What I’ve made and what I’ve created. Is it something that I’m proud of or something I fear? Some build walls, but we built a weapon. We move unseen, unheard, unnoticed we are the lack of concentration and ability to focus. Dangerously living. We speak, we shout, exploit, scream, and conspire. We never listen, we …
Imagine the following… You are standing on the shores of consciousness.
The Roots and Wings Project Founder/Creative Director Jesse Bliss and the California Arts Council Cultural Pathways Grant Present WOMEN AT WORK, a transformative works-in-progess experience that brings forth new stories from powerhouse writers. WOMEN AT WORK is an innovative evening of truth finding the way to light through tales being birthed and realized by women …
Her artworks are illustrious, her paintings carry dignity of life. Rebecca Robinson bravely wields her weapons, a pencil and a brush, to communicate life messages, to speak positive change and to heal communities from daily life traumas. Her artistic prowess tripled with maturity and exuberance mesmerizes her audience, her readers and other communities’ home abroad. …
Dance is an irresistible and irrepressible impulse. Even with the Covid-19 lockdown, dancers gotta keep dancin’. As the stay at home order extends through May, live performances are likely to be in the last stage of reopening, maybe summer? SoCal dance won’t be back in theaters soon, but is alive, adapting, and finding fertile possibilities …
Despite the fact that I am a life-long cinephile and earned a Master’s degree in Critical Studies from USC School of Cinematic Arts, I was not aware of the pioneering work of Alice Guy, the very first woman filmmaker in the history of cinema. So it was very exciting to discover the documentary Be Natural: …
The world has been transformed over the last few months due to COVID-19. Most of the global population has been forced to stay inside their homes, only being able to step out for essentials. Social distancing has given us time to gain perspective about the way we lead our lives, and as we wait for …
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Everybody in the whole wide world has a mother whether she’s here now or was. Isn’t that amazing? And human mothers nurse their children with their own bodies. Isn’t that amazing too? Let’s take a moment to thank our collective lunch. Happy Mother’s Day!
Because I can’t really tell what day it is anymore and I’m just trying to stay tethered to reality, I’ve been watching nothing but…HORROR FILMS!!! The other day (What day? I don’t know!) I spent hours on YouTube watching clips, shows, films about Japanese urban legends (Hikiko! Slit Mouthed Woman! ) and let me tell …
As a species, by and large, we are social creatures. And while it was likely already amongst us as early as December of last year, COVID-19 seemed to come out from nowhere, stealthily laying the groundwork for what would soon change the world as we knew it, one of the first fallouts being our ability to …
In our fight against the coronavirus pandemic, do we as a society have an obligation to promote the health and safety of incarcerated communities? If the answer is “yes”, the sobering truth is we are failing that basic test in federal prisons. Press reports that as of April 30th, 70% of federal prisoners sampled for …
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What connects the biggest controversy of WWE and avoiding crowds on the beach? If you do not know this already, pro-wrestling, including that from the brand called WWE, is scripted. It all happens through a systematic process — just look up these terms from pro-wrestling parlance (in their context) — ‘booking’, ‘jobbing’, ‘kayfabe, ‘screwjob’, ‘breaking …
TANGENTIAL I go off on tangents, my wife says, But I prefer to call them lateral Thinking in action. How else would I have remembered the pork chops Were left in the car if not for our Starveling child making BLTs For lunch? Sure, there’s something To the family motto — When a task Is …
Art from Photographs Can Create a Custom Wedding Portrait What is the importance of a good and beautiful wedding portrait? Weddings are one of the most remembered, personal, and remarkable events in one’s like (if they are lucky enough to have one). It takes the effort of a whole score of people to make that …
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