@topicals Faded Family Vacation 2024 🎞️
first time doing a brand trip of this scale, learned so much and forever grateful for opportunities like this. Im always gonna highlight the creative team of @dionthecreative & @yassine_the.artist for their hard work and dedication; we really do this. Thank you to @jameelajoie for bringing us on and special thanks to Topicals and @olamideaolowe for bringing the brand back for its second year in @bermuda , can’t wait for you guys to see the rollout. Also met my favourite rapper the sh*t was nuts.
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New rolling ad for @flybermudair on YouTube 🛫
This was my first time developing an ad for an airline! It was so special to be apart of getting a fresh company off the ground running (no pun intended) and especially one that is Bermuda’s first official airline. Thank you to Schereene and Julie for all their support during the process, if you’re looking to travel soon you can catch the ad on YouTube if your heart and your cookies are in the right place 🍪
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took a walk with Sampha | winter’s finally done
Lifelong non-cold enjoyer but I can appreciate how nice moments can be, just some frames I liked on a walk.
I’ve learned a lot about love in these past two years with you, and at the core of those lessons is care. Mutual care and consideration. We’ve grown so much through being each others person and I’m excited to grow more with you.
This past weekend, we celebrated ourselves with the team at @annexhotels and definitely felt both cared for and considered. The staff was thoughtful & accommodated our wants and needs as guests, as always. So thank you to everyone at the Annex for our stay, special thanks to @mack.gravy , and happy anniversary babes. To many more years 💙🫂
Behind the Scenes shooting the Raffaella Show!
Thank you to everyone who was on set for day 1 of our pilot with @raffaellapizza 🍕
We have exciting things planned all year with the restaurant so stay tuned to both of our pages, and enjoy the vibes from the first day of shooting for our narrative series. Check out Ep01 if you haven’t already!
Ay listen brah, I wrote this for you, I wanted you to know that I love you dearly. I wanted you to know that I remember when guys cried together exactly when and how we were hoping not to. I remember how bad it feels to hurt and I remember seeing that same sorrow on you. I wrote this because we need to remember that we are not monsters. We are beautiful beings brah, we are beautiful. We are not monsters. We don’t get to be as simple and uncomplicated as monsters, brah. We change and we must continue to. I wrote this thinking about the mandem. My guys on the rock, my guys in the city, my guys too far away for one flight, my guys among the ancestors. I wrote this about Palestine, Sudan and Congo. I wrote this about Bermuda, Toronto and London. I wrote this about Tanzania. I wrote this about you, brah. In one of these shots, we stood on the roof of a parking garage. I stood and talked about when I would stand there and wonder if this was high enough to take me out. We were beside the dorm-room where I tried to do it myself. I remember how that felt and I wanted to be free, thinking I had seen the sun for the last time; how I hadn’t felt right since the Last Time I seen the sun, thinking I’d never see her again. But now I see the sun every day. So I shed every big boy tear that grows big enough to well in my eyes. And I do it with you, bro, for the sun, stars and moon to see. So, thank you for allowing me to cry with you. Love you like life brah.
Consistency
Creativity as a thru-line. I listen to this particular interlude a lot. Herm Lewis is a speaker from the Bay Area and he drops a few gems in this particular speech. “There is no hocus pocus, just discipline determination & focus”. That phrase was a grounding one for me. When I was still working job sites and clearing out houses my first summer in Canada, I worked some really terrible sites. One time I had to clear a house out that was taken over and subsequently abandoned by squatters. Another time I had to clear the basement of an abandoned restaurant down to ripping the floor out. After both those jobs, and after a crazy shower, I had a music video booked to PA on, and this album in my ears. When shit gets tricky take a deep breath and get creative. Write that plan down. An upward graph has variable increases, but yet, it increases consistently; that’s your life big dawg. My pops put me in drumming as a kid, I’ll be thanking him for that forever. This video is of me being taught the first beat I ever learned. Sometimes I forget where I know it from and I go back to this video as a reminder. Stuff like that is precious to me, it’s a moment in time that I can’t remember the beginning or end of, and yet it’s ingrained in me forever. I’m hoping to replicate that one day.
Keep it Moving
Movement and its relationship to my identity has been on my mind lately. I think you’re fortunate if your early life involved any type of sport. Childhood in Bermuda meant a whole lot of outside time, it’s super easy to miss now that it’s negative 5 outside every (bloodclaat) day. I tried a lot of sports and that became tied to my self image, someone who’s healthy and active. When that became less true, whether through injury or time management, it really affected me. So everyday I wake up and hold some space and time for that. I’m learning about that ebb and flow of life that way more, how consistency can be more healthy than intensity. To me your hobbies and the things that make you feel like that young kid again are mad important, and when you have the time you should prioritize them, especially if you live in a city. Call your friends to hang out just because, play Monopoly deal, organize a pizza making night. Plus new hobbies and skills are fire. I’m learning sudoku, imagine that. Imma get like four books too we on that.
Reflection Day
A lot of the people that inspire me in the arts have similar answers when asked about their inspirations: they’re inspired by their old work. I’ve been looking at my previous work lately, some was good and some wasn’t that good at all. But when I see those pieces I’m reminded of my thoughts at the time. When I got the opportunity to shoot for an airline I was living in a house with flies in the fridge and the kitchen ceiling falling in. When I did my first run of Daily Deposits it was a week after I got back from my first brand trip, I’d just come back home to police in my house and landlords moving themselves in illegally. Before I did either of those things I only had my student work to show my ability. But during those times I always imagined better circumstances for myself, and a lot of what I imagined is what I have now. I think it’s a good practice to look back on your progress if doubt starts to creep in, especially if you get Sunday scaries like I do. No matter what point in your journey you might be in, you’re farther and better than you used to be; despite whatever challenges you faced. Makes the present sweeter. At one point all I wanted was a crib with no roommates. Now I have a coffee table and I vacuumed my carpet today. Who knows what’s next.
