Bubbles series, 2013
Testing the new camera with my best friend.
Danielle Akilah
I took this photo a couple weeks ago at a party to mark the closing of the Solid Foundation Mandela House programs in Oakland. The program owned several homes in Oakland that gave shelter and substance abuse counseling to pregnant and postpartum women. When my mother was pregnant with me she lived at Mandela House. The program helped her a lot. When I began to study early childhood education I volunteered at Keller House, one of the residences for the women, to watch the children while their mothers were in class. It’s unfortunate that the program will no longer be there but I know they helped lots of families over the years.
free sage and big freedia
sprinkle me man.
(via theblindsamurai)
Dude, I spend too much time in dressing rooms. This is probably the only time I participate in the selfie phenomenon.
On a related note I found a website which caters to all kinds of materialistic time-wasting. You get to build collections of stuff you want, as well as stuff you already have. It’s a resource I will use the next time someone asks me what I want for my birthday.
~Most peoples’ taste level aint at my waist level~
I remember reading an article about sneaker heads in the bay area. I was a part of the sneaker head thing during high school. Shit I still take an old toothbrush to some of my kicks. I could never go as far as some people with it though. One morning I saw a kid from my grade walking to our school with plastic bags around his new J’s to protect them from the rain. I mean, why wear them at all? The article came around to say that the motivation behind sneaker collection, or really any collection is our fear of death. We want to outsmart death. We think if our shoes are perfect, or our cars and homes are spotless we’ll be able to put off dying. It isn’t about being fresh or rich or unique. I would take it a step further and say that any obsession, not just collection, is at it’s root about our obsession with living and our abhorrence of death.
sometimes you strive to do so much you end up doing nothing at all.
a day in the life of Aki Sol
2013
This is my alternative design.
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.
Does self count?
(Source: RealDopeKid, via vivalatupac)
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.
