Posted on May 30th, 2008 by jelizen. Categories: Art, Music.
The now ‘untitled’ upcoming album from nasty Nas has a cover. Wow. His master was so nice wit it he whipped him AND left his logo on his back. Hmmm. I would have hated to deal with that in photoshop, or even worse in real life. Interesting.
If you buy clothes this is relevant to you! Check out a BET News spotlight on Black models and designers in the fashion industry. Be sure to set your DVRs or tune in live tonight at 8:30pm because you know BET is slack on replayin the good ish! Shouts out to Cat doing her thing behind the scenes!
From the official release:
According to targetmarketnews.com, Black women in the United States spend more than $20 billion on apparel each year. Unfortunately the runways, magazine spreads and the image/beauty industry at large are increasingly ignoring their buying power by choosing instead to market an Eastern-European form of beauty as the standard. At New York’s September 2007 Fashion Week the runways were dominated by white faces. In fact, Black women were more absent from the runways than some fashion insiders have seen since the ’60s. Of the 101 runway shows, more than 1/3 employed no Black models; most of the others used just one or two. So is the fashion industry racist or are Blacks simply not in season? BET News Producers Betsy Jones and Catherine Rogers went behind the scenes of New York’s Fashion Week to find the answer in a half hour special, FASHION BLACKOUT. Industry insiders, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Naomi Campbell, Bethann Hardison, Tyson Beckford, Tracy Reese, André Leon Talley and many others sound off about the sharp decline in African American images in the fashion industry, the blatant racism and their plans on how to keep the Black model from becoming extinct. FASHION BLACKOUT will explore these issues and how the exclusion of an entire race has a negative effect on Black women and their sense of self-worth.
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by jelizen. Categories: Art, Doc's & Flix, LA.
Today’s LA Times has a story on LA graf writer Buket’s YouTube celeb-turned-jailbird status. Interesting. & CRAZY. the internet is BIG people. they watchin, so watch what u put out there - esp if it ain’t legal!!!
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by jelizen. Categories: Frolaborators.
Check out ?uestlove’s blog for a veeeeeerrry special Stevie treat, along with his entertaining rant about how this new discovery has left him feeling - specifically about the ‘music industry’! Tell it like it is Quest!
Sunday’s “Jam” day at UCLA was a lil less jam packed than it was last year for Jill & Lupe, but still a nice turnout. The lovely Goapele blessed the crowd with her crystal clear vocals and her most popular set, including Closer, My First Love and a lil remix version of Find A Way:
The Roots show was ok - I don’t know if I can even count anymore how many times we’ve seen them but this was definitely a ‘college’ show - so I guess if we (and the other 10,000 people who bought the album) wanna see them do new album cuts, we gotta go see them w/ Miss Badu. Captain Kirk did do one of his amazing guitar solos and got all extra rock’n'roll with it:
nice. Today (Monday) is Reggae day - you’ll probably be able to smell the show from the Sunset blvd!! Enjoy!!
From commercials to the big screen - this must be Spike’s dream come true! Spike Lee announced that he is working on a documentary on Michael Jordan and hopes to have it ready to screen at next year’s Cannes.
Spike Lee announced at Cannes on Monday (May 20) that he is directing a feature-length documentary about basketball superstar Michael Jordan, which he hopes to bring to next year’s Cannes Festival. The project will feature previously-unseen footage shot by NBA cameras during the final two years in Jordan’s career, the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons. Lee and Jordan previously worked together on a series of Nike TV commercials. Lee spoke to a Cannes crowd while showing an eight-minute preview of his upcoming WWII movie, Miracle at St. Anna, about four black soldiers in the U.S. Army’s 92nd Division who in 1944 were trapped in a Tuscan village and had to struggle with Nazis as well as their own racist commanders. Based the book by James McBride, Miracle will wrap shooting in July and be released in the U.S. on Oct. 10. (Variety)
Definitely looking forward to that! Think they’ll release a limited edition sneaker for the movie???
