“Mwende”Photography by Osborne…

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“Mwende”

Photography by Osborne Macharia:https://facebook.com/kulture63

Props/Styling/Production: KEVIN ABRAHAM
Make Up Artist: VALARY MDEIZI
Hair Stylist: RICHARD KINYUA & CORRINE MUTHONI
Concept Illustrator: JEFF OTIENO
Assistants: VICTOR NDALO, JARED MAINA, JOSEPH KYULE

CREATOR’S COMMENTARY: This is the story of a special unit of four women in a small village within Kipipiri Forest. They were the wives to four of the Mau Mau generals and, just like their men, they too had leadership roles. These women would be endowed in the most unique hair styles whenever a full moon was approaching. To the ordinary folk this was normal, but to the villagers of Kipipiri, their hair style was symbolic. Little is known of the 4 brave women till now.

[Mwende] was the lead entertainer and the only one among the 4 who never went into the forest. Instead she stayed behind preparing the women in the village in welcoming their men back home. She was a great dancer with powerful vocals and would lead the women in song and dance as the men approached home. She designed her own mouth piece that had pipes connected to vocal resonators in her hair.

Black Geek Society – Get Out! @ Alamo Drafthouse

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What can go wrong with a little light, interracial dating horror/humor? Well, we’re going to find out, with Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out!
And this time we’re going, for a change of pace, we’re going to check out Alamo Drafthouse, downtown Brooklyn, whose prices are surprisingly reasonable.
So if I were you, I’d get your tickets now because this is sure to sell out. I just got mine, I’m in row 4, hope to see you there!

RSVP @ https://www.meetup.com/Black-Geek-Society-Nerds-of-Color/events/237691186/

Show Details: GET OUT Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 08:00 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn – Theater 7
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/get-out

eartharchives: quiet-nymph: Axolotl by Рrot Axolotls are…

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quiet-nymph:

Axolotl by Рrot

Axolotls are a species of salamander than go through the process of neoteny, which means they retain juvenile traits through adulthood. In this case, the axolotl never metamorphoses into a terrestrial adult, instead remaining aquatic and breathing through gills during its entire life. In the wild they are found only in a single lake in Mexico that is threatened with increasing pollution, but they are often kept as pets and research subjecs due to their regenerative abilties and relevance to the field of genetics.

blackartdepot: The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a cultural…

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The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a cultural spectacle which the Yoruba people of South-West Nigeria, and indeed Nigerians at large, hold very dear. Basically, this grove is a dense forest featuring sacred huts, shrines and wooden, metal and clay works of art. Strategically located at the outskirts of Osogbo, just by the Osun River in Osun State of Nigeria, the sacred grove is not just a tourist site, but a living fossil which has preserved history which dates half a millennium ago.

On the course of the River Osun, which is inextricably linked to the sacred grove, one can… READ MORE >>

moodyhues: Quetzalcoatl Aesthetic ; requested by…

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Quetzalcoatl Aesthetic ; requested by @margoteve

Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of wind and learning, wears around his neck the “wind breastplate” ehecailacocozcatl, “the spirally voluted wind jewel” made of a conch shell. This talisman was a conch shell cut at the cross-section and was likely worn as a necklace by religious rulers, as they have been discovered in burials in archaeological sites throughout Mesoamerica, and potentially symbolized patterns witnessed in hurricanes, dust devils, seashells, and whirlpools, which were elemental forces that had meaning in the Aztec mythology. Among the Aztecs, whose beliefs are the best-documented in the historical sources, Quetzalcoatl was related to gods of the wind, of the planet Venus, of the dawn, of merchants and of arts, crafts and knowledge. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge.

thelightofthecenter: The Ogdoad-The Elder Gods and Goddesses of…

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The Ogdoad-The Elder Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

The Ogdoad predate the more commonly known Egyptian gods, such as Osiris, his sister wife Isis, and the emissary of the underworld, Anubis.  Considered to have come into creation before the world did, the Ogdoad consist of four couples—eight individual deities—who balance one another and the nature of the cosmos.  Each pair correlated with one of the primary elements of the universe in the Egyptian belief system, i.e., water, air, light, and time.

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Black Kirby: In Search of the Motherboxx Connection  …

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Black Kirby: In Search of the Motherboxx Connection    (2015)

“The Search continues…. Black Kirby is a collaborative “entity” that is the creative doppelganger of artists/designers

John Jennings and Stacey “Blackstar” Robinson

“The manifestation of this avatar is an exhibition and catalog of primarily visual artworks-on-paper that celebrate the groundbreaking work of legendary comic creator Jack Kirby regarding his contributions to the pop culture landscape and his development of some of the conventions of the comics medium.