In protest to the deplorable layoffs, the Roy Romer Middle School community has banded together to produce this lip dub video. Spread the word… show this video to everyone!!! Saving the teachers should be our number one priority!!!

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This 8 minute experimental film was featured in a collaborative exhibition between the National Museum of the American Indian in New York and the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona. The exhibit was on display from October of 2007 though September 2008. The film was projected on a wall in HD and surrounded with walls decorated with skateboard decks from the last 10 years. This film is a personal portrait of 2 incredibly adaptive cultures, one very ancient and one still evolving, yet both are indigenous to North America. Skateboarding and Native American Culture.

The Apaches portrayed in this film are White Mountain Apache Scouts of the 1880′s, and they are depicted by young Skateboarders from the community of Whiteriver on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. The footage spans the last 15 years of skateboarding on the Reservation, and depicts a very specific group of skateboarders that have grown up in the same culture and environment. This is an effort to portray two fluid cultures in constant motion.

The REMIX exhibit featured the works of 15 indigenous artists.

An incredible video from panisson

Data collected with Gephi Graph Streaming.
This is a preliminary result of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak’s resignation. If you retweeted someone, or has been retweeted, it is possible that your username is in this network.

The data were collected through the Twitter streaming and search APIs by André Panisson, and is part of a research project involving the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin (www.di.unito.it), the Complex Networks and Systems Group of the ISI Foundation (www.isi.it), and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research of Indiana University (cnets.indiana.edu).

You can find other similar videos about dynamic networks analysis on http://www.youtube.com/user/truthyatindiana

More commends posted in:

http://gephi.org/2011/the-egyptian-revolution-on-twitter

Graffiti done by Banksy around the world. The song is “Women With the Tattooed Hands” – Atmosphere

It’s great to see community journalism is thriving in Leimert park. It’d be interested to know what other communities in LA County have similar reportage.

LeimertParkBeat.com is a social networking and news website dedicated to covering the neighborhood of Leimert Park. It was founded in 2007 by Eddie North-Hager.

Read more here

The International Street Photography Award is looking for exceptional international photographers that display a unique style and depth of
work in the genre of street photography. The genre crosses over into portraiture, documentary and art photography (see the 2011 finalists
for inspiration and a guide to what defines street photography).
2011 winners:
http://www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org/gallery/international-street-photography-award

What is street photography?:
http://www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org/what-is-street-photography

The London Street Photography Festival defines Street Photography as:
“Candid photography which captures, explores or questions contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their surroundings.”

PRIZES & CATEGORIES
The international winner will receive £2,000 cash PLUS a solo exhibition in London PLUS an all-expenses paid trip to the exhibition
launch and awards ceremony in London in June 2012 – total value £10,000. Selected finalists will be exhibited in the same gallery and
one image from each entrant will be showcased in a digital display.
The first 500 applicants will be automatically entered into a draw to win some fabulous prizes including: a signed print from one of the
2011 exhibitions, an Olympus PEN camera, £100 Blurb voucher, a Crumpler Muffin Top camera bag, photo-books by Magnum and Thames &
Hudson. Categories include an overall winner, a runner up, and 10 finalists.

ENTRY FEE
£30.00
• Participants from certain countries receive a 50% discount on the entrance fee.
• You can submit between 5 and 8 images within the fee.
• One image from ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS will be displayed on a large screen during the Awards exhibition and profiled (optional) on the
LSPF website.
• ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS who enter will receive a £28.95 voucher to print their own book with Blurb, which expires on 31 March 2012.
• FEEDBACK: For an additional £15, LSPF can provide written feedback by an Award judge on your submissions. Choose the “Written
Feedback” drop down when you submit your images to the Awards.

REGISTER ONLINE
http://www.londonstreetphotographyfestival.org/competitions/international-award-2012/international-award-2012-info

APPLICATION DEADLINE
05 January 2012

What do you get when you put together afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and rap pioneers De La Soul? You get Fela Soul; a musical tapestry created by Gummy Soul artist Amerigo Gazaway. More than just a clever title, Fela Soul is an 8-track, 33 minute journey into the world of afrobeat rhythms, funky horn riffs, and classic hip-hop gems. Using dozens of hand-picked samples from the Nigerian instrumentalist and political figure Fela Kuti, and 8 carefully-chosen acapellas from the Native Tongue rap trio De La Soul, Amerigo seamlessly intertwines the two into something completely new and original.

Download the entire album for free, along with liner notes and album commentary at:

http://gummysoul.com

http://gummysoul.bandcamp.com

http://soundcloud.com/gummysoul

http://amerigomusic.com

http://amerigo.bandcamp.com

http://soundcloud.com/amerigomusic

Fela Soul – Breakadawn
Released 2011 Gummy Soul
Produced by Amerigo Gazaway
Video Editing by Amerigo Gazaway and Walter Clark

Presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.

more info: http://mediatedcultures.net | Video sourced from http://bit.ly/nxBaSW