I Love That This Art Lover Chronicles Art History, Thusly Sharing Her Or His Knowledge And Appreciation

I love when kids reach out with the full extent of their creativity. And this girl is brimming with brilliance in my estimation. I hope she keeps that light burning for decades to come.

This little girl recreated iconic album covers for Black History Month and she seriously NAILED it!

Meet six-year-old Abigail. A few months ago, she and her mom Miriame decided they’d do something special to mark this year’s Black History Month.

The mother-daughter duo ultimately teamed up with photographer Ernie Michael Hall and graphic artist Glen Thomas to recreate seven iconic album covers. And the results are absolutely stunning and spot-on!

“I wanted to pay homage to some awesome singers,” Miriame told BuzzFeed via email. “I basically picked artists I grew up listening to in my childhood and as a young adult. I wanted to show my daughter some of the singers I’ve loved throughout the years.”

Everything is perfect about these images, from the way Abby captures the unique essence of each artist to the small styling and design details, like the clever incorporation of Abby’s name throughout each album title.

The ambitious project took one month to complete, which wasn’t an issue for the young model. “She loves taking pictures, acting, and dancing and loves dressing up and getting into character,” Miriame said.

Miriame also used this project as an opportunity to present Abby with more diverse representations of black women. “Young black children are aware of the current racial climate in the US because it’s always in the media,” she explained. “I hope we ensure that our children have pride and self-love and love the color of their skin and the texture of their hair.”

When asked whether she had any additional comments, Miriame simply stated: “Black girls rock.” There you have it!

And in case you wanted to see just how accurate these recreations are, check out these amazing side-by-sides. First up we have Whitney Houston’s 1985 self-titled debut album:

Toni Braxton’s 1993 self-titled debut album:      

Missy Misdemeanor Elliott’s 1997 debut album Supa Dupa Fly:   

Brandy’s 1994 self-titled debut album:      

Alicia Key’s 2001 debut album Songs in A Minor:

Erykah Badu’s 1997 debut album Baduizm:    

 And Anita Baker’s 1986 breakout album Rapture:    

Love this so much!

And the Heavens taught me that anything can happen, as long as you stay for the whole show...

Is it just me, or is this simulation that I share with everybody (or, perhaps nobody) really just zooming out of fucking bounds? I mean, c'mon, baby, how can a tree be a snake, or a snake a tree?

Please tell me you see the same fucking fucked up image. Don't indulge me if you don't see it ['cuz we'll still be cordial and upright], but if you do, please fucking sound off!

Where do these people come from? Is there some hole in space that vomits forth moronic, race-baiting douche canoes, whose entire existence hinges upon them "connecting all the dots" to make everything about race? Hey, if you want to change things, then start having conversations and interactions with people while neglecting skin pigment. Focusing on skin pigment is wrong any way you look at it. People should be recognized for the value they possess, not their ancestry. When you rant about race and "take up the cause" for others who did not necessarily ask you for those things, you are truly mocking them and shoving them into controversy. Let it the fuck alone! Do some good ok, instead of adding to the bad...

Something I think a lot of fantasy roleplaying fans don’t pick up on is that the reason many games’ depictions of orcs and other “monstrous races” get criticised for being racist isn’t just because they’re dark-skinned and evil.

I mean, yes, there’s that, but it’s also that a lot of the tropes that are associated with orcs and such in fantasy RPGs are literally eugenicist rhetoric – and, more specifically, anti-Black eugenicist rhetoric – with the serial numbers lightly sanded off.

Like, you ever notice how common the following elements are?

Being capable of using complex tool and weapons, but relying on raiding and pillaging to obtain them, not because they’re incapable of making them, but because they’re simply too congenitally lazy to do so

Having an intrinsic drive to despoil and corrupt the fruits of civilisation, and in particular, taking pleasure in destroying beautiful things specifically because they’re beautiful

Being treated as childishly superstitious for believing in evil spirits, even though such treatment makes no sense from a worldbuilding perspective because they live in a fantasy setting and evil ghosts are objectively real

Reproducing rapidly and reaching sexual maturity quickly, typically at an age when a human would still be a child, with great emphasis placed on the danger of them “outbreeding” civilised peoples if left unchecked

Lusting for the women of other species, resulting in all manner of twisted half-breeds; “heroic” members of their kind are typically drawn from these half-breeds, who must struggle constantly with their base natures

Seriously, a lot of this stuff is copied and pasted directly from 19th Century eugenicist screeds about the intrinsic inferiority of the Black race – they basically just scratched out the n-word and wrote in “orc”.

(And no, you can’t pass it off as folks imitating Tolkien without realising what they were doing. While Tolkien’s orcs undeniably employ racist imagery and stereotypes, there it’s mostly anti-East Asian stuff, not anti-Black stuff. The incorporation of explicitly anti-Black tropes into fantasy fiction’s depiction of orcs is a more recent development, and at least some of the folks doing it absolutely knew what they were up to.)

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So, courageous Zelenskyy is not so much interested in the salvation of his countrymen and genuine freedom from oppression, so much as he is in the salvation of his own authority as president of Ukraine. To accomplish that, he has taken cues, ironically enough, from Russia and Putin, shutting down any political parties that stand in opposition to his own, as well as silencing communications sources and systems, "unifying" such into a single pro-state, pro-Zelenskyy "news and information" source. This is great for Zelenskyy and his cohorts, as they can now more effectively control propaganda and the garbage intelligence being fed to the average person, here in the U.S. and around the world, thereby ensuring that his misdirection and the dirty deals he and his cronies (The Big Guy & Son, inclusive) perpetuate behind a thickening Iron Curtain. There are actually two wars going on in Ukraine, folks, but the one that is getting little to no coverage is the one that e should be worried about, especially if we as a world population of peace-loving people truly care about stamping out tyranny and corruption.

Never believe the hype of any news source, but do your research and tool quickly find that the real truth is somewhere in the middle of all the lies.

I love this woman's work. She deftly captured the fiery, beautiful essence of the Highland sprawl of my family's ancestral roots, the Isle of Skye, in glorious Scotland.

Photography by Xuebing DU

My BFF Coming out to her 89 Year old Grandmother

BFF: Grandmother I need to talk to you

Grandma: [concerned voice] What? What is it? Are you sick?

BFF: No, no. Grandma. I'm gay.

Grandma: What?

BFF: I'm gay Grandma. I have a girlfriend now.

Grandma: [relieved voice] Oh honey, is that all? I thought you had cancer. Anytime someone needs to tell me something they are sick. Who's your girlfriend, when is her birthday? I'll bake her a pie.

This just made me actually giggle and snort out loud. A feature length film of "dancing" cat figures, presenting scores of personality spins on that, just ran through my head. Art film? Meh... but it would be fun as fuck to script and film something like that.

Hit me up with any ideas and let's have some literary and cinemagraphic-auteuristic fun... Let's make beautiful weirdness...

lets say, hypothetically, im a cat. a kitty cat. and for the sake of debate, lets say i dance dance dance.

And with that money, I will buy Alberto something he can smile about. 'Cause he looks like a sad little dude here...

this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!