ConTextile, Ypenburg, 2008

Santogold

Staceyann Chin

What I like at the MomentCover to (Un)Cover (Paperback) by Griene Steenman.

New California images from my first two weeks in Long Beach.

new from Anthropologie

Strong silhouette, bold patterns and the signature wrap dress. I always look forward to a DVF collection.

Great article in the Guardian about one of my favorite authors James Baldwin, written by Caryl Phillips.

While shopping at Aldi this moring I came across green bananas, which made me go to the market to get some red snapper.....

Gregory Isaacs With Roots Radicks
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I can't seem to get enough of Gregory Isaac.

This is a still from a new video I am working on at the moment. Something to work on for the summer.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jessie Mae Renfro and Dorothy Norwood, women of Gospel.

Once in awhile I really long for “home”, and everything Dancehall. For more info check out the New York Times article on Dancehall culture.








Also M.I.A. new video Boyz features some young Jamaican talent.

Happy Fashion 1-30 june 2007, Arnhem Fashion Biennale 2007

Le Corbusier, The Art of Architecture May 26- September 2 2007 at the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Trenton Doyle Hancock, The Wayward Thinker
Exhibition from May 26 - August 12, 2007

I have finally decided to buy a Museumkaart, so I can make my museum tour of the Netherlands before I return to Canada. For the most part my trip will start in Rotterdam at the NAI and Boijmans for the Trenton Doyle Hancock show and then off to Arnhem for the fashion biennale.

Spending the morning in bed watching Chris Marker, La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983).

This image is a digital drawing, freehand + photoshop by my friend Maria Rapoport.

In The European Tribe, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long journeys collide with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"—a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, in places like poverty-stricken Casablanca, racy Costa del Sol, and peaceful Provence, where he muses with writer James Baldwin over dinner about the state of the human spirit. He explores Venice through the Shakespearean outcast Othello and views Amsterdam through the eyes of young Anne Frank. Source writers web-site

Seven years ago I made my first trip to Europe with much disappointment and elation. This book symbolized my experience for almost a year in Europe.