Hey Apple

Considering it’s such an intuitive and pragmatic program for editing, I was surprised to find out earlier today that there is no native ‘rulers’ feature in Final Cut Pro 7.0. If you’re doing a multi-pane split screen and need to be precise with your cropping, don’t even bother looking around for any way to create and display rulers, there is none. From a quick google search, it seems the best available option is to A) make your rulers in photoshop, or B) buy and install a third party plugin :0! Those things cost money, and it feels wrong to have to buy an extension for something that should be included in the program.

If you know Steve, please ask him to stop sleeping on the job, or playing with his iPad, and to please fix this esoteric hole in his software.

Amen

Burqa #2

Afrofuturista

Several months ago I met someone at the Japanese Rock Garden in Castleberry. He described a sculpture he’d recently seen as ‘Afro-futuristic.’ His obvious excitement and the term itself piqued my interest instantly and got my mind racing. ‘What is that? Is that like sci-fi, or retro gone-neon? Does it have anything to do with light saber spears, please tell me it has nothing to do with light saber spears.’ I’m glad I talked to that guy, whose name I forget, because it was like finding something I didn’t really know I was looking for. It gave me great conceptual space to explore that I had (unknowingly) been exploring for years, without the compass of such a sharp term.

Afrofuturism is. We’re making it up in our lives and artful expression. What I love most about basing some work around this is that it’s dynamic because identities are always in flux. Zimbabwe won independence in 1980, the older generations, those who lived through the colonial era dubbed those born after 1980 the ‘Born Free,’ often in a dergatory tone or to imply we lacked the wisdom one can only glean from ‘having been there.’ It’s 2010, the people making things happen now, the young educated, motivated and ambitious crowd are mostly ‘born free’. They are also largely in diaspora and western-educated. Hopefully this line of works will progress naturally from the gross to the subtle.

[the phone pic on the right is 'The Former British Empire' a work in progress :]

Ghostprint Gallery Show | July 2, 2010

July 2
Opening Night (show runs July 2-31)
Ghostprint Gallery
220 W Broad Street
Richmond VA 23220
www.ghostprintgallery.com

I’ll be showing 4/5 new pieces. I’m excited to visit and show in Richmond for the first time.

How your money works

Saw this great animated piece the other day. I most like the visual storytelling without any voiceover. In tandem, the sound effects and crisp graphic design keep things lively throughout.

Beating a Dead Horse

Gawker

One-a-Day | This is war. Geh

One-a-Day | Inuit

One-a-Day | vhanu vakuvexwa

Vamwe vanenge vana vadiki.