THE GOLDEN LIFE

New Path: Bring it on

2009-08-19T13:47:00.000-07:00

This summer has been how should i put it...hmmmmm up and down is prob the best way i can put it. I have made it to a very great time in any black mans life. Making 25 and learning something new once again about myself and others.

I have come to terms of who i am and what i stand for, you can love me for me or you can just keep it pushing.

Life throws us so many things that it seems to be to much but you know what im ready for anything it brings me.

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-06T00:48:00.001-07:00

One of my fav parts in a movie and one of my fav movies of all times. Spike Lee's " School Daze"
If you dont understand the ending or seen the movie and been black your whole life, you might want to watch this movie.

REallly, why should you vote?

2008-10-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

PRetty cool video

Light House Cinema, Dublin

2008-10-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

If only the big wigs of the movie theaters woudl take a note from this play book. Bring the joy and playful back to the movie world.

What A Five-Star Plane Looks Like Inside

2008-10-02T00:03:00.000-07:00

The Airbus A380 is a $300 million, 7-story plane that's as long as two blue whales and 260 ft from wingtip to wingtip. And, apparently, it's a flying resort. So this is the future of flying for those with cash? I seee...I wonder if there will be a down grade to southwest? LOLOL Could of used this type of style when flying to Asia. Would be very cool if each plane inside changed to fit the theme of the country you are flying to. NOW THat would be awesummmmeeee. But hey small big $$$ steps they say.

The A380 is the ultimate in luxury. It has three decks: the top two for passengers and the lower one available for a medical center, shopping or a fast-food franchise. The aircraft has features like spas, casinos, gyms, bedrooms, and duty-free shops. Some airlines also plan to fix staterooms with beds, showers, a water feature, a double-width staircase between decks, and luxurious, book-lined club-style bars.
The great plane designer came to the saving for those mile high people. I can see it now in the mood board room...Lets see we need class, luxury and o wait....how bout a room seeting so people can fuck...BAMMM we got it...LOLOL

Portrait by Fredrikson Stallard

2008-10-01T23:54:00.000-07:00

Portrait is an installation at Somerset House in London, created by designers Fredrikson Stallard for champagne brand Veuve Clicquot. The steel structure, which represents the grain of a block of timber, is illuminated from within at night.

Awesomest Jesus-Themed Song EVER

2008-09-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

Not just a friend, but a great drinking buddy. Isn't that right, Big J? Dude, you're puking on my shoes.

Safe For Work Porn Is Still Highly Questionable

2008-09-28T12:21:00.000-07:00

This is an allegedly safe for work porno video. It's supposedly safe because they've cleverly covered up all the action with cartoons. I dare say I found it more stimulating than the real thing. Especially the pinball scene. RAWR!

GINA Light Visionary Model by BMW

2008-09-26T00:40:00.001-07:00

The GINA Light Visionary Model by BMW is a concept featuring a flexible fabric skin stretched over an articulated metal frame, meaning the car can change shape. The Future rocks no doubt.

MORE PICtures

I need THis: Drum Kit Shirt

2008-09-25T16:08:00.000-07:00

I need this and want this...To cool. Drop some nasty beats in the public on the street. I wonder if you could upload new drum sounds.....

LEGOS....Yankee Stadium Gets a Glorious Lego Send-Off

2008-09-25T13:39:00.000-07:00

For die-hard Yankee's fans like myself, this has definitely been a year to forget. I think everyone would agree that the season itself was a total disaster, and I'm sure that there are a lot of people that are sad to see the old stadium go. Lego artist Sean Kenney is one of those people, which is why he and a Manhattan grade schooler spent three years building a 60" x 66" x 14" replica (1:150 scale) using 45,700 bricks. As you can see, the result of their efforts so far is impressive. When completed, the stadium will be populated with tons of miniature spectators and vendors

Japanese Iron Man Toy Has a Ridiculous Level of Detail

2008-09-25T10:06:00.001-07:00

Some very talented individuals at the Japanese company Hot Toys have developed 1:6 scale Iron Man Mark I, II and III figures that feature an absolutely extraordinary level of detail. Seriously though—just look at Stark's face. Sure, he looks kind of Japanese, but I'll be dammed if that is not the best Robert Downey Jr. has ever looked in tiny plastic form. Details are scarce, but more info is expected to be released sometime "soon." I can't wait to find out how much I can't afford to buy this!

Beautiful Visuals Created Using the Processing Programming Language

2008-09-23T13:03:00.000-07:00

Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Processing is an open source programming language designed for visual artists, "created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool." Originally developed at the MIT Media Lab, it's a free alternative to fancy, expensive, proprietary software tools. And man, can you make some cool stuff with it. This video, created by Glenn Marshall using Processing, is called Metamophosis. Featuring music by the incomparable Boards of Canada, it's a remarkable testament to what you can create with a simple programming language if you've got the chops.

Happy Feet..pretty sweet

2008-09-23T12:54:00.001-07:00

In the year 2020, the importance of hygiene will be even greater than it is today. This appliance called Happy Feet, is a solution for cleaning and sanitizing shoes. It uses charcoal, and ultraviolet rays to eliminate odors and sterilize shoes, both inside and out. Sleek lotus shape, and a spectacular light show when it operates.

Designer: Sang-hoon Park & Jong-hyun Kim

Lego Bikes...You DAMMM right its AWESUMMEEE

2008-09-23T12:48:00.000-07:00

By Designer Milto.

Perfect Lego Mac Pro Is Two Computers in One

2008-09-18T13:28:00.004-07:00

At first sight, this looked like a perfect working reproduction of a Mac Pro made of Lego, so I was ready to call it the best Lego computer in the history of best Lego computers. Then, when I learnt that it houses one full PC running Mac OS X and a Mac Mini, I felt something happening, this tingling sensation, this turgidity that made me feel a bit dizzy. And when I finally saw the Steve Jobs minifig standing there and took a closer look at it, nerdgasm finally ensued:

Made out of 2,588 Lego bricks, the Mac Pro was designed in Lego Digital Designer 2.0 for the MacMod Challenge 2008. The Hackintosh is a plain PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz CPU running Mac OS X, while the Mac Mini is a Core Duo 1.66Ghz. And the Steve Jobs minifig doesn't have any CPU, because he runs on mercurial power, tofu, and puppies' blood, like the real one.

It's About Time: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

2008-09-18T13:28:00.003-07:00

There's nothing worse than nagging your mommy to pack you a really good lunch only to have it stolen by some dick of a coworker. Enter the Anti-Theft Lunch bag, a Zip-Lock with moldy looking splotches printed on both sides. Created by designer Sherwood Forlee, you can email him to be notified when the bags become available for sale. Or, I dunno, make your own. Another option is to just bring two lunches so if somebody eats one you've still got a backup.

Who the hell steals two lunches?

Marble Maze Table Looks Fun, Expensive

2008-09-18T13:28:00.001-07:00

Remember when you were a kid and your parents wouldn't let you have dessert until you ate everything on your plate even though they convinced you it was rattlesnake and Rocky Mountain oysters (fried bull nads). Yeah, that sucked. But at least you would have had some entertainment if you ate on this Marbelous dinner table. Certainly brings new meaning to the phrase (which my mom originated but was later stolen and altered by a popular rock band), "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your balls?"

Crayola...The good ol days

2008-09-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

Here's an interesting manufacturing vid of how crayons are made, or at least how they were made in the '70s; it's difficult to imagine there are that many actual human beings in a Crayola factory these days.

WOOWWWWW...WORSE PIMPle ever

2008-09-13T23:22:00.000-07:00

Grad Student Auctioning Her Virginity To Pay For School, I Am Winning, Don't Outbid Me

2008-09-11T12:31:00.000-07:00

A female grad student at Sacremento State is selling her virginity in an auction to pay for her schooling. She may or may not have had a pair of baby high heels as an infant.

The 22-year-old who is using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan for safety reasons is going through a legal brothel in Nevada to sell her virginity. "The main purpose of this is to finance a couple things in my life," Dylan told CBS13. "I think empowerment of women is picking yourself up and doing something on your own to better yourself."

Dylan says she's already taken a polygraph test to prove her virginal status, and is also willing to undergo a medical exam.

Hof says Dylan is a bright, beautiful young woman who's going to consider a number of factors in her decision because she wants her first time to be a positive experience. "Natalie is a very smart girl. All she wants to do is get her master's degree in family and marriage counseling and be a psychologist. She's selling her virginity to accomplish that," Hof told CBS13. "She's smart enough to sell it. This is empowering her."

I think we can all agree when I say this is most certainly what female empowerment is all about. Take that, glass ceiling!

Wicked Cool Post-It Note Movie

2008-09-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

THe Cool Kids

2008-09-09T17:08:00.000-07:00

I got a chance to peep out the Cool Kids and was juiced to see them. Very funny dudes and just bring them to the stage.

NERD i am

2008-09-09T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hi. My name is Cubby and I am a NERD..
Deep down in me i am a fashion designer on the low. Helping out my boy make shirts for his GF and friend for the Cal vs MAryland game...GOOO BEARS
WE are Brown n Brown Construction Company...Where the same shades can come together to create greatness. " Get down with Brown and Brown"

NOW YOu know...HAHAHA

2008-09-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

The more you know...HAHA...THese videos are fucking funny and so true. A must watch:

Laundry Wall by Syneo Studio

2008-09-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

The Laundry Wall is a fully integrated wardrobe system which brings washing and clothing maintenance to a walk-in closet. Designed to optimize the working process between multiple appliances, it provides solutions for storing, cleaning, caring and refreshing of clothes. After presorting the wash load on top of the washer, the machine’s interface suggests an adequate program. Then users simply choose additional settings they would like to use. The focus of the Laundry Wall concept is on the filtering of information

Designer: Syneo Via: Born Rich

Bedside Slippers, Literally

2008-09-08T13:25:00.001-07:00

I don’t know what it is but slippers seem to fall victim to the same invisible monster that makes socks disappear. I try to keep organize and leave them in the same spot but sooner or later, they mysteriously vanish. Daniel Meyer surmised that to treat them as a mobile object more akin to carpet, you wouldn’t lose them and so he created a small bedside rug with porthole cut outs for your matching slippers. Now you’ll always know where they are before you get in and out of bed.

Designer: Daniel Meyer

Star Wars Condoms anyone?

2008-09-08T09:19:00.000-07:00

If you can't tell from the picture, these are knock-off Star Wars jimmy jackets, cleverly named Star Condoms. Apparently they were purchased somewhere in Asia and, HELLO, I'm wearing one. "A long time ago in a galaxy for, for away..." Awesome. Just a heads up though: don't buy condoms with misspellings on the box, it indicates poor quality control.

MY AVATAR

2008-09-05T20:32:00.000-07:00

ITS CUBBYYYYYYYYY....CHELLO..
Make yours here: FACE UP

I want this: MultiTouch

2008-09-05T19:45:00.000-07:00

MultiTouch, the company, not the technology, has developed the MultiTouch Cell, a multitouch LCD display that's modular (meaning that many LCDs can assemble to make one big LCD). Beyond expandability, the screens are quite advanced, supporting multiple users and recognizing fingers in relationship to the hand as opposed to independent points (which allows for more complex interactions). The tech is still quite pricey—the 32" display runs $7,000 with the 1080p 46" version reaching $15,000—but it takes a lot of resources to be a non-crazy version of Tom Cruise.

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE: LEgos

2008-09-04T12:15:00.000-07:00

This is what you get when you combine Lego and massive mechas done at the minifig scale: the biggest robotic overlord I've laid my eyes on. Reason why I love legos.

Gallery

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE: I want a cake like this

2008-09-03T15:56:00.000-07:00

I want a KUMA cake or a bear cake for my 25th bday...Thats all i have to say.

LEGOS.......AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE:

2008-09-02T10:38:00.001-07:00

Simon, a grown-ass man, went and built himself a full Boba Fett costume out of LEGO pieces. As you can see, it's pretty damn impressive. Right up there with that little kid's cardboard Halo arsenal. Hit the jump for a bunch more of Simon and his costume, along with a Vader version he made as well. Uh-oh. Another great idea i ever saw online:

Introducing the First Annual Geekologie LEGO Leia's Golden Bikini Contest! Full rules follow.

1. Contestants must construct and model a LEGO Golden Bikini
2. Digital photo required in entry
3. Must be holding a sign that reads "Geekologie" or "I Love You Geekologie Writer, I Want To Have Your Babies But Know You Don't Want Kids Right Now And I'm Totally Cool With That" or something similar so I know it's for the contest
4. No dudes
5. Hey you -- the guy that thought it would be funny to still enter anyways: stop.
6. LEGO pieces optional
7. Bikini optional
8. Naked photos only

Contest ends when I feel like it. Winners will be notified by personal stripper-gram. Your choice: fireman or police officer, I play both equally well.

I Am 8-Bit Art Exhibit: Works For Sale

2008-09-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

There's an art exhibit running in Hollywood until September 7th entitled "I Am 8-Bit" that features a bunch of old school gaming inspired art. If you're in the area you might want to check it out at: Wonder Storefront Gallery, 6650 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA. But if you can't make it, all the pieces are available for sale online. The origin als are fetching over a grand, but there are a couple prints (including a wicked Link/Gannon) for $100. Hit the jump to see some of my favorites, along with a link to both the show gallery and print sale page. Let's face it, there just isn't anything cooler than 8-bit gaming art. Well, besides 4-bit gaming art. ZOMG I'm so oldschool!

Check out the online gallery: 8-bit gaming art

ARTIST MIM LEUNG

2008-09-02T10:15:00.000-07:00

Returning to Hong Kong after graduating from The Royal College of Art inspired artist Mimi Leung to create the series, "The Hope and Struggle.
Motifs such as disease, mutation and vomit help convey the tensions of life in Hong Kong and the need for self-expression.

GROUND ZERO

2008-08-30T13:59:00.000-07:00

GROUND ZERO: Little People in the City is the first solo show from Slinkachu featuring all new works at Cosh Gallery, Soho, this August. Slinkachu has taken street art to a new scale, painstakingly hand-painting tiny characters that live in a world that’s too small for us to always notice beneath our feet.
His street installations are constructed in all sorts of public spaces, the portrayal of little lives that mirror our own. Working in miniature opens up the city landscapes in unexpected ways and this is explored in Ground Zero where he literally brings you down to a new level.
Ground Zero is both street art installations and photography. The two go hand in hand with thesubsequent photograph uncovering his hidden world. The show depicts the little fears and anxieties of city life and the general feeling of being alone or insignificant in a large city. While the scenes reflect the loneliness and melancholy of urban life there is always an underlying sense of humour and feeling of empathy.

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

Nose Gel Dispenser Is Fun for the Whole Family Or Maybe Just Me

2008-08-30T13:31:00.000-07:00

I think I may get this 9-inch-high Nose Shower Gel to put it in my kitchen and dispense lime Jello Mello. Too bad it only exudes gel out of the right nostril, though, because it would make an excellent ketchup and mustard dispenser for just $17.95

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE

2008-08-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

This is amazing, painting the Mona Lisa in less than a second:

Chubby Brothers Hidden Chairs Dining Table

2008-08-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Working in any kind of home or professional environment can be trying for a creative-oriented person, especially when essentials (such as a dining table, for instance) are needed for daily living. While even the wildest eccentric likes to sit down for a nice meal, afterward there’s still a bunch of goofy furniture sitting in the kitchen. What Brian Lee has made here is a definite score for those who wish to get the most out of their dining arena.

No, I don’t believe everyone NEEDS a dining table, but for those who DO, what choice do you have? The Chubby Brothers dining table turns itself into a beautiful sculptural piece when not in use. And when it IS in use, it is beyond comfortable (I’ve used it!)

As Brian Lee puts it: “A dining table with the idea of allowing the audience to gain a different perspective as an unrecognizable object when put together.” And once the chairs are pulled out, comfort for your butt! The Chubby Brothers dining table features Leaf spring seats on each of the four chairs. And once the chairs are pulled out, the table itself breaks down into six parts so that it might fit easily through doors. For the diner on the go!

Designer: Brian Lee

NERDS!!!!!

2008-08-28T11:18:00.001-07:00

Yes i know i am a NERD but this is the best part of the movie.

FUNNY ass vid and song..

2008-08-28T10:55:00.000-07:00

Hot Stylz - Lookin Boy Feat. Yung Joc

Another funny one as well.....

Kanye West "Good Morning" Video | Animated By Takashi Murakami

2008-08-28T10:40:00.000-07:00

The video of "Good Morning" by Kanye West debuts. It is directed by Kanye West himself and animated by none other than Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

THe start of table Tennis..more to come

2008-08-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

RAD..greatest BMX movie

2008-07-21T15:03:00.000-07:00

The story of Cru Jones, a young man who can overcome all obstacles that prevent him from participating in the BMX race "Helltrack." As he works towards his dream, Cru falls in love with Christian, an amateur racer. With the help of Christian and her friends, can Cru's "Rad Racing Team" defeat the top BMX factory rider, Bart Taylor

Best Part of the movie:

History of Black superheros

2008-07-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

To begin with, the history of black superheroes is not easily assembled since early on, much of the work was not reported on. There aren't volumes of books out there on the subject, and even if you look at historical books put out by major publishers - the coverage on their own black superheroes is sparse at best.

Also, companies prefer to sweep any negative and stereotypical characters from their past under the rug in order to preserve their images today. Therefore, the search for early black superheroes turns up more negative images than anything else. The history as a whole needs to be looked at in order to fully appreciate the black superheroes being created today.

By the 1940's both Marvel and DC Comics were enjoying major popularity as their fantastic images made their way into the hands of kids everywhere. They have shared a major share of the comics industry ever since. Characters such as Marvel's Captain America, and DC’s Superman and Shazam shared most of the popularity and black superheroes wouldn’t appear until much later. Much like the movie industry - racism directly impacted black comicbook characters who were cast in background roles or as “uncle tom” sidekicks.

Marvel’s first black superhero was named “Whitewash” (the name speaks for itself). Whitewash was a character drawn in full blackface fashion who appeared in the 1940's war comic "Young Allies". (images -1, 2, 3) Notice a common theme in all three cover images? Created for comic effect only, Whitewash was portrayed as a helpless bufoon whose only purpose was to provide laughs as he fell into one dire situation to another. Full of the stereotypes you would expect to see at that time in American history, negative black comic characters were all too commonplace.

Black superheroes were also subject to the negative perceptions of the artists drawing them at the time and therefore a parallel can be made to struggle for equality in America. Marvel’s Black Panther appeared in 1966 (Fantastic Four #52) and wouldn’t gain his own title until 11 years later (how's that for affirmative action?). Followed by DC’s Black Lightning and Marvel’s Luke Cage, poster children for the entertainment industry’s Blaxploitation of the 70’s. Where possible I have included some images from the comics themselves depicting some of these racial situations as they appeared in print. The progress of blacks in comics has an undeniable link to our society's racial issues and I ask you to keep this in mind as we delve into the offensive nature of some of the characters.

In recent years, many African American artists and comics publishers have taken it upon themselves to create and explore more black superheroes. The impact of these independent comics can’t be overlooked so I’ve included them in the museum because they are vital to bringing black superheroes to the forefront of the public eye. With many more black artists drawing, and new black superheroes being created everyday, black heroes are on the rise. Over time, their success will only help to broaden the minds of those who take the time to read and enjoy them. In conclusion, if you know artists that are creating comics, buy their books and support black superheroes!

To: Love ,From: ?

2008-07-16T14:34:00.000-07:00

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
- Woody Allen

STYROFOAM ROBOTS

2008-07-11T12:11:00.000-07:00

An associate professor of digital arts at the University of Oregon since 2005, Michael Salter has created a stir in the art world with his "Styrobots," robots made of styrofoam.

Converse “My Drive Thru” Music Video: NER*D, Santogold and Julian Casablancas

2008-07-10T10:44:00.001-07:00

Produced By Pharrell - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D.

Photos of Highway Billboards From Below Reveal Death Star Corridors of Doom

2008-07-09T23:37:00.000-07:00

When they're not screaming at you to pull off for discount cigarettes, fireworks and porn (at least when you're near the Indiana border), highway billboards are apparently busy looking like menacing space station hallways from below. High-watt chemical lights under night skies make for some fantastic captures, as Slovakian photographer Branislav Kropilak has discovered.

His SIte

Jedi Gym

2008-07-09T10:31:00.000-07:00

Hancock

2008-07-08T18:53:00.000-07:00

I knew the origin of hancock is when the little boy asked about him and the symbol of the hawk that he kept around him. then when I saw his suit he had the hawk on his back with the wings spread. remeber the drawings he put in his jail cell. See the Pyramids. Understand hancock didnt know his origin so when he is alone this IMAGES came out of him.

First you must understand that the concept of a hero and comic book heros come from the understanding of greek mythology. and all greek mythology comes from the story and tutoliage of the Kemtic(eygptian) mystery schools. When the greeks where being taught about their kings and people of war, it was taught in stories. And all of the stories line up to the one story. This story is the oldest record story by man, Before the bible, before babylonian texts. Thousands of years ago this story was written in the great pyramid. Our ancestors chizzled this story of the walls of the the oldest structure known to man. You know it as Osiris and Isis. I am not goin to tell the story, its to long (find writings by Ra Un Nefer Amen). in that story the alagory of the "hero" was presented in the son of Ausar and Auset(OSIRIS AND ISIS) his name was HERU. Which became the root word for herucles. and HERU,was change to HERO, hence the concept of the HERO. When Heru was born he was presented as the HAWK (Horus). To give a lil Hyrogliphic lesson. The reason why the hawk was used to embody this understanding of the HERO is two things.

1. the hawk, flacon, is the highest flying animal on earth. So meaning that having the abilty to RISE above any chalenge, anyy obsticle then any being on earth.
2. It is the only animal on earth that can stare directly into the sun with destorying its pupil. Meaning to have the abilty to SEE in to greatness and not turn away. To SEE its future and go forth, and into SEE in to greatness and not be afraid to go forward.

Now what is the deep thing about Hancock, is one Will Smith is playing him, a black man. Let me explain what is really goin on. If you notice there is a huge influx of SUPER HERO movies being brought to the masses. Images shape your reality. And what is happening is that the Spidermans, Iron mans, batmans, Hulks are images that we as black people on a sub conscious level have NO connection to, but except it as our own. When it comes to black people or people of African Desent( ancestors who didnt expence the Ice age) we have what is known as a "Ancestral Genetic Memory Bank" That goes all the way back to the civilisations that started man. So when a HERO is presented as an Image it has to line up to our HISTORY as a people first. And it just so happens that the FIRST idea of a HERO is of black people. For a black man to answer back as HERU to the Ironmans, Batmans, etc. I am very proud and delighted. The movie was cheesy, but it was in line on how to present a black HERO

Now I know you are thinking that this is too deep and it wasnt what you were looking for. BUT please dont believe anything I have said. Go look it up for yourself.

Untitled

2008-07-07T20:38:00.000-07:00

Every year with no knowing, I have passed my day
When the last sunset that once keeps me warm
And the darkness will become day
Back to the future
Like the my first steps.

By: CuBby

Chello

2008-07-06T23:42:00.000-07:00

Believe or else

2008-07-06T16:23:00.000-07:00

The things we as people will do and create to put the good word into you or better spray on you. I wonder if they would sell this at church or give these to those to convert and save the world. Very funny i must say. The new axe spray...

51-100 Things You Dont Know About Africa

2008-07-06T16:20:00.000-07:00

51. The mediaeval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry in the 1974 edition that described the city as: “The largest earthworks in the world carried out prior to the mechanical era.”

52. Benin art of the Middle Ages was of the highest quality. An official of the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde once stated that: “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique. Benvenuto Cellini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him . . . Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”

53. Winwood Reade described his visit to the Ashanti Royal Palace of Kumasi in 1874: “We went to the king’s palace, which consists of many courtyards, each surrounded with alcoves and verandahs, and having two gates or doors, so that each yard was a thoroughfare . . . But the part of the palace fronting the street was a stone house, Moorish in its style . . . with a flat roof and a parapet, and suites of apartments on the first floor. It was built by Fanti masons many years ago. The rooms upstairs remind me of Wardour Street. Each was a perfect Old Curiosity Shop. Books in many languages, Bohemian glass, clocks, silver plate, old furniture, Persian rugs, Kidderminster carpets, pictures and engravings, numberless chests and coffers. A sword bearing the inscription From Queen Victoria to the King of Ashantee. A copy of the Times, 17 October 1843. With these were many specimens of Moorish and Ashanti handicraft.”

54. In the mid-nineteenth century, William Clarke, an English visitor to Nigeria, remarked that: “As good an article of cloth can be woven by the Yoruba weavers as by any people . . . in durability, their cloths far excel the prints and home-spuns of Manchester.”

55. The recently discovered 9th century Nigerian city of Eredo was found to be surrounded by a wall that was 100 miles long and seventy feet high in places. The internal area was a staggering 400 square miles.

56. On the subject of cloth, Kongolese textiles were also distinguished. Various European writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries wrote of the delicate crafts of the peoples living in eastern Kongo and adjacent regions who manufactured damasks, sarcenets, satins, taffeta, cloth of tissue and velvet. Professor DeGraft-Johnson made the curious observation that: “Their brocades, both high and low, were far more valuable than the Italian.”

57. On Kongolese metallurgy of the Middle Ages, one modern scholar wrote that: “There is no doubting . . . the existence of an expert metallurgical art in the ancient Kongo . . . The Bakongo were aware of the toxicity of lead vapours. They devised preventative and curative methods, both pharmacological (massive doses of pawpaw and palm oil) and mechanical (exerting of pressure to free the digestive tract), for combating lead poisoning.”

58. In Nigeria, the royal palace in the city of Kano dates back to the fifteenth century. Begun by Muhammad Rumfa (ruled 1463-99) it has gradually evolved over generations into a very imposing complex. A colonial report of the city from 1902, described it as “a network of buildings covering an area of 33 acres and surrounded by a wall 20 to 30 feet high outside and 15 feet inside . . . in itself no mean citadel”.

59. A sixteenth century traveller visited the central African civilisation of Kanem-Borno and commented that the emperor’s cavalry had golden “stirrups, spurs, bits and buckles.” Even the ruler’s dogs had “chains of the finest gold”.

60. One of the government positions in mediaeval Kanem-Borno was Astronomer Royal.

61. Ngazargamu, the capital city of Kanem-Borno, became one of the largest cities in the seventeenth century world. By 1658 AD, the metropolis, according to an architectural scholar housed “about quarter of a million people”. It had 660 streets. Many were wide and unbending, reflective of town planning.

62. The Nigerian city of Surame flourished in the sixteenth century. Even in ruin it was an impressive sight, built on a horizontal vertical grid. A modern scholar describes it thus: “The walls of Surame are about 10 miles in circumference and include many large bastions or walled suburbs running out at right angles to the main wall. The large compound at Kanta is still visible in the centre, with ruins of many buildings, one of which is said to have been two-storied. The striking feature of the walls and whole ruins is the extensive use of stone and tsokuwa (laterite gravel) or very hard red building mud, evidently brought from a distance. There is a big mound of this near the north gate about 8 feet in height. The walls show regular courses of masonry to a height of 20 feet and more in several places. The best preserved portion is that known as sirati (the bridge) a little north of the eastern gate . . . The main city walls here appear to have provided a very strongly guarded entrance about 30 feet wide.”

63. The Nigerian city of Kano in 1851 produced an estimated 10 million pairs of sandals and 5 million hides each year for export.

64. In 1246 AD Dunama II of Kanem-Borno exchanged embassies with Al-Mustansir, the king of Tunis. He sent the North African court a costly present, which apparently included a giraffe. An old chronicle noted that the rare animal “created a sensation in Tunis”.

65. By the third century BC the city of Carthage on the coast of Tunisia was opulent and impressive. It had a population of 700,000 and may even have approached a million. Lining both sides of three streets were rows of tall houses six storeys high.

66. The Ethiopian city of Axum has a series of 7 giant obelisks that date from perhaps 300 BC to 300 AD. They have details carved into them that represent windows and doorways of several storeys. The largest obelisk, now fallen, is in fact “the largest monolith ever made anywhere in the world”. It is 108 feet long, weighs a staggering 500 tons, and represents a thirteen-storey building.

67. Ethiopia minted its own coins over 1,500 years ago. One scholar wrote that: “Almost no other contemporary state anywhere in the world could issue in gold, a statement of sovereignty achieved only by Rome, Persia, and the Kushan kingdom in northern India at the time.”

68. The Ethiopian script of the 4th century AD influenced the writing script of Armenia. A Russian historian noted that: “Soon after its creation, the Ethiopic vocalised script began to influence the scripts of Armenia and Georgia. D. A. Olderogge suggested that Mesrop Mashtotz used the vocalised Ethiopic script when he invented the Armenian alphabet.”

69. “In the first half of the first millennium CE,” says a modern scholar, Ethiopia “was ranked as one of the world’s greatest empires”. A Persian cleric of the third century AD identified it as the third most important state in the world after Persia and Rome.

70. Ethiopia has 11 underground mediaeval churches built by being carved out of the ground. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, Roha became the new capital of the Ethiopians. Conceived as a New Jerusalem by its founder, Emperor Lalibela (c.1150-1230), it contains 11 churches, all carved out of the rock of the mountains by hammer and chisel. All of the temples were carved to a depth of 11 metres or so below ground level. The largest is the House of the Redeemer, a staggering 33.7 metres long, 23.7 metres wide and 11.5 metres deep.

71. Lalibela is not the only place in Ethiopia to have such wonders. A cotemporary archaeologist reports research that was conducted in the region in the early 1970’s when: “startling numbers of churches built in caves or partially or completely cut from the living rock were revealed not only in Tigre and Lalibela but as far south as Addis Ababa. Soon at least 1,500 were known. At least as many more probably await revelation.”

72. In 1209 AD Emperor Lalibela of Ethiopia sent an embassy to Cairo bringing the sultan unusual gifts including an elephant, a hyena, a zebra, and a giraffe.

73. In Southern Africa, there are at least 600 stone built ruins in the regions of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. These ruins are called Mazimbabwe in Shona, the Bantu language of the builders, and means great revered house and “signifies court”.

74. The Great Zimbabwe was the largest of these ruins. It consists of 12 clusters of buildings, spread over 3 square miles. Its outer walls were made from 100,000 tons of granite bricks. In the fourteenth century, the city housed 18,000 people, comparable in size to that of London of the same period.

75. Bling culture existed in this region. At the time of our last visit, the Horniman Museum in London had exhibits of headrests with the caption: “Headrests have been used in Africa since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. Remains of some headrests, once covered in gold foil, have been found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe and burial sites like Mapungubwe dating to the twelfth century after Christ.”

76. Dr Albert Churchward, author of Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, pointed out that writing was found in one of the stone built ruins: “Lt.-Col. E. L. de Cordes . . . who was in South Africa for three years, informed the writer that in one of the ‘Ruins’ there is a ‘stone-chamber,’ with a vast quantity of Papyri, covered with old Egyptian hieroglyphics. A Boer hunter discovered this, and a large quantity was used to light a fire with, and yet still a larger quantity remained there now.”

77. On bling culture, one seventeenth century visitor to southern African empire of Monomotapa, that ruled over this vast region, wrote that: “The people dress in various ways: at court of the Kings their grandees wear cloths of rich silk, damask, satin, gold and silk cloth; these are three widths of satin, each width four covados [2.64m], each sewn to the next, sometimes with gold lace in between, trimmed on two sides, like a carpet, with a gold and silk fringe, sewn in place with a two fingers’ wide ribbon, woven with gold roses on silk.”

78. Southern Africans mined gold on an epic scale. One modern writer tells us that: “The estimated amount of gold ore mined from the entire region by the ancients was staggering, exceeding 43 million tons. The ore yielded nearly 700 tons of pure gold which today would be valued at over $******7.5 billion.”

79. Apparently the Monomotapan royal palace at Mount Fura had chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. An eighteenth century geography book provided the following data: “The inside consists of a great variety of sumptuous apartments, spacious and lofty halls, all adorned with a magnificent cotton tapestry, the manufacture of the country. The floors, cielings [sic], beams and rafters are all either gilt or plated with gold curiously wrought, as are also the chairs of state, tables, benches &c. The candle-sticks and branches are made of ivory inlaid with gold, and hang from the cieling by chains of the same metal, or of silver gilt.”

80. Monomotapa had a social welfare system. Antonio Bocarro, a Portuguese contemporary, informs us that the Emperor: “shows great charity to the blind and maimed, for these are called the king’s poor, and have land and revenues for their subsistence, and when they wish to pass through the kingdoms, wherever they come food and drinks are given to them at the public cost as long as they remain there, and when they leave that place to go to another they are provided with what is necessary for their journey, and a guide, and some one to carry their wallet to the next village. In every place where they come there is the same obligation.”

81. Many southern Africans have indigenous and pre-colonial words for ‘gun’. Scholars have generally been reluctant to investigate or explain this fact.

82. Evidence discovered in 1978 showed that East Africans were making steel for more than 1,500 years: “Assistant Professor of Anthropology Peter Schmidt and Professor of Engineering Donald H. Avery have found as long as 2,000 years ago Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria had produced carbon steel in preheated forced draft furnaces, a method that was technologically more sophisticated than any developed in Europe until the mid-nineteenth century.”

83. Ruins of a 300 BC astronomical observatory was found at Namoratunga in Kenya. Africans were mapping the movements of stars such as Triangulum, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, etcetera, as well as the moon, in order to create a lunar calendar of 354 days.

84. Autopsies and caesarean operations were routinely and effectively carried out by surgeons in pre-colonial Uganda. The surgeons routinely used antiseptics, anaesthetics and cautery iron. Commenting on a Ugandan caesarean operation that appeared in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1884, one author wrote: “The whole conduct of the operation . . . suggests a skilled long-practiced surgical team at work conducting a well-tried and familiar operation with smooth efficiency.”

85. Sudan in the mediaeval period had churches, cathedrals, monasteries and castles. Their ruins still exist today.

86. The mediaeval Nubian Kingdoms kept archives. From the site of Qasr Ibrim legal texts, documents and correspondence were discovered. An archaeologist informs us that: “On the site are preserved thousands of documents in Meroitic, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, Arabic and Turkish.”

87. Glass windows existed in mediaeval Sudan. Archaeologists found evidence of window glass at the Sudanese cities of Old Dongola and Hambukol.

88. Bling culture existed in the mediaeval Sudan. Archaeologists found an individual buried at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the city of Old Dongola. He was clad in an extremely elaborate garb consisting of costly textiles of various fabrics including gold thread. At the city of Soba East, there were individuals buried in fine clothing, including items with golden thread.

89. Style and fashion existed in mediaeval Sudan. A dignitary at Jebel Adda in the late thirteenth century AD was interned with a long coat of red and yellow patterned damask folded over his body. Underneath, he wore plain cotton trousers of long and baggy cut. A pair of red leather slippers with turned up toes lay at the foot of the coffin. The body was wrapped in enormous pieces of gold brocaded striped silk.

90. Sudan in the ninth century AD had housing complexes with bath rooms and piped water. An archaeologist wrote that Old Dongola, the capital of Makuria, had: “a[n] . . . eighth to . . . ninth century housing complex. The houses discovered here differ in their hitherto unencountered spatial layout as well as their functional programme (water supply installation, bathroom with heating system) and interiors decorated with murals.”

91. In 619 AD, the Nubians sent a gift of a giraffe to the Persians.

92. The East Coast, from Somalia to Mozambique, has ruins of well over 50 towns and cities. They flourished from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries AD.

93. Chinese records of the fifteenth century AD note that Mogadishu had houses of “four or five storeys high”.

94. Gedi, near the coast of Kenya, is one of the East African ghost towns. Its ruins, dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, include the city walls, the palace, private houses, the Great Mosque, seven smaller mosques, and three pillar tombs.

95. The ruined mosque in the Kenyan city of Gedi had a water purifier made of limestone for recycling water.

96. The palace in the Kenyan city of Gedi contains evidence of piped water controlled by taps. In addition it had bathrooms and indoor toilets.

97. A visitor in 1331 AD considered the Tanzanian city of Kilwa to be of world class. He wrote that it was the “principal city on the coast the greater part of whose inhabitants are Zanj of very black complexion.” Later on he says that: “Kilwa is one of the most beautiful and well-constructed cities in the world. The whole of it is elegantly built.”

98. Bling culture existed in early Tanzania. A Portuguese chronicler of the sixteenth century wrote that: “[T]hey are finely clad in many rich garments of gold and silk and cotton, and the women as well; also with much gold and silver chains and bracelets, which they wear on their legs and arms, and many jewelled earrings in their ears”.

99. In 1961 a British archaeologist, found the ruins of Husuni Kubwa, the royal palace of the Tanzanian city of Kilwa. It had over a hundred rooms, including a reception hall, galleries, courtyards, terraces and an octagonal swimming pool.

100. In 1414 the Kenyan city of Malindi sent ambassadors to China carrying a gift that created a sensation at the Imperial Court. It was, of course, a giraffe.

Chapter 24

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Today is the day I start another wonderful chapter in my life. I have reached a goal that some have failed to even reach. I live not just for myself but for those who dream n wish to see that next chapter in there life. I'm 24 years old and have been blessed with my family and friends to be who i am today. From my new job to living in a new state i can only say thank you and hope that this chapter brings me closer to my goals and dreams. As i sit here to start off my intro of my new chapter that seems to bring hope in a time where hope has been lost to witnessing history like my parents and grandparents with MLK and other great black leaders. A black President. Can it be, will it happen.Chapter 24 can only let what is planned happen and sit back and be part of history or be history.

100 things that you did not know about Africa

2008-06-09T23:02:00.000-07:00

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.

2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found in Africa that date back between 4 and 5 million years. The oldest known ancestral type of humanity is thought to have been the australopithecus ramidus, who lived at least 4.4 million years ago.

3. Africans were the first to organise fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. At Katanda, a region in northeastern Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered a finely wrought series of harpoon points, all elaborately polished and barbed. Also uncovered was a tool, equally well crafted, believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture.

4. Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artefacts were recovered including thousands of stone-made mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists on the site, dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old.

5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with notches carved into it found in the Ishango region of Zaïre (now called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to have been over 8,000 years old, but a more sensitive recent dating has given dates of 25,000 years old. On the tool are 3 rows of notches. Row 1 shows three notches carved next to six, four carved next to eight, ten carved next to two fives and finally a seven. The 3 and 6, 4 and 8, and 10 and 5, represent the process of doubling. Row 2 shows eleven notches carved next to twenty-one notches, and nineteen notches carved next to nine notches. This represents 10 + 1, 20 + 1, 20 - 1 and 10 - 1. Finally, Row 3 shows eleven notches, thirteen notches, seventeen notches and nineteen notches. 11, 13, 17 and 19 are the prime numbers between 10 and 20.

6. Africans cultivated crops 12,000 years ago, the first known advances in agriculture. Professor Fred Wendorf discovered that people in Egypt’s Western Desert cultivated crops of barley, capers, chick-peas, dates, legumes, lentils and wheat. Their ancient tools were also recovered. There were grindstones, milling stones, cutting blades, hide scrapers, engraving burins, and mortars and pestles.

7. Africans mummified their dead 9,000 years ago. A mummified infant was found under the Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter in south western Libya. The infant was buried in the foetal position and was mummified using a very sophisticated technique that must have taken hundreds of years to evolve. The technique predates the earliest mummies known in Ancient Egypt by at least 1,000 years. Carbon dating is controversial but the mummy may date from 7438 (±220) BC.

8. Africans carved the world’s first colossal sculpture 7,000 or more years ago. The Great Sphinx of Giza was fashioned with the head of a man combined with the body of a lion. A key and important question raised by this monument was: How old is it? In October 1991 Professor Robert Schoch, a geologist from Boston University, demonstrated that the Sphinx was sculpted between 5000 BC and 7000 BC, dates that he considered conservative.

9. On the 1 March 1979, the New York Times carried an article on its front page also page sixteen that was entitled Nubian Monarchy called Oldest. In this article we were assured that: “Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations, has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia” (i.e. the territory of the northern Sudan and the southern portion of modern Egypt.)

10. The ancient Egyptians had the same type of tropically adapted skeletal proportions as modern Black Africans. A 2003 paper appeared in American Journal of Physical AnthropologyVariation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions

11. The ancient Egyptians had Afro combs. One writer tells us that the Egyptians “manufactured a very striking range of combs in ivory: the shape of these is distinctly African and is like the combs used even today by Africans and those of African descent.”

12. The Funerary Complex in the ancient Egyptian city of Saqqara is the oldest building that tourists regularly visit today. An outer wall, now mostly in ruins, surrounded the whole structure. Through the entrance are a series of columns, the first stone-built columns known to historians. The North House also has ornamental columns built into the walls that have papyrus-like capitals. Also inside the complex is the Ceremonial Court, made of limestone blocks that have been quarried and then shaped. In the centre of the complex is the Step Pyramid, the first of 90 Egyptian pyramids.

13. The first Great Pyramid of Giza, the most extraordinary building in history, was a staggering 481 feet tall - the equivalent of a 40-storey building. It was made of 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite, some weighing 100 tons.

14. The ancient Egyptian city of Kahun was the world’s first planned city. Rectangular and walled, the city was divided into two parts. One part housed the wealthier inhabitants – the scribes, officials and foremen. The other part housed the ordinary people. The streets of the western section in particular, were straight, laid out on a grid, and crossed each other at right angles. A stone gutter, over half a metre wide, ran down the centre of every street.

15. Egyptian mansions were discovered in Kahun - each boasting 70 rooms, divided into four sections or quarters. There was a master’s quarter, quarters for women and servants, quarters for offices and finally, quarters for granaries, each facing a central courtyard. The master’s quarters had an open court with a stone water tank for bathing. Surrounding this was a colonnade.

16 The Labyrinth in the Egyptian city of Hawara with its massive layout, multiple courtyards, chambers and halls, was the very largest building in antiquity. Boasting three thousand rooms, 1,500 of them were above ground and the other 1,500 were underground.

17. Toilets and sewerage systems existed in ancient Egypt. One of the pharaohs built a city now known as Amarna. An American urban planner noted that: “Great importance was attached to cleanliness in Amarna as in other Egyptian cities. Toilets and sewers were in use to dispose waste. Soap was made for washing the body. Perfumes and essences were popular against body odour. A solution of natron was used to keep insects from houses . . . Amarna may have been the first planned ‘garden city’.”

18. Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth - even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë. They are generally 20 to 30 metres high and steep sided.

19. The Sudanese city of Meroë is rich in surviving monuments. Becoming the capital of the Kushite Empire between 590 BC until AD 350, there are 84 pyramids in this city alone, many built with their own miniature temple. In addition, there are ruins of a bath house sharing affinities with those of the Romans. Its central feature is a large pool approached by a flight of steps with waterspouts decorated with lion heads.

20. Bling culture has a long and interesting history. Gold was used to decorate ancient Sudanese temples. One writer reported that: “Recent excavations at Meroe and Mussawwarat es-Sufra revealed temples with walls and statues covered with gold leaf”.

21. In around 300 BC, the Sudanese invented a writing script that had twenty-three letters of which four were vowels and there was also a word divider. Hundreds of ancient texts have survived that were in this script. Some are on display in the British Museum.

22. In central Nigeria, West Africa’s oldest civilisation flourished between 1000 BC and 300 BC. Discovered in 1928, the ancient culture was called the Nok Civilisation, named after the village in which the early artefacts were discovered. Two modern scholars, declare that “[a]fter calibration, the period of Nok art spans from 1000 BC until 300 BC”. The site itself is much older going back as early as 4580 or 4290 BC.

23. West Africans built in stone by 1100 BC. In the Tichitt-Walata region of Mauritania, archaeologists have found “large stone masonry villages” that date back to 1100 BC. The villages consisted of roughly circular compounds connected by “well-defined streets”.

24. By 250 BC, the foundations of West Africa’s oldest cities were established such as Old Djenné in Mali.

25. Kumbi Saleh, the capital of Ancient Ghana, flourished from 300 to 1240 AD. Located in modern day Mauritania, archaeological excavations have revealed houses, almost habitable today, for want of renovation and several storeys high. They had underground rooms, staircases and connecting halls. Some had nine rooms. One part of the city alone is estimated to have housed 30,000 people.
by Dr Sonia Zakrzewski entitled where she states that: “The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the ‘super-Negroid’ body plan described by Robins (1983). The values for the brachial and crural indices show that the distal segments of each limb are longer relative to the proximal segments than in many ‘African’ populations.”

26. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.”

27. Lord Lugard, an English official, estimated in 1904 that there were 170 walled towns still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern Nigeria.

28. Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.

29. Ibn Haukal, writing in 951 AD, informs us that the King of Ghana was “the richest king on the face of the earth” whose pre-eminence was due to the quantity of gold nuggets that had been amassed by the himself and by his predecessors.

30. The Nigerian city of Ile-Ife was paved in 1000 AD on the orders of a female ruler with decorations that originated in Ancient America. Naturally, no-one wants to explain how this took place approximately 500 years before the time of Christopher Columbus!

31. West Africa had bling culture in 1067 AD. One source mentions that when the Emperor of Ghana gives audience to his people: “he sits in a pavilion around which stand his horses caparisoned in cloth of gold: behind him stand ten pages holding shields and gold-mounted swords: and on his right hand are the sons of the princes of his empire, splendidly clad and with gold plaited into their hair . . . The gate of the chamber is guarded by dogs of an excellent breed . . . they wear collars of gold and silver.”

32. Glass windows existed at that time. The residence of the Ghanaian Emperor in 1116 AD was: “A well-built castle, thoroughly fortified, decorated inside with sculptures and pictures, and having glass windows.”

33. The Grand Mosque in the Malian city of Djenné, described as “the largest adobe [clay] building in the world”, was first raised in 1204 AD. It was built on a square plan where each side is 56 metres in length. It has three large towers on one side, each with projecting wooden buttresses.

34. One of the great achievements of the Yoruba was their urban culture. “By the year A.D. 1300,” says a modern scholar, “the Yoruba people built numerous walled cities surrounded by farms”. The cities were Owu, Oyo, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ketu, Popo, Egba, Sabe, Dassa, Egbado, Igbomina, the sixteen Ekiti principalities, Owo and Ondo.

35. Yoruba metal art of the mediaeval period was of world class. One scholar wrote that Yoruba art “would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer.”

36. In the Malian city of Gao stands the Mausoleum of Askia the Great, a weird sixteenth century edifice that resembles a step pyramid.

37. Thousands of mediaeval tumuli have been found across West Africa. Nearly 7,000 were discovered in north-west Senegal alone spread over nearly 1,500 sites. They were probably built between 1000 and 1300 AD.

38. Excavations at the Malian city of Gao carried out by Cambridge University revealed glass windows. One of the finds was entitled: “Fragments of alabaster window surrounds and a piece of pink window glass, Gao 10th – 14th century.”

39. In 1999 the BBC produced a television series entitled Millennium. The programme devoted to the fourteenth century opens with the following disclosure: “In the fourteenth century, the century of the scythe, natural disasters threatened civilisations with extinction. The Black Death kills more people in Europe, Asia and North Africa than any catastrophe has before. Civilisations which avoid the plague thrive. In West Africa the Empire of Mali becomes the richest in the world.”

40. Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published on this sometime around 1342. In the tenth chapter of his book, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in 1312. This mariner king is not named by Al-Umari, but modern writers identify him as Mansa Abubakari II.

41. On a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 AD, a Malian ruler, Mansa Musa, brought so much money with him that his visit resulted in the collapse of gold prices in Egypt and Arabia. It took twelve years for the economies of the region to normalise.

42. West African gold mining took place on a vast scale. One modern writer said that: “It is estimated that the total amount of gold mined in West Africa up to 1500 was 3,500 tons, worth more than $****30 billion in today’s market.”

43. The old Malian capital of Niani had a 14th century building called the Hall of Audience. It was an surmounted by a dome, adorned with arabesques of striking colours. The windows of an upper floor were plated with wood and framed in silver; those of a lower floor were plated with wood, framed in gold.

44. Mali in the 14th century was highly urbanised. Sergio Domian, an Italian art and architecture scholar, wrote the following about this period: “Thus was laid the foundation of an urban civilisation. At the height of its power, Mali had at least 400 cities, and the interior of the Niger Delta was very densely populated”.

45. The Malian city of Timbuktu had a 14th century population of 115,000 - 5 times larger than mediaeval London. Mansa Musa, built the Djinguerebere Mosque in the fourteenth century. There was the University Mosque in which 25,000 students studied and the Oratory of Sidi Yayia. There were over 150 Koran schools in which 20,000 children were instructed. London, by contrast, had a total 14th century population of 20,000 people.

46. National Geographic recently described Timbuktu as the Paris of the mediaeval world, on account of its intellectual culture. According to Professor Henry Louis Gates, 25,000 university students studied there.

47. Many old West African families have private library collections that go back hundreds of years. The Mauritanian cities of Chinguetti and Oudane have a total of 3,450 hand written mediaeval books. There may be another 6,000 books still surviving in the other city of Walata. Some date back to the 8th century AD. There are 11,000 books in private collections in Niger. Finally, in Timbuktu, Mali, there are about 700,000 surviving books.

48. A collection of one thousand six hundred books was considered a small library for a West African scholar of the 16th century. Professor Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu is recorded as saying that he had the smallest library of any of his friends - he had only 1600 volumes.

49. Concerning these old manuscripts, Michael Palin, in his TV series Sahara, said the imam of Timbuktu “has a collection of scientific texts that clearly show the planets circling the sun. They date back hundreds of years . . . Its convincing evidence that the scholars of Timbuktu knew a lot more than their counterparts in Europe. In the fifteenth century in Timbuktu the mathematicians knew about the rotation of the planets, knew about the details of the eclipse, they knew things which we had to wait for 150 almost 200 years to know in Europe when Galileo and Copernicus came up with these same calculations and were given a very hard time for it.”

50. The Songhai Empire of 16th century West Africa had a government position called Minister for Etiquette and Protocol.

more to come...

The Weather is CUMMING your way..really

2008-06-08T01:20:00.000-07:00

The many reasons why watching the weather can be funny. Just hope that storm does not come over your area...

Lacoste.....the future

2008-06-06T13:17:00.000-07:00

Old time brand lacoste is stepping into the future byt invisioing there brand for the next years to come. I dig this and has a little bit of storm troopers with a mix of eur.

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I found my Dream Home...Hands Down.

2008-06-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

The project involves an extension to a 19th-century villa located in a beautiful Alpine resort next to Lake Bled. Both - the existing villa and the landscape, were strictly regulated by the National Heritage organization. The design brief required for the main living area to be twice its current size and for the majority of the spaces to face the lake.

Location: Ljublujana, Slovenia. Architects: Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik.

Media Stereotyping

2008-06-03T12:49:00.000-07:00

In today’s society, stereotypes play a major role in how people perceive things. Stereotypes are labels that are put upon a certain group of people. These labels are usually put in a derogatory matter and discriminate against the group in attack. In the media stereotypes of different ethnic groups still persist to this day. Even though the media has worked on making ethnic stereotypes more subtle, the white portrayal of certain groups still implies an unconstructive image. These stereotypes have a negative affect because it is hard to gain race unity if ethnic groups are being discriminated upon.
In the media, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, and many other groups, are portrayed based on America’s dominant view of their actions and abilities. Although the media often gets the wrong idea about ethnic stereotypes, they are still widely accepted across the nation. These stereotypes are harmful and have a pessimistic affect on the ethnic groups that are being targeted.

For example, when we look at the TV or movie roles that Asian people play, most of their roles are side roles, and they rarely get the main part. Many Asian actors like Jackie Chan and Jet Li play the role of being very talented martial artists. Most, if not all of Jackie Chan and Jet Li’s movies are all about action and martial arts. In society, many people see Asians as being very successful and smart. Because of this, many Asians we see on television or in movies are given the roles as geeks, nerds, and being very good at math and academics.
Latinos are also portrayed in a very derogatory way. When we watch movies, or TV shows, many Latinos play gang members and gardeners. In the very popular show called Desperate Housewives, Jesse Metcalfe plays a Latino gardener who has an affair with the lady who hired him. In many movies, Latina women play the roles of maids to very rich families or the roles of promiscuous women.

A major controversy that we face today is how African Americans are portrayed in the media. There are many stereotypes that African Americans face. Even though black Americans have adequate visibility in the media, they are negatively portrayed as being very violent and criminal minded. In TV shows, they are depicted as saying a lot of bad words and as being the bad guy. They are seen as robbing banks, murdering people, selling drugs, and being uneducated. Many people portray black Americans as being talented athletes and good entertainers. Because of this, many major roles that African Americans play are about sports and music. TV shows and movies are not the only type of media that portrays ethnic groups in an insulting way.
Local TV news reports also show discrimination towards black Americans. If we observe the types of reports that news casters give, they focus a lot on violence and criminal activity. In the book “The Black Image and the White Mind,” written by Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki, they talk about how television news focuses a lot on black poverty and crime. They say that the news depictions of black activity are out of proportion, in comparison to the real black lifestyle. Entman and Rojecki found that in local news, a mug shot of a black person is 4 times more likely to be aired, than a mug shot of a white person. An accused black man is 2 times more likely to be shown being arrested, than a white man who is accused. These findings show that there is an evident form of discrimination against black people in the media. Although this discrimination may not be on purpose, the fact that black criminal activity has more air time than white criminal activity makes society believe that the stereotypes that are put upon black people are true.
Negative media stereotyping affects all races—from black to whites. We can imply that white society learns about other ethnic groups based on portrayals in the media. If society can accept reality, and the real lifestyles of minority groups, we can conclude that media stereotypes have no correlation to reality. Not all Asians are smart or good at math. Many black Americans are educated and actually try to fight criminal activity within the community. Latinos are not always gangsters or the gardener next door. If white society accepts the world for what it really is, and ignores media stereotyping, then the unity of all races can be achieved.

BY: CuBby "KUMA" GOLDEN

WHOA...get that kid a Condom

2008-06-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

THis is priceless and words can not even compare what i can say.....

Saying Hello To London Through The Telectroscope in New York

2008-06-02T13:35:00.000-07:00

This would be soooo cool if where real. This prehistoric-looking getup is ART created by London artist Paul St. George. And he, apparently, is only fulfilling the dream of his great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George. The elder St. George dreamt of burrowing a tunnel across the ocean, setting a magnifying telectroscope at each end so that people could see each other.

telectroscope.net

Best Skate Intro ever

2008-06-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

Girl Skateboard's latest video. Intro Directed by Spike Jonze.

G.I. Joe Movie 2009

2008-06-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

Ok im not soo sure im going to see this because i can see how this is going to go down the road. But other then that the outfits are super dope and one of my fav characters is SNAke Eyes. Dude is a beast and would not mind just seeing a movie based around him. Ray Parker is playing the deadly Ninja who also played Darth MAul in star wars, FRog in X-men and dude is dope.

NER*D: Seeing Sounds JUNE 10th

2008-06-01T14:06:00.000-07:00

Another album im juiced about for the summer is N*E*R*D. From what i heard at the concert and the Everyone Nose song which is on repeat on my ipod..This should be a very dope album. If you are not a N*E*R*D fan then you will be after you hear and see them. JUNE 10th....go get it.

THE FROG CONCEPT

2008-06-01T11:34:00.000-07:00

The device acts as a mask between the user and the outside world, expressing the internality of the human-device interaction. It offers a physical distinction between those moving in the real world and those who are “plugged in” to their private dimensions, the world as they wish to see it.

Dangerous Terms Poem

2008-05-31T12:10:00.000-07:00

Everybody needs a glass of love
To chase the hate away
Pain with each pluck of my beautiful rose
Maybe later we can go up to the moon
Or sail among the stars before the night is through
O’ when morning comes we'll see the sun is not so far
And we can't get much closer to God than where we are
Two souls
O eye fuckin, eye fuckin
Body gliding like the waves
O this lonless
Darkness with no reach
With each feelings of past tense
Fade with the smoke
In my grandmothers kitchen
Sin to think of those three words
Sitting there with a smile of sunshine
O eye fuckin
Having a brotha feiding you like a fiend
Deliverance of nightfall
Moon hitting two bodies
Casting shadow of pleasure
Making O
In my grandmothers kitchen.

BY: CuBby "KUMA" GolDen

KUMA

2008-05-30T14:13:00.001-07:00

Comming soon. I know some of yall have heard me talk about KUMA and what it is all about. Well i thought i share and get the name in everyones ears and minds. Bringing you clothing and art to your world. Keep checking back for updates.

GLOW in The Dark

2008-05-30T10:04:00.000-07:00

Ok, i have not posted this yet but felt i should spread it out to who ever. So I had the chance to attend the Opening of the Glow of the Dark Tour in Seattle. When i had heard about this before i was all over it not only cus of Kanye but N.E.R.D and Lupe where going to be on as well. So i had the chance to meet the man himself during the summer which was even cooler but back to on the story. OK this show....man o man...Was mind blowing and made me not fall more in love with music but with art as well. The shoes where done by us at Nike and have set a new trend and the outfit was crazy.. There are not to many words to express this but one of those tall tales you hear but you just had to be there. BUt if you aint seen it or got a chance to see this show, then you know how you feel.

MWM 20/20 Solo-Show. ROJO, Barcelona. 2008

2008-05-29T19:17:00.000-07:00

Another crazy artist. Love his work and wish i could pep this out in person. ROJO

MWM 20/20 Solo-Show. ROJO, Barcelona. 2008

Destroyed Clay Art

2008-05-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

Destroyed Clay Art by Artist Martin Klimas

Saul Williams....On some other shit

2008-05-29T11:30:00.000-07:00

This dude is on some other stuff and can dig it. Check him out if you aint heard him. Some of yall might have heard his stuff on the Nike SPARQ commercial.
Saul Williams

I want this and love it

2008-05-29T11:26:00.000-07:00

Ok we all grow up and we look for something new or something old with a new touch. Well i never liked blackberrys but got one last year for my bday from my mother because her young man was growing up. So i got into it but now i wanted a Iphone but we all know how apple works and soon as you buy one another one comes out. So I will put the iphone on hold but i want this new Blackberry which has some new stuff. You take a look for yourself.

OK im BACK

2008-05-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

Its has been a min and been just all over the world in my mind. So i have alot to say and show the world. So stay tune and its a new world and time.

In the Night, a poem by Cubby Golden

2008-02-10T18:53:00.000-08:00

In the night, I watch TV to fall asleep, or I just watch it to just kill time. Never knowing what to watch but some how what I feel the TV directs me to what it wants me to see. The movie Cleopatra was on, you know the one with Elizabeth Taylor. Sitting there wondering what happen to black people? Where did I come from? Last time I checked Africa, right? As I lay there watching this movie trying to count how many of me did, I see…an hour went by…still zero.

Darkness feel over my eyes with questions that where a dream of mines. Why is it that there were no blacks in Cleopatra? It is a movie about Egypt that is in Africa right. Man hollywerid can really make you question who you are at times. Is it telling me that everyone wants to be white or that I never existed until I was kidnapped from a different galaxy? Finding my self-asking my self questions that my mother over heard with my dark voice of concerns. Mother why does everyone want us to be white? With a blank stare hearing this from an 11 year old on the route to school. I do not know cubby, she said. I know my mother did not want to give me the answer; it was not her part to drop da black power ball on me before going to an all white school. Now I know what it feels like…remembering my moms telling me when Roots came on TV and the joy to see the story of her with her face on the television.

Knowing the true story of why she was here anyways was not god nor her chooses but someone who decided to kidnap her is the reason she was here. Pissed with anger and hate, white kids became well the target as much as she was. Years later with family we had this talk about color in the media which is a normal talk that leads into someone saying something stupid to have there black card removed. Cleopatra comes on as we are talking and a flash black and hate comes out, man this some fuck up shit seeing white people playing what is us. The room is silent and with a voice of confuses sin I once felt saying, “She was white.” My cousin with a straight face who went to Berkeley High, which is a liberal school. Having time freeze and seeing myself through her eyes and having myself say fucking Cleopatra.

Watching a movie called Chasing Amy which by a cool dude named Kevin Smith who seems to put real funny jokes about star wars which is one of those movies you are into or your not. They are a part where a militant black comic writer talks about the lack of black people in star wars. What’s a NUBIAN?

Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god! Vader, he’s a spiritual brother, y’know, down with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he’s gonna run the fuckin’ universe; gets a whole CLAN of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader’s hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that? Intergalactic civil war? Gentrification! They gon’ drive out the black element to make the galaxy ‘safe’ for white folks. And Jedi’s the most insulting installment! Because Vader’s beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin’ to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!
Well... isn’t that true?

Happy Black History Month

2008-02-10T18:29:00.000-08:00

To all my people happy day and to some who forgotm, we got a extra day...YEAH....So my views on black history month: No one really knows its black history month untill you are told, which is a shame on us. The only reason why you know its black history cause you see the typical malcom X n MLK poster on your campus which is BS to all of us. Come on black peps, wake up and step away from you superman dance. Understand who you are as a person and people. The young youth sees it with no insights of learing cuz learing is boring. Well it would be if you sat in your class and was told all the false storys of this world and was never did you ever see yourself in history.
It seems that we have been told what history has been and we where only brought up in our worse of time, the time of beeing taken away from what was ours n forgottin by us. So for this month i hope for everyone to learn about your history and others.
Happy days and keep hope alive for all and those

6 O'Clock: DJ Greg Street x Nike Air Force 1

2008-02-09T22:50:00.000-08:00

So during this past summer me and my boy Steve who was interning with me at nike in the kitchen got a chance to work on a 1 of 1 pair of af1's for DJ Clark Kents best bud Greg Street whos a Raido DJ in the ATl. Working on what makes him, him into one pair of shoe was a cool goal we had set. Diggin up some info about him and things that he was into we came up with the best idea that would describe who Greg Street was and is to this day. Check out the websites about them and a video of him showing them off in his vault of shoes.

check them out on the web:

http://www.kixandthecity.com/2007/09/13/6-oclock-dj-greg-street-x-nike-air-force-1/

http://theshoegame.com/articles/greg-street-nike-air-force-1-6-o-clock-1-of-1.html

MY times in Canada

2008-02-09T22:31:00.000-08:00

Whats going on. Just got back from Canada this past sunday with my job. LEts just say i never have been in such a cold world then canada...we Are talking about -1 at times and snow. YEah it made portland seem like LA, hot as hell. So i did everything canada you can think of, curling, snowmobling, dog sledding and snowshoeing and you know what it was all a blast. Never in my black life did i think i would be doing al that before i was 30 or shit in my life period. BUt it is true when you are expossed to new things you see another side of yourself that you never knew you had in you. My life seems to only be starting and growing as i have enterend the new year and will keep growing until i feel all grown up, which will never happen. IM A BIG KID
me during our cooking class....yeah i gets my cook on.

Me and kevin right before our team snowmobling...goodtimes
me and fan ban dogsleding...good times

WHATS YOUR GOAL FOR 08

2007-12-21T12:30:00.000-08:00

Well im on my way back home for some days and off to LA for my down time to vist some freind's n family. Im siting her at the airport just looking around and seeing the many faces of travel. The new year will be here in no time as well and they question everyone ask is what are your goals or stuff like that. Out of all my years on this earth i have never thought bout what i would want out of the new year. I guess just making to see a new one is a goal i say is great. But now that i have started a new chapter in my life n living in a new state i would say my goals for the new year would be is to just keep learning and never look back at the old year but use it as a learning tool to keep me forth. Life is werid and everyone talks about : o im going to lose this weight or im not going to this anymore. But if you think about how many of us keep that going the WHOLE YEAR...i mean we are meat to break rules n goals cuz we can. FReedom of choose is one of the most powerful elements we have. So my goal is to keep making goals every new year, month, week, days.

salvation army

2007-12-16T13:27:00.000-08:00

Well its the time of giving and giving back to those who are in need. How do you know its that time fo the year? Well thanksgiving is one to start it off and how do we know to give? Is it internal alarm in us that says " Hey time to give to those who are in need because you have everyting and there are people who dont have what you have so give them a little to make them feel part of this giving time" That a bunch of BS. I hate these times of the year because it seems that we forget that there are people out there starving, cold and are in need of love.
I gues you might ask why are you bringing this up now. Well it all started when the wonderful group call the salvation army. You know the people with the bells and red tin. Yeah those 5 week workers i call them. So over the year i have come to see these peopel every year at the same time of the year. Talking about giving back and this and that. But as i got older i started to see that we are soppose to give everyday, weather its love, warmth, money, a coat, what ever it might be. Give it.
So one day i was going to the store and who do i see, thats right the great people of salvation army ringing that bell like they where making beats for Dr. Dre. All the years built up in me of looking and pasting by these people with out a word but a smile. But no longer could i keep that in at being 23. Past by and say, Can i ask you a question. The man and women look at me as they ring the bell and say sure anything. And out it comes, i say

Cubby: "Why are you only out during this time of the year?"
SVMan: " What do you mean? we are out here to collect and help those in need"
CUb: I understand that but last time i checked, homeless was not a seasonal thing
SVwoman: stops ringing the bell
Cub: Im just saying you are all about helping and stuff but its one thing to do it at the time when its the time of givining. And to ask people at there weakness time of i must give cus the tv told me or the bell is the sign of i need to give
SVman: Blank stare and stops ringing bell
CUB: But hey, you do what you do. (walks away into store)

So after speaking my mind into a store to buy stuff asking my self was that right or wrong. SHit it was right. We leave in this oo you cant say that or this because that is not right. YEah sure. So im in the store and walk out, and guess who grabs me to the side?

SVwomen: " you know what you said was true, we should be out here more often"
CUB: " ITs not just you guys but everyone should be out here or giving out helping everyday.
SVwomen: looks at me wit a stare
CUB: O yeah one more thing
SVwomen: yeah
CUB: "Dont give away no more can foods.
SVwomen: "WHYs that?"
CUB: "Have you ever seen the contents on can food, shit i dont even eat that crap. All that sodium. Thats not good for anyone let along someone who is in need food. But hey thats just me.
SVwomen: "Blank stare with a suttle thank you"

Ok to some of you who are reading this might see me as a mean ass hole or just fucked up but ask yourself when was the last time you gave??? huh...yeah my point. We fall into this BS mood of i have to give people this and that to be loved back. So i buy bull shit to make other people who have engough shit to last them. All i say is that thanksgiving and xmas time is everyday. Im not saying eat shit load of food and leave your xmas lights up all year around even tho some of you do that already. Im just saying give some way or how to someone who truly needs help. Dont wait for one day to spend time with your family, try to see them as much as you can. If ringing a bell is the thing that triggers it in you, you might want to re think life around you.

2012 THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

2007-12-16T00:20:00.000-08:00

There has been talk about the whole world ending in 2012. Like Y2K everyons thoughts are, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? thats a great question. Some say that its not the END END of the world but just the end of things we have come to see and view as human kind. You look back and see, the earth goes through cycles just like us. It grows and dies but is brought back. Time and technology are one of our big things we have come to see and view. All the soo called breath taking things like the phone, tV, the net, etc has all come in this time frame of writtin histotry. But it was only 20 years that the net poped up but has turned into everyones net. TIme and tech have or are reaching a point of contact where they will meet up with each other. Hence 2012 where we will see a new world that is tech drivin and is a base of life to come. THese are just some view points that i have thought about and see happeing. BUt like i say, "Like time, we can see it but have to wait for it to happen".

December 21st-23rd 2012 is the time period where the winter soltice is set to begin and it will be the end of the age of Pisces (the age we live in now) and the age of Aquarius will begin. The world we live in goes in ages:

examples

1st Age........Age of Leo........began in 10948 BCE Summer Equinox
2nd Age.......Age of Cancer....began in 8788 BCE
3rd Age.......Age of Gemini......began in 6628 BCE
4th Age.......Age of Taurus.....began in 4468 BCE Autumn Eqnox
5th Age.......Age of Aries........began in 2308 BCE
6th Age........Age of Pisces.....began in 148 BCE
7th Age....Age of Aquarius...begins in 2012 AD Winter Equinox
8th Age........Age of Capricorn..begins in 4172AD
9th Age........Age of Sagittarius..begins in 6332 AD
10th Age.......Age of Scorpio......begins in 8492 AD Spring Equinox
11th Age.......Age of Libra..........begins in 10652 AD
12 Age.........Age of Virgo...........begins in 12812 AD

The Mayans calender is set to end on this date and it is supposed to be the end of the world as we know it (not in a literal sense). A new world will supposedly begin and it's known as the Age of Enlightenment. Think of it as a golden age for human kind.

Although all of this seems fairly promising I have yet to see any signs of such a "golden age" set to occur on Earth. Although there is alot of theories about what will actually happen during this time (solar flares, cataclysm, cosmic alighnment, first worldwide contact, etc) something will occr that will raise the consciousness of all humans. This period known as The Age of Aquarius will last for 1000 years.

Presenting My designs at school

2007-12-13T14:01:00.000-08:00

Check out the INTERVIEW

2007-12-13T13:18:00.000-08:00

For some more info about where i came from as a designer, check out this website.

http://www.bucketsmagazine.com/?p=290

WHO IS THIS CUBBY GOLDEn

2007-12-13T13:04:00.000-08:00

My name is Cubby Golden...da one and only...well that i know..
Lets see....I am recent grad of CCA where i majored in Product Design. Currently im working up at my dream job which is NIKe. Im a footwear desinger doing running shoes and everyday is a learing day.Im down 2 earth kat who looks at the world as a huge puzzle. Im a Gemini (Came in da world June 17,1984) and yes im black..who would of thunk it. The past months of my life have be a huge wake up and understanding not just about me but the people around me in my life. I have started a new chapter in my life and once in my life i see the bigger picture of what my life should be but have come to see that life can never be planned the way you want it. Take every moment you have in life and never let it just sit there. 2mrrow comes today is what i say so wake up , wake up to life and what it has to offer you.

"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams" - Willy Wonka

THE GOLDEN LIFE

New Path: Bring it on

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!

REallly, why should you vote?

Light House Cinema, Dublin

What A Five-Star Plane Looks Like Inside

Portrait by Fredrikson Stallard

Awesomest Jesus-Themed Song EVER

Safe For Work Porn Is Still Highly Questionable

GINA Light Visionary Model by BMW

I need THis: Drum Kit Shirt

LEGOS....Yankee Stadium Gets a Glorious Lego Send-Off

Japanese Iron Man Toy Has a Ridiculous Level of Detail

Beautiful Visuals Created Using the Processing Programming Language

Happy Feet..pretty sweet

Lego Bikes...You DAMMM right its AWESUMMEEE

Perfect Lego Mac Pro Is Two Computers in One

It's About Time: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Marble Maze Table Looks Fun, Expensive

Crayola...The good ol days

WOOWWWWW...WORSE PIMPle ever

Grad Student Auctioning Her Virginity To Pay For School, I Am Winning, Don't Outbid Me

Wicked Cool Post-It Note Movie

THe Cool Kids

NERD i am

NOW YOu know...HAHAHA

Laundry Wall by Syneo Studio

Bedside Slippers, Literally

Star Wars Condoms anyone?

MY AVATAR

I want this: MultiTouch

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE: LEgos

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE: I want a cake like this

LEGOS.......AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE:

I Am 8-Bit Art Exhibit: Works For Sale

ARTIST MIM LEUNG

GROUND ZERO

Nose Gel Dispenser Is Fun for the Whole Family Or Maybe Just Me

AWeSUUMEEEEEEEEE

Chubby Brothers Hidden Chairs Dining Table

NERDS!!!!!

FUNNY ass vid and song..

Kanye West "Good Morning" Video | Animated By Takashi Murakami

THe start of table Tennis..more to come

RAD..greatest BMX movie

History of Black superheros

To: Love ,From: ?

STYROFOAM ROBOTS

Converse “My Drive Thru” Music Video: N*E*R*D, Santogold and Julian Casablancas

Photos of Highway Billboards From Below Reveal Death Star Corridors of Doom

Jedi Gym

Hancock

Untitled

Chello

Believe or else

51-100 Things You Dont Know About Africa

Chapter 24

100 things that you did not know about Africa

The Weather is CUMMING your way..really

Lacoste.....the future

I found my Dream Home...Hands Down.

Media Stereotyping

WHOA...get that kid a Condom

Saying Hello To London Through The Telectroscope in New York

Best Skate Intro ever

G.I. Joe Movie 2009

N*E*R*D: Seeing Sounds JUNE 10th

THE FROG CONCEPT

Dangerous Terms Poem

KUMA

GLOW in The Dark

MWM 20/20 Solo-Show. ROJO, Barcelona. 2008

MWM 20/20 Solo-Show. ROJO, Barcelona. 2008

Destroyed Clay Art

Saul Williams....On some other shit

I want this and love it

OK im BACK

In the Night, a poem by Cubby Golden

Happy Black History Month

6 O'Clock: DJ Greg Street x Nike Air Force 1

Converse “My Drive Thru” Music Video: NER*D, Santogold and Julian Casablancas

NER*D: Seeing Sounds JUNE 10th