Yet as soon as Damani and his band Mino Yanci started playing, Tongo began reciting poetry. Something clicked. "I wasn't even a guy that was really into poems, if I'm honest," admits Damani. "But when I heard him, all of a sudden, I was into poems." Realizing they'd stumbled onto something, Damani extended an invite for Tongo to meet up again at Zoo Labs studio in West Oakland.
When Nintendo unexpectedly dropped a cute cartoon about a baby learning how to walk earlier this week, people understandably thought that the game studio might have been teasing a new or animated feature. "Close to You" turned out to be a Pikmin situation instead of a reveal for new IP, and Nintendo has just clarified that the video is actually a short film rather than a teaser for a new game.
Natalia Bryant has made her debut as a creative director with a short film that features a subject matter with which she's very familiar. The 70-second piece is called "Forever Iconic: Purple and Gold Always," and it's all about the worldwide impact of the Lakers - something Bryant has experienced throughout her life as the oldest daughter of one of the Lakers' great icons, Kobe Bryant.
Outside the Sala Grande, Eva H.D. stood up for Palestine, brandishing a sign that said, "We Are All an Audience to Genocide," amid a festival where the war on Gaza weighed heavily - and continues to after Alexander Payne's jury awarded the Palestine-centered drama " The Voice of Hind Rajab" the runner-up prize before Jim Jarmusch's Golden Lion winner "Father Mother Sister Brother" was announced.
The RPDR channel just uploaded a AI animated special, and I just don't get why they didn't just hire an artist to do the whole thing... it looks soulless.
