Chico and Rita

Chico and Rita is the latest animated film from Spanish director Fernando Trueba about a young Cuban couple who meet in Havana in 1948. Chico’s a talented jazz pianist and song writer, Rita’s a sultry singer. They both dream of making it big and the film traces their intense, sexy but turbulent love affair from Havana to New York to Las Vegas.

With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a definitive moment in the evolution of jazz music. The film features music by jazz legends Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter,Dizzy Gillespie and Freddy Cole (brother of Nat King Cole).

Chico and Rita is out on 19 November and is showing all over London. Check www.chicoandrita.co.uk for more info.

info from Wikipedia and The Telegraph

Mr Fuzzy Slipperz

Something Has Changed in Me

Fuzzy Slipperz, born Lisolomzi Pikoli is an up and coming artist from South Africa who fuses tradition African imagery with street graffiti art in his work. This 21 year old has just had his first solo exhibition called Something Has Changed in Me at 38 Special Art Gallery (Johannesburg) where he sold 60% of his work on the first night. Fuzzy Slipperz paints on backpacks, skateboards and canvas and below are a couple of his paintings I shamelessly stole from his website: Mafuta Ink which is well worth checking out, as well as Mahala, click the link for a full interview (http://www.mahala.co.za/art/something-has-changed-in-me/) and read about the how, why and where to next in this young ninja's life.

"Troubles in the sky" said a bird with a microphone.

Skateboard

Handouts

pics 2 & 3 jacked from Mahala

all fotocredits: Adam Kent Wiest and Mafuta Ink

postcard from mumbai...

Mumbai, India: A boy practices Mallakhamb, a combination of traditional Indian gymnastics and martial arts.Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters