We’ve had a great few months putting on this open stage event in downtown Los Angeles. We’re closing out this season with a bang and you have to be there.
Freedom Friday Finale will feature folks from the past months. Along with the awesome art and delicious food from the Mercado, we’re gonna have blast! See you tomorrow night!
The blogs are buzzing with Asa’s new album titled Beautiful Imperfection coming this week. It’s all rather exciting; Asa’s one of few African women who’ve made it to a mainstream audience. And by mainstream I mean the United States. I do love the treatment Jean Baptiste Mondino gave her in these photos.
Her single Be My Man features her familiar voice but is definitely a lot more lively than her first offering. The track’s below and make sure to cop it where you can when it’s released!
Carl Kleiner shot the recipes for IKEA’s book about baking: Hembakat är Bäst. Styled by Evelina Bratell, they make baking seem less messy than it gets. Aren’t these beautiful?
Relentless is the first feature-length film from Andy Amadi Okoroafor is shot and set in current-day Lagos, co-starring none other than Nneka Egbuna and Jimmy Jean-Louis.
From what I can see of the trailer, it’s beautiful. Relentless will be showing at the 54th BFI London Film Festival on 20 and 21 October 2010.
Remember Choose Joy? That was the initial tagline for Afrolicious. My early Sunday school teachers defined joy as Jesus (first) Others (next) Yourself (last). Joy.
Not really. After years of living this way – putting yourself last in particular – you’ll find that it becomes unsustainable. It’s backwards and even Jesus teaches we should examine our hearts first before going off into someone else’s.
I have no pithy words for you (for me). No lofty quotes from philosophers old and new. Just do it. Take care of yourself this weekend. I mean it.
(photo via studentradical)