Khaldun
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Nope!  EDIT: To clarify - it's probably the same reason that the girl is wearing a little wedding dress, and people wear wool hats and jackets in 90+ degree heat - it's Africa. I haven't spent time in Benin, but from what I've read and heard, this festival is one of a number that were sort of created out of much smaller scale local events by the government in the early 1990s as national events, partly to encourage tourism ( voodoo tourism in Ouidah was pretty established by that point and the gov't thought it was a good model). The local precedents have to do with folks in the north of Benin who were once part of a kingdom whose military power centered on horse cavalry. That's a pretty common thing up and down West Africa in the 19th Century--the Oyo Kingdom, some of the Hausa city-state, etc., also had cavalry. Basically that was old kingdoms or states that straddled the line between forest and savannah where horses could operate outside of the belt of tsetse fly. The mirror I dunno for sure, though a lot of contemporary versions of older dances have 'innovative' elements like that, where some new bit of ritual has been added on. Mirrors are seen a lot in a lot of West African spirituality (as they have been all around the world--it was one of the things that global merchants knew were sure-fire hits before 1850, kind of like the premodern Polaroid)--they pop up in Mami Wata shrines pretty often, for example. |
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Strazos
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Yeah, the Gani festival itself has an interesting history. I'd like to go to one of the similar events in northern Nigeria at some point - I hear some of the cavaliers there have squirreled away Crusades-era armor. Somehow. |
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Wow... I want so many of those.  |
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Teleku
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They mis-named the Pork Chop Express!
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Merusk
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They're meant to be hints, not the actual names. There's a few that I'd never heard of. Vanishing Point and Overdrift being the first two that spring to mind. Overdrift in particular.. I'd have done "The Wrath" long before that movie.
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They're meant to be hints, not the actual names. There's a few that I'd never heard of. Vanishing Point and Overdrift being the first two that spring to mind. Overdrift in particular.. I'd have done "The Wrath" long before that movie.
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murdoc
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I want too many of those posters, nice find.
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01101010
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I want too many of those posters, nice find.
I ordered 5. Now I gotta find some nice poster frames. God damn you Merusk... |
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MisterNoisy
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Awesome find - pity that they're only 11x17, but that won't stop me from ordering a few.
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Teleku
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I am a sad sad person for knowing what that is.
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Ironwood
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Ditto. And now I have the Friends theme tune in my head for related reasons.
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Chimpy
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I recognize it but can't place the movie it is from.
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Rasix
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I guess I'm losing geek points for having no clue. I know I have seen that thing before.. I think.
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01101010
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I recognize it but can't place the movie it is from.
Seconded. Fuck it is starting to bother me... typical BW and his cryptic, driveby picture posting. |
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RhyssaFireheart
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No clue what that is, nor have I ever seen it.
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MuffinMan
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It just means the movie has been expunged from your brain, which is a good thing and I envy you.
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Warning - while you were reading 5 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Damm you nerds.. It's the "Cosmic Key" |
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RhyssaFireheart
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Warning - while you were reading 5 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Damm you nerds.. It's the "Cosmic Key"It just means the movie has been expunged from your brain, which is a good thing and I envy you.
Oh good. I never saw that movie and can still legitimately say I didn't know what that was. Who's messed up idea was it to put messed up tuning forks on a cylinder and call it a "key"? |
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01101010
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Warning - while you were reading 5 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Damm you nerds.. It's the "Cosmic Key"Thanks a ton. This would have bugged the shit outa me and I never would have gone to that movie. |
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Der Helm
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I was a huge fan when I was young.
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Merusk
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I want too many of those posters, nice find.
I ordered 5. Now I gotta find some nice poster frames. God damn you Merusk... My work here is done.. buahaha. Warning - while you were reading 5 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Damm you nerds.. It's the "Cosmic Key"It just means the movie has been expunged from your brain, which is a good thing and I envy you.
Oh good. I never saw that movie and can still legitimately say I didn't know what that was. Who's messed up idea was it to put messed up tuning forks on a cylinder and call it a "key"? Gwildor, the gnome who unlocks space-time portals with sounds thanks to Courtney Cox's boyfriend who's totally in a rock band! |
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Warning - while you were reading 5 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Damm you nerds.. It's the "Cosmic Key"DOH! Why U Give away! I loved that movie as a kid. |
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Chimpy
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God that movie was terrible. All I remembered when I saw that image was some alien device that was both a musical instrument and an item of immense power.
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Miasma
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You can drag and drop an image into google image search now and it's pretty good at figuring out where it came from. It's kind of crazy. I don't mean the url either, you can just drag that image to the text box and it'll figure it out.
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Ironwood
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In fairness, though the movie was utter, utter excrement, they did do Skeletor and Evilynn quite well, I thought.
When I found out who was under that makeup I was a little shocked but By God, he didn't half chew the scenery.
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You can drag and drop an image into google image search now and it's pretty good at figuring out where it came from. It's kind of crazy. I don't mean the url either, you can just drag that image to the text box and it'll figure it out.
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Chimpy
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You can drag and drop an image into google image search now and it's pretty good at figuring out where it came from. It's kind of crazy. I don't mean the url either, you can just drag that image to the text box and it'll figure it out.
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Slyfeind
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When I found out who was under that makeup I was a little shocked but By God, he didn't half chew the scenery.
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murdoc
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01101010
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25. killed me. |
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HaemishM
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Yeah, that was the one that got me.
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