Jaren

creative director. Plants, Food, Photography | booking: [email protected]/IG: jarenstephens

[Jaren @JarenStephens]

new additions = new vibes 🤩🌿

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Give Me the Night” by George Benson was released on this day in 1980.

[m̶ari. | maxine month @pradamaari]

donna summer’s ‘four seasons of love’ calendar poster(s) - (1976) ִֶ•*.

[✒️ @Literariium]

when maya angelou said “have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Regina Hall has stealthily become one of the defining ensemble actors of Black studio films. She has played both the straight woman and the comic relief in films like 'The Best Man' and 'Girls Trip.' For years, critics treated this as charm rather than craft. Not until she transitioned to prestige turns in 'Support the Girls,' 'Black Monday,' and the Oscar-winning 'One Battle After Another' were the very traits that gave her such command of humor properly recognized.

“People saw me as a broad comedic actress,” she says, “and so I needed to convince them that you could just do a grounded version of stuff.”

The veteran actress talks about her mid-career breakthrough, reprising her role as the vulgar and lovable Brenda Meeks in the 'Scary Movie' franchise, and why she's “still grinding and working”: https://t.co/dGsyPPBaLt

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

take more pictures. document your life. save your memories. cherish literally every moment, because life has no rewind.

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart]

I love tiny minimal texts on designs*

[Rolls Reus @D9N9ABI9]

Imagine being a black athlete dominating such
a predominantly white sport while looking fly and alternative in an era where black athletes were barely even allowed to express themself without being persecuted? Truly revolutionary

[karlee @kar__lee]

Altering a player's authentic emotion after reaching the pinnacle of their sport for a phony AI image that doesn't even look like that player, is the exact opposite reason why we watch and love sports. We love the raw emotion that it produces. Such a disservice for no reason.

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

So it turns out ABC used AI all throughout Game 1 whenever they went to commercial. Check out this sequence where a modern championship tag spontaneously blooms on the back of Hakeem Olajuwon's jersey, followed by another where Kobe and Ron Harper twitch awkwardly w each other.

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Windows 98's iconic underwater screensaver, peak digital tranquility before the internet got loud (1998)

[Sun Ra @KailSovl]

The thing about being a visionary is ain’t nobody gone see what you see before you show them.

[🇯🇲1ntern🇯🇲 @Unpaid1ntern]

GUYS A BLACK WOMAN IN A STOCK CAR

I REPEAT

A BLACK WOMAN IN A STOCK CARRRRRRRRRRR

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Watched the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick?

The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the black pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes.

After 3 days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple, 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart, 1st Lieutenant James Harvey, and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. The official results for first place were recorded as “unknown” for nearly 46 years.

There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues applauded this accomplishment. The victory was swept under the rug and the trophy ‘went missing’ and was not seen by the public for 55 years (until 2004). Introducing the real Top Guns.

73 years after the historic win, the American Association of Retired Persons’ Wish of a Lifetime organization met with Harvey to grant his “wish” – that his team be widely recognized.

[Renee @PettyLupone]

And now I gotta share the ‘Marvin Gaye singing on a couch’ video. Them’s the rules. 😮‍💨

[N @dearvotion]

His other work with Imaan, shot in Cairo for Harper’s Bazaar, took my breath away. Fashion photographers who also excel in landscape are truly a dying breed.

[deraa :* @eyeheartderaa]

it was a fruitful black history month for me bc learned so much about this beautiful art style. This is amazing. The money collection in the first place … I could talk about it for dayssss

[æren @erenaisyonce]

can we talk about how beautiful this album is