|| from bay area, CA but johannesburg, s. africa is my second home ||

a refugee of paul beatty's "designated neighborhood safe houses on the ghetto geeks' underground railroad." i am 24 and i love high top chuck taylors, bookstores, photography and orphaned technologies. i like to learn & take great pride in my nerdiness. i take photos, bake vegan oatmeal, raisin&almond butter cookies on sunday nights, gossip about books&politics, and teach the young folks.


i hold three 'jobs': high school teacher, writer, city planning commissioner.

::blog

321/2009: elevate love, waxing/waning poem, friends.


1. spectacle: this word has been on my mind for a while—the public spectacle of execution, films like ‘precious,’ tv shows like ‘lockdown: raw,’ homelessness (and documentaries…

320/2009: 'precious' little of value in ghetto lit/juan williams.

i am writing my next column on PRECIOUS and am interested in hearing everyone’s take on the film. i read ‘PUSH’ a few months back because when i went to see the film, i wanted to have a…

319/2009: new york trains and nostalgia.


this is another photo by spaceship george/kwesi abbensetts. his work is absolutely amazing. i’ve talked about him before and his work continues to move me.

318/2009: black.


alan gastel, nyc

317/2009: life is like a box of crayon--john mayer on love.

i feel like this all the time…
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I…

315/2009: the evolution of a criminal--darius clark monroe.

i am looking forward to this documentary for a lot of reasons—it looks very intimate and the trailer uses nick drake’s ‘a place to be’ from his 1972 album pink moon. add darius…

316/2009: pomegranate carcasses.

strangely reminds me of a ripped open carcass. you cannot see it in the photo because it is monotone, but the red seeds left stains of the counter and plastic bags—stains that looks like blood…

laeticia: john mayer on: love and crayons

laeticia:

john mayer on: love and crayons

laeticia: S B Barnard, Cape, 1871 ‘Hottentot S Africa’ (Portrait of /A!Kunta)

laeticia:

S B Barnard, Cape, 1871
‘Hottentot S Africa’ (Portrait of /A!Kunta)

laeticia: Unidentified photographer, Cape, circa 1870 ‘Damara servant girl, S Africa’

laeticia:

Unidentified photographer, Cape, circa 1870
‘Damara servant girl, S Africa’

laeticia: alan gastelum [portfolio] (via ladyfresh)

laeticia:

alan gastelum [portfolio]
(via ladyfresh)

dhool: Carrie Mae Weems | 30 Americans [reckon/anthropophagous] Carrie Mae Weems You Became a Scientific Profile / An Anthropological Debate / A Negroid Type / & A Photographic Subject, 1995-1996  Four framed monochromatic color coupler prints with sand-blasted text on glass in artist frames, Ed. 2/10  26 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (68 x 57.8 cm) Rubell Family Collection, Miami

dhool:

Carrie Mae Weems | 30 Americans [reckon/anthropophagous]

Carrie Mae Weems
You Became a Scientific Profile / An Anthropological Debate / A Negroid Type / & A Photographic Subject, 1995-1996 
Four framed monochromatic color coupler prints with sand-blasted text on glass in artist frames, Ed. 2/10 
26 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (68 x 57.8 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami

pomegranate carcass.

pomegranate carcass.

about 760 different local varieties of pomegranate have been recognized in iran.

about 760 different local varieties of pomegranate have been recognized in iran.

they are coming for you.

they are coming for you.