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  • Revisiting Blaxploitation

    Sweet, funky soundtracks, black superheroes, and a whole lotta ass-kicking. These are the first things people remember about the afrocentric film explosion of the 1970's which is often called "blaxploitation". Mostly forgotten, these films represent the adolescence of black filmmaking, as artists and actors alike struggled to redefine the black presence on the big screen. [caption id="attachment_106"...

  • Black Dynamite Shakes The Smack Out!

    There aren't many movies like Black Dynamite that come along.  The new film is the first for production company Ars Nova, and the second for director Scott Sanders.   Starring Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Tommy Davidson and Mykelti Williamson, it also features a cameo by Arsenio Hall as a pimp. [caption id="attachment_656" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Michael Jai White as action as...

  • Wax Tracks: When Celebrities Sing

    Wonka Vision Magazine has just published Webzine Vol. 8.  Each month, the webzine features my column Wax Tracks, where I talk about and review various records.  In this month's issue of Wax Tracks, I look at albums recorded by celebrities from Bruce Willis to Alan Arkin.  Some you'll remember, others you've never heard of before. Read it online today! Get links to previous Wax Tracks columns in the Content Wr...

  • Meta Keywords, Rest In Peace

    In the last few months, both Yahoo and Google have publicly stated that they no longer support the keyword meta tag.  Bing has never used it.  What impact does this have on your website and search engine rankings? Search engines have gotten a lot smarter over the last few years, and they're now indexing sites by keywords located within the content.  While all three still use the title and description meta tags, th...

  • Why Should You Invest in SEO?

    [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Expand your online reach with better SEO techniques."][/caption] The world has changed so much over the last decade.  The days of flipping through a hard copy phone book to find what you're looking for are by and large behind us.  These days, if you're looking for something, you'll type it into a search engine. If your business sells a product or a service, ...

War: What Is It Good For?

Feb 9th

Posted by Michael Mercadante in Content Design

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Here’s a piece I initially wrote in 2001, after tagging along with a friend who was covering a Revolutionary War re-enactment for the local paper.  I wrote my own article for a zine I created later that year called PinkEye.  Read more... (951 words, 1 image, estimated 3:48 mins reading time)

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Wax Tracks: When Celebrities Sing

Feb 8th

Posted by Michael Mercadante in Content Design

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Bruce Willis album "The Return of Bruno"Wonka Vision Magazine has just published Webzine Vol. 8.  Each month, the webzine features my column Wax Tracks, where I talk about and review various records.  In this month’s issue of Wax Tracks, I look at albums recorded by celebrities from Bruce Willis to Alan Arkin.  Some you’ll remember, others you’ve never heard of before.  Read more... (77 words, 1 image, estimated 18 secs reading time)

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Pastel Maniac

Feb 8th

Posted by Michael Mercadante in Content Design

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I was babysitting my 7-year-old nephew yesterday.  He loves to draw, so I introduced him to charcoal pencils and soft pastels.  He took to the sloppy media immediately.  Here’s something I created quickly to show him some of the potential:

Drawing in charcoal pencil and soft pastels.

What do you think?

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