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Posts tagged texas

1 October 2009

"Austin, Texas," oil on canvas, 5x6', by Christa Palazzolo :: via FFFFOUND!

I really like this striking oversize portrait. A lot of Palazzolo's other portraiture is more distanced and ironic (including a striking series of Great Historical Women depicted as glamorous contemporary sex symbols), but this guy's placid stare is the opposite of glamor, revealing rather than concealing.

re: art, cultural worlds, faces, glamor, painting, texas

Nate:

20 August 2009

by Nate Barksdale for Culture Making

There’s a cheap/free good music convergence happening at Amazon.com’s mp3 store this week: Emmylou Harris’s splendid, splendid album “Wrecking Ball”, a brilliant sonic reinvention of songs by Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Jimi Hindrix, and Daniel Lanois, is on sale for just $2.99 for the full download.

And as if that weren’t enough, they’ve got a dozen or so world music sampler albums available for free download, including this eight-song compliation from the always-inspiring Soweto Gospel Choir. Did I mention it’s free?

re: alabama, canada, cultural worlds, mexico, music, south africa, texas

7 October 2008

Rugby fan that I am, I find it odd to think of American football teams performing their own versions of the Polynesian pregame haka (here in Oregon I think it was brought over by Hawaiian football recruits). Still, it's a step in the right direction—now they just need to ditch the pads, helmets, and forward passes.

re: cultural worlds, hawaii, multicultralism, new zealand, sport, texas, tonga

Nate:

a kottke.org post, 7 October 2008

The high school football team in Euless, TX (population 52,900) starts their games by performing the haka, a chanting dance used to intimidating effect by New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team. What’s odd/interesting about this is that the Maori chant was appropriated by the team’s contingent of Tongan players—whose parents moved to the town to work at DFW airport—and has led to a greater sense of acceptance of the Tongans into the larger community. How’s that for multiculturalism?