25 February 2009

city of false gods


My city of seattle has a well undeserved reputation for safety, tolerance, and economic prosperity. Lately the broken and crumbling facade so many here place over the true face of seattle has had evermore wholes shot in it every weekend. if not for the the fact that those same wholes drip with blood of my people i would rejoice at the destruction of self imposed illusions. But in my city my kids are dying. they're being shot every weekend in the South End and CD. And the death toll is much higher than than what the media "cares" to report. please i beg you we must do something. we can't allow our children and younger family members live through the same hells that scared many of us for life.

NAM!!!!

This is my fuccin guy i love this guy fucc wit him. This video is in english and vietnamese. It's dope to see my guy get recognized by parts of his community for the work he's done and talent he has. It's funny i answered every question that nam did but my recorder went out like 30 seconds into the interview sooo.... NO ME!!

21 February 2009

Pina

I've been getting a lot more requests from Filipino brides to design a dress that reflects our culture. I've always strayed away from going too traditional. The sleeves of a typical Filipiniana or Maria Clara dress, however beautiful, symbolize the implementation of patriarchy brought on by Spanish colonization. Well, for me it does. So, I always suggest using Filipino fabrics with modern design.

Growing up here in Canada, I didn't know too much about the fabrics that are native to my home land, so I began researching the different kinds: sinamay, jusi, and pina. I had to find out how the textile industry in the Philippines works: Are the workers are treated fairly? Is it an eco-friendly and sustainable product, etc.? I found this article, that pretty much sold me on pina.

During Spanish colonization, the natives were not allowed to wear imported fabrics. They could only wear fabrics made from the plants that were indigenous to the land. Thus the production of pina (pinapple leaf fibers) and sinamay (abaca leaf fibers), etc. They started embroidering their clothing in defiance, with the idea that despite their oppression you couldn't stifle their will.

Pina was a staple in Filipino dress up until the 60s. The popularization of cotton, and other synthetic fibers imported by the Americans, resulted in the decline of the textile industry. By the 1980s, pina fabric was almost extinct, the skills almost lost.

Domestic support to cultivate Philippine arts & crafts and culture helped revive the fledgling industry. Since then pina has slowly been reintroduced to the world, demanded by designers as far as Europe and the US for it's unique quality and sustainability, despite it's rarity.

It is very labour intensive, everything is done by hand. It takes about 1 week to weave a meter, and about 2 months to fully embroider a meter of pina fabric. The cost is equivalent to about $100 CAD a meter for a hand embroidered piece, probably more depending on where it is sourced, how many middle men are involved.

It take years to train a weaver and an embroiderer, and there are only a few places in the Philippines, such as Aklan province, were you can learn, making the skill a true art form.

" Weaving and embroidery jobs enable women, especially, to earn salaries that allow them to be home rather than being forced to travel abroad to become domestic workers."

The Philippine government seems it would rather depend more on the remitted income of their expatriates than focus on developing their national industry, and the skills of the people who are left behind.

The decision on a pina dress not only expresses the pride we have of our beautiful culture, but it invests in the development of our kababayan, and the knowledge of our history of resistance.

Pina began as a fabric for the people, by the people. Let's keep that going.

-nang bong

http://www.cool-organic-clothing.com/pina-fiber.html

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18 February 2009

REALLY!?!?!?!



This is by Sean Delonas a regular contributor to the NY Post (a horrid lil snot rag of a paper). There is currently a debate on whether or not he was meaning to portray Obama as a dead chimp in an attempt to again call black people monkeys or if he was saying that the stimulus package is so bad a monkey could have wrote it. I of course like all sensible Americans KNOW he meant both.

06 February 2009

CHUBB FUCCIN ROCK!!!!

you chubb rock is in this. So is one of my favorite emcees K'Naan. But even he is aware of the fact that chubb is the main attraction. thanx K'Naan i missed that guy.

ok look fucc!!! Why woud you disable the embed on your video!?!?! what you don't want free promo!! argh ! so here's the link for 
ABC's Knaan feat. Chubb Rock

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovk5EfFj7Ws

and here's a another one

DREAMER






oh but this can be embedded....... tchk!

05 February 2009

ESA (evil service announcement)


ESA (evil service announcement) from khalil equiano on Vimeo.

a commercial for my free ep "how to be a villain"

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02 February 2009

the take over

new Zion I really my favorite and I haven't even bumped it all yet.



This is them discussing it.

antenna

ode to orpheus

one of my favorite characters of all time. I talk like this to lil kids on the regular.