Being the court jester is something that entails as much concentration from one individual as king does if not more. Some say we’ve all been branded fools but I tend to disagree, our hunger is from a fall, language is primitive – chaos is silence. See the wooden bowls for food on the right, this […]

To reach that which is of the all. Professor Gabriel Audu Oyibo has stumped Einsteins theory with his amazing unveiling of GAGUT or the equation Gij,j=0 – which in a simpler term, I quote “…GAGUT states that GOD or everything including the Unified Force Field or any fundamental force or particle interactions, is conserved within […]

Oba means King/Ruler. You’ll find a ton of these “sovereigns” still existing in our time. For instance, in the African Kings book. I think it’s funny that people think royalty is a pastime or something limited to Elizabeth. In fact, BOUBA ABDOULAYE Sultan of Rey-Bouba is ruling territory as large as Belgium and Luxemburg reunited […]

Otumfo Nana Opuko Ware II by Daniel LAINÉ [link]King of he Ashanti. Since 1970, Matthew Poku, a former lawyer, has had someone else cut his hair and nails. He is the gold king. The fourteenth Asanteheme (king), he reigns over Ghana’s most powerful Akan group, the Ashanti. In the sixteenth century, the Fanti of Denkyera […]

We have seen amazing building’s in our past, this is another one that thrills me. This building has been around forever. Unthinkable, that is, if things out of this world aren’t to be imagined. This temple is incredibly detailed. The size of two Manhattan’s with every inch of it designed to a “T”. Sad to […]

King of the Yeke, Msiri (king) Munongo has left an indelible mark on the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). He was born in Katanga, a rich province with copper and cobalt mines that sustain the country. In the late 1950s, he and Moise Tshombe founded Conakat, a party of “authentic” […]

Dogon #2, originally uploaded by foto_morgana. The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mal. This area is composed of three distinct topographical regions: the plain, the cliffs, and the plateau. Within these regions the Dogon population of about 300,000 is most heavily concentrated along a […]

The 2008 Metropolis Magazine Next Generation design competition challenged young architects and designers to create a sustainable solution to make the world better, and safer, with ideas related to the theme of ‘water.’ We are thrilled to announce that this year’s $10,000 prize was awarded to San Francisco based architect and CCA professor Eric Olsen! […]

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur […]

Nah bleach w/ cream.

“There was a time when a man was judged and respected by his seat, now it is by his car” Although in traditional African cultures, furniture is hardly present, it is the only continent that has produced such a variety of chairs, stools, head rests, with such amazing designs.Far from being simple usual objects, these […]

JR is 25 and he owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. [ link ]

They sentenced him to death… Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam headed the junta which in 1974 overthrew the government of Emperor Haile Selassie in a bloody coup. Known as the “Derg” or “Dergue,” the “committee,” the junta consisted of about a hundred junior officers drawn from all regions of Ethiopia. [ link ] Now 71 and […]

Anton Kannemeyer // Jack Shainman Gallery Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce The Haunt of Fears, an exhibition of new works by Anton Kannemeyer. Taking its name from the 1950s EC Comics title (The Haunt of Fear), the exhibition pays homage to the tradition through which Kannemeyer made his name, comic art. As co-editor […]