How beautiful is youth!
Super Seven
Stan Lee, co-creator of some of the world's most famous superheroes, is creating a new comic book series -- and writing a leading role for himself.
Lee, 87, who helped create Spider-Man, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk, is working on a multimedia series called "Super Seven" for print, online broadcast and retail in late 2010, Lee and his business partners said on Wednesday.
The series is about seven aliens who find themselves stranded on Earth after their spaceship crashes and are befriended by Lee himself.
Looking forward to this!
Ibrahim El Salahi (Sudan)
The Inevitable by Ibrahim El Salahi 1984-1985
This painting is a celebration and recognition of the determination of all those who suffered within the years under the horrendous tyrannical rule of General Nimieri who gained ultimate power through a military coup.
Never has there been a better time to show the world, "The Inevitable" by Ibrahim El Salahi. These nine panels of artwork are Africa’s, "Guernica", a testimony of war and revolution, which raises the global consciousness about the imminent threat of dictatorship and civil unrest. From it’s creation, "The Inevitable", has been housed in its temporary home at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY, though it makes frequent trips abroad the one place it never goes is the Sudan. Ibrahim has always maintained that the Sudanese people should own the 9-panelled Masterpiece, yet he refuses to allow the painting to travel to the Sudan until the country enjoys, public liberties and democratic institutions.
Speculations as to the exact meaning of the anguished images are as numerous and diverse as the people who have viewed the panels. "The Inevitable", challenges the notion of warfare and depicts the chaotic, exposing the brutal acts of destruction and genocide. It is a testimony of Ibrahim’s art that the symbols chosen hold many, often paradoxical meanings yet the meticulous significance of the imagery remains ambiguous.
Never before has an African artist made such a social statement, which has echoed the sentiments of an entire Nation and is as relevant today as it was in 1984/85. The panels are extremely powerful with determined lines. The western distinction between painting and drawing is irrelevant and as Ibrahim says: "There is no painting without drawing and no form without lines... in effect all pictures can be reduced to lines."
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More about the phenomenal man, the artist, Ibrahim El Salahi.
VIVA L'AFRIQUE
The idea behind the song: "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past (much like WE can relate to)." - Jeff (Toto)
"At the beginning of the 80's I watched a late night documentary on TV about all the terrible death and suffering of the people in Africa. It both moved and appalled me and the pictures just wouldn't leave my head. I tried to imagine how I'd feel about if I was there and what I'd do" - David Paich
Amadou & Miriam create a masterpiece. This is the one because it's the right idea at the right time: a bundle of joy for a hurting planet. It's so all-inclusive --- "an original East Coast-West Coast collaboration", Shouts rapper friend K'naan --- A song about Africa and it's beauty ravished, untamed...Just listen.
World Cup 2010!
Pabulum
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~ Memoirs of a Geisha
Deep
...is a word unshallow
Like the dark spots of my mind
where my thoughts flow
back and forth, in a rhythmic throw
of simultaneous unsurity and certainty
Am I right or is this wrong?
Question's only life can make you conjur
and leave you hangin' when it's time to answer.
Am I right or is this wrong?
Certainty becomes a tangible comodity
just as confusion rears it's ugly head
unsurity taking place instead.
Yet deep is all I ever really wanna be!
Like the dark spots of my mind
where my thoughts flow
back and forth, in a rhythmic throw
of simultaneous unsurity and certainty
Am I right or is this wrong?
Question's only life can make you conjur
and leave you hangin' when it's time to answer.
Am I right or is this wrong?
Certainty becomes a tangible comodity
just as confusion rears it's ugly head
unsurity taking place instead.
Yet deep is all I ever really wanna be!
Invictus
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman & Matt Damon.
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
This is going to be a CLASSIC!
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