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Sep 21, 20249 min read
Thoughts on Descent
I can see the stairs. This change will involve either leaving Vancouver or finally making the decision to stay. I've been in a purgatory of
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Aug 22, 20221 min read
Curb Appeal
I really like the idea of a group of friends getting off work around the same time while living in the same neighbourhood.
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Feb 10, 20224 min read
A little update: it's been a while
This whole post is just something to hopefully renew some kind of interest in writing for the sake of writing again...
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Nov 7, 20211 min read
'Milk and Honey' Shot at the Fairmont
This shoot embodied everything I love and hate about working with people.
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Sep 24, 20213 min read
Re-Evaluating Black Masculinity: Shoot One
I've told a few of you of this idea for a photobook that has been maturing in my head since the start of summer.
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Sep 13, 20211 min read
Impromptu Afternoon with Charity & Pam
Last minute lifestyle type shoot in Victoria...
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Sep 10, 202110 min read
Unfinished Thoughts on Collective Responsibility
“From Vancouver to Palestine…” they chanted between speeches to a crowd of unfamiliar faces. “…occupation is a crime...”
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Jul 3, 202110 min read
The Last Nine Months
Prompt: atmospheric playlist. flowers blooming outside. assignments and hours fly by. depression, school, heartbreak, Hope....
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May 7, 20216 min read
Civil Religion & Modi's Golden Ticket to Leadership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the head of state of the world’s largest democracy and will be until 2024. His astonishing rise to...
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Apr 6, 20218 min read
Contextualizing My Thoughts
I’m waiting to hear back from grad schools currently and the whole application process has forced me to do some pondering about what it...
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Mar 2, 202112 min read
Inverting the Pyramid: A Brief History of The Nation of Islam
despite all my problems with the Nation, I admire them.
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Feb 1, 20212 min read
Colour Grading and Spotlight Test
I do like the green undertones in the shadows which perhaps points to me saving this colour scheme for a film shoot...
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Jan 18, 20217 min read
Calling the Capitol Hill Mob 'Terrorists' Will Backfire
I implore you to tread carefully when you throw the word “terrorism” around. That kind of discourse gives space to a particular brand...
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Jan 1, 20214 min read
Peering Back Into the Haze
Would my year have been better if I'd actually gotten to enjoy my grad ceremony and fuck around in Berlin? Probably...
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Dec 19, 202011 min read
The Yacoubian Building: Interactions Between Wealth and Corruption
..the Yacoubian Building uses its wealthiest characters to illustrate how corruption hinders social, political, and economic development.
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Oct 10, 20205 min read
Working as Intended & What Comes Next
It is difficult to overstate the helplessness I often feel when thinking of what comes next. I have no faith in any institutions; be they...
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Sep 25, 202015 min read
Strategic Insignificance: The UN & Civilian Lives in Geopolitics
To what extent are the blue helmets just good press for the soldiers carrying out the interests of their home country?
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Sep 16, 20204 min read
Character Obscura
He looked so disappointed. He’d hardly been caught so I was frozen in my surprise. Mabel stepped out with the same disappointed expression..
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Sep 6, 20205 min read
On Burnout
...I believe it is an opportune moment to take stock of my motivations.
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Jul 7, 202010 min read
The Black Panther Party for Self Defence: A Brief History
The black panther is an incredibly powerful animal that only lashes out at an aggressor when backed into a corner...
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Jun 27, 202012 min read
War & "Peace": The Somali Civil War & Over-policing
Substitute the military for the police, and Somalia for the ghettos, and this film is remarkably applicable today.
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Jun 22, 202019 min read
Intimacy and Distance
There are eight months of accumulated emotional tension relevant to the events of this story.
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Jun 18, 202010 min read
Rubin's Vase: Selectivity in Surveillance
Rubin’s Vase is an ambiguous illusion that can be perceived in one of two ways. It can be a vase or two faces. We can recognize both...
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Jun 14, 20203 min read
Notes on the BC Protests Thus Far
The turnout on the June 5th protest in Vancouver was fantastic. People as far as the eye could see. We had the attention that we wanted...
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Jun 11, 20204 min read
The Inevitability of Racism and Considerations Going Forward
We were playing our ethnic music rather loudly as we walked behind a commercial area when a marked squad car creeped to a halt behind us...
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