"...that's how the universe works– in my world. [...] they don't give you what you want, they give you what you ARE."

Erykah Badu’s acceptance speech for her Fashion Icon Award at the 2024 CFDA’s. Andre 3000 presented her the award and I started crying. it felt full circle in a way… even down to their collaborative performance back in September. Both are icons who stay true to themselves and have had a huge impact on me. Since her world debut in 1997, I’ve seen her mindset and fashion sense play a huge role in my mom (who was also a brand new mother at the time) and our home. Her mindset, life philosophy, and fashion sense then trickled down to me naturally as life went on. Seeing Badu perform live with my mom in 2017 was one of the greatest highlights of my life. I cried there too lol

This fashion award seems long overdue, but it came right on time. Ms. Badu has shown true style transcendence with time. I’m posting both her recent breakfast club interview and acceptance speech because she explains her relationship with fashion in such an honest a future-forward way– down to the creation of her beautiful headpiece which started out as an ai 3D rendering. The “analog girl in a digital world”. She and Andre both are perfect examples of how to EVOLVE… as people and as artists. As an alien flute player myself, I love the direction Andre has taken with his music creation. His latest album “New Blue Sun” always gets played when I need to declutter my mind and just BE. Maybe I’ll make another post about his fashion influence– hopefully one day he’ll get an award too because it’s well deserved.

I’ll never miss a Badu interview. She’s the funniest and always drops pieces of wisdom in between the lines (the sagittarius in me loves that). This interview was so good; watch the whole thing! My favorite moment is specifically from 47:54 to 53:07; which inspired this blog post. As an artist, and even as a person, sometimes you have to let things go. Whether it be your creations, people, or even situations that may happen to you. When you harp on certain things, or feel the need to “own” something or someone, it’s hard to truly get what you want. Let it go and let things come to you.

Much love to the Goddess, Erykah Badu, and an eternal thank you for all you’ve done (and are doing) for the world and for artists.

slightly psychological spooky season

 
 

…with it being scorpio season annnd halloween season, these are some of my personal DVDs that i’ve been watching leading up to the 31st!

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

  2. Vertigo (1958)

  3. Black Swan (2010)

  4. Lost Highway (1997)

  5. Donnie Darko (2001)

  6. 11:14 (2003)

  7. Final Destination (2000)

  8. Saw (2004)

  9. The Shining (1980)

  10. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

happy twilight zone day!

today my local library is celebrating ‘twilight zone day’ where they will be playing episodes all day until closing! i’m super excited because the twilight zone is my all time favorite show (next to 1st gen star trek). twilight zone day is “officially” recognized on may 11th– but the show premiered october 2, 1959. this year marks 65 years!

at the library, they’ll be playing episodes 1-10, and the 3 episodes us ~library goers~ voted for :-) my fingers are crossed that at least one of the episodes i voted for gets picked lol

they’ll be playing:

  1. “where is everybody?”

  2. “one for the angels”

  3. “mr. denton on doomsday”

  4. “the sixteen-milimeter shrine”

  5. “walking distance”

  6. “escape clause”

  7. “the lonely”

  8. “time enough at last”

  9. “perchance to dream”

  10. “judgment night”

i’ll update this blog post tonight after the fan votes are in… meanwhile, here are two posters i designed in a typography class back in 2018. the assignment was to design two posters for your favorite tv show or movie using expressive type to convey the overall feel of the show. i wanted to do a broken glass effect to mimic the opening sequence of the show; and then a smoke effect to honor the ICONIC rod serling and his famous cigarettes lol. looking back, this may not have been my best work, but my professor and classmates really loved them.

also, a plug for thriftbooks.com, this book was one of my first purchases from thriftbooks and i felt like i hit the lottery! it has 30 of the original stories before they became official episodes.

…and showing some love to the complete box set i was gifted for christmas; the design is gorgeously embossed AND holographic (i tried to capture it the best i could with my phone lol)

 

SO YES…. I SHALL BE BACK LATER

there’s so much more i want to say, but i’m typing all of this with long ass acrylics and i’m gettin tired…

"eye of the beholder" is one of my favorites too; i designed a poster for that too when i was in school. i like this episode cause they all got my nose lol

OKAY I’M BACK!

i had an awesome time. 2 of the 3 episodes i voted for ended up being shown at the end of the night (‘eye of the beholder’ and ‘nightmare at 20,000 feet) lol and there was free popcorn. i got a chance to talk to some of the older patrons who grew up watching the original series in real time— it’s like they were kids again, which made me so happy and grateful to be there <3

 

i also got a cute free button :-)

intermundane

living between realms

paradox of presence and absence

shaped by the unseen

navigating life as a shadow

veils of time

overlooked reality

existence defined by being

heightened environmental awareness

unresolve

time and space distortion

imprinted residual energy

nonlinear experiences

otherworldly continuum

intermediary

ghost