escapekit: Jupiter Juno is NASA’s project focused on bringing a…

















escapekit:

Jupiter

Juno is NASA’s project focused on bringing a deeper understanding to Jupiter and the processes that might have governed our solar system’s creation. The series of photographs were taken by Juno within the last year, and shows the mesmerizing swirling blue and brown clouds that make up the atmosphere 

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meccacon: BSAM D.C. 2018 #BSAMdc2018 Saturday, March 31, 2018,…



meccacon:

BSAM D.C. 2018 #BSAMdc2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018, 10am - 5pm
Howard University Blackburn Center Events
2397 6th St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20059
BSAM and CHILL :: DC #bsamandchillDC

TICKETS:::
http://BSAMdc2018.eventbrite.com
http://BSAMandChillDC.eventbrite.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/332878810455786/

Washington, D.C. - Black Speculative Arts Movement, aka BSAM, is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, independent film, and arts convention held at multiple colleges and universities thruought the United States and abroad.

Special guests include MECCAconIFF2018, Afrofuturism 2.0, Open World Comics, Niama Safia Sandy, TheOneWillFocus, Taji Mag, Dr. Baruch, Racial Justice NOW, The Brown Liquor Report, Bizhan Khodabandeh, 4THECULTURE founder Ahadi Ture, Colors in Darkness, I Mix What I Like - Emancipatory Journalism, and more.

Our annual conventions, co-founded in 2016 by afrofuturism scholar, Reynaldo Anderson, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts - MECCA, Maia Crown Williams. They include participating and vending from a vast amount of comics, art, science fiction, and artisan creators and scholars and activists. Social activism, seminars, classes, workshops, plays, and much more have been included in various cities. Students are also welcome to submit proposals to participate as well. We also heavily encourage schools to attend in groups. Locations for BSAM and MECCAcon include St Louis, Detroit, Houston, Toronto, Montreal, Greece, Philadelphia, the Bronx, NYC, Los Angeles, Ghana, Berlin, Ottawa, Nova Scotia, and more.

BSAM D.C. is honored to be hosting our very first event in D.C. at the historical HBCU, Howard University. If you are interested in moderating a panel, workshop, and/or lecture, or interested in your film being submitted to MECCAcon International Film Festival, please contact us today. Vending (limited) is also available, starting at only $75/table. Split tables start at only $100.

For more information, please contact BSAM co-founder, Maia Crown Williams, 3134510297 BSAMstaff@gmail.com (at Howard University Blackburn Center Events)

cosmosastronaut: Jupiter’s beautiful clouds of many…



cosmosastronaut:

Jupiter’s beautiful clouds of many colors

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. The spacecraft was over 65.9 degrees south latitude, with a lovely view of the south polar region of the planet.

Four of the white oval storms known as the “String of Pearls” are visible near the top of the image. Interestingly, one orange-colored storm can be seen at the belt-zone boundary, while other storms are more of a cream color.

Source: NASA

pricklypearsmane: iamcvn: “Winter chills, with a warm coven…









pricklypearsmane:

iamcvn:

“Winter chills, with a warm coven embrace”

COVEN, hey hey, so I I’m here again with a fresh set of Coven winter outfits. Me and the winter season have a love, hate relationship, but it all seems to work out in the end My friend ( @michaelfaucett) and I had a lot of fun shooting this look, so i hope you all like it. .

p.s. go and check @michaelfaucett page as well, he and i do a lot of cool shoots together so it worth a look or two.

instagram: @beingadp 

This is the look I’ve been searching for.

cinekenya: Afronauts is a pre-thesis film by talented filmmaker…

















cinekenya:

Afronauts is a pre-thesis film by talented filmmaker Frances Bodomo.

It tells an alternative history of the 1960s Space Race; it’s July 16th 1969 the night of the moon landing. As America prepares to send Apollo 11 to the moon, a rag-tag group of exiles in the Zambian desert are trying to beat America to the same destination.

This project is based on a true story. In 1964, dreams of space travel led science school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso to found a National Space Academy of Science, Space Research, and Astronomical Research in an old farmhouse outside of Lusaka. Nkoloso was so serious about the mission, he applied for a £7,000,000 grant from U.N.E.S.C.O. which never came through.

He gathered together a disparate crew of a 17-year-old girl named Matha and two cats. He trained his potential astronauts by rolling them down hills in 44-gallon oil drums or cut the rope of a swing at its highest point to simulate weightlessness. We do not know what became of them, other than that Matha became pregnant and was taken away by her parents.

Colour photographs are from a Cristina de Middel project via African Digital Art

Black & White are from Afronauts.

superheroesincolor: Binti: Home (2017) by Nnedi…





superheroesincolor:

Binti: Home (2017) by Nnedi Okorafor

“The thrilling sequel to the Nebula-nominated Binti.

It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.

And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.

But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.

After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?”

Cover by David Palumbo

Get Nnedi Okorafor’s books here

Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her children’s book Long Juju Man (Macmillan, 2009) won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa, and her adult novel Who Fears Death (DAW, 2010) was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University.


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