Moving on the Wires: Kindle, Raw Space, CCCADI, A Is for Anansi, Kindred Reading Series

*My blog is on Kindle. If you have a Kindle or anyone you know has one, you can access my blog for $0.99 each month. Here is some places and upcoming events to head to in New York City: *ImageNation, who is one of the major supporters of Middle of Nowhere film, opened a gallery […]

Behind the Mask: Space Children

While doing some research I came across this event that took place last year at the British Library. Space Children: From Dr. Funkenstein to the ArchAndroid featured interviews with George Clinton and Nona Hendryx in which they discussed their spaced-out fashion styles as well as a screening of John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History. […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry

For Black Poetry Day, I will celebrate by doing the first post of my own poetry. Here is a poem I wrote for my friend who has to deal with the deaths of a a friend and a family member this year: Turn, Turn, Turn Death visits us all But for some it comes Sooner, […]

Art of This World: Ramel Jasir

Gestation exhibition Ramel Jasir began his painting career in 2006 after a friend advised him to start as a way to deal with some stressful events in his life. As a self-taught artist, he describes (click on the link to see his interview) his art as his “ever-evolving voice in color.” Taking influences from indigenous […]

Otherworldly Videos: Zincgraff

Written and directed by Cameroon-born, San Francisco based filmmaker Lino Brown, Zincgraff is the story of a reclusive painter who holds onto a lost love through his memories and hallucinations in order to finish a portrait of her. Brown described the film as “an internal exploration of a relationship and the timeline of dissolution & empathy, […]

Modern Griots Reviews: Middle of Nowhere

The United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world, yet it is easy to forget about prisoners and their lives before and outside of prison. We usually do not think about these lives that our made invisible to us, hidden away in cells, and how prison steals possible futures of them and their […]

Otherworldly Videos: Labrinth

Labrinth feat. Emili Sande – “Beneath Your Beautiful” Take off the masks of beautiful and perfect, I want to see what’s inside. I like the use of screen imagery in connection with the song lyrics.

Modern Griots Review: Kiini Ibura Salaam’s “Ancient Ancient”

The ancient mysteries of life hold in their grasp the power of seduction. We find seduction, being led away, in a sexual experience, a sensual touch, the coming of a new life or death, the physical movement of bodies in a dance, the allure of magic, the call of nature, the possibility of a new […]

…An Album By Its Cover: Fear of a Black Planet

As we near yet another doomsday date in December and with yet another revelation of the fears of seeing Black people talk to each other via the release of Obama’s speech at Hampton University right before the debates, here is a post about the album cover for Public Enemy’s 1990 album, Fear of a Black […]

The My-Stery: Frankensteinian Females

Last week, I wrote about how the ideas about creation in Frankenstein can be found in records like “Dr. Funkenstein” and “Monster.” Since Nicki Minaj is on “Monster,” I want to continue the Frankenstein theme with women. Although Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, most of the women seem to be weak, secondary characters in the story. […]