More Concept Artistry from the BLACK PANTHER MOVIE as done by Concept Artist Marco Nelor..... enjoy

http://africandigitalart.com/2018/02/jabari-tribe-concept-art-and-character-designs/

More 3D digital art from Till Nowak shown at WePresent.com

https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/till-nowak-black-panther/

ENJOY

If you have Netflix and had the chance to check out THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX, a little FYI is that it was directed by seasoned Nigerian born director by the name of JULIUS ONAH. To his credit are films such as "Don't Look Back"(2008), "The Girl Is in Trouble"(2015) and a forthcoming project sometime this year titled "Luce". This tie in to the Cloverfield Universe is pretty well done and centers around British Black Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw and her damaged family. The inclusion of David Oyelowo as the commander had me hooked, then there is the ALTERNATE REALITY mix. OUTSTANDING if you have not had a chance to check out.

Regardless of my disappointment over the content of this CD. This song and THIS Video is by far (DOPE)³. Produced by Meyers and The Little Homies 

My expression of PRIDE for the BLACK PANTHER MOVIE are the Promotional posters of the characters within the Movie. Soon I am getting each of these enlarged and posted on a wall or two in the crib. Just wish I had a LARGER crib with more walls!

CONGRATS to MY peeps in Philly! LOVE Y'all!

Another post Black Panther must see for me is Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, THE DISNEY MOVIE. I must confess that this project has my heart for two reasons. First is the FACT that this book got me to literally READ on the level of pure enjoyment as a elementary school child. It was my FIRST Science Fiction story ever, was relatable as the main character was MY age at the time. A book was assigned to me by a teacher, a black woman named Mrs. Garrett whom at the time was one of the many teachers (Black) at my school in Oakland, Cali whom I believe took her job for teaching young black children SERIOUSLY. She had a reading list to which we were given a choice of many books at 3rd/4th grade level and I out the blue choose this one just to get her off my back. After forcing the first few chapters, my attention begin to focus when the group encountered the tesseract. I read the entire book in a week and it inspired me to begin to WRITE my own Sci Fi story.

SECOND reason I must see this is that it is directed by "QUEEN SUGAR" director Ava DuVernay my film shero. This is her time showing her hand at a pure IMAGINARY direction which looks better than AMAZING YO! I am used to her work with the REAL and the TRUE which has (to me) all been cinematically OUTSTANDING. Now this YO! Is 2018 going to be the year I have to create a budget for MUST SEE movies? At least in the first three month is looks like..... Enjoy

Oh Yeah FYI: "A Wrinkle in Time", the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013 and continues to thrive. It holds the ranking by many critics as one of the most frequently banned novels of all time.

Yeah As you guessed with this posting that I am a MECHA HEAD and Love Monster Movies.. I was a GODZILLA Nerd. Well my favorite NEW movie of all time will hit the screen in March with my boi JOHN BOYEGA, just after get over my BLACK PANTHER fix. Seems like a winner since John is playing the son of IDRIS ELBA's character in PR1.

I have included a few STILLS for the movie so you can see why my nerdy behind is so STOKED! And for ALL you haters... Just keep it pushin Please.

VoCo allows you to change words in a voiceover simply by typing new words. Presented live during the Adobe MAX 2016 Sneak Peeks. 

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Fellow Animator Kwesi Davis showing us an animated story of Life 3 dayz after the Katrina Hurricane. Loving the roaming camera in this. WARNING: this is a PG13 kinda short film and REAL.

Don Cheadle portrays One of my FAV Traditional JAZZ Musicians MILES DAVIS. Looks to be great and what I expected. MILES DAVIS to me represented the FIRST of a new generation of BLACK MEN who had the attitude, the blessings to be raised, nurtured by parents and a community that were not held back by economic and/or mental slavery issues. understood and knew what power he had and how to weld it in 1950s-60s. 

This week’s discussion topic is Cyberfunk and the subgenres Cypherfunk and Biofunk. The definitions of the three Categories of African American speculative science fiction is as follows

Cyberfunk - Like the genre from which it gains inspiration, Cyberpunk, Cyberfunk is a genre of Speculative Fiction centered on the transformative effects of advanced science, information technology, computers and networks (“cyber”) coupled with a breakdown or radical change in the social order. Unlike Cyberpunk, however, Cyberfunk is expressed through an Afrikan / Black lens (“funk”). Often possessing a dark, gritty and cynical tone, Cyberfunk includes elements of Film Noir, hard-boiled Detective Fiction and postmodern deconstruction.

Cypherfunk - is any African activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography, the art of writing or solving codes as a route to social and political change. Cypherfunkateers communicate through some type of online electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. Cypherfunks as with their Cypherpunk counterparts, have been engaged in an active movement since the late 1980s.

Biofunk - is a subgenre of African American speculative science fiction that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk/cyberfunk, but focuses on the implications A derivative of cyberfunk involving bio-hackers, mega-corporations, and oppressive government agencies that manipulate human DNA. Most often keeping with the dark atmosphere of cyberfunk, biofunk generally examines the dark side of genetic engineering and represents the low side of biotechnology. Common ideas of this sub-genre are biotechnologies in the context of the gap between the rich and poor, the value and nature of life and humanity, human enhancement, misusage of biotechnologies for social control and profit.

The Questions I pose to my creative writers and artists are:

1) Out of these three sci-fi genres defined above, which could bring forth greater creative expression, storytelling, timing, design and environment in your work?
2) Since the beginning of Black History Month we have discussed AFROFUTURISM, ROCOCA, STEAMFUNK, and DIESELFUNK. Which combination with CYBERFUNK (or any of its subgenres) would inspire creative motivation and why?

For me, I believe the BIOFUNK genre appeals to my creative energies best because it is the most diverse, subjective and timeless. Stories of cures for cancer, AIDS, mental illness and other more HUMAN issue can be addressed. I believe I could communicate the character’s anxiety of self, society and/or corporate misuse, through mood and relating it with the struggles african americans on both north and south continental scale. My second choice would be creating a CYPHERFUNK story. It would be a “challenge” but I am attracted to the idea of motivating social change through African centered GLYPHS, codes and the world wide web.

If I ever enter into a project involving a combination of genres, I believe my first choice would be a time traveling CYPHERFUNK/CYBERFUNK story. The characters would travel through time somehow to the STEAMFUNK era and for some unfortunate reason one of them would be trapped there for a minute. A bit “Octavia Butler” - ish, yes I know but I believe I could swing it to make it completely different yawn. Well, hopefully more than a yawn…. LOL.

Your thoughts, creative BSFS friendz, fanboiz and fangirlz, Afrikanist and Five per Centerz!

Queen mother Angela Bassett is a collective community favorite on the small and silver screens, playing some of our all-time favorite characters. Thanks to Bryan Fuller’s announcement as show runner for the new Star Trek television series reboot, the esteemed actress might be the franchise’s second black woman to playa Starfleet captain. Madge Sinclair was the first woman and black actor on screen as captain of the USS Saratoga. The show will be available on CBS All Access, the network’s online streaming service, in 2017.

Fuller is no stranger to the Star Trek universe. At the beginning of his TV career, one of his first gigs was writing episodes for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He then moved on to the Voyagerseries. A true fan of the show growing up, Fuller told EW, “My very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls…It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”

Fuller, creator of Hannibal and Pushing Daisies, is a hire that the Trekkie community is excited about because of his passion for the show and it’s possibilities. Casting for Star Trek has not been announced, although he says Bassett would be his pick.

During an interview in 2013 he shared his idea of a dream cast for a Star Trekshow. “I want Angela Bassett to be the captain, that’s who I would love to have, you know Captain Angela Bassett and First Officer Rosario Dawson. I would love to do that version of the show but that’s in the future to be told.”

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The blerd Trekkie community is crossing their fingers that Fuller hasn’t forgotten his dream now that he’s landed the position, starting the hashtag #CaptainAngelaBassett.

Time will only tell whether Bassett will be recording captain’s logs on her own starship in 2017. It never hurts to dream, and “fancasts” are making more of an impact than ever in the age of social media.

To a few of my creative friends, Peeps and associates I have posted this to their pages in various social media so All will be able to express their views of this term with transparency....

Question: What is AFRO - FUTURISM to you as One of its creators? Have posted My definition on My FB PAGE. Do you agree or disagree? How so? To you What factors warrant something to be LABELED under this Term or movement or YOUR definition of what it is?

What is AFRO - FUTURISM to you as One of its creators?

AFRO-FUTURISM is the AFFIRMATION that we as people of African descent are a visible, active and controlling hand in the future of this Planet and Realty.

To you What factors warrant something to be LABELED under this Term or movement or YOUR definition of what it is? I believe if it does not affirm, involve, reference or include anything of cultural, artistic and/or communal value to the continent of AFRICA, it does not earn the right to be called by that term. On a personal note (meaning MY personal opinion) the story may have other races and creatures involved but if the protagonist (main Character) is not of or from the Continent (Africa - pick your country) then it is JUST a INCLUSIVE futurist story... NOT AFRO - FUTURISM.

I state this because I hear, read and see this term starting to be sprinkled over social media and the BLACK FAN BOY/ GIRL sites. But have not really seen or for that matter AGREED with what the term is and about. I am busy personally defining and challenging my creative peeps to step up and give me feedback. Here is the beginning of a reading list provided by AfroFuturism849.com

http://afrofuturism849.com/

(Thank You Karla Dennis from Facebook for this)

Reading or have read sofar....

Nelson, Alondra. “Afrofuturism: Past-Future Vision.” Colorlines 3, no. 1 (2000).

Hamilton, Elizabeth C. “Analog Girls in a Digital World: Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Intervention in the Politics of “Traditional” African Art.”Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 33, (2013): 70-79.

Griffith, Rollefson. J. “The “Robot Voodoo Power” Thesis: Afrofuturism and Anti-Anti-Essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith.” Black Music Research Journal 28, no. 1 (2008): 83-109.

Bristow, Tegan. “We Want the Funk: What Is Afrofuturism to the Situation of Digital Arts in Africa?” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research10, no. 1 (2012): 25-32.

My Earthday is in 11 Days..... If anyone feels generous here is MY wishlist Part 7 (of 17...LOL). Today I am asking for AFRICAN MUSIC in MP3 format for ABYSSINIA MEDIA GROUP® will start with a HOUSE MIX from SOUTH AFRICA by DJ KHAYES. CHECK IT!

My Earthday is in 12 Days..... If anyone feels generous here is MY wishlist Part 6 (of 17...LOL). Today I am asking for equipment from WACOM.COM 

THE CINTIQ 27QHD CREATIVE PEN & TOUCH DISPLAY

BAMBOO SPARK WITH TABLET SLEEVE

A smart folio with a flexible sleeve to hold a tablet with up to a 9.7 inch (diagonal) display.

Well in this after INDEPENDENCE DAY sequel again delivers a global spectacle with a NEW Generation using recovered alien technology to boost our own. The now UNIFIED nations of Earth have developed this immense defense program to protect the planet. Sounds and looks cool until the otherworld tyrants return with ALIEN WEAPONS BRAND 2.0 and a bigger battleship. Are they going for Continental or State sized ship this time? We will see on June 24, 2016

Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward

Directed by Roland Emmerich

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The director is Justin Lin, STAR TREK BEYOND features the acting talents of Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. It looks "aaaiight" to me, I am sure by its premier date July 22nd will have more to bring my interest to the theatre. Lovin' the "Bones and Spock" scene.... now that's classic!