Glen E. Friedman: Early Hip Hop + Iraq War Protest (CLEAN)

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(This video has profanity "bleeped" out.)

Today's Boing Boing Video episode is the final installment of a series of conversations shot during a visit to Shepard Fairey's gallery in LA, as the work of legendary punk / hiphop / skate culture photographer Glen E. Friedman was going up on the gallery walls, for his first ever career retrospective "Idealist Propaganda."

The first episode focused on Fairey's famous Obama poster, the second episode on a collaboration between Shepard and Glen involving the hardcore group Bad Brains. The third was all about Glen's early work in skateboarder culture and hardcore punk.

TODAY: We explore Glen's work documenting hip-hop in the 1980s, and moments he captured with great artists like RUN DMC, Public Enemy, and Ice T, shown below.

Also in today's episode, Glen tells us about the Liberty Street Protest, a graphic statement against the Iraq war. This visual protest took place right across the street from the ruins of the World Trade Center site, destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.

As Glen explains, graphic images were hung in windows in a loft belonging to Def Jam mogul and hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons, and the message was: "New Yorkers were right here when 9/11 happened, and we don't want this war in our names."

FULL BOING BOING BLOG POST WITH LINKS, AND INFO ON WHERE TO PURCHASE GLEN'S BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS, HERE:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/29/bb-video-photographe-1.html

(Big thanks to Boing Boing pal Sean Bonner, who coordinated this series of conversations. And very special thanks to Michael Donaldson, aka Q Burns Abstract Message, for generously allowing Boing Boing to use music from his Eighth Dimension label in this episode.)

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[donttrustany1]

Glen is an amazing person.

[heymaria123]

cool stuff!!!

[gdwhat]

Awesome.

[vson8]

Well I like hip-hop, and to me it's also a good video ;)

[DaZeD871]

Too bad I don't really care about hip hop, but otherwise it's a good video ;)