Four months since my last post, what's cookin?
I been sort of recalibrating things, juggling things and making some new discoveries. First I discovered http://www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com. If you are into Black sci-fi of any flavor, comic bo ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 8:14AM
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I am having this problem, it is one that I have experienced from the time I started to professionally
push pencils. It is called the gated community syndrome. I really hated the idea but I could understand it. You notice it when you get into an end ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 1:40PM
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"But It ain't paint!!!" The whole art establishment sings in unison. It's like a tag line they tack onto the end of a sentence. Digital art is good for web pages, advertisement work, a poster here and there, but as you reach for the fine art label, " ...
Posted Friday, December 18th 2009 at 9:56AM
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There is nothing like the stress of life to crimp any artistic aspiration. I was a win95 user, then win98 and finally winXP. Each time my budget made crunching sounds as I struggled to upgrade hardware and software. I stumbled upon Linux first, it wa ...
Posted Monday, December 14th 2009 at 6:50PM
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They taunted me on the radio, day after day, "In the mighty jungle, where the lion sleeps tonite" and "I miss the rains down in Africa". I faught back by singing "living in America". I felt more like the scarecrow of OZ, "my legs over there and my ch ...
Posted Saturday, December 12th 2009 at 12:28PM
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Gary Larson had a cartoon of an elephant in a trench coat and Fedora, the elephant was wounded in the jungle years earlier, lived to seek out his shooter and found him in a dark alley of a distant city, "you should have finished the job!"
I was at ...
Posted Saturday, December 12th 2009 at 10:56AM
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It is safe to say music is the driving force behind our lives while growing up. I consider myself to have been abused, amused and liberated by music. There was a tribal like collusion, you know peer pressure, to embrace Motown as "our" music as a tee ...
Posted Thursday, December 3rd 2009 at 10:22AM
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There is a people on the earth who are cursed with having their history effaced and erased. Two things are known, these people are the source of the folks that inhabit the planet and the need to deny that fact. As I was growing up, the thought of the ...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 12:35PM
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My work is like jazz, but not the smooth kind.
1. mbira
2. Jazz Dance
3. Key chatter on a saxophone, Eddie Harris
4. Standing up
5. all on the table
6. Tribal essence
7. Ameba dance, cellular level boogie ...
Posted Friday, November 27th 2009 at 9:24AM
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