Comedy Appreciation
Best line:
"If you were supreme, Brian Kemp Brett Favre Kramer, maybe you could live in a world that didn't threaten your sad belief that you were better than someone of another color. Let's go through history, every race of people has done it as good as Whitey -- Latinos, Asians, Blacks, every single one has done it. I will say this, Whitey did steal their ideas most of the time and make the most profit of it. And that's Critical Race Theory."
Stella Jean is a Black Italian fashion designer who recently collaborated with Kyrgyzstan women to create a contemporary design incorporating traditional Shyrdak felt stitching.
As Stella explains, "This collaboration is about an equal exchange of skills and knowledge, combining traditional craftsmanship from Kyrgyzstan with Italian design."
Check out the fall-winter 2021-2022 woman collection HERE.
Photography Appreciation
Born on May 16, 1917, Juan Rulfo was a Mexican photographer and author of two very important literary works: Pedro Páramo (1955) and El Llano en llamas (1953). The primary subject of his works focused on the Mexican people and landscape.
After his parents died, Rulfo was raised by his grandmother in Guadalajara, Mexico, and he grew up during the Mexican Revolution and Cristero war.
After graduating primary school, he attended secondary in a seminary. He moved to Mexico City where he entered the National Military Academy.
He attended Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he began writing. He later advanced his career and traveled throughout Mexico as an immigration agent. This is probably where he had the opportunity to photograph what would then become a visual setting for his literary works.
Sources: Wikipedia, https://bristolatino.co.uk/art-focus-juan-rulfo-photography/
Madonna Appreciation
Since I was a kid I was fascinated with Madonna. Like the kid in the music video Open Your Heart, I was in love with Madonna. Express Yourself and Vogue hit right in time for puberty. Justify My Love had me questioning my sexuality.
So, I'm not a bit surprised of Madonna's new project. In fact, I feel it's a bit late. But regardless, her collaboration with Beeple to created NFTs for a good cause is innovative. Plus, it's kinda sexy.
She explained, "We set out to create something that is absolutely and utterly connected to the idea of creation and motherhood... I'm doing what women have been doing since the beginning of time, which is giving birth. But on a more existential level, I'm giving birth to art and creativity, and we would be lost without both."
The NFTs titled Mother of Nature, Mother of Evolution, and Mother of Technology, went on auction on SuperRare, a crypto art marketplace. Proceeds go to National Bail Out, V-Day, and Voices of Children.
Sources: YouTube, https://www.today.com/news/news/madonna-explains-nude-nft-superrare-m-giving-birth-art-rcna28685