Jetsonorama. Navajo Nation. Painted Desert Project. — Frankie Beane

This is is the introduction on Jetsonorama’s website: “The question I’m asked most frequently is how a black doctor in his 50s working on the Navajo reservation started doing street art on said reservation. In retrospect, it was only natural for this evolution to occur.” 2016: Navaho Nation: 2016: Colorado Plateau: 2016 Cow Springs: 2016: […]

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New Light On Saskatoon’s ‘Starlight Tours’

And this is why we don’t like the police…

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Saskatoon Police patrol 20th Street and Avenue D in the Riversdale neighbourhood of Saskatoon. (Photograph by Derek Mortensen) Saskatoon Police patrol 20th Street and Avenue D in the Riversdale neighbourhood of Saskatoon. (Photograph by Derek Mortensen)

Macleans.ca‎, April 8, 2016

An attempt to erase reference to the deadly practice from the police force’s Wikipedia page stirs up dark memories, and new questions

On Jan. 28, 2000, two police officers drove Darrell Night five kilometres outside of Saskatoon and abandoned him in -22° C weather with just a T-shirt and jean jacket on his back. The incident was part of a series of “starlight tours,” a practice in which officers were said to have picked up drunk or rowdy people like Night, at night, and dropped them off in the dead of winter.

At least three Indigenous people in Saskatoon are suspected to have died this way, beginning with 17-year-old Neil Stonechild in 1990.

Although Night survived, he moved to British Columbia and has never returned. “In Saskatoon I found…

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Graffiti Daily: 174. Midland Street (3) — Natural adventures

This picture was taken in October 2015, and the wall has since been refreshed by Deamze, and featured here a few weeks ago. It has taken me a while to work out who this fine triptych was by; I think I have it now. The face in the centre is by Voyder, a sensationally good […]

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Feeling positive; Just jotting like a journal.

 

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I’m quite thankful to be alive and well, writing away; although I feel a serious writers block. Fuck writers block. Ill just start typing. They say to just write anyways so…Im happy!

The hot weather is extremely overdue in my life so I’m sunbathing lots lately; catching a tan and spending far more time outside. Last summer is when I met my love, bringing me extremely positive vibes.

I’m rarely anxious or dysphoric lately and generally just feeling pretty Damn good; finding myself dancing, drawing and going out without even bothering to do my makeup. I don’t always need it to feel “pretty” so I can just be me. No worries. On the note of dysphoria; Ordering my birth certificate today to get my name change going (also extremely overdue). My girlfriend has done it now I’m playing catch up. It’s going to be a long, brutal process but it’s all good.

Right now I’m staying at my parents house helping them with their move into a new home in July, they are selling the house I grew up in which might not hit me till later but now I’m happy for them because they got a nice new spot lined up. Changes for me? Nothing major lately but I’m going to be seeing my girlfriend this week for a week straight instead of on and off which makes me happy.

Very happy.

Yes. Good times.

-Nina

Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans. Napier, New Zealand. March 11–20. 2016. Lolo YS:. — Frankie Beane

@PangeaSeed Sea Walls festival aims to protect the world’s oceans via public art and activism. Lolo YS: Lolo YS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lolo.ys/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeaWallsMuralsForOceans/app/356915011040496/?ref=page_internal For those of you who like to click, click here. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seawalls_/ For those of you who like to click, click here.

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