I am a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and copy editor.
The qualifications for the job might seem simple, innate, even. All you need is a functioning moral compass, the courage of your convictions, the ability to see what is happening right before your eyes caused by people who are making no attempt to hide it, and enough resolve to do something about it.
“Each moment is transient, gone as quickly as it appears, the journey playing out like an unedited film.”
Brassaï declares that the “bastard art of the streets of ill repute that does not even arouse our curiosity, so ephemeral that it is easily obliterated by bad weather or a coat of paint, nevertheless offers a criterion of worth. Its authority is absolute, overturning all the laboriously established canons of aesthetics”
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
Yūrei, in their varied forms, are potent symbols of the simple and enduring universal human need for right over wrong.
Although mass media and scholars regularly document, analyze, and interpret important events, such documentations and interpretations are seldom from the perspective of the common folk, el pueblo.
“Photography is enough in itself for existing, and so are the many advocacies of Bliss’ photography.”
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
February ramblings.
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