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First art post on tumblr yayyyyyyyyyyy
I call this the Idea it’s kinda moody I guess but I like it
Im just here for the vibes…
Believe it or not yall I used to have serious social media anxiety.
As a black male educator it was easier to just conform and keep a low profile by either leaving social media alone, or only posting sporadically the achievements of my students or my self.
While it was a part if me, it was never the real me. Certainly not the parts of me that are authentically artistic.
To get over this stigma that I had of posting I just started to record myself all the time as I attempted to create, engineer, record myself, etc.
Welp, while I have been able to overcome that obstacle by just posting consistently.
Now I want my message to be clearer. I want to reach more people with my art. I want to create art that will move people and that will be undeniable.
Simultaneously working on my music business and upping my social media game is mentally taxing for the mind.
Then there js the fact that I have to get your attention with a hook and I only got 3-seconds to do it like wtf 😳
Sometimes, ya just wann vibe ya know. I have to if I want to get into my creative flow state.
Track: IM GONNA MAKE IT produced and remixed by me, teach_or_trav
“We talking bout practice!”
-Allen Iverson
Just a little neosoul typebeat vibes as I practice on my Akai_Pro mpc.
Drill Bits Vol. 4 music produced by Teach_or_Trav
@paperblanks-functional-art
Today and from now on… Im going to take some time to put more of myself out there through sharing a lot more of myself on here. I have the least followers in here and to be honest that is ok.
I live to learn. I love to read and journal all the time. I have a chronic book 📚 addiction.
In an effort to niche down and find my target audiences i gave found myself not really telling my story as best as I can. There is something about writing ✍🏼 especially in something as marvelous aa a paperblanks journal 📓 that helps me to express myself fully within these pages.
This is important because it helps me stay creative, review my principles and goals, and to come back to my why or rational for making strategic decisions.
P.S. This is Chance…hes a studio cat and I love ❤️ him
Back in the lab 🧪…
We outchea
Are black people still on tumblr?? Reblog so I can follow✨🤎🖤
“We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
Creating some Logo Art Gifs for my beatstore…
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.
What has been the most interesting are the ways in which the universe yields to you when you declare to yourself and the world that you are an artist and mean it.
When things seem down, you keep creating, when things are good, you keep creating. You do this to show the universe that you are indeed the artist you say you are. After a while, in the most unexpected times, the god momentum which has taken over starts attracting people, resources, ideas 💡, and muses.
You begin to create things you never thought were possible. You find out how strong you are made and how resilient you truly are. You realize though, that that strength, and endless flowing of creative ideas comes from the original declaration. “I AM AN ARTIST” This declaration mixed with consistent creation everyday is where the alchemy flows and where the magic is made. It is what makes the shuffling back and forth from the conscious to subconscious realms possible.
SIMPLEXITY [yes i made this word up]: Simplexity for me is when art 🖼️ is executed in an individualistically complex manner but its final product is simple enough for any person to understand.
Sometimes I want my music to just hit you with a feeling no words. Other times I’m just talking my shiid cuz I know we all want to in our own ways.
But recently I’ve been trying to take a step back and reflect on what I have completed and released so far so I can decide ok where do I go from here. What do I want to achieve with each new track I make?
I am constantly asking myself questions…
Are these levels too high? Should I cut this part or that part? Can a beat have melodies and counter melodies and still go hard af? Is this too much compression? Are the dynamics building up to something? Etc.
At the end of it all though I find myself saying. Have I achieved Simplexity? Is this simple enough to digest while still expressing the little orchestrative lines I wish to include.
Its a process. It takes as long as it takes. I'm enjoying the grind tho. 💯