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First coined by cultural critic Mark Dery in an essay called Black to the Future, Afrofuturism draws together elements of astral jazz, African-American sci-fi and psychedelic hip-hop into an all-encompassing philosophy, imagining alternative visions of tomorrow.
Culturally, Afrofuturism's reach is vast. It encompasses the literature of writers such as Octavia E Butler and Ishmael Reed, films such as John Sayles's The Brother From Another Planet, and the visual art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ellen Gallagher. It has been retrospectively applied to the work of musicians ranging from Jimi Hendrix and Sun Ra to Public Enemy and Lee "Scratch" Perry. It has an expansive and pliant musical heritage, which film-maker and Afrofuturist author Ytasha Womack argues stretches all the way back to ancient African griot traditions; she also notes the frequent references to Egyptian astronomy and the pyramids.
She describes Afrofuturism as "the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some mysticism thrown in, too. It can be expressed through film; it can be expressed through art, literature and music. It's a way of bridging the future and the past and essentially helping to reimagine the experience of people of colour."
A brief – and in no way definitive – breakdown of Afrofuturism's musical lineage might look something like this. The 50s and 60s were dominated by the free jazz and avant garde work of Sun Ra and his Arkestra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Don Cherry and Alice Coltrane, with some psychedelic input from Jimi Hendrix and Love. The 70s and 80s were when George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic and Prince sent funk to outer space and dub innovators such as King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry beamed out cosmic signals from Jamaica. The 90s saw a renaissance and reimagining of Afrofuturism in hip-hop (OutKast, Kool Keith's Dr Octagon alias and RZA), neo-soul (Erykah Badu) and techno (specifically Detroit producers such as Drexciya), with all embracing the philosophy and giving it their own distinctive edge.[/quote
I was just posting but I need to find an therapist here.
I have finally come to the conclusion that my almost dying in '09 and such has left a few rather permanent mental scars I think.
Mazzyx on
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
So I was in the middle of doing a cost benefit analysis for @OnTheLastCastle and the chat got locked. So I'll bottom line it. Is the $250 you would save driving worth the 20 hours you would lose? Do you view your time being worth more or less than $12.50 an hour.
And geth, this is for you.
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
So I was in the middle of doing a cost benefit analysis for @OnTheLastCastle and the chat got locked. So I'll bottom line it. Is the $250 you would save driving worth the 20 hours you would lose? Do you view your time being worth more or less than $12.50 an hour.
And geth, this is for you.
i might enjoy a drive but i doubt i would enjoy it both ways
so yeah i need to sack up and buy the $400 flight right now and not wait until tomorrow
this is also a good example of a sweet beyonce performance with afrofuturist visual themes but they TOOK DOWN THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO POST IT
Dear god lady just pay the bill you fucking said you wanted to, STOP TALKING GIVE ME THE DIGITS!
She's stalling for time! She's about to drive under a tunnel!
I don't think she had her card ready, which is dumb as hell she was calling to pay her bill and yet she didn't have the one thing she needed to do that. SHE CALL ME TO DO THIS. RHAHRAHRLARLKJAJKL
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I was just posting but I need to find an therapist here.
I have finally come to the conclusion that my almost dying in '09 and such has left a few rather permanent mental scars I think.
What happened?
My Crohn's.
I have a picture of me at the time.
But I had my first flare that year. I went from 155 lbs to 105 lbs in 3 months. Had abdominal abscesses which still kill like 1 in 5 people who have them. Had two surgeries. The first one led to complications and pericardial pneumonia. I straight up almost died. Severe anemia. Pain that sat on an 8+ for weeks at a time. I am good now but it was a rough multi-month period.
Traumatic experiences like that tend to leave marks, even those that aren't scene.
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
Feral, I'm going to Iceland in July. Please have a report on my desk by mid-june.
Everybody speaks English, everybody is really nice, it barely feels like a foreign country.
The biggest pieces of advice I can give are:
1) Don't bother renting a car if you're just staying in Reykjavik. The city is small and very walkable, they have a good bus system, and their bus app (straeto.is) is in English.
2) If you are renting a car, don't assume that the highways are paved. Google Maps might direct you down (for example) highway 54 from Stykkisholmur to Budardalur. Don't do it, it's a trap. You'll get halfway through and the road is no longer a road and it's just a pile of rocks. Verify your routes using the road network viewer at road.is. If you stick to the paved roads, driving is easy. Traffic is light and road signs are easy to read.
3) They're very creative when it comes to writing out price tags. Most of the time, prices are in thousands of kroner. (For example: 1,000kr). Sometimes they put the comma in interesting places (10,00kr) or they use a decimal instead (1.000kr). Sometimes they abbreviate Icelandic kroner as kr, sometimes as isk, sometimes as just k. Ignore punctuation, just read every price as some multiple of 1000kr (or 100kr-1000kr for items under $10). I used a mental shortcut to calculate prices, for you it is $10 CAD = roughly 1000 kr. If when doing your mental calculation food and booze seems a bit expensive, that's because it is. A cheesburger might be 1500kr and a cocktail 1200kr and that's just normal for Iceland.
4) Everybody speaks English, but learning the non-English Icelandic characters (such as ð, eth) helps a lot with reading maps and signs. It's a Germanic language and there are a lot of English cognates that you'll instantly recognize as long as you learn the basic pronunciation rules. If you go farther into the rural areas, peoples' English skills get weaker, but we didn't meet anybody who spoke no English at all.
5) Don't bother eating fermented shark. As far as I can tell, it's a counterargument against the "No True Scotch, Man" fallacy. I'm sure somebody somewhere actually likes the stuff, but I couldn't find anybody who would admit it. It persists mostly as a tourist curiosity and as a rite of passage for Icelanders.
6) Reindeer, however, is delicious. So is horse, as long as it's slaughtered young. So is pretty much all of their other seafood.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Posts
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/24/space-is-the-place-flying-lotus-janelle-monae-afrofuturism
that's nuts
Did u know I weigh like 145 now
I look terrible
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I have finally come to the conclusion that my almost dying in '09 and such has left a few rather permanent mental scars I think.
And geth, this is for you.
Jake. 30 for 30 breaking the curse was on this weekend
I was watching it I was like
This is what it must feel like to be you
i might enjoy a drive but i doubt i would enjoy it both ways
so yeah i need to sack up and buy the $400 flight right now and not wait until tomorrow
I really need to get back into therapy as well.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
pleasepaypreacher.net
:bro:
I literally used to be twice your size months ago before I started hitting the gym
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waVTmU-EwJo
this is also a good example of a sweet beyonce performance with afrofuturist visual themes but they TOOK DOWN THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO POST IT
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What happened?
She's stalling for time! She's about to drive under a tunnel!
I was prob 165 when I moved to LA 6 months ago, I was shamed into starving myself
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I take umbrage at this statement.
I don't think she had her card ready, which is dumb as hell she was calling to pay her bill and yet she didn't have the one thing she needed to do that. SHE CALL ME TO DO THIS. RHAHRAHRLARLKJAJKL
pleasepaypreacher.net
good, good
@Neco you have a beautiful girlface and someday you'll see it yourself, and that will be an amazing day.
Fuck whoever did that to you, how tall are you?
Herbie Hancock:
https://youtu.be/lkwluLsP364
Parliament:
https://youtu.be/tna-3J8F8nE
Jeff Mills:
https://youtu.be/6Bt2G_GpYIs
*wipes the dust off his "death to the Palestinians" sign*
yes therapy is good
i've been going for 2 years now
i've made progress, definitely
there's a lot to unpack in my brain
everyone should go to therapy if their insurance covers its tbh i wish i'd gone some like when i was 18 even, not just when i was 26
My Crohn's.
I have a picture of me at the time.
But I had my first flare that year. I went from 155 lbs to 105 lbs in 3 months. Had abdominal abscesses which still kill like 1 in 5 people who have them. Had two surgeries. The first one led to complications and pericardial pneumonia. I straight up almost died. Severe anemia. Pain that sat on an 8+ for weeks at a time. I am good now but it was a rough multi-month period.
Traumatic experiences like that tend to leave marks, even those that aren't scene.
Oh it wasn't a person specifically, it was the ambient overwhelming attractiveness of everyone here
And I'm 5'10
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
definitely depends on level of arousal. i think the longest was like 2-3 hours afterwards (it was early AM so i wasn't actually keeping track)
Something like 8 hours.
That was a weird day
"like a dying warthog"
Everybody speaks English, everybody is really nice, it barely feels like a foreign country.
The biggest pieces of advice I can give are:
1) Don't bother renting a car if you're just staying in Reykjavik. The city is small and very walkable, they have a good bus system, and their bus app (straeto.is) is in English.
2) If you are renting a car, don't assume that the highways are paved. Google Maps might direct you down (for example) highway 54 from Stykkisholmur to Budardalur. Don't do it, it's a trap. You'll get halfway through and the road is no longer a road and it's just a pile of rocks. Verify your routes using the road network viewer at road.is. If you stick to the paved roads, driving is easy. Traffic is light and road signs are easy to read.
3) They're very creative when it comes to writing out price tags. Most of the time, prices are in thousands of kroner. (For example: 1,000kr). Sometimes they put the comma in interesting places (10,00kr) or they use a decimal instead (1.000kr). Sometimes they abbreviate Icelandic kroner as kr, sometimes as isk, sometimes as just k. Ignore punctuation, just read every price as some multiple of 1000kr (or 100kr-1000kr for items under $10). I used a mental shortcut to calculate prices, for you it is $10 CAD = roughly 1000 kr. If when doing your mental calculation food and booze seems a bit expensive, that's because it is. A cheesburger might be 1500kr and a cocktail 1200kr and that's just normal for Iceland.
4) Everybody speaks English, but learning the non-English Icelandic characters (such as ð, eth) helps a lot with reading maps and signs. It's a Germanic language and there are a lot of English cognates that you'll instantly recognize as long as you learn the basic pronunciation rules. If you go farther into the rural areas, peoples' English skills get weaker, but we didn't meet anybody who spoke no English at all.
5) Don't bother eating fermented shark. As far as I can tell, it's a counterargument against the "No True Scotch, Man" fallacy. I'm sure somebody somewhere actually likes the stuff, but I couldn't find anybody who would admit it. It persists mostly as a tourist curiosity and as a rite of passage for Icelanders.
6) Reindeer, however, is delicious. So is horse, as long as it's slaughtered young. So is pretty much all of their other seafood.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.