Blah, blah, blah.

Yo !

[90smonkey-blog]

[moviesludge]

[lolzpicx]

Soon as I get home 

[ithelpstodream]

Photos of women of color from the Victorian era are hard to come by.

[subconsciousenthusiast-deactiva]

I’m still frustrated at the absence of these pictures from my history books in school

[shattered-addiction-deactivated]

[thevintageloser]

☾ express your inner Vintage Loser // inspiration ☼

[instagram]

The Epic Flight of @inkdwell’s 2,800-Square-Foot ‘Wall of Birds’

To see more of Jane and Thayer’s work, check out @inkdwell on Instagram.

San Franciscan Jane Kim (@inkdwell) was a scientific illustration intern at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology when the director approached her with a dream project: hand-painting a 40-foot (12.2-meter) by 70-foot (21.3-meter) mural showcasing all families of modern birds. “He asked if this is something I would be interested in doing,” Jane says. “That was four years ago.” Over 16 months on-site, Jane painted one member of each of the world’s 243 modern bird families to scale, treating them with individual care and attention. “I developed a relationship with each bird as I did it; that was very beautiful,” Jane says. Now, the wall is complete, and Jane and her Ink Dwell studio co-founder and husband, Thayer Walker, have embarked on a three-week road trip back to California to decompress, post-mural. “Life sort of stood still while I was creating this really epic project,” says Jane. “It will be a great way to unwind.”

[music-in-art]

Jean Geiser (1848-1923) - Musicien gnaoua, photographie, v.1906

Le Guembri ou gambri gembré, gembri, guembri, gumbri est l’instrument de musique principal des peuples Gnawa. Les Gnawa (Guinée en arabe) sont originaires d'Afrique occidentale (Guinée, Mali, Soudan). Ils ont été amenés au Maroc (15ème siècle) en tant qu'esclaves et se sont ensuite métissés à la population locale et se sont formés en confrérie pour créer un culte original mélangeant des apports africains et berbères. L'instrument de musique principal chez les Gnawa qui animent la lila de derdeba, le rite de possession, se nomme le guembri. Cet instrument est joué par le maître musicien (le maâlem). Le maâlem est également le chanteur principal de la troupe. On trouve cet instrument principalement en Afrique du nord dans les pays du Maghreb où il a été apporté par les esclaves venant de Guinée. C'est un dérivé du N'Goni africain.

Avec le tourisme important et les échanges artistiques entre le Maroc et l'Occident, la musique gnawa s'internationalise grâce à des influences extérieures au Maghreb tels que Jimmy Page et Robert Plant (du groupe Led Zeppelin), Bill Laswell, Adam Rudolph, et Randy Weston, qui font souvent appel à des musiciens gnawas dans leurs compositions. (Wiki).

[nevver]

That was then, this is now.

[contac]

[thespicymoon-blog]

A world full of Hope #boubouteatime #boubouteatimemixedmedia #zellige #collage #digitalart

[moregoodthan-bad]

[dailyoscarisaac]

[lohrien]

Harry Potter illustrations by Gabriel Picolo

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[graffitivre]

Marcel Sembat les couilles

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[graffitivre]

Labès ? Hamdoulah. (ça va bien ? oui ça va).

[spacevixenmusic]

Funky Cops (2003-2004)

I wasn’t sure what to think at first, but I’m kinda digging this show now. It’s got a great 70s aesthetic art style, and the plot is basically a cartoony version of Starsky & Hutch with an inordinate-but-not-unwelcome number of hella groovin dance breaks!

You can watch the whole show on the Kabillion Channel on YouTube!

[peteneems]