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Some nice photos on this blog… in the one post we linked to anyway.AA Check ’em out.

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Disney’s Next "Princess": a Sista in the N.O…?

N.O. this is not a joke! not a dream! not a hoax! a 19 year old black woman named Maddy is the star of Disney’s next animated film: The Frog Princess. the film, which Disney (and Pixar) c.c.o. John Lasseter calls "an American Fairy Tale," will be set in the womb of the Jazz era, 1920’s New Orleans.

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Tanzania: A Second-Hand Economy?

Used clothing is by far America’s largest export to Tanzania. Tanzanian cities are full of clothing markets selling Mitumba a€" used clothing from Americans and Europeans a€" which fetches a tidy profit for local vendors. Pietra Rivoli, international business professor at Georgetown University, explores how small Tanzanian entrepreneurs clothe the country with cast-off Western garments.

The most stunning scenery in Tanzania is not the savannah landscape, but the African women. They stand taller and prouder than women anywhere, perhaps from years of carrying bananas and flour on the tops of their heads, perhaps from years of holding the country together.

The white women a€" European backpackers, lunching diplomatic wives, missionary aid workers a€" fade away in comparison, graceless and silly in the shadow of the African queens.

Many of the African women in Dar Es Salaam are draped in the brilliantly colored native cloth, graceful folds wrapping their strong bodies and stronger spirits. They are brilliantly colored splashes across the poverty and grief of Tanzania.

The men are a muted background to this scenery. They work, or they sit under shade trees a€" not as proud, not as strong, not as busy. There are some men in Muslim skullcaps and a few in Indian dhotis, but none at all in traditional African dress.

Almost all of the men and boys in Dar Es Salaam wear mitumba-clothing thrown away by Americans and Europeans, and many are in T-shirts.

excerpt from theglobalist

‘Counterculture in ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door.’

what the chuck is going down ninjas? the counter says this is post 2000 so officially one could assume that we have now entered version 2.0. as stuart scott once said "that’s redundant from the redundancy department." pure knowledge that can only be digested. what’s in store for the future? haha you must wait and see. just be on the lookout for those shadowy figures that are lurking behind you (sometimes beside you depending on the time of the day). often our angry readers ask why? there are about 500 plus written comments in this thing, which means if you’re like what the hell is the point of that start yapping up a storm on those there keys and make a racket instead of just staring away. there could be many additions to this post, but frankly this one’s not really a milestone as it is a reminder of what has happened in the past.

[W]hile civil rights was deeply influential on white countercultural movements in America [in the late 1960s through mid-1970s], folk music was somewhat less influential, feminism less still, and gay rights hardly at all. . . .

One might move from feminist activism to gay rights activism, or from civil rights activism to Jewish ethnic particularism; but despite the perception that sixties consciousness was Vietnam consciousness, religious people did not seem to move back and forth as much between antiwar activism and other kinds of activism. The war was an issue unto itself. (217, 218)

Counter-culture is thus the active critique or transformation of the existing social, scientific or aesthetic paradigm. It is religious reform. It is the heresy of whoever confers a license upon himself and prefigures another church. It is the only cultural manifestation that a dominant culture is unable to acknowledge and accept. . . . Counter-culture comes about when those who transform the culture in which they live become critically conscious of what they are doing and elaborate a theory of their deviation from the dominant model, offering a model that is capable of sustaining itself. (19)

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I just read on Angry Asian Man that a movie based on the 1970s TV series a€oeKung Fua€A is in the works:

Legendary Pictures has acquired the film rights to the 1970s TV series Kung Fu. Yeah, as in Kung Fu, the show starring white guy David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine: Kung Fu Headed for the Big Screen. According to Variety, theya€™ve optioned a screenplay from series creator Ed Spielman and original series writer Howard Friedlander. The film is expected to explore the events on which the TV show was based and the origins of the main characters. I suppose it was inevitable. I guess the question is, who will play Kwai Chang Caine? (Ita€™s too late to get Bruce Lee this time around.)

Looooong-time MMW readers may recall this lovely article we came across in May 2004, back when we were on Xanga. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said that Quentin Tarantinoa€™s casting of Carradine in Kill Bill, Volume 2 an a€oeact of inspirationa€A because Carradine broughta€"get thisa€"a€AAsian flavora€A to the movie:

a€¦with Carradinea€™s a€oeKung Fua€A background and his innate sense of mystery, his Bill gives this film just the right amount of Asian flavor needed to anchor this story in the Far Eastern sensibilities loved so much by Tarantino.

So now the question is, which white guy are they gonna get to play Kwai Chang Caine in the movie version? Who has enough a€oeAsian flavor?a€A Ia€™m putting my money on Steven Seagal. Hea€™s been looking kinda chunky lately though, so he might have to hit the dojo a little harder than hea€™s used to.

at mixedmediawatch via racialicious

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Sandra Fettingis

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"daft punkin’ donuts"

a patchy lp, the set nevertheless contained the underground detroit club anthem ‘raise it up’. the song - unbelievably - was energised by a sample from thomas bangalter’s ‘extra dry’ (off the classic trax on da rocks 2 ep) after Dilla heard a bootleg album assuming it was the work of some obscure techno producer who would never notice. inevitably though, bangalter caught the video on mtv and immediately recognised his sound happily married to rap. rather than demanding royalties, the parisian deemed it cool to be sampled by such respected hip-hop performers and instead asked sv to remix one of daft punk’s tracks in return. the result was the reworking of ‘aerodynamic’ from 2001’s loved-or-loathed ‘discovery’.

thomas bangalter - extra dry (mp3)

slum village - raise it up (mp3)

daft punk - aerodynamic (slum village remix) (mp3)

bestfootforward and daft punk sample sources via mpc-forums

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