately canceled to profile the disappearance of Kristi Cornwell, a white woman from Blairsville, Ga., who went missing during an evening walk. Representatives from Nancy Grace told NEWSWEEK, "The booking was changed due to news that was breaking that day," and emphasized the change had nothing to do with the race of the victim.


 
 

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"Rand's particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her so popular and so American, is the way she managed to mass market elitism — to convince so many people, especially young people, that they could be geniuses without being in any concrete way distinguished. Or, rather, that they could distinguish themselves by the ardor of their commitment to Rand's teaching. The very form of her novels makes the same point: they are as cartoonish and sexed-up as any best seller, yet they are constantly suggesting that the reader who appreciates them is one of the elect."

- Adam Kirsch, Ayn Rand's Revenge, NYT (via novazembla)

 
 

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Modern-Day Slavery in Pakistan: Indentured Poor

 
 

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As the U.S. prioritizes Islamabad's campaign against the Taliban and other extremists, will Washington press Pakistan to address the plight of its indentured poor?

 
 

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