Sooooo SLACKING on my MACKING! lol

This is literally how I feel in class!!!


This is me being the weirdo I am proud to be!!!

So.. 2010 is upon us, and what a whirlwind it has been. Between getting back into school!! Yay!!!! Looking for a job, amping up to graduate, searching for internships and setting up some awesome gallery shows, directed by YOURS TRULY, I know 2010 has already commenced the start of a new me! And i have to mention I have been SUPER Blessed just within the start of this new year! So I'm not complaining. She is recharged, revamped, more organized and on her way to being a fiscal success!!! I have had a ball since I've been back in DC. My classes are great ad if feels like I've seen soo many people I hadn't seen and miss greatly. Also My living situation is cheap cheap cheap so that rocks!!! Also, my boyfriend and I are far away from each other but were gonna make it work. Him behind in LA and me in DC seems like I should be the catalyst for the end, but to tell the truth I actually feel were getting closer as friends and its helping bud our relationship in different ways. Absents really does make the heart grown fonder! But that's just me. I miss my family and am excited that I'm about to be finished with school! Actually, I'm counting down the nano-seconds left to get! thirst much??? But I just wanted to give y'all an update. I am living up to 90% of my 2010 to do list and I think I'm living up to it really well. Once a get my jewelry line up and running for real I feel like I'll be on the path to fiscal responsibility and entrepreneurship in a major way! I cant wait to feature my work on here!!1 Ne who I'm gonna sign out! have a blessed day y'all!

Oh.. AND my hair is growing! Hallalujah!

Let's talk S-Heros and INSPIRATION

As most of you know, I'm an art enthusiast and love to feature some of my favorite artist from time to time... But, I thought I'd do something a little different and also highlight one of my art historical heroes (or rather SHEROS) for instance: Ms. Thelma Golden.



Ms. Golden, a queens native, attended Smith College. Having known what she wanted to do through internships and apprenticeships during high school and college with such prestigious institutions as Metropolitan Museum of Art, she graduated in 1987 and hit the ground running. That same year she did her first show... Since then, Ms. Golden has done curatorial work with nothign but the greats: Alison Saar, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Romare Bearden, Matthew McCaslin, Suzanne McClelland, Lorna Simpson, Jacob Lawrence and Leone & MacDonald. Currently she works at the Studio Museum in Harlem and in her influence alone has "strengthened the museum's presence in the local community and the global art world." During her almost 10 year tenure in Harlem she's worked on such showings including Isaac Julien: Vagabondia (2000), Martin Puryear: The Cane Project (2000); Glenn Ligon: Stranger (2001); Freestyle (2001); Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Art (2002); harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor (2004); Chris Ofili: Afro Muses (2005); Frequency (2005-06, with Christine Y. Kim); Africa Comics (2006-07); and Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007 (2007-08). In addition to her work in Harlem, she is also an active guest curator, writer, lecturer, juror, and adviser. In 2008 she was a member of the advisory team of the Whitney Biennial and in 2007 acted as a juror for the Turner Prize. Golden co-curated the traveling exhibition Glenn Ligon: Some Changes in 2005 and in 2004 curated a retrospective of fashion designer Patrick Kelly at the Brooklyn Museum. Celebrated for her insightful interviews with contemporary artists, Golden is a frequent contributor to books, catalogs, and magazines and regularly speaks at institutions around the world as well as teaching at various universities. Golden serves on the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, is on the boards of Creative Time in New York and the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) in London, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. In of words, Ms. Thelma Golden is the ISH!

Now as for inspiration two artist I'm totally OBSESSED with at the current time are: Hank Willis Thomas and Renee Cox!!!!




You can't help but go to a Hank Willis Thomas show ans come out thinking words like, evocative, edgy, thought provoking. All of which his works are. He utilizes popular culture icons and marketing ploys combine with race, and gender ideals, consistently with male subjects, to create these very poignant pieces on modern African American youth culture and consumerism. These piece I've chosen to highlight merely graze the surface of his capabilities and I recommend all of you check out his work ether just via Google: Hank Willis Thomas OR Hankwillishthomas.com





Renee Cox. Need I say more the woman's works are sheer genius. Contrived candids can sometimes (most times) come out feeling very, well, contrived but not with hers. Cox give the viewer a voyeuristic approach to her pieces and make you feel as though you are really looking at a real character or moment. She uses race, class and gender struggle concepts to catapult her emotions through photography and is very unabashed about using her self, naked or clothed, as a subject; which I love because she knows best the emotion she wants of the piece. The pieces are very telling to the voice of black women in America and I personally can not wait until I am the proud owner of one... Which I will be!!!!


OH! and I gotta ask... Any OCTAVIA BUTLER FANS? I know, I know, I'm late getting on but as of now she is my obsession. I've read Wild Seed and Parable of the Sower and am in the process of reading Fledgling (sooo interesting, as of now) Please holler at me and tell me your favorite book and why you love her. If you've never heard of her Google her. She's an amazing science fiction writer and a sista (who lived in both southern California and Seattle (like myself)) Check her out... at your local library! hehehe! Much love!



Yay!!! For lock growth and side ponytails!!!

A few videos from yours truly!!!

Please Ignore the little horn I have in the front... It was ripped out and look absolutely atrocious! But, having just started my locks and knows how weak my edges were something to this extent was expected but all the at risk locks are doing well, growing thriving and better then ever!




Just my quick (or not) feeling on the Oprah episode on the "good Hair" documentary! Check it and tell me your feelings on the episode if you caught it! Have a good rest of the day cause you're worth it!

So I found this wonderful article from the NY times...

So I just caught a wonderful article even natural lady should read talking about the complexities of being natural. IT was cool to see the opinions and outlooks on so many different sisters! I can't wait to read prof. Banks' book and I hope you all do too!!!
Check it out at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/fashion/27SKIN.html?pagewanted=1
and do the interactive hair link too! its very cool to hear and see other women's opinions about their hair!
That is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/27/fashion/20090827-hair-interactive.html

And speaking on the subject of hair... I've got slight updates on my own!!! I just finished a retighten a few days ago and boy can I say It was not a moment too soon. I had a bout and inch and a half new growth and it felt like forever to finish... but having brought some locks together doesn't hurt. It defiantly helps the progression of the project. I love my locks and I now this is weird but I literally feel bad for those who don't have locks in their life. I think its the mixture of self-loathing that comes with altering ones hair and the simplicity of my mornings while doing my hair. I just love locks so much I think their beautiful but i guess I'd rather everyone didn't have them cause then they'd become some sort of fad like the Afro. OH NO SHE Didn't...its true it might just... Newho I'm gonna leave y'all with this wonderful vid I made. Mind you I only highlighted a section of my hair after I thought to show my hair stylings. I love my hair and am blessed to have been enlightened eough to make the descon to switch it up!

Much Bett-ah!!!

 

Hey braidlockers

Can we all get some understanding... what is it: braidlocks, bradelocks or braidlocs....Let the battle begin! It's gonna go to the death...of the other vernacular terms for this hair style. lmao



BTW...its funny to know that when you type in Braidlocks (or whatever) in Google images...A cock-eyed picture of me shows up! lol sad!

Updates 2.0!!!!

Can you believe it! I'm at 6 months...and to think my family told me to take them out and get braid extensions. HA! I think I'm slowly convincing my mom to look into locks...(pray y'all) She's been pressing for a while but its taking a toll on her thickness! (tear) But here you go a little visual look at whats I've been up to these last few!
I've got a lot of growth going on! It's nice to see my hair in pictorial form because I can see the different

A little growth against the paper for contrast!
Don't mind me looking super tired!

Aren't his locks nice!!! My boo's locs are 3 years in the making!

A picture of the inside inside!!

Me and my baby being dumb...Curls!

Rockstar status!

My sexy boo again aren't his locks bomb!

A picture of a sculpture at my parents house. I love it!

Me and my freak em' dress about to go out on the town

The diva is unleashed...More pictures to come in time!

UPDATES!!!

Hey y'all,

I've been up to some different things concerning my hair. First off, I've combine!!!! I must say after a few months of apprehension I decided to do it. Though I'm still rather small, I just fattened up the edges to gave more support. I have fine hair and I don't want to:
1. have back, or waist length hair and it break off all the time. Which felt like my fate and
2. I was tired of marathon hair sessions in which I would give up days at a time...
I love small locks but not for me. Not to mention I met my boyfriend's sister an her locks were soooo cute. They were a little bigger then mine but her maintenance seemed effort less. Loves it. I mean, I fully understand locks are a commitment but who said a full on second job, ya know? I like the decision though my family may disagree. But they disagree with the locks to start.
Thanks to all the lock vids that helped me understand the process their is a few ladies, nubianlockedprincess and chescaleigh ( youtubers... I'm Chloe3086, since you all asked. LOL) they both highlighted the process perfect for me. So thank you!!!!

Well I'm also officially at my half year mark...Yes, that fast!!! It fells like yesterday I had my thin little set now I'm budding and beaming at the look!!!! Its getting longer bigger and me more confident in the look. I had faith and loved it from the start, but it defiantly takes a ta-da moment to realize the change and appreciate the time spent! I love my hair and want everyone to experience the joy and freedom of having your own hair!!! Any who Ill upload some pictures soon til' then have a good one!!!!

Back for the first time?!?

OK, so I had to make a new one of these because my old one (chloebeehair.blogspot.com) was is acting up! So for all of you readers...if I had any, this is now the place to find me! As if you were looking! LOL... Anywho I'm officially A three month old in the BRAIDLOCk world!!! Yay me! It's been along time coming, or at least that's how it felt, but now I'm coming up on big strides. For all of you that are unaware, I'm a braidlock DIY-er and I'm proud to say that all the work done with my hair is all done by me! Thanks in great part to YouTube and all that videos you lovely ladies have made, thus making it possible for me to learn and maintain my own hair. I must say this is a first, so it can be difficult; yet I can also attest that it is sooooo liberating to be able to know that all the work done on your head is directly correlated to you. For me its a large task but getting it done every 6 weeks make it a little easier to conceptualize. Any ladies thinking of making the plunge on your own... I say do it and if your familiar with your hair (which a lot of us naturals are) do it! it's the smartest investment you can make. especially now!