One thing nobody tells you about adulthood is how fun it is to become your own person. One day you randomly start liking jazz, olive green, expensive dark chocolate, documentaries about volcanoes, weird lamps, sparkling water, books about loneliness in Tokyo, silver jewelry and quiet cafés. Your personality keeps unfolding forever if you let it.
“Creatives already face immense pressure simply trying to survive, sustain their careers, and continue doing what they love in order to put food on the table. No amount of internet clout is worth an artist’s mental health, dignity, or emotional wellbeing”
🚨D’Prince condemns paid propaganda, online hate, and cyberbullying in Nigeria’s media space via new tweet
the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest.
the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
I really don’t know how to explain it, but this feels like music.
Like if someone asked me to define music and give examples, this song would be one of them.
It sounds like what music is supposed to sound like.
Designing your stage & lighting in such a way that when fans pull their phones out to record, it gives the illusion you are on top of the world BUT they are the stars & universe you exist in…
is insane creativity. 🔥
Biggest take away from the Oscars for me is that finding people you love and making art with them is a worthy, integral and noble human pursuit, no matter the odds or outcomes.
Michael B. Jordan is now the sixth Black actor to win Best Actor in a Leading Role at the #Oscars
Joining Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Will Smith.
Sharing this for whoever needs it:
your breakthrough might be one bold ask away.
I once sent a handwritten letter to Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, asking if he’d recommend me for a role at WIPO. I didn’t know him I just went with my gut. This was his reply✨