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This winter brings a stellar selection of contemporary African art exhibitions to New York City, so we've compiled one of our seasonal roundups to share the good news! From modernist painting to contemporary photography, there's something for everybody. Time to mark your calendars…
1. Black Artstory Month: The Altar: Rituals of Healing in the African Diaspora
The 5th Annual Black Artstory Month is themed around "The Altar: Rituals of Healing in the African Diaspora"
February 1—28, 2017
472 Myrtle Avenue, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn
Times vary
2. Mor Faye: The Untitled Series, Works On Paper, 1969-84
January 26—March 11, 2017
529 West 20th Street, 5th Floor
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am—6pm
3. Yossi Milo – Pieter Hugo: 1994
January 26—March 11, 2017
245 Tenth Avenue
Tuesday through Saturday, 10am—6pm
February 9—March 25, 2017
526 West 26th Street, #816
Wednesday through Saturday, 10am—6pm
February 16—March 18, 2017
529 West 20th Street, 7th Floor
Tuesday through Saturday 11am—6pm
The jewel-like, energetic paintings of Ghanaian painter Atta Kwami are the subject of this solo exhibition, his fourth at Howard Scott Gallery. Drawing influences from Ghanaian architecture and African strip-woven textiles, Kwami's work plays with color and form through improvisatory and conversational explorations of tradition and innovation.
For the new paintings in "Thani", Kwami was inspired by his stay last year at a studio run by the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam. Thami Mnyele (1948-1985) was a South African artist and activist who died in exile in Botswana. Kwami says:
"The atmosphere of the studio, its generous proportions, its location, and the organizational support of the team were enough to launch me in a new direction. These paintings, the Thami Mnyele paintings, embody the rhythms and spatial dialogues that excite me when I experience the drama of city architecture. More recently in Ghana, I have been looking anew at vernacular roof-tops, at their complexity and simplicity which say so much about the aesthetics of the region; its geometry and its abstractions."
6. Yinka Shonibare: Prejudice at Home: A Parlour, a Library, and a Room
February 17—March 18, 2017
533 West 26th Street
Tuesday through Saturday, 10am—6pm
Three major installations by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE are currently on view at James Cohan under the collective title "Prejudice at Home," and together they bring to the fore issues such as intolerance and inequality that Shonibare has addressed throughout his career. In "The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour," Shonibare subverts expectations to deconstruct the concept of philanthropy in the era of colonialism; in "The British Library," against a backdrop of growing hostility to "outsiders," he draws attention to the positive contributions of migrants to British society; and in the filmic suite "The Picture of Dorian Gray," he references Oscar Wilde's protagonist to examine questions of privilege, vanity, and narcissism.
7. Admire Kamudzengerere: I am gonna…you. Till you run.
February 24—March 26, 2017
250 Broome Street
Wednesday through Sunday, 11am—6pm
Family ties, memory, and identity are some of the threads woven through the work of Zimbabwean artist Admire Kamudzengerere in the cryptically titled show "I am gonna…you. Till you run," his first solo exhibition in New York City. Following the death of his father, Kamudzengerere began to make self-portraits by looking in a mirror as he traced an image of his face on paper placed upon an ink stone. Collectively, and over time, these portraits become less immediately recognizable, allowing for the possibility of new and unknown faces to enter and confront the artist's field of vision. Using different types and sizes of paper—from Post-Its to phone books—Kamudzengerere has created "the pieces of a universal puzzle invoking a unifying human thread."
8. Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League) (CATPC)
January 29—March 27, 2017
44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
Thursday through Monday, 11am—6pm
9. The Armory Show
March 2—5, 2017
Piers 92 & 95
711 12th Avenue at West 54th Street
Thursday, March 2 and Friday, March 3: 12pm—8pm | Saturday, March 4: 12pm—7pm | Sunday, March 5: 12pm—6pm
General Admission: $47. Student, senior, group, and after-work discounts available
One Day Admission to The Armory Show and VOLTA (see #10): $60
After last year's Armory Show, which had a special Focus section on African and diasporic art, this year's offering was always going to feel somewhat limited. There are only two Africa-based galleries participating, both of which are based in Cape Town: SMAC will offer work by a number of artists in the core "Galleries" section, and BLANK will present work by Turiya Magadlela (pictured above) as part of "Insights." Elsewhere in "Insights" there's a chance to see work by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (presented by Madrid-based gallery Sabrina Amrani), German-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist Zohra Opoku (presented by Seattle-based gallery Mariane Ibrahim), and Zimbabwean artist Gareth Nyandoro (presented by London-based gallery Tiwani.) This year's "Focus" section includes work by Ghanaian installation artist Ibrahim Mahama, and there's also another opportunity to check out the cacao sculptures of the Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantations Congolaises (CATPC) (also showing at Sculpture Center, #8 on this list!)
March 1—5, 2017
Pier 90
12th Avenue at West 50th Street
Wednesday, March 1 (Preview): 5pm—10pm | Thursday through Saturday, March 2—4: 12pm—8pm | Sunday, March 5: 12pm—5pm
One Day Admission: $25 (Student: $20)
One Day Admission to VOLTA and The Armory Show (see # 9): $60
If you're visiting the Armory Show (#9 on this list) it's definitely worth detouring to VOLTA NY, an invitational fair of solo artist projects just a little way downriver at Pier 90. Smaller than the Armory, VOLTA is a great place to concentrate on the work of individual artists without so many distractions. Exhibiting artists include Beatrice Wanjiku (with ARTLabAfrica, based in Nairobi), Ryan Hewett (shown by Cape Town's Barnard Gallery), Armand Boua (presented by Ethan Cohen, New York), Ouattara Watts (with Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin), and Mohau Modisakeng (shown by Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.)
11. Ernest Mancoba
February 23—April 8, 2017
35 Great Jones Street
Tuesday through Saturday, 10am—6pm
This exhibition presents paintings and drawings by Ernest Mancoba, an important black South African modernist artist, in his first major solo show in New York City. Mancoba was born and raised in Johannesburg in 1904, at a time when racial discrimination and segregation were becoming increasingly entrenched and systematized in the country. Apartheid did not officially begin until 1948, but the pursuit of artistic freedom led him to move to Europe ten years earlier, in 1938.
Following studies in Paris and a period in a Nazi internment camp, Mancoba moved to Denmark where he became a founding member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement. His contribution to COBRA was largely ignored at the time, arguably because as an African artist he was seen through a racist lens as inherently "primitive." It is only recently that his historical significance has been recognized, and his artistic achievements understood. This exhibition presents a valuable opportunity to learn about Mancoba's work, and set it in its rightful place in the history of global Modernism.
12. Sammy Baloji and Filip De Boeck: Urban Now: City Life in Congo
November 1, 2016—July 14, 2017
Open Society Foundations, New York
224 West 57th Street
Call for opening hours: (212) 548–0600


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Along with ringing in the start of a New Year, where we shift away from the indulgences of the holidays and once again embrace healthier eating, January also brings a whole host of bright, juicy citrus fruit which are overflowing at farmers' markets stands and produce bins. Many of you already know how much I adore lemons, Meyer Lemons to be exact, but what you may not know is that oranges come in a very close second. Since they're available year-round, it's sometimes forgotten that these bitter-sweet orbs are at their pinnacle of flavor for the next month or so. There are a few special varieties definitely worth searching for that are drip-down-your-hands delicious and only available right now. Once you start to explore these other varieties, you'll be hooked. Continue reading
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Citrus Salt
Here in Northern California all the citrus fruits are just starting to come into season. So when I found a couple of Meyer Lemons that had fallen off a small tree in my backyard, I couldn't let them go to waste. This is an incredibly easy salt to make. All you need is a really good quality sea salt (not table salt) and some citrus of your choice. For the salt, I like to use a course grind rather than a fine. That way there's a better proportion of citrus to salt ratio, and the blend won't taste too "salty". For the citrus, I used a combo of Meyer Lemon, Eureka Lemon (your generic grocery store variety) and Lime. But you could add Orange, Mandarin or Grapefruit—whatever your taste buds fancy! This Citrus Salt is a wonderful finish for seafood or roast chicken, or add to an Asian stir fry to brighten the flavors. My favorite way to use this salt is simply on a bowl of Edamame. Delish!
Citrus Salt
(for one small spice jar portion)
Zest one lime and lemon (you should get approx. 3-4 tablespoons of zest from each, depending on their size). Allow zest to dry on a sheet of wax paper for about 1-2 hours. This will ensure that it won't clump all together when added to the salt. Add coarse sea salt to half of spice jar (about 1/4 cup) and top with zest. Shake well and sprinkle away!
Oh, and this nifty citrus gadget you see below from Crisp is one of my new favorite tools. I received it as a giftie at IFBC 2014 (International Food Bloggers Conference) and absolutely love it! It's super compact and the grater portion is on a hinge to neatly tuck away into the handle when not in use. On the bottom half, there's a scoring blade and channel knife if you want to score the fruit or make longer curls.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Using SEO On Your Own Site
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Our planet has a lot to teach the intrepid traveler and we hope to complete this journey with a better sense of ourselves and our place in the world. We are a husband and wife team that has resolved to broaden our boundries and open our hearts to new possibilities.
Traveling is native to our most primal instincts, harking back to the nomadic movements of our ancestors. In its modern incarnation, the idea of traveling as an education is not a unique concept either. Sociology loosely ties educational travel with a movement that started in the 1960s called 'GAP year.' (I'll explore the concept of GAP year in subsequent posts).
Our idea began with a lingering urge to depart from daily routine and step into a world of travel, adventure, and continuing education.
The objective is to harvest the wisdom and experience the richness that comes from exploring the world around us. While traditional education primarily helps you get a job... and we already have (had) regular careers... our need is derived from intellectual curiousity, genuine passion and a grit for far away places.
I've held on to a lasting conviction that there's no greater or more humbling experience than visiting foreign lands and remote villages, learning about the local culture and leaving something of yourself behind with the people you meet along the way. The smells and sights of new destinations always unfolds into an odessy of hightened senses. Each point on the map is a mini-adventure waiting to be explored. Exploration makes life more vibrant and meaningful. Each new experience presents us with an endless array of ideas and topics to describe and analyze. As long as the eyes can see, the legs can walk and the mind can think, there's always something to discover and share for the curious soul...
I'm lucky that I've already had a chance to see the world a bit, and that I found such a willing partner in Nadia, who shares the same curiousity and passion to explore as I do. And so this idea was born. And now we are attempting to shape our lives around making it a reality. Lets see if we can make it happen?!
Here's a link to the places I've visited: click here
There's a great deal more to this planet left to explore. I can't wait to retrace and share some of these same places with Nadia. I have very fond memories of each unique destination.
This is our travel log.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Travel as nourishment for the soul
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The Dark Knight
The best movie of 2008 is also one of the best DVDs of 2008, with a two-disc set that includes Gotham Tonight clips and a half-dozen scenes from the IMAX version of the film. But the real reason to add this to your collection is for the stellar storytelling and for Heath Ledger's Joker - hands down, the best performance of last year.
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Death Cab's debut album celebrates its 10th anniversary with a deluxe edition that tags on an extra disc featuring the band's first-ever Seattle gig (which includes a cover of a Smiths song). Frontman Ben Gibbard set a temperamental template on Airplanes that would be refined and perfected on last year's Narrow Stairs. But it all starts here.
Far Cry 2
One of 2008's best, and most involving, games (for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) is part mercenary shoot-'em-up, part wildlife travelogue. It takes place in Africa, so expect plenty of animals … and plenty of time to explore your surroundings. But hold on tight when the game turns into a terrific first-person shooter with grenades, machetes and flamethrowers.
Nerf 'N-Strike'
It's two games in one! You can use the gun as a traditional Nerf dart blaster. Or you can attach your Wii remote to it and play the videogame, a quick-moving shooter that isn't as easy as it looks. Both versions are tons more fun when there's a friend around to help take down virtual targets or to dodge the very real darts you're firing.
Pavement - Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.
The fourth album by the band that defined hipster-rock is the group's most laid-back record, a rumination of sorts on Pavement's own self-propelling myth. Like other volumes in the band's terrific reissue series, this two-disc set adds more than 30 bonus tracks to the original 1997 album, including b-sides, live cuts and outtakes.


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Finally followed up on a long-ago recommendation (thanks, Karlyn) to read Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? by Susan M. Weinschenk. After reading it, the suggestions seem self-evident. But sometimes we can't see what's in front of our faces … which is a bit of her point.
The book is heavy on psychology and how our brain works, in large part about our unconscious minds. But don't get the feeling that this is a dense academic tome: It's a quick read of 132 pages that translates psychological experiments into everyday relevance. A major point: Despite everything we think and study and plan, our unconscious mind drives a lot of what we do online.
Among the observations this book makes crystal clear:
– The importance of storytelling. The best communication, in any medium, tells a story. Not only should we make the case via success stories, we want to create pictures in users' minds where they can see their own story (or future story) as part of the narrative. Are we just talking about what our theatre department is or are we telling stories about the opportunities available to theatre majors? To read about students who get to direct a mainstage production, write and stage original one-act plays or what alumni are doing is compelling stuff! And if we invite users to tell us their stories, that brings us to …
– The power of online engagement. There is, psychologically, a huge gulf between making your first Amazon purchase and writing your first Amazon review. The former makes you a customer; the latter makes you a member of the community. Friending someone on Facebook is one level, but commenting on each others' photos or status updates is a deeper level of connection. This is why the idea of creating microtransactions — meaningful ways to interact online, such as "Tell us your Oswego story" — is so intriguing to me in our web redevelopment.
– It's all about the user. We don't like to think of ourselves as self-centered, but user-centered design necessarily realizes that self-interest drives our web visitors' actions. Thinking about what users most want to do and what they don't want to do should drive how we build web pages and content — moreso than what we (as content providers and designers) see from the inside. "What's in it for me?" is, whether they want to admit or not, the thought on users' minds when they visit your site. This is why thinking of user experience is paramount and "org-chart navigation" — how we see ourselves — just obfuscates the process.
There's more to the book. Much more. And I highly recommend it. The only thing I would may liked more of would have been additional concrete examples of psychological concepts translated into web design. But then by not giving examples, maybe she lets our mind search for examples … or create them ourselves? The brain is a powerful machine, and Neuro Web Design not only explains it, but puts it to work.


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Select tags to quickly find your saved sites
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|Lewek and Libe Taube
This is from a Book of Residents covering the villages between Gombin and Plock, in central Poland. It is an entry on the page for the family of my great-great-grandfather, Wolek Frankensztajn, and it identifies his parents. The entry is written in Russian, and probably dates from the 1870s or thereabouts.
Wolek's parents are my great-great-great-grandparents. I had no idea what their names were going to be - I hadn't even known of Wolek until I saw this book in the archives in Plock last June. There isn't an online index for the book, so there's no way of knowing what's in it without going there and asking to see the original.
I can read a bit of Russian, not fluently, but enough to decipher the names in the first line: Lewek and Libe Taube. The word on the second line should be her maiden name - but what is it? I couldn't make it out. I put it aside, intending to post it online to see if anyone could decipher it for me.
Then a couple of days ago I was putting together a little booklet to give to my 'new' cousin Joan. We are third cousins, and this is the document that proves it: Wolek, born in 1839, is our most recent common ancestor, and I wanted to translate the whole of this page into English for her. I could work out all the rest - but I didn't want to leave out our great-great-great-grandmother's maiden name.
I had another look, I blew it up big. Suddenly it dawned on me that the word might start with the Russian character: щ , which gives a sort of double sound 'shch'. I followed through, trying out all the possibilities I could think of for all the other strokes, and laboriously pieced together a candidate: щавинска . Written in Polish, which uses Latin characters, this would be: Szczawinska .
I'd never heard of the name, so I was a bit dubious. Maybe I'd got it wrong. I went to the JRI-Poland web-site, and put in a query. There they were: a handful of Szczawinskis (masculine) and Szczawinskas (feminine) in the area, including two or three in Lewek's home town of Gombin. The database didn't include my Libe Taube, but that was because the time period it covered was wrong for her.
But at least I now know her family name, thanks to Cousin Joan :-), and I also know that there were others with the same name in the same area, so it may be possible to find traces of her family.
And now, three days later, however hard I stare at the word, I can't see it as anything but: щавинска . How come I couldn't see it before?


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Two brothers and a woman in their 30s are suspected of operating Finland's largest online narcotics store, Douppikauppa. According to the customs, the suspects have sold drugs worth of 2 million euros.
The trio ran an online drug sales organization through a website called Silkkite that operated in the Tor network, a service, which aims to anonymize the user and the communication. "The police are totally powerless against drug sales on the internet, so one can be with a relatively safe peace of mind," said one of the founders of the store in an interview in a book Riisuttu Suomi, published last year.
The man in the interview presented himself as a 30-year-old person with a university background. He was working in a well-paid family business, making "fabulous income" by selling drugs on the side. Most of his family and relatives knew nothing about him being one of the biggest drug dealers in Finland.
The clients paid for the dope by the digital currency Bitcoins. The dope was delivered by domestic mail. The trio also delivered drugs to caches in the terrain, for example in nest boxes.
Douppikauppa became largely known in 2014, after sending free LSD blotters to potential buyers. Their brutal and bold marketing caught the attention of the Finnish customs and police, and it's likely that the authorities started their investigations already then. Even if the transactions are anonymous on the net, the drugs move physically on the ground, and the Finnish authorities are skilled in dealing with that, as the details of the investigation reveal.
The investigation carried out by customs indicates that the persons suspected of online narcotics sales imported, in 2014‒2016, from the Netherlands and Germany to Finland, various narcotics as well as psychoactive substances classified as designer drugs and banned from the consumer market. A total of more than 40 kilograms of narcotics in powder form, such as amphetamine, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, MDMA powder, alpha-PVP, MDPV etc., more than 40,000 ecstasy tablets and around 30,000 LSD blotters were smuggled to Finland. Considerable amounts of around 20 different psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market have also been smuggled into the country. Most of the narcotics seized by customs were hallucinogenic drugs that stimulate the central nervous system.
Customs also seized strong (100 percent) methamphetamine, which is unusual in Finland. The doses of the seized narcotics vary from a microgram to several grams."It's so fucking great to succeed in this way and to be able to fulfill your dream! It's more addicting that any drug," the man said in the book.
The customs got their hands on hard evidence in April 2016, after they seized a gigantic load of narcotics that they found in the suspects' car in Kustavi, a southwestern city with about 900 inhabitants. The dope was hidden in a speaker.
The customs found out that the drugs were smuggled to Finland from the Netherlands. A total of around 15 kilograms of narcotics with the street value of 1.1 million euros, such as heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA powder, ecstasy tablets and LSD blotters, were seized from the car used to snake in the drugs. According to the customs, these smuggled narcotics would have yielded at least 1 million doses.
The police detained the suspects in April on the grounds of suspected aggravated narcotics offenses and smuggling. The trio comes from southern Finland and Helsinki region. When investigating the case, the customs has cooperated with international authorities.
During the preliminary investigation, customs has seized cash (euros), Bitcoins and movable property to the value of around 1 million euros.
The way the trio operated is nasty. In the anonymous Tor network, the seller and the buyer of drugs don't meet in person as they are sold and bought using aliases, and PGP encryption (a sophisticated encryption algorithm) is used in the communication. While operating this way, a clever 12-year-old could buy LSD blotters and coke while the seller "is fulfilling the dream." There's no way for the dealer to verify the buyer's age or health. "I don't believe that I will get caught," the man said in the interview. "I have, however, prepared myself for a visit from the police and for even doing time in prison, if it would come to that."
The case will be forwarded for consideration of charges towards the end of September 2016, and the Finland Proper District Court will process it during the autumn. Any kinds of preparations that the suspects made will come in good use, as spending time in the slammer for a long time seems very likely.
Sources: The Finnish Customs, MTV, Riisuttu Suomi (Arman Alizad, Meeri Koutaniemi)


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Do you want to be fully creative? To not only have wild ideas, but to actually create and bring remarkable things to life? Learn the 4 roles you need to perform, how they help unleash your creativity and how to master the skills each one requires.
Archive for the 'Creativity' Category
When you're stuck, it's tempting to go seek help from the experts. After all, someone much more knowledgeable should be the best source of ideas, right? Well, maybe not.
Do you ever have the impression that no one takes your ideas seriously? It turns out that all ideas that spread like wildfire share some common principles. Learn how to apply them.
The rules of the game are changing: in order to thrive in this new era of abundance of cheap processing capabilities, we must acquire a new set of skills. Although "left brain skills" continue to be useful, they're not enough anymore.
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci does a superb job of capturing the essence of Leonardo's genius and laying it out in a practical framewor. Here are the 7 key areas that shaped Leonardo's genius and which you can use for your own self-improvement.
Wherever you ask, when it comes to group problem-solving, brainstorming is always the default tool of choice. Brainstorming certainly gets all the fame and glory, but is it the most effective tool for groups to generate ideas? Not necessarily.
In The Medici Effect, author Frans Johansson explores one simple yet profound insight about innovation: in the intersection of different fields, disciplines and cultures, there's an abundance of extraordinary new ideas to be explored. Click and check the full book summary.
SCAMPER is a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. Click for a complete SCAMPER primer, along with two free creativity-boosting resources.


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There is a lot going on here at Searcy String Works this summer. Change is in the air and as usual some of that change sucks and some of it is great.
First I would like to use this post to let everyone know that Searcy String Works is closed for business until August. The reason for this is that my wife Alicia is undergoing some much needed neurosurgery next month. Here she is hanging out with Peter Frampton last year.
There will be a long recovery time attached to this procedure and rather than get way behind on my work it's better that I just suspend orders for two months. This will allow me to focus on clearing out the back orders in the shop and helping Alicia heal.
If you already have an order in for Searcy Pickups or a repair don't worry. Your order will be addressed but there will be a delay of several weeks. I'm sorry for the disruptions this may cause anyone but this event was quite unexpected and simply can not be put off any longer. When we return in August you will see some changes to Searcy String Works. Upgrades are already being made in the shop. New designs are being tested and we plan to kick the whole thing off with a new site.
I will be posting news regarding all of these changes right here as I am able.


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Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7DAt long last, Minolta SLR owners have a *very* worthy body to use with their lens collections!
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Maxxum 7D Sample ImagesReview First Posted: 11/27/2004, Updated: 02/01/2005
Digital Cameras - Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Test Images
|I've begun including links in our reviews to a Thumbnail index page for the test shots. The data on this page includes a host of information on the images, including shutter speed, ISO setting, compression setting, etc. Rather than clutter the page below with all that detail, we're posting the thumbnail index so only those interested in the information need wade through it!
"Sunlit" Portrait:
High resolution and strong detail, but slightly high contrast. Accurate but slightly dark-looking color. Good midtone and shadow detail, with low noise.
The extreme tonal range of this image makes it a tough shot for many digital cameras, which is precisely why I set it up this way, and why I shoot it with no fill flash or reflector to open the shadows. The object is to hold both highlight and shadow detail without producing a "flat" picture with muddy colors, and the Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D handled the challenge fairly well.
The shot at right was taken with a +1.0 EV exposure compensation adjustment (a fairly typical amount of adjustment), as the default exposure was quite dark. The highlights are quite bright on the white shirt, and lose some detail, but midtones look pretty good and the shadows show a lot of detail as well. I chose the Maxxum 7D's 4,900 Kelvin white balance setting , as it produced the most neutral overall color and white value. (No surprise really, the lights in this shot are right at 4900K.) The Auto, Daylight, and Manual settings each produced warmer color balances.
Marti's skin tones look pretty good, but the blue flowers in the bouquet are a little darker than in real life, but the hue is pretty accurate. (Many digital cameras have trouble with the blue flowers, which are really a light navy blue with hints of purple.) The yellow flower is a bit more green in it than the actual subject does, but the strong greens and reds look about right, if slightly muted. Resolution is very high, and detail is strong throughout the frame, with good definition in the fabric details of the flowers as well as in the creases on the backdrop. Shadow detail is very good, and image noise is low. All in all, a very nice job.
To view the entire exposure series from zero to +1.3 EV, see files D7OUT49KP0.HTM
through D7OUT49KP4.HTM on the thumbnail index page.
Contrast Series:
Saturation Series:
Closer Portrait:
Outstanding resolution and detail.
Overall exposure looks pretty good here, though contrast is just slightly high. Still, midtone detail is strong and shadow detail is quite good as well. The shot at right was taken with a +0.7 EV exposure compensation adjustment, a bit more than the average required for this shot. Resolution and detail are even stronger in this close-up shot, with excellent definition in Marti's face and hair, as well as in the fabric leaves and the gold necklace.
To view the entire exposure series from zero to +1.3 EV, see files D7OUTFACP0.HTM
through D7OUTFACP4.HTM on the thumbnail index page.
Indoor Portrait, Flash:
Great performance with both flash modes, though the warmer color of the Slow-Sync flash mode and more even coverage is slightly more appealing.
The Maxxum 7D's built-in flash illuminated the subject very well with a +0.3 EV exposure compensation adjustment, though the default exposure was also bright. Color looks very good, just slightly warm from the room lighting, with good skin tones on Marti's face. The flower bouquet also looks pretty good, though the blue flowers are dark and a bit purplish. The camera's Slow-Sync flash setting produced similar results, though with more even coverage from the longer shutter speed. A slight orange cast is present on Marti's hair and in a few other places from the background incandescent lighting, but the warmer color actually appears more natural than that of the standard flash shot. I found the best results in this mode with a +0.3 EV exposure compensation adjustment. Very good results overall.
To view the entire exposure series from zero to +1.3 EV in the normal flash mode, see files D7INFP0.HTM through D7INFP4.HTM on the thumbnail index page.
To view the same exposure series in the Slow-Sync flash mode, see files
D7INFSP0.HTM through D7INFSP4.HTM on the thumbnail
index page.
Indoor Portrait, No Flash:
Excellent color with the 2,700 Kelvin and Incandescent white balance settings, and a good exposure as well.
This shot is always a very tough test of a camera's white balance capability, given the strong, yellowish color cast of the household incandescent bulbs used for the lighting. I found the best results with the Maxxum 7D's 2,700 Kelvin and Incandescent white balance settings, and eventually settled on the 2,700 Kelvin option as the most pleasing to my eye. The 2,500 Kelvin and Manual settings produced nearly accurate results, but with slightly cool color casts, while the camera's Auto white balance resulted in a yellow image. (Very nice that the 7D's Kelvin scale reaches this low - Most d-SLRs stop at considerably higher levels, and are therefore unable to handle household incandescent lighting.) Marti's skin tone looks natural, and the flower bouquet looks good as well, but the blue flowers are dark and purplish (a common problem under this difficult light source). The main shot was taken with a +1.0 EV exposure compensation adjustment, which is about average.
To view the entire exposure series from zero to +1.3 EV, see files D7INK27P0.HTM
through D7INK27P4.HTM on the thumbnail index page.
ISO Series:
House Shot:
Good color with excellent resolution and detail.
The Maxxum 7D's Manual white balance setting
proved the most accurate here, based on the white value of the house trim
and the overall color balance. The Daylight
and Auto settings resulted in slightly warmer
casts (with the Daylight setting producing the strongest of the two).
Resolution is very high, and a lot of fine detail is present in the tree
limbs above the roof, as well as in the front shrubbery and house front.
Details are well-defined throughout the frame, with particularly good
definition in the shadows and highlights of the brick pattern.
Far-Field Test
Excellent detail and resolution, though color balance is slightly warm with the Auto setting. Midtones look a little dark as well, and contrast a bit high.
This image is shot at infinity to test far-field lens performance. NOTE that this image cannot be directly compared to the other "house" shot, which is a poster, shot in the studio. The rendering of detail in the poster will be very different than in this shot, and color values (and even the presence or absence of leaves on the trees!) will vary in this subject as the seasons progress. In general though, you can evaluate detail in the bricks, shingles and window detail, and in the tree branches against the sky. Compression artifacts are most likely to show in the trim along the edge of the roof, in the bricks, or in the relatively "flat" areas in the windows.
This is my ultimate "resolution shot," given the infinite range of detail in a natural scene like this, and the Maxxum 7D captures good detail for its 6-megapixel resolution. The leaf patterns in the front shrubbery and in the tree limbs above the roof show a lot of fine detail, with great definition even in the tree bark. The bright sunlight causes the camera to lose detail in the bright white paint surrounding the bay window, though some is still visible. Detail is also good in the shadow area above the front door. The overall exposure is a little dark, and color balance is warm from the Auto white balance setting. Still, good results overall. The table below shows a standard resolution and quality series, followed by ISO, sharpness, saturation, contrast, and hue series.
Resolution Series:
ISO Series:
Sharpness Series:
Saturation Series:
Contrast Series:
Hue Series:
Lens Zoom Range
Because the Maxxum 7D hosts a range of Konica Minolta lenses, performance here will vary with the lens.
Musicians Poster
Good color with all three white balances, though the best results at Auto. Excellent detail and resolution.
This shot is often a tough test for digital cameras, as the abundance
of blue in the composition frequently tricks white balance systems into
producing a warm color balance. The Maxxum 7D's Auto
setting actually handled this challenge very well, and I chose it for
the main shot. The Daylight setting also produced
good results, though a bit warm for my taste, and the Manual
setting resulted in a slight magenta cast (but still nearly accurate results).
The blue background and robe do have purplish tints that aren't in the
original image, but overall color still looks good. Resolution is excellent,
with a lot of visible fine detail in the embroidery on the blue robe and
vest, as well as in the instruments and accessories. (The original data
file for this poster was only 20MB though, so cameras like the Maxxum
7D are capable of showing more detail than the poster has in it.)
Macro Shot
This is another area where the lens in use will determine
results, since the Maxxum 7D accommodates a wide range of Konica Minolta
"Davebox" Test Target
Good overall exposure and color.
The Maxxum 7D's Manual white balance setting produced the best results here, as both the Auto and Daylight settings resulted in warm casts. Exposure is just a little bright, but the Maxxum 7D distinguishes the subtle tonal variations of the Q60 target well. The large color blocks are all pretty accurate, with most of them dead-on the correct hue and saturation. Blues are very slightly oversaturated, with the cyan block shifted slightly toward blue. As is usually the case among the cameras I test, reds are somewhat oversaturated, the bright red block particularly so. Overall color accuracy is a good bit better than average though, although that means that the 7D's colors across much of the spectrum will look a bit undersaturated compared to the output from some competing models which tend to oversaturate slightly.
Detail is strong in the shadow area of the charcoal briquettes, with moderately low noise, and highlights show good detail as well. Quite a good job overall.
The images series below duplicate examples of various camera controls
we've already covered above. I include them here though, for our more
analytically-minded readers, who'd like to see the effect of various camera
controls with a well-known target like the MacBeth Color Checker (tm).
ISO Series:
Contrast Series:
Saturation Series:
Low-Light Tests
Excellent low-light performance. Good color and exposure, with low image noise, even at the darkest light levels of this test. Good lowlight autofocus. (1/8 foot-candle without AF-assist, total darkness with AF illuminator.)
The Maxxum 7D produced clear, bright, usable images down to the 1/16 foot-candle (0.67 lux) limit of my test, with good color at the 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,600 ISO settings. Color was generally quite good, though the dimmer exposures often resulted in a light pink cast. Noise was quite low at all ISO levels, although it did increase to a noticeable extent at ISO 800 and 1600. As was the case at higher light levels though, the 7D trades away subject detail to achieve its low noise levels at high ISO. There was relatively little difference between the shots taken with and without Noise Reduction enabled, although the noise reduction did remove a few "hot pixels" that crept into the images at the longest exposure times. The 7D's autofocus worked well at low light levels, focusing to a bit below 1/8 foot-candle with the AF-assist light disabled, and on nearby objects in complete darkness with the AF illuminator turned on. The table below shows the best exposure I was able to obtain for each of a range of illumination levels. Images in this table (like all sample photos) are untouched, exactly as they came from the camera.
(Note: If you'd like to use a light meter to
check light levels for subjects you might be interested in shooting, a
light level of one foot-candle corresponds to a normal exposure of two
seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 100.)
Flash Range Test
A powerful flash, with plenty of light all the way to 14 feet.
In my testing, the Maxxum 7D's flash illuminated the test target all the way to 14 feet, without any significant decrease in intensity. (I'm not sure why the ISO came out to 125, I'm pretty sure we shot this with ISO 100.) Below is the flash range series, with distances from eight to 14 feet from the target.
ISO-12233 (WG-18) Resolution Test
Very high resolution, 1,400 lines of "strong detail."
The Maxxum 7D performed very well on the "laboratory" resolution test chart for its 6.1-megapixel class. I didn't see artifacts in the test patterns until resolutions as high as 1,200 lines per picture height in both directions. I found "strong detail" out to at least 1,450 lines on the horizontal axis, 1,400 vertically. "Extinction" of the target patterns didn't occur until about 1,650 lines.
Geometric distortion on the Maxxum 7D will depend on the lens in use.
With a 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0 zoom, I found approximately 0.8 percent barrel
distortion at wide angle. The telephoto end did quite a bit better, as
I measured approximately 0.07 percent pincushion distortion (about two
pixels' worth). Chromatic aberration was virtually nonexistent, as I couldn't
really find any strong pixels of coloration. (This distortion is visible
as a very slight colored fringe around the objects at the edges of the
field of view on the resolution target.)
Resolution Series, 50mm f/1.4 lens,
Sharpness Series:
Viewfinder Accuracy/Flash Uniformity
A very accurate digital SLR.
The Maxxum 7D's Digital SLR viewfinder is very accurate, showing about 98 percent of the final image area at wide angle, and about 99+ percent at telephoto, much better than most SLRs in its price range. Flash distribution is rather uneven wide angle (a 17mm focal length here, a stretch for any camera's built-in flash, even allowing for the sensor's multiplier factor), with strong falloff at the corners and edges of the frame. At telephoto, however, coverage was much more uniform.
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Sharon Stone was awarded an undisclosed amount in libel damages (which she plans to donate to charity) from Britain's Daily Mail April 27. The paper had claimed in two 2005 articles that the actress, 48, left her son Roan, 5, sleeping in a car while she dined with "a mystery male companion" at The Ivy in London last year. "We now accept that Miss Stone's son was not left in the car," said the paper's apology.
On May 1 in Palm Beach County, Fla., radio show host Rush Limbaugh agreed to undergo random drug tests and continue treatment for his addiction to painkillers in order to avoid a trial for prescription drug fraud. In 2003, an investigation was launched after Limbaugh's maid alleged he was abusing OxyContin (PEOPLE, Oct. 20, 2003). If Limbaugh meets the required conditions for 18 months, the charges will be dropped. "I think this resolution was the rational one for both sides," says his lawyer.
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Shaquille O'Neal, 34, and Kobe Bryant, 27, didn't get along on the Lakers, but the rivals (Bryant still plays for L.A.; O'Neal is on the Miami Heat) now share a special date: On May 1, O'Neal's wife, Shaunie, 31, gave birth to daughter Me'arah Sanaa in Miami just six minutes before Bryant's wife, Vanessa, 24, had daughter Gianna Maria-Onore in Orange County, Calif.


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Oath of Crows
Tough as the old trees, eldest of the Cellydon brothers. "The Oak of Tisbury"
Book of the Dead
Cadwallon fell with the first sunrays hitting his face in his 53rd year in the forest of Gloom. His acts of bravery in defending his family and his children unto his death is talked about for many generations. His body was laid at rest in a tomb with effigy, payed for by Aurelius Ambrosius for deeds in the Kings Service that is never spoken of. Many of his glorious deeds were ahead of their time, and are often retold by later relatives. Amongst his many great deeds, he took part in felling the giant Sigeberht Longsword. He died a Notable Warrior.
Cadwallon was known for his Passionate and Energetic personality, his generousness, his honesty, his pride, his spirituality and his valour. He was also known for his Love of his Family, his Hospitality and his Loyalty for his old Battle-brothers.
He was an excellent Spearman, Swordsman and Rider as well as a talented Tactician, Scout, Composer, Bandager, Hunter, Intriguer, Public Speaker, and a knowledgeable Pagan and Singer. A man of many talents.
Cadwallons fourth wife survived the attack and took care of the children from the former marriages. Cadwallon left behind his wife Cerys, and three children from earlier marriages, Duddug, Annest and Cadry.
His son Cadry inherits the manor of Tisbury with all the lands that came with it, an old Iron Crown, A valuable Wolven cloak (£2), £12 in silver and gems, £4 in raw goods, a lock of Gwydeons Hair (Temperate), an old cymric chainmail with helmet, a cymric sword, a dagger, 5 spears, 5 javelins and two painted shields. The Saxon Clothes he wore at time of death was burned.
Information from life
Born: 410
Death: 463
Son number: 1
Homeland: Salisbury,Logres
Culture: Cymric
Lineage: Cellydon
Liege Lord: Lord Robyn
Current Class: Famous Warrior , head of the Cellydon family
Current Home: Tisbury, Hillfort hundred
Distinctive features: Thick beard
Forms of address at time of death
Personal: Cadwallon
Colloquial name: Tisbury
Informal: Cadwallon of Tisbury
Formal: Cadwallon holder of Tisbury manor to Robyn, Comes a Rupes Sorviodunum.
Optional Suffix: of the Cellydon
Notable possessions at time of death
- The Iron Crown of Cellydon
- A wolf-cloak worth a small fortune.
Entourage at time of death
Hyfaidd, son of Hyloth, left 460
Amig, son of Maddog of Borders
Family at time of death
Wives and consorts at time of death:
Lleueu b. 422 w. 440 d. 440
Annest b. 427 w. 442 d. 442
Nia b. 428 w. 446 d. 461
Cerys b. 441 w. 462
Children at time of death:
Indeg b. 440 d. 458
Owain b. 447 d. 452
♀ Duddug b. 448
Colwen b. 449 d. 451
Tydfil b. 451 d. 451
♀ Annest b. 453
♂ Cadry b. 460
410: Born in the coldest winter of a generation
431: Became a fully fledged warrior at the age of 21
439: Fought in an echille in the Battle of Carlion under King Constantine with great bravery, together with is friends. Was given vassalage under The Lord of Sarum Rock for the great deeds in the battle.
441: Swears fealty to the new High King, Constans, son of Constantin
443: Is present when High King Constans is murdered by his Pictish guards, but is unable to protect the king. Swears fealty to the new High King, Vortigern.
444: Fought in several skirmishes, protecting against Pictish raids.
445: Digs in with parts of Vortigerns army in old fort Wardour. The fortis besieged in Spring. The fort falls in laste autumn after the old roman walls falls to roman sappers forced to work for the Picts. Manages to escape with parts of the troops.
446: Takes part in the Battle of Lincoln, where Vortigern has a great victory against the Picts with help from the Saxon kings Hengest and Horsa.
447: Witnesses the beautiful and wild Rowena seducing King Vortigern at the winter court.
450: Witnessed the wedding of King Vortigern and Princess Rowena. Stops a fight between several younger knights upsett that Rowena has received lands (Kent) as a the Cantiancii civitas (wedding price).
451: After having complained out loud about Rowenas pregnancy before her wedding, was sent to aid Aetius in the Battle of Chalons. Mangages to survive the legendary battle and returns to Britain with the other survivors, all of whom were knights dissatisfied with Vortigern's policies. Vortigern welcomes the knights with honeyed words and a bitter heart.
452-454: Takes part in the raids on Ireland.
456: Helps expel he Irish raiders from Cambria.
457: Reluctantly takes part in the Battle of Kent, where British rebels from Kent are crushed and forced from their old lands to make way for the Saxon theods.
460: Took part in The Adventure of The Rules of Hospitality
461: Took part in The Adventure of The Dragon Banner
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
A New Little Cowboy!
I am stitching up a project for a sweet baby boy that has just been born. We had a cowboy themed baby shower earlier this summer for his mom and it really inspired me to make a cowboy themed hand embroidery pattern set. I am so glad I did because now I am embroidering a project for his nursery. I started by putting together several of the motifs from the Cowboy pattern packet and transferred them onto this beautiful linen fabric:
I have done some of the stitching but now I am re-thinking the floss color I am using for the rope. I had used the variegated floss you see on the left and I liked it until I was done. Looking at it, I realized it wasn't going to be a good match with the other strong colors in this project...
such as the red I am using for the name. So I switched to this brown and I am so much happier with it. I am thinking I will use silver metallic thread for these horse shoes you can see above the name:
they will match the spur I have already done on his boot:
The baby's nursery is all done in barn red, brown, blues and cream. I hope these colors will be perfect!
9 comments:
- Juliana said...
Parabéns pelo blog
vem me visitar beijos
- October 25, 2013 at 3:12 AM
- Jeito Mineiro de Ser said...
Vai ficar bom sim! Já está ficando!
Um abraço!
It'll be good yes! It's getting!
- October 25, 2013 at 4:08 AM
- Angela Lee said...
Oh Kim, that is super cute!! I like the brown rope better too. Are you doing a pillow or wall hanging? Can't wait to see the finished product. I know your friend will be thrilled.
- October 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM
- Kim said...
Olá Juliana
Obrigado! Eu definitivamente visitar o seu blog!
Obrigado Eglea! Espero que este será bonito quando terminar!
Angela - Thanks! I am so glad you like the brown better too - I just need to take out all the other stitching lol! At this point, I am thinking wall hanging.
- October 25, 2013 at 3:56 PM
- simone arrais said...
Oh, my Goodness! It's turning into an amazing piece! Of course the colours are perfect! Congrats, sweetie! Very well done!
- October 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM
- Sue Vaughan said...
- October 26, 2013 at 4:28 AM
- Kim said...
Thank you Simone! I love these colors and it is fun to stitch on this linen.
Hi Sue - Thank you!
- October 28, 2013 at 9:07 AM
- Ajka said...
Beautiful work ....
- November 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM
- Kim said...
Thank you Ajka!!
- November 6, 2013 at 10:11 AM


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Toronto 2012: Steve Carell, Toni Collette's 'Way, Way Back' Shopped to Foreign Buyers
The ensemble film, whose script appeared on the 2010 Black List, also stars Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Maya Rudolph, Amanda Peet, Rob Corddry, Zoe Levin and Liam James.
TORONTO -- Foreign buyers are getting their first chance to snap up rights to the Steve Carell-Toni Collette comedy-drama The Way, Way Back.
Sierra/Affinity is selling the project at the Toronto Film Festival, along with other high-profile titles including Ryan Gosling's feature directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster, starring Christina Hendricks.
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OddLot Entertainment and Sycamore Pictures are co-financing Way Back, which shot this summer in Massachusetts. They are co-producing with The Walsh Company.
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Jim Rash and Nat Faxon wrote and directed the movie, about a lonely teenage boy who comes into his own over the course of a summer through an unlikely friendship with the manager of a local water park. The boy's mother (Collette) alienates her young son through her determined efforts to make her relationship work with her carousing boyfriend (Carell) whose disingenous attempts to build a family are immediately transport to the boy.
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It is 2013 and we are still having the same conversations and not making any nation building progress. The content of one half of these conversations seeks to separate and cultivate hatred and intolerance while the other half seeks to establish acceptance &/or tolerance, equality, dignity and unity. Queer Afrikans are still not accepted in most Afrikan societies and the justification for this hatred of the other used by homophobic Afrikans often finds its rooting in ignorant and irrational fears, adulterated and bastardized cultural beliefs and religious dogma, mainly in the Christian and Muslim faiths. Because I generally do not believe in organized, monotheistic Abrahamic religion – as they are generally infamous for encouraging hatred/oppression and the exclusion of the other e.g. black people, women and "heathens/kaffirs" – neither do I acknowledge the perceived infallibility of their respective texts of instruction, I will not bother with tackling the issue of religion as a contributing factor to the persistence of homophobia in Afrika. That and it would require an entire post of its own.
When heterosexual Afrika says that homosexuality and transgenderism are unAfrikan I often wonder where they are getting their information from and on what authority? Let us suppose for a second that it is in fact a western import, are the people positing this argument living purely indigenous Afrikan lifestyles? Are their public and personal politics authentically Afrikan I wonder? They are more willing to adopt what can be argued to be harmful imported cultures like consumerism, (in my opinion) capitalism and ecologically detrimental technologies than they are a harmless and allegedly unAfrikan "practice".
When we speak of the Afrikaness of sexuality and sexual orientation, I question the logic, or lack thereof, of those who argue that it is not Afrikan because I do not believe that these arguments come from a place of truth. Why? Well other than the fact that there is vast historical evidence available to prove otherwise I am also of this opinion because I am a young, albeit urban, Afrikan; half Zezuru and a quarter Karanga and quarter Matebele; who recently answered a calling from the ancestors to be a healer and spirit medium. I am also bisexual. I am not an exception. There are loads more sangomas * I have encountered over the years from various cultures across the Southern Afrikan region that are queer, from transgender/sexual to homosexual or bisexual. According to my understanding of ubungoma, you are chosen before you are even born to carry this gift and by the time you enter this world, you already have the gift, even if you may not know it. Because I, like many other queers such as myself, was born queer, I did not learn it, inherit it or "contract" it from other queers along the way (as though it's some sort of infectious disease), and in spite of this, the ancestors chose me. Not only did they choose me out of other heterosexual kin in my clan or lineage but other queer people's ancestors have chosen them too. If the guardians and custodians of our heritage can accept our natural way of being why do mortals who have long lost their way feel that they have any authority to call us unAfrikan or unnatural? Mind you, these same self proclaimed defenders of all that is Afrikan, the majority of them have long since renounced their ancestry as something evil or primitive and clung to other people's ancestors brought through the religions imposed on Afrikans over the centuries as a tool for oppressing and subduing the Afrikan. The ancestors of the very same people they accuse of bringing about the "scourge" that is homosexuality to our people.
Sexuality and sexual identity are naught but human constructs aimed at controlling the masses and not only that but it is also becoming more apparent that our understanding and definition of gender and gender roles today is different from those of our ancestors, particularly prior to colonialism. In the South of the Limpopo, a sangoma will be addressed as Gogo* be they male or female and in the North as Sekuru*, again, be they male or female. In South Africa, one is not permitted to let their ancestors walk around "naked" and this means when one communes or communicates with their ancestors, be they male or female, they have to wrap a cloth around their waist if they are not already wearing a long skirt or dress. Also, a sangoma embodies the spirits of their ancestors, both male and female and depending on the dominant ancestor at that time in that moment, they will adopt their personality and mannerisms regardless of their sex or gender or that of the ancestor. Basically, sexuality and sexual identity in the culture of communing with the ancestors is very ambiguous. Of course some sangomas in their human personalities have their own (learnt) prejudices such as homophobia but their ancestors do not bother themselves with these things (well at least the ones I have encountered anyway) so why do self proclaimed gatekeepers of all that is Afrikan?
We say that the reality of homosexuality never existed or was never accepted on the continent and yet we have cultures that even coined words such as "chirambavarume" in Shona or "umazakhela" in isiNdebele for women who never married a man but in most cases, co-habitated with other women "friends". Anthropologists Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe in their publication Boy Wives & Female Husbands reported that women in Lesotho engaged in socially sanctioned "long term, erotic relationships," named motsoalle.In Northern Congo, Azande warriors routinely took on boy-wives between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in intercrural sex with their older husbands. Among the Dagara in Burkina Faso, homosexual and transgender people were considered to be very spiritually gifted and responsible for maintaining the society's psychic balance and were believed to be the gatekeepers between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
In a conversation started by a "friend" on facebook a few days ago, the recurring theme was what the law states in a lot of Afrikan countries and democracy i.e. what the majority wants. It is interesting to note that female same sex sexual activity is legal where as male isn't in quite a few Afrikan countries such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Sierra Leone to name but a few. In a few more, same sex sexual activity, be it male or female is legal, just not the relationships. However, what is most interesting is that these are not even Afrikan laws but colonial laws that still exist today. Homosexual expression in native Afrika always existed – it manifested itself and was understood and accommodated in different ways in different communities across the continent – and was instead quelled or suppressed by colonialists. Anti – gay legislation is the western import not homosexuality and it is this import that informs and perpetuates contemporary Afrikan homophobia and persecution not authentic indigenous identity and values. We need to know our history and to quote Cameroonian anthropologist Patrick Awondo "Knowing historical truths lets us avoid unhistorical (sic) lies."
As far as democracy is concerned, I think one of the biggest problems democracy faces today, especially in Afrika, is that people do not understand what democracy is meant to achieve. Yes it is supposed to represent the majority but not at the expense of the minority. The minority also has a voice that counts. With that in mind, the present state of things robs Afrikan queers of their rights as human beings to enjoy freedom, citizenship in their homelands and countries of birth and now with all these anti – gay laws being passed on the continent, their right to life. In one conversation recently some argued that they did not have a problem with homosexuals but they believe that if homosexuals want rights they should leave their homes and go to countries whose legislation accepts homosexuality, never mind that these same countries may not be as accepting of immigrants. Basically a lot of Afrikans believe in forcing their queer brothers and sisters, daughters and sons into exile even if they do not wish to leave and they call this democracy. This is especially tragic and infuriating given that for a lot of us less than 50 years ago, under colonial rule, people were forced to leave their home countries because of another form of oppression that did not view "their kind" as equals or completely human.
In addition, is a continued brain drain really what Afrika needs? Even today, the continent continues to lose huge chunks of her resources to the East and West and this is not limited to the natural resources but also includes human resources which in turn has an adverse impact on our socio-economic advancement as individual states and as a continent in the global arena. The outflux of human capital from the continent into the Afrikan diaspora is one that has been bemoaned by many (more so self proclaimed Pan Afrikanists) and yet our states continue to feed into the push factors that force the children of the soil to escape to foreign lands to go and contribute to the further enrichment of our former oppressors simply because we so naively choose to fervently hold onto the hatred they instilled in us through divide and rule as part of ensuring that we will never unite and reclaim our heritage and glory. Homophobia, like patriarchy and tribalism, is yet another red herring that has been planted in our psyche so as to distract us, preventing us from keeping our eye on the ball. Instead of focusing our common energy on the true problems, wrongs and injustices that plague our continent like corruption, genocides, wars, disease, famine, GBV, land, access to food, water and quality education etc, we're expending it on a victimless crime that shouldn't even be a crime and fueling division and entrenching oppression.
What Homosexuality Isn't
Now, there is a terrible and ridiculous rumour making the rounds stating that homosexuality is contagious or a form of brainwashing. I would like to ease people's minds by saying that this absolutely false. I can attest to this and tell you unequivocally that I did not "contract" my bisexuality from some "unwholesome homosexual fiend" as I was neither exposed to nor did I fraternize with any (this not taking into account those on the down low as there are many) other homosexuals until my late teens. In fact, in our household, homosexuality was something that hardly ever came up, save for the rare occasions when my very educated and mostly open minded grandfather would express his disgust at the idea of male coupling, and yet I was fantasizing about kissing other girls from a very young age. Actually, I discovered my sexuality and sensuality to thoughts of girls and not boys despite having attended co-ed schools throughout my primary school years.
Some pontificate that homosexuality is unnatural… well of course it's unnatural, to heterosexual or even asexual people, much the same way heterosexuality is unnatural to queer people. Others still, claim that homosexuality is synonymous with sexual predators and yet if we are to be honest with ourselves, heterosexual sexual predators are more rife than homosexual ones. I am 28 years old and I have been in a lot of queer social and professional spaces and I have never been raped or sexually assaulted or harassed by any queers. I have however been sexually harassed dozens of times and have been sexually assaulted by straight men. I also can count on one hand people I know or have encountered that have been violated by a queer perpetrator but I know scores of people; friends, family, colleagues and clients (both in the gender and child protection sectors I work in) who have been sexually violated by heterosexual people, mostly men.
There is especially a fear by a lot of heterosexual males that they will be "raped" by homosexual men. Perhaps this fear in these men comes from a place, be it conscious or subconscious, where it is to be expected and perhaps even acceptable for women to be violated by men but it is an unfathomable abomination for a man to direct that sort of violence towards another man. I don't know. All I know is a lot of these men I have heard express this fear are often quiet or nowhere near as vocal when it comes to sexual violence committed against women. The thing people do not take into account is that sexual violence is no more a heterosexual thing than it is a homosexual thing. It is a pervert and socio-path thing and you get those across the spectrum. It is a stupid argument and it just makes you look like an ignorant male chauvinist.
Homosexuality or transgenderism do not contribute to the moral degradation of society. Society itself does. Last I checked majority of television and radio programming, music, main stream literature, religious doctrine, legislation and policies and educational structures are very heteronormative and cisnormative and humanity and her societies have been well on their way to moral degradation long before Senzo and Jason's controversial kiss on Generations a couple of years ago or homosexual couples in New York started signing marriage certificates the same as straight people. The differences between heterosexual members of society and queer members of society only go as far as the sex and gender of our chosen partners otherwise the same rules apply to us. Murder is still murder, the sky is still blue, we love the same way and for some God is the same God you worship and for others like me, our ancestors are the messengers of Umdali*. Heck! We even have sex in more or less the same ways. I am bisexual remember, I know what I am talking about *wink*. However, a lot of people don't see or appreciate this. They will still scream the Armageddon of human morals at the hands of "homos". It is heart breaking that we live in societies where it is more acceptable for a husband to beat his wife, a man to rape his neighbour in order to "cure" her of being lesbian, a pastor to sexually assault female members of his congregation in the name of God than it is for a law abiding, compassionate and hardworking woman/man to be queer and yet the former is more unnatural than the latter is. To most people, the former does not represent a threat to the moral fibre of society and yet the latter does. If you think the state sanctioned murder of your gay nephew or lesbian neighbour or trans colleague who has not hurt or violated anyone else is right and just then it is your own moral fibre that should be questioned, not ours.
What Homophobia Is
First and foremost, homophobia is a message of hatred, deprivation and exclusion, plain and simple. You can try and defend it and explain it whichever what way you please but at the end of the day it is just plain hateful. Homophobia is also unnatural. It is taught and learnt and seeing as we are trying to do away with all things unnatural, I suggest we start with that and leave the natural be i.e. being queer.
Homophobia is also a remnant of a time long gone by when it is was vital to encourage population growth be it in a family, a village or kingdom due to systems such as agriculturalization, pastoralism, expansion and occupation. We are presently living in a world where it is again no longer necessary to churn out as many babies as possible. Instead we live in a world where we are faced with overpopulation, hunger, famine, global climatic change and economic melt downs. So no, homosexuality will not bring about the extinction of the human race. Heterosexuals (and modern science) will make sure that human production continues with no interruptions.
People ask us "why all the noise?" Why we don't just go about our "gayness" quietly and stop making a song and dance of it. The answer is simple: until I can legally fall in love in my Motherland, until I can legally give my girlfriend a kiss in public, until men stop raping us in order to "correct" us or until they stop beating us and killing us for being queer and until communities and governments stop baying for our blood as though we have actually harmed anyone just by being gay we will continue to make a big deal about it. We will shout and march until we realise as Afrikans that homosexuality really doesn't seek to eliminate or replace heterosexuality and that it is in fact heterosexuality that seeks to eliminate homosexuality. We really need to check ourselves and the things we stand for and against based on falsehoods and ignorance. Being queer is neither unnatural nor unAfrikan, the sooner we realise this the better it will be for all of us.
*Sangoma – Traditional healer & spirit medium
*Gogo – Grandmother/ elder
*Sekuru – Grandfather/ elder
*Umdali – Creator
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' Ahmm…really I did not think anything. But why you kinda asking me such…' Kelly replied
' nothing special reason, but I don't want you speechless.'
' You mean, I'm talkative and do useless stuffs ' Kelly tried to push little on her hand.
' hey u mad to me ? ' Emma scared.
' not dear, anyway don't be scare. In real, time ago we celebrated. You knew now its time for younger's, I mean our kid and grandkid's.'
' Kelly i knew your nature, I told you many time when I m in mood for funny things gonna don't mind it. Even me very younger than you, never celebrating too. Kelly, in this age we should be smile and make our self happy.'
' Right, but all moments are not same at time. Even me trying my best to live life happily, still some time sadness covering my face. I guess may be its way of life ! '
' You are right Kelly. Shell I go? Needs something to finish '
' Sure why not, next Sunday we'll meet in church, hopefully !'
' Hopefully '
Afterward both friends waved their hands until them both disappeared. Kelly is too old lady compared with Emma. But she praises Emma's nature and accompany. Many time both gathering celebrate festival and any good events. However both are good example of best friends indeed. They share their contentment, affliction or any kind of tense to each other. And trying help and to encourage with great sympathy. They never studied in same school, never lived very close to each other. One day they met in church as stranger, afterward they met often resulted as good friends. While thinking Kelly flown in her younger days.
' Kelly talk something, why are you seems like speechless ? ' Roger tarnished after noticed her face.
' I'm thinking in a way, so no more thinking ! '
' You mean ….' He stared her with some strange.
' Yep Roger..Why do not you think for to meet my dad? '
' You knew my nature….may I have some favor please '
' Some time I scare, after wedding how does our life cycle will work ?
' Once we ride on cycle its running, no need any attention Kelly, give me strength please.' Roger laughed a little.
' What kind strength do you hope from me ? hey,you are well aware from our culture, gonna let me know '
' Oh, if you in funny mood, kinda I must leave. ' Roger stood up.
' Hey Roger don't behave like kid.'
' Its not kidding time Kelly. You know? '
' No, I don't know ! ' She smiled.
' This nature makes me practices to overwhelmed, leave all things back ! Give me some clues or tips ! '
' For what ? '
' How can I face off to Mr. George, yours dad. '
' Oh I see, well. Wake up early, then finish your morning tasks. Wear casuals, tie off shoes and ride a bike.'
' Incredible !! Well done! Now I'm relaxed. After you welcoming my home, you'll care for me.'
' Now also I have to care for you honey, but what is wrong ? '
She feels pant after some walking. Her face is smiling with older memories with thrilled feelings. She thought even Roger was younger, almost 9 years difference of age, always talking and behaving like a careless man. But she always takes an easy guy with special humor. When she married with him, his attitude has been changed day by day ! What she thought or what she assumed were resulting in different ways. He loves her a lot like day will not pass without her or night will go without her ! It was not exaggerate. One thing often she repenting was only thing Roger was very ordinary man with low income. His salary was less and not enough for her to survive well with all her needs. Even though she is very happy with Roger and with her life ! She believes, all requirements will be never fulfilled in life ! Everybody have to compromise with any of thing. Either a live or non live !
Her eye edge got wet ! Her footsteps stopped a while. She remastered one occasion when she got bed rest with fever.
' Kelly my sweety, drink now medicines please. '
' Where did you get money for expensive medicines ? '
' First you drink it , I'll gonna let you know. ' he forced her and helped to finish the task.
' You know Roger, embracing with honor leads me quick recovery.'
' I knew it, that's why I love you very much my Kelly.' He kissed her wet eyes, and drunk all tears.
' Roger don't love me a lot, I cannot carry that kind burden…rather I'll be crazy!! '
' If you 'll crazy , promise you , later we both will get admit in same custody.'
' Stop saying more Mylove ' She hugged him very tight. While hugging she got shock, she did not feels his wrist watch. With demented stood up
' Mylove , where is your watch ? '
' watch…..ahm……mm….sweety ..'
' Oh Roger….hey god ! I should be cry or smile ! ' Time seized for a while ' My love, now how can you see time to go for job ? '
' My Kelly is my great watch..! ' raining started inside Roger house.
She never astonished for Roger nature and behaving with her. Some time when he is so much happy he lifted her in arms. Surely she felt like full covered shed with confidence and honest. And her face signing like stars and flying in sky. In each visit of god in church, she never forget to thanks god for to give a nice person in her life as Roger a wise and lovingly husband! Time going fast and Kelly some time thinking better she is older rather until now Roger will not able to carry all stuffs which will be undesirable.
' Do you know ? …'
' No, I don't know ..let me know ' Kelly laughed.
' The way you laughed and asking , I love…but let me finish my talk. '
' Okay, go ahead now, I'm serious. '
' Next month is special month for me.'
' Special month ???? how does ?? '
' Think a little.' Roger makes her in tense. She put her fingers on face and watching everywhere, trying to get some clues.
' I thought a lot, please tell me what is that ? ' she embraced his hands.
' 24 June..hm……hmmmm…'
' Roger it's my birth day….'
' That's is it ! coming is yours 75th birthday, since you with me, I m so strong .You always making me relax I'm so happy My Kelly so I'd like to celebrate with huge party ! '
' Huge party ??? ….i'm now so older unable to even move easily. I know very well we don't have more money for party. Throw this idea in garbage please.'
' Please My Kelly , don't make me disappoint ! I never ask you something but today I ask you this for my life. After that I'll never ask you anything. And you know what is so pure then gold? ' Roger catch her legs and flattered.
' What ?? '
' Platinum is pure then gold and yours love is so pure then gold. In cinema hall if movie run for 50 weeks they celebrates golden jubilee. My Kelly running in earth theatre, more than 50 years, so we will celebrate platinum jubilee. And that day will be our platinum day of love ! '
' Oh, I salutes your feelings my Love……but I know you very well, you don't like to borrowing money. '
' Who said, I'll borrow money party ? '
' Nobody, but I knew. From where money will come? '
' You have sharp memory power, sorry for small reminder we can use privilege fund. '
' Nooooooo……..'
Roger shut her mouth and kissed her gently ' I love you my Kelly '
' I love you too ' Both hugs so tight. Sun stopped to watch this incredible scene on earth.
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Growing up with Nikol's background could not have been easy. She was constantly moving and became pregnant and homeless at the age of 18. Dropping out of college on a full paid scholarship after becoming pregnant, Nikol then turned to three separate jobs at a time to support her family. Now the mother of three boys, Nikol takes her early life experiences and uses them to connect with teenagers in an innovative way that other sex educators don't or just can't. How has her past influenced the type of topics that Nikol teaches about?
How does she come up with inspiration for her books? What about inspiration for the different shows Nikol hosts? How did it feel to film a pilot episode with Comedy Central for her Midwest Teen Sex Show? What interesting experiences has she had since she's moved to Los Angeles?
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