…translated “In the balance of the Canoe”
…a track by Maga Bo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from the album “Quilombo du Futuro”
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You can buy the album on Bandcamp here
Check out Maga Bo’s site here
And his Soundcloud here
…translated “In the balance of the Canoe”
…a track by Maga Bo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from the album “Quilombo du Futuro”
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You can buy the album on Bandcamp here
Check out Maga Bo’s site here
And his Soundcloud here
…is an Afro, Brazilian, Latin, Caribbean Funk and Soul music festival/community.
I checked this out
I’ve been a long fan of Ghislain Poirier, but I’ve just never gotten the chance to see him in person…so I was pretty delighted when they announced a surprise guest DJ I’ve been a long withstanding fan of as well, DJ Rupture 😊
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Dub Connection Sound System and Dub Stuy Records are also affiliated with these guys
Toronto, ON
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It was the graffiti that initially caught my eye. I thought the door was locked but I saw a couple of kids go in so I ended up in the parking lot and the back area.
…is a fortune-telling deck brought to you by Evan Doherty from Toronto, ON
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They were in an exhibit with tarot readers and they were right around the corner asking people, “Hey do you want a bullshit reading?”
Nice.
Note: they weren’t trying to insult the tarot readers or anything. Their cards actually made it to an occult/tarot shop and the community is pretty cool about it.
I also get tarot readings, on occasion.
I just think this is a really creative and clever counter-culture/mockery.
Check out their site here
And their Facebook here
…directed by Alan Holly (Dublin, Ireland)
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“Take me in your arms. I wish to see the sky and feel the weather on my skin…
I wish to hear the sea and smell the damp woods…Look at the ants…
Show me fire’s burning…I wish to be among people…
Grant me something hidden, something shared…
Show me many things, so that I remember.”
💖 💖 💖
Check out the film’s site here
And Maps and Plans studio’s site here
…is a flooded cave system located north of Tulum, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The exploration of Dos Ojos began in 1987 and still continues.
– Wikipedia
Playa del Carmen is only a few hours ride away from several Cenotes in Tulum, Mexico.
img courtesy of Every Steph
We went diving in it and there was a rope line to guide divers around. There was sunlight in many parts but there were also plenty that was so dark, we needed our flashlights.
It made me feel… irrelevant. It reminded me that I’m just another speck of dust in this world: a state of being that I am constantly on the lookout for, which is one of the reasons why I do these things.
Anyway, there’s also this thing called the halocline effect (density of saltwater changing or, in this case, saltwater and freshwater meet but don’t mix), which was happening at many points in the cave. Some parts were blurry like looking through a translucent, textured glass, whereas some parts look like a different body of water in itself. The divemaster warned us about the latter because of the illusion of “coming out from the water” and apparently some people had taken off their masks. We kept ours… but it was pretty unreal.
The Yucatan peninsula doesn’t have any lakes or anything for freshwater so this is where the Mayans got their supply 500 years ago. It’s insane. There are apparently spots where you can squeeze (when you push yourself through narrow gaps in between rocks); we didn’t do that but I think there’s that option for technical divers, which is a different route from the recreational one.
(If you’re interested in seeing more: Planet Earth, Ep. 4.)
DO NOT dive here if you have claustrophobic tendencies. The divemaster compared the large openings to the size of the gas truck. I’d say it was bigger and those bits were easy enough to navigate but there were spaces that were really narrow.
My buoyancy is not bad for ocean diving but for this, you have to be really steady.
I kept hitting the stalactites & stalagmites. It was a hassle, not mention a hazard (to the cave, your equipment – your life support – and therefore, yourself).
The divemaster held on to me during those parts to minimize the damage.
img courtesy of Cold Water Kitty
Either way, this is still most definitely worth checking out. You can go swimming, snorkeling… the view alone from its shallow waters are well worth the several hours’ ride.
We stayed in an all-in hotel thing so it was good to get out of the resort too. I like staying in bamboo-things and hippie stuff places when I’m in tropical areas but all-ins are great if you’re pressed for time and/or you’re literally just there to dive and care about nothing else.
…by Lip Photography (from St. Catharines, Ontario currently based in Toronto, ON)
Here are the finished products:
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Their site is under construction but you can access it here
And their Facebook here
I’m a huge Poirier (Montreal, Quebec) and Fwonte (Port-au-Prince, Haiti based in Montreal, Quebec) fan so…
They played some of my favourite tunes
Jokma (Poirier ft. Mr. OK)
Here’s the original track
and they also played Trafik (Fwonte)
Here’s the original track
Loved the setup too.
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Here’s a great talk in Montreal by Poirier, “Play: It’s a Serious Thing”
Check out Poirier’s site here
And his Soundcloud here
Check out Fwonte’s Soundcloud here
And his Bandcamp here
Check out Face-T’s Facebook here
Check out The Round Venue’s site here
…pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899 – 1984, Romanian/French) was a street artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker.
Street Art/Graffiti
“Many viewers of Brassaï’s work found it easier to accept his photographs of graffiti as art than to accept the graffiti itself. In this sense, his work encouraged audiences to look at graffiti on the street in a new light: as framing devices for the world, as a parallel voice of the city, and as a modern primitive art that is all around us if we just care to look…”
– Street Art, Cedar Lewisohn
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I found a series by him called “Transmutations” that I love, love, love. These days you can probably render a similar/the same kind of effect with Photoshop or Illustrator or AfterEffects, but they didn’t have that back then so they were using photographic glass plates. Very manual, analog type way of doing things. Most avant-garde artists these days still do the analog thing and combine it with digital stuff to enhance their works.
“In 1934, directly inspired by his collaboration with Pablo Picasso who he had been working with for two years, Brassaï decided to experiment with the technique of engraving onto glass photographic plates. He worked on thirty or so negatives of female nudes dated from 1931 to 1935, printing around 150 proofs covering the various states of the photographs at different moments in the process of altering the original material.” – museoreinasofia.es
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Check out Brassai’s Wikipedia entry here
…is a belly dancer from Cairo, Egypt currently based in Kiev, Ukraine
…performing in San Francisco, USA
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😍 ❤ ❤ ❤
I really wanna be her groupie someday.
Check out her site here
And her Instagram here
And her Facebook here
And her channel here
Gelene 