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LONDON (Reuters) - The bleak outlook for the European economy knocked the euro and stalled gains the region's share markets on Friday, as investors waited to see if nonfarm payrolls data in the United States might affect its monetary policy plans.
A day after the European Central Bank cut its forecasts for growth across the 17-nation euro area next year, Germany's Bundesbank said there was a chance the region's debt crisis could send Europe's biggest economy into recession.
The euro dropped 0.25 percent to a low of $1.2932 after the Bundesbank statement, extending losses of over one percent seen on Thursday in reaction to the ECB's new forecasts which have heightened speculation of a early rate cut.
"It is unusual that a negative growth projection for the next year is offered before the end of the current year, but with such a view, markets are naturally pricing in an interest rate cut," said Daisuke Karakama, market economist for Mizuho Corporate Bank.
The main March 2013 German government bond futures contract, which had rallied sharply on the talk of an early ECB rate, was about 3 ticks lower at 145.66, with traders cutting back positions ahead of the U.S. jobs data.
European shares were fractionally higher in early trading, but mainly consolidating around the 18-month highs reached on Thursday on hopes of an improving economic performance in the global economy.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 of top European shares traded up 0.2 percent at 1,133.95 points, with Germany's Dax .GDAXI up 0.1 percent after the Bundesbank's announcement.
London's FTSE 100 .FTSE, and Paris's CAC-40 .FCHI opened flat to slightly higher, while a slight dip in U.S. stock futures hinted at a cautious Wall Street open. .L.EU.N
Investors are focused on U.S. non-farm payrolls data, which is expected to show an addition of 93,000 jobs in November, probably dented by superstorm Sandy, against October's gain of 171,000. The figures, due at 1330 GMT, are also likely to show the unemployment rate holding steady at 7.9 percent. <ECI/US>
Federal reserve policymakers are scheduled to meet Dec 11-12 to review monetary policy.
Brent crude meanwhile was steady above $107 per barrel, but prices were headed for their biggest weekly loss in more than a month on the worries about the euro zone's economy and on-going concerns about the looming fiscal crisis in the United States, the world's top oil consumer.
Brent rose 0.1 percent to $107.14. while U.S. crude futures inched up 0.2 percent to $86.41 a barrel.
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dominique (11414) 2003-05-24 16:58
The idea is very good, the play of shade is perfect but that made a little blade that misses power .
vbourrut (32482) 2003-05-24 17:09
Great composition Miguel, good idea !
evilren (1395) 2003-05-24 20:24
I love the idea of this pic but maybe taken a few minutes earlier would have given u a better angle for the shadow.
still I love it.
AdrianW (2274) 2003-05-24 21:25
Nice shot! I think it would benefit from slightly more contrast though, and maybe you could sharpen it a little too? Good capture :-)
Leo (881) 2003-05-24 21:58
Great Shot!
Leo / Venezuela
gringofil (0) 2003-05-25 0:15
Yes, this is wonderful. The shadows are wonderful...better than to just see the real thing. Nice, I like it!
Porteplume (4030) 2003-05-25 6:06
Great idea and well photographed.
I wonder if it would improve by cropping the foreground and sharpening a little bit?...
nmess (2301) 2003-05-28 23:19
This could have come from National Geographic. Very nicely done!
Rupes (913) 2003-06-14 15:59
I think needs a little more Sharp,but it's a very good idea...and original too!!
Boa Foto Miguel!! ;)
mariogil (113) 2003-08-26 16:43
Olá Miguel!
Excelente! Very goog shot, compostion and idea! I also like the colors.
markpanos (1977) 2008-11-07 12:46
Hi Miguel
Can ask tou something?
Did you take this photo exactly in Erfoud, or did you have to take a bus towards the dessert from Erfoud?
I mean, are those sand dune so near of the village that you can go walking to them?
The photo is nice and smart
Photo Information
- Copyright: Miguel Eloi (migueleloi) (264)
- Genre: Miejsca
- Medium: Kolorowe
- Date Taken: 2003-04-24
- Categories: Natura
- Camera: Nikon F65
- Wersja zdjęcia: Oryginalna wersja
- Temat(y): Deserts of sand [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2003-05-24 16:48
- Ulubione: 1 [Widok]

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It was Chinese New Year last weekend, and as has become tradition, it fell to me to make the black sesame ice cream. So there I was, rummaging through the spice cabinet for the tub of black sesame when out came tumbling the white seeds instead.
Well, I thought, white sesame ice cream would be pretty nice too. Plus if I brought both flavors I could make some cool molded yin yang desserts and...well, that didn't happen. Because when you stir orange zest into hot ice cream base—the same addition I make to my black sesame seed version—the result doesn't taste like Chinese New Year. It tastes like a Greek bakery.
It was clear I was forcing the ice cream into a direction it didn't want to go, so out with the Chinese dessert plans and in with the whole halvah-creamsicle custard I had going. Some vanilla went in for balance, along with toasted pistachios once the ice cream had churned.
This ice cream balances mellow nutty flavors with floral-citrus sweetness, and it'd pair perfectly with some Middle Eastern-style baklava. But it cries out for something tart, a bold topping to give it contrast. The answer is another Middle Eastern staple: pomegranate molasses, pomegranate juice reduced down to a sweet-tart syrup that becomes sticky like hot fudge when poured over ice cream. You can find it online and in Middle Eastern markets near the rosewater.
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Media release –
100 days until 100 years of Census taking in Australia2 May 2011 | CO/18
There's only 100 days to go until the 2011 Census that marks 100 years of national Census taking in Australia.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will conduct the Census of Population and Housing on Tuesday 9 August.
Since the first nationally coordinated Census in 1911, Census data has played an important role in helping to shape Australia.
Today, Census data continues to help define who we are, where we live and our key characteristics.
Head of the Population Census program, Paul Lowe says the 2011 Census is significant for all Australians.
"The centenary of Census taking in Australia is a national achievement and something to be proud of. For 100 years Australians have participated in the Census, providing decision makers with accurate information to help plan for our nation's future," Mr Lowe says.
"From 1971, the ABS also began collecting Census information from all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and this is a particular focus for the 2011 Census."
The Census is the largest peace time operation in Australia. Currently 29,000 Census Collectors are being recruited to deliver and collect 14.2 million Census forms to Australia's 9.8 million households.
Mr Lowe is reminding community minded people that this is their last opportunity to make a difference to their local area.
"Collectors underpin the success of the Census and are the life blood of the operation," Mr Lowe says.
"Being a Collector is a fantastic opportunity to help your neighbourhood while earning some extra money.
We are also recruiting Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in a range of positions across communities. Local people are best placed to help us get the Census right, especially in discrete communities," Mr Lowe adds.
Census Collectors can earn between $1,300 and $2,800 for the casual position and will be employed from 1 July until 8 September.
Applicant information kits are available online at www.abs.gov.au/census or call 1800 420 182.


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Review: 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' Is a Spectacular Tribute to Dreams and Dreamers
20th Century Fox
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has to stand as the most endearing film of Ben Stiller's directing career. Working with screenwriter Steve Conrad (no stranger to sentimentality as the man behind The Pursuit of Happyness and The Weather Man), Stiller has produced a film rejoicing YOLO culture that eschews the hashtag. Based on a short story by James Thurber that also became a 1947 film with Danny Kaye, the material is updated to feel more in line with this era, considering the notion of human interaction perverted by the filter of technology.
The titular character, played by a restrained Stiller, works at Life magazine as a "negative asset manager." In other words, he manages the magazine's library of film negatives in a dark room, behind the scenes. He seems content to skate through life finding thrills in daydreams while avoiding anything risky. His lapses into fantasy are depicted twofold: On the one side they are stagey, hyper-choreographed sequences heavily reliant on digital effects. On the other, they are moments where Walter seems to freeze and "zone out."
The delusions reach heights of fancy that harness Stiller's humor at its most whimsical. There's one fight sequence that could fit right in with anything in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Sometimes these sequences are cloyingly contrived as they reach and reach for easy laughs. The humor of these over-the-top fantasies is so exaggerated that it often undermines the tone of the film… except maybe in the case of one brilliant sequence where Walter imagines himself coming down with "Benjamin Button's Disease," so he might garner pity from the woman of his dreams, co-worker Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig, tempering her shtick down to levels of cool sweetness).
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Thankfully, the contrivance does not saturate the movie, as Stiller has created a work that looks to the more subtle layers of fantasy that permeate popular culture. Stiller steers the film beyond Walter's own obvious entanglements and takes subtle jabs at other characters as well. Walter doesn't have the monopoly on a warped sense of self-perception. His nemesis, Ted Hendricks (Adam Scott), has arrived at Life as a "fixer" to shift the magazine into the digital age. He's cocky and self-assured. He knows that the Internet, that vast of ocean of nothing turned into something by pixels and algorithms, is Life magazine's future. His delusions take hilarious physical form in a beard that makes him look like a gawky Hans Gruber, which he wears like some vain hipster jumping on a trend.
It's a hint that there is more to this film than contrived fantasy sequences designed for undemanding laughs. The film buries Walter's clunky daydreams for something much more grounded after a frame, which is supposed to be the cover of Life's last issue and captures "the quintessence of life," goes missing. After Ted orders him to not show up to work without that frame, Walter decides to go looking for the man who shot the image, the magazine's star photographer Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn), following a trail of clues to Iceland and Afghanistan. To reveal whether Walter finds Sean is immaterial; the big question is whether Walter can find himself.
Behind the cute notion of a man so detached from reality he finds comfort in the world of daydreams lies a grander message. For all its notions of escapism, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty winds its way to a rather grounded sentiment that celebrates connection with the real, unadulterated moment without filters, be they through fantasy or technology. It's about the pleasures of experiences over daydreams, analog over digital, effort over ease, enjoying the doing and not the done, and patience over immediate satisfaction. So much of the essence of these notions is folded into the dynamics of the film's characters and their interactions, in the writing and the set pieces. Stiller harnesses the power of cinema to show what it can do, then subverts it. On a meta level, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty doesn't draw you into the cinema, as much as tell you to get out of it.
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I was referred here from android.stackexchange.com.
I wish to mount my Sony Xperia ST21i (Android 4.0.4) under Linux (Debian) via USB. However, I get this error:
# mount /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb
For more context see https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/52932/linux-fails-to-mount-android-device-in-usb-msc-mode.
Is this more an Android or a Linux issue?


text: Cory Norris Tattoo Artist Magazine Article Preview Issue #26 Interview by Jeff Gogué Cory Norris: The approach that I take in life is going to be the same approach that I take for every tattoo, for the work that I do. I go at it with an open mind, I listen, I am observant. Obviously with a tattoo, you're working on somebody else so they're going to have their own agenda on what they're wanting in the tattoo. You have to be respectful of that, but hopefully they'll give you some leeway to open up and express yourself through it, to a certain degree... CN: I mean what do you think? Do you live your life the same way that you do your work, or do you see a difference between going home to your family or going to work? Is there a distinction? Do you act the same in each place? Jeff Gogué: No, I don't think so. I do think my agenda is to grow as a person, to mature and to explore who I am as a person so I don't see much of a distinction, personally. I have a tendency to think I'm the only one and that has to be arrogance or pride or something. I don't know what that is. The more, I think, you talk to people, obviously when you open up lines of communication, more times than not you discover that there's a relatability and you're not the only one that feels that way. You're not the only one that sees things this way or that way, or you have this desire or that desire like, "I want this," or "I want that." I think it's pretty easy to find those commonalities between people. That's encouraging. So no, I don't see much of a distinction for me. CN: For me, I just approach it as I want to do the best that I can with what I have right now. Tomorrow I might have more. The day after that, I might have a better understanding of something. Where I'm at right now is to just keep an open mind and to stay positive the best that I can. In the beginning, it probably was about the money but it's not that anymore. It's nice and I love that I can make a living doing something that I love to do and provide for my family. Honestly, I think I would still be doing it regardless of the pay. Cory Norris can be found at: Classic Tattoo Studio 420 Colfax Ave Grass Valley, CA 95945 (530) 273-6499 Cory's complete article is featured in TAM #26. Click below to purchase:


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The ideal base for any superstructure
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Wyoming town with 1 resident sold for $900,000
BUFORD, Wyo. (AP) -- A town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000.
Buford, Wyo., is located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming. Two unidentified Vietnamese men placed the winning bid for the town on Thursday.
As owners of the town along Interstate 80, they will get a gas station and convenience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, and a three-bedroom home.
The town has had just one inhabitant, Don Sammons. He plans to retire from his unofficial title as "mayor" of the unincorporated community and managing his businesses, and move on.
The town traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.


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Olympic Television Producer and SUNY Canton Alumnus Presents March 11Friday, March 4th, 2011
SUNY Canton Alumnus Robert M. Hughes knows the right camera angles to film Olympic luge, bobsled, and skeleton racers speeding over 80-miles per hour down a complex track.
The 1975 graduate is co-owner of Carr-Hughes Production in Saratoga Springs, a respected sports TV production company with a long history handling international television coverage for sports like luge, bobsled and skeleton.
Hughes will be coming back to SUNY Canton to talk about filming and production at 2 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center's Kingston Theater. The event is free and open to the public. The presentation will be of particular interest to the College's graphic and multimedia design students.
"I was responsible for managing the production process at the luge, bobsled and skeleton venue during Vancouver," Hughes said. "The production was massive with 54 cameras and a crew of about 100 people from around the world."
Hughes has worked with NBC and Universal Sports and produced programming for ESPN, Speed Channel and many other networks. He and his company filmed the World Equestrian Games and are the host broadcaster for all the major Track and Field meets in the U.S. If it's moving fast or flying through the snow, he can find a way to film it and rebroadcast it to major networks around the world.
"I'm going to enlighten students about the uniquely democratic world of mobile television production," Hughes said. "Motivated students who have interest and ability in any aspect of production (sound, editing, filming, or direction) can launch their career straight out of college."
Carr-Hughes Productions is renowned for their global sporting events and home to world-class post-production facilities. They offer site production, post-production, and live televised event programming.
"We're in the process of establishing an educational relationship with Mr. Hughes with the hopes of establishing internship possibilities for our fourth-year students in the graphic and multimedia design program," noted SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy. "His insights will provide our students an inside look at a competitive and lucrative career option. Students who are interested in the possibility of an internship or career in television production should plan on attending the presentation."
Guests at the program will be able to screen some of Hughes' recent work, including a track meet recently filmed for ESPN. He said each broadcast presents its own unique decisions that need to be made and major production decisions need to be made rapidly without any hesitation. "In this business, you need to be a self-starter with the ability to learn and do things on the fly," Hughes said.
Hughes was a competitive luge athlete after graduating from SUNY Canton. He went on to coach the 1984 U.S. Olympic luge team in Sarajevo before moving to television production. Examples of some of his work can be viewed at www.carr-hughes.com.
Media inquiries should be directed to Gregory Kie, Media Relations Coordinator, or call 315/386-7528.


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The sunshine is starting to make its way through the clouds and that mean summer is not far behind and with that comes all of the vacations, long weekends and family get togethers and you don't want to miss a single memory. To make sure you can download all those great memories and they will look just as vivid as the moment you experienced that memory, Polaroid has come out with the iF045 14-Megapixel Waterproof Dual Screen Digital Camera. This easy to use camera will not only take those great pictures, but it won't put a dent in that vacation budget.
It has become quite vogue to take pictures with your phone and you can't find any vacation spot that you don't see more people clicking away with their phone than anything else. The one problem is that you aren't always going to want to be snapping pictures with your phone, if you have ever dropped an I-Phone on the ground or in some water, you know that price of that phone is a lot more than a number of high-end cameras. That is were the Polaroid iF045 comes into your life, a cute, little stylish camera that comes in black, blue and orange and fits right in your front pocket.
The best part of the camera is that is simply takes great pictures. Crystal clear and you can change the settings to fit the cloud cover and the time of the day, for a camera that you can find for under one hundred dollars, this really is a steal. In addition you can flip the camera around and change the settings to take a self-portrait. You always have the ability to shoot video with your Polaroid iF045 and it also comes with a timer, so you can set it up and take a group photo from any spot. In this day of social media, the Polaroid iF045 is also a breeze when it comes to downloading pictures and videos and posting them to your favorite social media sites.
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Tidings: QS Melbourne Show&Tell
Ernesto Ramirez
August 12, 2014
Today's Tidings dispatch comes to us from Phil Goebel, organizer of the QS Melbourne meetup group. Recently, they held their sixth Show&Tell meetup, which focussed on discussing new self-tracking tools. They also announced a new project – The QS Device Library. Read below to learn more about this exciting idea and what transpired at the meetup.
QS Melbourne Show&Tell #6 Recap
by Phil Goebel
Greetings from down under! The Quantified Self community in Melbourne has been active since late 2012 and since then the community has shown enthusiasm for the potential impact that self-tracking technology can have. Earlier this month the Melbourne QS meetup hosted our first set of toolmakers – individuals who are involved in building self-tracking tools. Melbourne has a rich medical and health technology industry and the QS community here is developing into a key contributor to opening the dialogue about the role that self-tracking behaviour, the technology which facilitates it, and the data it generates has within a larger health informatics context.
Our first speaker was Rob Crowder from Smash Wearables. Rob shared his journey from a desire to improve his tennis game to launching a kickstarter campaign. Smash is a wrist worn device packing accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and microcontroller all into a small and aesthetically pleasing form factor. Rob comes from a physics background and the Smash project begun with strapping hacked together hardware onto his wrist and collecting and analysing a whole heap of data. Although Rob has always been and continues to be the driving force behind Smash he stressed the importance of the community which has grown around and is contributing to Smash and has been taken aback by the willingness and generosity of people to lend a hand. Even though Smash did not meet its Kickstarter goals, the Kickstarter campaign did accomplish other objectives which will hopefully lead to Smash being worn by some of Australia's top tennis player in time for the next Melbourne Open.
Kayla Heffernan a Masters of Information Systems student at Melbourne University discussed and presented her experiences in designing a self-tracking mobile application which delivers complex messaging. The app is currently being used in a randomized controlled trial to better understand the effectiveness of encouraging health behaviours through mobile applications. The objective of the mobile application is to track sun exposure – this is a complex task as too little can mean vitamin D deficiency, too much can put an individual at risk of sun burns and skin cancer, plus factors such as what the app user is wearing needs to be taken into account. Kayla discussed user design techniques such as saving default settings and adding gamification elements to encourage user engagement and to deliver a complex message. It may be a while before the app is available to the broader public, but the results of the RCT will be interesting to follow.
QS Melbourne Announces the Quantified Self Device Library
In addition to the great discussion about the challenges and rewards of building software and hardware for self-tracking, QS Melbourne announced the development of a QS device library. As a result from a research project that happened at the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC) at the University of Melbourne, there are about 40 self-tracking devices sitting on a shelf gathering dust. In an effort to put these devices to good use HaBIC is working with the QS Melbourne organisers to build a library where devices can be signed out for 1-3 month periods to encourage n=1 activity in the QS community. While still in the logistical planning phases this is a great opportunity to engage the community in QS ideas and concepts and end up with some great show&tell presentations that combine data sources in creative ways. Discussion about how the logistical issues will be handled is ongoing on the Melbourne QS meetup discussion board along with a list of the available devices. Thoughts about how best to setup this library would be appreciated.


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Building bright future for orphans
A BUNDABERG school teacher's vision of a sustainable orphanage in Kenya started to take a tangible form yesterday when the first building got under way.
The Umoja Orphanage comes after a two-year extensive planning phase and will be built on newly purchased land, which already has a water hole, electricity and more than 50 fruit trees including mangos and coconuts.
Umoja is Swahili for unity and togetherness.
Coral Cove's Cathy Booth, who bought land one hour south of the Kenyan port of Mombassa this year, said the first dwelling was being built this week for a caretaker to watch over her precious water hole and fruit trees while the rest of the buildings were being built.
The 54-year-old mother of three and grandmother, who teaches at Walkervale State School, said her passion for the orphanage was sparked when she holidayed in Kenya back in 2010.
"The poverty was horrific. I've lived in Papua New Guinea, but I've seen nothing like this. I could not walk away without doing something about it," Mrs Booth said.
"I came back and started raising money. Slowly the word got out."
Since that fateful sunny Kenyan day in October 2010, when the non-government organisation started, a Bundaberg board of directors has been established and money raised.
After extensive and careful research and several trips back to Kenya, plans were drawn up and the land was carefully chosen and bought.
"We purchased 17 acres of fertile land only 10 minutes drive from Diani Beach - a very popular European holiday spot," Mrs Booth said.
"So many European tourists go there. They love to visit orphanages.
"No one will see this without being touched. Often they return to their countries and raise money. They are an asset," Mrs Booth said.
Mrs Booth said the orphanage was being planned to house up to 60 children.
"It will have agricultural gardens and a school," Mrs Booth said.
"We want to set it up as a village.
"We are going to hire ladies, mostly widows including disabled mothers, so they can all support their children with the money they earn from the project.
Mrs Booth said the initiative was already changing lives.
"All the locals call me Mama," she said.
"We have a local project manager. He has been a wonderful asset."
Mrs Booth said she would return to Kenya twice a year for about three weeks each time.
"We are now desperate to raise $20,000 to buy a van to collect building materials and to eventually collect the orphans," she said.
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Tropical Home Style in Singapore
Tropical weather in South East Asia is the main concept of this amazing tropical resort inspired home design. The owner-rich person with Hindu philosophy-and the designer success to create serene home with bold tropical atmosphere both interior and exterior. Check our photos below for your inspirations.
This tropical home style is one of the most beautiful house with fantastic interior. The owner really want to create symbiotic and serene home, so the designer apply natural material to achieve the goal. Wood is the main material that mostly-decorate any room. From the entrance, you will admire the beauty of this amazing house. Natural stone blends in harmony with wooden roof and beautiful pool in the backyard complete the beauty indeed. Balance in style! Read more [ via : besthousedesign ]


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In October 2009, media outlets throughout the world marked the thirtieth anniversary of the rap single largely credited with spreading hip-hop culture across America and, eventually, the world. The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight was the first hip-hop expression to make the leap from the neighborhoods of the South Bronx, New York to the nation. Over thirty years later, hip-hop has become a dominant part of popular culture. Hip-hop is now ubiquitous and it is little surprise that its influence can be seen in contemporary art.
Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art is the first exhibition to take a focused look at the work of ten artists who all operate within and are informed by hip-hop culture. All of the work displayed has been produced within the first decade of the new millennium providing a snapshot of what is happening in art at this moment. The artists here cannot and should not simply be pigeonholed as hip-hop artists, because there is no single way to define that term. They are a diverse mix of African American, Latino/a, Japanese American, British, Caucasian, gay, male and female. Hip-hop's appeal, today, comes from this diversity and inclusiveness. Like all of us, these artists live in a world infused with hip-hop flavors.
SOFIA MALDONADO, Concrete Jungle Divas, 2010
Courtesy of Magnan Metz Gallery, New York