Rosenberg Flip Cam Files

Everybody knows that BOOKiDO likes the Flip Camcorder and as you will see Peter Rosenberg is taking digital media to another level in hip hop. Here is a tribute to DJ Premier!

BOOKiDO x DJ Premier

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Che - The Movie

Go see this movie if it comes to your town. Starring Benicio Del Toro this is the biographical movie about revolutionary Che Guerava. In two parts this film has been receiving good reviews and even a letter of congratulations from Dr. Guevara's wife.

Cee-Lo on the Wake Up Show

Cee-Lo kicks a crazzzyyy freestyle on this interview at around 5:11 into the video( HIP HOP is NOT DEAD!)

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Jay Z vs. Fela Kuti Nigerian Gangster

This is a awesome mash up of Jay Z and the legendary Fela Kuti by DJ Mike Love.


Guerrilla Radio

Sidney Poiter's Acceptance speech for Oscar 1964

In 1964 Sidney Poiter won an Academy Award for best Actor.




then he predicts "Obama" in the movie "Guess who's coming to dinner?" A great screenplay movie!

Video of the week- Bush Attacked by shoes

Tony Yayo - PREACH ON

Inner Focus in Martial Arts

By Melissa Stranden

"Each day, I will live by honoring my parents and instructors, practicing to the best of my abilities, and having courtesy and respect for everyone I meet!" -- Part of an oath recited at the beginning and ending of each Karate for Kids class at the ATA Martial Arts center, in Martinez, California.

Jordan Schreiber greets a first-time tae kwon do student by complimenting his new uniform and white belt. The student is shy, and Master Schreiber takes him aside to teach him some basic poses and Korean commands. The boy's eyes stay glued to the red-and-black mat. Schreiber gently nudges him to look up.

"Look at my eyes. This is how you show me your attention. Now say, 'Thank you, sir.'"
A barely audible "Sir" is heard before the student takes his position in the class. Forty-five minutes later, after numerous kicks, blocks, and punches, two recitations of the student oath, a discussion of this month's life skill, a visualization exercise, and a hundred or so repetitions of "Yes, sir," the same student faces Master Schreiber, looks his teacher in the eye, and shakes his hand. It is a small but meaningful step.

Look at BOOKiDO for books on Martial Arts

Bamboo laptop and flip cameras

Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory

'We're doing something we haven't since the 1930s,' labor organizer says

CHICAGO - Workers laid off from their jobs at a factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed.
About 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant's operation.

“I have to stay,” Raul Flores told a local news organization. “Not just for me. For my family. For my children.”

Leah Fried, an organizer with the United Electrical Workers, said the Chicago-based vinyl window manufacturer failed to give 60 days' notice required by law before shutting down.
Workers also were angered when company officials didn't show up for a meeting Friday that had been arranged by U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat, she said.

During the peaceful takeover, workers have been shoveling snow and cleaning the building, Fried said.

"We're doing something we haven't since the 1930s, so we're trying to make it work," Fried said.
Union officials said another meeting with the company is scheduled for Monday.

Representatives of Republic Windows did not immediately respond Saturday to calls and e-mails seeking comment.

Police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said authorities were aware of the situation and officers were patrolling the area.

Crain's Chicago Business reported that the company's monthly sales had fallen to $2.9 million from $4 million during the past month.

In a memo to the union, obtained by the business journal, Republic CEO Rich Gillman said the company had "no choice but to shut our doors."

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Joker Brand Presents Estevan Oriol

Shout out to Joker Brand clothing! Here is a short video of Estevan Oriol at work doing what he does best----SHOOT!

Scarface-Emeritus LP

Texas MC Scarface drops another album called EMERITUS.

DJ ALSPIN

FINAL HOME x Casio G -Shock watch

Kosuke Tsumura’s technical label Final Home, follows a muted yet technically refined approach towards design. Consisting mainly of monotone garments, the aesthetic continues Tsumura’s belief that clothes can adapt according to natures elements, in a way becoming their own “ultimate shelter”. The lifestyle brand is synonymous with the concepts of protection, survival and functionality which makes their latest collaboration with Casio ideal, considering the G-Shocks model familiarity with functional and technical aspects. The watch is available in two colorways, black or white, featuring FINAL HOME’s conceptual vision.

DJ Premier x Ludacris in the studio interview

This is hot to see Premo in action from scratch showing off his "scratching" skills! Real hip hop fans will know that Youtube is a life saver to see the legends in action!

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American Folk Music Legend Odetta Passes at 77

American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
Dec. 3, 2008, 6:41 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. [Just a couple of weeks ago, the original songstress met with Leadbelly curator and family descendent, Alvin Singh II. Still at it, Odetta said she wanted to perform at Leadbelly's Exibit at the Grammy Museum in L.A., February 2009 to rekindle the legacy of an old friend. We will remember her legacy as she takes her last bow.] She was 77.

Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said.
In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability never diminished, Yeager said.

"The power would just come out of her like people wouldn't believe," he said.
With her booming, classically trained voice and spare guitar, Odetta gave life to the songs by workingmen and slaves, farmers and miners, housewives and washerwomen, blacks and whites.
First coming to prominence in the 1950s, she influenced Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other singers who had roots in the folk music boom.

An Odetta record on the turntable, listeners could close their eyes and imagine themselves hearing the sounds of spirituals and blues as they rang out from a weathered back porch or around a long-vanished campfire a century before.

"What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer," Time magazine wrote in 1960.

"She is a keening Irishwoman in `Foggy Dew,' a chain-gang convict in `Take This Hammer,' a deserted lover in `Lass from the Low Country,'" Time wrote.

Odetta called on her fellow blacks to "take pride in the history of the American Negro" and was active in the civil rights movement. When she sang at the March on Washington in August 1963, "Odetta's great, full-throated voice carried almost to Capitol Hill," The New York Times wrote.
She was nominated for a 1963 Grammy awards for best folk recording for "Odetta Sings Folk Songs." Two more Grammy nominations came in recent years, for her 1999 "Blues Everywhere I Go" and her 2005 album "Gonna Let It Shine."

In 1999, she was honored with a National Medal of the Arts. Then-President Bill Clinton said her career showed "us all that songs have the power to change the heart and change the world."

"I'm not a real folksinger," she told The Washington Post in 1983. "I don't mind people calling me that, but I'm a musical historian. I'm a city kid who has admired an area and who got into it. I've been fortunate. With folk music, I can do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing."

Among her notable early works were her 1956 album "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," which included such songs as "Muleskinner Blues" and "Jack O' Diamonds"; and her 1957 "At the Gate of Horn," which featured the popular spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."

Her 1965 album "Odetta Sings Dylan" included such standards as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Masters of War" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

In a 1978 Playboy interview, Dylan said, "the first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta." He said he found "just something vital and personal" when he heard an early album of hers in a record store as a teenager. "Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar," he said.

Belafonte also cited her as a key influence on his hugely successful recording career, and she was a guest singer on his 1960 album, "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall."

She continued to record in recent years; her 2001 album "Looking for a Home (Thanks to Leadbelly)" paid tribute to the great blues singer to whom she was sometimes compared.
Odetta's last big concert was on Oct. 4 at San Francisco's Golden State Park, where she performed in front of tens of thousands at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Yeager said. She also performed Oct. 25-26 in Toronto.

Odetta hoped to sing at the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, though she had not been officially invited, Yeager said.

Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., in 1930, she moved with her family to Los Angeles at age 6. Her father had died when she was young and she took her stepfather's last name, Felious. Hearing her in glee club, a junior high teacher made sure she got music lessons, but Odetta became interested in folk music in her late teens and turned away from classical studies.

She got much of her early experience at the Turnabout Theatre in Los Angeles, where she sang and played occasional stage roles in the early 1950s.

"What power of characterization and projection of mood are hers, even though plainly clad and sitting or standing in half light!" a Los Angeles Times critic wrote in 1955.

Over the years, she picked up occasional acting roles in TV and film. None other than famed Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper reported in 1961 that she "comes through beautifully" in the film "Sanctuary."

In the Washington Post interview, Odetta theorized that humans developed music and dance because of fear, "fear of God, fear that the sun would not come back, many things. I think it developed as a way of worship or to appease something. ... The world hasn't improved, and so there's always something to sing about."

Odetta is survived by a daughter, Michelle Esrick of New York City, and a son, Boots Jaffre, of Fort Collins, Colo. She was divorced about 40 years ago and never remarried, her manager said.
A memorial service was planned for next month, Yeager said.

Online sneaker retailer Flauge and Japanese sneaker label Cause, best known for their superior comfort and quality footwear, will be teaming up for their take on the traditional moccasin boots. Due to popular demand in Japan, these moccasin boots were released last year by Cause but now fans will be pleased to know that this time they will be collaborating with Flauge for this exclusive, limited release.

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South Africa's Top Deejays Unite for AIDS Marathon

Artists such as Eazy-E and Jean Grae have respectively kept the topics of AIDS and South Africa relevant in Hip Hop's collective consciousness. As the United States celebrates Thanksgiving on Thursday [November 27], a collection of South Africa's top deejays will be halfway across the globe participating in a 100-hour deejaying marathon, in efforts to raise awareness about the country's AIDS pandemic.

The participants--DJ Azuhl, DJ Eazy, DJ Ready D, DJ E20, and DJ Intelligent Design, who represents the U.S.--will each spend a portion of the 100-hour marathon taking up residence on Cape Town's V&A Ampitheatre stage in hopes of inspiring a dialogue about HIV and AIDS among South Africa's youth.

"South Africa has one of the highest infection rates in the world, and this is an opportunity for Hip Hop to raise awareness and open discussion to different communities in Cape Town," DJ Azhul tells HipHopDX. Collectively, the DJ's have lent their skills to the likes of Public Enemy, Akon, Coolio, Jazzy Jeff and Ice-T.

"Musicians and artists are leaders because youth listen to us before they listen to teachers and even their parents," says DJ Eazy. "Kids will let a CD tell them how to dress and how to act. This deejay marathon is a way to put out a positive message with a high level of youth involvement."
The deejay marathon will be part of a the five-day Red Rhythms event, organized by the non-profit organization ConsciousFlowz. Admission is free, and more information for those both in and outside of South Africa is available at www.consciousflowz.org.

Bruce Lee x Nokia N96 Phone

We are huge Bruce Lee students here at BOOKiDO and saw this and found out that the phone cost $1,300.

Check out www.Flipthemedia.com

Lead Belly Book Commercial

JCDC Vs LEGO Video

Creative way to promote a new clothing line!

JCDC VS LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

Nike Nintendo Air MaxTerra Ninety Hybrid

70 Journalist Arrested in Sudan

Source: AllAfrica.com

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest and detention of about 70 journalists on Monday, as they were demonstrating against the censorship practice and tactics employed by the Sudanese government.

"We consider the arrest of the journalists on Monday by the Sudanese authorities as an act of intimidation aimed at preventing the media from reporting the truth in Sudan," said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ Africa office. "The Sudanese government must respect the rights of journalists and their independence. Censorship is not acceptable in modern journalism and the media in Sudan must be allowed to exercise its duties without any form of interference."

According to a statement issued by the Eastern Africa Journalists Association, the journalists were arrested together with politicians and other members of civil society who had joined in the demonstration at the Parliament to register the journalists' discontent because of the government's censorship. "The Sudanese government has posted officials to newspaper houses that vet the content of all these papers and determine what should be published," said EAJA.

The IFJ urges the Sudanese Government to respect the right to press freedom and freedom of expression, and to create an environment which enables journalists to operate according to internationally recognized standards of journalism.

For further information about ongoing censorship in Sudan, see:http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/98208

"Way of Design"

"Way of Design"

"Way of Design"

Entrepreneurs Need Social Networking

Dan Schawbel, a leading expert in social networking and a Gen-Y branding expert, explains what business owners need to know about the trend. 

Read the article here

Obama Gets Own Baseball Cards Collection

Topps Inc. normally releases baseball cards has announced it will release a special Inaugural edition for Barack Obama.

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BOOKiDO x digg Air Force 1s

Check out BOOKiDO  on digg

Here is a good article on Kevin Rose and how he is building a multimedia empire.  Digg staff members got a chance to vote on their favorite design.

Kimbo Slice keeps releasing videos on YouTube

Kimbo Slice may not be the baddest mixed martial arts fighter anymore, but he's still the king of YouTube, right? Well, maybe not. 

A series of 11 stealth marketing videos for Nike featuring Slice and NFL star Ladainian Tomlinson, "Train Like LT with Kimbo Slice," haven't quite made the viral splash that Kobe Bryant or Ronaldinho did.

Mama Africa Rest in Freedom (1932-2008)

The world mourned as South African singer Miriam Makeba passed away in Italy on Nov. 9th 2008.  She is popularly known for her exile during Apartheid South Africa, the first African to win a Grammy award and often referred to as "Mama Africa".  

From wikipedia:

Makeba  travelled to London where she met Harry Belafonte, who assisted her in gaining entry to and fame in the United States. She released many of her most famous hits there including "Pata Pata", "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa), and "Malaika". In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid.

She discovered that her South African passport was revoked when she tried to return there in 1960 for her mother's funeral. In 1963, after testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked. She has had nine passports, [3] and was granted honorary citizenship of ten countries.[4]

Her marriage to Trinidadian civil rights activist and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled. As a result of this, the couple moved to Guinea, where they became close with President Ahmed Sékou Touré and his wife. Makeba separated from Carmichael in 1973, and continued to perform primarily in Africa, South America and Europe. She was one of the African and Afro-American entertainers at the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaïre. Makeba also served as a Guinean delegate to the United Nations, for which she won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986.

After the death of her only daughter Bongi Makeba in 1985, she moved to Brussels. In 1987, she appeared in Paul Simon's Graceland tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography Makeba: My Story.

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Salute to the Buffalo Soldiers

Since today is a day of saluting Veterans of war then it is only right to give a warrior salute to the Buffalo Soldiers.

 Read Here for a detail history of the Buffalo Soldiers

Some lyrics from Bob Marley:

Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock rasta:
There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

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Common on OKPTV

Interview with Common on Okay Player TV

Common Interview w/ OkayplayerTV from Okayplayer on Vimeo.

Sherman Alexie vs Colbert

What happens when a white talk show host goes against a Native writer! The famous Sherman Alexie gives Colbert the truth.

Clean water for Haitians project

400,000 residents of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and three nearby towns now have access to clean, safe water thanks to a new chlorine system.

Starting in May of 2006, a U.S. -- non-governmental group International Action working with a Haitian group Dlo Pwòp (Clean Water) has installed 100 tablet chlorinators in 23 of the poorest neighborhoods for Port-au-Prince.

These neighborhoods include Tokyo, Trou-sable, Simmond Pelé, Cité Soleil, Carrefour and Delmas -- some of the poorest and most dangerous parts of the capital. These chlorinators protect the water supply for some 400,000 residents, including 250,000 children. For some, it is the first help they have had in many years.

The joint Haitian-American team just installed a larger chlorinator in the coastal town of Arcahaie -- hard hit by the three recent hurricanes. With the new water system, Arcahaie's 100,000 residents have access to clean, safe water for the first time. A local leader of the Women's Organization -- Rosemilla St.Vil -- asked for the chlorinator weeks ago, saying:

"People drink the water where all the animals bathe and people wash clothes. Children get sick and many die. It's a serious problem. We need help." The Clean Water team responded to her plea.

to learn more go to www.Haitiwater.org

Obama Team Weighs What to Take On First

Barack Obama at a news conference in September. After nearly two years of campaign promises, Mr. Obama and his advisers face the complex task of setting priorities for his presidency.

On a lighter note....

VICTORY!!

Book Review: Muay Thai Legacy

This book is one of the best written and photographed books on the anciet kickboxing art of Thailand called Muay Thai. Filled with detailed photos of boxing techniques,ceremonial dances and the history of how Thai warriors fought for hundreds of years the deadly art of eight weapons.  Thailand's official national sport and a must see spectacular event whenever you are in Thailand.  This book was written by Kat Prayukvong and a great froward by Ajarn Chai Surisute of Thai Boxing Association of USA which if you are anybody who has been training in the sport know that these are the top instructors in the world.  The book teaches you ring techniques, how to kick properly and different ways to elbow and knee an opponent.  Check it out or email Bookido

Here is a video that will convince you to join the local academy.

Obama buys video game ads

Senator Barack Obama became the first political candidate to use video game advertisements and has promoted the ads in 10 swing states 2 weeks before the election.
Read this MSNBC article for more

Saul Williams: Convict Colony

Gen. Powell endorses Sen. Obama

America- the Free

Parents & young adults, please research & decide who the best candidate is based on what needs you have for your household. Everything else falls under the shyt happens category!

Pay Close Attention to What Button You Push

Below is the link to an article in The Charleston Gazette. I have been worried about this. What is the plan if this happens Nov. 4th? Do we plan to just sit through another four years like we did when this happen eight years ago & again four years ago?!



http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180251



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Add-2 "The Tale of Two's City v.2," Free Mixtape Download

Add-2 "The Tale of Two's City v.2"

Yes people, we at Precise Minds want to present you with an early Christmas/Kwanzaa present! No need to thank us, just take some moments to appreciate good music when you hear it and we'll be satisfied. So give this mic assassin , better known as ADD2, some love. Tell us what you think and dont be stingy...shaaare...there's more from the Windy City native coming soon. Uno
-K. Dixon (Precise Minds)

BOOK Review - Angler The Cheney Vice Presidency

A recent book on the secret handling of US government policies from the stroke of  pen by Vice President Dick Cheney.  He has lead the US foreign policy with a iron fist and this book goes into the history of his rise in business, politics and White House management.

NY Times Book Review-

As vice president, Cheney, you could say, has acted like a great power seeking to maximize influence and quash any rivals, forging an alliance only with Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. He thus treated the State Department and theNational Security Council as foreign enemies, spying on them and humiliating Condoleezza Rice (when she was the national security adviser) and former Secretary of StateColin Powell. When ever possible, he has acted unilaterally, even working behind President Bush’s back to alter his tax and environmental policies. But just as critics warned back in 1992 that American overreaching would ultimately create a coalition of enemies determined to check it, so Cheney’s relentless amassing of power and influence has finally rebounded on him in Bush’s second term. With the rise of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Cheney faces true rivals who command the president’s ear.

NBA lays off work force due to economy

The NBA is laying off 9 percent of its work force over worries about the U.S. economy, commissioner David Stern said.

LUPE FIASCO X CONVERSE (RED) SNEAKER

Award-winning Certified Gold artist Lupe Fiasco joins close homie Dr. Romanelli as part of next year’s PRODUCT (RED) project with Converse. The PRODUCT (RED) initiative is to build awareness and raise money for humanitarian efforts. An understated bit of flash is seen via an all-black patent leather Chuck Taylor. Gone is the usual rubber toecap as well as the typical heel patch, both replaced with the full patent leather deal. Keeping with the PRODUCT (RED) theme, hints of red can be seen on the trademark top eyelet and sole as well as on a strip across the side. These lows join a previously previewed high-top from awhile back with rumors the high-top will release next January.

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