Black Diamonds Shining

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THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT SACRED SPACE...BLACK FUTURIST COMING

2011-05-10T07:54:00.001-07:00

"i'm over charging the industry for what they did to the cold crush"

2010-11-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

So i'm hearing rumors that November is hiphop appreciation month.Thats cool and all but for some of us everyday is hiphop appreciation day,just like everyday is african(american-thats on you to add that)history month.I realize im getting into the old man stage of music listening.I really cant mess with half the new rappers that are on some hipster mess,or the others who just get on the mic and list off the new tshirts ,jeans,and sneakers they just bought off karmaloop.com zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.To quote Sean Price"I don't Wale and them new n*ggas".In my opinion all the hip hop groups and most groups in music could get something by just listening and studying these classic performances and battles from the likes of The Cold Crush Brothers,Fantastic 5,Dj baron and Breakout etc....This is pure creative energy,no industry standards,no paying off the dj,no sponsorships just show up perform and rock and shock the house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPfn2A68To&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98j1aKFXsqE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPWWgZETybk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcGgWBdMXA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XG7gw4RIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwT1JWoEP8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVDsr-o61Q&feature=related

2010-11-09T09:22:00.001-08:00

" IMAGES CREATE OUR REALITY AND ARE EMBEDDED INTO OUR SUBCONSCIOUS"

NOW SOUNDS...........

2010-11-09T09:19:00.000-08:00

The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. That's the only right direction. Only such a man can enter into the golden gate. The present is the golden gate. Here-now is the golden gate. ...And you can be in the present only if you are not ambitious--no accomplishment, no desire to achieve power, money, prestige, even enlightenment, because all ambition leads you into the future. Only a non-ambitious man can remain in the present. A man who wants to be in the present has not to think, has just to see and enter the gate. Experience will come, but experience has not to be premeditated."

u.f.o. !!!!

2010-11-08T19:26:00.000-08:00

Safety First Pop Bds Oscar Grant Poster

2010-11-08T13:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/notmygovernment/3633537964/

So they gave the cop(no need to put any power behind the mans name anymore) that murdered innocent Oscar Grant The 3rd execution style on a BART platform in front of plenty of witnesses and god 2 years in prison but he will be released in 70 days because his time has already been served. And people are outraged,upset,stressed,and down right angry.I have even less faith in this so called system of law...or really westernized thinking.The courts just told me and every other male of color that our lives are not even worth a dogs,which Micheal Vick got 4 years in prison for fighting and killing.Hmm makes you think doesn't it?To me you are a fool if you think you're financial status or college degrees mean anything in a land where you can be executed just for simply being a skin tone.I'm not saying don't go for yours ,im just wondering what we've been really going?

vibration......

2010-11-07T23:03:00.001-08:00

our legs our hands our body are here for only about 100 something years if even that...but our vibration, our frequency, our energy, will be here forever........whats more important than our flesh then? think about it! vibrate!!! vibrate!!!

do the cabbage patch dance in zimbabwe with shelltoes

2010-11-07T19:55:00.000-08:00

ELECTROAFROLITE ART SHOW

2010-11-03T13:01:00.000-07:00

Friday the Fifth "ELECTRO-AFRO-LITE"
Mama Buzz Cafe will be experiencing the show of the year. The Black

Diamond Shining Art collective will be showing artwork for the whole month of November starting at OAKLAND ART WALK this Friday the 5th. Artist Ras Terms, Deadeyes, Safety First, Ashrose, and Antjuan Telepathic Jones coming together taking you through afro-galactic fine street art and invocations. 2318 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 465-4073

HEALTH KEYS FOR WOMEN AND LIBERATION

2010-11-01T09:38:00.001-07:00

Holistic Health Keys For Women & Liberation
By ChenziRa D. Kahina, MS, NHD, PhD
A Concise Note shared during African Liberation Month-May 2010

Holistic health and wellness for women are central to the work, vision, mission and purpose of any family, village, community and nation. Holistic retreat intensives for women support our ability to realign, restore, resurrect and harmonize our femininity through multiple healing traditions, practices and natural retreat activities that may be integrated into one’s life on a daily basis. Holistic Health for Indigenous Afrakan women includes a basic respect for sacred principles of AST (Sacred Nurturing & Compassionate Mother Principles) within our lives. AST principles represent positive feminine elements of nurturing, mothering, sacred intention, proactive natural ascension, respectful maternal and sister relationships, loyalty and energetic healing to self, family, community and nation. As an “ankh” is a “key of life”, let’s explore our holistic wellness ankhs!

Holistic Health Keys women are encouraged to embrace in our lives are:
•Assess and Know Our Body—Learn the elements of air, fire, earth and water “AFEW”
•Engage in womb nurturing and self-healing practices (“Our wombs are our wombniverse!)
•Think positive thoughts and celebrate life
•Strengthen our spiritual practices for sacred ascension (Women are sacred spiritual beings!)
•Eat wholesome foods with a positive attitude (Just leave the inorganic junk foods alone!)
•Exercise on a regular basis (Minimum 30 minutes daily!)
•Drink water to keep our body hydrated (Minimum 6-8oz glasses daily)
•Visit and celebrate nature as often as possible (When was your last seabath or nature walk?)
•Nurture positive relations with our self, life partners, family and community
•Work with a certified health care practitioner that KNOWS and LIVES in alignment with practices that support women’s wellness
•Embrace “each one teach one as each one heals one” to LIVE UP©!

For more information, email nuwomanrising@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/perankh and share a message or request!

who says our ancestors are not here??????

2010-11-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

castle rockers!!!

2010-10-29T07:25:00.000-07:00

Black Diamond Shining will be painting live at a castle called afterlife tonight. Its a exclusive invitation costume party with dance, live painting and art work displayed.....I will be time traveling there tonight...........

2010-10-29T06:50:00.000-07:00

To the break of dawn..when the roosters sings that song of a new day....the trees tell us how to live. the ground holds us in balance, the universe our mother extends here hand of love created by her. To become a planet rock as time moves in cycles. Who will become that light we used to turn on in Kemit. Who will love like the first burst of the big bang. Don't deny us for simplicity. Don't come with some worship of vanity. Don't play life out with confusion. You might need us one day when we become the spirits in your mind. Put on your true self and see how nature will love your progress.We are suppose to shine. Ask your true cells!!! eye loved you for a reason said our ORI !!!

deadeyes..........

2010-10-29T06:41:00.000-07:00

sun days for rainy eyes

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love is the answer..........

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black futurist

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water has no enemies

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bird hits window!

2010-10-29T00:00:00.000-07:00

If I could talk to the the past with hope of getting heard. I'd say its for a greater purpose no matter how negative of positive. But even I wouldn't have heard that then. So I promised my self to hear whats still being said to come...they are frequencies with answers. They are like birds who crash into windows who still looking dead will have the inner strength to get up and fly away. And "damn did the window hurt" said the bird.

black diamond shining..............hotep fam!

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what would Tehuti do?

2010-10-28T23:44:00.000-07:00

then we set sail of selves and crashed like test dummies and now live alittle more longer than toenails.....what would a wodabi woman do?

M1 of Dead Prez & DJ Child: "Go To War"

2010-10-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

http://projectgroundation.com/2010/05/m1-of-dead-prez-dj-child-go-to-war-2/?preview=true&preview_id=1785&preview_nonce=3d586dd73c

“Go To War” is the 2nd leak off of M1 of Dead Prez & DJ Child’s forthcoming full length studio album…Look for nuff more PGM meets BDS collabs in the near future!!!

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the stairs the stares!! by Ras Terms the ricky storm!!!

2010-10-28T12:59:00.000-07:00

Staring at the stairs and seeing the tags of gangs and counting each step. about 72 steps up and every breath taken we hope is not mistaken for a heart shaken wrong. Becoming strong painting long nights alive and well with hell on one shoulder and with heaven deep in the mind far away that we might be blind at times. We are the DNA of the past living giving today I am the tragedy and the amazing spiderman that climbs and finds ways to make days better no matter the sweater you wear in the weather.

2010-10-28T08:40:00.000-07:00

Found free painting....

2010-10-27T03:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36273260@N02/4918339009/
So heres one of the painting that Terms and I(Safety First) put out on the streets as a offering for the spirits as well as for the living....
We were lucky enough to meet the young lady who found this painting on the streets of Berkeley California.
So shout out to Nisha....she was also nice enough to put the painting she found in the streets up on flickr.....thanks!!!!!

~The Sevenist (Highlights for 2000-2010)

2010-10-26T23:48:00.000-07:00

San Francisco Art Institute Mural October 2010

2010-10-26T22:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22765&id=100001451834084&saved#!/photo.php?fbid=449270589607&set=a.448782449607.250771.745234607
Shout out to Ms.Shorty Greene for hooking us up on this mural at the San Francisco Art Institute Chestnut St Campus,had a blast doing this...and would love to do more work this size.Artists that contributed to this wall are Deborah Roberts Shorty Greene Deadeyes Ashrose and SafetyFirst........

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The heavy weights of life are getting to us...we are invoking the spirit of creativity...we are the now!!!

we will be here forever!!!

2010-10-26T08:50:00.000-07:00

Black is so beautiful.........

2010-10-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

right on right on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUXok-WzpH4&feature=related

can I kick it?

2010-10-20T07:53:00.000-07:00

creativtiy is a blessing from everything you believe to be good and God. Your creative powers are for the benefit of all creation. We are working with the universe to expand the self and others. That is an act of love. Use your creative powers with good intentions so that they can be forever!! Use it wrong and the universe responds accordingly! The ancestors want creativity!

eye-cult.....from the ends of the universe to the soil on this earth..lets rock this planet!!!

2010-10-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

new day dawning

2010-10-20T07:35:00.000-07:00

As the sun slowly rises behind the grey clouds today we make offerings. Let the past be the past and the things not necessary for our creative progress be gone. Nature is giving and taking. The universe and me and you and all are one. When we tap into our higher self we will see the blessings. The curses are also a blessings to this building of self progress. I cried, I laughed. They are here, they are gone. I am here we are here. so hold the heartbeat and keep stomping creation lovely with your subconscious black boots. And I promise you that you will shine like the morning sun....ASHE!

when we talk

2010-10-19T23:11:00.000-07:00

The voice through the dim past being invoked through our sounds as they materialize themselves visually telling us that we will be here even after everything is gone..he sang that song saying we will be here forever. We are creating realities that are embedded into our subconscious. The creative spirit with love, with light, with faults, be free, free to invoke the past, for a future, but stepping in the now. Come on yall..rock the shell toes, dreadlocks or mohawks and come a shining.

2010-10-19T23:04:00.000-07:00

A Little bit more.........

2010-10-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

some links to some older art.....

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black diamond with creative forces possesed

2010-10-18T19:49:00.000-07:00

We will be here forever like protons and electrons!

Dj Child interview featiuring M1

2010-10-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

http://projectgroundation.com/2010/10/dj-child-m1-of-dead-prez-radio-interview/
Dj child is the homie who put out the first video featuring Ras Terms explaining the science behind his famous angel symbol.We are sharing this interview because we plan to work with Dj child in the very near future on video and bds crew mixtape projects...keep a eye out for all those projects.peace

Fools Paradise Radio interview with Deadeyes RasTerms and SafetyFirst(c)

2010-10-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

The homie Mike invited us over to Revolution Cafe in West Oakland to interview us about what we are up to,why we do what we do etc...if youd like to get a small peep into our minds to see whats behind the work we produce just take a listen to us
http://www.mixcloud.com/thizzfacedisco/fools-paradise-radio-w-guest-black-diamonds-shining/

More pics of our main wall at the Fela Kuti Group show in SF

2010-10-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

The pieces of our main wall we painted at the fela show

2010-10-15T13:44:00.000-07:00

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This is a piece of our main wall we painted for the Fela show painted by safety first inspired by the Fela Kuti song Authority Stealing

Works we did for Zombie: The Ressurection of Fela Kuti

2010-10-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

Part of the entrance way to the Fela show painted by Ashrose,Deadeyes,and Safety First(c)

ZOMBIE: THE RESSURECTION OF FELA KUTI

2010-10-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

We were recently asked to be apart of the dynamic group show Zombie The Ressurection Of Fela Kuti at The African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.It was honor to give offerings for the legacy of such a great artists and to also be showing work with such a wide range of awesome artist who also shared a great love for FELA.If you live in the bay are you should make it by to see the work.. take a look at there website for days and times they are open http://www.aaacc.org/

C33 Gallery, Closing reception tonight, 5p to 8pm ...Panel Discussion 6:30 to 8pm

2010-10-15T01:07:00.000-07:00

Panelists include:
Brooks Golden
Hebru Brantley
Zoe McCloskey
Abraham Ritchie (ArtSlant)
Fruzsina Eordogh (Chicago Art Magazine)

Moderated by curators, Nicolette Caldwell and Casey Champion

INTERESTED IN THE EXHIBITION CATALOG? buy the catalog here for 11 bucks!
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/sixty-inches-from-center/13030295

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This piece was painted during a makossa west party at era art bar in downtown oakland.

The artist that collaborated on this were Antjuan Oden Ras Terms Deadeyes Ashrose and Safety First(c)

2010-10-14T11:07:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the the brand new BDS CREW Blog

2010-10-08T17:22:00.000-07:00

We decided to put up this blog to tell the people directly what we are thinking,what events we are doing and so you can see new art.... more to come.....