Late Night Giggles

Imajin - Flava I’ve been searching for this group for so...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:05:00 -0400

Imajin - Flava

I’ve been searching for this group for so long. I can’t believe I found this. This song brings back so much memories from elementary days

Jessie Ware - Sweet Talk the video is too cute… love it

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:08:55 -0400

Jessie Ware - Sweet Talk

the video is too cute… love it

Ciara - Body Party loving the Ghost Town Djs - My Boo melody

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:31:31 -0400

Ciara - Body Party

loving the Ghost Town Djs - My Boo melody

drastically-underestimated: sexy ass ;)

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:44:49 -0400

drastically-underestimated:

sexy ass ;)

I-Octane - Gyal a gimme bun

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:38:39 -0400

I-Octane - Gyal a gimme bun

browngurl: Sam…

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:53:19 -0500

browngurl:

Sam…

iamajamaican: Volkswagen ad + Hearing Beyonce fet. Sean Paul +...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:04:25 -0500

iamajamaican:

Volkswagen ad + Hearing Beyonce fet. Sean Paul + Beyonce did the ‘Dutty wine’ …all at Super Bowl 47! = Jamaicans and the Jamaican culture… huge impact on the world.

#WeTakingOver!

Pac x Jada.

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:22:21 -0500

Pac x Jada.

Films watched in 2012 - Training Day directed by Antoine Fuqua

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:48:46 -0500

Films watched in 2012 - Training Day directed by Antoine Fuqua

crankyskirt: Images from the JAMAICONS series Jamaica and...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:11:37 -0500

crankyskirt:

Images from the JAMAICONS series

Jamaica and its diaspora celebrate their historic 50th anniversary of Independence in 2012.

To mark this event Jon Daniel created a series of several bold, iconic artworks representing a selected group of Jamaican historical and cultural figures. This is how he explains the project:

“This unique outdoor exhibition was launched as part of the annual Brixton Splash Street Festival in London, which embraced Jamaica’s 50th anniversary celebrations and national motto, ‘Out of many, One People’ as its central theme. The iconic display dubbed “Jamaicons” was a cultural hijack of the exterior picture wall of the renowned Ritzy Picturehouse cinema in Brixton, and the first time the organisation had ever permitted it to be used in this way.

There is no doubting the enormity of Jamaica’s cultural impact on the world. Therefore, a selection of just nine individuals to portray Jamaica’s true historical depth and breadth was certainly a challenge. However, I made my selection based on my own personal judgement and decided to leave it to ‘the people’ to determine if what i had portrayed was just.

In my selection, I not only wanted to ensure I had a fair mix between male and female, but also between the deceased and the living; the political and the cultural; and the famous and the infamous.

The artistic style of the portraits is deliberately graphic and contemporary, thus embracing a younger audience to be drawn to the more historical and political subjects, without alienating an audience who already has a heightened awareness and black historical consciousness. The iconography of the portraits is then further embellished through the consistent powerful use of the Jamaican national colours of black, golden yellow and green.

Through these images, the emotion I hoped to elicit was one of ‘Pride’. Not just from Jamaicans, but also from the public in general. Their prominent display at this time in Brixton was extremely fitting. Not only for its historical importance as a home to primarily Jamaican immigrants that formed part of the ‘Windrush Generation’ of the 1940s and 50s; but also due to its significance as Britain’s premier multicultural heartland and a place, that admirably reflects the Jamaica’s national motto, ‘Out of many, One people’.

The resulting exhibition was embraced not only by all the Brixton Splash festival revelers, but also by the thousands of daily Brixton residents and visitors who passed by for the following 3 months that it remained on display. The final exhibition of nine ‘Jamaicons’ were: Queen Nanny, Marcus Garvey, Grace Jones, Robert Nesta Marley, Usain Bolt, Merlene Ottey, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mary Seacole and Michael Holding.”

Um, if any of y’all over UK way feel like robbing one of these off the street, I’ll pay you postage to send it over to me! This is exactly what my apartment walls have been missing.

(Or I could just buy the posters here, which is my alternate plan. Love these so much.)

Nerd note: the print on Queen Nanny’s headwrap is of the adinkra symbol Akoben, the war horn. Very appropriate given her leading role in Jamaican Maroon resistance (and a nod to the Maroons’ ethnic tie to the Akan in West Africa, who created the symbols).

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Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:14:23 -0500

tommy lee

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:45:50 -0500

tommy lee

davidversusgoliathh: Take You Over - Konshens ft Miguel (Adorn...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:10:24 -0500

davidversusgoliathh:

Take You Over - Konshens ft Miguel (Adorn Remix)

thosegirlsarewild: My life… #jamaicanproblems

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:21:00 -0500

thosegirlsarewild:

My life… #jamaicanproblems

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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:03:47 -0400