My friend Jamie Aguirre who you can visit here and here posted this wonderful Sarah Jones video for TED on my facebook page.
Jones asks to what extent do we self construct?
I feel like a little kid in a candy store, really, I do.
Here is another Sarah Jones video.
Have I mentioned how amazing I think she is?
Thanks Jamie!
From the Vanessa Hidary the Hebrew Mamita
UPDATE: this post generated these responses
El Rio’s got The Hebrew Mamita’s back in the Bay Area, f’sho!Hidary’s ability to discuss her Jewish identity and experiences while talkin’ hella mad shit is amazing. She’s a kindred spirit to my Ghetto Frida project. After watching the videos on her youtube page I didn’t hesitate for a minute to head over to the official Hebrew Mamita online store and purchase her CD. She describes the album as “not appropriate for young children but spectacular for adults with flava!” a line I’m kicking myself for not coming up with.
El Rio’s got The Hebrew Mamita’s back in the Bay Area, f’sho!
The YouTube video below is the Puerto Rican Jewess’s riff on “Ga Bless You Ma.” For those of you innocents, this is a common enough phrase slung at female passerby by tigueritos hanging out on the street corners of Washington Heights and other New York City ‘hoods. And just in case you think I can’t spell, there’s nothing religious about the phrase…at least not when you say it like that.
You might want to prepare for the video by rereading my earlier blog posts, “Hispanic Woman Walking” and “My Mother Wore Tight Pants“.
The other day I posted a link on facebook to an article by Kevin Kelly on vizual literacy. Both Eric Repice and Eliyahu Enriquez responded to this post, and Eliyahu wrote a post about this exchange on his blog….
The following is a repost of Eliyahu’s post Vizual Literacy
RT/Hat Tip @mayaescobar Tools for Vizuality
Excerpt from Fb Thread Transcript:
In archiving poems in blog format, I find embedding videos with a distinct narrative to the word-piece heightens the sensory experience: simultaneous stimuli, rather than a replacement paradigm with regards to medium. The experimental nature of combining/utilizing moving images with poetry, such as those of Filipino Author, Nick Carbó, hints at what I’m trying to get at, though the idea I’m reaching for may be more a novelty for Literary marketing strategies/accessibility on the web… With an accompanying video in whatever length, the reader is more likely to stay with the poem, rather than a wham-bam!-thank you, sir means of creative dissection. Whereas, to capture the essence of canonization – the written word to a cinematic language, while maintaining their distinction – that’s something I’m currently playing with…
What Would Judas Do?
“I visited a sage, Rav Yosef Shalom Eliashuv, who lives in one of the most secluded ultra-Orthodox communities in Jerusalem. He was in poor health but still taking visitors… Speaking in Hebrew, I told him what, at the time, I felt was the truth. ‘Master, I am attracted to both men and women. What shall I do?’ He responded, ‘My dear one, my friend, you have twice the power of love. Use it carefully’ – Rabbi Steven Greenberg.”
I am attracted to
He loved me.
He loved me not.
I love bringing pleasure too
She loves mi.
She loves mi knot.
The Art of Couch-Hopping
Lark descending.
Lost Ark.
As Queer as A Clockwork Orange
Maya Escobar’s YouTube Channel
Nick Carbó’s YouTube Channel
Eliyahu Enriquez’s YouTube Channel
a little comedic relief in the middle of thesis writing.
you too can dance with matis, other choices involve:
jumping out of a plane, becoming a super hero, staring in a fairy tale, or being the hottest toy.
I give him mad props for being such a skilled promoter
check him out on twitter @matisyahu
I just re-uploaded a better quality of this video to youtube, check it out if you missed it before….
Clip from ABC7’s “The N Beat,” With Host Theresa Gutierrez back in 2002
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