The Art of Metaphor: A History of Visual Storytelling & GenAIA ‘metaphor’ is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison, but in a different way from a ‘simile’ that uses ‘like’ or ‘as’…15h ago15h ago
Hard Work vs. Hard Fun: The Zora AI Portrait SeriesI do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am…Apr 11Apr 11
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The Parabolic Journey of Fred EversleyA parabola is a U-shaped curve that is the graph of a quadratic function. The standard equation of a parabola is used to represent a…Mar 19Mar 19
Zip Zap Zop: The Power of Theater & Storytelling in ‘New’ Hip HopIn a previous post I highlighted the visual storytelling and theatrical elements in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance…Mar 7Mar 7
The ‘Liberatory Thinking’ of Toni Morrison & Kendrick LamarMy favorite novel of all time is Song of Solomon or SOS by Toni Morrison.Mar 1Mar 1
Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar and the Emergence of ‘oklama’Jazz maverick and proto-Afrofuturist Sun Ra was born Herman Blount on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was nicknamed “Sonny” from…Feb 24Feb 24
