via Dutch Reggae
Anybody seen this movie at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam? Just watched the trailers and from them I´m not sure how well the stories are told – the footage definitely looks nice though.
Quite a list of stuff for a Friday: The quote above was ripped out of an funny to irritating interview with Roots Manuva found on State magazine. Two more articles more (Wildlife) or less (Gleaner) worth reading are a Gleaner piece on violent dancehall lyrics and a Wildlife! feature in Kinki magazine (via 45ers).
In case you´re brain prefers audio/visual information to text, check Cyan Wait´s latest edition of basses for the masses, 77Klash´s performance of “Caroline” at CMJ 2008 and the footage of Superhorstjansen´s first fashion show in Hamburg, Germany.
P.S. As you´re money won´t be worth anything soon anyway, invest in Ronny Trettmann’s, Uwe Kaa’s and the Roots Rockers’ latest releases now available at SoulForce and Amazon.
Beautiful Losers: Frontlineshop and Carhartt present sneak previews in German cities (via Artschoolvets)
Illustrative 2008: From October 17th to October 26th, Illustrative ´s 4th forum of illustrative an graphic arts will take place in the Zurich (Switzerland) Messehallen (via De:Bug)
The Carnivalesque: Peter Stallybrass and Allon White on the carnivalesque, extracted from The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Call For Athletics Museum: Sports enthusiast and jurist Patrick Robinson is calling for the establishment of a national athletics museum to memorialise Jamaica’s tremendous legacy over the years.
Mad Again: 77Klash video premieres (via Cyan Wait)
Woh. I´m tired tonight… But check these: The Fader has freeloads from Demarco and Capleton. Diplo finishes up his Baile Funk slash favela documentary in Rio. Mutabaruka critizes Jamaica´s neverending lust for party and the Foska oats box is getting a redesign.
Living in an age of handy portable DVD/WLAN devices and multi-tasking people, I don´t feel bad recommending you some movies even though it´s mid-summer here in Europe. You can still get your asses out there on the streets looking at girls (in case you´re male) or men (in case you´re female) and at the same time follow flicks on a screen and watch your back.
So here we go (I sorted the movies in a way that makes the one with the tightest connection to Jamaican culture come first):
Made in Queens: cool Carribean kids and huges soundsystems and jiggy bikes (via Creative Review)
Beautiful Losers: “make something from nothing” (which basically equals one of my favourite Jamaican sayings: “Everybody is a star”)
Streetwise: Youtube brings back a classic (via We Make It Good)
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