something like a...

The Original Selfie: Self Portrait So much more work to do.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:22:20 -0500

The Original Selfie: Self Portrait
So much more work to do.

If the “idea is King,” he has to have a Queen. Check...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:28:56 -0500

If the “idea is King,” he has to have a Queen. Check out my memorandum on innovation at www.posthuxabletheory.com and read the article in its entirety in volume II of neonV “the magazine for the contemporary peculiar woman” pre-order your copy at: www.neonVmag.com/subscribe

∆ Zadie Smith | Novelist, Essayist, Short Story Writer,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:28:03 -0500

∆ Zadie Smith | Novelist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Editor…

∆ Photographer | Sebastian Kim [pic 2]

Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing

When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.

Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.

Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

The Nature of Ambition can lead you right back home. #there

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:24:00 -0500

The Nature of Ambition can lead you right back home. #there

Sometimes, I write what I think, a bit of what’s going on...

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:36:00 -0500

Sometimes, I write what I think, a bit of what’s going on over at Post Huxtable Theory.

posthuxtabletheory:

Memorandum*

To: All Nostalgians

From: A Hybrid Chic

Subject: Innovation

Date: Now

“…constant evolution causes expansion”

(Lewis, “Evolution” Black Cool: One Thousand Streams ofBlackness 130).

Here lies a brief assertion, which deconstructs a thought I have had over a year, on the crippling effects nostalgians can have on the creative culture—when they are afraid of the future. It is with great hope that you will read the following words and evolve courageously, so that our world may expand with the most peculiar and brilliant minds that our culture has ever known.

The Post Neo-Romantics:

Who’s Afraid of the Future?

March 31, 2013

The Problem

For the past six years, the U.S. has shifted in what many deem a downward motion of economic and social uncertainties, and the view of the good ole days can seem so much brighter. Just as nostalgia was utilized as a trope in Neo-Romanticism, so has it reappeared—remixed—in a Postmodern utopian cultural landscape of the Post Neo-Romantics. As we wrestle with the prefixes ‘post,’ and ‘neo,’ we question ourselves, and therefore deconstruct the notions of newness and originality. How can anything old become new again—without it being just redundant? The simple answer: change the mentality behind the question.

Post Neo-romantics are too in love with the past, yet critical of tradition and uncertain of the future. Ironically, a large population of the inhabitants of this utopian cultural landscape, are mental wanderlusters: people who were not born in a certain decade, in which they culturally identify with, yet they have mentally travelled to that specific space in time, and adopted the cultural, not social, characteristics of decades past—as if it were present day—so, they are unable to connect to present culture, nor add to future culture.

Being too nostalgic can cripple creativity as a thinker is solely stuck at looking only at the past. Yet, if the creative takes inspiration from his/her heroes’ works, eras, cultural concepts, etc., and studies and analyzes it, then add their personal touch to it—innovation ultimately occurs.

I have written this brief memo as a starting point: to cease imitation, which is caused by fear, and to create innovation.

A Solution

“There is no creativity and innovation without failure.”- dr. brené brown

Cliché as it may be, change is inevitable; nothing stays the same, so you might as well suit up and go for the ride—of course, with plan a, b + c in hand—then again, those plans may require plan d.

Innovation Is Queen

Call it the new Feminist Theory, or just what it is—if “the idea is king,” innovation is queen (Katzenberg, 1991). Sitting on a throne all her own, she is an analytic problem solver, quick witted, charismatic and even ideas are strategically protected by her. Although there are a lot of oppositions to ideas, there is no limit to her innovative moves—don’t give up, victory is a process that sometimes, takes us off course.

……….

pre-order volume II of neonV ”the magazine for the contemporary peculiar woman,” to read this article in its entirety and more, here.

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Photo: *Edited version via @stopbeingfamous

The beginning: tanekeyaword: Work in Progress: Next up a slight...

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:28:00 -0500

The beginning:

tanekeyaword:

Work in Progress: Next up a slight re-mix to my favorite peculiar Black Vamp—Katrina. #GraceJones #art #ipeculiar #peculiar #peculiarwoman #tanekeyaword #hybridchic #wip

ipeculiar: Grace Jones as Katrina. Entertainer. Sexy...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:35:00 -0500

ipeculiar:

Grace Jones as Katrina. Entertainer. Sexy Vamp.

©2013 Tanekeya Word

Peculiar Women getting DOWN!

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:35:28 -0500

Peculiar Women getting DOWN!

I love how Santigold and Wangechi Mutubreaks down the continuum...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:46:00 -0500

I love how Santigold and Wangechi Mutubreaks down the continuum of our cultural shift. I am an adamant believer in the notion that there will be this “explosive renewal after the consumption of everything.” As a theorist and analyst of the shifts within the continuum of African American/Black American culture, mainly within the realm of the creative sector, I am eager to see what fills some of the empty holes in the arts and society in general.

The artistic cultural production is certainly seeing a shift as more artists are taking from the past or utilizing rudimentary materials and found objects. Yes, assemblage has been around, but the mind-frame surrounding the usage of found objects is very different. It speaks to a sense of doing more with ones hands as well as mastering various forms of tradition while re-imagining its use in contemporaneity when consumption is at an all time high. It is not born out of having little, but out of having an array of materials/information and yet critically deciding what information is important enough to stay within the cultural landscape being created. A coded language occurs between the assemblages of consumption and curation.

I myself fall into this shift with the work I am currently producing, more on my new work sooner than later. An artist who questions and seeks to answer his/her questions can come off a bit peculiar during the process. So, I’ll just be still for a bit…haha.

blackartiststudio:

∆ Wangechi Mutu | Collagist, Afrofuturist, Warrior Woman

∆ Photographer | Chris Sanders [pic 1]

neonvmag: what happens when creative director and hybrid...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:46:36 -0500

neonvmag:

what happens when creative director and hybrid chic @tanekeyaword, collaborates with the amazing u.k. papercut artist, @loutaylor? you will have to pre-order volume II of neonV to fully indulge in this fantasy. trust us, you want to curl up with this magazine: in a park, on a beach, or in wonderland with a glass of iced tea.

pre-order your limited edition copy now

-I: tanekeya word

managing editor

creative + art director

& literature + culture editor

live in neon.

Those who know me, now that I am a nail lacquer fanatic....

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0500

Those who know me, now that I am a nail lacquer fanatic. It’s basically paint and as an artist I must collect colors. Magnus Voll Mathiassen’s [MVM] new project is an ode to fingernails. Check it out here

posthuxtabletheory: The first day the Quarterly Co. x Pharrell...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:53:13 -0500

posthuxtabletheory:

The first day the Quarterly Co. x Pharrell Williams announcement was made—I subscribed. Having been a fan of Quarterly for a very long time, their model is flat out genius and my purpose is to bridge tradition and innovation in everything that I do, so naturally I gravitate to others who authentically do the same.

If you haven’t checked out this no brainer collaboration do yourself a favor and get on board. While you are there, check out the other tastemakers, cultural initiators and cultural producers as it’s so hard not to subscribe to all of them—especially if you’re curious and have an intense hunger for knowledge. I have my eye on two more subscriptions: art, books and design rules everything around me.

Cell Reproduction: Source Cell Picture Show.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:55:01 -0500

Cell Reproduction: Source Cell Picture Show.

Gangsta Glam. Dzine

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:55:00 -0500

Gangsta Glam.

Dzine

I’m always amazed by nature and this...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:53:55 -0500

I’m always amazed by nature and this universe.

nprfreshair:

Just hit “Play.” It’s so worth it.

NASA:

In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.

Maxwell. Red Suit. YES.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:43:00 -0500

Maxwell. Red Suit. YES.

More Malika Favre… neonvmag: after creating the...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:40:08 -0500

More Malika Favre…

neonvmag:

after creating the classics deluxe edition cover design, for penguin’s kama sutra book, london-based french designer, minimalist and peculiar woman—malika favre—explored the abc’s of kama sutra via an illustrated typographic series. talk about bridging tradition and innovation—they didn’t teach this in art or sex education class.

oh, there are gifs too, courtesy of guy moorhouse, the present perfect team and various animators, for those who cannot quite use their imagination.

p.s. i just had to throw in the V for my neonV chics. i just adore creative and well designed things—even when they are nsfw.

-I: tanekeya word

managing editor

creative + art director

& literature + culture editor

live in neon.

Currently crushing on Malika Favre.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:08:00 -0500

Currently crushing on Malika Favre.

neonvmag: i love when art can be seen everyday—especially in...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:05:54 -0500

neonvmag:

i love when art can be seen everyday—especially in urban settings—mta is so innovative when it comes to collaborating with the creative sector. two unlikely industries, transportation and the creative sector, connecting to enrich our culture. i hope more brands begin to take note, and partner outside of their industries.

p.s. how sexy is this poem!

-I: tanekeya word

managing editor

creative + art director

& literature + culture editor

live in neon.

source:

mta x kevin young

I live for Fast Company how chics live for Vogue.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:28:58 -0500

I live for Fast Company how chics live for Vogue.