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So, during one of the instances of race!fail over the past year and a half, I had a thought that I never posted about and a recent picspam reminded me of.
During the conversations about writers using trite (and usually edible) descriptors for CoC, I remember thinking that part of the problem (at least in my case) is that the media is so white-dominated that authors don't spend enough time just looking at people of different ethnicities.
So I thought it would be a great idea to do a comment spam full of images of people of color. I'll start us off with Adam Moore (I discovered this basball player via multibeautiful, which is a dreamwidth community all about images of non-caucasian beauties).
During the conversations about writers using trite (and usually edible) descriptors for CoC, I remember thinking that part of the problem (at least in my case) is that the media is so white-dominated that authors don't spend enough time just looking at people of different ethnicities.
So I thought it would be a great idea to do a comment spam full of images of people of color. I'll start us off with Adam Moore (I discovered this basball player via multibeautiful, which is a dreamwidth community all about images of non-caucasian beauties).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c
My contribution. Beautiful, talented Janelle Monae.
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Wilber Pan (http://culture-chine.com/images/wilber_pan.jpg), the other guy I wish they'd put on their apparently short to-call list.
And people claim there are no young East Asian actors out there. Maybe if they ever got speaking parts... >.>;
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You know who's hot? Corbin Bleu. (http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Corbin-Bleu-ta01.jpg) I sat through that stupid Disney Channel jumprope movie just to see him in tight wife-beaters and dripping with sweat. Hngh.
...Actually, this has just made me realize that I don't really have any icons of people of color. I should get on this.
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*VIDSPAMS LIKE WHOA*
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives In The Americas (http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/indivisible/)
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Daisuke Takahashi:
Mirai Nagasu:
Surya Bonaly:
Yu-Na Kim:
Nobunari Oda:
Florent Amodio:
AND some Korean pop stars:
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...RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!
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And Shum is ADORABLE.... (and with his dance moves, I bet he'd be great as a firebender).
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That is a huge shame!
And Yu-Na Kim has the most amazing expressions.
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I really liked 'Perfect Native Men' - heloooo eyecandy! Mother was also great, but my favorite would have to be that cover of 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' I adore that song and that singer really tore it up.
Randomly, have you seen the trailer for the movie Princess Kaiulani?
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Heee, I do own my obsessions! XD
Jana has a great voice and is awfully cute -- I went for that particular vid because it's a classic song, there's all the photos of cute kids running through it, and Derek Miller is a real cutiepie himself when he's not making adorkable TOTAL FOCUS ON GUITAR SOLO goofy faces.
I haven't seen the PK trailer yet myself -- I'm kind of iffy about the film even without seeing it because it's been a controversy in the islands for years, the casting issues and alterations of history, and the waffling on the title, all would be bad enough given how little film representation there is of Native Hawaiians and Hawaiian history, but when it's all messing with as deeply beloved a figure as the princess that just makes it all so much touchier than if it were some fictional character, or even a more obscure historical figure. On the one hand I do at least give them fractional points for casting a biracial POC as the biracial title character, rather than going the usual Hollywood route of just slapping a little bronzer on a white actor -- and Q'Orianka was actually born and raised in the islands so I'd expect she won't be butchering the pronunciation of names or anything, which is a plus. But on the minus side, there's that whole fictionalized romantic subplot playing in to the Pocahontas trope, and Kilcher's of course half-Indian, not half-Hawaiian, and the director's whole "we really tried but there just aren't any Hawaiian actresses the right age who were good enough" is the same sort of tired excuse we've heard a million times before...and sheesh, movie roles for specifically Polynesian characters are even *rarer* than those for Indian folks, so that really stings! I'll check out the trailer eventually and will probably watch it when it hits cable just to see for myself how it goes for good and bad, but not even homesickness is gonna get me to pay to see that on a big screen.
Bleah. Time for some more pretty to counteract those headaches:
Martha Redbone (http://www.martharedbone.com):
Joanne Shenandoah (http://www.joanneshenandoah.com):
Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom (http://www.amyhanaialiigilliom.com):
Keali'i Reichel (http://www.kealiireichel.com):
Pura Fe (http://www.purafe.com):
Moses Brings Plenty (http://www.mosesbringsplenty.com):
Robi Kahakalau (http://www.sistahrobi.com):
Star Nayea (http://www.myspace.com/nayeawicahpi):
Gorgeous hula kahiko photography by Kim Taylor Reece (http://www.kimtaylorreece.com/products.htm) and Randy Jay Braun (http://www.randyjaybraun.com/woh.html).
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*shakes head* All those are very good reasons not to see the movie. Honestly, what I really hope they keep (and what it looks like they will) is the sense that she was the true ruler and that the people wanted her to rule. That would be the thing that would make or break the movie, especially since they DID get a biracial actress (who, quite frankly, seems fantastic).
And oh, the pretty was so pretty! Martha Redbone in particular blew my mind, and I love Braun's sense of coloring and composition with the hula photos.