Julian.

What's ya life about? Enlighten Me...

[twixnmix]

Dorothy Dandridge as Bess in the film Porgy and Bess (1959).

Photos by Gjon Mili for LIFE magazine

[jarrodrc]

[coolerthandeanmartin]

🔊🔊🔀🔁

[coolerthandeanmartin]

🗣AND YA SAY CHI-CITY🎶...So @stlilyluxe and I went to #Chicago for #Chicagoideas #week and did some sight seeing 👀🌬🏙🍕#mcachicago #harristheater #millenniumpark #hebrubrantley #incarceratedjerkfaces #artinstituteofchicago #art #travel (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B305sVbnO-H/?igshid=1rkdgws0l1tly

[frankocean]

Re: Last night

Not funded by Gilead Sciences

Funded by Blonded, independently

Let’s just get that out of the way.

Club culture around late 70s and 80s nightlife in NYC was a special, much talked about and written about thing. From the star studded midtown clubs like studio 54 and the first danceteria to the downtown clubs like Mudd + paradise garage. The figures, the music, the looks, the lack of regulation haha. I recognize NY wasn’t all lasers and disco lighting and that simultaneously, there was a lot of crime and poverty and that a huge part of club culture, the gay community, at that time were being wiped out by HIV + AIDS. Now in 2019, there’s a pill you can take every day that will at a better than 90% chance prevent you from contracting HIV. This pill was approved by the FDA in 2012. The pricing strategy behind it is malicious in my opinion and so it’s public perception is marred and rightfully so. But the fact remains that despite price being a very real barrier to this potentially life saving drug for some, the other very real barrier is awareness. I decided to name, what was otherwise going to be a night of lights and music inspired by an era of clubbing that I loved PrEP+ because while designing the club which is inside of an old glass factory basement in Queens (shoutout to The Basement that runs a very awesome techno night on Fridays after us) I started to imagine in an era where so many lives were lost and so much promise was lost forever along with them, what would it have been like if something, anything had existed that in all probability would’ve saved thousands and thousands of lives. I’m an artist, it’s core to my job to imagine realities that don’t necessarily exist and it’s a joy to. A couple days before we threw the party, I was discussing this subject with my team and one of the architects I work with thought that PrEP as a drug had reached ‘100% saturation’ so far as awareness. I thought he was dead wrong so I asked a friend (who I won’t name haha) if he knew what PrEP was and his response was ‘isn’t that some type of viagra or something’. My ex who I was with for several years didn’t know about it when we first met at a gay club in LA. Awareness isn’t always what we’d hope it would be. But anyway, I’m ranting. I’m happy that folks are talking about the subject in the first place. Thank you to everyone who came out and danced with us last night. Y’all were beautiful and the energy was right! Thank you Bouffant Bouffant, Sango, Justice and Sherelle for your sets last night they were soo good man. Oh one more thing, I saw someone say that this was a PR stunt etc etc, pshhh bitch pls come get a drink next time and I’ll put several barstools out so you can have as many seats as you need. All my love everybody really. Stay safe.

[coolerthandeanmartin]

So, random, I ran across this one day while sitting with my girl while she studied notes for her art history class. Don’t know if Virgil’s rendition of the Chuck 70 has anything to do with the artist’s designs but cool either way 🤷🏽‍♂️😎

[coolerthandeanmartin]

‎My Funny Valentine by Etta James

‎Song · 5:47 min · 1993

Wow...

[coolerthandeanmartin]

[coolerthandeanmartin]

Didn’t know this existed, gotta see it

[theyuniversity]

What's up with "blonde" and "blond"?

[theyuniversity]

Kudos to Merriam-Webster for being one of the only online dictionaries to indicate the distinction between blonde and blond.

Blond comes from French, in which it has masculine and feminine forms.

Will you be ridiculed if you don’t use blonde and blond in their gender-specific forms? Probably not. Is it cool to know the difference? Definitely.

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[theyuniversity]

TL;DR In French 🇫🇷, “blond” and “blonde” are gender-specific, but they are interchangeable in modern usage in English.

[frankocean]

-5

[coolerthandeanmartin]

🚴🏾round the town got my 📱💡... @jbsk8n sleep tho 😴 #yol2 #phonelit #biking #easter

[frankocean]

Ok Ken (and David). As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly. We all die one day and you're old so fuck it. Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute shit. Technical difficulties, blah blah. Thanks for the reminder. Very much appreciated. Fuck that performance though. You think that's why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don't you think I would've wanted to play the show to 'redeem' myself if I felt that way? In reality, I actually wanted to participate in honoring Prince on the show but then I figured my best tribute to that man's legacy would be to continue to be myself out here and to be successful. Winning a TV award doesn't christen me successful. It took me some time to learn that. I bought all my masters back last year in the prime of my career, that's successful. Blonde sold a million plus without a label, that's successful. I am young, black, gifted and independent.. that's my tribute. I've actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor and you know what's really not 'great TV' guys? 1989 getting album of the year over To Pimp A Butterfly. Hands down one of the most 'faulty' TV moments I've seen. Believe the people. Believe the ones who'd rather watch select performances from your program on YouTube the day after because your show puts them to sleep. Use the old gramophone to actually listen bro, I'm one of the best alive. And if you're up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I'm all for it. Have a good night.

[coolerthandeanmartin]

fantasizin bout a white picket fence...and some trees my nigga 🌳🌳🌳 #aahhfest2016 #commongroundfoundation #Common #JCole #2014foresthillsdrive #hiphop

[frankocean]

I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t. Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else. Many don’t see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are. Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We are all God’s children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I’m scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear another voice entirely?

[coolerthandeanmartin]

new production website from my homie stephen just launch make sure yall go check it out http://viddleton.com #av #art #video #videoproduction #videoproducer #hiphop #rap #90s #retro #retrokid

[coolerthandeanmartin]

When you bout to tell the restaurant ur homie bout to make a separate phone order and they tell u to hold the line

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