.: Shut up about 9\11 .. unless you are KRS1

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In this video interview from WeAreChange, hip-hop legend KRS-1 expounds on 9/11, asking why the Zadroga Act isn’t providing more medical coverage for first responders, explaining how his South Bronx roots informed his experience and feelings about the day’s tragic events, and discussing his and other rappers’ skepticism of the mainstream media and its official take on the attacks. “I’ve been criticized in the past for not being as sensitive as I probably should be to the event itself, and that’s warranted,” he says. “I slept in the World Trade Center when I was homeless, back in ’83 to ’85…to the hood, the Trade Center looked like two horns in the sky. We didn’t have nothing to do with that building. We know that the wealth of the people was getting sucked into them two towers. That’s what we know”

Via AnimalNewYork 

.: Doc: The shape of things that hum.

The Shape of Things That Hum
is a synthesizer documentary series that first aired by Channel 4 in the UK during 2001.

The series focused on electronic instruments that helped shaped modern music, with every episode focusing on a specific instrument. The episodes were broadcast between 01.30am and 01.41am, and featured musicians talking about classic vintage synthesizers, including the DX7 that defined the sound of the 1980s.

Mini Moog (15-01-2001) - Cult electronic instruments that helped to shape modern music.

Vocoder (22-01-2001) - Developed as a scrambling device in World War II, includes interviews with Orbital and Rick Wakeman.

DX7 (29-01-2001) - Synthesizer that defined the sound of the 1980s. Interviews with Vince Clarke and Nick Rhodes.

Fairlight (05-02-2001) - Computer based snthesizer offering sampling, digital recording, sequencing and editing. Includes Nick Rhodes.

Simmons (12-02-2001) - Includes producer Arthur Baker talking about making "Planet Rock".

Roland TB-303 (19-02-2001) - House innovators Coldcut and Orbital discuss the Roland 303 synthesizer.

Roland TB-808 (26-02-2001) - Includes producer Arthur Baker, plus Ray Keith talks about the importance of the bass.

Akai Sampler (05-03-2001) - Instrument that helped fuel the rave scene and the white label explosion

.: Aidex '91

Over the last week, I am ashamed to say, I have been working on an international arms trade fair.

Right here in the middle of Sydney - at Darling Harbour.
Called the Pacific Maritime Expo, it didn't even seem to raise an eyebrow.

I wanted to walk out on the first day,

- walk out of an event that offends every one of the principles I so readily espouse.

But I found, in Sydney 2012, those principles are too expensive for people like me.
Living week to week, it seems I can no longer afford them.

Part of my soul has died.

It seemed none of my friends shared my outrage, as I ranted about the injustice, after my first day there.

Don't get passionate about something anymore, -you could be mistaken for a fanatic.

A terrorist.

Too gutless to try and sabotage the event when I had the chance.., as if I could..

Even if I knew how to make a bomb belt without killing myself [hard],

-and got it into the set up [easy],

I wouldn't come near to taking out any of the real scumbags,

I would have only taken out the contractors, working poor like me.

The whole thing was done low key, and at first we thought it was just a boat show,

But it soon became clear, this was a full on Naval Military Expo.

Drones, missiles, and surviellance bugs that look like jellyfish,

- the future is inhuman.

When I told the people around me what this event was really about
..all I got was blank stares.

Source:  engagemedia.org

No-one, it seemed, remembered AIDEX.
Over 20 years ago now.

I wasn't there, but I remember the response in the community.

This video was produced for CAT TV by John Jacobs,

a true hero and a creative inspiration.

Watch his video after the link....

.: Tresor - A documentary

.: 'It felt like a kiss' - Adam Curtis

                

It Felt Like a Kiss is an immersive theatre production, themed on "how power really works in the world".
Below is the 54 minute film component made by BBC documentary film maker, Adam Curtis.

'It felt like a kiss' by Adam Curtis

"I wanted to do a film about what it actually felt like to live through that time ... Where you could see the roots of the uncertainties we feel today, the things they did out on the dark fringes of the world that they didn't really notice at the time, which would then come back to haunt us"