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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN’?: Bob Marley Documentary

20 Feb


There’s been a lot a talk for a while now, about the Bob Marley documentary, Marley,  Finally this spring on April 20th (fitting), the project by Academy Award-winning director, Kevin Macdonald, who did Last King of Scotland, comes out.  Macdonald is known for his documentary work, so I’m excited to see what sort story/angle he’ll portray of the reggae legend. From the trailer, the project seems pretty engaging, and the  beautiful shots of my homeland, Jamaica doesn’t hurt at all; it appears 4/20 is planned.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN’?: Steam Cafe Art Show

7 Feb



I’m going to be in an art show tomorrow, with work…ok, one piece, for sale!
If you are in the NYC area, venture across the river to Jersey City (its literally no more than 15 minutes on the PATH train) for Steam Cafe’s, Opening Art Show Reception for their celebration of Black History Month.

Steam Cafe is a new Artists Cafe/Coffee Shop in Jersey City; this is their 3rd art show.

Come out and support!

Oh and that’s not my piece above, mine is a little more risque, and not on the internet…if you come you will see why!

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012
Steam Cafe
6pm – 9pm
wine and treats

276 Newark Ave
New Jersey, NJ

invite details:

https://www.facebook.com/events/293355067388034/

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: The World According to Monsanto

31 Jan



Through the beauty of facebook, I stumbled upon the documentary The World According to Monsanto, it is by far one of the most disturbing things I’ve watched in awhile.   In short it’s about the company Monsanto, and it’s successful quest (full of lies and manipulation) to contanimpate and control the world.  What we are ingesting is being compromised for the mighty dollar, and I doubt we’ll fully understand is effects on the earth and human life for a long time.  Monsanto’s power a sad state of affairs for human kind, but hey, it creating huge money stacks for its thounds of investors, that’s all that matters right?

I’m not sure if going organic, will even save us at this point, but i know, I will not being eating seedless grapes or anything else I knowingly know is a Gentically Manuplated Organism.

I truly encourage everyone to watch this.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

25 Dec


Somewhere between my quick business trip to Barbados with Dj Dummy and returning to the cold of NYC, I got a bit of my mojo back!

As my return to NYC tweet last night stated, I’m back on my grind:

…oddly enough in the process of looking for some info and reading the January 2012 issue of Self magazine, I ran into this video featuring A-trak, Curtis Kulig, Carlos Quirarte.  The video is a piece on people grinding in NYC that went with HBO’s now cancelled show, How to Make it in America (I’m sad about the cancellation, but they needed better writers, and needed to stop showing the obvious and develop the not understood). 

As i digress, this is a great piece to get motivated if you lost a little bit of your mojo.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: hotness

4 Dec Screen shot 2011-12-04 at 1.01.49 AM



I’m addicted to The mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl!

It’s a web series that I was told about in the late Summer by my coworker homie, who actually knows creator, Issa Rae. He told me he thought I’d like it (probably because of my own awkwardness), and that I should check it out. At the time, Episode 2 was on his screen, I watched maybe a minute, didn’t understand what was going on, and just forgot about the show.  Another month later he told me about it again, but I still didn’t check it out.  It wasn’t until over the last couple weeks, I started seeing the web series’ name continuously popping up in my Facebook news feed, and being mentioned by quite the many females that I think are pretty darn cool.  Finally I was swayed, I was having some technical difficulties during an all nighter, so what the hell, I had time.

Within the 1st 10 seconds of episode 1…

“Am I the only one who pretends I’m in a music video when I’m by myself?”

I was hooked. There are only 11 episodes, the 11th which just came out December 1st, so that night I sat and watched all of them back to back.  Sadly, I have to admit, I did the same thing the next night; watched the whoooole series…and half the episodes again, the day after that… I said I was addicted.

No one has really ever attempted to entertain my demographic, and although rapping isn’t my way to deal with stress, there were so many things throughout the episodes that were relatable! Both the story and character(s) are ACTUALLY relatable to me and my life, currently or in the past. Plus I was continuously laughing because the writing is darn good, better than half these sitcoms on TV.

Anyway, I can go on and on, but check out the series here.  I took the liberty of posting Episode 1 below.

See what others have been talking about…it really is that good.

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

16 Nov



The best thing I heard all day.

I love Keith Olbermann, this is the 2nd time he’s been posted under my inspirational souls (here’s the 1st).  Listen to Olbermann go seriously in on Mayor Bloomberg, and his efforts to eradicate Occupy Wall Street.  As someone who was stuck in my car for almost 2 hours in traffic on Saturday, I’m pissed at the “God Damn Batman Movie!”

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN: video

27 Oct



On Tuesday, Duck Sauce (A-trak and Armand Van Helden) debuted their new video Big Bad Wolf.  As some know, not only am i a big fan of A-trak as a DJ, he’s sort of my weird entertainer crush, so of course I was delighted to check out the video!

I’ve watch Big Bad Wolf  2 or 3 times, and i’m not sure how i feel about it.   It’s amazingly innovative, captivating, funny, perfect for Halloween; it’s disturbingly good.  It’s just something about A-trak representing gentalia, or just being that close to another man’s crotch that weirds me out.  Fortunately i know those or camera tricks, so i’m more entertained than disturbed.  I do wonder though, how it was on set, because I’m pretty sure the guys, and girls for that matter, had to bare it all, so that they could super-impose the genitalia heads.   The outtakes are probably the most disturbing footage, hahaha.

Enjoy!

 

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: hotness

1 Oct yelawolf1

Yelawolf



I’ve decided to add a new category to What Gets You Movin, and that would be ‘Hotness’!  Since I was about 14, I’ve had these mini crushes on people, a new person almost every other week.  Nothing serious, just someone or sometimes a subject/entity that heightens my radar for the moment.  I’m always sharing these peeps and things to my friends, so why not share them with you also!

For the 1st Hotness feature, I’m highlighting southern rapper, Yelawolf.  I’ve liked Yelawolf for some time now, I was introduced to his name in early 2010, when a friend of mine kept telling me to check out his music.  During that summer, his name continued to pop up, but it wasn’t until Fool’s Gold’s 1st Day Off, last Labor Day weekend, that I got a chance to see Catfish Billy in action; his performance was captivating to say the least.  He pretty much left everyone with their mouth open in awe of his raw talent and energy.  I happened to be beside Dave 1, of Chromeo while Yelawolf performed, and he just kept repeating how crazy this dude’s performance was. Anyone who was unfamiliar with the rapper beforehand, was running to check out his mixtape, Truck Muzik the next day, me included…and so began my intrigue with Yelawolf.

Before we get much further, we’re hitting the home stretch of 2011, I must admit that although I’ve kept an ear out for Yelawolf’s upcoming album (which finally drops Oct 25), he’s been kind of off my radar for most of the year.  Well, minus the time earlier this year, when i was looking at some pictures of him, and I realized how cute he was.  It wasn’t until he came into my job at Vlad TV last week for an interview, that he came back full force on my radar.  Unfortunately I wasn’t in the office the day of the interview, but I was assigned to edit it, and might i say, what a nice assignment!  I can’t reveal all the info that is covered in the interview, because you’ll have to go to Vlad TV over the next couple weeks to see. But for 2 full days of editing, where Yelawolf’s face filled my computer screen, not only did i get to look at quite an attractive specimen (his eyes and eyelashes are to die for!), but i got to find out that the dude is humble, level-headed, chill, and although he talks with audible ellipsis (i do the same thing) he’s quite the articulate rapper.

Check out how he goes in on V-Nasty and white people in general, for using the N-Word; as a fellow southerner I appreciate his words and perspective. If you aren’t familiar with V-Nasty, as Yelawolf clearly wasn’t (his reaction was HILARIOUS! ‘who??’ hahaha) then here’s a sneak peek of her dumb ass.  But before that, feel free to check out Yelawolf’s hotness, oooooh weee!



Yelawof Talks About White People Using the N-Word:

 

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: music

27 Jul



Emerging artist Seun Kuti, son of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti (who made it in my Song of the Day 2 weeks ago), goes in on commercial Hip-Hop artists being traitors singing in auto-tune and compares them to Celine Dion.

It’s a good watch, he also talks about growing around polygamy and of course Afrobeat music and his dad.

I’m going to have to check out his album From Africa With Fury: Rise!

WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: culture

17 Jul

I’ve been doing some blogging for a popular hip-hop blog, that highlights music and sports, among other things.  With hip-hop being ubiquitous, over the decades we’ve seen it transcend past just say basketball and football lovers, but also skateboarders and BMX riders; which I think is amazing.  Knowing this transition into dare i say, ‘hipster rappers,’ I thought this video of Nigel Sylvester, a sick BMX rider from Queens, would be a great post for hip-hop and sports lovers.  It’s a extended commercial for G-Shock shot by the talented photographer and director 13th Witness.  My blog bosses didn’t seem to agree with me, I guess it wasn’t relevant to the ‘hip-hop’ viewers of their site (or maybe cause it was a technically a commercial), but thank god I have my own, so enjoy!

Expect to see a lot more of Nigel Sylvester, and 13th Witness for that matter, in the near feature!

Oh, do you know who’s beat that is?  I think it’s my favorite part of the video! lol

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