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Mar 032010
SWRV| Beyond Fashion's Fad Lanes

∞ we are everlasting. we are thinkers. we are lights.
∞ we breathe life into our own style, & we live it.
∞ we are limitless & go b e y o n d left. there is no one lane for us.
we, swrv. // -SWRV 2010

Here’s my deal with fashion, as of lately. I’m over it! There’s [...]

Feb 232010
Itaysha Jordan| Captures the Rapture between Art+Fashion

Itaysha Jordan is a fashion photography extraordinaire. I love the how she boldly challenges the sensibilities of the fashion world. Even though fashion thrives on being ahead of the curve, Jordan’s work swiftly reminds them of how far they have to reach. Though Jordan’s photography covers beauty, fashion, and editorial, I chose to display her [...]

Feb 192010
Black Nerds Network presents: Fela's Afrikanism

After viewing this light-emitting vid from the Black Nerds Network that BEAUTIFULLY highlights the late and most great, Fela and his love for his people, the quote below seemed to resonate with me more and more about what honest music can do for a person and subsequently, a nation.

//I remember [HE] [...]

Feb 112010
B|B|C for ARTIST: ACTIVIST!

B|B|C very recently had the pleasure of being a guest editor for the ARTIST : ACTIVIST publication’s premier Spring 2010 issue!
I would like to send my gratitude to Joi Sears, Producing Artistic Director of Theatre for the Free People and Dr. Brenda Green, Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar [...]

Feb 042010
Susan Justice| Freedom w/in + Freedom w/out

Image courtesy of GQ Lewis Photography

“I write about my struggle for truth and freedom, not freedom in a grandiose, global sense, but the internal freedom to be myself. -Susan Justice

Video courtesy of SusanJustice @Myspace

Susan Justice, formerly know as Susan Cagle, rose to fame via a requested performance on Oprah. Her impromptu NYC subway jams became [...]

Jan 312010
Ruud van Empel| Wonder as You Wander

Artwork courtesy of Ruud van Empel
Dutch photographer, Ruud Van Empel …What this photographer does with photoshop and collage techniques is leaving the art world awe-struck.
Many of Van Empel’s most notable photography series’ have subjects of African descent. -No matter how you slice it, there is something very other-wordly about these particular series that are undeniably [...]