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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx: all the movie samples
This is effin great. The movie clips from all the samples Raekwon used on OB4CL.
Stealing Banksy
Interesting…
When I was exchanging emails with ABOVE, I asked him how he would feel if someone took down a piece of his work in the streets to keep. He said essentially that it was meant to be seen, and wouldn’t be cool with people taking his work. On the one hand I respect and understand that, but like Banksy himself talks about at the end of Exit Through the Gift Shop, can you really be mad at someone breaking the rules of a subculture that breaks the rules and in theory has no rules? What about if that art sold for over a half a million?
Reminded me of a trailer for a movie I saw earlier this year:
45365
I want to see this.
45365 (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America.
You may not have any interest in this, but this is a blog about what I like, not anyone else. I realize middle-America isn’t really hip, trendy, cool or being peddled at Urban Outfitters, but for whatever reason it intrigues me. I wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in my mouth or in the hood but more middle-class, so maybe that is what attracts me. But I think more than that is not how middle-class it is, but Mid-West. Maybe it is similar to my affinity for the culture of poverty in the rural south, but whatever it is, I am drawn to it.
Apparently 45364 premiered at SXSW Film Festival last year where it won the Grand Jury Prize has also won the Roger and Chaz Ebert Truer than Fiction award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. It was picked up by PBS’ Independent Lens series. It premiere’s tomorrow night, December 14th, on PBS.
Here’s some clips that PBS posted:
And some B-roll:
(Sidenote: isn’t this the second blogpost in about a week zip code related? Odd…)
Ish you’re talking