scene of the day

Move over Beyoncé and Rih Rih. First Lady Michelle Obama on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in late 2008. Take note of the brushing off of the shoulders...

compare/contrast

In this rendition of rapper Ludacris' album cover for "Theatre of the Mind," graphic designer Joe Buck is taking cues from OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. OSPAAAL has been active since the 1960s, housing one of the most sophisticated workshops for poster production in the world. Artist and late Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglass once collaborated with OSPAAAL in efforts to speak out against the subjugation of people of color all over the world. Contemporary artists like Shepard Fairey and Joe Buck are drawing upon a legacy of image production that even today still resonates with society.

Left: Revised album cover, Ludacris, Theatre of the Mind.
Right: Cuban Film Week Poster, 1969.

video cult(ure)

Feeling very mainstream/futuristic today. Common's "Universal Mind Control" and Lupe Fiasco's "Daydreaming" featuring Jill Scott. Robots anyone?

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Method Man ft. Mary J Blige in "I'll Be There For You"

video cult(ure)

Solange Knowles and the Hadley Street Dreams in I Decided

scene of the day

Diana Ross and the Supremes in Reflections

blacklisted, 2.0

HBO premieres Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell's The Black List Vol. 2 tonight at 9pm EST. If you haven't seen the first volume, you will be in for a treat! To check out the New York Times review of the documentary, click here.

I am most certainly looking forward to the interview of world renowned artist Kara Walker.

Image: Kara Walker, Burn, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 92 1/8 x 48 inches, 1998.

hip-hop/dont stop

This Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph are giving a highly anticipated talk on the "power of hip-hop to reshape the American and global cultural landscape at this historic moment in US politics."

As a budding cultural critic and art-historian who is excited to see cultural producers and scholars break down the barriers and reveal the intersectionality between both worlds, I will undoubtedly be in attendance.

You can check out the discussion and performance at mcachicago.org

Image: Kori Newkirk, Hip-hop from Home (Fake that Floss) 2001.

video cult(ure)

Perhaps one of the most important hip-hop trios of all time, the Fugees in "Fu-gee-la"