Zana takes it to the limit. And we love her for that.

On September 12, 2010, West performed a new song, “Runaway” featuring Pusha T, at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Shortly after the performance, Kanye revealed he was working on a 35 minute short film based around the song. The movie is said to be “influenced by film noir and concerns a fallen phoenix whom he falls in love with”. The short filmed debuted consecutively on VH1, MTV, and BET on October 23. And here it is!

I do have a particular affinity for the raw, the brut, the minimal. Gif have been around for a minute but, what an endless source of virtual delight. Like photocopy for printed matter, I guess. The geek in me says: Check this shit out.

(gifs hereunder by Françoise Gamma)

One of my daily reads is this blog, http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com

It is a well written document in historic subculture, amongst the archives you will find some great articles on tattooists who helped mould tattooing into what it is today.

TH.

Wu bath mat. Too much. I’ve a friend who would kill to have one of these by her tub. Ph: Pott Scarsons

Something of the nostalgic Tinto Brass feel about this contribution from filmmaker Ruth Hogben for SHOWstudio’s Fashion Body project. Watch the rest here.

(Undertitle: Socrates, Mozart, Queen Elizabeth, and these guys)

רעב דבר (The Hunger) is on Myspace.

Originally looking for something completely different, I came accross this article about The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, apparently very famous, whose disciples claim to be “the true biblical and ethnic Jews.” The foundation of the ICGJC doctrine consists in the following statement: everything we’ve been taught is a lie: The real Jews are black.

The article was written by Ms Angela Valdez and published in The Washington City Paper on March 21th, 2008.

Following a pretty simple explanation (obviously), we end up facing the possibility that Hebrews actually had and still have “skin as dark as the earth”. The article is directly linked to stories the journalist apparently experienced herself. Extract:

The teacher calls upon his reader to recite from the Song of Solomon, Chapter 1, Verse 5.

Here is the entire verse from the King James edition: “I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.”

Whereas the psychological, philosophical, cultural and theatrical reasons why we keep looking for new explanations of our more or less conventional being on earth (may our skin carry a color that is more or less close to its) are most of the time either exhausting or boring to discuss, the resulting (but indeed, not only) aesthetical aspect of it is most usually an thrilling delight.

רעב דבר (The Hunger), at home.

Real Jews might be black, yes, just as much as True People are hedonists.