It is based on a riddle to highlight incompatibility. If a bird and fish mate, where would they live? If they choose water, the bird will drown. If they choose air, the fish will die because it needs water.
Maria Podesta 🕊️
One of the architects of post-90s urban 🇿🇦 cool, shaping a Gen-Y aesthetic where kwaito, hip hop, fashion, media and African cosmopolitanism collided.
📺 Bassiq & Street Journal on SABC
🎼Outrageous Records
You curated a language of Black urban culture. RIP to a true cultural worker and tastemaker. ❤️
We may never know who introduced Takuya Nakamura to UK Jungle music, after moving from Tokyo to Boston to study Jazz theory - but I, for one, am very grateful.
nobody talks about how genuinely wild music is at a fundamental level. an instrument disturbs air molecules. those molecules cross a room and reach your ear. your ear transforms that into electricity.
that electricity shifts your consciousness. and without any coordination, without any shared culture or language, every single human society that has ever existed found their way to this. that is one of the most profound things about being human.
Aftercare for doing hard things is really, really important. Not as a reward, but as a genuine act of smoothing out the stretching you just did to meet the challenges of that hard thing. Something intimate and nourishing.
It’s so important.
please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded
It’s an elite mindset to live like everything is going to work out. Not necessarily being blindly optimistic, but just knowing whatever happens, you’ll figure it out
My first Saturday in 2 years where I am either not in class, not worrying or stressing about my paper or not working on my actual. Just me with nothing stressful to do.
Its stressing me out 😑
At multiple points in your life, people will try to make you feel delusional for wanting a bigger life. It’s very important to turn your audacity up a notch. Double down.
Today let’s talk about how procurement fraud actually works in South Africa. The mechanics and techniques used to get away with millions of rands.
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