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[BD] #004 : "Kss Kss Ksselle"

Spidersayan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:30:51 +0000

Voilà, une bd en collaboration avec mon ami Aladin, alias Dadin, qui m'a fait changé d'avis sur les chevelus barbus métalleux. Je croyais qu'ils mangeaient des enfants. En fait non, Dadin m'a prouvé qu'ils étaient seulement pervers assoifés de sexe et de bière... Tu me manques Ducon !

Donc voilà la BD suivante sur un scénar du Dadin. (Devinez quoi : clikez pour voir la BD !!!)

Cette BD me permet de faire le deuil de la perte de toutes mes données informatiques, et donc, la réactivation de mon blog ! A dans 3 jours maxi pour un prochain strip !

Ode to SNES

slightlyignorant — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:06:58 +0000

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I plugged you in,
You seemed to work,
Until I discovered,
A little quirk.

Lines appeared
Upon the screen,
They made me sad
At what they did mean.

Earthbound, Batman,
Aladin and Racecar,
All worked slightly,
But not enough by far.

I shall not give up,
I refuse to, I do!
For I love you so much
That it's almost not true.

So hang in there, SNES,
My consoling friend,
Don't let this be
Your one final end.

Art gallery of Prema Murthy.....

swathin2 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:06:52 +0000

Accompanying the large installation of Organizing Energy at Tamarind are a number of prints, created by making limited-edition digital print-outs using pigmented inks on Hahnemuhle paper, of gridded lines that echo the three-dimensional piece. Also nearby are a series of paintings—which Prema Murthy prefers to consider as “drawings” because they are so line-based--in oil-based paint markers and acrylic on canvas. By adding these elements, which feature similar gridded, netlike forms and compositions that echo those of the yarn piece, to the overall installation at Tamarind (in an arrangement that echoes the show at PS 1), Murthy creates an art-historical context for her sculptural piece that serves as an effective nudge for viewers. It’s as if she wants to encourage moments of association. One recognizes the yarn as the artist’s line when seen near the prints, makes the connection. We see the physical piece as aligned in an art-historical way. This is a simplistic reading of the work, though. The power of this work is its many levels of interpretation and deep layers of meaning hidden by a veneer of what appears to be painfully straightforward.

“With this new work, I was thinking about how there seems to be an underlying structure or logic in things that at first glance feel random or happen by chance,” she explains. “Kind of like when you meet someone that might be a stranger but then you realize that you are connected somehow, they know someone you know and so on...like the six degrees of separation theory.” The webs she spins in her new, minimalist imagery are like diagrams of complicated relationships between people or places or ideas.

In her work, Murthy weaves in and out from the physical to the digital. Murthy presents us with dichotomies that are relevant when considering contemporary India’s both particular and universal identities in the age of globalization: the handmade and the digital, the traditional and the hi-tech, the local and the international. Yet ask her who her more contemporary artistic influences are, and she’ll cite a trio of women artists with very different backgrounds and styles, yet when considered in the context of Murthy’s own vision make sense: Yayoi Kusama, Eva Hesse, and Amrita Shergil. Clearly, Kusama’s obsessive treatment of patterns, Hesse’s interest in the impermanent and appropriating the industrial into art-making, and Shergil’s mix of Eastern and Western styles, all come into play in Murthy’s work, especially in Organizing Energy. It’s as if Murthy had called upon creative energies of these three important female artists and organized them into a new, up-to-the-minute vision that is both reverential to their work and distinctively Murthy’s own.

Prema Murthy weaves presents !!!

kamalkaushik — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:02:58 +0000

Prema Murthy (born 1969, Seattle, WA) received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. She has exhibited her video, prints, and installations in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, The National Gallery in Capetown, The India Habitat Center in New Delhi and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She is the co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was included in the 1999 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in private and public collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection and the collection of the Queens Museum. In June 2007, she had a solo exhibition at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in New York. She lives and works in New York.

In her work, Murthy weaves in and out from the physical to the digital. Murthy presents us with dichotomies that are relevant when considering contemporary India’s both particular and universal identities in the age of globalization: the handmade and the digital, the traditional and the hi-tech, the local and the international. Yet ask her who her more contemporary artistic influences are, and she’ll cite a trio of women artists with very different backgrounds and styles, yet when considered in the context of Murthy’s own vision make sense: Yayoi Kusama, Eva Hesse, and Amrita Shergil. Clearly, Kusama’s obsessive treatment of patterns, Hesse’s interest in the impermanent and appropriating the industrial into art-making, and Shergil’s mix of Eastern and Western styles, all come into play in Murthy’s work, especially in Organizing Energy. It’s as if Murthy had called upon creative energies of these three important female artists and organized them into a new, up-to-the-minute vision that is both reverential to their work and distinctively Murthy’s own.

As an artist with a multifaceted personal history who has been steadily building a body of work with layer upon layer of meaning and historical and aesthetic references that span the world and various eras and areas of culture, she creates compelling imagery that never fails to provoke thought in the mind of the viewer as well as dialogue among audiences – both in the here and now and, most likely, for years and decades to come.

Artists Prema Murthy’s recent body of work!!!

kamalkaushik — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:37:38 +0000

Art does speak for us and has since recorded time and maybe even before. It is interesting that in today’s culture there is a perspective that art is not as important as other skill s and qualities of life that we “teach” in school. Art does succeed and survive and always seems to find the core and heart of who we are. It has remained just as valuable as other knowledge and human fundamentals. Art has been beside part of the many developing sciences through our history.

Prema Murthy (born 1969, Seattle, WA) received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. She has exhibited her video, prints, and installations in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, The National Gallery in Capetown, The India Habitat Center in New Delhi and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She is the co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was included in the 1999 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in private and public collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection and the collection of the Queens Museum. In June 2007, she had a solo exhibition at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in New York. She lives and works in New York.

Her work is much more than just lovely lines that is aesthetically pleasing, though. In another recent body of work related to the pieces on view at Tamarind, Murthy created similar, gridded images based on numerical data from a variety of sources, from patterns of immigration to statistics on consumer spending. She took these raw numbers and then plotted them according to their fluctuations over time onto points on digital renderings of human bodies and animated them using the same three-dimensional modeling software she used to compose the works in Organizing Energy.

Although this aspect of animation is not featured in the show at Tamarind, keeping in mind the works in which Murthy takes this approach can offer insight into how the artist thinks. Hers is a mind that sees profound connections between the numerical and the aesthetic. It is the mind of a computer programmer, who can turn binary code into imagery. It is also the mind of an artist.

Prema Murthy's latest body of work...

swathin2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:57:28 +0000

Prema Murthy (born 1969, Seattle, WA) received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. She has exhibited her video, prints, and installations in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, The National Gallery in Capetown, The India Habitat Center in New Delhi and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She is the co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was included in the 1999 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in private and public collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection and the collection of the Queens Museum. In June 2007, she had a solo exhibition at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in New York. She lives and works in New York.

One look at Prema Murthy’s latest body of work—three dimensional lines “drawn” with black yarn that intersect like the weave of a spider’s web; black-and-white compositions on paper made up of grid-like shapes and forms -- and viewers might first believe them to be ultra-minimalist, utterly spare. But beneath the elegant simplicity of Murthy’s lines, in either two or three dimensions, is a complex system of references, histories, mysteries, and ideas.

“Delicate it is like a spider’s web, this sketch of the worldwide web of our collective thoughts. Skinny skeins of black wool stretch into space, a cat’s cradle. Black wool is knotted simply at intervals forming a playful, simple structure which reminds one of outer space, the interior of a crystal with many squares, triangles perhaps representing the wires which connect our lives to ourselves, to others, to space itself. They pierce the wall and spill outside the delineated room.”

Although the art work seems extremely low-tech, Murthy based the compositions on digitally rendered shapes she created with sophisticated software programs usually used to model realistic imagery for commercial films and video games. Programmers use these computer applications to render bodies and objects that appear round and soft, or flat and hard, or angular and sharp, when viewed on a screen. When programmers and designers are creating these believable images, they first model the shapes in grids made up of lines, and then fill them in with colors and textures.

Prema Murthy, an indian artist, art gallery....

swathin2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:54:02 +0000

Where to begin? On the surface. Yes, Murthy’s installation at Tamarind looks like a hand-made, giant net. (It echoes an earlier installation at the artist’s solo show at PS 1, a contemporary art space that is an affiliate of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) It is perhaps a surprising sight for followers of Murthy’s work through the years, as she received her first recognition by critics and curators for her new-media pieces in the 1990s. Yet Murthy’s latest installation, Organizing Energy, seems to be the antithesis of “new media art,” the opposite of the digital—at least on the surface. Yes, the installation was made by hand, and in the very basic, very physical medium of yarn. As the critic Swapna Vora describes Murthy’s yarn-based installations, the work can conjure many different interpretations, depending on the viewer’s own points of reference:

Artists Prema Murthy !!!

kamalkaushik — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:08:19 +0000

Prema Murthy (born 1969, Seattle, WA) received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. She has exhibited her video, prints, and installations in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, The National Gallery in Capetown, The India Habitat Center in New Delhi and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She is the co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was included in the 1999 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in private and public collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection and the collection of the Queens Museum. In June 2007, she had a solo exhibition at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in New York. She lives and works in New York.

One look at Prema Murthy’s latest body of work—three dimensional lines “drawn” with black yarn that intersect like the weave of a spider’s web; black-and-white compositions on paper made up of grid-like shapes and forms -- and viewers might first believe them to be ultra-minimalist, utterly spare. But beneath the elegant simplicity of Murthy’s lines, in either two or three dimensions, is a complex system of references, histories, mysteries, and ideas.

Murthy’s installation at Tamarind looks like a hand-made, giant net. (It echoes an earlier installation at the artist’s solo show at PS 1, a contemporary art space that is an affiliate of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) It is perhaps a surprising sight for followers of Murthy’s work through the years, as she received her first recognition by critics and curators for her new-media pieces in the 1990s. Yet Murthy’s latest installation, Organizing Energy, seems to be the antithesis of “new media art,” the opposite of the digital—at least on the surface. Yes, the installation was made by hand, and in the very basic, very physical medium of yarn. As the critic Swapna Vora describes Murthy’s yarn-based installations, the work can conjure many different interpretations, depending on the viewer’s own points of reference.

Indian art and artists Pradip Patra !!!

kamalkaushik — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:51:04 +0000

TamarindArt is the major advocate of contemporary Indian art by promoting the genre to a western and global audience. In addition to showcasing high caliber art, our mission is to become the foremost resource center for gaining an understanding of Indian art and artists, the proper care, restoration, and conservation of art in various media, and other areas of interest to individuals, businesses, and art investors.

Pradip Patra graduated in 2005 from Midnapore Art College and received an MFA in Sculpture from Kala Bhavana in Visva Bharati. He was the recipient of both the 2002 and 2003 of the Annual Exhibition Award at Midnapore Art College.

Pardip Patra works with a larger span of materials than the other artists exhibiting. Fiberglass, wood and acrylic sheet as well as other components give way to Patra’s dreamlike creations. He draws on past experiences and nostalgia to create his sculptures. They often portray scenes from life; something that has touched the artist from his own past. In the piece “Blue Chair”, Patra doesn’t simply show a person sitting in a blue chair, but rather creates an entire scene of a person contemplating; taking a moment to sit down and mull over the events of that day. The piece serves as a portal to the artist’s mind, a segment of his memory. The end product is that the sculptures are both aesthetically and psychologically compelling.

Indian art and artists Mehul Patel !!!

kamalkaushik — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:56:25 +0000

Mehul Patel received M.V.A in Sculpture from M.S. University, Baroda in 2007. Patel’s has exhibited in many festivals, galleries and group shows including the 2007 Kala Ghoda Art Festival in Mumbai and the Tsunami Heritage Fund Group Show in Baroda in 2005.

Mehul Patel employs a flurry of various forms to create his whimsical representations of subjects such as birds or a womb. His concepts are very imaginative and surrealistic. The sculptures themselves are fluid and mingle various shapes, as seen in “Couple of Birds” where he drawn on the traditional depictions or birds but adds an individual spin on it by adding sharp outlines to the beak. Unlike “Couple of Birds”, Patel’s other sculpture entitled “Womb”, is much more fluid and is inspired by forms seen in nature such as shells and sand sculptures. The little bulges on the surface of the piece enhance the texture and dimension.

http://www.tamarindart.com/

Vaibhav Jains Sculptures...

swathin2 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:45:27 +0000

Born in 1964, Vaibhav Jain graduated from Lucknow Arts College in 1981. Jain has received 2nd All India Biennale award in 1999 and the Major C P RM award from the Government Museum, Bangalore, in 1987. She is also a recipient of the 2000 Els Ten Voorde and Wim Krijnen scholarship to Holland.

Jain has participated in numerous exhibitions including a two man show at Nadene-le-Prince Gallery, Rajasthan, in 2005 and 2007. She exhibited at A Matter of Forms at Samanvai Art Gallery, Jaipur, in 2004 and 2007. In 2007 she also participated in a group show at Shree Dharini Art Gallery, New Delhi. Jain participated in an exhibition of women artist at Lalit Kala Academy, Jaipur in 1995 and 2006. She also had a group sculpture show at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, in 2005. Jain also participated in the following exhibitions: International Exhibition, AIFACS New Delhi 2001, All India Biennale, Jaipur, 1999, State Exhibition of Rajasthan, 1997, All India 2nd Drawing Biennale, Chandigarh, 1994, National Exhibition of Arts, Calcutta, 1986, All India Exhibition, Birla Academy of Fine Arts, 1985 to name a few.

She has also attended Stone carving camp at Lalit Kala Akademy, Lucknow in 2002; Sculptor camp in Jaipur in 1999 and All India Sculpture Camp in Lucknow in 1989.

Besides having successful art practice, Jain has also published articles such as “Lucknow Bird Painting,” Sodh Patrika, 1992, Baster ki Lok Kala,” Saptahik Hindustan, 1992 and “Kalighat Painting,” Rajasthan Patrika, 1992. Her works can be seen at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and in Private Collections in India, France and Holland.

Jain’s sculptures create a commentary on juxtaposing forces in contemporary Indian life. In the bronze works featured in this show, Jain comments on the relationships between humans, the material, contemporary world, and the natural world.

Anu BS arts and gallery section....

swathin2 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:53 +0000

Born in 1983, Anu BS graduated from Kerala University and later received an MFA in Sculpture from MSU of Baroda. He was awarded a scholarship to the Kerala Lalith – Kala Academy in 2005.

His participation in prestigious group exhibitions include Tracing Erases at Dar Bar Hall, Kerala, 2008, Bodhi Art Winners Show at Redearth Gallery, Mumbai, 2007, Group Show at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, 2007, Annual Show, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda, 2007, Sprouts, a group show at Kaledioscope, Baroda, 2006, Degree Show at fine arts college Thiruyananthapuram, 2005, Kala Academy State Exhibition, 2004.

Bimal Kundu’s arts work....

swathin2 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:28:48 +0000

Bimal Kundu Graduated from Govt. College of Art & Crafts, Kolkata in 1980.

He has exhibited in several Group shows including Genesis Art Gallery, Sanskriti Art Gallery, Gallery BF 14, Gallery Katayun, Chemould Art Gallery, Gallery’ 88, Tata Centre, Galerie La Mere, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, CIMA Art Gallery in Kolkata, Gallery Sanskriti, Vadehra Art Gallery, Art Todayin New Delhi, Cymroza Art Gallery, Jahangir Art Gallery in Mumbai and Gallery Sumukha, Banglore. He has also participated in AFA exhibition held at Birla Academy, State and National Lalit Kala Akademi exhibitions, Indian Society of Oriental Art, ‘Young Faces in Contemporary Indian Art’, R.K. Mission Institute of Culture, Eastern Region Art Exhibition.

Kundu is also a recipient of many awards and scholarships. He was awarded the Rajaram Scholarship, Govt. of Karnataka; the H. C. Ghosh Award; the Gaganendranath Memorial Medal; the AFA Award; the Birla Academy Award; the Navonmeska Puraskara and the National Academy Award in 2000. He is also a founding member of the Society of Contemporary Artists.

Kundu has also participated in numerous workshops such as Lalit Kala Terracotta Camp in Bankura in 1985, Art Camp organized by Sankriti Art Gallery in Kolkata in 1992, Art in Industry camp sponsored by Tata Steel held in Jamshedpur in both 1993 and 1997. He also attended Sculpture Camp organized by the Society of Contemporary Artists at Shantiniketan in 1996, a Workshop on Contemporary Works of Bengali Artists in Dhaka, Bangladesh in1999, Art in Life organized by CIMA in 2005, and a workshop at Kursiang and China in 2006.

Bimal Kundu’s works are part of important collections such as Vivekananda Art Gallery, Karnataka; Birla Academy, Calcutta; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. His 14’ high concrete Sculpture, named ‘BIRPURUSH’ stands majestically at Nicco Park in Salt Lake City.

Kundu lives and works in Kolkata.

Bhupen Barman arts gallery

swathin2 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:54:24 +0000

Bhupen Barman received his diploma in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University in Baroda. He has participated in several exhibitions including the Harmony show and the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai.

Barman has received a number of honors and awards through his years of work. Most recently he was awarded the National Academy Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi for 2005 – 2006. He was also awarded the National Scholarship by the HRD, Government of India. He has also participated in the Winter Moods, Stainless Steel camp in Baroda, and Ceramic camp in Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Lucknow

Details of Pradip Kumar Patra, an artist of Tamarind Art Gallery....

swathin2 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:54:20 +0000

Born in 1980, Pradip Kumar Patra graduated in 2005 from Midnapore Art College and received an MFA in Sculpture from Kala Bhavana in Visva Bharati. He was the recipient in both 2002 and 2003 of the Annual Exhibition Award at Midnapore Art College. He also received Bronze and Gold accolades in 2003 and 2004 at the Avantika Art Exhibition.

His participation in prestigious group and solo exhibitions includes Painted Delights at Birla Academy, 2007, Khala Bhavana All Sculpture Group Exhibition at Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavana, 2007, the National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, 2006, the All India Contest & Exhibition, South Central Nagpur Zone, 2006, Annual Exhibition of Midnapore Art College, Kolkata, 2006, Artists Care for Children Exhibition at Birla Academy, Kolkata, 2006, Pratiti Group Exhibition at Birla Academy, Kolkata, 2006, Kala Bhavana Sculpture Group Exhibition at Nandan Gallery, 2006, Annual Exhibition of State Academy, Kolkata, 2006, Rayja Charukala Annual Exhibition, Tathyakendra, 2006, 70th Annual Exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2005.

Of his work, Pradip claims: “Through my works I honestly try to create a visual feeling about my childhood. I have grown up in the village. I try to express these feelings through my works. My works are the images reflected through the mirror of my mind. My past life events and my surroundings come back to my mind, and when they do, I want to return back there. This is impossible physically, but surely possible through the vision of my works. So I try to create some visual images, forms and language through which I can get some relief from the complexity of the present. In my works I use simple images from which I try to make the communication between art, artist, and viewer – simple and easier.

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Aladdín, el musical! en Burgos

burgalesausente — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:13:37 +0000

Llega a Burgos Aladdín el musical! de la mano de los mismos creadores que Petar Pan, la compañia Theatre Properties. El musical estará de gira por toda España durante dos años para acercar la magía de Aladdín a nuestra ciudad. Tiene prevista su llegada a Burgos los días 20 y 21 de diciembre de 2008 en el Teatro Principal.

Basado en el cuento de la mil y una noches, nos contarán las aventuras de Aladdín, Yasmín y el genio de la lámpara, la adapatación es algo diferente a la película ya que Aladdín es un hacker pero igualmente hará las delicias de los espectadores. Cuenta con gran cantidad de efectos visuales y sonoros, que harán que nos sumergamos mucho más en la historia y lo pasemos a las mil maravillas! Este musical es una buena ocasión para pasar un buen rato en familia y dejárte llevar por la música, las luces y un colorido espectacular.

Consulta de precios y horarios:

Dirección: Paseo de Espolón, s/n
Población: Burgos
Zona: Casco histórico
Tlf: 947 27 93 69

Os dejo con el video de la promo:

242/1000 Friend like me - Robin Williams

avedrio — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:11:54 +0000

Bueno, que les puedo decir, la película es excelente, y el trabajo de Robin Williams con la voz del genio es maravillosa. Directamente sacada de la película de Walt Disney, Aldín, traemos este corte festivo, de carnaval, de fiesta y de espectáculo de Las Vegas, pero bastante divertido. Ánimo, ya casi llego, destapa el vino.

Avedrio

Conversation starter- The Princess and the Frog Preview!!!

Shannon the Tampa Diva — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:44:09 +0000

Here's a short "promo: for the much anticipated Disney animated Feature "The Princess and the Frog"

COMMENTS PLEASE!!

I won't deny having some reservations about this given all the hoopla and rewrites that have taken place, but I'm being nice today so I'll focus on the positives of what I saw.
One of our favorite "Dreamgirls" Anika Noni Rose is providing the voice and still sounding a little bit like "Lorelle" :-) She's a good choice IMO. And the drawing is beautiful! she really is a pretty Cartoon. But why the snaggle-toothed cajun Lighting bug??

What say you??

Disney's Black Cartoon princess... Let's see how this turns out...

Shannon the Tampa Diva — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:50:02 +0000

All My life I've been waiting for a black Disney cartoon,
!

I grew up during Disney's cartoon revival. "The Little Mermaid" (yes I still know all of the songs) "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladin"(which was filled with it's own racial stereotypes), "Pocahontas", and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" were big deals in my time. I remember everyone's excitement when we found out they were going to set a cartoon in Africa. "Alright, Black people!" we thought...No, more like wild animals. In either case the "Lion King" was a great movie.

So imagine my childish delight when I heard that Disney was going to do a cartoon film with actual black people! Yay, sure I'm too old for cartoons and i have no children to blame it on, but there's no shame in my game, when it comes out I want to see it! So as more details came out I lapped them up with glee. Here was my thought process

"It's called the "Princess and the Frog"- ok that might not be too bad
"It's set in New Orleans"- Ok
"it's set in the 1920's"- alright... things weren't that great for black people back then, but "American Girl" worked it out, Maybe Disney can too.
"It's got a voudoo priestess fairy godmother"- umm... well all Disney movies have "magic." The Lion King had "voudoo" too, though it was set in Africa so that still labeling Afica and all things of african descent to be of the 'dark arts'. and not all "New Orleanders" get down with the 'hoo doo." perhaps I'm over thinking. It is a cartoon.
"She's going to win the heart of loving white man who saves her from the clutches of the evil black male "voudoo priest"- What?? She's needs to be saved by the white man from the evils of black heathenism? isn't that how they justified slavery??
"The 'princess's' name is Maddie"- Maddie? She sounds like a slave or a pet!
" She's a black chambermaid working for a spoiled, white Southern debutante."- Oh WOW! she IS a slave pet!

Eww, eewww! I don't like it! Send it, send it, send it back!
Apparently I wasn't the only one that hated it and Disney has in fact sent it back. To the drawing board of course.

The heroine has been recast as Tiana, a 19-year-old in a country that has never had a monarchy. She is now slated to live "happily ever after" with a handsome fellow who is not black – with leaks suggesting that he will be of Middle Eastern heritage and called Naveen. The race of the villain in the cartoon is reported to have also been revised.

Source

Well HOPEFULLY This version will be be much better. Every little girl deserves a princess that looks like them. Please get it right Disney or little black girls old and young have been waiting on the day when they can be princesses without being slave/maids/servants etc. Please give us our day, (or we'll revolt). On another note, I would love to see animators of color (Black, Latino, Asian, Indian, etc) step out and make something great. Let's take control of our own images!

War with the Squirrels

librariananne — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:09:11 +0000

I hope everyone is having a nice summer. In my case, summer means when I am outside I have to load up on the smelly sun screen and bug spray, wear funny looking floppy hats and huge sun glasses. I look extra-specially geeky with a whiter shade of pale pair of legs peeking out from under my shorts. DREAMY! I look like some kind of insect creature huddling in the shade while my husband spends as much time as he can in the sun. We live in a wooded area so he spends lots of time outside planting a vegetable garden and perennial flowers, weeding, cutting the grass, trimming hedges and carrying on his never ending war with the squirrels. This is a battle the squirrels are clearly winning. So far this year (he thinks--I'm not so sure it wasn't bunnies or groundhogs) they have not only decimated some of our garden, they have also plundered my husband's beloved potted plants and perennials. They have also outsmarted every type of squirrel proof bird feeder we have dared to hang outside. My husband is desperate for a victory so for the past few weeks he is plotting a squirrel offensive. He has drawn up what he believes to be the THE ultimate deluxe squirrel proof bird feeder. The past few days I have come home from work to find him happily assembling his squirrel busting bird feeder. I'll let you know how it works out!

Operation Bagdad Pups update: 24 dogs and 3 cats!

In the News

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You can limit your search in the Aladin (CUA libraries online catalog: http://libraries.cua.edu/welcome.html) catalog by location in the Title, Journal Title, Keyword and Guided Keyword searches. For instance, if you do a keyword search on "polymers", you get over 2700 results.. If you click on "post limits" button ( above the search results, on the right) and limit to Catholic University (this limits your search to items in CUA libraries only), your search results number is reduced to 176. Its MUCH easier to browse through 176 results than 2700! Please note you can't limit by location in an author search.

RIP George Carlin

Day 3 - Friend Like Me

gracenmichelle — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:20:22 +0000

Aladin Amitabh Bachchan from flick Aladin

leodirect — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:38 +0000

Aladin is a fantasy movie starring Amitabh Bachchan. Big B has posted latest images from the sets of flick ‘Aladin’. Don’t expect any glitzy stuff from this movie.

Yeah, movie is larger than life but dressing is very modern and not what we usually see in such type of movies. Big B explains his character…

“…My role is that of the genie and yes I will appear at the rub of the lamp to fulfill the three wishes of the one that carries the object of desire.”

Here is first look of Amitabh as Aladin.