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Creative People Say No – article

“Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.”

via https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/bad7c34842a2

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do you have a date for the vampire series to premiere?

8PM 5/23 – thanks for asking!

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"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination…."
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it.”

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Jim Jarmusch (via archatlas)

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soulbrotherv2:

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy…

soulbrotherv2:

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) by Virginia Hamilton

A collection of twenty-five African-American folktales focuses on strong female characters and includes “”Little Girl and Bruh Rabby,”” “”Catskinella,”” and “”Annie Christmas.”” By the author of The People Could Fly.

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"Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction."
“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”

– Bobby Sommer (via wryer)
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"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are…"
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre   (via thatkindofwoman)
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blackfashion:

From the book DREADS by Francesco Mastalia and…

blackfashion:

From the book DREADS by Francesco Mastalia and Alfonse Pagano.

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8PM.
I’ll be premiering my vampire web series teaser:…

8PM.

I’ll be premiering my vampire web series teaser: Suicide By Sunlight, alongside 3 other immensely talented black women filmmakers.

C ya there! <3

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/379877642130884/?notif_t=plan_user_joined

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vagabondaesthetics:

hou hsiao hsien – millenium mambo

vagabondaesthetics:

hou hsiao hsien – millenium mambo

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wahaladey:

Alex Webb

wahaladey:

Alex Webb

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dynamicafrica:

masembe:

First look images from Mahamat-Saleh…

dynamicafrica:

masembe:

First look images from Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Cannes 2013 entry “Grisgris” (via Shadow and Act)

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a film director from Chad.

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artismyhustle:

1987 Pirelli Calendar

artismyhustle:

1987 Pirelli Calendar

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raahdical:

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raahdical:

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theclotheshorse:

“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by…

theclotheshorse:

“Une Femme Est Une Femme” photographed by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, and styled by Samuel François for Lula #16 S/S 2013

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manufactoriel:

undertheinfluencemagazine:

Gabonese artist…

manufactoriel:

undertheinfluencemagazine:

Gabonese artist Natalie Mba Bikoro presents her etchings based on Lewis Carrol’s timeless classic and Emma Cavendish discusses the collection.

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manufactoriel:

katebomz:

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar…

manufactoriel:

katebomz:

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan.

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Excerpt from SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT web series promo: Black Vamp…

Excerpt from SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT web series promo: Black Vamp Seduces Victim. #swag

https://www.facebook.com/SuicideBySunlight

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I don’t want to bring this to a conclusion on a down note. A few…

I don’t want to bring this to a conclusion on a down note. A few years back, I got a call from an agent and he said, “Will you come see this film? It’s a small, independent film a client made. It’s been making the festival circuit and it’s getting a really good response but no distributor will pick it up, and I really want you to take a look at it and tell me what you think.” The film was called Memento. So the lights come up and I think, It’s over. It’s over. Nobody will buy this film? This is just insane. The movie business is over. It was really upsetting. Well fortunately, the people who financed the movie loved the movie so much that they formed their own distribution company and put the movie out and made $25 million. So whenever I despair I think, OK, somebody out there somewhere, while we’re sitting right here, somebody out there somewhere is making something cool that we’re going to love, and that keeps me going. The other thing I tell young filmmakers is when you get going and you try to get money, when you’re going into one of those rooms to try and convince somebody to make it, I don’t care who you’re pitching, I don’t care what you’re pitching – it can be about genocide, it can be about child killers, it can be about the worst kind of criminal injustice that you can imagine – but as you’re sort of in the process of telling this story, stop yourself in the middle of a sentence and act like you’re having an epiphany, and say: You know what, at the end of this day, this is a movie about hope.

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"Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and…"
“Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and they’ll be like ‘Well we should hang out!’ and I’m like ‘No, that’s not what I meant. That’s not what I meant at all.’”

– JM (via thatkindofwoman)
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abstractelements:

des, chicago 2013

abstractelements:

des, chicago 2013

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"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because…"
“A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

– Junot Diaz (via livelearnandpanic)
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"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away…"
““Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.””

– Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)
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"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that…"
““She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?””

– Douglas Coupland (via thecrackerfactory)
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missinglinc:

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Video directed by We Are From La : wearefromla.com/…

Video directed by We Are From La : wearefromla.com/
Director of photography: Arnau Valls Colomer
Produced by Iconoclast & Kitsuné

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ayanaahj:

Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John…

ayanaahj:

Octavia Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California.

(via Stacey Muhammad)

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thesmithian:

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art: photo by Gordon Parks—’Mr. and Mrs….

thesmithian:

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art: photo by Gordon Parks—’Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton,’ Mobile, Alabama 1956

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