10,000 BC: Greatest Movie Ever?
Yeah, no, it sucks. We saw an advanced screening of it and I’m glad we didn’t pay to see. It was trying its hardest to follow in the footsteps of 300 and be inspiring, but it just kinda fell flat. It was so cliche that I picked out which characters were going to die and how before the movie really got started. If you get the chance to see it for free, then do it. I’d go to the popcorn stadium to see any free show, and I did.
If you don’t get the chance to see it for free, then wait for it to come on HBO. It may be good to watch on a lazy day.
New Orleans African American Museum of Art
To begin this post, I want to say that neither of us are to knowledgeable about art, so in order to educate ourselves we decided to go to the New Orleans African American Museum of Art. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised. I guess that I was expecting more in the way of traditional, more straight-forward art, but we were treated to a lot of nice contemporary stuff. A lot of it I got, and a lot of it I didn’t, but it was a good experience either way.
There were also a lot of African things there, mostly taken from the Congo. The were a lot of masks, and statues, but also some large pieces of metal that I mistook for swords at first. Turns out that they were a type of currency used for trading. They had been forged from iron and, from what I could gather, were shaped that way as a sort of extravagance. I wish I had a picture of it, but that’ll come later.
The museum itself is in the Treme Villa, an old creole villa with three buildings and some beautiful old New Orleans courtyards. Unfortunately, some of the exhibits were closed in order to prepare for a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, but it was still not something to be missed. If you’re ever in New Orleans be sure to go. All the info you’ll need to know is here.
Intro
W’sup, people? This is a new blog dedicated to the exploration of Black art, music, literature, and entertainment in general. We came up with this idea because we became tired of the same old stuff; all black music is starting to sound the same, our mainstream films are generally C+ at best, and Black books and art don’t seem to get the press they deserve. Through this blog we want to be motivated to explore different aspects of our culture and provide another venue (albeit a small one) for Black artists to get their names heard. Hopefully, we can get some other people to join us in our search.
