February 2012
7 posts
January 2012
7 posts
dream hampton: Walk, Don't Run, To Red Tails →
dreamhampton1:
Today is the day the future of big budget Black filmmaking hangs in the balance. According to George Lucas at least. After spending about 555 million adjusted for inflation dollars to make his 6 installments of Star Wars, Lucas has now vowed to abandon half a billion budgets forever…
Perhaps the most important thing we have to remember about the black tradition...
– Bryan Wagner, Disturbing the Peace, p. 1. (via thefactofblackness)
December 2011
7 posts
Defending an Anthology by Rita Dove | The New York... →
I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I...
– Toni Morrison (via @SonofBaldwin on Twitter). As usual, her words are fierce and truer than true. (via tinyfist)
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
6 posts
Pambazuka - The top ten myths in the war against... →
interesting piece
DC:ART:Around My Way: Anacostia FotoweekDC: Join... →
DC:ART:JAZZ:Thinking About Jazz – Nina Simone &... →
Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art →
Goon Shit, LLC: Dieter Rams 10 principles of good... →
sophisticated-goon-shit:
Is innovative - The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Makes a…
September 2011
6 posts
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TEDx: Q&A Adriane Randolph, TEDxPeachtree Speaker →
This sister is doing her thing!
tedx:
Dr. Adriane B. Randolph is director of the BrainLab, and an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU). She received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Department of Computer Information Systems at…
Happy Birthday Trane (Repost from Sept 23, 2008) →
Graphic Design + HipHop →
As the world is abuzz with talk of Innovation, Design THinking, Data and Information Visualization, this piece opens the door on all of that with respect to classic Hip-Hop show flier….
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Do yourself a favor…
Washington Post →
Art, Around My Way in Anacostia
August 2011
10 posts
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DC:POETRY: Gunpowder + A Match by Ernesto Mercer →
Urban Socialista: Travel to Mali with the Muesum... →
urbansocialista:
Travel to Mali for the 9th BAMAKO ENCOUNTERS: African Photography Biennial with the Museum for African Art (MfAA), New York. Mali has become the center of African photography - it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers - Seydou Keita and Malick…
what I am reading right now...
So I have attention span issues. I have been told by a poet and friend that I have a lot of respect for that i need to work that issue out if i really want to grow as a poet…maybe, but that is a subject for another post…well i guess it is tangentially related to this post because my attention span does play a part in how many books I am reading right now…anyway, without further...
July 2011
4 posts
DC:ART:HISTORY:CULTURE: Wash Post Features the... →
DC:ART: Aug 5th – Oct 7th 2011, (Un)Lock It: the... →