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I don’t blame them. You won’t see this on Fixed, er…Fox News.
From LinkTV Television Without Borders
Cash for Climate Change?
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Out of the mouths of babes…
A beautiful, funny and heart-warming video by Portland filmmaker T’chaka Sikelianos after his four-year-old niece went on a peace rant.
Give a Chance 4 Peace
by T’chaka Sikelianos
Give a Chance 4 Peace is an eight-minute animated film developed using the audio recorded off my phone.
The words and performance were improvised by Aurora, my four-year-old niece. The music was improvised by myself and my sister Alisa.
Give a Chance 4 Peace (8mins) from T'chaka Sikelianos on Vimeo.
T’chaka has been working in film for more than 12 years. He has worked on a variety of feature and short film projects, including The Blackout, directed by Abel Ferrara, The Hot Shoe, directed by David Layton, Lonelyland, directed by Steve Collins and My Name is Buttons directed by John Merriman and Courtney Davis.
T’chaka has lived in Portland, Oregon for four years and has been laid off for a bit, from a media production company called Night & Day Studios where he was a 3D animator designing museum interactives and iphone applications.
He moved to Portland by bicycle, making the trip from Albany, New York in 51 days. He is also an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church and performed his first marriage ceremony last spring at a buddhist peace pagoda in Grafton, NY .
He graduated with honors from Connecticut College. He is slowly writing his second feature film, Loop City, which he plans on creating himself, in Cinema 4D.
He is currently collaborating musically with his sister, brother and niece.
He recently kayaked the Hudson River from Albany to Manhattan in six days with his buddies Ian and Bill. He is also working on a graphic novel called ROME/PDX (which stands for Random Order Man Excursions, Portland Oregon) about a black man who orders a cup of coffee and begins hallucinating an ostrich, and together they try and get at the heart of why Portland, although an amazing city, seems to be populated with mostly white people.
He recently drove across the US making it three times this year, twice alone, a fact he is a bit too proud of.
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Dave Matthews Band’s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King last night received Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, exactly six months after its release!
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 424,000 copies in its first week of release. This marked the group’s fifth consecutive studio album to open with a sales week of at least 400,000 copies.
Matthews created all of the artwork for Big Whiskey, including the richly detailed cover illustration that puts a GrooGrux spin on New Orleans’ traditional Mardi Gras parades while evoking the joy and the sorrow expressed in the album’s songs. Matthews has designed logos and other elements in the past, but this is the first time he has created the entire packaging for an album. In April, two months before it’s release, he casually tweeted about the “scribbles.”
I was looking at the artwork. I’m happy. Like a little story book. I worked hard at it. Scribble scribble every song lyric.
Big Whiskey, which was released by RCA Records on June 2, 2009, has been hailed by Rolling Stone as the group’s “heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally,” which went on to note: “Throughout, Carter Beauford beats out elaborate, propulsive groves; bassist Stefan Lessard lays down Flea-style funk bass lines; violinist Boyd Tinsley plays cresting, intense runs; and Matthews mirrors Moore’s saxophone lines with scatlike singing.”
Billboard, in a cover story on Dave Matthews Band, praised Big Whiskey as “its best album yet… Highlights include the funk-rock rave-up ‘Shake Me Like a Monkey,’ the stirring ballad ‘Lying in the Hands of God,’ the swampy rocker ‘Alligator Pie (Cockadile),’ radio-friendly fare like ‘Why I Am,’ which features playful horns over a solid rock riff and a hooky chorus, and ‘Funny the Way It Is,‘ which parlays a subtle intro into a soaring, syncopated anthem.”
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Yeah, yeah…I know…
“This is a new blog.”
“It takes time for Google to find you.”
“For a small fee, I can tell you how to drive targeted traffic.”
“Blah, blah, blah..”
BUT… this girl just wants to have fun.
That being said…
I “FEEL THE NEED...”
No, not the need for speed…
The NEED for some “BLOG LOVE!” (Otherwise known as just one little comment.)
I’m feeling the holiday spirit, so I’ve tweeted this contest.
The first tweep in my Twitter stream from the USA, (sorry, I can’t ship internationally,) who reads the “I Need Some Blog Love“ tweet, then connects here, finds the blog post that contains the word alkaline (no, not THIS post)…and leaves a comment, (flames only allowed on candles)
then clicks the
Button beneath that post, wins a FREE CANDLE from
The 16 oz Apothecary Eco-Friendly Soy Candle will be your fragrance of choice, valued at $ 23.95
Even if you don’t like scented candles, it will make a nice Holiday gift!
Good Luck!!
Know your chandler. I do not now, nor ever will, purchase my soy or palm wax sourced from Cargil, Monsanto or ADM, or any supplier who encourages local farmers to cut down the rainforest.
I strongly support sustainable farming.
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