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THE AUDIOVISUAL ISSUE 06.03.2011 This issue COOL’EH gives the concept of Audio-Visual a generous stretching, followed by a vigorous workout.
Moving pictures? We interview Mississippi Damned director Tina Mabry about her arresting debut film and do our best to parse truth from half-truth in the bold Rwandan Genocide documentary Earth Made Of Glass.Sticking with the docs, several Seattle Supersonics fans get together to expose the conspiracy that robbed Seattle of it’s basketball team, and with the now-Oklahoma Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, it couldn’t be timelier. We ponder the inability of Hollywood to make romantic comedies for the thinking woman, and not-quite-retired-pornstar Ashley Blue chops it up with COOL’EH about her new memoir.
Music? Leave it to the French to show us another side of America. This time it’s two hip-hop heads with cameras capturing the daily grind in the birthplace of rap, one poignant vignette at a time. Excerpts from an 90s indie rock memoir. Why Elzhi should have left Illmatic alone. Death Grips haunt their own house in Sacramento. DJ Rashad on a footwork tour in the UK. The best rap videos of 1999. M.I.A. collaborator Blaqstarr gets in the recording booth and talks existential vibrations.
Art? Graphic novelist Joshua Dysart talks shop and explains how he ended up making a comic book about the Ugandan civil war. Glassblower extraordinaire Joe Cariati on modern day alchemy. Hollis Brown Thornton repurposes your 80s media for our gallery, and the results are enough to make us nostalgic for double reverse tapedecks and home-copied VHS tapes.
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