bedouin in furs

2012-02-06T06:07:00.000-08:00

home.

2012-01-30T14:57:00.000-08:00

softies.
time warps.
colour.
words.
four year olds.
cameras.
always cameras.
poise.

2012-01-26T13:44:00.000-08:00

(you're) the piece of gold on my black wall.

2012-01-17T14:29:00.000-08:00

down the hill.
down the street.
i met you somewhere.

2012-01-08T04:25:00.000-08:00

i saw you peeking though the door.
new year. new you, you said.

2011-12-29T10:26:00.000-08:00

teach me gently.

2011-12-24T00:41:00.000-08:00

looking for a partner in (some wild) crime.
sunshine south of the equator, location shared.

2011-12-17T13:38:00.000-08:00

damned if i do, damned if i don't.

2011-12-15T12:29:00.000-08:00

i want to go to there.

2011-12-07T03:33:00.000-08:00

unspoken romances between too many stolen glances in unheard of spaces.

2011-11-25T12:00:00.000-08:00

we fight, we love.
silence is born.

2011-11-21T05:31:00.000-08:00

not so old city.
new introductions.
already taken potential.
disappointment.
perhaps.

2011-11-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

in and out of hotels.
they all come and go.
we all come and go.
perhaps on friday we'll throw a party.

2011-11-02T00:22:00.000-07:00

once i knew a boy called jack.
he was into tricks and treats.

2011-10-26T09:50:00.000-07:00

i need to stare at the ceiling.

2011-10-22T13:19:00.000-07:00

soft statues in stilettos
cinematic stills
and still, and still...

2011-10-15T03:44:00.000-07:00

i 'work' on saturday's.
like a boss.

2011-10-09T08:32:00.000-07:00

spring glow.
golden skin

.

2011-10-03T08:43:00.000-07:00

our excuse was that we were young.

2011-09-27T06:23:00.000-07:00

designer leather.
designer boys.
(LV2011)

2011-09-13T16:06:00.000-07:00

eating sandwiches in jozi
i might have a long, sit down dinner

2011-08-30T15:23:00.000-07:00

HBD.
gets me every time.
and not just the abbreviation.

2011-08-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

if you wanna be ---
you gotta be young
reason to brag.

[i never emailed them their photos]

2011-08-15T14:21:00.001-07:00

i saw hipsters in hoodies,
dizzy dancing and blogging
about their latest fashion unhappiness
and thought to myself
we just might be the last generation standing.

2011-08-14T14:54:00.001-07:00

i haven't painted in a long time.
i'm looking for a partner in crime.

2011-08-03T14:24:00.000-07:00

there's a bad ass in the city
he left his secrets in his childhood bedroom.

2011-08-01T10:14:00.000-07:00

its the holy month.
things get ornate.

2011-07-25T08:05:00.000-07:00

looking for a new land
to lay my bedouin rags.

2011-07-23T05:20:00.000-07:00

straight chillin'.

2011-07-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

sometimes my life space stands/sits still.

2011-07-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

thank you CUSS MONTHLY
for letting me be a part of your general awesomeness.
To check out the entire piece
on the stunning Kenyan drag queens
click on the photo below.

2011-07-09T14:53:00.000-07:00

cake, milk and lies.
this may or may not be the place i love.

2011-07-07T14:48:00.000-07:00

i love Mert and Marcus.
love em a lot.

2011-07-04T09:10:00.000-07:00

my friend farida.
she's going to be a fun mom.
new born's and balloons.

2011-07-01T09:53:00.000-07:00

weekend

2011-06-28T04:24:00.000-07:00

how will you reach out to me?
write me a sticky recipe.
i'll think about it.

2011-06-27T10:53:00.001-07:00

film festivals on african islands are quaint.
charm personified.

2011-06-20T13:04:00.000-07:00

she was six when she had her first day dream.
it was about a cowboy.
she was sure he smelt like jasmine&tobacco.

2011-06-16T02:19:00.000-07:00

the only two stills i took on my first pro film set.
meet stella, she's a drag queen.

2011-06-10T01:17:00.000-07:00

i'll set myself up for display willingly
& send up a pony prayer that i won't
fall flat on my face.

2011-06-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

hustle.

2011-06-04T12:33:00.000-07:00

i make things up all the time.

2011-05-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

playtime.

2011-05-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

S-U-P-P-O-R-T yours truly. Spread the word.

2011-05-21T14:40:00.000-07:00

time to go back to
when responsibility was an unknown,
cartoon pajamas ruled your world
& sleep overs constituted an epic weekend.

2011-05-17T02:20:00.000-07:00

under the table
under the weather
undercover dreams

2011-05-12T12:50:00.000-07:00

little boots for little souls
i'm taking baby steps.

2011-05-05T11:46:00.000-07:00

i woke up in africa three weeks ago.
new ideas are dawning on me.
life isn't so much about point blank stares.

2011-04-27T14:17:00.000-07:00

musing on beauty, poise and sunshine.
dying light and afternoon tea parties.
feminine agenda amidst city grit.

2011-04-20T11:14:00.000-07:00

on the road.
time to make those moves ma spoke of.

2011-04-15T15:47:00.000-07:00

granted.
i don't have a clue about what i'm doing.
but i'm not ashamed of leaving my laundry unfolded
until i work it out.

2011-04-14T03:50:00.000-07:00

short+fashion+stills+film = amen
and
Bottega Veneta's first forray into film
courtesy of Christian Weber.

2011-04-12T04:13:00.000-07:00

maybe he was shy.
maybe he was the gatekeeper to a secret city.

2011-04-08T14:56:00.000-07:00

looking for a man with a focus and a temper.
looking for a ride to that secret location.
looking for my sonic youth records,
'cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city head.

2011-04-04T04:46:00.000-07:00

my favourite blog at the moment
which just so happens to be a delightful insight
into my number one homegirl's mind...
ladies and germs, mZ. Abbi of sipslowly

2011-04-02T12:51:00.000-07:00

i don't remember learning how to dive.
lately i've been having dreams of swimming pools.

2011-04-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

rejection - it goes both ways.
really.

2011-03-26T13:44:00.000-07:00

don't intellectualize grace

2011-03-23T16:23:00.000-07:00

show me something i haven't seen.

2011-03-22T15:58:00.000-07:00

drama under yellow bright light
take a breath at 2:56
and then let life's playground go on again
don't rewind at a future date.

2011-03-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

pretend. play.
play pretend.
pretend play.

2011-03-13T05:17:00.000-07:00

she woke up on monday
and wondered if
she knew what she was about to do.

2011-03-07T15:37:00.000-08:00

a photograph i edited.
taken by Hussain Molobhooy.

2011-03-02T08:14:00.000-08:00

sometimes i sneak photos of my parents
when they're not looking.
my mom always catches me.

2011-02-27T10:33:00.000-08:00

Big up to shamim (www.shamimthoughts.blogspot.com) for the profile on yours truly's work at SOLEDXB!
Check it out here[somewhere around the 8th minute]

2011-02-26T11:37:00.000-08:00

i met him on a crisp spring day.
he told me he was the marlboro man
he was from palestine
he didn't own a cell phone
he stole a piece of my heart.

2011-02-22T12:07:00.000-08:00

weird transitory space.
spaces like this make me want to write stories and play pretend everyday.

2011-02-17T03:08:00.000-08:00

motorcycle rendezvous,
neon lies
and a dark (k)night.

2011-02-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

he whispered in her ear, "they're calling it a revolution darling".

2011-02-11T09:56:00.000-08:00

i met a bedouin in a
21st century shopping mall.

2011-02-05T23:36:00.000-08:00

i woke up and realized it's February.
I'm still going through creative notions on repeat
& celluloid re-enactment.

2011-01-27T04:56:00.000-08:00

she left home a dreamer
and came back a sinner.
now she drowns in delusions of grandeur
trapped inside lucid desire.

2011-01-25T06:38:00.000-08:00

fig 1.
Life After Art School:
unemployment and the race to recognition
amidst the fear of avoiding
the confines of a fluorescent cubicle

2011-01-17T09:12:00.000-08:00

darling it's come time for me to break free

2011-01-14T12:40:00.000-08:00

on the right hand she had a tattoo of a nude girl
she claimed it is what God resembled
but on the left she had a mirrored image of the same female
and this one she explained looked like the devil

-atmosphere

2011-01-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

queens and kings of sandy frontiers

2010-12-21T01:09:00.000-08:00

floating somewhere between
city lights and party nights.

2010-12-06T06:34:00.000-08:00

mama said there was no harm in falling for handsome strangers
as long as they were gentlemen. this one played chess in a back alley
and sipped sweet morrocan tea while taking extended drags from tainted cigarillos.
he never left home without the fake gold watch his wife gave him in 1987.

2010-11-30T03:54:00.000-08:00

this is by far the yummiest short film i've seen this year,

APRICOT by Ben Briand:

http://www.vimeo.com/8076064

2010-11-25T13:08:00.000-08:00

i like urban spaces
i like grit and neon

2010-11-20T12:50:00.000-08:00

she turned eight.
i just got older.

2010-11-15T11:08:00.000-08:00

art school, done.
art world, next. maybe...

2010-10-27T16:01:00.000-07:00

i need a holiday.

2010-10-18T16:47:00.000-07:00

Give me some religion
A brand new Cadillac
and a winning lotto ticket
I don't want no pretty, city boys in makeup
Showin' me their goodies when I don't wanna see it
Oh no! I'm all about boylife in america
-cody chestnutt

2010-10-18T16:28:00.000-07:00

maybe it's time to get your hair done
and go hunting for some romance.

2010-10-10T15:13:00.000-07:00

like night lights lit for years
the countdown starts to almost calling it an end
like storefronts that come and go.

2010-10-03T13:18:00.000-07:00

boys and girls
girls and boys
boy sees girl
girl meets boy
heart avalanche and a long distance lover

2010-09-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

love mispelt and boys ignored,
lust broken and confusion garnered.
home, mother, home, father.
disappointment with the youth, lost hope about the future, who's our boss anyway.
spiritual commitment set against a backdrop of racist flavoured city sin.

2010-09-20T13:22:00.000-07:00

i went to the drive-in to watch a bad movie about karate
but there was pretty to be found.

2010-09-11T14:03:00.001-07:00

my perspective's changing.
i want to paint my life gold, just like that.

2010-09-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

like a holy trinket cushioned in satin
i went hunting for comfort during a candle lit spring
instead i found singing mice nestled in a country kitchen

2010-08-30T05:08:00.000-07:00

birthday's are strange things.

'mi abuela' by victor cobo

2010-08-23T11:28:00.000-07:00

he was from eastern europe
and owned a set of kind pale blue eyes

2010-08-17T10:57:00.000-07:00

i was accused of being a romantic
i didn't cry, i drown myself in
jasmine and white chocolate

2010-08-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

its been a while and perhaps now that time has scurried by,
i can say that i miss baltimore when i hear billie holiday
and imagine she danced across
a red velvet carpet at The Belvedere hotel.

2010-08-08T15:58:00.000-07:00

to mark my 100th post i'm sharing my
most favourite-est photo i've taken this year

brooklyn, 2010

2010-08-01T07:16:00.000-07:00

it's not everyday prince charming
morphs into a green zebra,
but i found him on a sidewalk somewhere in queens
now he sits by a mirror and stares out windows
while i gallivant underneath an african winter sun.

2010-07-29T02:47:00.000-07:00

who cares about academia when escape
as fun as this can exist in a photo

2010-07-26T15:53:00.000-07:00

sometimes i come across beautiful images
sometimes i come across strange treasures

2010-07-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

city lights left far behind, i'm back in a
town somewhere in an african valley
where whirlwinds only exist from behind t.v. screens

bedouin in furs

i saw hipsters in hoodies, dizzy dancing and blogging about their latest fashion unhappiness and thought to myself we just might be the last generation standing.

i saw hipsters in hoodies,
dizzy dancing and blogging
about their latest fashion unhappiness
and thought to myself
we just might be the last generation standing.