Bright Ribbon-Grass

Art and everything related. Caribbean Focused.

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Black Girl (1966)

Director: Ousmane Sembène

Cinematographer: Christian Lacoste

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Portrait of a Jamaican Girl, 1937, Augustus John 

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I just wanted to share some the discrepancies found with the flagged images.  On top are images of people of color- all flagged as adult content. Below that are two examples of nude paintings that were not flagged, and were also coincidently white women. I scrolled back about 6 years and found maybe 100-150 images flagged - so not that many were flagged comparatively. Now, there were nude and fully clothed paintings of white women that were flagged, but the images that were most commonly flagged were often created by, and depicting people of minority groups and groups that are often discriminated against. As I mentioned my own wedding photos were flagged (I’m married to a woman btw) It just hurt. I know it’s just a program but seeing that red flag that you’re deemed inappropriate- even if it is wrongly flagged- its hard to see, its sad really. 

The images are small, because I zoomed way out, so I could scroll quicker on my dashboard. So I’ll give you their titles and artists below. 

Top Right: Mrs. Waldorf Astor, Kehinde Wiley, Top Middle: Atsushi Suwa, Top Left: Rosa Rolanda Covarrubias, Bottom Right: John Duncan, Bottom Left: Illustration for La Vie Parisienne Cherí Hérouard. 

(You may wonder why I’m doing this now- since it’s been about a month since the changes on tumblr- My computer broke, I’m using my wife’s old computer and it doesn’t like tumblr it takes forever do do anything on here- but I’ve got a lot of free time today)

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#SheenaRose #artist

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Grace Jones by Jean Paul Goude for her Island Life album’s cover (1978)

[owlmylove]

sometimes u just gotta clean your room and apply an elaborate skincare routine and pretend that’s equivalent to getting ur life in order

[fluttering-slips]

Wedding Poem

   for Keith and Jen

Friends I am here to modestly report seeing in an orchard in my town a goldfinch kissing a sunflower again and again dangling upside down by its tiny claws steadying itself by snapping open like an old-timey fan its wings again and again, until, swooning, it tumbled off and swooped back to the very same perch, where the sunflower curled its giant swirling of seeds around the bird and leaned back to admire the soft wind nudging the bird’s plumage, and friends I could see the points on the flower’s stately crown soften and curl inward as it almost indiscernibly lifted the food of its body to the bird’s nuzzling mouth whose fervor I could hear from oh 20 or 30 feet away and see from the tiny hulls that sailed from their good racket, which good racket, I have to say was making me blush, and rock up on my tippy-toes, and just barely purse my lips with what I realize now was being, simply, glad, which such love, if we let it, makes us feel.

ROSS GAY

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But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. So I still act as though my feelings were the center of everything, and they still cause me to end up alone by the living-room window late at night. What is different, now, is that I have this idea: I have the idea that soon I will no longer believe my feelings are the center of everything. This is a real comfort to me, because if you despair of going on, but at the same time tell yourself that your despair may not be very important, then either you stop despairing or you still despair but at the same time begin to see how your despair, too, might move off to the side, one of many things.

Lydia Davis, What I Feel   (via a-witches-brew)

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Contemporary Black Artists on Tumblr

Have you popped into the Black artists on Tumblr tag yet? It’s an endless scroll of GIFs, photography, paintings, illustrations, and more, more, more. Here’s a small collection of Tumblrs you can follow to get you started:

The Artist Akuji (@theartistakuji​)

Beautiful digital art that just feels clean, fresh, and pleasing to look at. The artist’s Jamaican-American background shines through in a lot of her work, like this “West Indie” piece.

Maya Ajani (@mayaajani​)

Gritty, detailed, cool as hell marker art. Everything is a little bit gnarled up and raw and, just to repeat with deserved emphasis, cool as hell.

Liam Gavyn Salt (@liamgavynsalt​)

Liam Salt dabbles in seemingly all things visual art: painting, digital, photography, illustration. He does it all well, but It’s his GIFed up self-portraits that we wanted to showcase. Those are some finely tuned, well-thought-out scribbles up there.

Into this stuff? Want more of it? Right over here. 

Don’t miss our upcoming BHM Answer Times. Next week we’ll have:

2/6—The activists behind the TheBlackout movement (@theblackoutofficial) are already taking your questions. Ask them about the second anniversary of #blackout, the current goals and future of their mission, or anything else you find relevant. 

2/7—Fashion designer Jerome Lamaar (@531jerome).

2/8—Emil Wilbekin (@worldofwilbekin), fashion journalist and LGBTQ rights activist.

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You are wrong to run down your own work. We are not literati. If we take such dire pains, it is not for the result but because that is the only way to keep going on this wretched planet. […] Maybe you have lost it a bit, but it will come back and leave you once again not giving a tinker’s curse for any of these questions of value. I think that all this business about prizes and other perks has done you no good whatever. […] We shall never any of us know what we are worth, and it is the last question we should be asking.

Beckett writing to Robert Pinget, May 1966. (via ofresonance)

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Colin Garland. In the Beautiful Caribbean. 1974.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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on my street

I walk from midday till late after just looking and shooting

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Taxi- one of the many kinds

far from @uber

#Cuba #kwesiabbensetts (at Hostal Famila Rivalta)

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This photo makes me want to see someone do a study of the various grill work in Caribbean countries. In Jamaica our grill work reveals memory’s resilience -- adinkra symbols feature prominently in houses all over, long after most of us have forgotten what they mean.

This is the sankofa symbol in the grill work at my house. Before I started to attend public lectures and such I thought it, and similar shapes, were just cool, decorative art work.

I wonder if something similar happens elsewhere. It would be good to find out.

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Victor Anicet Restitution 7

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Wonderful World (1970) - Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds

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“Kapo at his Revival Yard, surrounded by several sculptures from the Larry Wirth Collection, c1983 - Photo: Deryck Roberts” (taken from the National Gallery of Jamaica blog)