Anyway, this retina-pleasing three minutes is the work of Elliot Manches, the young British director who’s also responsible for the excellent DAM: Hip-Hop Palestinian Style documentary short, which can be viewed at www.elliotmanches.com.
Billed as “a fresh take on both rap and the Middle East”, it focuses on three Israeli-born Palestinian rhymers as they make their first visit to London.
DAM star as well in Slingshot Hip Hop, a Sundance Award-nominated documentary, which traces the scene they head back to source.
“Look at how great this title is – Fear Of A Black Planet,” enthuses DAM’s Tamer Nafar as he takes us on a guided tour of his record collection. “It’s about how the White Man is trying to stop the growth of the black population. Every time I speak Arabic I get stopped by a cop. They can’t stand hearing our language. They want to erase us.” www.slingshothiphop.com has the trailer.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to www.oversharers.com, our favourite new killing-time-at-work website, which scours Twitter for tweets that give way too much information.
“Just urinated wee-bubbles that made an exact map of Australia (with Tasmania). Ran to get camera but by then it had separated. Gutted,” confides DomHarvey while twtaryan muses: “Some times I wish I were a dog, and could just sit around all day licking myself.”
Don’t we all Dom Harvey, don’t we all!
While Caught In The Net has little – actually, make that no – sympathy for the predicament Roman Polanski currently finds himself in, we thought you might like to peruse the www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=45029 footage of him getting wed to Sharon Tate and the star-studded reception attended by the likes of Candice Bergin, Michael Caine and a seriously bopping Joan Collins that followed. It’s part of a vast online British Pathé archive dating back to 1896.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.inudge.net/index.en.html (we feel an ambient techno hit coming on); www.flickr.com/photos/86199328@Noo/3924216098/ (is this Tommy Tiernan’s doing?); and www.unionversity.com/?p=560 (well, it made us laugh).