New Hidden Fortress Video - "Passport"

As some of you may or may not know I belong to Hidden Fortress, a Vancouver based hip-hop group with ties to Japan. Here is our new video "Passport", hope you enjoy it!

If you do, our latest EP "White Violence" is available on itunes for a mere $5 bones, support independent Canadian hip-hop!! You can also find us on our websites: official website here and our myspace page

Thanks to all the college radio stations across Canada that have been playing us and thanks to all the Canadian media that has been showing us love (aka giving us good reviews!!) Thanks for your continued support.....

Also, my homie, the amazing DJ and Producer UsdNeedls is coming out with his own album filled the most original beats and concepts coming out right now. Its called AudioScientifico and its titled "Sound Weapons". Wait for that shit to drop.....crazy!

Vancouver Media Coop and Democracy Now!

Today Democracy Now! ran a segment about the Vancouver Olympics with Chris Shaw, author of "The Five Ring Circus" and David Eby of BC Civil Liberties. All the footage used on the story came from independent videographers from The Vancouver Media Co-op, B-Channel News, subMedia and Victoria Indymedia. Score one for Indy Media!! Thanks to Frank Lopez for sending out this information today. I do photography and editing for the fine folks at Vancouver Media Coop, if you are an indy media type and want to get involved, come on down and get involved!

Watch Democracy Now segment here as well as Amy's entire talk at the Vancouver Public Library right after her time spent with Canadian Border guards on the Vancouver Media Coop site.

Collapse

Collapse is a new documentary from Chris Smith, the same guy that brought us The Yes Men and American Movie, two films that I really love. The film is a conversation with Michael Ruppert, whose website and books I followed and enjoyed quite a bit in the late 90's and early 2000's. Ruppert is best known as one of the whistleblowers in connecting the CIA to drug running operations in the 80's as part of the Iran-Contra scandal, an amazing story that is worth checking out. (On a side note, the book Dark Alliance written by one of my personal heroes Gary Webb, is a must read for more on this subject) In short, the doc focuses on Ruppert's work around the Peak Oil crisis and how basically everything will "collapse" from that one single incident of the worlds global oil supply running dry.

The film was very compelling and extremely interesting, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in these subjects. This isn't one of those films that preaches to the converted, I think anyone familiar with this field of study or someone with no knowledge of it would enjoy the film equally. Smith definitely borrows a page out of the Errol Morris book of documentary filmmaking, adopting the talking head intercut with archival footage style made so famous by Morris (ie The Fog of War) Smith even goes as far as to get his own Philip Glass like soundtrack but in the end it all works and works very well.

I enjoyed the film, I thought it was great. I think its also a very timely piece on the state of the world that anyone even remotely worried about the future of mankind and this planet should see.