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[Mar. 27th, 2006|07:52 pm] |
hey faery you are rawking! this is one of the coolest assortment of things I've ever gotten via snail mail, I wore the earrings today! the clips are so sweet, the scarf, pad, fanfuckingtastic. I'm all about saying what the hell. Its so good to get stuff in the mail that is not a bill. really. thank you for thinking of me. you are awesome. thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!
ps I think I know who you are! |
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[Mar. 24th, 2006|01:40 pm] |
dear faery!!! I'm so sorry it turns out my wack ass neighbours have been holding on to the package you sent me and didnt say shit to me about it, the postmark says the 14th! Its a good thing I'm a nosy busy body, I just found it, and imagine my surprise and glee when I saw that the package that had been sitting on their steps all this timew was addressed to me!! a craft book, YAAY!!!! love it, love, love it.
thank you so much for the perfect book and binder, you are using your noggin!! thank you!! you are representing for sure.XOXOXO |
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[Mar. 20th, 2006|11:30 pm] |
dear faery, its really cool to come home from a day of marathon nose picking to mail that ia handwritten not a disconection notice or a credit card application!
but I've since realized why moms are supposed to open things for themselves behind a locked door.
thank you for the colored pencils and markers especially, they have already come in handy.xoxo!
by the by I have never knitted a pink uterus but I would. |
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[Mar. 12th, 2006|05:55 pm] |
dear faery thank you for the mail love and sparkly sweetness, just when I had started to lose all faith, you've surprised me. the postcard has made me curious and thinking you might be a friend, hmmm.
I appreciate evry bit, gracias!!! |
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[Feb. 16th, 2006|07:20 am] |
FAERY!!
hi how are you? here's my attempt at a list, its dawn......very little sleep. yawn. I will love whatever you send and please feel free to ask me any specific questions you might have, this is fun!!!
things I lie
ANYTHING art & craft related. soft yarn, beads, any kind of paper, string, wire, paint, brushes, glue, hole punchers, ink pads, knitting needles, crochet hooks, mod podge, wood, tape, little plain or fancy boxes, colored pencils, buttons, magnets, sequins, wood, felt, fabric, brushes/paint, any of these things espcially if they are particularly pretty or ugly or strange or rare or old or soft or glitter-y or sparkle-y
which leads me to my next thing which is anything girly/femmy-y/sexy nail polish, dark red or brown lipstick or lip tints, eye shadow, mascara, jewelry(fun, simple, or complicated), clutch bags, coin purses, fishnets, hair clips/combs, barettes, thick lotion, fashion or home decor magazines, old or new is great, foreign is extra special!!
CDs with good stuff I've never heard, your band? great! great! hiphop, afrobeat, punk, blues, gospel, jazz, funk, bluegrass, rock, 70's disoc, 80's alternative(depeche mode, the cure), the only type of music I don't really care for is techno. Bjork is my favorite artist, but I am a black girl from the hood so Mary J Blige and Jay-Z are also at the top of the list, then there's Stevie Wonder...this is turning into a babble. I LIKE AND APPRECIATE GOOD MUSIC VERY MUCH, okay.
I teach four years olds all day anything that would help with that, whether its your favorite childrens books, fun lesson plan ideas, baby wipes, chocolate, smelling salts, ha
I'm a dancer, specialized in African and Afro-Carribean movement with a little Dunham training thrown in anything dance related is good, posters, postcards, books, DVDS, body balm, bath salts, arnica, blablaabla....
I'm a bartender, so um...hmm shot glasses, shakers, anythng related to that, I can't think, hmmmm.
I garden, flowers, herbs, veggies..........., I have a four year old, so radical parenting advice is cool.
anything cannibus related, rolling papers, bongs, bowls, funky pipes, yea,
I sew, so patterns are cool, or anything related to being a kick ass designer/seamstress. I mainly do reconstructing so any quirky, bizarre or cool printed type T-shirts, dresses or pants picked up at your local thrift store, salvation army or closet that I can cut up and turn into something else is super cool. I wear a size 8.
um okay what else, leg warmers, flowers(except carnations), funny things, cookies, fruit, recipes, comic books not gory, things that are sweet/spicy/crunchy/chewy, I like nuts, raw or covered with chocolate or mixed in with popcorn and caramel, yummy! good books fiction or non nothing scary please!, soft smelling incense, big blocks of soft smelling soaps, pretty colorful things that hang or sit or whatever from never never land or africa or asia or your house,right., kitschy retro ghetto crap like big doornocker earrings or fat laces or thick rimmed sunglasses or astrological fashion statements(aqaurius), hmmm
spirituality stuff, cheesy new age-y, heal thyself kind of stuff, I'm open I think!....,
homemade anything!!
PROJECT RUNWAY!!
I LOVE GETTING THINGS IN THE MAIL!!
dislikes
pastels
hard candy
body products that smell like food
poetry
raisins, dried fruit in general, blech
I WILL LOVE ANYTHING YOU SEND ME, I swear! ask me any specific questions you might have. I love you! |
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[Feb. 14th, 2006|07:26 pm] |
hi faery person, you're super quick with the gift giving, paid LJ I don't even know what that means yet but it sounds glamourous.
THANK YOU!!
ask me some questions I will post about my likes and dislikes after I lock my child in her room! she thinks I'm her own personal jungle gym, I'll be back! |
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[Dec. 6th, 2005|03:38 pm] |
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meditating and deconstructing these past couple of months on FEAR and leading to this mathematical deduction that fear is the opposite of love and now I am all over the idea of GUILT(shame) and traveling down this mental path in thinking that guilt might just be the opposite of esteem.
Seeing yourself as less than somehow for me relates to that emotional weight, that can be as heavy as a bag of bricks. I am still at the beginning of this. and just as with the way the concept of fear manipulated my thought process for months I have no doubt that my obsessive mind will be held by the true meanings and motivations and manipulations behind feelings of guilt and shame. Just as with fear, there is this sense of energy being halted, stifled.
I don't believe in absolutes I used to think fear was evil I don't anymore, all things can be used constructively.
more later. |
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[Sep. 23rd, 2005|09:31 am] |
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 I'm on an orange and blue brigade, I'll be revisiting the land of pink and cocoa again soon
just need some inspiration and more materials..........and a decent fucking workspace would help too.
In turns of their weight and size I really enjoy the trickery of dimes diggin thru the bottom of my bag to get change for the bus or buy some fruit for Ayo's lunchbox happens daily, I get cloudy and obsessed with feeling poor, laying it all out thinking I might end up with a bunch pennies in my palm and then it turns out I'm counting dimes and she's got a yummy plum for snack. It's pretty cool |
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[Sep. 9th, 2005|08:20 pm] |
You can't really tell I'm a black girl on the phone espacially if I'm serving up my hire me voice and you can't tell by my name so.....nbsp;She was really into me on the phone, excited by my resume (I need someone to start right away!! are you available???) she emailed me the script immediately, which I read all 109 pages of it. It sucked by the way, but also that could be my rage talking. She asked if I could start Monday and told me the job pays $1200 a week and ends on December 15th and how does that sound to me??? I let her know that sounds good to me (First thought - I can afford a real apt with that salary, spend a nice Kwanazaa with my girl) and so on and so on. She said - okay great I look forward to talking to you in person!, Sigourney Weaver's in this movie. I said - Oh I like her, she chuckled full of good nature 'yea me too'.
This was yesterday late afternoon, and whats fucked up is me going in to see her early this morning dressed up, game face on, locked, loaded and ready to sacrifice every single part of me for just one fucking chance. I was fucking floating on a cloud of hopes and dreams, every single part of me crossed, praying please let this be the one that helps me get over this insurmountable hump that I've been trying to get over for the past two years, foolishly believing in my own hype, walking in and seeing that look on her face, and - flatline......and then the job all of a sudden is taken, some nameless mysterious such and such is starting on Monday and no doubt that person will not have skin the color of cocoa and most likely that will be the only difference between us. And even though its happened to me again and again I'm still in awe and unsure of what to do when I come head to head with that species known as the racist fucking cracker ass cracker who seems to fucking hold my livelihood in their hands. And all of a sudden the position that desperately needed to be filled by me(!) that I seemed so perfect for needs to be filled by someone whose in the union or is it that the job is already taken by someone in the union and they start Monday?!?!?! sketchy shady bullshit...which one is it?................really it doesnt fucking matter either way cause my ass aint getting the damn job and I'm there for about 5 minutes longer than the amount of time it takes to say nigger go home, so any chance of me asking - bitch why'd the fuck you have me come all the way down here if you've already hired someone??!!! OR should the question be - whyd the fuck you have me come down here if you needed to hire a union person, cause you knew I wasnt in no damn union??!!!...but no......she says quickly, earnestly - sorry to be so abbreviated with you but I'm really pressed for time thanks for coming down....ushering me out overly evidently uncomfortable shaking my hand, for some reason my brain chosses to focus on that word and her use of it, abbreviated, abbreviated, abbreviated..............and I'm squeezing the tears back in the elevator on the way down cause its hitting me harder and harder, and I'm at a pay phone crying and angry and feling sorry for myself because of this and also because I have no one to fucking call and talk to about this most horrible moment that I've lived over and over and I'm thinking hard there needs to be someone who will help me lick these wounds or maybe say fuck that bitch, you don't need her shit!!..but no theres no one or maybe its that I feel dumb, there are mothers who still have not found their kids and I need to learn to deal............so then I run home to chill and squeeze my girl and before I can breathe twice I get another call from a casting director we want you to come down and audition for this VH1 commercial so then I puff and change from artsy offical design girl into tight jeans, tshirt, spray painted gold belt and hot pink such and such i.e. family friendly video hoochie and rush back onto NYC subway to casting office get photo taken and slate and stand and dance for casting director who seems obviously completely underwhelmed by my everything...........................in this moment I am feeling extremely tired and hopeless. Theres more but thats all I can express clearly right now
eta............what I would really like is for someone to help me draft a letter to this chick that diplomatically asks what the fuck? |
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[Sep. 7th, 2005|01:55 pm] |
Demand Racial Justice in Coverage of Katrina
Contact CNN and MSNBC Now!
In the aftermath of Katrina, the Gulf Coast and the nation have witnessed devastation of staggering proportions. The patterns of racism and poverty are undeniable, yet the mainstream media have only reluctantly asked whether race or class played a role.
In the entire week following Katrina, only 22 out of 1,300 stories on CNN, MSNBC and Fox focused on race or class (source: ThinkProgress). We must immediately begin shifting the public’s view that this is purely a natural disaster.
BEGIN CONTACTING THE MEDIA IMMEDIATELY. Let them know you are interested in stories that unmask the structural racism that’s killing the people of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi. Demand coverage that elevates the voices and leadership of grassroots groups in the region. Demand coverage that holds public officials accountable for the total recovery of the area and reparations to its displaced residents. DEMAND THAT THE MEDIA BEGIN TELLING THE UNTOLD STORIES (see below for a list of 10 missing stories).
Take Action:
Step 1 – Call or Email CNN National Office
Step 2 – Call or Email Your Nearest CNN Bureau
Step 3 – Call or Email MSNBC
..:::::Sample Letter/Phone Rap:::::..
September 6th, 2005
Dear ______________:
I am writing to encourage CNN/MSNBC to cover the racial disparities, racist violence, and racist policy decisions being made in the aftermath of Katrina. Although a few outlets have begun to cover these critical race and class issues, the rescue and relief efforts continue to be hindered by the lack of coverage of racism in affected areas. According to a study conducted by ThinkProgress, of 1,300 Fox, MSNBC, and CNN segments on the disaster in its first 4 days, none had a primary focus on race or class, and only 1.6% (22 stories out of 1,300) had any focus on race or class at all in the entire week after Katrina’s devastation. Thousands of lives are still at stake. If the coverage of this natural disaster continues to inaccurately reflect the conditions and treatment of the victims, and ignore the patterns of racism that caused and compounded this tragedy, more lives will be lost.
Now is the time to stop taking the low road of blaming the victims in coverage and start covering the patterns of racism and neglect that caused and compounded this tragedy. As a long-time viewer, I respectfully demand that CNN cover these life and death issues.
Katrina was a natural disaster, by exposing the racism and those responsible for it, we can put an end to the man-made one.
Thank you,
_____________Your name here
..::::::::::::::CONTACTS::::::::::::::..
CNN National (Atlanta, GA)
Jim Walton - President of CNN News Group
E-mail: jim.walton@turner.com
Phone: (404) 827-1500
Rolando Santos - Executive Vice President; General Manager - CNN Headline News
E-mail: dave.willis@turner.com
Phone: (404) 827-4872
Rick Davis - Executive VP - CNN News – Standards and Practices
E-mail: rick.davis@turner.com
Phone: (404) 827-1500
cc: info@youthmediacouncil.org
CNN Local Bureaus
Chicago, IL
Jeff Flock - Chicago Bureau Chief & Correspondent
E-mail: jeff.flock@turner.com
Phone: (312) 645-8555
Dallas, TX
Beth Nappe - Dallas Bureau Chief
E-mail: cnnfutures@cnn.com
Phone: (404) 827-1500
Miami, FL
John Zarrella - Miami Bureau Chief
E-mail: john.zarrella@turner.com
Phone: (404) 827-1500
New York, NY
Karen Curry
E-mail: karen.curry@turner.com
Phone: (212) 714-7800
Washington, DC
David Bohrman -- Washington Bureau Chief; VP News & Production
Phone: (202) 898-7900
MSNBC (let them you noticed their efforts to cover the racism and you want to see more in-depth stories)
David Verdi – Executive News Director
E-mail: david.verdi@nbc.com
Keith Olbermann - Host
E-mail: countdown@msnbc.com
cc: viewerservices@msnbc.com
Phone: (201) 583-5000
cc: info@youthmediacouncil.org
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..::::::::::::::MISSING STORIES FROM KATRINA COVERAGE::::::::::::::..
1. Free-for-all “evacuation” left poor people behind. – Though the storm was predicted, when Governor Blanco ordered the evacuation of New Orleans there was no plan and no coordinated mechanisms to ensure swift, effective evacuation. The result – those with cars or money to pay $200 or more for cabs were able to flee. Roughly 38% of the total population of New Orleans lives at or below the poverty line and New Orleans has the lowest rate of car ownership of any major city in the United States (including New York and Washington D.C.) Stories about failed evacuation plans must point to the politicians responsible, and must expose the structural inequality and racism that are root causes of this disaster.
2. Survivors locked up in makeshift jail – A Greyhound Bus Terminal converted to a temporary jail will hold 700 people in makeshift cells. Dozens of these people are incarcerated for misdemeanors such as taking items from hardware stores and convenience stores and “disturbing the peace.” We need stories that place the formation of this jail in the context of the inadequate search, rescue and relief efforts. While this jail was created in a few days to punish hundreds, thousands of people are still waiting for medical care, basic supplies, and information about family members, and more than 80,000 people are still missing.
3. Hundreds of young people separated from their families -- The media has told stories about rescued pets but where are the stories about the hundreds of young people who have lost parents and guardians, the young people who remain locked up inside juvenile detention centers? Youth from the Orleans Parish Detention Center, most of them black, arrived at Jetson Correctional Center for Youth last Wednesday covered in sewage, starving, and dehydrated. They were stranded for days with no water or food.
4. Federal Budget Cuts to New Orleans Army Corps of Engineers Left Levee in Disrepair -- Bush cut $71 million was cut from the New Orleans Army Corps of Engineers, which shelved plans to repair the aging levy. Stories about when and why this cut was made, and where this money went are key to understanding the root causes of this disaster and how to prevent a disaster like this in the future.
5. Discriminatory denial of public aid – The Bush administration recommended that “private charities” spearhead relief efforts, and has put former Presidents Bush and Clinton in charge of a private donation drive. Meanwhile, Bush has discouraged foreign government aid from France, Germany, Venezuela and Russia, stating that “unsolicited aid could be problematic.” After September 11, public aid flooded quickly into New York while poor black families in New Orleans are still waiting for food and water.
6. Search and rescue replaced by shoot-to-kill -- On Thursday September 1, Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco ordered National Guardsmen and 1,500 police officers to stop their search for survivors in order to crackdown on “looters.” As of September 2, the National Guard received orders to “shoot-to-kill.” The body count rose as police and military cracked down on people who were simply trying to survive.
7. While thousands suffer, some corporations will get paid – How much is Halliburton going to make from rebuilding Louisiana and Mississippi? News stories about those companies with pre-existing contracts to rebuild must be told in the context of the intense poverty afflicting the majority of people in the region. How will the reconstruction effort benefit them?
8. Public aid spent on militarization - The Pentagon received $50 million for their role in relief efforts – what are they doing with this money?
9. Local National Guard Forces Occupied in Iraq - One-third of the Louisiana National Guard, and more of the Mississippi National Guard, are fighting the War on Iraq (NYT). Residents wonder if this slowed rescue efforts in the region.
10. Organized acts of heroism are filling the vacuum of governmental support. Survivors are combing neglected areas to find other survivors and bring them to safer ground. Residents evacuated from New Orleans reportedly saw local food service workers scour commercial kitchens to provide meals to hundreds of those stranded, people rescuing others from elevators, and ferrying survivors using boats found in the wreckage. In the absence of relief, the faces of victims are the faces of heroes who have been drown out by images of so-called crime and “looting.”
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..::::::::::::::OTHER ACTION ITEMS::::::::::::::..
When possible, encourage letters and calls to the President, Congress the Governor of Louisiana and the FEMA Director. For online advocacy, The Praxis Project has set up a web page where you can email a form letter to the President and your Congress member or compose your own to send: http://www.thepraxisproject.org/news/katrina.html
Call other media outlets complaining about bad coverage. Fairness in Accuracy in Reporting has contact info for media outlets at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111
Let Kanye West know how fly it was for him to stand up on national television. Show him your love with emails to: sitesupport@rocafella.com or kanye@fanessentials.com
Send a copy to NBC, too, contact the news show at: nightly@nbc.com
Keep blogging, writing and linking to as much good stuff as you can so that we can continue to share information.
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..::::::::::::::MAKE DONATIONS TO GRASSROOTS GROUPS::::::::::::::..
Families & Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
AND MANY OTHERS ARE LISTED AT
http://www.sparkplugfoundation.org/katrinarelief.html |
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| everyday is a hustle |
[Aug. 12th, 2005|02:30 pm] |
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| | wack as mariah carey, oh the shame.... | ] |
I'm not really sure how the interview went, I think I blew it with my first answer to his standard interview question of what do you see yourself doing eventually as a career?, I was honest : I want to do production design for film, television, commercial, and music videos. This has been my number one career goal for forever outside of the dancer fantasy. I love being a crafster and making things but I don't like the pressure of having to make things that will sell. I'd like to get to a point where I make stuff for fun not cause I'm broke. This is the firm, very small architecture and interior design but my homegirl who babysat for me said you're supposed to reply that you want to do whatever it is you're being hired for......but after that the employer and I ended up having a real nice uninterview-like pleasent conversation about design, autocad, brooklyn, multitasking etc. My other possible mistake is mentioning my daughter no matter how hard I try it seems impossible for me not bring up my baby but I felt it neccessary to explain why my last real job was in 2000. Turns out he has a 3 and a half year old so we joked about the hardships of that as well, so all in all I think he was feeling me as a person but might not hire me. Oh well, it was good practice, just speaking publicly is challenging for me at times, making basic conversation. Controlling my thought process so my mind doesn't wander, focusing on not interrupting, and speaking in clear grammatically correct sentences without using slang I know it sounds dumb but I interact with so few people and I think its made a difference its either me being goofy with buddies and my child or its LJing, so I know I need to practice just talking.
I got a casting call to audition for another commercial on monday, I hope I get this job its an easy 500 bucks and a national spot so there will be residuals if I'm cast. That ipod commercial I was in was a tricky shoot, my brief stint in it didnt qualify me for the residual checks. I don't even know what the product is but do I care, ha!
oh I just found out its for an airline, they want a montage of dancers from all walks of life, and away we go! |
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[Aug. 9th, 2005|09:23 am] |
So yesterday we went to the party store and got some really cute sparkly butterfly plates, cups, napkins, hats, tablecloth, candles, blowouts and goody bags. My child reminded me this morning about the cake and the pinata, she is okay with the cake not being a butterfly cake cause the lifethyme (our favorite vegan health food store) bakery doesn't do specialty cakes like that but still they will put the big edible flowers on it and that is always pretty.
I am really unsure about what to put in the pinata, somehow she talked me into putting a lollipop in each goody bag and they aren't sugar free, a first for me I am getting soft in my child's old age. At the last minute she tried to change the theme to scooby doo and I gently explained we will not have a party built around any cartoony fictional characters, ever,.......except for maybe hello kitty but thats it.
She is quite happy with the butterflies and getting balloons, forks and spoons in her two favorite colors green and pink.
captain oz suggests to have four kids plus one and I've heard this formula somewhere before but how ??it seems almost impossible even with a lot of her friends out of town there are still going to be about 15 kids there. At her first party there where over 20. But this is when we lived uptown and I was friends with every kid on the block.
Before having her I was always that random adult with no child that knew every child helped them with their homework, complimented them on their sneakers and hair barettes, knew all the latest dance moves. They felt free to rang my bell anytime. They all came to her first birthday and tore it up.
And even though we've moved there will still be plenty of kids tearing it up.
I've calmed down a bit because I also tend to have a schedule, yes a schedule I'm so friggin anal. I would put it on the friggin invite. 1pm: storytime 2pm:music and dance 3pm:arts/crafts 4pm: cake & goody bag distribution 5pm bye byes. I would then talk my artsy performing peeps to come thru and do something with the kids. Or I would do it all myself put on a show..... I am a pain in the ass. I'm not doing all that shit this year.
I want to have this party in out favorite brooklyn playground they have sprinklers and picnic tables and awesome swings and slides.
I need to double check the bathroom situation and I need to come up with a decent menu.
This is where you come in! Give me Healthy picnicky food and go......
A lot of these kids are vegan or vegeterian so theres that,.....
oh and last year was the first time I tried to have a party for her where I only invited adults who have kids, that was a big mistake(!) my childless peeps (and I have many) where very hurt and annoyed so I'm not making that mistake again. They were some of the first to RSVP. They have not let me forget it and honestly I did not think they would notice.... They felt dissed and I was just concerned about them being bored at a kiddie party, so there will be about half a dozen adults there with no kids I guess I have to feed them too......sigh...
(so changing up my resume really friggin worked, I have a job interview! for a real job in an office! yikes! thank goodness I started growing my hair back) |
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[Aug. 3rd, 2005|10:30 am] |
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[Aug. 1st, 2005|01:37 pm] |
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I have to run off to dance rehearsal but I just wanted to post real quick that my girl is back from florida, safe and in my arms, yes! She came back with a shitload of clothes and a lil bit of a stronger vocabulary, slightly whiny and a hardcore tan. We had a hugging/snuggling marathon that will no doubt continue all week and beyond. She is literally a kokobean, besides that everything is as it was....
last night I made a half hearted attempt at a bootleg fashion foto shoot
mini fall preview
kokobean capelet (pix 1 - my fave is a little two dark, wish I knew how to lighten it up teeny tiny bit)
with flash
chunky legwarmers (um why didnt you tell me to get a decent pedicure or at least wash my feet before taking this foto but thats what i get for walking around the park barefoot)
no flash
is it strange that because of how these pix turned out I am becoming a fan of non flash photography, for 'fashion' pics anyway, experimenting is good clean fun, these are 4 of 60 pics taken, sheesh
more to come.... |
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[Jul. 21st, 2005|01:31 pm] |
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Gold/Red/Black/Tan Halter with crochet yellow ties and red wooden beads.....Gold Crochet Beret
 This fabric is from senegal, it kicks ass!! I have none of it left so I am tempted to keep this top for myself but no! like slum village says I need to get this money....(if you don't know you betta ask somebody)
Deep Purple/white off the shoulder halter with candy orange crochet ties....
 This fabric is from Nigeria, I actually got to watch the process of how its made last time I was there, it was quite inspiring. The women of the village gather on an extremely hard and rocky(it was like these shiny black slates piled one on top of the other over and over) hill its in the village where my dad was born (the literal translation of the name of it is City of Rocks)......they prefer to not be watched there is a fear that their process will be stolen by the europeans, and they will reap none of the benefits. They fear capitalism and I don't blame them but somehow I was lucky enough to bear witness to the process.....they use rocks to make those symbols somehow and the sound of the rock hitting the fabric over and over and the dripping dye in various colors from these huge tin wash bins, the fabric being pulled out of the bin and hung up with that bright clear African sun beaming was one of the most magical things I've ever experienced.....of course they did not allow me to take pictures. I don't blame them.
It is a beautiful day outside, I'm going to ride my bike. I have a possible job prospect so I need to find a fax machine and send my resume ASAP.
I am scared and nervous, being alone - but still I feel good. I miss my homey, I felt some pangs yesterday but still I'm OK and contrary to what I thought I don't think I'm getting more done, I just don't feel pressed. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2005|07:29 pm] |
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I'm really nervous about this I pray to all that is holy and sacred that it doesnt suck ass as much as I think it will. Its one of the best things ever written and lil ms tragic mulatto halle as janie, I just don't see it.
Poor Zora dies penniless and now this. |
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