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http://youtu.be/V87VXA6gPuE

^ Pendulum Waves | music by Philip Glass | YOUTUBE NOTES.

http://youtu.be/ANTfTpi8J6o

^ Pendel and sand | YOUTUBE NOTES.

if not into the whole thing, listen to the Q/A starting about 1:25:00

^ Dreams of A Different Beat

• VIMEO NOTES. Wenxiong Zhang, Yihuan Wu, and Yue Qiu all knew their lives and careers were set to change after they were admitted to Columbia University's prestigious Graduate School of Journalism. But after completing a rigorous year of study in New York, the three aspiring reporters faced a less-than-ideal choice: stay in the U.S. and navigate a job market that remains bleak even for local journalists, let alone foreign-born ones, or return home to China, where business is booming but they will have to work under the constant threat of censorship.
  
  Xiaoran Liu is a Chinese multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Beijing. Her 40-min documentary about novice Chinese journalists is coming out this December, with screenings in both New York and Beijing. Email ritaliunyc @gmail.com for more information.

See Narratively | See Narrative dot ly.

^ The Extraordinary Ones: Part I

• VIMEO NOTES. One of the most coveted types of visas are those which allow foreigners to live and work in the U.S. if they can prove they have extraordinary abilities in their fields. In 2010, Anisha Dadia came to New York from the U.K. to pursue a career in acting. After graduating from a two-year conservatory program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she wanted to stay in the city. Juggling student film auditions and babysitting gigs, Dadia kept working on her acting portfolio so she could apply for an O-1 visa, which would allow her to extend her stay in the United States until 2015.

See Narratively | See Narrative dot ly.

One of several Okwonga videos at The King’s Will.

http://youtu.be/lc0zhTvZciE

^ Love | Musa Okwonga

Hat tip to MacCruiskeen.

http://youtu.be/wyI3XzSr-OM
< ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ Official Video sees two UK hip-hop legends, Klashnekoff and Lowkey, reflecting on their careers and their roles within the music industry. See YOUTUBE NOTES.

LYRICS.

• As lightning strikes and thunder pounds
  Over the grey skies of London town
  Prophesy K returns from the underground
  Signified by the people’s trumpet sounds cry
  Yeah the system it tried to shut me down
  But I’ve been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around
  Blood, sweat and tears for years
  Feels like my career’s been in the dumping ground
  Yeah this is how hunger sounds
  And I’m the hunter now – Lash the lionheart
  AKA the man behind the iron mask
  For ten years straight I’ve been raising the iron bar
  Trying to breathe the life back into this dying art
  So why try and par when you’ll meet the same fate as the lion scar
  This game’s fake, full of two-faced lying raas
  Who would sell their soul and arse just to climb the charts
  But me, I put in too much time in the graft
  Refining my craft, for majors to sign me for a minor advance
  Picture K-Lash miming on trance
  Now picture Dr Dre beats, Lash rhyming with Starks
  It’s all fate, and I’ve got mine in my grasp
  They’re all snakes, let them die in the past
  Who knows what the future holds
  These NWO soldiers will probably shoot me cold
  All because the truth was told
  You should know I did it from the heart
  
  I don’t do this for the happy ravers or the aggy haters
  I do this for the warriors and the gladiators
  Do this for those whose lives you never cared about
  Can’t pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts
  Those brought up around tragedy and sadness
  Who adjusted and found normality in the madness
  Fight the power, til I’m out of breath like Malcolm X
  You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless
  They’ll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt
  But rap about the government and you might as well shoot yourself
  Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy theories
  Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me
  Got the eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion
  The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant
  I rise like a phoenix, immediate from the ashes
  My existence is inconvenient for the masses
  Though we are equal I despise an imitation
  I live for my people and die for liberation
  I stand as a visionary, some have got plans of killing me
  To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines
  Hannibal with the mask, an animal with the bars
  I’m grappling with my shackles, I channel it through my art
  Feel it in the ambience, champion, heavyweight
  My life is nothing, but my pride is something you can never take
  They think I’m elusive or think I’m a nuisance
  I swear these major labels must think that I’m stupid
  Keep your 360s you’re convincing these dudes with
  Like I’ll give you the blueprint for pimping my music
  I say that like K-Lash, he’s another lion
  Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying
  I spit all of it, with or without a big audience
  Through the blood, sweat and tears I stand victorious
  
  I’m still here, pushing after several years
  I’m still here, standing strong, never in fear
  I’ll be still here after the dust settles and clears
  I’ll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears

It’s emotional .

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