Women are Heroes by JR

Women are Heroes by JR
One of the most beautiful concepts of portrait work I've ever seen. Please watch this trailer for his movie.

PUMA presents: OF THE SAME EARTH with Kehinde Wiley Video

One of my all time favorite artists doing what I hope to do someday... going places and getting to know new people and cultures and then painting them... this process is so beautiful to me...

AFRICA!!!

Ok I'm kinda hype about peoples trips to Africa right now because a few of my peoples from the design school just got back from Ghana this week. They toured all of Ghana for a month studying art forms and learning about culture, ect... I took the trip two summers ago and it was...life changing, enriching, eye opening, rewarding, heart warming, depressing and inspiring all at the same time. but really the whole experience was indescribable...which SUCKS because I want to explain it to people so bad but its hard. So every time I find out that someone else has gone to a part of Africa I am itching to hear what their was experience was like in hopes that I will find a way to better articulate my experience and share it with others. and of course it makes me reminisce of my amazing time in Ghana.

Soooo, as I get pictures and such from my NCSU friends I will be posting the most interesting ones here. But until then, please fallow Travie and his adventure through Africa with the Staying Alive Foundation.

You can also fallow travie on twitter and through his blog

Random tidbit, the work at the top of my blog was inspired by a famous South African graffiti artist, Faith 47.

Ghana [underconstruction]

I went to Ghana for a month to study art and technique. If I had to describe my experience in one word I was say it was CRAZY. I saw things that touched my heart, made me cry, and things that taught me more about who I am and gave me better appreciation for the things I have.
These are the places I went over the course of 30 days:

Woops! This blog isn't done yet... I just got my sketch book back and I'm in the process of compiling a complete post. Come back another day por favor!

While you wait, here are some links to my photo albums from the trip:
Ghana Pictures
Ghana Kids
Elephantes!
Elmina Castle