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Art Students Use Light to Turn Trump’s Border Prototypes Into Art | Video Worth Watching

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This Voice of San Diego video by Adriana Heldiz features Southwestern College professor Perry Vasquez introducing us to highlights of an art project that incorporates the controversial border wall prototypes near the U.S.-Mexico border at Otay Mesa. The project was a collaboration among Vasquez’ students and two other local artists: Jill Holslin and Andrew Sturm.

Jill Holslin is also an occasional contributor to the San Diego Free Press and Perry Vasquez is the artist and illustrator for San Diego Free Press columnist Jim Miller’s latest publication: Last Days in Ocean Beach (City Works Press, 2018).   [Read more…]

Melissa Lozada-Oliva – ‘My Spanish’ | Video Worth Watching

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Continuing the National Poetry Month theme, from the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, here’s Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s “My Spanish”.   [Read more…]

Libros – Grupo Pacuprá | Video Worth Watching

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Sometimes poetry is found in books. Sometimes music is found in poetry. Can it be that sometimes poetry is found in books as music? Here is the Columbian percussion group Grupo Pacuprá performing their work Libros.   [Read more…]

Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday – Seeing Art In the Ordinary | Video Worth Watching

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From the artist Memo Atken’s web page, a description of his series Learning to See informs us that it’s:

an ongoing series of works that use state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms as a means of reflecting on ourselves and how we make sense of the world. … Artificial neural networks loosely inspired by our own visual cortex look through surveillance cameras and try to make sense of what they are seeing. Of course they can see only what they already know. Just like us.

“What they know” are “tens of thousands of images scraped from the Google Art Project, containing scans from art collections and museums from all over the world.” That is how mundane objects such as cloths, keys, plugs and hands become transformed into seascapes, flowers and flames.

The music selected to accompany this visual exploration is Gloomy Sunday sung by Diamanda Galás, a San Diego native.   [Read more…]

Ethiopian Jazz Master Mulatu Astatke: Yekermo Sew | Video Worth Watching

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Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s recent post on Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke characterizes Yekermo Sew (“A Man of Experience and Wisdom”) as his signature piece.

[It] was featured in the soundtrack of American independent filmmaker and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch‘s 2005 film “Broken Flowers” and then circulated across the world. Composed following Mulatu’s return to Ethiopia in the later 1960s, “Yekermo Sew” takes its title from a traditional Ethiopian Christian new year’s blessing in Amharic, the national Ethiopian language.

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‘We Real Cool’ – an Animated Imagining of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem | Video Worth Watching

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Using simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry, this enchanting video imagines the moment of witness that inspired Gwendolyn Brooks to write her landmark poem, “We Real Cool.” Created by Manual Cinema in association with Crescendo Literary, with story by Eve Ewing and Nate Marshall and music by Jamila Woods and Ayanna Woods.   [Read more…]

Rev. Al Sharpton On MLK: He Had A Vision Beyond His Time | Video Worth Watching

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Reverend Al Sharpton joins Hardball to reflect on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death and his mountaintop speech.   [Read more…]

Oklahoma Teacher Vents About Classroom Conditions to Reporter | Video Worth Watching

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During MSNBC’s coverage of the Oklahoma teachers’ walkout, reporter Mariana Atencio interviewed teacher Ray Sanders. He gave an impassioned recounting of some of the classroom deficiencies that he is forced to contend with.

And in recognition of Poetry Month, here’s a bonus. This little gem from poet Taylor Mali —”What Teachers Make”— was presented in the 2000 National Poetry Slam in Providence, RI.   [Read more…]

When is Local TV Not Really Local? Sinclair Broadcast Group’s ‘Must Run’ Content | Video Worth Watching

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When is local TV not really local? According to reporting by ThinkProgress, Sinclair Broadcast Group provides its stations with content that each station is required to run as part of its local news programming. The content is referred to as ‘must run’ material. The stations do not identify the programming as having been provided by their corporate owner and thus this material appears to be from the local station itself. Deadspin recently posted a video that dramatically showcased this practice. How does this shady policy shape public perception? Here’s John Oliver in a segment from late last year after Sinclair had announced its plan to acquire Tribune Media. He expertly and hilariously points out the deceptive nature and pernicious consequences of this practice.   [Read more…]

Bluebird – Charles Bukowski | Video Worth Watching

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April is Poetry month. To kick off this event here’s a favorite of mine: Charles Bukowski’s Bluebird, read by Harry Dean Stanton, with animation by Monika Umba.   [Read more…]

On This Day in 1957: BBC Coverage of the Record Setting Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino | Video Worth Watching

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From the BBC archives: on this day in 1957 the BBC’s flagship news program Panorama covered the bountiful Ticino spaghetti harvest. A mild winter and an unusually early warm spell set a record for the harvest which still stands today. More details on the making of this historic newsreel inside.   [Read more…]

Maimouna Youssef, Ft. Daniel March – ‘Stardust’ | Video Worth Watching

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Maimouna Youssef, a.k.a. MuMu Fresh, reminds us that we’re Stardust in this live 2015 performance at The Rawkus in London.   [Read more…]

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