January 2012
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The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s...
– Audre Lorde »daughterofthediaspora.
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Caught off guard.
Abuja, Nigeria. 01 January 2012
Another series of sequences I wish to tackle. Altho’ I suspect with these there will be more individual pieces, as opposed to polyptychs.
©Toyin Odutola.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the...
– From Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.
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Remember this too: most museum works were created in sloppy studios under all...
– Living the Artist’s Life by Paul Dorrell (p.12)
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I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I...
– Toni Morrison
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African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...
– Melissa Harris-Perry »sociolab »ethiopienne »theangryblackwoman: “I mean this is why there needs to be more representation of not just Blacks but Latinos, First Nation peoples, Arab, Asian and all other people in the government…”
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Sweet little girl.
Abuja, Nigeria. 01 January 2012
Another sequence I plan on exploring in a few polyptychs soon (and possibly an animation).
©Toyin Odutola.
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Perhaps the most important thing we have to remember about the black tradition...
– Bryan Wagner, Disturbing the Peace, p. 1. »thefactofblackness.
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Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would...
– PIRATE BAY, PRESS RELEASE (18 JANUARY 2012). (Found via pipperipembo.) BOOM!
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Lost and Alone Under Tokyo’s Red Rain
By HIROYUKI ITO. The New York Times: LENS (Publ. January 17, 2012, 5:00 AM)
“Soon after shooting memorial concerts on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, my sister called to tell me that our father had died unexpectedly. Two days later, I returned to Japan for the first time in 20 years to attend his funeral. I felt constant vertigo, like I had been violently cut and pasted...
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck
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