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More about Bling: Consequences and Repercussions

Okay, I can’t sleep. And apparently this joint about bling is absolutely hot right now. So I might as well scoop you with all the linkage.

Of course, I really just want to have all the links ready for me in one place but share and share alike, right?

If you read my recent entry about this flik, then you’re all hip to the fact that you can see this online film at wghfilms.com. (”And if you don’t know, now you know…”) It’s available for both low and high speed. And if you’ve got an iPod or QuickTime, it’s free and downloadable. It’s 11 minutes and 19 seconds long and about 49 megs, if you believe the Firefox status bar when it’s downloading.

Please believe it, I’ll be watching that the second I close this window… and may even be back again with all my commentary.

It is narrated by Chuck D, whose babies I’ve always wanted to have, intellectually speaking. (I mean, yeah, he’s not bad looking, but it isn’t a sexual thing… I just love a smart man… anyways… :D …)

You can reach the director from his site, and he’s recently been interviewed by Blog Critic and several other organizations. I found the Blog Critic Interview in PDF format here.

Now. Before you see the short film and get angry at me, please, please PLEASE look at another excerpt from the press release I saw at Diamonds.net and pay attention to the details about the film.

Kareem Edouard released a short version of Bling on WGH Film’s website recently and he said a longer version of the film is scheduled for release in the Fall 2006. Enough of the film is available for free online to provide viewers a taste of what else might come.

Bling is Edouard’s own creation, and the idea came to him from watching younger people mimicking Hip Hop artists who wear diamonds as part of their costumed fashion. Edouard says he wanted to show a different view with the film.

In short form, Bling shows extremely graphic violence from Sierra Leone — in the name of mining diamonds for retail. The film is meant to “tackle the issues behind Hip Hop’s obsession with diamonds and the continued illegal diamond trade in Africa,” the film’s production notes read.

There are also resources linked from and posted on the site where the film is that give more information about what we can do. Stay tuned and I’ll have some up for you.

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