Onajide | artist

The African American Experience in Photographs:
“Missouri’s digital archives of African American portraits. African American portraits from Florida’s archives. The Black Archives of Mid-America. Missouri’s archives, with a specific section for the African American community in northeast Missouri. Cased photos from California. Civil War soldiers from Michigan. Just for fun.“
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I really enjoyed this movie. It took me in totally different directions than I had anticipated. Of course, Hollywood seems to be a place of predictibility even though there is the constant striving for something new and different. Why can’t we just have a good movie and, not have those forced-upon-us expectations?

There will be blood: [...]

The question is not whether the child is making art but, how a society values what a child creates. Without a doubt the parents have encouraged her. Without a doubt they are benefiting from the noteriety. Not doubt they understand something about branding and marketing. Is the child being exploited? Good question but, do we [...]

Ikea opened a store in Sunrise (near Fort Lauderdale) a week ago. I remember hearing about it but, didn’t really think much more about it until Sunday afternoon Paul realizes it’s Sunday and rushes to get dressed so we can go there. We had to park a mile away, literally, and get bused there and [...]

My co-professor in Photography put up some images and text on the walls for students to gain some knowledge of what’s going on in the world and draw inspiration from it. These images, taken with the flash of the infrared bulbs, have had more than a question or two asked about what is going on [...]