G O L D E N S E N S E.

May 23, 2013

GoldenSense.

I'm sure you noticed once again my lack of post on GoldenSense and I do have school to blame for that once again. My studies have to come first but due to the end of my first year at Parsons and some very close talented friends of mine I've been inspired to finally take GoldenSense one step further.

I'm utilizing my summer to dedicate myself to my internship at Afropunk and a few creative projects that will allow me to hone into my skills and elevating GoldenSense to places where I probably wouldn't have thought of when I was 16 years old making this Blogspot account. This isn't a departure from the blog but a minor break until I reveal what's coming next.

-Sabla`

March 19, 2013

Music Videos |x| Lianne La Havas

Lianne La Havas

Towards the end of 2012 I discovered an amazing UK singer of the name Lianne La Havas. She's known for her soulful voice, being an multi-instrumentalist and having phenomenal acoustics. Lianne paired up with video director Colin Solal Cardo creating a two part music video series featuring her songs "Elusive and "Gone" off her album Is Your Love Big Enough. Both videos are cinematically beautiful, capturing and complimenting every one of Lianne's notes and lyrics she bellows out. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

"Elusive" (Part 1)

vISUALS by Ng'endo Mukii "Yellow Fever"

"I am interested in the concept of skin and race, and what they imply; in the ideas and theories sown into our flesh that change with the arc of time. The idea of beauty has become globalized creating homogeneous aspirations, and distorting people’s self-image across the planet. In my film, I focus on African women’s self-image, through memories and interviews; using mixed media to describe this almost schizophrenic self-visualization that I and many others have grown up with." -Ng'endo Mukii

Artist Ng'endo Mukii tackles the subject of beauty standards among women in the black community. This video is only 1:19 sec but the beautiful imagery is upright captivating and if you're aren't familiarized with the way these standards are projected within the black community, this video really brings you there.

This image is so powerful, it just demonstrates how easy these beauty standards enter children's minds through media. This video automatically reminded me of a a conversation I had with one of my professors and a new class I'm taking this semester called City Cultures. At the moment we're exploring and tackling what consist of our own culture, being African American this video explores one of the topics I listed as a part of my own culture . These westernized/ European beauty standards has mixed (poisoned) within almost every culture, attending a school where everyone is from a different sector of the world, one thing we shared are these common beauty standards of straight long hair, thin frame, and light skin. Many forget or are ignorant to the fact that this doesn't only exist within the black community, I appreciate artist such as Ng'endo who use their craft to publicize such a crucial "ugly" beauty standard that has lived amongst us for hundreds of years, something still present today. -sabla`

Art by Lee Price

Such interesting photographs are they? Well look again, these are not photographs, these are paintings by artist Lee Price. Lee Price's art focuses on woman and their relationship with food in their most intimate settings and not talked about way. Yes some of her work is a bit exaggerated in activity and "compulsive" as she describes but nonetheless touches on something real. These paintings are very personal to Price and that's because the majority of her work are self portraits. Take a look below at some of her work and be sure to visit her site Leepricestudio.com to look at more of her beautiful photo realistic work. Also check out Lee Price's insightful interview with theotherjournal.com.