Coup d' etat - "Live to change Something"

All I want to say is Coup d' etat! Humans like these exemplify hope to our younger generation...Take note...Love what the cats are doing...Read on....Enjoi!

coup d'etat, BROOKLYN is a graphically-bold design company based in Bed-Stuy whose philosophy follows one simple rule: "live to change something." The brand's founders, Daoud Abeid & Rasu Jilani, created the t-shirt line to manifest visual ideas and life philosophies into eye-catching designs that people, no matter their creed, can truly feel.
The term 'coup d'etat' means a (sudden) blow (or strike) to a state, in French, is synonymous with an aggressive overthrow of an establishment. coup d'etat Brooklyn has embraced this as a brand concept as we aim to "change" the current "state" of urban fashion.Coup d'etat Brookly IRT Promo

Sunshowah's "Eye Jammy" profile by IRT


LIVE TO CHANGE SOMETHING!!!!! Coup d' Etat!

Fear?

No photos right now but got a question for everyone reading...What is Failure? And Why are you afraid of it? I'm asking because I read and hear people always say "I would try(insert whatever it is you want to try here!) if I knew I wasn't going to fail?"....but don't we fail at something everyday of our lives? Just a Monday morning question for the readers that I have...Enjoi! Have a Great Day everyone....

And these are the days of our Lives...

Sorry about the gap in "Stories told through a lens", but I've been people watching and watching this oil situation. Now while the world is engulfed in this election the price of gas is jumping out the window...literally! As we look to electing a new president we are encountering more and more problems economically, socia...forget that! I call it "Social Engineering"...I got the term from a friend just listening to him talk and thought about the word....Everything starts somewhere?...Let's look at it for a moment shall we...

Here is what I call the day of the average (over 50%) working human being:

• first we wake up with work from yesterday on the mind.
• then we get the kid(s) up and ready for school (depending on age of course)
• then we get ourselves ready for work
• then drop the kid(s) off to their destination(keep in mind your now from the house to the car)
• then we go to work
• Oh this is the 9-5pm(very rare)parent's day...
• now we get off work and go pick up the kids
• hopefully they have after school programs where you live but where I'm from..Not!
• Then somebody(mother or father) picks up the kids and hopefully food is ready and everyone can eat and get ready for the next day...whew!

Now if there are only 24 hrs in a day and 8hrs are spent at work(this is standard) and 8hrs are spent sleeping(told to us by a doctor)...(Insert scratch of the head here)..How are we suppose to eat right, exercise, visit family, take a vacation, go to your kids soccer match, spend time with your spouse, go vote and everything that we have no control over all in 8hrs? because that's all that's left of the day...Ahhh and let's not forget working overtime and being a single parent...

Okay if I've lost you..I started with the word Social Engineering...all that I wrote above stems from US following everything and not questioning anything. Us excepting and not communicating. Us thinking we are working together and US not really working together. US being greedy. US not sharing. US being a bully. US eating everything we need for US to exist..(That's my favorite!). US looking for some other US to take care of our problems.

At the end of the day it is US who causes all the pain, suffering,anxieties, economic woes, political woes and family woes. Hey! but I'm not shocked at this, We let US (magazine) run our lives! (laughing out loud)

And this oil situation is because of US! All you fans of the election please take a look at the price of the food...And my view didn't come from a book, a movie or any other form of man made visual conception...It came from me paying attention and questioning everything! Thanks for reading! feel free to leave a comment if you like...Now back to taking photos.

Creative Criss Cross - CCC

This company embodies what the world should incorporate. Why find out how to do something and not share it with everyone else? Think about it if we would share some of the ways we have done things to achieve the success, money or whatever it is you chase, we might not have as much violence because everybody is gettin it...Thank You Creative Criss Cross! Oh you don't know about CCC okay read on..http://www.myspace.com/creativecrisscross & http://www.creativecrisscross.com


About Creative Criss Cross
Mission Statement: To highlight the need for creatives to invest in the livelihood of fellow creatives by employing each other, supporting each other's businesses, and exchanging services.

About Creative Criss Cross: Creative Criss Cross (CCC) is a movement designed to redistribute wealth amongst the creative community. Many of creatives are unable to fully support themselves financially through their passions. Creative Criss Cross aims to redress this balance by creating a space where people can congregate, network and share/exchange services, ideas and information. Creative Criss Cross is committed to facilitating a new time in the creative landscape; a time when people can fully support themselves through doing what they love and what they're best at. You don't have to be a creative in order to be a member of the community, but you have to be down for the cause.


Creative Criss Cross is committed to:
promoting and showcasing Creative Criss Cross members' talents
organizing events to showcase Creative Criss Cross members, which Creative Criss Cross members are invited to support
sharing information with Creative Criss Cross members to educate, inspire and encourage
publicising the successes of Creative Criss Cross members, as well as the productive relationships built between Creative Criss Cross members
fundraising with the intention of reinvesting funds into Creative Criss Cross member businesses/careers
maintaining the Creative Criss Cross website and myspace sites, ensuring that they are accessible and informative
publicising the successes of Creative Criss Cross members, as well as the productive relationships built by Creative Criss Cross members
offering any sponsorship/advertising opportunities to Creative Criss Cross members first
accepting donations, which will then be used to sponsor Creative Criss Cross member businesses and/or events
producing merchandise for sale and reinvesting profits into Creative Criss Cross member businesses and careers
spreading the word about the Creative Criss Cross (Triple C) movement
signed...CCC ♥



Oh let's not forget about what is taking place this month!!! Oh boy! If you want to network in an environment that suits your individualism this is it....
Showcase Wednesday is the ish!

A Crude Awakening + Obama/Hillary = A Mess to clean up!

Well this will probably be the first and last time that I talk about this election between Obama vs. Hillary, Black vs. White, Man vs. Woman..Sorry McCain.I say this due to how we have made this thing more about these 3 things instead of what can really be accomplished by our president. Wait lets talk about this....What crisis do we face? Hmmm Economics, Iraq and OIL!

OIL! something that affects the other 2 crisis we face...Okay no more talking just watch!
If we continue to just operate off hope and not the reality that OIL runs our lives then we all can possibly end up like this...

Just been looking at things from the lens and from what is happening...Oh wait before you put me in the conspiracy theorist category just take a look at this documentary (not from Michael Moore)... http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/ I saw this documentary about a year ago and just paid attention to the year after this...matter of fact here's a glimpse...

Oil Crash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

The idea that the world’s oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is gaining mainstream currency. Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate editor of the New York Times editorial board, writes in the paper’s March 1, 2006, online edition:
“The Age of Oil — 100-plus years of astonishing economic growth made possible by cheap, abundant oil — could be ending without our really being aware of it. Oil is a finite commodity. At some point even the vast reservoirs of Saudi Arabia will run dry. But before that happens there will come a day when oil production ‘peaks,’ when demand overtakes supply (and never looks back), resulting in large and possibly catastrophic price increases that could make today's $60-a-barrel oil look like chump change. Unless, of course, we begin to develop substitutes for oil. Or begin to live more abstemiously. Or both. The concept of peak oil has not been widely written about. But people are talking about it now. It deserves a careful look — largely because it is almost certainly correct.”
Semple concludes: “These [are] not doomsday scenarios from conspiracy theorists, but hard scientific facts backed by serious research.”

One year ago, in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, Robert L. Hirsch challenged the notion that the free market can solve the onrushing emergency:
"The world has never faced a problem like Peak Oil. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary."

Now I'm not saying I am immune to hope but when our president (the one who REALLY wants change) has his or her hands tied due to centuries of oil greed. Please take a step back and not treat them as we would when our favorite team has a bad season. They're trying...Good Luck new president! That's my hope! Thanks for reading...

A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash

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LadyStar & Know Talent Records

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of a photoshoot with good friends and up & coming artist Ladystar (www.myspace.com/ladystarmusic) and producer Scooter (www.myspace.com/scooterbeats) from Know Talent Records. Check out the photos but really check out their links. You are guaranteed to be moved by the beats and the voice of this amazing duo/individual sounds. Enjoi!

Scooter is also the author to weekly blog titled http://scooterthinking.blogspot.com/

Art Whino Gallery - Featuring Joka444

Friday night's feature artist Joka444...Enjoi the photos and visit http://www.artwhino.com and http://www.joka444.com to view more from the gallery and this artist...The artist featured at this gallery are of not just quality, but must see quality...Thanks Art Whino! See you at the next event...

DJ from Honeylab

This is a friend of mine who is a french artist..nah it's Micah from the Micah's Reality Tour but he is an artist who I hope to have featured in my Photography show I'm putting together..I'll keep everyone posted on the date for this event...but for now this is artist Joka444's work..

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