Baltimore is in a state of unrest tonight, with rioting and looting breaking out after the funeral of Freddie Gray, the man who suffered a severed spine in police custody and died this month. We’re covering the events live here.1st photo: Baltimore police form a perimeter around a CVS store that was looted and burned. Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
2nd photo: A youth who has washed pepper spray from his eyes walks near a building that caught fire. Credit: Michael Reynolds / European Pressphoto Agency
3rd photo: A man has his eyes cleaned after getting pepper spray in them. Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
4th photo: A man shouts for calm as protesters face off with police as the CVS burns. Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
5th photo: Police move a protester back. Credit: Matt Rourke / Associated Press
6th photo: Police fire tear gas canisters as protests move along Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore. Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
7th photo: A police vehicle burns. Credit: Jerry Jackson / Associated Press
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Baltimore Riot | April 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
"Quote of the day"
"Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and little less time trying to impress people."
-The Breakfast Club
Sunday, April 12, 2015
THE ENERGY OF FEELINGS
We are moving into a new era. One in which we are remembering who we really are. That we are unlimited Beings. That we are magnetic Beings. And it’s time to start realizing this and living from this point of awareness.
We are not simply bodies, we are energy… energy through and through. The same energy as everything we see around us… and I mean Everything. Hard as though that concept may be to grasp.
So if you do find it hard to grasp, don’t try to analyse it, just take it as read. And know that it’s time to stop living in your head, in your mind – and that it’s time instead to start living from the heart… being guided by your feelings, your intuition, your inner knowing. That is where your power resides. That is where You reside. The all-knowing You.
Your heart space is your control center. Let the focus of your awareness be there, rather than in your mind. This is where the true You resides – the truth of who you really are.
Sometimes… no… often… there are things that your mind cannot understand, but your heart ‘gets’ them, and these things flow into and are assimilated by your heart. These are things that you have an intuitive understanding of, that you cannot put into words.
Words are limiting. We often cannot express what we feel because there are no words. And I know you know that feeling. That intense feeling of emotion, when you are overwhelmed with love, joy, amazement or gratitude at something that has occurred. That is often when we cry, or laugh, or jump up and down to express ourselves, because words are not sufficient.
Your heart space holds your inner wisdom
When you have that overwhelming feeling of joy, love, gratitude or happiness (and happiness is probably all of those things combined), the feeling is so intense that it infuses your whole body doesn’t it? You can feel it infusing every cell and every molecule and it lights you up like a lighthouse. You are overflowing with this incredible feeling which translates into light energy. As you are filled with this light, so you are beaming it out like a lighthouse. And as these waves of light energy beam out from you they are magnetically drawing in more of the same, in unlimited amounts.
It’s a flow of energy, a circular flow. The more light you emit the more you draw in and the more you draw in the more you emit… This is the flow of life. It’s energy. It’s us.
The energy of our feelings is emitted from us on a particular frequency or vibration, like a radio frequency, with each ‘type’ of feeling (happy, sad, angry etc.) being a difference frequency. Because we are magnetic, we draw to us things that are on the same frequency or vibration as the one we are emitting. Which is why feeling GOOD is so important. When you feel good then you are emitting the ‘feel good’ vibration and will magnetically attract to you things that are on that same frequency (ie. more things to make you feel good). And of course the same thing happens when you don’t feel good… Those feelings magnetically attract more things on the ‘not feeling good’ lower frequency… Which is why you can get stuck in a rut. And why just changing your thoughts can change your life.
Be in your heart, not your mind
We are brought up and educated to believe that the mind is everything, that our mind controls us, when in fact the mind knows nothing about what is good for us emotionally or physically.
The mind is a tool for us to use, but it has no idea what makes us happy – we can only know that by noticing the way we feel in response to people, things, experiences. It is our feelings that tell us what makes us happy and what is good for us. And those things that make us feel good are telling us about who we really are. Which is what we are here to experience… except many have forgotten this.
So let’s now start remembering that we are energy and start paying attention to our feelings, living from our heart and being who we were born to be. For that is where our true freedom resides.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
BIG PHARMA: OG's of 'Medical Marijuana'
At the turn of the century, before the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis and Squibb of Bristol-Myers Squibb, were marketing cannabis extracts and tinctures labeled as “uniformly effective at dose levels of 10 mg.”
In those days, most medicines had the same generic characteristics, so drug companies had to rely on marketing and brand recognition to sell their products.
According to the Antique Cannabis Book, six percent of all manufactured drugs at the time contained cannabis in one form or another, whether in powder, tablets, fluid extracts or tinctures. Some call that period, from the turn of the century to 1937, the “Golden Age of Medical Cannabis” as marijuana products flourished with little to no stigma or legal ramifications.
Then, like now, cannabis was prescribed for a variety of ailments including epilepsy, migraines, stomach worms, mental illnesses and some addictions. It was also used by veterinaries for pets.
While smoking was not common, tinctures and extracts were developed on a regular basis. The pharmaceutical companies had the benefit of their own expertise in standardizing and establishing dosing and responses. They initially used weed grown in India but soon realized growing their own was more reliable. In doing so, they learned about sinsemilla (seedless) cultivation.
Parke-Davis (now owned by Pfizer) worked with Eli Lilly to create its own plant strain called Cannabis Americana, a domesticated Indica strain.
According to Forbes, Parke-Davis did not stop with weed. It sold various types of cocaine before it became illegal, developed ketamine and held the patent for PCP.
A Pfizer spokesman told Forbes it was no longer involved in cannabis research. Eli Lilly nor Bristol-Myers Squibb would comment on whether they would get back into the field.
(Photo Courtesy Cannador.com)
Thursday, April 9, 2015
YAGAZIE EMEZI | Rising Star
Ever since her enigmatic videos debuted on YouTube, Nigerian-native YAGAZIE EMEZI has been on everyone’s radar, including ours. Yagazie is a natural born storyteller who can captivate an audience – simply by sharing random anecdotes of her daily life. This pragmatic view on life has helped her YouTube videos go stratospheric. On a recent trip to Lagos, we make it a point to track Yagazie down in hopes of collaborating with her and possibly shooting her for Mataano.
We first meet up with the rising star at her home in Victoria Island. In person, the softly spoken beauty known for her unmistakable curly fro, is dressed simply in a black t-shirt and track shorts; her famous hair is braided down to her hip. Her style is deliberately unfussy. Listening to her talk, it’s quickly becomes clear that she is a perfect fit for Mataano. Thankfully, she is also a fan of our work. With introductions out of the way, we make plans to shoot her in a few key looks from our SS15 collection.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
MISTA SILVA -B.A.D (Best.Achieving.Don)
Published on Mar 18, 2015
Music video by Mista Silva performing B.A.D (Best.Achieving.Don) . (C) 2015 FIID / Waylynn Wolfe (UK) pre order here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/b.a...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
THERE COULD BE A NEW FACE ON THE $20 BILL
I wholeheartedly support this. Get Andrew Jackson’s dusty ass off the 20. He was a slave owner and enacted the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which stripped Native Americans of their land.In 8th grade my white history teacher talked so positive of him, how fucking scary is that
Here are some quotes on Jackson to put into perspective how awful he was:
“Andrew Jackson was a wealthy slave owner and infamous Indian killer, gaining the nickname ‘Sharp Knife’ from the Cherokee,” writes Amargi on the website Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice.In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination.Jackson was not only a genocidal maniac against the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest, he was also racist against African peoples and a scofflaw who “violated nearly every standard of justice,” according to historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown.As a major general in 1818, Jackson invaded Spanish Florida chasing fugitive slaves who had escaped with the intent of returning them to their “owners”.Jackson sparked the First Seminole War. During the conflict, Jackson captured two British men, Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, who were living among the Seminoles.After Jackson captured Arbuthnot, the trader sent a word of warning to his Indian friends under Chief Bowlegs: “The main drift of the Americans is to destroy the black population of Suwannee. Tell my friend Boleck, that it is throwing away his people to attempt to resist such a powerful force as will be down on Suwannee.”. Unfortunately for Arbuthnot, Jackson’s men found the letter and other papers when they attacked the Suwannee. These papers were dangerous materials for General Jackson. They threw, in the delicate phrasing of historian John Mahon, “some doubt on the official American position that the cause of the trouble rested solely on the Indians and their European abettors.” Andrew Jackson was not interested in seeing the viewpoints of Arbuthnot and Ambrister reach a wide audience. He convened a military court, which promptly ordered their execution. Overnight, the officers of the court had misgivings about executing Ambrister and commuted his sentence. Jackson overruled them. On April 29, 1818, Arbuthnot was hanged from the masthead of his schooner and Ambrister was shot by a firing squad.
In executing the men, Jackson preserved the impression that Indians and outside agitators had created the problems in Florida. The two men, he said, had been “legally convicted as exciters of this savage and negro war; legally condemned, and most justly punished.”“His actions were a study in flagrant disobedience, gross inequality and premeditated ruthlessness… he swept through Florida, crushed the Indians, executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, and violated nearly every standard of justice,” Wyatt-Brown wrote.”Quoted from:
http://www.johnhorse.com/trail/01/b/24.1.htm
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/20/indian-killer-andrew-jackson-deserves-top-spot-list-worst-us-presidents-98997
They said the same thing but with Obama and some others on the bills, which is it???
[THE FOLLOWING WAS A POST MADE ON TUMBLER NOT OUR PERSONAL OPINION]
DEX R. JONES Artist|Creative Director|Photographer
DEX R. JONES . ARTIST | CREATIVE DIRECTOR | PHOTOGRAPHER
Influenced by the cultural richness of his Caribbean heritage and African studies, Dexter R. Jones (top image) unwaveringly removes the veil of self-conscious inhibition by eliminating the preconceived sense of beauty and reveals its true splendor in that vulnerable state. Jones relentlessly pushes the characterization of beauty not often seen. Encompassing a mixture of texture, hues, and prints in his editorial photography, his expertise in justly capturing women of vast shades is indicative from his strong matriarchal upbringing as a child. The Brooklyn, NY born photographer utilizes enticing colors and endearing gradients to surpass what is superficial and create a mood that highlights what is his reality. Jones is driven by an infectious passion that is distinctly exposed in the strong subjects he portrays. That desire is translated in the regality of his images.
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