Wagogo girls, Uganda, 1948
© George Rodger/Magnum
(Source: dynamicafrica)
[given] to love
daily scribblings, inspirations + my evolution.
i miss my sibling.
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
— Og Mandino
:)
you MUST let me know how this turns out! Is it color or just the conditioner?
Hey mama! Both actually. It keeps my hair dark, so when summer comes the sun doesn’t turn my hair brown. and the conditioning is the best part. i rarely have the time to putter around for 6 hours to do this, but it turns out just how I like it every time… dark and lovely heheh :)
working on my bantu knots… pictures by morning.
what does the coffee/tea do?
Two things:
1. Henna requires an acid to get the color release going and while coffee & tea are acidic, I’ve found they aren’t nearly as harsh or drying as lemon juice (which is the generally recommended acid ingredient). ACV is pretty harsh too, but I only used a little to loosen my curl a little.
2. I have dark brown hair that lightens significantly in the summer and adding strong coffee or black tea slightly alters the color that the henna deposits so my hair gets really dark.
Here’s my favorite site on henna & hair [www.hennaforhair.com]. Enjoy!
Shower caps are for rich people.
Putting a super deep conditioning henna in my hair on my lazy Sunday. I think I may give myself a manicure while this stuff gets going…
I found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.
I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”
He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”
diy of the day: leather net bag!
today’s diy is too cool for too much explanation, so i’ll just leave you with the link. please enjoy! (via love aesthetics)
blitz the ambassador f. les nubians | “dear africa”
from native sun (2011)
*i love this song, especially the second half of the track when the guitars come in and the beat goes crazy! this album makes my heart smile.
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Did I mention we’re going to Bonnaroo this year? Yessir!
We went to Coachella last year, fitting in a visit to my sister’s and partaking in some light sightseeing during the same trip. It was my first music festival, and with Erykah Badu, Robyn, Animal Collective and so many others I’d always wanted to see on last year’s lineup, plus the phenomenal weather and all the good vibes, it was a really fun first time!
This year’s Coachella lineup didn’t really move me—not at this year’s ticket price anyway! And while Bonnaroo will have many of the same acts as Coachella (Radiohead as a headliner, plus SBTRKT, Santigold, St. Vincent, Flying Lotus, etc.), Bonnarooa also has a gaggle of dope comedy acts, a movie festival, and a number of acts I’m so excited to finally catch (Blackstar! Bad Brains! Red Hot Chili Peppers! Feist! Eeeee…!). Also we’re close enough to Efrem’s hometown that I’ll get to see his family again and get a personal tour of Memphis. So excited! Here’s the lineup with my must-sees (bolded). Still learning about a lot of the acts. Give me recommendations, please and thanks!
RADIOHEAD • RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS • PHISH • THE BEACH BOYS (BRIAN WILSON, MIKE LOVE, AL JARDINE, BRUCE JOHNSTON AND DAVID MARKS) • BON IVER • THE AVETT BROTHERS • THE SHINS • FOSTER THE PEOPLE • SKRILLEX • AZIZ ANSARI • DISPATCH • FEIST • THE ROOTS • ALICE COOPER • SUPERJAM • BLACK STAR • DANZIG LEGACY – FEATURING MUSIC BY DANZIG, SAMHAIN AND DANZIG/DOYLE PERFORMING THE MISFITS • STEVEN WRIGHT • THE WORD (JOHN MEDESKI, ROBERT RANDOLPH AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS) • LUDACRIS • BEN FOLDS FIVE • FLOGGING MOLLY • MARC MARON • SPECTRUM ROAD (CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA, JACK BRUCE, JOHN MEDESKI, AND VERNON REID) • PUSCIFER • MAC MILLER • BRIAN POSEHN • SANTIGOLD • CHILDISH GAMBINO • REGGIE WATTS • THE TEMPER TRAP • MAJOR LAZER • WORLD CHAMPION JUDAH FRIEDLANDER • TUNE-YARDS • AFROCUBISM • FLYING LOTUS • UMPHREY’S MCGEE • LITTLE DRAGON • BLIND PILOT • RHYS DARBY • ST. VINCENT • CITY AND COLOUR • THE CIVIL WARS • YOUNG THE GIANT • TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB • FUN. • PUNCH BROTHERS • NEEDTOBREATHE • FITZ & THE TANTRUMS • COLIN HAY • BAD BRAINS • YELAWOLF • DAWES • BATTLES • DANNY BROWN • THE BLACK LIPS • SBTRKT • PHANTOGRAM • BIG GIGANTIC • GARFUNKLE & OATS • KENDRICK LAMAR • CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES • THE KOOKS • THE JOY FORMIDABLE • THE ANTLERS • KATHLEEN EDWARDS • MIMOSA KURT • VILE & THE VIOLATORS • ALABAMA SHAKES • SOJA • DAS RACIST • DELTA SPIRIT • GARY CLARK JR. • IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK • LAURA MARLING • TRAMPLED BY TURTLES • MOGWAI • THE WAR ON DRUGS • BEN HOWARD • GROUPLOVE • AMY SCHUMER • ALO THE DEVIL MAKES THREE • WHITE DENIM • EMA • HERE WE GO MAGIC • FRUIT BATS • PETE HOLMES THE CAVE SINGERS • RORY SCOVEL • K-FLAY • THE LONELY FOREST • MARIACHI EL BRONX • MIKE O’CONNELL • BIG FREEDIA • DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. • THE SOUL REBELS • ALI WONG • STEVEN BERNSTEIN’S MTO PLAYS SLY • SARAH JAROSZ • ORGONE • DARONDO • MOON TAXI • KYLE KINANE
Caine’s Arcade by Nirvan Mullick is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a minute! Thanks for sharing Devoya!
A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life.
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Credits:
Directed by Nirvan
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If this does not move you!!! You have no Soul!!!
I remember, while applying for colleges, toying with the idea of majoring in dance therapy and music therapy and not really knowing what it was or having enough confidence to explain the interest to my folks. It made so much sense to me though, that if you couldn’t get through to people using conventional therapies, the arts seemed like an enriching and an incredibly powerful tool for breaking through to them, whether it is an autistic child, or someone suffering from trauma or an emotional disorder, or the ill and elderly. This video was so encouraging to see. The arts are important dammit!
(Source: fmsharp)
