I literally just peeped this gem: 404,946 pageviews of greatness! I simply wanted to say thank you all so much for the support! It’s been a great almost-five years of blogging. I hope you all are still viewing almost-five years from now! Love and peace. P.S. Americans, I hope you voted today!…
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I was very saddened to learn of yesterday’s passing of legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, aged 82. The late designer was truly an inspiration and one of the classiest and most elegant gentlemen in fashion. In tribute, here are ten of my many favorite quotes from the significant fashion spearhead. “You have to walk like you have three men walking behind you.” “I hate pretty. It’s a very…
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Hey, all. I apologize for not posting for the past couple of weeks. October has great stuff in store for you all. Hang tight. In the meantime, here is the 16th segment of “Beautiful People. Beautiful Things.” For those who are unfamiliar, BP. BT. posts consist of ten photographs of people, places, or things. I do my best to give proper photo credit, but just in case, a disclaimer is…
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I was nominated by Sallie Mae to participate in the #PayNiasTuitionChallenge. I’ve challenged Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Mark Zuckerberg! SHARE this so my nominees can see it! This is so real. (Please ignore this horrid thumbnail. Ha! Press play as soon as you can.) SHARE IT!…
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Happy Monday, beautiful people! I’m leaving for school tonight to finish my senior year of college. It’s crazy how time flies. I hope to have some good stuff for you all soon. In the meantime, here is the 15th installment of Beautiful People. Beautiful Things. Over half of the photos in today’s segments are from my portrait photography blog Our Beautiful People. Enjoy. Ben Dahlhaus ourbeautifulpeople.tumblr.com ourbeautifulpeople.com harpersbazaar.com ourbeautifulpeople.tumblr.com ourbeautifulpeople.com…
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There’s no love like the love I have for my hats. I’ve been wearing hats ever since I was a baby. Here are some of the ones I’ve worn recently.…
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I was asked to write about my most embarrassing moment. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I can’t recall my most embarrassing moment, but I do have one I can share. During the second semester of my sophomore year of college, I was a part of a vocal pedagogy class. I wasn’t enroll in the class, but my friend Sierra was. Sierra was a Vocal Performance and Pedagogy major in the music…
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Dear Donald Sterling, I am a young African American woman who has been disturbed by the comments you’ve made. I’m not writing this to address the recording that was released a couple of weeks ago, nor I am writing to address the subsequent releases of your phone conversations. I hear foolishness like your comments at least once a week; and to be frank, comments like yours coming from someone like…
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I’m really excited. Last year, on 1 May 2013, I launched a project called Our Beautiful People (OBP). I sought to photographically document the people I meet and/or interact with from all sorts of places. Today, OBP is one year old. This project has challenged me in more ways than I thought it would. I’ve had to build courage to ask people for a photo and summon more courage to…
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Getting accepted into ONE Ivy League school is a notable accomplishment. Kwasi Enin got accepted into all of them. Yes, you read it right. Enin, a 17-year-old senior at William Floyd High School in Mastic, New York, got a scholastic royal flush by getting accepted by Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, and finally, Harvard. Enin is a first-generation American, whose parents, both nurses, emigrated from Ghana.…
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