Friday, 11 August 2017

11th August 2017: Invitation For Film Project / Moonlight / Lee Etherington

Today, I am touched and thankful that a friend expressed an interest to involve me creatively with a film project.

I am grateful to Jay-Z for his video Moonlight - for one thing, subverting a scene from Friends is a perfect succinct statement on white mediocrity suffocating space in a capitalist system. I distinctly remember the story of the actor’s making a million dollars an episode by a certain series as a kid and, even then, being utterly perplexed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSh48OlvMo

Oh - whilst we're here - if anyone can tell me who the person is in the video below between 00:36 - 00:59, I'd be very grateful. I feel I know them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkA61esq_c

I am thankful to Lee at Tusk for many reasons, but today I’d like to focus my appreciation on the fact that he has always been committed to making the Tusk Festival as accessible as possible to all, in part, by keeping the ticket prices down. This allows folk from all different backgrounds to have access to interesting live music that is not normally available in Toon. It cannot be an easy balance, but his commitment to that value is inspirational.

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