Olivetones is an online expression of various artistic projects created by Joe Namy (aka Iqaa the Olivetone). These images/sounds are reflections from multi-media expressions reverberating social progression and cultural empowerment, resisting oppression and injustice, and promoting independent thought and progressive creative action.
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: "locusts" docu-music video Detroit-based Hip-Hop artists, Invincible and Finale, rhyme about the impacts of gentrification on the Motor City. This piece includes interviews with community activists discussing displacement and predatory planning versus sustainable development in The D. The video's also included on Invincible's debut album, Shapeshifters, available now on www.EMERGENCEmusic.net :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: harms elementary mural
Designed this mini-mural for Harms Elementary in Southwest Detroit, unfortunately I wasn't able to facilitate the actual painting of the peice but the kids did an amazing job painting. Click here for some pics of the process. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: MY BOOK COVER GIRL
I'm soooooo honored to have have my art cover Randa "the Rockslinga" Jarrar's new novel A Map of Home!!! Its gonna be F R E S H cause Randa is one of the most amazing writers I know, so definately go head and pre-order the novel now! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DESTROY THE WALLS! [Click
to Enlarge] The image is a reappropriated NY Times photo, the calligraphy is hand written. If you wanna see some of the freshest most inspiring calligraphy ever, click here and here, the latter of which I had the honor to study under, tho only for about two weeks, and honestly I was like his worst student ever. But he was perhaps the most peaceful, patient, and anal-retentive teacher I've had, yet he taught me so much about arabic calligraphy and design in general during those two little weeks, concepts I'm still grappling with two years later. |
download Future Classic Instrumentals soundtrack the struggles and beauty that is Detroit, Beirut. |
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