Hope You Win That Sh*t.

Hope you win that sh*t. 💯

The other day a friend ran out to check on me after a long night out. I stormed out angrily to take a walk and to my surprise she followed me out there.

She could tell I wasn’t about to open up about anything so she lead with vulnerability and told me about some of her struggles she has had over the years. Then of course she brought the conversation back to me and my feelings. I was clammed up.

This is not my wife (whom I was upset with at the time) so I felt guilty, wrong for even thinking that I could emotionally open up to her. Even though at that moment, i truly did feel all alone in the world. Yall know that feeling right?!? I mean this is. Tumblr after all lmao 😂

I deflected and asked her more about her own situation and effectively “got out” of talking about my feelings.

Afterwards though, i really thought about it. There were a lot of folx around but she was the one to come out and check on me. I needed someone to even if I didn’t say it. Normally im the extrovert of my friend groups. The solid one. The one you go to for guidance, wisdom, and also to have fun and laugh. I love to smile and make others smile as well.

I texted my friend and told her it meant a lot that she checked ✅ on me, but more importantly i think i walked away with a better understanding of the types of people and depth of understanding i would like to have around me more.

Those of us who have to largest smiles know the most pain. Never forget that.

These are my thoughts 💭 on what im thinking 🤔.

Peace ✌🏾,

- Teach_or_Trav

I took this pic in my phone 📱 of my studio and inverted. Idk i think they look really dope next to each other like this and offers a unique perspective on… perspective lmao.

Comment with your best studio vibes pick!

Bonus:

Heres me and my lil daughter jamming in the studio together. Lala is my world! 🌎 ❤️

It's the little things in life 🤣

⭐️Didn’t die today

In “The Artists’ Way” Julia Cameron is adamant about prescribing weekly artists dates to take time to be present and heal your artistic soul.

This week I decided to go to a rooftop spot in the city that always brings me joy and peace. I did nothing but allow my self to experiment with sounds and play on my #mpclive2

[Shoutout to Akai Pro]

I’m glad I took some time for myself to do this because normally I wouldn’t. It was a stressful week and I was not in the mood to create or go to a different borough iykyk.

I found my flow there and for a few hours, release from all my worries and anxieties. It was dopeful.

ITERATING PLEASE HOLD…

I have done so much experimentation with how to present my music using visualizers, AI cartoon and comic filters, etc., etc. as I’m going through my Drive and I am cataloging footage that I’ve documented over the past four years or so as I find things that I would like to save for myself And share with you all I’m going to post them. This is a visualizer that I made for my song called day 13 smooth.

The music is all me and original.

The female in the picture was generated using a series of prompts early on in my AI Jen journey when we were all trying to figure this shit out.

Cartooned the picture even further and gave it a comic book feel using clip2comic app and motio then I added layers of animation.

Finally, I used by @beatleapbylightricks and spectra app to sync my music and logo to the beat.