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Once Upon a Time...

Hi. N here...

Okay when I revived the concept of us starting to blog again somehow I figured I'd try to do once a week. I think I was successful for like the first 3 posts; how hard could it be to come up with insightful yet witty commentary on this and that. And SPLAT! now I've hit a wall. I'm so facking busy and when I'm not I'm just lazy and blank. Asides from blogging...in general I feel like I've reached a creative wall block... Maybe I'm not alone... Chichi, Anneli and I are kinda like blehhhh I don't know it's weird. We're trying to truck through to produce new shite but it's like we're so busy with work, family and random fool fool drama...there's no time to just sit and create. Also it could just be transient...we're creative in other ways and have to find a way to accommodate that and express it still under the collective vehicle.

I'm getting my fix a bit with working on a dance piece that is a concept that's swirled in my head for years and finally is able to have some form of fruition. this makes me happy...but I really miss sitting for hours getting lost in the process of making earrings...this is kinda frustrating 'cos when I haven't done it for long then it's like I'm starting over. I also had a lot of support with the earring making from friends and my sweet and I guess I'm like mehn I need to get on with it, so the investments don't go to waste. I really don't wanna be that unproductive and seemingly flighty. My goal is to get at least TWO basic styles of earrings by the end of this month that will be available for sale on the website, and some one of kind pieces to boot. Hold me to this yo!

Until then if you are in the BAY area come check out the International Women's Day Celebration event March 12-14 at Mission Cultural Center (see flyer/link below for more details). I'll be premiering my Woe-man to Whoa!myn dance/poetry piece there. Which is pretty much a work in progress of sorts... I'm really excited about it and can't wait.

March 12 -14,
Fri. & Sat. @8pm, doors open 7pm
Sun. @2 pm, doors open 1pm
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Pasrking at Mission & Bartlett garage (btwn 21st and 22nd)
Adults $10, 18 and under $5

Pair it with...

I am so late on the jeggings trend but it will look really cute when paired with the One3Snapshot baby wrap woe-man v-neck.

Araminta Ross

Bet you didn't know that Harriet Tubman changed her name from Araminta Ross, maybe I'm the only one in the world that did not know. I was googling this vintage shop - Araminta Rose and found that out. Love this dress, wish it came in my size.

The 15th Annual INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY CELEBRATION

Loco Bloco, Mission Girls, Center for Young Women's Development and Malia Movement Company present...

The 15th Annual INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY CELEBRATION

Exclusive Quinceñera Edition

Coming of Age*Rites of Passage*Transformation
FOR REALS FOR REALS

Stepping Out of the Box Coming Into Our Own

3 Shows

Friday~Saturday~Sunday
March 12 13 14

Friday & Saturday @8pm doors open at 7pm
Sunday @ 2pm doors open at 1pm

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street SF


MUSIC*DANCE*THEATER*SPOKEN WORD*ART INSTALLATIONS

For Info: (415) 864-5626
www.locobloco.org

$5 youth
$10 adults

Crying Like a Biatch!

That's what I'm doing right now...

So I've been avoiding Haiti commentary...one of those things were if I'm so moved in certain ways about something I just don't even wanna talk about it. Also not sure what spin I was gonna take is discussing how a lot of things that are played/playing out. Should I be sympathetic, cynical, sarcastic, hopeless... so I've just not said anything. And then I happened on We are the World 25... now when it opened with Jamie Foxx...I was like oh gosh... this is gonna be some cheesy ass shit... but then the song came on and all the singing started...and it just came out...tears...goosebumps...i turned into a little crying girl...
wtf pms much?

I still don't know what to say...
mostly I just get really angry as some ways it's manifested in mainstream culture and turned into marketing and consumerist agenda. I have to say is... we should support not just haiti but pay attention to hella shit going on in our neighborhood...hometowns and around the world. I have criticisms of big corporations and organizations (i.e. red cross)... the general intent seems good... but how does your $50 donation to the cause really play out in terms of the cause you think you're supporting.

anyways back to the video. it was good. I have no hating comments...it made me cry. did it's job...



Here are some organizations that I think are pretty good with regards to being focused in Haiti

•    Grassroots International; www.grassrootsonline.org
•    Partners in Health; www.standwithhaiti.org
•    Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; http://haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html 
•    Global Fund for Children; www.globalfundforchildren.org
•    Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and Lakou Radio via the North Star Fund;https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1000517

Wacker Slacker.

Oh M GEE. So much to talk about so little me/time. I've been slacking on updating the blog because I've actually been busy as all hell! So yeah when you're living, sometimes it's challenging to take time to write about it.

That's what happens when you're someone who's multi-interested...not quite all the way talented per se. Let's see since my last terrorist update; I've kicked it with fam in So-cal, come back up north, cancelled a trip to NY, co-coordinated two events, ditched out to santa cruz, choreographed/ing multiple pieces for multiple events/shows, dj'd a house party, made a bunch of earrings, adopted strays, discussed new designs for apparel, coordinated graphic projects, and still maintain a full time job that is pretty unrelated to everything I've listed...blah blah blah and the list goes on. I'm busy...albeit by choice but damit I am!!

and just in case you were wondering yes those are homecooked meals prepared by me. of course if ya know me...you know that's just one of those things i like to do. Original Mgbeke...(sharap!)

Due to this whole four day weekend dealie (3 for most of you... lucky me) I have a quick breather, but really all that means is more time for other work that I've been putting on the back burner... there's a bunch of administrative and creative to-do's for this here one3snapshot, there's housekeeping chores, and personal relationships to catch up on. Thank goodness for long 'weekends'.

Now I will be back to do a proper update, pictures, videos and of course my opinion on things that I'm convinced you should care about.

P.S. we really try to update facebook, another avenue is our youtube channel...there are random videos there from political actions to performances to whatever my camera captures. SO keep in the loop with us through those... just backslash and one3snapshot on all these mediums... i.e. http://www.youtube.com/one3snapshot
and so on on twitter et. al.

my name is N... and that's all i got for right now.

peaceseses!!

Visual Inspiration

1.Rachel Stewart 2.Rachel Roy

We are cooking up a few things behind the scenes and these two images serve up inspiration for me. I love love love the simplicity of the first image, it reminds me of all the earrings Nkei has been making. Rachel Roy = reconstructed art and it's even better that it's widely available in stores! Like this leather jacket that has zippers in unique places and colorful inner lining...you have to see it in person to truly appreciate it.

I Need Your Help

So this is a personal letter that I wrote to close friends and family members seeking support for a program that I work with. Then I thought. Yo why not ask the 'general' public? So I'm going out on a limb and putting myself out there *freeze* and sharing this letter that has content that I'm pretty self conscious about, hoping that it will move someone who maybe is not so close to me to support this cause. Okay blah blah blah...here's what I wrote.

Hello,

I am doing something crazy. I am writing you to ask you for $50. 

Why? Okay...I'll tell you.

In high school I contemplated joining the drill team to fulfill my desire to dance; but my hair was too nappy, my clothes too un-stylish, and I was just way too African. Furthermore, any chance that I could maybe have made it were sqaushed by me falling smack on my head in front of some 50 odd pretty girls when I attempted that jump-kick thing at tryouts. Not to be deterred by my shortcomings I forged ahead only to find out that the price of uniforms, shoes, batons sticks and mini pom poms were enough to feed the whole Turkana village in Kenya, so therefore eliminating any possibilities that I might be able to dabble in this...this 'hobby' of mine.

The above was pretty much a template of most forms of art I thought about pursuing. I was left to express art and creativity by writing cheesy poems in my journal & dreaming theater productions in my head.  Until finally I was old enough to take charge of 'my life' but it may have been a bit late...because now I feel overwhelmingly insecure, self aware and unskilled. In other words, too old to be a beginner. 

If you know anything about growing up Nigerian, you will know that any academic or career endeavors outside of doctorlawyerengineer are generally frowned upon at varying degrees. It could range anywhere from your parents threatening the wrath of the local gods on you or them hinting that it would be nice if you did strive for such but they would support you with something else as long as that something else was deemed viable enough.

Art, Music, Dance, that Rubbish that Oyinbo people do though. COMPLETELY out of the question. Are you mad? Is this what we sent you to America for?

I have to wonder 'What if there was a Loco Bloco in my life at the time?' A program that was completely FREE for me to participate in. A program that had instructors that didn't judge me on how pretty, cool, and apt I was. A program where kids didn't make fun of me because I spoke different or looked like a failed Mel B Scary Spice experiment. Would I have grown up to become a virtuoso in the arts? Would you all be so beneath me now because I would be on Broadway & traveling internationally accepting short list prizes and what not? Probably not. 

But I would have had a fighting chance. A chance to fall smack on my head 6 more times and then finally get that jump-kick, a chance to kiss the boy I was crushing on under the guise of being very into the role in that stage play, a chance to stand in front of my 'oppressors' saying my poem, telling them to go to hell but in so many words that they wouldn't realize until now that that's what I was saying.

Today I am able to get my achieve my dream as a participant, instructor and organizer with Loco Bloco. That $50 I asked you for in the beginning? You would be paying for not just an hour of my time as an instructor but also for the chance for me to provide inspiration, love and fulfilled dreams for the child that I was.  

Think of that child. 

Fifty Dollars is not too much to give me a fighting chance. 

Here's the deal:

Loco Bloco is having a gala on Saturday January 30th, to raise money to keep their programs alive, to purchase tickets and or Donate ANY (it doesn't have to be $50) AMOUNT. Visit www.locobloco.org. I'll love you forever!!

Love,
Your Only N

Back on the BloG again!

My name is N of one3snapshot.com and it's been over 7 years since my FIRST blog and over 2 years (before this blog) since my LAST personal blog entry.

Let's see: I started blogging when I was a tortured young soul dealing with things that I needed escaping from; so in real life I escaped from people, places and things and I found a life on the 'computer'. In a very sizable form.

See:
1. I 'decided' where I would move (and change my life) by applying online and reading descriptions.
2. I met new best friends online (or through friends I knew online).
3. I started this collective one3snapshot with the motivations of people & things that I saw online.
4. I fell in adult love for the first time with someone that I met through the process/people of being online.

So technically the second wave of my formative years were shaped heavily by my interactions through various e-vehicles. Possibly the greatest time of my life (we have to wait and see).

A few years later, I had to escape again, this time AWAY from that I had escaped to. I had to come back into the real world. I had to find my way back to the people and places and things in physical form. Primarily due to the fact that...

1. I had found solace and 'stability' in the place I moved to.
2. I lost some friends along the way but some stayed and are still currently my best friends.
3. The collective has grown, changed and continues shaping up to be something very important to me. It's a slow process but it's not going anywhere.
4. I got my adult heart broken for the first time and currently I'm ambivalent to the idealistic concepts of love.

So after years of non-interest in expressions of the e-word form...after contemplating...I begun blogging again a la the collective and have been for a few months now. I'm new but not so new.

There are 3 main One3snapshotites, 2 of us used to hardcore bloggers who are now bl-OGs...lol so like Micheal Jordan I'm going to try to make a come back, and possibly convince C to blog more too.

So far so Okay.

We'll see what more this holds for us.

hugs and tail feathers,

n