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December 30, 2008
When her Japanese-American husband was sent to internment camps in California and Wyoming, Estelle Peck Ishigo chose to accompany him. An art-school teacher fired for her interracial marriage, she documented the three-and-a-half-year ordeal in
a short memoir and hundreds of
sketches and
paintings.
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posted by Knappster at 10:11 PM PST - 7 comments
While
Adult Swim is generally regarded as the pioneer of
irreverent short-form animation -- especially for
'toons that
reimagine past
hits -- it wasn't always the king. In fact, the late-night programming block arguably found its birth in a
series of
short toons and
interstitials that ran in the heyday of its daytime alter ego, the venerable Cartoon Network. The brainchild of C.N. Creative Director Michael Ouweleen and Hanna-Barbera chief Fred Seibert, these cartoons reinterpreted the network's properties through stock footage, indie music, and original animation in a wide variety of styles, as well as introducing prototypes of characters that would become some of the most famous in the history of American animation.
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posted by Rhaomi at 9:50 AM PST - 80 comments
Clips from the BBC documentary, The African Rock n' Roll Years -
Part 1 l
Part 2 l
Part 3 l
Part 4 l
Part 5 l
Part 6 - a six-part series mixing interviews with key artists, concert footage and news archives, the series examines and explains the "styles that make up the continent's music, and the political and social pressures that led to their development."
BBC documentary details. Found in YouTube member,
Duncanzibar's, good collection of mostly African music videos.
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posted by nickyskye at 8:45 AM PST - 9 comments
Have a Happy New Year and a
Crappy Old Year. 2008 was the worst:
year ever,
for Wall Street,
for movies,
for restaurants,
celebrities,
malware,
for women,
for children,
for relationships,
for newspaper history,
for the environment,
for Arts,
for ad revenue,
for CDs,
IPOs,
MMOs,
the GOP (duh!),
for hurricanes, (almost)
for weather related disasters,
number of disaster victims,
the nerd elite,
Italian military helicopters,
the vain and the venal,
for guerillas and
bear encounters.
posted by twoleftfeet at 3:39 AM PST - 50 comments
