Wordless Wednesday: Art Appreciation Orville Bulman

"La Maison de Joi" 1975





"Ansonia" 1953





"Street Dance" 1953





"Le Cavalier Fier" 1961

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Members of Austrian artist Willi Dorner's "Bodies in Urban Spaces" performing arts troupe squeeze themselves into the entrance to a house in London.

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A picture shows a colorful portrait of Marilyn Monroe made up of hundreds of balloons on display at the 2009 Balloon Art World challenge event in Bangkok, Thai.

Movies I Want To See.

I haven't seen a good sci/fi movie in awhile.

Especially with a black star in it.

So I am looking forward to these two right here.

First up is a mix of two of my favorite genres, zombie and cowboy movies.



Wes is the only black actor who stays making action movies and thank God cause the new crop of actors are not convincing anyone that they can play a hero.

Number two is Denzel going back to an action flick, I cant remember the last one he did.


The Book Of Eli looks like a winner, hell I cant remember the last Denzel movie that sucked all around for me to justify seeing this one.


Now this one right here is a documentary about a topic that will never die so long as black people walk the earth.


I am curious how this will come off.

Is it going to ridicule the notion of good hair, the hair product industry?

Or is it going to play the academic role and just state the facts?

Chris Rock is fueling this so I am thinking a little bit of all.

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Chokwe Maternity...

Artist Unknown

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1981 by Justin Bua

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Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis, Nigeria 2005 By Pieter Hugo



Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria 2007 By Pieter Hugo



Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria 2007 By Pieter Hugo

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Ife By Elizabeth Catlett



Sharecropper, By Elizabeth Catlett

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American Gothic By Jeffery Henson Scales

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By LeRoy W. Henderson Jr.

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Le Negre Marron by Albert Mangones

Writers that have shaped my world.

SjP tagged me about 25 writers who have shaped my world.

So I did a quick list of those writers whose work has had an effect on me one way or another.

So in no order they are,

1. Steven Barnes
2. Edwidge Danticat
3. Tananarive Due
4. Walter Mosely
5. Robert E. Howard
6. Charles Saunders
7. Toni Morrison
8. Jemlle Hill
9. Langston Hughes
10. Cornell West
11. Notorious BIG
12. Jay-Z
13. Nas
14. Lance Tooks
15. Alex Haley
16. Sun Tzu
17. Donald Goines
18. Iceberg Slim
19. Lauryn Hill
20. Frantz Fanon
21. Saul Williams
22. Terry Brooks
23. Willie Lynch
24. Dr. Seuss
25. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Mealtime by C.W. Griffin

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Disco By Ernie Barnes

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Patiently Waiting By Delphine A. Fawundu.

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Children With Doll By Gordan Parks

What I have Read (yes there are black men who do read books):

I enjoy reading a good book something my mother forced upon me as a kid that I appreciate now as an adult (back than though whew!).

I am one of those dudes that can read more than one thing at a time, in fact while in college I always have some type of book not dealing with school with me.

The courses I have been taking of late have been heavy so I have kept my reading lite.

As in Graphic Novel lite.

Graphic Novels are the cross between comics and novels, and should be respected in my opinion as literature.

Same respect you would give anything on the New York Times top sellers list. (Ever tried reading the books off that list? Is it me or are most those books high browed bullshit?)

Any way what I read during finals was:

Lucifer's Garden of Verses: The Devil on Fever Street (Lucifers Garden of Verses 1) by Lance Tooks

I remember buying this brothers first novel Narcissa off a New York side walk. I was impressed with the simple yet at the same time detailed and emotional art work as well as the story line of a young black woman in Spain. I was fiending for his work since. (In fact if I am not mistaken he may have been the street vendor I brought it from.)

Lance Tooks


Along comes Lucifer a first in what is a series of GN following old scratches dirty work on Earth. The art work is modern here with him using pics as well as his pencil to get the pics out. Here is a review of the book.

From Publishers Weekly
That perennial wellspring of comic inspiration, the prince of darkness, is back. This time, the devil inhabits a b&w world, mostly inked and occasionally Photoshopped. We find Tooks's Lucifer awakening after a hundred-year nap, just in time for Armageddon, which is scheduled to occur a week after the story opens. Lucifer's henchmen, Beelzebub and Belial, are thoroughly up to date Kangol-wearing characters—this Lucifer walks today's urban streets. Eager to get their boss back into top evildoing condition, Lucifer's pals suggest that he re-enter the world of misanthropy by seducing a righteous woman: Black Lily Baptiste, a former prostitute who found God after her pimp beat her unconscious but accidentally left her with a winning lottery ticket. Her faith is strong—so strong, in fact, that when the devil shows up as a muscle-bound yet gentle man wearing a tight black T-shirt, the tables are turned and Lucifer ends up being the one who falls. But just when it looks like the devil really might leave the demonic world, there's a final plot twist. Tooks's story lacks complexity, but the world he draws is an appealing one, its sassy denizens rendered with energy. He's at his best conjuring up secondary players: mischievously ambitious demons, squabbling kids and ancillary characters reading their work at the poetry slam.

Black Female Super Hero, Ant may come to Anime and live action Film

Well it looks like one of my favorite comic book characters may hit the big time.

Comics 2 Film is reporting that the Black Female character may make her debut as live action on screen and cable TV as an anime.

Check out the link to there website for more info.

http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=29945


I have mixed feelings about it, I have been out of the comic book circle for a while and the last I remember of this title was that it was on Image comics.

Now the creator Mario Gully has set up shop at Big City Comics: http://www.bigcitycomicsstudio.com/default.htm , things have changed.



The comic is really an underground hit that was a bit titillating, but the way it is drawn and depicted now if the previous publishing was PG 13 this one is a close NC 17, which has me wondering do we need any more hyper sexualized images of black women. Now this is no Nelly Tip Drill video gone radio active by far but it is not tame either.

There are not enough mainstream representation of black super heroes on paper, TV or big screen let alone of black women to be picky but this one maybe pushing it.

I will be watching warily.