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Feels like a play on wishy-washy and I like that… makes me aspire to own a laundromat like so, click on this post to learn more about interior design in the most unexpected place!
Everything that generally creeps me out did not on this day. Click for a mini photo essay. I think that’s what it’s. called.
No summary just yet, but if you’d like to see what I got into the other day in Chicago, click around :)
Hi… I tried something new. It was exhausting but Pier helped me stay the course. She taught me some of her NYU Lighting Skills. I’ll keep practicing with clothes and other items. I’m going to add many of these things to my Poshmark.
I “be bored” (African American Vernacular English (AAVE)) and going through motions to keep the muscle alive. What is really cool about the process is that whenever I go out to shoot, another piece and or peace is revealed to me. I noticed highways and byways were a theme this week.
To practice my practice, I made a commitment to shoot on Sundays. This is what I found today. No disclaimers allowed today. Learned a few things about depth of field as it pertains to camera aperture, the lower more open (i.e. f2.8) aperture offers a shallow depth of field, and the higher less open (i.e. f8) offers a deeper depth of field so you see farther in focus. I also learned that the settings on the photo gallery can be changed so that you can lessen margins and change the aspect ratio to suit wide and narrow angles.
Senexpat provides safe and reliable taxi & transportation service throughout Dakar and Senegal. I Jasmine highly recommend their services to anyone traveling to Dakar/Senegal. They provide door to door service, air conditioned cars, transport for one or more, translation, all of the things. I felt like the Princess President during my time with them. It genuinely felt like I was traveling with friends and family.
I see a taxi with the two front doors open, in neutral and being pushed forward by two men. I think, “I sure hope that ain’t the next one.” Honey when I say they popped the trunk on that thang so fast. Before I knew it my bags were in the trunk, but not before I had a glimpse of the trunk’s contents: a 10-gallon bottle of water and a white and blue rope. LAWDNESS!!! If Imma die today just let it be right where I’m standing!
Reflecting on many of the things I learned about life in Paris. There were times I had to re-evaluate why I was in Paris. I took the trip to add to my series around how the women in my network choose to heal themselves. I was there as a stop before Dakar, as well as to interview Karen but she has so much going on in her life that we were not able to contribute to the series. We will get around to it organically. I have faith that it will happen someday. I came to realize that this series of blogs is my contribution to the series around healing. Check out the summary of things that stand out for me as a part of my healing journey in Paris.
Exhibition Summary: Designed to provide a long-term perspective, the exhibition looks more particularly at three key periods: the era of abolition (1794-1848), the new painting era up to the Matisse’s discovery of the Harlem Renaissance and the early 20th century avant-garde movement and the successive generations of post-war and contemporary artists.
If you know me I have a huge fear of choreography it just don’t click with me. I’m more of an improv girl. I just don’t feel choreography. People say it’s muscle memory but as someone who has disassociated with their body for a number of years that 5 6 7 8 boom kat Lorie Ann was serving to the honey bunches of oats made me nervous.
Once inside the church brought back so many memories. If you’ve been in one Catholic Church you’ve been in quite a few. What was different was the number of black women. I kept reflecting back on the research I did for Professor Carl Anthony around race and the environment. I found through research that underneath some European colonial crowns namely Spain everyone including the descendants of slaves had to be Catholic.
Big Frida’s Blue House