http://forota.net/wordpress keeping track of african and africa-related culture in the media (film, photography, television, and print) Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:29:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en screenshot of website image, "Blue Print, Rio" © The Sartorialist Herewith, a randomly ordered year end list of stuff of note from 2008 here at casa forota. 1. MUSIC: Post everything music: BLK JKS, Esau Mwamwaya, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Radioclit, Diplo, et al found new ways to mash up musical, cultural, ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/31/av_m-top-8-for-08/ Posts will be a bit thin on the ground for the remainder of the year, as I spend less time feeding this beast that is the internet and more with friends and family. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a great 2009. http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/23/colophon/ Filmmaker Leah Hamilton documents NYC photographer Lauri Lyons, the first African American female photographer to be represented by Getty Images. I'm really interested in culture, especially African culture and how it travels throughout the world and changes and transforms and turns into other things and keeps popping up in modern culture ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/22/lauri-lyons-in-the-frame/    FADER 58: Andrew Dosunmu: Off the Wall. Dosunmu and stylist Mobolaji Dawoudu head out to Malaysia during Ramadhan to shoot a fashion spread. Dosunmu is one of my greatest inspirations photography-wise, but sometimes he makes me want to put my camera down instead of pick it up ... his images/concepts ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/14/photography-andrew-dosunmu/ A pan African vision of remembering your origins and imagining a future that honors those but moves forward. Tricia Rose on the definition of Afrofuturism. Tricia Rose is a professor of Africana (???) Studies at Brown University. In the audio clip above from the NPR show "Studio 360" she weaves a ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/13/weekend-music-space-is-the-place/ Screenshot from Casper Hedberg's web site. © C. Hedberg Casper Hedberg Photography: Check out two stories on his site: "Violence in Kenya" and "Goodbye Poverty" Screenshot from Daniel Cuthbert's web site. © D. Cuthbert Daniel Cuthbert People of Durban (multimedia) [via Daniel's Flickr stream] Screenshot from Guardian web site. © B. Lesser Beth Lesser: ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/07/photography-goodness-1207/ In response to a tag from afromusing. Why do I blog about Africa? Two words. Chinese film. Wait, let me explain. I grew up a very westernized kid in Kenya. I am in the second generation of people that grew up with the world view that was distilled as follows: "Modernity ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/12/06/why-i-blog-about-africa/ Township Funk: DJ Mujava Kwaito: (noun): "A music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples which are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/11/29/weekend-music-kwaito-dj-mulava/ Trailer for "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" FILM: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell". Documentary about peace efforts of Liberian women led by Leymah Gbowee to end their country's war. What started out as sit-ins at fish markets developed into meetings with the warring factions and even pressure during peace ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/11/25/africafilm-our-own-stories-our-own-way/ You must have something to "say". You must be brutally honest with yourself about this. Think about history , politics, science, literature, music, film, and anthropology. What affects does one discipline have over another? What makes "man" tick? Today , with everyone being able to easily make technically perfect photographs ... http://forota.net/wordpress/2008/11/20/advice-to-young-photographers-and-afropolitans/