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Follow The Leader

...found in miss silk's blog, but truth is what it is."

Cold Blooded Couture

image robbed from Mike Brown's Vimeo.

Lubricate Yo Mind!!!

New Video: Dudley Perkins "The God"

"The God" by Dudley Perkins from SOMEOTHASHIP CONNECT on Vimeo.

MC Declaime rappin & spittin that TRUTH till it hurts!
-meets-
Koldazz futuristic production by the one and only Ms. One aka Georgia Anne Muldrow.

This project was shot, edited, color corrected, and motion graphiced ;-) completely in house @ Boom Art House.
We're captured a lot of personality on this one...

To experience this video in a non-linear way click here.

What the heck is video art?

thee universal vibrations of the 9th ethereal assembly of nations pt. 1 from ogechi on Vimeo.

I can't exactly tell you that, but you can watch this short vid i made back in the day and form your own opinion.

Do you want more?

Fashion A La BOOM

BOOMTHREADS BLACK & WHITE ULI T-SHIRT PROMO from ogechi on Vimeo.

T-shirt: "Uli" BoomThreads
Photographer: Piper Carter
Music: Georgia Muldrow for Epistrophik Peach Sound
Model: Ogechi
MUA: Monika Monroe
Leggings: American Apparel
Shoes: Alexander McQueen for Puma
Everything Else: Boom 4 Ogechi.com

Drape yourself in Boomthreads via Cocolah.com

Piper Carter Presents... Model Cody in Reflections Internal

Reflection Internal (Spring Fashion 2009 Editorial) from ogechi on Vimeo.

Fashion Photographer of world renown and my friend/collaborator, Piper presents a fresh young face and a fresh take on a Spring fashion photo story. She shot it and made the team in Detroit, then FTPed the footage to Boom Art House so we could work our magic. Success!

Piper Carter Presents:
Model: Cody Thronton
Stylist: Benny Lumpkins
MUA/Hair: Jessica Hernandez
Original Score: Dj DEZ (Slum Village)
Edit/FX: Ogechi Chieke for Boom Art House

BOOM ART HOUSE BLOG

Welcome to the web portal for all things Ogechi and all things BOOM.
U have entered the official blog for the Boom Art House Production Studio and Creative Workshop.
We've got lots of new projects and out the box ideas coming your way.
Whether you decide to observe or get involved, enjoy!
And stick around a while!
-Ogechi

YOUTUBE IS BANNED IN IRAN?!?

Yes, honey.
Youtube.com is banned a lot of places.
These people can tell you better than I can, but I did find info this to be a real trip.

Ancient Aliens?

Ok. I know, I know that Discovery Channel and History Channel are notorious outlets of disinformation, but watching this aroused some special feelings of anger inside of me.

I guess i got angry because i really want to see a fully enlightened consciousness in every human being in my lifetime... (you see, i have expensive tastes ;) and with so much information out there, i get annoyed at institutionalized racism masquerading as knowledge. i want everyone to live in their divinity right now!

an another thing. i'm getting weary of the alien conspiracies. newsflash!!! we are the aliens. it has long been common knowledge on the planet that we here are VISITORS. and it's a privilege.

I wanted to lash out, but instead i just lit up the comment section in youtube.

Like to hear it? Here it go..

all these alien theorists can only operate with the flimsy

assumption that europeans are the source of all knowledge and

technology on earth.

another fallacy is that any human is "primitive" before

contact with european culture.

it's 2009. enough of the racism.

indigenous people stand up and claim your history and

achievements.

nazca is clearly an air strip. duh!

all of the "theorizing" makes u looks stupid as u boggle your

own mind trying to explain away indigenous achievements +

tech.


yes! nazca is an airstrip.

humans have created advanced technology on earth again and

again and again. we've been here a long time.

they said it 500 times, but their racism won't allow them to

believe it.

also, by beating around the bush they can still sell books

and maintain their fake professorships.

people, get your own information.

they sit there all day and talk, yet they cannot recreate the

technology.

there is only one alien and it is the european.

they are trying to distract you.


light bulbs, batteries, medicine, aircraft in KMT (egypt)

the industrial revolution began after Napoleon's "tour"

(raid) of Egypt. (1798-1801)

they destroyed the african features of the pharoahs, raided

the arts and tech from the tombs, studied it in their

universities and museums.

then they repackaged the tech and took credit.

research the lightbulb.

prior to that... dark ages.

they used to have to go to egypt for college.
plato. hippocrates. etc.



let's have a little more respect for indigenous

spirituality/education/oral history.

not the same as religion/mythology = confusion

aliens = myth

ancestors = interdimensional being

we humans are sharing the earth dimension.

there are others...

stop fearing spirits. spirits teach. anyone can access the

teaching -- like what they described on the vid happening in

"ancient times"


how is now different from "ancient times"?

guess what? it's not.

look within. we hold the power.

there are no beings of superior intelligence coming down to

hold our hands. (mytho/religion)

if u want a flying saucer, build it.

we are not monkeys either. we are gods.

one love.

one last thing.

i'm have no hate 4 the european.

we are all here on earth as visitors.
somehow the european believes they are here as a conqueror.

yes, i know! earth and earthlings are amazing!

let's just try to live here in harmony. let's share our information.

but when a small group is using others to try to control and dominate a situation that they can barely understand... not a good look.

this video illustrates that so clearly.

i'm just praying for everyone to come into knowledge.

We'll Be Back After These Messages...

Feast Your Eyes On This Blog While Ogechi.com is On Its Way...

Hmm... I wonder what this rich dude is talking about...

Blog Of Richard Branson, CEO or Virgin Group

This dude has a blog. I haven't thoroughly inspected it yet, but I noticed a quirky commercial and he fasted 3 days for peace in Dafur...

Oh. how trendy!

RUN! RUN!

I've had many a fantasy about doing the same thing myself.
I can admit that.

Michelle Obama Said Something Good

”I just feel like through the small things that we can do here at the White House, we can start exemplifying the importance of building those bridges, in real meaningful ways, so that when you come — when young people come here, they don’t have to come here and be something they’re not. They can come here and be who they are, and the folks here will listen. And we can go out and be ourselves and listen in their communities as well.“



Obama foreign policy aside, this woman has said something good.

More power to her to actually make this happen.

Obama picks former astronaut to lead NASA

Charles F. Bolden Jr. in a NASA space shuttle crew photo.
(Credit: NASA)

We Takin' Ova!

Where Was Micheal Platt When This Ish Went Down??!!!

This pic was from the World Beard and Moustache Championships and annual competition.

It's only $40 to enter. I did not see the Afrikans represneted.

Plattman is a shoe in for 2010.

Those of you who know him will know what I'm talking about.



I wish I had a picture of him with that thing unfurled...

For those of you who really don't know what I'm talking about, Micheal B. Platt is my mentor (one of them) and I'm repping team Platt all day! Click the above link so you can act like u know.

read more about that contest if u dare

Don't Worry, Mike, Ogechi Loves You!

I'm gonna need people to stop calling my baby Mike Tyson crazy.

Can't you see this is just an sincere afrikan warrior man being real with his feelings?!!

No Sex Zone

As I was contemplating my own vow of celibacy i ran into this gem ;-)



There is so much truth in this, it is effortlessly funny.

These things don't really apply to my particular issue.

More on that later. It's real in the field, tho.

(So real I really took some time out to counsel the youth!)

Yo! I think this could help some people see the light.

I actually know quite a few nickels like this!

One.

Black President: Xerox Corp.’s Ursula Burns

(From Bloomberg Report)

Burns, 50, will become chief executive officer on July 1, ending the eight-year run of Anne Mulcahy, who will stay on as chairman. Mulcahy, 56, named Burns president in 2007, almost three decades after Burns joined Xerox as a summer intern.



Burns will be one of about 15 women who lead Fortune 500 companies and her ascension will mark the first female-to-female transition, according to Fortune. Her promotion cements her status as the most powerful black woman in the corporate world.

read more

I can't readily reverse engineer this hustle but this sh*t is tiiiiiight!

Kill. The. Game.

YES!!!

A hot new photo shoot from mi #3 negra modela favorita!

(#1 being myself. #2 being naomi.)

Yes, children….

Laugh now and cry later, but I saw her mama on the documentary and she was a certified Negro! I don't care, baby. One drop rule.

And, YES! This is a hot photo shoot.

…and it was probably inspired by Kanye’s ex-girl Amber Rose with the dress she wore to Paris fashion week but Ms. Lima made it hotter!!!

Love it! Love it! Love it!!!!

sexy short hair.... check!

hot bodycon black mesh.... check!

updated 80's retro style.... check!

kuba cloth design appropriated by high fashion.... check!

more face than u can handle.... check!

Afrika Kwenu!

Source

Reflection Internal (Spring Fashion 2009 Editorial)

Reflection Internal (Spring Fashion 2009 Editorial) from ogechi on Vimeo.

Piper Carter Presents:
Model: Cody Thronton
Stylist: Benny Lumpkins
MUA/Hair: Jessica Hernandez
Original Score: Dj DEZ (Slum Village)
Edit/FX: Ogechi Chieke

A HOT SALON

ok.

you don't really know me right now if you don't know about my addition to fine fingernails.



Tryin' To Get My Kim Vo On...

might not be this week, because i'm moving, but i'm coming for you Kimmy.

this much, i know is true.

and to those haters of the finer things in life wanna twist it up and call me bougie?

all i have to say is stop hating and get money!

Warriors... Come Out To Play-yaaaaaay!

thanks to the dude at work i remembered how badly i need to get this movie in my life!!!

i've never even seen it?

can you beleive it?

it's only one of the most slept-on but highly influential to everything classic film of the 70's.

and that fool puffy was singing "bad boy, come out and play-ay!" and the whole time it was really: warriors come out 2 play and u were none the wiser...

plus the styling on all the gang members is hot!

i'm gonna watch it online 4 fray this wknd.

i promise you.

BOOMTHREADS BLACK & WHITE ULI T-SHIRT PROMO

BOOMTHREADS BLACK & WHITE ULI T-SHIRT PROMO from ogechi on Vimeo.

Do It, Roger!

co-sign

Dis is Dedicated to the Bloggers... Not all, but some.

They sit there watchin on the side lines
Not even known if they ass was on the line
Could they make it out in time?
So quick to criticize
Yet they never realize
That the story’s different
Every single every time
You just Mind your business
And I’ll mind mine.

They just wanna site there on the sidelines
And criticze
Media got them mesmerized
Can’t keep track of what’s happening in they own lives.
Don’t know which way to go
Cause they’ve been filled up with lies
No discernment.
And it’s urgent that this madness cease
Until folks deal with the real
There won’t be no justice or no peace.

Changin' The Format for '09

Something about my whole internet swag is going to change very soon.
In time to ring in the '09.

In fact, a lot of things.

I needs these blogs to be journal spaces and sounding boards so i'm going to stop pretending to be addressing my hordes of followers on twitter and get down and dirty with this branding business.

I need a place to be dream self.
More brainstorming. Less performing.

Besides boomthreads was never really meant for public consumption and appealing to the lowest common denominator.

so all that to say, many things are changing.

if you are looking for the lasted trendy bandwagon to hop on board, you're gonna have to look somewhere else b/c ogechi never was and never will be about that.

if you are looking for bonafide soulful connection and creative experience, we will be bringing more of that. it's multi-media, baby.

soooo, i will henceforth be merging boomthreads.blogspot.com with therealogechi.blogspot dot com underneath a new heading which will be ogechi.blogspot.com if i can get that domain...

hold a min.
let me try.




image by keif
t-shirt by georgia

Is It Good To You?

New Jack Swing.
Bright Colors.
Cross Colors.
Those Were The Dayz...

Filhos De Ghandy

Filhos De Ghandy is a Brazillian secret order of men who are dedicated to, of all things,

Peace!

A novel idea, eh?
When can we start doing stuff like this in America?

The elders are also involved.

Even the light skinned brothers get in on the action. ;-) Clearly for the people.

They always get the girl...

Organization. Power.

Rites of Passage.

Gangasta body art.

Um.. I'm really not mad at this.

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My auntie gave me this wonderful album as a teen and introduced me to this revolutionary concept via classic Brazilian music. Highly recommended.

This is the late Clara Nunes singing "Ijexa" celebrating the group. Enjoy :-)

Odetta RIP

which came first the Odetta or the Rockabilly?
honor the ancestors, mayne!





click to read more about her life...

Hot Shi*

obama spirit is selling everthing.
why don't i have any obama shirts, yet, you ask?
i didn't want to jump on the bandwagon.
i love the obamas but its a quiet love i have for them.
i like what they represent to a certain degree.
love the strength and wisdom.
leaving the conformity.

Iraq. What's really going on?

This is a political post.
But maybe not really.
More of a human rights thing.
$1 for the first person who can tell me why an occupying entity might find it useful to exterminate the Ph.Ds and lecturing professors (ie. griots) in a target society.
Planet Earth. Planet Earth. SMDH.
Human behavior might be a mystery to some...
I just read this thought provoking blog that links to a list of the intellectuals that have been executed during the "War in Iraq"
Such a waste of life.
What's the use of knowing about things like this?
And this is just a glimpse of the magnanimity of what this period of "history" is really about.
No one seems to care when you tell them.
Most folks I encounter don't want to know.
Butterfly effect.
That means that even shit you don't know about still affects you.
Good and Bad.
It's a balance and we float in the middle.
I'm not trying to focus on the negative, but as our world gets increasingly global, I'm thinking it's just a matter of time before things like this happen on US soil... again.
My dad keeps bugging me about a Ph.D. (Not like I actually do things that he says... LOVE U DAD!) But after browsing that list, seems that's like drawing a bulls eye on your head.
I'm a life long student.
I love learning.
I'm a student of life.
Speaking from experience, formal education is just ok. (Debt, not so much.)
Ph.D?
New World Order in full effect people.
Last days.
Just for the record, I vote no.
Not enough time for that, anyway.

WHAT THE F#@* IS UP WITH THE VIOLENT COLONIZATION OF THE LAND AND THE PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE MENTAL CONDITIONING OF THE INHABITANTS OF PLANET EARTH?

Peter Beard and Veruschka in "Africa"

Ok.
I dunno why I like stuff like this but I do.
I even participate in shoots like this with my buddy/colleague/mentor Michael B. Platt I don't have any good images of myself and the work I did with him and I'm working to correct that. Sometimes I'm crazy like that and I don't keep up with my art. I'm just free with it and I let it go into the world and I almost just forget about things...

Also, I don't know who did the body painting or why Beard had Veruschka (that's your girl from the movie"BLOW UP") running butt nekkid thru the bush. I'm noticing that many mainstream(read *white*) artists can get away w/o really putting much thought/theory into their creations. Well if he can, I can too! I'm done explaining. And critically analyzing, intellectually apologizing, mfa bullshit, etc. I'm an artist and I automatically process shit. I'm like a rosetta stone in this b*#@$ and if you wanna know anything specific, ask me directly or read my blog.

Anywhateverthef*&@way. This is a dope image he did with my fried/sister Gina. She's a dope artist too. Hit her up on Facebook and tell her I sent ya!



And just for good measure i'm gonna throw in this hot converse. i don't know who did this, but all u need to have some fun is some black chucks, cream bleach and a paint brush. holla!



Ok, kids. That's my post for today and maybe you won't notice that I'm moonlighting on this blog with my one true love... myself!

THis is Either a Soul Baring Ditty or a Cry for Help! LMFAO

isn't it funny
that i hate computers
but i find myself on one
every day.

wasting all of my time.
make me wish i was blind.
gonna gouge out my eyes
and force myself to look inside.

i'm looking for another way.
this ain't the way to spend my days


i said.
i think it's a sign
that i'm out of my mind
not matter to how i try
i just can't focus

been here before so
i should know this.



i know i said i was fine.
but i'm really not fine.

still i don't know why

and you don't know why.

but how could you know if no one told you?

sometimes i wish i could die.

but id still be blind.

besides i'll miss this entertaining chaos.

i know it's all in my mind!

i really wish i could fly.

but wishing never got me nowhere

i guess i'm caught in a bind.

i've got too much time.

on earth

living thru new understandings!







LOOK INTO MY EYES TELL ME WHAT DO YOU SEE!

Going Round In Circles

As I sit in my own cube pondering what to do next...
How can I further streamline my life?
Where am I going?
Feeling like I'm not changing fast enough.
Not a good feeling kinda, like, all day long.
Knowing that that's not a natural thing.
Knowing that my will is that of a transformer.
An evolver.
Praying for a sign that might signal then end of my confusion.
I carried on my same fruitless routine of looking for a paycheck.
Even tho I know I am my own paycheck.
But still my reality is showing me some other shit.
Knowing that I am the change.
But feeling like I'm not changing fast enough.

A French Taste of Inspiration

The strange sculptures of artist Etienne Meneau

bet u never saw a decanter like this befo'

and a sculpture that reminds me of my current favorite film.

Can you guess which one?



What else does this remind me of???

Sacred Herb

Girl, lemme tell ya!
If you are ever having the feminine problems associated with the monthly release of toxins associated with PMS, the Sacred Herb has a remedy for you!

You might already know about this...
Seems like a no brainer.
Just so you know, I'm feeling no pain.

The Factory...

Random Images From My Desktop

And when I say random... I mean random... Don't judge me...
SIKE!
guess what? Me nah care.