October 22, 2009 • 5:53 pm 0
Ambessa Contave, one half of Oakland hip hop duo Fiyawata, organizer and green movement mobilizer giving a shout in favor of climate change regulations. This Saturday is the International Day of Climate Change Action and eco activists around the world are hosting over 1500 actions in over 125 countries, calling for climate justice at the Copenhagen climate talks from Dec. 7-18. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Activism, Art, Media, Music, San Francisco
July 24, 2009 • 12:35 pm 0
Image by Mike Butler
“Its not every day that I get the chance to share my inspiration and passion in this manner. Sensuous curves, tasty nipples & creamy delights.”-Julie K.
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Yes indeed, sensuous curves and tasty nipples, life’s simple pleasures. From munches to masochism, polyamory to play parties you really can’t get much more sex positive and simply pleasurable than the Bay Area. But after a while it’s hard not to notice that the kink rainbow is often missing a few shades, even in this sea of diverse debauchery.
This is one of the reasons that Nenna, the Oakland based director, producer and sex education activist behind Sugar in the Raw, began the annual visual art show last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Art, Kink, Photos, Promotions , Alameda, Art, Erotica, Kink, Oakland, Photography
June 25, 2009 • 2:49 pm 4
If you don’t have to make art, don’t. This shit is difficult and the hourly pay sucks.
I remember when I was in college one of my poetry profs would regularly deliver the one two reality punch of encouraging students to write as much as possible, right before stressing that you should only make it a career if you had no choice. The ones that had no choice knew who they were. We were the ones with that far off look in our eyes and wandering gaze, the ones who walked into class on clouds and talked sestinas and sentence structure till 3 in the morning clutching a jug of wine and chain smoking hand rolled cigarrettes. We’re all broke now.
But of course, it’s what we do. No regrets over here. Especially when you run across a work that changes the way you look at life, offers a new vantage point, or gives you hope regarldless of the stupid shit that happens on the day to day. There’s that old saying that “hearts speak to each other” and while I’m not ready to get on The Secret Metaphysical, I do believe that you can spot a true artist a mile away, someone who does it because they have to, cuz there is no other option. Who, even if they were down to their last dime, dumpster diving they’d find a top to bang on, a pencil to write with or a song to sing.
Filed under: Art, Hip Hop, Music, Poetry , Art, Charles Bukowski, Hip Hop, Music, Poetry, Red Clay
A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness.
Heavy on the randomness.
My name is Kwan and I write things.
Features, news and essays, fiction, poems and collateral, marketing strategies and bits of conversations, genius words of inspiration and dada nonsense couplets.
It's a bit of an addiction.
But it helps to put things in perspective
And so far it pays the bills.
But you're not here to pay the bills are you? If you were, you'd be over here. Where I write for the big bucks.
You're here to get some of those not so random words aren't you?
I can see it in your eyes-the deep longing, the searching, the need.
It's okay, really. That's why I'm here too:
-to toss sentences into the air and see what soars
-to chase ideas with butterfly nets
-to figure out the what's and why's
-to find out the who's and when's
-to grab all the little slices
-and wrap arms around the big questions.
I think you'll dig it
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