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Wiimpatja Ngapa

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About Me

One day at a time...

My Interests

Reading tea leaves...

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends.The portrait below is painted by my mother Wendy Frost.Acrylic on Canvas 2001.

Music:

Kaki King.

Movies:

Right now my favorite film is by Liselotte Wajstedt and is entitled Sami Nieida Jojk (Sami Daughter Yoik).

Television:

No TV in my house.

Books:

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. The Iliad attributed to Homer. My Place by Sally Morgan. Maybe Tomorrow by Monty 'Boori' Pryor.

Heroes:

My Nana, Pemulwuy, Windradyne, Charlie Perkins, Cathy Freeman, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Klatassine, Kongming, Chen Gong, Hektor of Troy, Charles Darwin, Akira Kurosawa, Red Jacket, Frederick Douglass.

My Blog

Art and how it tickles our core.

What makes us humans do art? Why is it that art is central to every person's core cultural practices? Is art life? Is life art? From what I know about art and the feelings it gives me, I would say...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:09:00 PST

Economic Development vs. Prosperity

Hey all! You know I've thought a lot about prosperity recently in the context of the whole "economic development" rhetoric being thrown around indigenous political spheres worldwide. I think that pro...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

Speak... Speak to us bro!

Okay... This is speak. Speak is a Hungarian rapper. He's a Magyar M.C. Check him out. So... I know it's funny. I mean his rapping is just really talking and his adlibs of "ye...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

Dancing can touch our souls...

Who doesn't like to dance? I don't like to, but it is not that I can't dance it's just that there's no one making tunes today like Michael Jackson in his darker skinned years. Hell even Black or Whi...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:29:00 PST

Fallout about the Michael Richards rant...

Okay... So have we all heard abou the Michael Richards rant yet? Hopefully we have. I'm trying not to let it taint Seinfeld for me but the whole thing just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Any...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:50:00 PST

A poem...

.|.|:|:|.|.|:|:|.|.o0o.|.|:|:|.|.|:|:|.|.I got skinny wrists like my nana, and skinny ankles like my mum. I got knobby knees like my uncle, and two dimples above my bum. I got a loud voice, and I'm fa...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:56:00 PST

Blogging For Richard Van Camp...

I've been to the Yukon recently and I had told Richard Van Camp I was going to try and blog the experience. I regretfully didn't blog however I'm here blogging now, so there's to be no mention of for...
Posted by Wiimpatja Ngapa on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:12:00 PST