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-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

80+ INSPIRINGLY FRESH USES OF TYPOGRAPHY IN DESIGN!

TRIPWIRE MAGAZINE recently did this article and I thought it was very inspiring, so I decided to share with you all.

There is nothing better than creative usage of letters!

Go check out all 80 here

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

BROTHER SISTER [STILL RUN]

Still Run from DANTE NOU on Vimeo.

This is an awesome video, the motional graphics are phenomenal. and the music is fresh as well!

You can listen and buy brother sisters album "The Wunder Tales' here.

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

ILL VECTOR ART!

Wow!

TSTOUT.COM has some of the illest vector art work I have seen!

Not sure what the artists name is but man, his stuff is so detailed and freaking brilliant! I want to be like him someday!

Two thumbs way up!

Go check his site out!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

Theresa Andersson / Birds Fly Away

WOW!
Umm... this is pretty freaking awesome!
Probably the best thing I have seen in a long time!
Big ups to BOOOOOOOM for finding this!
-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

INSIDE OUT [MY CURRENT STATE]

So, it has become apparent to me that some people have become irritated or at least uncomfortable with my openness, I mean people have texted me, emailed me, and told me to cheer up, to get over it, or to just live by faith.
I think I might understand why.
We all could agree It would be uncomfortable to look upon your friend butt naked, it would be pretty awkward.
I however strive to live a life of spiritual nakedness, who I am behind close doors is who I am everywhere, or at least thats what I strive for.
You might not like looking at my nude soul, it might feel awkward to you.
But I believe that honesty and openness is a rare and dying thing in this dying world, and if we ever desire to see real change, not the change that is one way in public but another behind close doors and under the sheets.
We must be willing to look on the inside and see our brokenness in all its filthy glory!
And then turn to God and confess our need and dependency on Him, and here comes the hard part....
Repent.
Repent, turn from our ways that are offensive to God on a deep level.
Take full ownership of our faults and apologize to our creator for screwing the whole thing up.
Thats what I am doing.
I think many people are affraid of doing this, so we wear our masks, we pretend we are ok.
Like we have it all together.
And we want others to do the same.
Just shut up and deal with it.
No
I wont do that anymore!
This is me, good, bad, ugly, beautiful, broken....
So if I offended you or if you have been worried about me, then I am sorry, I will be fine.
I am just messed up like you.
And I am choosing to look at it honestly, and deal with it honestly.
From the inside out.
-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

TRIBUTE TO GRAFFITI [SMASHING MAGAZINE]

I will be doing a review of last nights concert later, for now here is a dope tribute to dope GRAFFITI art....

SMASHING MAGAZINE did it again!

These guys are sooo amazing!

They always have great stuff to post for designers!

They recently did a tribute to graffiti, showing some amazing work! I have found some of my favorites and posted them here but seriously go here and see all 50.

Great stuff!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

BRAILLE LIVE IN CONCERT TONIGHT

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Yes sir/mamm, the time is upon us,

National recording artist BRAILLE will be here tonight, This will also mark the return of my group BSIDES!
We will be rocking live, as well as fellow PUZZLE PEOPLE, OB-ONE and HAYBI.

You and your friends should come out it will be a heck of a good time with some good ol hip hop for the soul!


I think it will be like 2 bucks to get in and to help the homie BRAILLE out with gas money and expenses and what not!

Be there!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

DISTRICT 9 TRAILER

Peter Jackson's new film, looks umm wow!

Dope!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

SNACK PACK 2 AND 2.5

Have not had much time to post stuff.

Been really busy!

My man ROB VIKTUM has released volumes 2 and now 2.5 of his fresh scrumptious beat tapes called SNACK PACK

For free of coarse.

Great instrumental hip hop music!

I did the covers to both of these as well.

Go get them both here!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

JABEE AND aDDLib [MESSED UP STORIES VIDEO]

The PUZZLE PEOPLE are doing things!
Nice video My Bruvas!

DOWNLOAD THERE ALBUM HERE FOR FREE!

Brought to you via ILLROOTS.COM

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

CAP SAC???

So along the lines of the manty hose I present you with this awesome jewel of fashionable existence!
Yup it is what you think it is, a fanny pack hat!
Lol!
Would all you cool hipster kids wear this?
Me?

Nope, I guess I am just not that cool!

Is it for real you ask?

Of coarse it is!

See for your selves!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

THIS ONE TIME...

I wish I could do animation stuff!
This is weird but really fresh to me!
Via: nelson boles

This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo.

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

HOW BRAVEHEART SHOULD HAVE ENDED!

This made me laugh... a lot!

Cause Im the William Wallace!!!!
lol!
-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

CAN YOU FIND THE METALHEAD?

LOL!

Which one is listening to white snake in his walkman!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [YEAR 3]

So on this day 3 years ago I was blessed with an angel.

God gave me an amazing woman, not just a wife but an amazing:

Friend,

Lover,

Partner,

And over all just an amazing person!

I truly don't deserve her!

We have been through hell together so far.

I have put her through hell, literally!

But she is still right her with me, beside me in the trenches of depression and sorrow, in spite of my short comings she is here.

Allison I love!

I always will.

Thank you for loving me!

Happy anniversary!

I look for to the rest of my life with you!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

LIFE'S RESET BUTTON [part1]

Seriously.

What if you could just go back in time and do things different?

What if the pain that has happened to you could be reversed?

The bad things, you know the really bad things that hurt and seem to have no redeeming value.

The time that trusted loved one touched you.

Or when she broke your heart.

When he died and you didn't get to say ____

When you first smoked, first drank, first sexed, first fought.

That time you did that thing you regret to this day and still carry the emotional baggage around with you and cant for the life of you seem to get passed the damage done.

Or do you believe that all the things good, and bad happen for a purpose?

Do they shape us into who we are?

Is it possible that we could be shaped with out the sorrow and pain?

I don't know the answer.

All I know is if given the chance to change things, some things that is I would!

I would make different choices, say no to things and yes to things I said no to originally .

I would press the reset button on some things...

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

8 BIT CYNICS TOOTHPICK EP RELEASE PARTY [RECAP]!

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So I had a blast last night!

I ended up hosting the show, which was unexpected but still ok.

It was a packed house as usual and oddly enough leave it up to 8 bit to bring everybody out from the wood works! Cats I have not seen in a long time showed up! it was dope and fun!

PUZZLE PEOPLE aDDLib, duo, jabee, mcnastee, and of coarse 8 bit rocked the house.

They sold some cds (which im holding my design in the picture) and we over all had a great time!

I mean seriously why not come out and support good music?

If you came out last night, thanks a milly!

If you didn't, your bad, let me tell you you missed it!

You can still pick up the toothpick ep here!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

OBEY, CONSUME....

Sorry for not posting as much lately world, I have been hecka busy re-doing my site,amongst other things.

I will be back up and running full throttle this weekend with that soulmana goodness!

But to hold you over I leave you with this clip from the classic movie called "THEY LIVE"

Notice the hidden message!

Pretty interesting

I bet this is where Shepard Fairey got the idea from!

And yes that is the legendary Rowdy Roddey Piper!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

STOP MOTION BREAK DANCE [FRESH FINDS]

Stop Motion Breakdance from Bryan Teoh on Vimeo.

Pretty dope stuff!

Found this originally here

FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

8BIT CYNICS [TOOTHPICK EP]

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, today is Cinco de Mayo! And you know what that means...Sure, it celebrates the historical Mexican victory over the French on May, 5th 1862. But It's also the official release date for the 8bit Cynics new EP "Toothpick". Thats right folks. Six tracks of dopeness! Be sure to come out to the official release show at Sauced in OKC this Friday and pick up a copy. There is also a limited edition with bonus material. Anyhow, this is the year of the Puzzle and this project is just another strong release from our crew.

Purchase online at 8bitcynics.bigcartel.com

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

DJ JAFAR PRESENTS: UNDER THE RUBBLE MIXTAPE [FREE DOWNLOAD]

So my main man DJ. JAFAR decided to join in on the musical festivities and release a free download of his UNDER THE RUBBLE MIXTAPE , wow man we are doing some serious music releasings these days!

Go and cop it, its free!

Its an actual mixtape, meaning its completely mixed by Jafar.

Feel good funk and soul stuff!

I have listened to it non-stop 3 times today, its good stuff!

Support good music!

I did the artwork, he did the cut work, very good stuff!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

SO LONG AND GOODBYE...

After a year and a half of blogging faithfulness on my precious blogger platform I will be switching blogging avenues shortly, I am actually in the works of designing and building the new soulmana.com, which will be a lot more functional, it will serve more as a web site and less of just a blog site, I still will post the same amount, but it just means I will no longer deal with the stress of finding a portfolio site for my designs, I will be able to house them on my site, along with a bunch of other dope features. It is hard and I don't like doing it, but its past time for soulmana to grow up.

I stretched bloggers capabilities to the fullest, but the bell is officially ringing and its time to move on, not sure when this exactly will happen but im working on it today so it will hopefully be soon.

So cheers to blogger thanks for giving me a great platform to start on my blogging journey!

And two cheers for the new and upcoming soulmana 2.0

more info to come

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

BRAILLE LIVE IN OKC [CONCERT BUZZ BUZZ ]

Yup
National recording artist BRAILLE is coming through on May 21st, I will be rocking with him as well as fellow PUZZLE PEOPLE, OB-ONE and HAYBI.

Start the buzz, tell your friends, and mark it on your calender.

It will be 2 bucks to get in and to help the homie BRAILLE out with gas money and expenses.

More info to come in the weeks ahead!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE

WHERE DID IT GO?

So I am not sure what the crap happened, but I noticed yesterday that my "read more posts" button on the bottom of my page has magically vanished, that is whack!
Yall know how much I LOVE doing web coding!
oh well, I will try and fix it over the weekend.
P.S. Thank you too all my faith full readers who somehow never thought to mention it to me!! LOL!

-FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FROM MINE