Diana Gordon, Beyonce Songwriter, Launches New Feminist Anthem Called 'Woman'
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Songwriter Diana Gordon has written memorable lyrics for Beyoncé, including three song on 'Lemonade': 'Sorry', 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and 'Daddy Lessons'. Having worked for years in dance clubs under the name Wynter Gordon, the songstress just premiered her first music video on Vogue.com: 'a feminist anthem called 'Woman'.
In the video, shot by director Cameron McCool in grainy black-and-white around New York City, Gordon and a group of bare-chested pregnant women in tailored topcoats are the ultimate symbol of bad-ass feminine power. “We shot this video on a cold day in November; five pregnant women on the cusp of giving birth, and hungry, everyone having to pee at the same time,” wrote Gordon in an email. “This song, that celebrates your mother, my mother, your sister, and my sister, is just my way to stand up for the woman next to me and all those unseen. In a time when we are still defending our right to choose, pay equality, moral and ethical equality; a time where single motherhood is on the rise and women are in the trenches raising the next generation largely by themselves, we have to be all-encompassing and stay strong through the worst of situations. We need to stand together.” Words to live by. Watch below.
America's Alt-Right White Men Attack Liberalism With Pizzagate & Moral Outrage
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Over the past six weeks, the alleged story of Hillary Clinton and other prominent members of the Democratic Party establishment participating in an international child sex ring has morphed into a front page story. "It began in October, when a baseless rumor about emails allegedly discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop made its way through Twitter and 4chan and conspiracy-theorist websites", writes Slate.
Self-deputized online investigators combed through the emails of Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, dumped by WikiLeaks. Finding only campaign talk and recipes, the 'investigators' concluded that innocuous terms used in Podesta’s emails were actually a series of secret codes: “pizza” for girl, “ice cream” for male prostitute, and so on. Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizzeria that had hosted a Democratic fundraiser, was identified (also baselessly) as a headquarters for sex-ring activities. The conspiracy theory acquired a name, “Pizzagate.”
On Sunday a man wielding an assault rifle entered Comet Ping Pong, saying he was there to investigate Pizzagate. 4chan users are confident that the man is part of a false-flag operation being carried out by the establishment to discredit their investigation. Consider that every falsehood has another one to explain why it isn't.
The Clintons have been accused of every possible crime over the course of their 30-plus years in politics, but this one takes the cake, so to speak. We should remember, however, that America has been obsessed with child-sex-rings for the last 30 years. Slate reviews this sordid history of false allegations.
Related: Trump Fires Adviser's Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News The New York Times
Zelda Fitzgerald In 'Z: The Beginning of Everything' Comes To Amazon
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Amazon's new original series featuring actor Christina Ricci playing Zelda Fitzgerald. In this fictionalized account of the couple's turbulent marriage, the narrative plays from Zelda's perspective and not that of her famous husband, the writer and novelist.
The first trailer, which dropped today, shows Zelda and Scott enjoying the riches of his literary fame while striving to maintain their posh, party-heavy lifestyle. "He basically married the heroine of his stories," one observer remarks as they dance their way through New York's speakeasies. This, of course, is true—Zelda is widely regarded as the inspiration for The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan, and one scene in the trailer shows her reproaching him for using her words in a story. Scott and Zelda were as famous for their fights as their glamour, and his mining of her life for material for his stories looks to be a major plot point of the show. via
The life of Zelda Fitzgerald is also under development by actors Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson. Prepare for fashion's preoccupation with the Jazz Age, additionally relevant with the rise of Trump Tower and all things glitzy.
'Z: The Beginning of Everything' will stream on Amazon starting Friday January 27, 2017.
Pantone Promises An Inspiring Rebirth In 'Greenery' For 2017 -- Trump Or No Trump
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The Pantone Color Institute, self-appointed as the 'global color authority', has declared Pantone 15-0343 known as 'greenery' as Color of the Year for 2017.
“We know what kind of world we are living in: one that is very stressful and very tense,“ said Leatrice Eiseman, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. “This is the color of hopefulness, and of our connection to nature. It speaks to what we call the ‘re’ words: regenerate, refresh, revitalize, renew. Every spring we enter a new cycle and new shoots come from the ground. It is something life affirming to look forward to.”
Having reviewed the Trump administration's new list of cabinet members, I'm not exactly sure what kind of renewal Eiseman speaks of -- since it promises to be one hell of a four years of lost rights and the end of progressive values on a national level.
Eiseman continues, in typical fashion director speak:
When the Pantone team started noticing the creeping preponderance of green, there was a sense that perhaps it reflected what was regarded earlier this fall as the possibility of a new beginning with the first female president. But in the wake of Mr. Trump’s victory and the dissension it highlighted, Ms. Eiseman said, green “could have an even more significant meaning.”
“This particular green is an unusual color: a combination of yellow and blue, or warmth and a certain cool,” she said. “It’s a complex marriage.” Read on at New York Times.
'Loving' Star Ruth Negga Tells Vogue US She's Territorial About Her Identity
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“Loving Star Ruth Negga on Biracial Politics: “I Get Very Territorial About My Identity””
With her mesmerizing performance in Jeff Nichols’s subtly groundbreaking film 'Loving', the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time, writes Vogue about their January cover star.
Negga is 35 (though she feels she “was about 22 a second ago”), and her powers of transformation are such that she’s been cast, with striking frequency, as people who look and are nothing like her. Tulip is a busty blonde in the original. Nichols thought at first that she was too petite to play Mildred. Six years ago, she became the National Theatre’s first black Ophelia and let a troubling force of revenge seep through her sweetness. She embodies these characters so fully, you forget they could have been otherwise. At a time when most British exports to Hollywood have tended toward the aristocratic, this Irish-Ethiopian actress is a different kind of royalty, a “brilliant chameleon,” in the words of her friend the director Annie Ryan, fit for a world of equal rights and dissolving borders.
Related on AOC: Ruth Negga & Joel Edgerton In 'Love Story' by Mario Testino for Vogue US November 2016. Read on.
Leonardo DiCaprio Meets With Trump & Ivanka To Talk Green Jobs
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Just as Al Gore talked green jobs in his recent meeting with president-elect Donald Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation Terry Tamminen focused their 90-minute environmental presentation on job creation in the green sector when they met with Trump, his daughter Ivanka and other members of the Trump team on Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York.
"Today, we presented the President-elect and his advisors with a framework — which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism — that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure," Tamminen said. "Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation."
The Oscar-winning actor has been a strong advocate of fighting climate change and preserving wildlife, and his recent documentary, "Before the Flood," addresses the peril that the world faces because of climate change.
DiCaprio previously met with Ivanka Trump and presented her with a copy of the film.
On Wednesday Trump also announced that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt -- a tremendous foe of the climate change and environmental protections -- will head the Environmental Protection Agency.
NYC Guggenheim Museum Talks Steve Jobs' New Opera On April 9, 2017
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Composer Mason Bates, librettist Mark Campbell and director Kevin Newbury are writing an opera about the life of Apple visionary Steve Jobs scheduled to debut in Santa Fe.
On April 9 and 10, 2017, a handful of New Yorkers will have the chance to hear the trio discuss what it was like to write an opera about the man who put an iPhone in the hands of more than 101 million Americans. New York's Guggenheim museum presents the creators of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” as part of its Works & Process series on April 9 at the Guggenheim's Peter B. Lewis Theater, which seats 285 audience members for a moderated conversation.
Related: A Steve Jobs Opera Is Next Up for the Santa Fe Company New York Times
Forget Hamilton, Steve Jobs' life will make for memorable opera CultofMac.com
New World Design's Flying Pigs on Parade: A Golden Pig Folly Proposed For Chicago
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President-elect Donald J. Trump notoriously called comedian Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pig” in a long-running feud. He mocked Miss Universe Alicia Machado by dubbing her “Miss Piggy.”
Now, a Chicago architectural firm wants to celebrate Trump's love of pigs by blotting out the real estate developer -- now president of the United States and TIME magazine's person of the year - with a series of floating golden swine floating in front of his name.
New World Design‘s Flying Pigs on Parade: a Chicago River Folly (2016) proposes four pig-shaped golden balloons -- one for each year of the Trump presidency -- tethered to buoys in the Chicago River. The golden pigs will float in such a way that they obscure The Donald’s name, emblazoned on the structure in 20-foot-high lettering.
