This work aims to critically analyze the videoclip entitled Happiness by Steve Cutts that can be found on YouTube. The short video of four minutes and sixteen seconds is a strong criticism to the contemporary world, where Cutts choses to represent humans by rats. The animation starts with lots of rats running in a white... Continuar Lendo →
Suffocating
I feel like the Sadness took control Of every single part of my strong body I get afraid of people seeing me trembling it’s happening an earthquake inside I can’t see if they are seeing Everywhere is better than here (here is everywhere to someone) “Please don’t look at me” – Hold on! It’s just... Continuar Lendo →
From Harlem/USA to Augusta Street/Brazil
A brief study about the play Soul Gone Home, by Langston Hughes We are going to talk about a famous play written by Langston Hughes, a black artist who did a whole work with music, plays, writings and a diversity of things that reached and touched the people who lived in Harlem, place that... Continuar Lendo →
A brief critical review of the videoclip ‘I fink u freeky’ by Die Antwoord
Die Antwoord is an alternative hip-hop South African band that had its origins in Cape Town. The components are Watkin Tudor Jones also known as Ninja, Anri du Toit also known as Yolandi Vi$$er and the DJ Hi-Tek. With strong visual elements on the videoclips Die Antwoord works in a peculiar way. Right on the... Continuar Lendo →
Brazilian Black Movements
Marchs, slams and workshops! How the activists are teaching us. Brazil is going through a wide movement in order to empower the black community, specially those who live in the ghetto. A famous march called “Marcha do Empoderamento Crespo” (Afro Empowerment March) aroused a few years ago showing that black people with black features... Continuar Lendo →
Were soap operas the origin of the future telepathic technology?
A whirlwind of thoughts took control of my mind when I finally realized how the radio works, it is a funny experience when we truly start to learn about something that is so common in our lives. If it wasn’t enough I just listened to a girl presenting her research about how pain works on... Continuar Lendo →
About Multiculturalism And Multiperspective – Sense8
Explaining multiculturalism and multiperspective using the point of view of Douglas Kellner and linking the arguments using an example of this amazing TV series called Sense8 that blows our minds with a cauldron of cultures and customs. Multiculturalism “[attemps] to provide something for everyone […] [with] a wide range of ideological positions” (Kellner, 2003, p.... Continuar Lendo →