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BORN THIS WAY TO DRINK CLEAN WATER – WATER ROYALTY RIGHTS FOR ALL CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Born this way – I believe that all children of the world were born to have access to clean drinking water whenever they need it.

BTW: At the moment 1 billion people don’t. 2 million children die through not having access to clean drinking water each year.

Born this way to drink clean water – is these kids and their parents’ dream day. We can make it a dream day everyday for them. Let’s make it happen fun people, by clicking on UNICEF’S TAP PROJECT link. Let’s FLOW! Thanks groovy people.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.29.10~

 
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BLUE ON BLUE by CONSTABLE TITO OF THE TITAHI BAY BASE GETS A HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT TODAY FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

I remember living in Wellywood, where all those Hobbit movies are being made in 3D (‘in the rough’ planning stages still, as I write), and my niece Pearl Grace was going to Police Academy College – in Titahi Bay.

In those days, I didn’t even have a thought I’d ever be living and blogging from Hollywood. I used to drive out with her to the Police Academy base, while we’d eat paua gleaned from the moana (sea) from the bay and reflect about her love life. She’s gorgeous and I’m proud of her amazing heart and capacity to love and be.

Anyway, here’s a Maori doing blue-on-blue attire (a topic of USA and Hollywood interest today). Constable Tito of Titahi Bay Base, is a hori bro getting a Hollywood spotlight today.

I grew up with Vanessa Tito and her cousins from Tangiteroria in Nga Puhi country – this man’s relations, most probably. All good people, with a hearty laugh. :)

Maori men (and women too) are disproportionately arrested and jailed in New Zealand currently, as Dame June Jackson recently pointed out on her recent Damehood anointing . This has always irked me, as when you think about it, not even from a rocket science view point but a humane one, all New Zealanders run around enjoying the “clean, green, fabulous New Zealand lifestyle” on landscape that was once all Maori tribal ancestral land, so how can we arrest the descendants of the original stewards of New Zealand landscape at all? But our dark Kiwi sense of humor, kind of still does.  Dame June (a funny woman) is perhaps the first to admit that in New Zealand, we’re still working on getting our ‘humors’ right.

Any landowner or leader or law creator or law enforcement person in New Zealand at best, will be a steward of the land for future generations of people, like early Maori settlers taught New Zealand centuries ago as “kaitiaki” or green guardians of the earth – where people are the most important asset a nation has dwelling in the abundance of the earth.

Because of this fact, Constable Tito’s role at ensuring fairness in Wellywood with all people as a mediator and guardian of community is like — tino (the Maori word for totz) stellar!

Hence this shout out to a brotha doing a fine job, serving community.

[This pic shared by Mana electorate politician - Heck Yeah! Hekia. If you live in Mana and read this humble Hollywood blog - I hope you're all voting Heck Yeah! Hekia on Nov. 20th. She pops! I can't wait to see Hekia do the Samoan sasa dance at community events in Porirua. An image of Beyonce paying tribute to Josephine Baker's legacy in Paris in a respectful African-American community, artistic entertainer's kind of way - comes to mind. :)

Hekia is freakin' cool and a natural born entertainer. I love her style!!! New Zealand fun and entertaining vision coming up from this cool lady from Mana in the world. Check her smile right here - ]. And rock on at Titahi Bay Constable Tito and all the Kiwi bros and sistas wearing uniform in the force. ICU!

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.25.10~

 

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JOSEPHINE BAKERS INFLUENCE ON PARIS AND COCO CHANEL’S STAR TRAJECTORY

These images and words depict how the arrival of Josephine Baker in France, greatly influenced Parisian life – and also freed up artists, like Coco Chanel to be understood better. Put simply, in Josephine, a women of spectacle who was expected to perform and amuse, Chanel saw herself and loved Baker instantly, understanding her better than her fashion designer contemporaries. She included many elements of Baker’s star aesthetic into her design aesthetic.

Well worth a share. Words in pics by Charles Roux. Josephine Baker prided herself on creating a rainbow family made up of children from all nations. In this regard, she was a little like Angelina Jolie or Mia Farrow are today. Baker stands as a witness, that France loved African-Americans to a level that even America hadn’t yet reached in their times. Coco Chanel’s life, shows that she loved African-American people as whole people long before many American leaders did. Josephine was extremely beautiful though. And after all, Chanel was in the beauty game of fashion.

The fact that Coco Chanel ‘got’ Jospehine Baker so well, is also what makes a designer like Coco Chanel even more entriguing. She was out there with her contemporary modern expressions in fashion. She saw people for who they were – and in her own way, loved their uniqueness.

~Posted by Horiwood.com, Hollywood California USA. 9.24.10~

 
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Posted by horiwood on September 25, 2010 in Coco Chanel, Josephine Baker

 

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FEATHER DUSTER DANCING for FASHION ROCKS

Once upon a time, two black women, both descended from slaves in America, went one step beyond and above, by becoming a feather duster to entertain. Their body was their instrument in order to outwork their American dream in the dance of life. Through rhythm and twirling synchronicity from their hips 50 years apart, they created space for their people to breathe a little easier.

Going bananas is sometimes the right thing to do. Both ladies, did it with quite a smile. 

Here’s Beyonce and Josephine Bakerthe black supestars of their generations, doing their thing. High hat’tan?! Deja vu classics can roll.

These days, Beyonce is ranked right up there at #2, behind Ms Oprah at #1, on the Forbes Top 100 celebrities list of 2010. The first time, two black women have ever come in at the top together in American history based on earnings and fame rankings. Swoosh!

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.5.2010~

 

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ART: DIVERSITY – RAINBOW BLACK PAUA by HORIWOOD

The beautiful thing about nature, is that if you hold a piece of black paua shell up to the light, all the colors of the rainbow are reflected in this jewel from the sea.

When the limitless sky above drops down into the depths of the ocean to give humanity a message, I have eyes to see, learn and listen about the wonders and mysteries of the world. :)

[Black Hollywood leather on Paua by Horiwood. Image Horiwood's Own. Music by American legend of song, Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole 'IZ' of Hawaii, and for the memory of American and French Rainbow Families auteurs, Josephine Baker and Marcheline Bertrand ]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.24.2010 as a part of the Black Paua & the Until The Sun Comes Up on the Santa Monica Blvd series –Studies in Life.~

 

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