BIOCHEMICAL SLANG!
Why don’t you mail that DVD I sent you to someone in the cipher and let them experience the film? I’m talking about this classic dope 1970’s Black power flick called ‘Street Fight‘ a/k/a ‘Coon Skin’. It’s a revolutionary movie on so many levels. For one, the storyline exposes how supremacy uses several organizations to keep Black people in check. It’s hot shit that you need to fucks with. As a matter of fact…
RALPH BAKSHI was also a trailblazing filmmaker for his style of using animation over real photo backdrops. This added to the gritty, dark personality in some of his films. I find myself trying to figure out where some of his locations were filmed at in New York City. The technique brings a surreality to his art. BAKSHI is one of the best to ever do it.
Speaking of RALPH BAKSHI…
I got an e-mail from some cats at www.thenursery.tv about a cartoon series they developed that they thought I would like. They were right. Their work is funny and highly influenced by BAKSHI’s art. I also noticed that some of their backgrounds were shot in my old stomping grounds like Washington Square Park and the the Fun Factory in Long Island City. Good shit. Peep game…
DP you need to rip that beast and convert it to divx/xvid and post that. I been looking for it for years.
You’re fuckin’ kidding, me…I JUST made a blog asking why aren’t there any hip hop related animated movies in the vein of “Rock & Rule”, “American Pop”, and “Heavy Metal”. I also mentioned other Bakshi joints and how he jacked the idea for “Cobalt 60” from the Bodes and flipped it into “Wizards”. Read it here:
http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/
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i’m so mad that the beverly cinema is down the street from the studio i work at but i’ve been working to hard to see the flick..
^Yeah Miss Ahmad, I know how you feel. It’s almost like you never left work.
For over a decade I worked for an architect family whose office was across the street from the nightclub Nell’s. They gave me a set of keys to the building so I used to have the occasional after after party in my office. The after after party usually consisted of me and a young coke whore sniffing a bump or two and fucking on my desk. True stories.
dallas penn blog cypher: who hasn’t seen STREET FIGHT?
holla at biochemical slang
ATHF must have stolen their shit from Ralph.
I love those clips.
This is why I fux with you DP. Pause, no snap music.
^Dart Adams,
Uhmm . . . there will be movies coming out in that same vein, but not the exact same style. I pretty much doubt it will be a theatrical release, mostly independent work.
I recently saw Coonskin, caught the DVD off Amazon. It’s cool but not necessarily revolutionary. Just my opinion. The production on Fire and Ice was far better. Another little note, I thought Mary Poppins use animation with real backdrops far better than Coon Skin. My thing about Coonskin was the timing of the storytelling and the production wasn’t up to par like his later works Lords of the Ring, and Cool World.
Off topic: Jeru the Damaja’s Can’t Stop the Prophet video was well done.