Beautiful Nothings....
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This life is just a stop in the many travels of eternal life...I'm just trying to make sense of these 18 years and foresight the future.
Bronx born, Reside in FL
Poetry, Music, Art, Love, and Knowledge are things that inspire me.
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
— Tupac Shakur
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"People can fall into the trap of blaming the poor of developing countries for the problems of the world since it is poor countries that have these massive, ballooning populations. Is is true that overpopulation in poor countries exacerbates the living conditions in those countries, but bear in mind that the average middle-class citizen of a Western nation consumes more than a hundred times the volume of resources of the average poor citizen of a developing nation. Armory Lovins calculated that the average American consumes 250 times the resources of the average Nigerian. This means that the United States has the global impact of seventy-five trillion Nigerians. I’ll go one step further: I’ll bet American citizens consume more Nigerian resources than Nigerians themselves."
Steve Hallett and John Wright, Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future (via therecipe)
aka why most cries of overpopulation are just racist as fuck.
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!!! I’ll bet American citizens consume more Nigerian resources than Nigerians themselves.
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#welp
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Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco and the Fania All-Stars Live in Africa “Quimbara” 1974
La rumba me está llamando, bombo dile que ya voy,
que se espere un momentico mientras canto un guaguancó.
Dile que no es un desprecio, pues vive en mi corazón.
Mi vida es tan sólo eso, rumba buena y guaguancó!YES MA’AM!
Queen of Salsa. Your best cannot
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AFRICA AT THE OSCARS #7: Rachel Mwanza
With two film roles under her belt and Best Actress awards from the Berlin Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festivaland the Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2012, as well as a nomination for Best Actress at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards, the promising young actress from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will soon be on her way to yet another awards ceremony after recently being granted a visa to travel to the United States. The visa comes just in time for the Oscars this weekend where the film in which Mwanza made her debut role, Rebelle, is nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category as a submission from Canada.
Born in the DRC in 1997, Mwanza had a troubled and painful upbringing. Abandoned by her parents at the age of six, she subsequently spent the following years of her life living between her grandmother’s house and life on the streets, her life was significantly transformed after being cast in filmmaker Kim Nguyen’s film Rebelle where she plays the lead role of Komona, a girl kidnapped by a Congolese army at the age of 12. She was cast in the film after Nguyen saw her in a documentary about street children in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. The filmmakers have also agreed to fund Mwanza’s education until she reaches 18.
Her most recent role is in the Marc-Henri Wajnberg drama Kinshasa Kids.
Hopefully we’ll be seeing more of Mwanza in the future and in more diverse roles.
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golden shutter, self-portrait 2012
*Photography continues to be such a compulsion and a way of going. It’s a means to understanding and my way of freezing the time that never stops. Sometimes it’s the ugly truth of my own thoughts and energy, and sometimes it’s magically clear and vivid as the sharpest aperture. I have no idea where all of this is going but I’m doing my best to continue to focus my energy on the craft and mastering it. I truly love photography and I think that’s why it continues to form in a way that documents my life and the word as I see it.
I’m seeing myself in my work more than I ever have before. Part of that is because I wasn’t looking, and the other part is understanding that I know nothing. While this year comes to a close, I’m looking forward to many more challenges…as I continue to buffer this golden shutter of mine.
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me, bushwick bodega 2013
*bodega worker took this shot of me, he was so fascinated with my nikon. he reminded me of how blessed i am, i’ve never seen him with such a smile..
