Archive for the 'Media' Category
Ice Cube on the Raiders
Change U Can Believe in
AT&T is betting on it
Kiely Please!!!!!
The only thing worse than Kiely Williams song and video “Spectacular” is her explanation
Its clear Keily wanted to do something akin to Jaimie Foxx’s Blame it” (which is also questionable,) but from her video response to the outrage toward her song I wonder if she even knows what date rape is. I’m sure the feedback she’s getting is not what she was expecting
The lyrics
“You can say what you want but
You can call me a slut but
What he did to me last night felt so good
I must have been on drugs
I hope he used a rubber
Or I’mma be in trouble
Promise I don’t remember
Except for
Give it to me, give it to me
Ooh baby what a ride ride
Oh ride ride
So smooth like it beats
I like the heat
Ooh baby what a night night
Right right”
The Out Rage
The Video
The Dumb Response
Its amazing that this is the same person that was giving teen advice online. Listen to her giving advice to a teen about an abusive boyfriend
The last Word
From Soul Train to Centric
Dear Mr, Fuqua please consider Night Biters as a future project
Your projects are gritty, filled with characters that are marginalized yet smart, resourceful
and whether you agree with it or not their own moral code
No other director can capture the many complex elements of street life as you have in film and video.
The urban purity of Gangsta Paradise, the Replacement Killers, Training Day and your current film Brooklyn’s Finest are testaments to your skills
Night Biters a Tale of Urban Horror would be a departure but its clear from King Arthur that you are willing to take risks, I assure you a supernatural vampire tale with heroic teens from multi-ethnic backgrounds would pay off handsomely
Mr. Fuqua I realize this is blatant but I believe in my books and would love to see them on the big screen directed by the best
I can be contacted here
Thank you for your time
A.
Painfull History
Tom Burrell, ad visionary, examines the marketing of the myth of black inferiority from Target Market News
(January 19, 2010) Recently there has been a collage of disturbing images saturating the media: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racially insensitive comments about Barack Obama; Chris Brown’s abuse of Rihanna; Tiger Woods’ adultery with numerous white women; the controversy surrounding the Black pathology on display in the film Precious.
These images are disturbing but not surprising, according to advertising visionary Tom Burrell, author of the groundbreaking BRAINWASHED: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority (SmileyBooks; February 8, 2010; Trade Paperback Original; $15.95). A selection of the Black Expressions Book Club, Price M. Cobbs, M.D., author of Black Rage, says of BRAINWASHED, “Tom Burrell has mined his pioneering career to produce a wise, thoughtful, and must-read book.”
Burrell, a 45-year veteran of the advertising industry and an inductee of the Advertising Hall of Fame, calls the marketing of the myth of Black Inferiority to justify slavery within a democracy “one of the greatest propaganda campaigns of all time.”
Burrell examines how, for hundreds of years, Black Americans have labored under a Black Inferiority/White Superiority shadow and have been subject to a brainwashing campaign that was launched when slavery in America was legal. The debilitating campaign continues to this day. Until now, no one has detailed the damaging effects it has had on generations of Black Americans from a marketing/propaganda perspective.
During his decades in the advertising business, Burrell coined the phrase “Black people are not dark-skinned white people.” It was there that he got a close-up view of how Blacks are viewed in this country and the way they unconsciously view themselves. He connected the dots from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to present-day commercial and social propaganda.
Topics explored in BRAINWASHED include:
� How Blacks and whites have been victimized by the lie and why this victimization must end.
� The 10 questions every Black American must wrestle with to free their minds, including:
- Relationship Wrecks: Why can’t Blacks build strong families?
- Uglified: Why are Black and beautiful still contradictions?
- Studs and Sluts: Why do super-sexualized stereotypes from O.J. to Tiger Woods still reign supreme?
- Homey-cide: Why do Blacks kill one another at astronomical rates?
- D’s Will Do: Why do too many Black parents promote educational catastrophes for their children?
- Buy Now, Pay Later: Why do we settle for living large, because we feel so low?
- Neo-Coons: Why is the joke always on us?
� Brainwashed 2010: Why Black pathology plays big at the box office
� How brainwashed are you?
But BRAINWASHED is more than a book, it’s a movement that offers people a template for engagement and empowerment. Burrell explains that the most potent resource in the anti-brainwash initiative is media: audio or visual, via television, radio, film, music videos, billboards, print, the Internet, or cell phones — everything that influences our minds. “The full media spectrum is now at our disposal,” notes Burrell. “With technology, we can elevate our cultural discourse and reward positive thinking and action.”
To recruit “evangelists for positive propaganda,” Burrell has established the Resolution Project, which will sponsor the 1st Annual “Flip the Script�Stop the Brainwash” campaign. This worldwide competition will honor the best positive propaganda campaigns in video, art, creative writing, poetry, music, and other media based on a theme inspired by BRAINWASHED.
Marketing communications pioneer and Advertising Hall of Fame inductee Tom Burrell is credited with revolutionizing the image of African Americans in television and changing the face of American advertising. His award-winning work promoted positive and realistic images of Blacks and acknowledged the purchasing power of the African American community.
In 2007, Burrell founded the Resolution Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes intra-racial dialogue and community-based new media “stop the brainwash” campaigns. He lives in Chicago’s South Loop area.
Model Mayhem is a great site if you are in the industry, it features top models, make up artist and photographers who can all communicate to one another . A beautiful site.
However, 95% of the talent featured on MM are individuals trying to break into the business and are looking for work. This is where MM usefulness goes south
What most of the models don’t know, is that unless you list an email or myspace/facebook address outside of MMan then anyone that wants to hire you can’t, because only members can communicate with you and guess what? they are not hiring!!!!!!!!!!
There are seveal models that I would like to hire for my 3rd book cover, but there is no way to contact them. I was successful with 2nd novel
If you are a model on MM and haven’t heard from anyone take a look at you contact info. and if you are a model with locs contact me
A Thought
Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Girl, your hair is fine!!
Angela is a braid stylist to the stars. Wayne and Cyndia are the leading junior stylists at the UK’s biggest chain of Afro hair salons. George and Apple are a Thai couple obsessed with Afro hair. Michael is Birmingham’s leading Afro stylist who is out to beat the all-powerful London salons. Afro-Saxons is a sharp and funny observational documentary that follows all of these stylists as they enter the Black Beauty and Hair awards – the biggest Afro hair competition in the UK.
I like the Show
I caught Out of Jimmy’s Brain on TV while in a Toronto, and liked it, it was funny, multicultural and smart. I make it back to the states , looked
the show up on the web, and learned that just as most shows good or bad, have a fan base, Out of Jimmy’s Brain has a strong hate base. I mean adults who actually HATE the series. Why do I say adults? because kids and teens don’t hate shows, why place energy into something you don’t like when there are so many other shows worth watching?
I found that the hate was grounded in two areas
1# the Animation Purist
The new TV series Out of Jimmy’s Brain drew 1.4 million viewers a few weeks back, some critical raves from sources like Hollywood Reporter, but has also received a high level of criticism within the animation community. The flap centers around Cartoon Network’s recent movement away from cartoons. Please read the message board post about the premiere episode:
2# Lastly, Jimmy’s (Dominic Jane) best friend is black, played by Jon Kent Ethridge no big deal, we see it all the time. But the affection of Jimmy’s eye s also black played by Tanashe Kachingwe Methinks an interactial relationship in a teen show maybe more than some of our more narrow minded viewers can take, hence the strong feelings
I for one can’t wait for it to come out on DVD, chech it out for yourself
Out of Jimmy’s Head is a series extension of the hit Cartoon Network Original movie “Re-Animated.”
The live-action/animated hybrid comedy focuses on Jimmy Roberts and how he copes with everyday life with a cartoon entourage.
In the sitcom, Jimmy attends school, aspires to be popular, deals with his dysfunctional family and chases a girl like any 12-year-old kid.
However, the chaos that comes from having cartoon characters involved in his life makes being normal
nearly impossible.
