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Where do you see yourself by the time you turn 50?

Enter AARP’s U@50 Challenge for a chance to win $5,000.
1) Watch the AARP Uat50 Challenge call-out video.
2) Produce a creative 1-2 minute video describing where you see yourself by the time you turn 50.
3) Go to the U@50 group page by clicking on the website link below.
4) Submit your video!
Deadline for Submissions has been [...]

calling all black photographers even more urgently!

Please take my quick survey BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24*, about publishing:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226WGU59UBE
You can download the results so far here (since they won’t let me save it): publishing.pdf
Thank you!
*That’s how long Zoomerang will allow me to access the results unless I want to pay $600 a year!

Glynnis Reed

If you’re on mySpace, check out Los Angeles photographer Glynnis Reed’s work (yeah, I’m an old-timer–I finally signed up on mySpace just to see her work ’cause I always thought mySpace was for the kids). But as the kids say, don’t sleep on her!
I love this group of images of the signage of small black [...]

beyond belief

I saw this mentioned yesterday on Racialicious, I think, but then found a link to a news story on an amazing blog I discovered today via Afrobella: What About Our Daughters?
In light of the Jena protests yesterday and the general state of our world, it’s definitely important to spend some time @ What About Our [...]

I came across this today looking for something else, so before I forget about it I’ll post it

Black Light White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art
The Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, documented the first comprehensive review of contemporary black artists working with sound and light, building on a longstanding tradition of artistic experimentation through the work of 16 diverse artists. The featured artists in the exhibition [...]

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 14, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 14, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 14, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]