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- #Harlem: Shawty likes her new box braids. Thanks, yeah? Sweet.
- #Frack: the 'I lived on the east coast for 5 years' nostalgia just hit & now I'm swaying to 2005 college radio jams in this beautiful house.
- .@ColePaulson It's on tomorrow, no? Getting my braids re-finessed in Harlem in the AM, then I'd like to gaze across at you ON YOUR BIRTHDAY.
- RT @pbwolf: In case anyone's curious where the name for the new Quasimoto album came from. http://t.co/tfDsXxTNDT
- .@dork_tweet Lower East Side, Manhattan. Apartment with books, rugs and a wonderful kitchen (*Renting it for a week, never want to leave)
- Er, my adorable #AirBnB living room? Because I'm winning at life? http://t.co/8O3FHDpkBH
- .@ColePaulson Just got to my place. And it's awesome. Trying you on Skype ... (HELLO!)
- .@kristinawalsh You and I #Bloodlines (*We come together every time) -- already miss the best thing about the West. http://t.co/YmYPUbdDPE
- Golden Gate by Nite // Before Flight. https://t.co/AS30aPfAPn
- RT @Colorlines: San Francisco Chronicle Drops the Term 'Illegal Immigrant' http://t.co/yNVq6tFKui
- .@AlexanderNut Thumbs down to that.
- .@throwerw Awe -- Will's first hashtag ;)
- Favourite name, favourite woman. #TheEnd, Judah. Or the beginning. http://t.co/SpW8hXZZKI
- The worst. RT @victordlamini: Cheesy social campaigns
- .@throwerw Why are you being morbid, Haterface?
- .@throwerw "The interaction of 2 or more agents/forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects."
- <-- the final paragraph in that last piece on @tumblr and 'aspirational advertising' = give us a break, yeah? Sheesh.
- Yeah, #PeaceOut. RT @AdAgeUpdate: Yahoo to Bring More Ad Formats to Tumblr, Mayer Says http://t.co/wwcFmH2ALd
- #BlackFeminist health food tweets: our bodies, our Selves. Amirite? X
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- Strategist at The Brand Union/Social@OgilvyMarketing and Advertising | Hong Kong, HKSummary
Doing good by people, doing alright by brands.
Intuition for audience, gives voice to content, Strategic Design Mind, lover of a rad outfit, hater of overcooked pasta, Internet Life, writer, born with headphones on.
Experience- Jan 2013 - PresentStrategist / 1/2 The Brand Union + 1/2 Social@Ogilvy
WPP Fellowship 2.5: 1 of 4 members of Team Strategy @ TBU, mind's eye on New Business and the tech side of Brand Strategy // Part of the Collective of Brilliant Brains at Social@Ogilvy.
- 2011 - PresentWPP Fellow / WPP
3 years, 3 countries, 3 rotations in WPP operating companies across the globe. 1. Design and Technology at Digit, London, UK. 2. Branding at Ray+Keshavan, Bengaluru, India.
- Sept 2011 - PresentStrategist / Digit
WPP Fellowship 1: TOV overseer via tweets and blog posts. Trend watcher, synthesizing and relating behaviour to brand strategy. I do this thing where I keep my finger on the pulse of pretty much everything because I read a lot and I ask around (see: trained Anthropologist). A curious brain with a network connection is good for business.
- Oct 2012 - Jan 2013"Digital" Strategist / Ray+Keshavan/The Brand Union
WPP Fellowship 2: In-house human/tech brain. Helping build Ray+Keshavan’s digital offer by providing clients with greater insight into Connectivity for their industries and the world around them. Setting technology & brand-building up on a date, being a team player on pitch development and delivery, occupying a desk @ one of the best design studios in India.
- Dec 2010 - Jun 2011Contributing Writer / PSFK
Contributed to PSFK's daily news feed with articles, photographs and videos with a focus on sustainable innovation. Being on the constant look out for New Things To Write About taught me everything I know about bookmarking.
- Sept 2009 - Jun 2011MPhil Development Studies Candidate / Oxford University
Conducted qualitative research in Dakar, Senegal. Wrote a thesis on the ideology of NGO 'information campaigning' and youth migration in West Africa. Took African Film and the Anthropology of Childhood as electives. I don't take Development communications lightly.
- Apr 2009 - Aug 2009Content Editor and Community Manager / Alternative Information and Development Centre
Wrote and edited original content for AIDC online and print platforms including the monthly journal, Amandla! Worked with a team of people who are changing the world as we speak.
- Jun 2007 - Jul 2008Project Coordinator / Corner Store Campaign
Coordinated a social marketing campaign targeting urban middle school youth at risk for obesity and diet-related disease. Taught 4th, 5th and 6th grade youth in 5 Philadelphia public schools, loved & every moment of it. Care to try your hand at the hardest, most rewarding job on earth? Teach.
- Dec 2004 - Sept 2005Columnist / The Sowetan Newspaper
Wrote a weekly column, Diaspora Diaries on my experience as a foreign student living and studying in the United States, which was published in South Africa. I was interviewed on the radio once about it. I didn't mess it up.
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2009 - 2011University of OxfordMPhil in Development Studies
- Sarah Lawrence CollegeBA Liberal Arts in Film, Literature, Fine Art
Activities: Ethnic Studies Committee
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Honors:Queen Elizabeth House Scholarship Recipient, University of Oxford ODID (2009-2011) Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Bursary Recipient (2009-2010)
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Interests:Reading, writing, making.
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- One Hundred Ways (New Version) by James Ingram
- #283: Remember Me by Chicago Public Media
- Nakamarra by Hiatus Kaiyote
- At the River by Groove Armada
- Sala Ragab / Oriental Mood by Sun Ra
- The Sun Ra Arkestra by Sun Ra
- Stimela by Hugh Masekela
- Smile by Sun Ra
- Celestial Love by Sun Ra
- Nuclear War by Sun Ra
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You’re Throwing a Good Love Away by the Spinners from You’re Throwing a Good Love Away (Single), 1977.
Love Will Bring Us Back Together by Roy Ayers from Running Away/Love Will Bring Us Back Together (1979)
“Have You Seen Her?” by The Chi-Lites from For God’s Sake (Give More Power to the People) (1971).
“I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home Tonight” by Ann Peebles from Straight from the Heart (1972).
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“Awake to You”
I’ve been in New York for eleven years, and I think I’ve stayed pretty true to myself in terms of going at my own pace and being involved with stuff I really personally enjoy. That’s starting to really benefit me now. But living in NYC has made me realize that my three favorite places in the world are Brooklyn, California, and Brazil. I’m trying to figure out a way to make those places my three main homes.
Taylor made my day (*tailor made!) — I’d like more than one home, too. Because that’s all I’ve ever known, anyway. I think 2 of them are London and Cape Town. For now. With love from Hong Kong.
My brother showing the kids how to put a deck together. Yes, yes: Ma & Pa did good, but the 1st born takes the (vegan) cake.
This goes out to whoever you are, Boo. I’m pretty sure I’ve never met you, but I suspect you were born some time before 1983? Anyway, if you a.) know & appreciate this song and b.) like a bit of silent listening every once in a while, we’re golden. We’re golden! See you later, I suppose. I mean; I’ll be here in Hong Kong for a while and then probably in New York and then maybe back to London, but I’m also down for whatever as long as I have bookshelves and a dope kitchen to make almond milk and toast in. Sweet — NMx
Janet Jackson - You Want This (feat. MC Lyte)
My mother put me in modeling classes in 4th grade “for confidence” (#fail) and we had a show at the end of the year at the Westville Fair — to demonstrate our turns and poses? I can’t quite remember. What I do recall, though, is getting to choose a song to walk to, and I chose this one. I wore the liner notes from this album OUT. The booklet was straight up falling apart. But you know? I was a deep kid who listened to dark adult music because My Little Pony (*I never owned any; and I hate horses) simply didn’t do it for me. I loved Janet hard. Real hard.
“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”
— James Baldwin
***Hers, too. And she curses the magnitude of the conspiracy from the comfort of the room she fought to call her own. [Like me, James Baldwin was a Leo, a Water Rat in Chinese Astrology, and a Numerology number 8.]
*Heard this on a radio show. It was a good one; hold out for Saturday, March 23rd’s podcast. Best sequence? Hearing something good —> buying it, which I did.
I saw Working Girl with my mom and brother when I was a kid. I remember crying during the closing credits: it was 1.) this song, and 2.) being exposed to sexism meets classism in a neat Hollywood parcel. “A ha! I am very little, but I know what it might mean to be a woman today and probably in the future when there are hovercrafts, and Macaulay Culkin and I can *finally* be together.”
Alexander Nut played this on his show today. I never miss a Saturday, always evening + balcony time in Hong Kong, always locked in.
*Going through this thing in Hong Kong where I’m a bit of a Shit Show, but my skin is in very good condition and sort of awesome 100% makeup-free? Yes, that’s Estee Lauder Night Repair serum in the background. *GET SOME. And no, there isn’t a thing on my lip in the 2nd picture. It’s an optical Photo Booth illusion via morning light reflections, hater.
Hush, Lianne you’re SUCH A BABE. Also: the more we see same sex couples making out on our screens alongside whoever the f*ck else is feeling sultry, the safer our children and their children’s children will be. #MICDROP 1, 2.
Marina Abramovic and Ulay: Breathing In/Breathing out
To create Breathing In/Breathing Out the two artists devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other’s exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.
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- Alexander Nut played this on his show today. I never miss a Saturday, always evening + balcony time in Hong Kong, always locked in.
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French Terry Hooded Poncho: Sebby. Pants: Jennifer Lopez. Boots: Target.
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#Kyoot
I might just have all of these shades (*picked up 2 new NARS lipsticks at the airport in Bangkok. #Fan.)
Marcus Lupfer, Per-fall 2013. I’m loving the colors, styling, and the easy pieces.
*I’d snap that up yesterday. & to all my fellow hat wearing women: #ISeeYouGurl, get it.
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