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Your imaginary friend pierre.

j&p — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:53:44 +0000

I’ve been doing some soul searching, I’m finding some good stuff. I’m being pushed reluctantly into the foreground, a place that i purposefully abandoned several years ago. However situations keep occurring where my hermit tendencies don’t serve me. I am also being informed that my style of perfectionism doesn’t serve me. My art is like a cockroach in that for every one piece of mine that you see there are about 30 that you don’t see. Growing up I used to throw away sketch books, rhyme books and journals because they were not “perfect.” It wasn’t till i got married that i really started to save my work & even then many things never saw the light of day. I learned that just because something comes easy to me doesn’t mean it lacks value. So here i am unwilling to put things out there that are not “perfect” but in desperate need to share and make room for all the new stuff. The first challenge I put to myself is to be “out there” more. I’ve decided to do so by starting a Video Blog (which i believe is called a V-log). It is tentatively titled “2 minutes with your imaginary friend Pierre!” I begin shooting later this week…see you soon..well…you’ll see me soon but you…you get it…so yeah.

“Sampling Soul”: The Mid-Term Exam

j&p — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:07:00 +0000

Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy winning producer 9th Wonder (pictured left) are using SunMoonChild – amazing song by imani uzuri, amazing video by Pierre Bennu – as part of the midterm exam for their course, ’sampling soul.’ The course is about black cultural production and the tradition of borrowing/remixing/sampling and how it all relates to today’s legal issues of intellectual property rights and copyright law. Since YouTube just removed SunMoonChild after three years this issue cuts particularly close for us.

He’s made the midterm public on his blog to encourage a wider dialogue and wider exposure to the ideas. Stop by and give it a read, comment if you can! )

–jb.

As a DJ, an artist, a sometime teacher, and the son of an academic, I will never get tired of marveling at the intersection of HipHop and academia. It’s an honor to have my work thought of as contributing to this discussion.

–pb

Sun Moon Child…reborn

j&p — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:52 +0000

I just realized that since YouTube took down this video & i reposted a higher quality version on Vimeo that i did NOT post it here on exittheapple.com.
I was in the midst of writing an essay on “fair use” and the future of media when i found myself rehashing ideas that were already explored and discussed by those far more eloquent than myself. i will post links to their books and articles later until then take a deep breath, open your heart & eyes to this digital altar piece i created for the artist Imani Uzuri back in 2007 entitled ‘SUN MOON CHILD’

Sun Moon Child from pierre bennu on Vimeo.

“story” episode 4: grandma’s house

j&p — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:36:37 +0000

“story” episode 2 swamp (explicit language)

j&p — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:15:13 +0000

“story” episode 1 – the devil

j&p — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:25:02 +0000

This is the 1st of a new series we are working on. No special effects, no fancy editing, no soundtrack to guiding how you feel, just the power of a person telling a story. enjoy.

meditation loop by pierre bennu

j&p — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:15:37 +0000

a hand drawn animated study by pierre bennu; something to focus on silently or with your own music of choice. i may do more of these with different themes; stay tuned )

2 Trees – episode 1: people suck

j&p — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:15:29 +0000

The unheard conversation between 2 trees. Conceived Pierre Bennu of www.exittheapple.com for the credit sequence of the the show “Eco-Bling” at www.esthergrace.com. Press the pic and enjoy!

join the revolution (one last time…)

j&p — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:44:28 +0000

our feature-length mockumentary is playing on saturday august 8th at Creative Alliance @ the Patterson in Baltimore. the film is in the process of being re-cut, so this is the last screening of the original cut of the film!

8pm august 8th @ creative alliance
3134 eastern ave. baltimore
$8 / $6 for members

http://exittheapple.com/film/RBG/

exittheapple @ BAM

j&p — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:27:13 +0000

Pierre’s short film “SunMoonChild” will be featured on Sunday the 27th of April as part of the “Creatively Speaking” festival at BAM in Brooklyn, NY. SunMoonChild is a celebration of black dance set to music by Imani Uzuri.