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- Tony Silver R.I.P.
I just heard that Tony Silver, director of the film Style Wars, passed away. There isn’t much about it online, but the index page of stylewars.com is in memory of Tony, so I guess it’s official.
It’s hard for me to express the love I have for this movie. But I can say with total certainty that it is the movie I’ve watched more than any other. If it were up to me it would be in the Smithsonian next to the Wright Bros. plane and Betsy Ross’s flag.
For more info, download its press kit here.
The whole thing’s up on youtube and google video. But if you like it, it’s worth buying the DVD, since there’s a bonus disc and *hopefully* some of the money will make it to the people who made it. You can order from the stylewars site or amazon.
Here’s the first part:
More recently Tony directed Facing the Audience, a documentary about the painter Marshall Arisman. Check out the trailer here.
(Sorry that’s as big as I could get it…)Peace to a person who gave something of beauty to the world.
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- Party like it’s 4999
Happy Year of the Rat everybody. As I mentioned before, I played a new year’s eve party in Beijing last week. I got the audio today, here it is….
The first hour is (blazin) hip hop and r&b. The second is mostly house and a little speed garage. They’re broken up by an unfortunate vocal interlude, which I was forced to do by the club’s owner, who handed me the mic with instructions to “be joyful”.
Part 1
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DOWNLOADVery big shout to everybody at Red Balloon. You guys were some down to party motherfuckers.
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- Gobama
I made a promise to myself when I started this blog that I wouldn’t let VERY FEEL become a platform for the under-informed, over-emotional political ranting that I subject so many of my friends to offline. But according to everyone on American TV, this presidential election is very important and who you support says EVERYTHING about who you are as a person. Today my friend Becky B sent me this video and I thought, well, I might as well just come clean with it: I am a slender, mixed-race man from Illinois with good hair and a LOT of musically gifted, physically attractive friends.
However, I am still cynical enough to recognize the sappy meaninglessness of a lot of what comes from my candidate’s mouth. So, in the interest of Fox News fairness, I’ve got to include this excerpt from Mark Steel’s on point editorial in last week’s Independent:
Obama now has a video, in which a variety of celebrities sing the words “vote, change and hope” It would be worth trying to confuse one of his canvassers by saying, “Oh no, I’d rather support someone who’s against hope. It only brings trouble, hope does.” But perhaps he’ll get more ambitious and make whole speeches full of random words, telling the people of Montana, “Brothers and sisters, buttercup Barcelona laminated frog radish but not and never hedgehog.”
So, token acknowledgment of other perspectives granted, I’ll now move on to the flesh & blood of American electoral politics: de-humanizing the opponents.
Take a chill pillary clinton:
Quit playin john mccain:
Let’s get it Barry…
UPDATE: Apparently the Obama video has already launched its own line of parodies.
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- Happy New Year
Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve. It’s shaping up to be a big night. So to start it off right I just bought a whole mess of fireworks. If I survive the explosions with all my fingers, I’m supposed to DJ later. The promoter told me he’s going to record the whole thing, so hopefully I’ll have audio of it in the next couple days.
For now let’s mark the occasion with the most and least appropriate song I can think of: Clipse - “Chinese New Year”
Goodbye pig, hello rat…
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- Pic of the week
Now that January is over and VERY FEEL has become a boring photo-blog, I think I’ll pull back a little and just put up one picture a week. I just got a new camera, so hopefully the decrease in quantity coincides with a quality increase….
This week: Preparing Spring Festival outside the Beijing World Art Museum
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- This video may not be suitable for minors.
Now friends, I am not new to pum pum videos. Over the years I’ve seen quite a few. But this is different. This is like a pum pum snuff film. There’s nothing to say really. BAALLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAANCE!
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- Opa! New flavors from Rio
My friends Jeroen & Dre are working on an amazing project called Favela Painting that I wrote about a while ago.
Over the summer, they shot a video for the song ‘Beijo na boca’ by Rio Bebel
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They also made a hip hop movie in favelas around Rio:
And for a final treat, here’s the ‘drunk in the morning’ mixtape by Jeroen AKA Gringo Drama:
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