Namibia

WTF

I watched the film Ashes and Snow today.

I want to lighten up, and enjoy this truly enchanting and fluid film, but I cannot shake the feeling that I was supposed to be seduced into not noticing the racism and exploitation ...

People of color with their eyes and mouths closed and still as stone. Exquisite women of color dancers playing second fiddle to the white swim-dancers who had the first and last scene. Haikus written with the self-important tone of a white man. The white man who has the last word while the third world folks are his "medium." It was set up so that the human beings were objectified. He contributes, imo, to racism in the form of the exoticizing and dehumanizing of women of color. Men and children too for that matter. Then he imposes his poetry on top of their worlds.

At the time I was watching, I thought the narrator was white. I stand corrected Laurence Fishburne is a black man. That helps some, but the fact remains that a white man waltzed around the world and took what he wanted from it.

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A day or two ago I published information given to me by anonymous tipsters about a duo who may have been involved in the stealing of a digital camera memory stick with 450 private photographs from the Jolie-Pitt family's time in Namibia.

Well, there have been rumors of some arrests as reported by both The Daily News' Rush & Molloy and TMZ.com. I have yet to confirm any arrest(s), but it seems like the information we provided on our site led to one of the suspects.

Here's the story so far: The camera which held the memory stick is owned by Angelina Jolie's brother, James Haven. A series of unfortunate events happened to Haven and the camera : The camera broke, he sent it for repairs to the store where he bought it but ... oooooops! Haven forgot to take the memory stick out of the camera. The camera got sent from Malibu to a repair center in Connecticut. That's were the illustrious practitioner of extreme vanning, a Mr. Bill Keyes, pops into our story.

I guess I have arrived ... although I am sure this is a hoax.

An alleged paparazzo only identified as lowrdr27, contacted me along with other bloggers and several publishing companies, in an attempt to sell 450 pictures taken during Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt stay in Namibia. The email is actually a forwarded original that included the text below and 3 photos attached.

The quality of the photgraphs is relatively good although there is one, of Angelina holding Zahara, that looks just a tad too professional.

-------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
From: lowrdr27@XXXXX
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:11:25 +0000
Dear Sir or Madam,

I am contacting you because I have recently acquired some digital photos (450 pictures). On this memory stick are personal photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their children. These photos are in thier home and on vacation, are good quality and are close up. These pictures have not been seen by anyone else. I am contacting you and several other Papers, magazines and websites to see what these photos may be worth. I am attaching 3 photos so you can verify the authenticity of them. You can contact me through this e-mail address:
Lowrdr27@XXXXXX

The list of people contacted includes :

eforu.com
celebritypicturesla.com
celebrity-babies.com
ew.com
howardshrine
deansplanet.com
celljournalist.com
verycool.co.uk
thebosh.com
paperunicorns
entertainment.ie
fotofama.com
celebrity8x10s.com
starmagazine.com
americanmedia
starmagazine.com
people.com