On the heels of my post from last week aboutmaking new milestones, the phrase that keeps coming to me is, “Let go of the way you think things are supposed to be and embrace what is.” That’s a big one for me because I have a lot of “supposed tos.” Everything from I’m su...
Mind reading: thinking we know what other people think when we have no evidence: (if they disagree with me, they must hate me.); Black and white thinking: there are two types of people, good people who think like me and bad people who need to be denounced and opposed, and there’s ...
Lack of control over her own life is one of the most striking features of the book. Her hair is cut short (more than once) even though she wants to grow it long. Her name keeps changing –“They stole my name,” she says, “They took me- away from me.” The phrase ‘a new so...
I feel like I wear a lot of bright colors these days, after all, pink is the navy blue of India, so it was kind of nice/odd to walk about in black and white. I did feel quite sophisticated, though! Something about this design just feels very put together (the dreaded phrase) to ...
What if, for the hell of it, someone paid a black magician to let all the demons out of Hell for just one night? Then, what if they didn’t go back? In fact, what if the result was a judgment day won by the Devil? Continue readingInspiration: A book and a painting… RPG-A-Da...
My partner Kieren Phelps was illustrating full time for various clients such as the Radio Times and The Listener, and never went out on weekends – always working! I decided I must change my 9 to 5+ drudgery and that if I could get just three black and white illustration commissions a ...
Black and white…yes and no…and complexity free. Then the world would be easier to bear don’t you think? Or would the boredom of simple, simply drive us to drink. Don’t get me wrong, I like peaceful and calm And some relief from the chaos and stress. ...
for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. … If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. —Capital, Volume One,...
So, I have been coming to terms with my diffidence about street photography, its simplified use of dark spaces and shadows, and its tendency to oversimplify representations by preferring black and white over chaotic colour. When the abstract painter Franz Kline painted large white canvases with ...
SECTION B (18%) Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A. B. C. and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Michelle Obama celebrates her forty-fifth birthday Saturday just 3 days before she becomes ...