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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

wow.

(I spotted this on Tayari Jones’ blog. She’s an amazing, brilliant writer who I just discovered this year. I love her. Check her out.)
An ATM for books
Coming soon: The most inclusive reader’s catalog in the world, at your fingertips.

By Emily Maltby, FSB Magazine
December 14 2006: 9:36 AM EST

(FSB Magazine) — Buying a book could become [...]

updated

(from Laylah Amatullah Barrayn)
Last night the ultra-fabulous KAMOINGE, Inc., opened their show, ‘Revealing the Face of Katrina’ at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo.
Follow the link below for just a taste of the festivities: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21344423@N08/sets/72157603313403765/

Above: Wall of Radcliffe Roye’s work

somebody watching this?

I don’t have a TV so I can’t but it could be interesting, could be frustrating. It started last night. (Thanks, Stephanie!)

“NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS” SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES “AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEY STAND” TO AIR BEGINNING ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 New York, N.Y. – November 15, 2007 – Throughout the week of [...]

questions to ponder

A friend sent the E-mail below last week regarding a recent staging in New Orleans of Waiting For Godot; she raises some important, seemingly perpetual questions, and I have not yet responded to her.
Last night I went to see the last performance at the Brava Theater in San Francisco of
STARDUST and EMPTY WAGONSStories from the [...]

Go Ken!
I went to college with Mr. Wingard–lovely man, great designer, and he lives right here in San Francisco! I was very excited to see that his designs are being featured in the SMH store.
When I was in New York for that Here and Now conference I received a copy of Studio, the Studio Museum [...]

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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      Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]


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