Femi Kuti and his band strip it down for La Blogothèque, some hours before they got on stage at the Bellevilloise earlier this year. Not sure what I like most here: the band braving the cold, the sun setting over Paris in Autumn or Vincent Moon’s camera work. That same evening, they also recorded this […]
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see “how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends.” He took about ten million friendships—that is, pairs of Facebook friends—and, using the locations provided by those friends, calculated the number of friendships between cities. By combining the […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKFpx6zmYo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] “Après Tintin au Congo j’ai lu Sarkozy à Dakar / 50 minutes d’insultes… accusé à la barre / Blague à part, un fantasme d’il y a 400 ans / Une vision de l’Africain rappelant Tarzan.” A translation of Gabonese musician Lord Ekomy Ndong’s letter to Sarkozy would read something like this: “After Tintin in […]
By Bronwynne Pereira Guest Blogger Fool in a Bubble, a film, produced and directed by Joshua Sternlicht, is a contributory piece of documentary narratives that assists us further in understanding the constructions of Whiteness in South Africa. This film follows the life of Syd Kitchen, who has since the 1970’s participated and created a fusion […]
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu. Born in 1933, Wasswa played a role in his community as a teacher and social worker. These days, Wasswa is a farmer and an HIV/AIDS activist, running an NGO from his home in the Mokono District. Throughout his life […]
Not everyone is so taken with what Wikileaks has wrought. I’d be curious to hear what some of you think of this take of Wikileaks and Assange, by a reader, an American leftist: … I’m refusing to get caught up in the Wikileaks tempest. I have no problem with what Wikileaks did (I should care […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mld7eSaydI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Psychedelic funksters Sly and the Family Stone are making a comeback of sorts (although recent video evidence suggests that, Sly is at once both out of sorts and with it). However, in his prime (above, you can listen to 1973’s “In Time”) Sly was unparalleled. (H/T: Greg Tate).
Myrtle Ave, Fort Greene in Brooklyn.
On the usefulness of WikiLeaks and the self-destructive personality of its founder, Julian Assange.
Early next year the 10th annual World Social Forum will be held in Dakar, Senegal. Indymedia activists plan to organize an Independent Media Convergence alongside the WSF. The main aim is to work with and train local media activists from over the continent during the WSF. There’ll be a fundraiser for the Media Convergence tomorrow […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPYQaAJR5U&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African DJ Hamma (former member of Brasse Vannie Kaap, these days “1/3rd of the dj collective known as Spindle Crew”) will soon drop a first solo-album called “Ctrl-Alt-Del, A non-responsive project.”* The song in the video above, “Still got love,” is a first single. Rhymes are by Reason Lebaka a.k.a. Reasonthemass. * With […]
Out My Window is a 360° online documentary and the first release from the HIGHRISE project, “a multi-year, cross-media project about vertical living around the globe”. The project won this year’s DocLab competition at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Of all the cities on the continent, there is (again) only Johannesburg here (“horror […]