The Bones: DJ Platurn & John Coyne
For your Monday Inspiration. Beautiful video from John Coyne of Oakland.
From the vimeo description:
“The Bones”An original audio/visual composition between Oakland based artists DJ Platurn & John Coyne.This project, which took several months to make, consists of over 90,000 HDR still images along with HDR video.Musical composition by DJ Platurn.Visuals shot & edited by John Coyne
Redford Center: Art of Activism Ellen Choy
This is another talk from the Redford Center’s Art of Activism event at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema in San Francisco on November 11th.
- Vimeo Description:
“Two exceptional young Bay Area leaders, Ellen Choy and Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, joined Executive Director Lee Bycel and Mayor Cory Booker on November 11 to discuss the inspiration and drive behind the remarkable social and environmental work they do locally.”
“Ellen Choy was one of two Bay Area activists honored at the Redford Center’s Nov 2010 Art of Activism program. Ellen is an organizer with the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a grassroots coalition of Bay Area groups fighting for climate justice locally through direct action and movement building. Ellen also works with after school programs for high school students in the Bay Area, helping to convene an emerging young environmental leaders, and is co-founder of ChecktheWeather.net, a blog dedicated to young people of color redefining “green”. As a funk/soul/hip hop DJ, Ellen integrates music and art into all of her work, planning progressive music events, producing socially conscious mix tapes, and using music as a medium to communicate to young people.”
For more info on Ellen, watch this short documentary produced by Kontent Film’s and Redford Center:
Hood Games
Looks like Hella Hella isn’t the only thing going on this weekend. Oakland’s Town Park skatepark is open and hosting a Hood Games contest sponsored by Satori, and possibly featuring the 7th Annual Living Word Festival, can’t really tell by the flyer.
Here’s a video by Tresreyes82 that I found on youtube that tells you all you need to know about Town Park.
Hood Games is a worthy project that directs kids toward positive activities like skateboarding. They did a great job getting Town Park built so go out and support the cause.
I’ll leave you with a video produced by Ben Galland, about an old Hood Games event in S.F.
Be there. 11AM De Fremery Park, 18th @ Adeline, Oakland, California.
