Photography: Zone Zero, June (?) 2008

The online photography mag Zone Zero highlights "two very talented Chinese photographers: Wang Fu-Chun and Zhang Huibin."

Dine In Brooklyn 2008

Dine In Brookyn 2008 = Enjoy the great food of Planet Brooklyn. Looks like there'll be a gathering of Bloggers & Friends the first Saturday of April. Hopefully, at Bogota Latin Bistro. I love the joint. Details to come.

Nigeria's 'First' Gay Movie

[ headsup via Bernie ]

Restless and daring AMAA "Best Director 2005," Dickson Iruegbu is set for another first. He is currently shooting Nigeria's first gay movie entitled "Sinful Saints."

"'Sinful Saints' is a very controversial movie. It deals with a very sensitive but neglected topic; homosexuality. The movie will explore homosexuality in Nigeria," Iruegbu revealed. According to him, the movie would seek answers to such questions as whether it is African or a burrowed culture.

How did it creep into our society? How do we discuss issues relating to sex with our children? Do we frighten them with or experiences. The family is the ultimate unit of society but unfortunately, most homes lack good ways of teaching sex relayed issues.

"Sinful Saints" is the story of a sheltered kid, whose over protective mum (Clarion Chukwura) sheltered him so much that at age 19, he'd had no contact with a woman.

Meanwhile his hormones were raging but Ignorance has set in and he clings unto his fellow man to satisfy his sexual needs. Soon he is enmeshed in homosexuality.

PW's Annual African-American Interest List

I'm kinda back. Will post more after I go on vacation in the middle of this week.

This is an annual list compiled be writer and editor Diane Patrick:

Publishers Weekly | African-American Interest: Adult and Children's Titles 2008

The following is a list of African-American interest adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2007 and March 2008.

[ I'm highlighting what caught my interest; read the lists at the above link ]

AMISTAD

Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel (Sept., $24.95) by Alek Wek chronicles her life from Sudan to young London model to New York supermodel.

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend (Feb., $24.95) by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina looks at the history of a pre-Civil War black family.

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Mar., $24.95) by Lorna Goodison chronicles the story of her family and their trials and tribulations in Jamaica.

Ida: A Sword Among Lions (Mar., $35) by Paula J. Giddings recounts the life of Ida B. Wells, a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching.

Reagan, Exposed

Still on hiatus, but had to post this after seeing it at Daring Fireball:

Innocent mistakes By Paul Krugman

So there's a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon's Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers had been murdered, and declared that "I believe in states' rights,"� he didn't mean to signal support for white racists. It was all just an innocent mistake. [ more ]

As Always, White Is Right...

Why am I not surprised by this?

Once Again, White Is the New White

This isn't the first season that [B]lack women have gone missing from the runway. Styles go in and out of favor and so do models. But ever since the demise of the supermodel in the early '90s, the fashion industry has been stubbornly unwilling to make room for more than one [B]lack model per show. Other than the occasional star -- Naomi Campbell, Liya Kebede and now Chanel Iman -- [B]lack women go unrepresented.

Sat, Oct 6th: Help The Brooklyn Museum To Create A PSA

Set your camera to Movie Mode and help us create a PSA -- This Saturday 10/6, originally uploaded by brooklyn_museum

Visitor Video Competition!

Come help create a PSA for the Museum. Shoot your video at the October 6 Target First Saturday and enter it our YouTube group to win prizes. Christina Norman, President of MTV Music Television, is one of the judges. Prizes include a trip to the studio to meet William Wegman and his dogs.

Full Details:
www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/vvc/