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Watch the throne, Cuz I'm fin to take a dump.

Wealthy narcissists pump themselves up with so much money, popularity, and the ravenous adulation of fan worship that it enables their demi-god status to go unchallenged…..lest be you called a hater (which i’m fine with, sip my shit daily) . The average person can’t help but be wrapped up into the emotional movement of glory, the trans-formative ability to be great, powerful, wealthy, from life to legacy. It’s a very male concept, because when women are in these tiers their sexuality is ALWAYS exploited. I’m not even going to going into Venus Hottentot, I’d like to have a heart to heart with her, there is alot more going on behind the lacefronts.

The Nintendos and the Youtubers are expecting a man to rise up and speak on behalf of the youth masses and the direction of our culture and out county as a whole. Everyone is expecting someone who is already on tv, a musician, politician, pro athlete, or pundit. We are looking to are the wrong places for answers and are entirely neglecting the questions.

#hip-hop #hop hip #me #unfacetious #jay-z #kayne #west #kayne west #mainstream

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Can I take this all in.

Living the summer to the max. Took a break.

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P-A-U-S-E

So I'm trying to wear many-a hats in this Local Infinity including a professional one. I've been slacking with my industry hating (and gossip blog reading) and cultural vitriol and have been doing some portfolio work.

I guess I gotta talk get back in the game and speak some truth about planking because  there are so many takes and turns on a silly meme, that video will drop from my youtube channel ummmmm wednesday.

I am also going to be hitting the streets with my trusty flipcam to showcase some Urban-Variety on the streets looks for that starting next friday.

This also means I have to hook my channel up.

www.youtube.com/vivansam

#chilling #urban #variety #local #infinity #vivansam

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Seriousness in a Silly world

Ok, so I probably should (and might) make another video today (some redemption is necessary in regards to my visceral presence) BUT I've been having a jolly good time on pploftumblr. I'll resume as regularly scheduled tomorrow.

#fun #vivansam #me #silly #pploftumblr #procrastination

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The 21st century is not a Global Village, it's a Local Infinity.

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#21st century #global village #local #infinity #village #global #century #horizontal #horizontalism #horizontal humanism #horizontal humanity #humans #humanity #people #person #the future #future

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Race (to) The Lowest Common Denomenator

I did some googling and read some articles owned by conglomerates I have no desire to financially support that really got me thinking about WSHH and MTO, and what they represent about culture right now within this 2.0 bubble.

In an effort to appease as many eyes of the masses for those page click pennies, we have entered a race to the bottom where quickly digestible media and news panders to and belittles its audience. This is something that is true outside of Black Culture/Media but i'm typing from behind my eyes and this is where i'm coming from, and like every other cultural phenom (especially socio-economic) it presents itself in a heightened state in the black community before the trend shifts to larger culture (i.e white girls JUST got on the swag tip, there is academic shit out there about it too).

Greed is the foam that floats on top lucrative diarrhea, and alot of greedy folks right now are trying to figure out how to get on top of black people using the internet (You think Zuckerburg really gives a damn about those kids in Newark?). One of the biggest problems right now is that we're being lumped into ONE demographic, the men want the booty ho's and the women want to know what shoes they're wearing, our ages, educational levels, and other stratifying data are being lumped through a calculator and broken into.....you guessed it, the lowest common denominator, and the sites aren't even listening to the sage wisdom their readers are giving them! 

This is problematic for many reasons:

Reason One: Youtubers and Nintendos of color don't exist to the larger Local Infinity because our biggest representations are of us holding up camera phones while people fight saying what website it's going to be on (STOP THIS SHIT, period. We know what website it's on if we're watching!). This is really bad, which brings us to,

Reason Two: This bleeds into how mainstream society views Black folks (we don't just have our share of stereotypes, we are the stereotype).There is more than enough racism to go around, and you can't change ignorance, but having our dominate globally circulated depictions be (in very simple boiled down terms, there are sociological factors present that i'm not going into) something other than Violent, Materialistic, Over-sexed, Unintelligent savages would go a LONG WAY to how the larger society perceives black people and culture, and it would help how Black children perceive their culture and by extension themselves.

Reason Three: The current perception of "us" is going to hurt ALOT, generationally, when it's comes to getting funding for technological education, **TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IS CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE OF THE BLACK RACE***, alot of our children learn differently and a good chuck have behavioral problems (due to socio-economic injustice and intelligent that's on a non-academic rubric) but the internet levels the playing field and will allow us to create, innovate, and enterprise, but we CANNOT let Facebook, and the corporate funded blogosphere dictate our place in the future of this Local Infinity. (http://kck.st/hp1Sxf this is why we need better math education!)

So we need more media, blogs, websites, tv shows, people like you and me, ect. to cater to the realities of today and we need to step up to the plate and fill in the voids, because the backlash could go either way, either we get sick of it and create our own *MESSAGE* or we internalize more Popcorn Chicken and Precious.

("Urban-Variety" is going to be made up of all people, we get we are all different but inherently the same, but for all of us to get to the point of Horizontal Humanism and really make shit pop post bubble, we are going to need the best and brightest of Black Culture to shine. )

#art #black #black people #blackculture #blackpeople #bossip #me #media #mto #negro #new media #new negro #nu negro #people #renaissance #twitter #urban #urban culture #urban variety #us #we #wshh #you #media take out #mto #mediatakeout #google #bubble #2.0 bubble

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dope "almalgamation of all genres" post! my friend and i were talking about this same concept yesterday haha.

thanx :) it's touching to know someone gets my take on things!

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Trending Today

Hmm, I’m wondering how long its going to take man spelled mane, to go mainstream outside of the black “blogosphere” and “twitterdom”.

#twitter #twitterdom #blog #blogosphere #trend #trending #today #trending today #black #black people #black #black power #blackpeople #people #mainsteam #mane #man #wonder #wondering #twitterdom #blogosphere

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The 21st century: An almalgamation of all genres.

“We are a great American brand. We don’t envision ourselves as an urban brand or streetwear brand. We wanted to show people how we’ve evolved and repositioned ourselves, without abandoning our original DNA.”

“It’s all walks of life. When I played the Glastonbury music festival people said a hip-hop artist couldn’t play a rock festival. But culture isn’t segmented like that any more. There’s so much cross-pollinization and the same thing is true for clothes.

-Jay-Z in reguards to re-positioning rocawear.

We as a society of Nintendos and Youtubers  have been heading in this direction since the mid 90's, at some point in the late 90's it dawned on me that everyone started wearing the same sneakers. The internet is gasoline that fuels cultural growth and it's enabled folks to suck in alot of media, it's no surprise that we are reaching a mono-culture where you can take and leave what you like and don't like and pick and choose how you want to dress without being accused of abandoning your culture or perpetrating. I guess you could call it......Urban Variety.

(black folks have been skating since the 80's I remember my brothers Ninja Turtle skateboard, and playing "Skate or Die" on the computer, the difference is that now you aren't seen as an outlier or made fun of for it. )

#black, #21st century #all #almalgamation #black #black people #black skateboarders #blackpeople #clothing #genre #jay-z #lil wanye #local #local infinity #mono-culture #ninja turtles #of #people #rocawear #skate #skateboard #skateboards #sneakers #soulja boy #the #twenty first #twenty one #unfacetious #urban #urban variety

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Musings about the 2.0 bubble in my pj's. Part 2 is going to be a bit more organized with a better flow and some audio/visual sprinkled in. 

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My Five Favorite VHS Movies

1. Harlem Nights

2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

3. Beverly Hills Cop 1,2&3

4. Sister Act

5. New Jack City (we had the bootleg)

What are yours?

#Movies #VHS #eddie murphy #harlem #oldschool #home alone #home #new #york #new york #beverly hills cop #sister #act #sister act #new jack city #jack #harlem #nights #harlem nights #home #alone #home alone #home alone 2

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Early Adopters, Nintendo Generation. Digital Natives, Youtube Generation.

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#nintendo #generation #early adopters #digital #natives #digital natives #youtube #generation #nintendo generation #youtube generation

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Black Power is Love, as is Human Power.

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#love #black power #black #power #black #people #black people #blackpeople #human #power #human power #power #humanlove #human love #love

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Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks (Skeet Skeet Remix)

*Theme song*

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sometimes negative snark is just a way of masking generative intellectualism...

Vivansam

#black #people #blackpeople #intellectualism #snark #local infinity #local #infinity