Does self count?
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aha. This is my alternative design. It isn’t as polished as it could’ve been but I’m impatient and hungry.
The next time I sit down to design for hours I’ll prepare by buying snacks.
The line “We test our gold with fire, we test our people with gold” is an altered passage from one of the writings of Baha’ullah. My friend, a great writer and teacher who follows the Bahai faith, said this to me once when I was feeling down. It’s a reminder that life isn’t meant to be easy, and that the really tough ones among us are probably the most tested as well.
This is a piece I’m working on for my illustration class. The assignment is to re-draw a poster of my choice using only adobe illustrator… but I have NO illustration skills. So, I picked an easy image. I think I will remake it the way the teacher expects me to, but I also want to make a version that’s special, with a different quote on the bottom. I’ll post it when I finish.
TOP PHOTO BY Roy DeCarava
MIDDLE THREE BY Alex Webb
BOTTOM TWO BY Steve McCurry
East Oakland, CA 2012
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Rage Against The Machine: People Of The Sun This is such a succinct, tight little album. This song is where I got the title of this blog from. People of the sol. Zach’s lyrics introduced me to so many topics I had never heard about before. He’s a trill poet.
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Did Kanye really just project a video onto dozens of buildings worldwide last night? Did that video focus entirely on his face in a photographic style reminiscent of Black on Both Sides Yasiin, while Ye rapped about racism and the prison industrial complex? Yeah, that happened.
A few months ago someone showed me a picture of Kanye wearing a mask while walking down the street. I said “Damn, he’s the new Michael Jackson.” There will never be another MJ, but what I meant to say is he’s our generation’s most talented, sensitive and relevant musician. And much like MJ he is critically misunderstood.
He’s honest, and people call him a jackass. I think the real jackass is the man who has a home in Chicago and D.C. A leader who wouldn’t put his voice to a mic or pen to a piece of legislation to eradicate gun violence when it affected thousands of black lives, but went on a gun control campaign the moment white children were the victims. Morally deficient, hypocritical jackass would be my label for that kind of behavior. On the record.
“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues.” Erich Fromm
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"Gwyn once told me that she could do anything and I would come crawling back. At the time I was very much in love with her but even then I told her not to depend on it. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred. And nearly no women or men realize that."
— John Steinbeck
