From New York to New Orleans, Is There Anything Black Folk Don’t Do?

Nishat Kurwa on Friday, Jun. 29th


This week, filmmaker Angela Tucker launched the second season of her documentary web series, Black Folk Don’t. In it, Tucker travels to New Orleans, polling black folks in the Big Easy about a range of topics all derived from audience suggestions. Like the first season, this season’s conceits are a mix of light and serious, from camping to suicide.

In this podcast, Tucker discusses which conceits got the most consensus among her New York interviewees, and how she avoided injecting her own politics into the series — even when answers seemed to reinforce stereotypes about a unanimous “black experience.”

You can see the new season at http://BlackPublicMedia.org, and we’ll also be posting episodes here at Turnstyle.

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Hangout w/Jesse Vigil, Game Designer [Freeq]

Now streaming: the archive of our Google Hangout On-Air with Jesse Vigil of Psychic Bunny, one of the designers of the new audio adventure game FREEQ (iOS/Android).

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Watch This: To The Last, Dir. Matt Luck

We’ve featured dancer Matt Luck’s work before.

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Sifteo Cubes: Blurring the Edges of Play

I first encountered Sifteo Cubes back at IndieCade last October, and spent some time playing around with the little blocks which I first mistook for iPod Nanos.

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Lighting Is An Underestimated Art

Over the weekend I was having a conversation about the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum that’s been announced.

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THE WEEKENDER: PRESENT SHOCK

I’m going to go out on a limb here and promise you that this will be the first of two posts on Present Shock, the Douglas Rushkoff book that has been getting a mountain of attention in the tech press since it was released earlier this month.

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