So on Sunday morning, I saw musician/singer/actor/Top-Youtuber Chester See tweet out that he was, for some reason, in my city (Surrey), all the way from LA. 

Now, I follow nearly 1000 people, so my timeline moves pretty fast. I would’ve missed this if I had logged in just a minute later. Taking it as some sort of sign to seize an opportunity to get some advice from a YouTube veteran and meet someone we look up to, Mannan/kthx and I headed out with a camera and no plan. 

Turned out he was incredibly nice and open to talk, so I decided to go ahead and just interview him for Dunya, too! I’ve met celebrities/people I look up to before, but there was a really real difference with Chester— when he says he enjoys and cares about personal connections with his fans, he really isn’t joking.

There’s also a longer, unedited version of the interview up on Dunya’s Facebook page, so be sure to check that out, too!

And, of course, visit Chester See on YouTube :)

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon: The History of Rap

When Jimmy Fallon first started his late night show, I had a feeling that he might just end up being one of the greats. Like, beyond Conan. It sounds crazy, but I think I should just put that out there now so I can say ‘I told you so’ 20 years from now.

This is great on a lot of levels, and is clearly a television show doing a bit that’s meant to go viral online. It’s also troubling. It reminds me of the fact that a lot of North American pop culture is really arts and culture from black folk that got taken and given a lighter face to sell to the wannabe-gangsta kids from the suburbs in order to take it big. This is literally two white guys telling/owning the history of rap, with THE ROOTS playing backup. 

As problematic as that is, it’s also part of what makes the clip funny. If it was Jaime Foxx and Will Smith, I might think it was cool but not surprising or particularly forward-able. So when all’s said and done, as long as we can recognize this as a well put-together promo for The Social Network (and a fan-freaking-tastic performance by Jimmy Fallon; performing right along with TImberlake is no small feat), we can all look back on this and laugh. But seriously it’s weird that The Roots are the background in this, even if their instrumentals were perfect.

This great interview with one of, if not absolutely my favourite actor, Adrian Brody, is satisfyingly in-depth and insightful, and inspires me not only in terms of work ethic and dedication, but also to just check out all of his films that I haven’t yet seen.

The interview is from Digg Dialogg, a semi-regular show where digg takes a notable person in a given field, calls for digg users to submit and vote on questions, and then interviews said person using the five questions with the most votes, or diggs. It results in better questions than regular interviews tend to come up with, and, in the case of this interview, fascinating tangents that definitely make it worth checking out. 

Enjoy!

I love me some solid film scores, and no one gets them made like Christopher Nolan. After the musical powerhouse that was The Dark Knight, this track from the Inception trailers by Zack Hemsey screams “watch me on IMAX” at every moment. 

And watch you I will.

(via /Film)