Photography... The Art Of Malick Sidibe.

Malick Sidibé is a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s. He was born in Soloba, Mali and completed his studies in design and jewelry in the École des Artisans Soudanais (now the Institut National des Arts) in Bamako. In 1955, he undertook an apprenticeship at Gérard Guillat-Guignard's Photo Service Boutique, also known as Gégé la pellicule.
In 1958, he opened his own studio (Studio Malick) in Bamako and specialized in documentary photography, focusing particularly on the youth culture of the Malian capital. In the 1970s, he turned towards the making of studio portraits.

Sidibé was able to increase his reputation through the first meetings on African photography in Mali in 1994. His work is now exhibited in Europe (Paris) , the United States and Japan. In 2003, Malick Sidibé received the Hasselblad Award for photography.

Sidibé was awarded the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement award in 2007. It was the first time it had been presented to a photographer.[1]

In 2006 Tigerlily Films made a documentary entitled "Dolce Vita Africana" about Malick, filming him at work in his studio in Bamako, having a reunion with many of his friends (and former photographic subjects) from his younger days and speaking to him about his work.

In 2008, Sidibé was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Source : www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9

Check out more of his peices on the following source link...

www.google.co.za/search?q=Malick+Sidibe&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Q6X_T9GxKIWc0AWv18TBBw&ved=0CFgQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=883

Authenticity and Race in Hip Hop

In a recent tribute in The Guardian of Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boy who sadly died at the age of 47, a quote from Public Enemy’s Chuck D succinctly touches upon the issues surrounding the contested and emotive issue of racial and personal authenticity in hip hop.

‘”In those days, hip-hop was truly from the streets, and everybody rapping was black. All of a sudden, these punk rock white kids crossed into hip-hop with the shock of Jackie Robinson in reverse,” Public Enemy’s Chuck D once said of the Beastie Boys.

And because they never pretended to be anything but “punk rock white kids”, they taught hip-hop fans who weren’t black, who weren’t from the street, that they shouldn’t play act at being anything other than who they were when listening to hip-hop. They weren’t revolutionary, as Chuck D said, they were evolutionary.’

www.globalnoise.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/authenticity-and-race-in-hip-hop/

I LOVE YOUR WORK... Hollie Chastain

A full-time found paper and collage artist in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her creative spirit and early interest in art led to dabbling in watercolor, pottery and glass before she finally landed on mixed media. Influenced by nature and fairy tales, she lets water stains, scribble and natural aging play into her pieces. The subject of the piece is often influenced by the materials as opposed to building around a sketch or idea. She creates a world of adventure and secrets open for the viewer's interpretation.

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I Came To Get Down.

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Homelife In A Faraway Land.

Spent My 9to5 At Dope #Love4HipHop

Stumbled onto an all hip hop web page being that i've accustomed myself to searching; browsing; digging for new music...
Sometimes I download tons of stuff and never listen. Last week I loaded up some new stuff from my 9 to 5 office (bullsh#ttin hoping that the day go slow). Took a trip to an unkown zone and landed on Us Natives' Used Vinyl Review. My day went from another normal 8 hours on a Tuesday to 'PLAY/ShakingMyHead/STOP/REPLAY again and again. I was on a Gaffd high with the volume cranked up and closely running my employers time to overtime. It was a good day at the office. Used Vinyl Review just made that day a little more brighter with each track. BIG thanks Ill Clinton for this pretty ill instrumentals album.