CONSTIMOCRAZY is a story of Africa weaved by an African poet-patriot, a slinger wielding the spear, his pen, against treachery perpetrated by history and its cruelty. The same pen wielder rebukes Africa for frying its own beauty, dignity and morality in copper-roasting furnaces of disgrace and despotism. The African poet-patriot traverses with us around, from …
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When they say, ‘We want our America back,’ well what the fuck do they mean? You remember that song from Jill Sobule, one of our favorite troubadours. Jill has launched a Kickstarter campaign for her first album in 9 years, and we’re all pitching in. As Jill explains: Last month at an “industry” party, I …
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Greetings Cultural Weekly community! Want to know about an outrageous woman who broke all the rules, a gal with a sense of humor and a sense of self? Take a break with Pancho Barnes, a fearless woman who: escaped kidnappers by riding a horse across Mexico dressed as a man— repeatedly said ‘No!” to authority, …
Wo Chan is a queer Fujianese poet, writer, and drag performer. A recipient of fellowships from Poets House , Kundiman, and Lambda Literary , Wo’s work has been published in cream city review , BARZAHK , The Cortlandt Review , iO: A Journal for New American Poetry , and VYM Magazine. As a member of Brooklyn-based drag alliance, Switch n’ Play , Wo has performed at venues including Brooklyn Pride, …
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After their first successful Kickstarter for Speculative Relationships: Volume 1, Scott Kroll and Tyrell Cannon are back with more science fiction romance! They’ve just launched a new Kickstarter campaign, and need to raise $12,000 by July 8, 2015. In the mid-twentieth century, romance was the most popular genre in comics. Comic publishers produced dozens of …
Traditional Animation Is Alive and Well Revengeance Feature Film a Go. Raises Over $90,0000. It is with great pleasure that we report that Revengeance, a new animated feature film from independent creators Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan, has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter. As you may recall, we recently featured it as one of our …
Revengeance Funded: Congrats to Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan! Read More »
“Dumb money” is a phrase you used to hear a lot in Hollywood circles. It refers to investors who don’t understand how the movie game is played, and then get played by the movie game. However, in the past few years, there has been a lot less dumb money floating around, which is a good …
Last week, the SEC issued new rules governing equity crowdfunding, that will allow small investors to become profit participants. Should we in the filmmaking community, especially those of us who are independent, be cheering? As an industry, we’re still reeling from the drop in DVD sales and the rise of cheap production. We haven’t adjusted …
Revengeance Looks Like Another Winner for Renowned Animator Bill Plympton Matthew Modine and Dave Foley join cast Very few cartoonists and animators have a style that is as instantly recognizable as that of Bill Plympton’s. For over 40 years his illustrations and cartoons have been gracing the pages of such publications as The New York …
Bounty Hunters, Bikers, Neo-Noir Los Angeles and Bill Plympton! Read More »
If you love Italian food as much as we do, you know the name Marcella Hazan, whose cookbooks brought Italian food to American palates. Her famous tomato sauce, made with sweet onion and a touch of butter, is simple genius, and, simply, the best tomato sauce in the world. Now her son, Guiliano Hazan, has …
How fantastic are fungi? Pretty fantastic. An all-star team of artists, scientists, doctors and explorers are joining forces to create a mind-bending, life-affirming film about the mushroom and its mysterious root-like structure: mycelium. What they reveal will blow your mind, and possibly save the planet. Fantastic Fungi is an important scientific exploration and visual journey …
As you read this, DTLAB should be wrapping up our July schedule. Last event of July will be our 34th event. And the month will close beautifully with an Evening of Ramadan Poetry. The reading will consist of a dozen readers (at least), curated by Tanzila Ahmed and Naazneen Diwan. For the month of Ramadan …
DTLAB ❤’s Kristina Wong Kristina Wong ❤’s Jeremy Lin Read More »
Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Aaron Swartz was charged with 13 felony counts for essentially attempting to download a massive database of academic research from the computer servers of MIT, an offense for which he might have served up to 35 years in prison and paid up to one million dollars in …
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A project truly worth Kickstarting. The powerhouse that is Rhea Tepp, co-founder/organizer of LA Zine Fest among other things, and Sarah Cisco, the writer, creator, and star of Trash/Smash, are planning to open a fully collaborative headquarters for the L.A. independent art and music community aimed at creation, experimentation & storytelling in Echo Park. Echo Chamber will exist …
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