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new haircut :)

new sig.

The Coffee Co.

Uniball on Newsprint inside of a Transformer's sketchpad by Mead.

Hospital Waiting Room

One from the archives. From life done on my old ass Sony FS with a graphire.

BLACK FROM YALE: THE AFTERMATH

To recap my last post (even though right below this one), I was invited to be a guest lecturer at Yale University for the 13th Annual Black Solidarity Conference on a panel called Politics Press and Propoganda.

Before I left...
I wanted to reflect on a few things in my usual fashion...























(I usually keep the blinds closed until Sunset, but, Sunshine provided for a better ambiance - yeah right?)

so anyway, I left Friday morning, flew all day, and night, and arrived here...



















...to do my thing on Saturday at the 11:30-1:30 pm panel.
I spoke to a little over 100 people in classroom and basically gave them my idealogy behind the infamous "READ A BOOK" video I directed for B.E.T. last summer.

I opened with some history about the early origins of the song (from Hotghettomess.com), to how it arrived at B.E.T, to how I met Denys Cowan when he was a producer on "The Boondocks", and to how that same relationship paid dividends 2 years later when Denys Cowan and Reginald Hudlin started anew at B.E.T. respectively with Cowan as Vice President of Animation and Hudlin as President of Entertainment. In steps Tyree Dillihay to direct "READ A BOOK" and the nation throws a shit fit.

CNN appearance, couple of newspaper articles, radio, interviews, yada-yada-yada...all to say WHAT?

Basically...i just wanted to say "WAKE UP!!" Just like Slice in School Daze.

So, now that I've got your attention...and the fresh young minds at the Yale Conference...I whooped out my my fresh new film on 'em...
DIFFERENCES
(Directed and Narrated by me/Produced by Six Point Harness/Voices by Jaeden Ball)


After the resounding "awwwwwwwwwww" from the crowd...nothing left to do than to watch my people do the ELECTRIC SLIDE!!




































Later that night, the treat of all treats. Who graced the staged but none other than Lupe Fiascoe to rock Yale. At the end, an even more special treat...sorry for the photos...but, that's Lupe in the center with Matthew Santos on his right rockin SUPERSTAR. "Have no feeeeeaaaaaar"



















after that, you know that frats and sorros had to battle it out:


















Then, it was back to L.A. and back on the grind.

Art to come soon.

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13th Annual Black Solidarity Conference at YALE University

This Saturday, March 1st, I'll be speaking on a panel called Politics, Press, and Propaganda. Here's a summary from the website:

The media plays an interesting and powerful role in US politics. Media in all its forms is the conduit through which information is tempered, exacerbated, processed, and consolidated before reaching the eyes and ears of the general public. Print and broadcast journalism, as well as the performing and visual arts are substantive filters through which we perceive our not so immediate reality; they are how we become privy to the private and exposed to knowledge beyond our scope. In an age where information knows no bounds and in a nation where the media landscape has become veritable playground of corporate monoliths, taking anything at face value runs the risk of becoming a benign drone. As a serially disenfranchised minority, it is imperative that black Americans become proactive and discerning consumes and conveyors of political news and debate. Too often have black Americans been told what to think and what to act upon by both the power within and without and it time to reclaim personal searches for truth and question. Through a moderation panel of journalist, artists, and social commentators, State of the Union: Politics, Press, and Propaganda seeks to question the legitimacy of both mainstream and marginal media sources and expound upon the multitudes of resources available to investigate the socio-political issues at hand in the approaching political campaigns.

A big thanks to Kristian Henderson for making things happen.

For more information, goto www.yale.edu/bsc

See you all when I get back.

Jazz and Blue Grass

these were thumbnail character drawings in my sketchbook that I decided to throw some quick color and lighting on. Please excuse the generic BG's but BG design wasn't the goal here. If there's a problem...please cut a check. ;)
here's a Jam Session in the making using the two silhouettes above and a few others.

Dust Sketches

No point of letting 'em just sit around and not get any type of teeth marks.

Cairo or Bust

had an excuse to paint at work yesterday...an hour on their time and an hour on mine.

Cross-Country

mood I
mood II

Voyage