Always late to the party, always a bridesmaid never a bride, yadda yadda ya……
I have missed out yet again on a fab print, by a great artist of a great man. There is one on Ebay for $695,worth it, but with Xmas, the credit crunch and home improvements, this will pass me by.
I have always admired David Choes work and have tried to buy one of his prints before with no success. I will keep my eyes open in the new year.
Asaru Mushavu aka “Asaru 75″ at Deviantart
I love hip hop, hence I have had my fill of oversexualised black women…… but I will be joining this revoulution.
I have recently found and spent alot of time at I am the Nublack, it is the kind of blog mine should be if I were a little more organised. My one major gripe is, it has cost me money, I have since bought two things featured there a print and a T shirt.
Now this may have something to do with the fact that I was online quite late in the day, tired = easily persuaded to part with cash.
The print I absolutely adore, it reminded me immediately of signs outside an African barber shop, which is what inspired the artist Andrea Pippin. I also liked the colours allot, the green is the colour of my living room accent wall, painted because a friend declared my flat the color of mud! rude cow, I believe what she meant to say was my flat is neutral, brown, beiges, whites and black; I still love her.
The reason for my colour scheme is, I want to fill my walls with colourful prints .
Now this particular print ticks all boxes, stylish, colourful, quirky and best of all great value, I was going to say cheap, but there is nothing cheap about it.
I would love to say get yourself one, sorry sold out, they went on sale on November 16th! I just hope I get mine!!
Other prints are on sale at I Love My Hair.
Andrea is a graphic artist visit her blog FLY to see her skills.
Have you ever gone to the barbers/salon, taken a picture and told your stylist, this is the style I would like today, I wonder what they would make of this.
Work is still getting its pound of flesh, so I will keep it brief, Lauri Lyons is the first African American female to be represented by Getty Images; with this I have already spoken volumes.
Like this
I feel like crying…. the feeling just wells up like a brewing storm, it starts in my cheeks warms my belly, like I have butterflies
but I dont,
it tickles the back of my tongue, pressure builds up in the back of my eyes, my emotions soar and fly,
but I dont,
I dont cry, and I dont know why
I promise myself, next time I will.
This is something I have always believed, and I am not talking beauty on the inside, I am talking aesthetics, facially, some people you have to look a little harder than others, some times you find it in fleeting expressions, other times it is a permanent fixture.
I found Facity which confirms my theory in part, to me every one pictured has beauty captured in their portrait.
The project welcomes everyone, but I wonder if everyone makes the grade. Most subjects seem to look about 22 years old. The project is currently in Berlin, they plan to extend to other cities, I will be first in line when it gets to London.
I am going to try to reproduce these shots on some of my friends it should be fun for an amateur photographer, yes I do have some hidden “talents”. OMG they are looking for photographers, okay I am not brave enough to try yet, but the great thing is they have a pdf that shows how to create shots, wow and I have a 50mm lens, oh happy days. Just need to find a willing victim.
On a bum note, didn’t leave work till after 7.00 p.m. today, and I have germs in the form of a cough, I wanted to see the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the RAA which closes at 10.00 p.m. on Fridays, just managed to drag myself home in the pouring rain. I do not feel beautiful today, but I sure will tomorrow.
After Midnight Soul, is exactly how I should feel but instead I feel like Late Evening Crap, I am acting like a two-year old who does not know its bed time, I am soooo tired, yet fighting the urge to go to bed. Instead I decided to visit Concreteloop.com where I go for my last-ditch attempts at being in the know about hip hop culture ( I am failing miserably) I wanted to search out some prints I remembered seeing on a post a while back on the site.
Can’t complete this today….. Goodnight
Another day.. I would love to say I am refreshed, I am not, but a lot more alert than last night. Anyhow……
back to Steven Lopez I love the After Midnight Soul series, he created images of some great ladies of soul, Erykah, Jill Scott, Aretha Franklin.
I am not sure how I feel about his other work, some images I like a lot others not so much, jury is out on this one, but he is surely talented.
Watch him create India and other works on his site ikeepmoving.com.
I am excited, lately I am not easily excited, I found an artist with prints for sale, for sale within my price range, okay, one downside, they are a bit smaller than I would like, I digress.
Dawn Okoro paints sisters, real sisters and other people too, her images evoke heat, maybe it is the intensity of the colours used, vibrant hues.
I chose these two images as they have two of my favorite things shoes and brown skin.
I am a person of a few words at the moment, so THE END.
p.s Dawn has t-shirts on her blog, she is as pretty as her pictures.
Got a new mac, no more a PC…… hopefully this means I will be blogging again, I have 3 orphaned blogs which need new homes……
There are lots of new things in my life at the moment which I am trying out, hope they all work well. As I am tired of PCs, Exes and lbs.
