Brooklyn is Burning

29th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

My Screentest “#10 William” will be featured in Brooklyn is Burning, Saturday, July 5th.  More information below.

www.brooklynisburning.com

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Pride #4: Brian Epstein

28th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

The gay man behind the Beatles.

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Pride #3: Boys in the Band

27th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

Trailer for William Friedkin’s Boys in the Band (1970)

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Pride #2: Michael Jackson & Freddy Mercury

26th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

R.I.P. Michael Jackson.

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Pride #1: Bill Costa

25th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

Bill Costa’s photography work of 70s included this amazing selection focused on the gay scene of the Chelsea/West Village piers.  It’s documentation of how much has changed in New York City’s gay community since the late 70s, but also a harrowing vision of just how huge an effect the AIDS crisis had on everyone.  These pictures seem to me to be the calm before the storm, a sort of darkened utopia that seen now, some 30 years later, is a harrowing and fascinating documentation of an long begotten era in NYC gay history.

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Brooklyn + Don’t Cry

24th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

Two books that I’ve read recently that I loved:

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Iran & Twitter

17th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran – TED Blog

This time the world really is watching.  It’s scary and exciting.

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Fifth of July

16th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

I really enjoyed this play.  It’s up for another week or so.  Check it out.

(Nice poster too.)

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Mos Def – The Ecstatic

12th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

Great record.  And great cover art, which is a still from Charles Burnett’s wonderful film Killer of Sheep.

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Frontline: The Tank Man (2006)

10th
Jun. × ’09
By josh

I recently saw this episode of Frontline, The Tank Man, which explores the events leading up to and following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and the significance and the mysterious disappearance of the famous “Tank Man.”

Although a few years old now (I believe it’s been updated post-Bejing Olympics) I found this film to be one of the clearest documents of the troubling censorship of the Tiananmen Square massacre by the Chinese government and this event’s role in shaping the global powerhouse that China has become.  It’s essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the role that China will play in the next century.

Watch The Tank Man online here.

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