Björk Voltaic Movie

While this movie is a few years old, and I saw it a couple years ago, it is truly inspiring. Check out the trailer here: 

As you can see, the energy captured in the video is electric, as in its subject, Björk. For music technology fans out there, you've got to watch, as she has used a lemur and other then state-of-the-art equipment on stage with her to trigger musical and visual effects. 

Photos from the Voltaic tour can be seen here.

 

Went to Wrongbar to hear Eskmo play last night.

Check out this hot new music video directed by Cyriak Harris by Eskmo that prompted me to check them out at Wrongbar last night:

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New posterous platform

Thanks for checking out my new blog, where I update as I go through life.

I've switched over to posterous for a new look.

I'm hoping to post photos of the simple things in life in order to continue to be inspired and curious about the world.

Want more updates? Find me at @Amanda_C_U

 

The Knife's audio visual experience

Recently PitchFork.tv posted a video of The Knife's live performance. It reminds me of the Blue Man Group meets psychedelic images meets techno. This video seems to be from 2006.

 

B-boy culture resonates around the world

Bouncing Cats is a powerful documentary that tells the inspiring story of Abraham "Abramz" Tekya, an AIDS orphan and b-boy who started Breakdance Project Uganda in order to create opportunities for artistic expression and friendship for children in Uganda. He helps them to use hip hop breakdancing as a means to regain their own sense of identity. Having suffered greatly in the North of the country under the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A.), many children suffer from being separated from their families and being displaced or mutilated as a result of brutal abductions. The film is a powerful testament to the spirit of resilience that many of the b-boys and b-girls have. Narration for the film was done by Common and there are interviews with Will.I.Am, K'Naan and Mos Def.

BOUNCING CATS film trailer from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Further information about the film and details about how to get involved on youth issues in Uganda can be found at bouncingcats.com.
 

A coup d'état in Ecuador?

The following is my guestblog for TVO's The Agenda. The article originally appeared here, but I've also posted it here. Read on for more:

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'Inside Disaster' in Haiti

Space is a funny thing because the world shrinks with technology and with the relative ease of air travel. But, how does where we are located affect how we (as journalists) report on important issues? Recently I've written a bit on journalists covering issues that occur abroad. My article "Inside Disaster explored Haiti from within," was originally published in the Ryerson Free Press here. You can also read on for the full article here: 

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Sights of Paris

In Paris public spaces have Old World charm. While wandering down narrow streets or wide boulevards I constantly stopped to look around me. Perhaps if I was more attentive to what surrounds me in Toronto then I'd take more photos and have fun playing 'photographer.' Here are some shots I got with my handy point & shoot - Just one step up from an old iphone camera.

 

 

 

Where's your food from?

It was a cloudy summer sunday in August at the first annual Conscious Food Festival. The festival was nestled in between the low buildings at Fort York and there was a picturesque backdrop of the city's downtown in the distance. With an advisory committee of over 10 names, the festival's manifesto urged people to take the dialogue about food sustainability to the next level, and it stated that the small actions people take add up.

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