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James Brown

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

About Me

For the last three months of the year I am volunteering as an art teacher in Tanzania and shooting a documentary about the artists there.

Bannerman "Shoot Away"

Waiheke Honeymoon

One Million Dollars "Both Hands"

Siren Junkies "Elevator"

Love Boat "Goth Man"

Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day Animation

Cliff Hedley "Overcoat" - Music Video

And further shameless self-promotion - here are some music videos I have edited:

The Box Car Guitars "My Love is Blue" - Music Video
The Sneaks "Suck" - Music Video
Jonny & The Robba "Damn Girl" - Music Video
Substax "Starfish" - Music Video

I also ramble at:
TheSciPhiShow

My Interests

Directing and Editing, Art, Philosophy, Chess.

Music:

The Beatles, The Police, U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Phoenix Foundation, Damian Rice, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age, Tracy Chapman, Love Boat, Ryan Adams, One Million Dollars.

Movies:

Fight Club, Waking Life, Silence of the Lambs, The Matrix Trilogy, Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Full Metal Jacket, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, History of Violence, American History X, American Beauty, American Psycho, Psycho, Cypher, Closer, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Proposition, Watership Down, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Akira, Dr Strangelove, The Shining, Napolean Dynamite, An Inconvenient Truth, Black Gold, The Iron Wall, Root of All Evil?

Television:

No TV

Books:

Humanity, Origin of Species, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Why I am So Wise, 1984, Brave New World, The Ancestor's Tale, The Little Prince, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Heroes:

Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, Nelson Mandela, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Achilles, Steven Hawkins, Kubrick, Edward Norton, George.W.Bush (just joking) George Clooney, John Searle, Ken Wilber. Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkington, Darren Aronofsky. Richard Linklater, Al Gore, Tadesse Meskela, Natalie Baker.

My Blog

Day 6

Hi myspace readers/viewers, I am trying to transfer all of my blog regarding Africa to ArtInAfrica.Blogspot.Com I won't be using my myspace address from now on but would really apprec...
Posted by James Brown on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:30:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 16

This weekend I am having a play with some sample masks sent to me to try out for a class while I'm in Africa, turned out to be an interesting problem-solving activity. Check out their websit...
Posted by James Brown on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:26:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 15

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Posted by James Brown on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:58:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 14

This one is for die hard fans only folks, picture me reading broken Swahili from a piece of refill for four minutes on the subject of art, form, context and originality. Not for the faint hearted, or ...
Posted by James Brown on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 13

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Posted by James Brown on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:46:00 PST

Kookery Trumps Kinkery

To the Editor of The Dominion Post,Original ArticleAfter reading about Ticketek's recent refusal to sell tickets forGreig Wilson's Fetish Ball I was encouraged by how far we have come infinally breaki...
Posted by James Brown on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:19:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 12

Over the last few weeks I have been emailing around to request art materials from various artists and manufacturers, I've had some kind contributions from Maskworks, Staedtler and New Zealan...
Posted by James Brown on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:12:00 PST

Vlog 11 Malainin Lakhal

A couple of weeks ago I attended a seminar with speaker Malainin Lakhal a journalist from Western Sahara. He came to speak about the struggle of the Saharawi people and the Polisario Front against the...
Posted by James Brown on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:06:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 10

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Posted by James Brown on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:54:00 PST

Tanzania Vlog 9

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Posted by James Brown on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:04:00 PST