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🕹️Announcing our 2026 PitchBLACK participants! Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and founder of Kizmet Experience Studio, Roshmond “Sum” Patten, brings “The Nobody Hole” to the PitchBLACK stage! “The Nobody Hole” is a narrative adventure game adapted from a long-running hip hop opera created by Patten. Players follow Pygmy Paul, a young artist who falls into a dreamlike underworld shaped by loss, ancestry, and imagination. Guided by original songs that actively drive the story, players use mystic “pens” to draw, explore, solve puzzles, and explore the laws of nature while restoring The Five Sacred Gardens within The Nobody Hole. Developed by Kizmet Experience Studio in collaboration with GRX Immersive Labs and Lightheaded Media, the project fuses music and myth, … interactive design and shamanic principles into a new path to playable storytelling. More participants will be announced soon! See our full lineup of artists at blackpublicmedia.org/pitchblack or at the link in our bio

Happy to join the @recordingacademy 2025 New Member Class - I look forward to advocating for the people in new spaces on my mission to help redistribute power and liberate expression. Much love to my friends, sponsors and advisors who supported me in this process @diviroxx @marioxprins @officialmeshell 💎🐉💎

👉🏾(for the vids) In these most crucial of times, I humbly offer my new full-length solo album, House of the Red Solar Sky (Dragon, Vol. II). Out now on all the DSPs and Bandcamp, and you can also stream it on my website. Opportunities to donate are on my site, with all the videos, backstory and detailed credits. Hope the journey connects with you in some way…and can send medicine where it is needed. To celebrate the release, we are gifting two people with Akashic Record readings! A sacred service offering courtesy of my sister @ascensionalchemy_444 . Details for the #PeepTheRecord giveaway and the link to album are both in the bio! We got all year to celebrate the Dragon, we’re just getting started. This moment brought to you by me and all my relatives, The Hurting Cats Music Solutions and The Kizmet Experience Studio. Cover Art Design & Layout: @funkypeepz Covert Art Photography & Key Visual Direction: @marlamontgomery Video Experience: @kzmtxstudio Edit: Also special special shoutout to @thefrancescaharding of KCRW who a couple of years ago unknowingly catalyzed me to finalize the album at a time when I wasn’t pressed about releasing an album. At all. #houseoftheredsolarsky #dv2 #newmusic #losangeles #yearofthedragon

New Episode of The Summit Up, now live on Substack. Link in bio On this installment, we get into the alchemy that is me being a rapper. I'll touch on my accomplishments later, ...this episode is about the spiritual journey. I know some of yall got questions 🤣 🎶 opening = "Gypsy Moth" prod by Cazal Organizm (clip) 🎶 narration background music courtesy of @dr.gaingreen

PEP & MARLA TALK ART V. CRAFT, SUMMER 2025 @peplava & @marlamontgomery Last Summer, with the support of gracious volunteers and the AI2030 Creative Industries Working Group, my research group CERITAS produced a roundtable series to get to the bottom of some things related to the current AI hype cycle. We hosted four conversations with established, reputable and critically thinking artists. We spoke with those who are practiced at putting things in perspective outside of their emotions. I organized the insights into a short paper published on my Substack. I'll share clips from those conversations periodically. Our first roundtable was "The Nature of Art". We cant approach harmful tech, or decolonize useful tech, without clear definitions. Here we are addressing "what is craft, and can it apply to prompting?" with hip hop legend Pep Love of Hieroglyphics, and dynamic creative director, photographer and adventurer Marla Montgomery.

look man, human to AI to human to AI then back to human pipeline example from The Nobody Hole game dev process. f. 🎶 by @dr.gaingreen

Mission Accomplished. Black Public Media 2026 PitchBLACK Competition is a wrap. Congrats @quantum.connor and @naeyuree you earned all victories headed your way. To @vrx.connect and @miaimaniharrison , you are giants, dont forget it. Thank you @blackpublicmedia and the superhero staff, specifically @julipeno for giving The Nobody Hole game an opportunity and helping us shape a razor sharp pitch that can hold up under scrutiny anywhere. You're all ✨⭐️✨..... NYC you are always good to me, I am a full Angeleno now but the years on 153rd & Amsterdam are always part of me. "The Nobody Hole" album was born in NYC, so its only right I came back 20yrs later to solidify its new evolution as a videogame. Harlem made me a songwriter. Brooklyn sharpened me into a songsmith. Didnt get to see all my friends and family, had to fly low....see you on the next one. 🐉👁️🙏🏾👁️🐉

The Nobody Hole presents "The Tale of The Game" I'm in NYC where "The Nobody Hole" concept was born in 2006. We return in 2026 to show our work since then, in great company with our @blackpublicmedia PitchBLACK cohort. Salute all our fellow makers and their brilliant projects. Thank you all artists affiliated with both the ALBUM/SOUNDTRACK and the GAME!

sumkilla.substack.com Next ep of "The Summit Up" live on my Substack now. From my copywriter origins in NYC 2002 all the way to the voice of @atlantafx . How *this part* all happened, and why my personal social media game is doo doo even tho I know how it works 🤣 s/o Bryan Tyree and @zaziebeetz for your kindness

Another year I get to stand next to the birthday beauty in all her glory 😍. Happy bday @nzingakadalie .... I'm outside enjoying her day with her, but send her a shout ....you know she dont do social like that so you gotta send a pigeon sumn 🪶

1. a coloring book concept. used our original Nobody Hole art and illustrations to prompt genAI. 2. a coloring collab on one of the pages w wife & daughters 🎶 "The Tale of Old Man Geechi & The Fallship" from the videogame original soundtrack @soundsbymega + @maltoque

[THE NOBODY HOLE] _Videogame_Puppet Design We used AI only to dream up what the new Pygmy Paul character design for our game might look like. Then @samkojihale brings it to life with painstakingly incredible detail in a real puppet. When he's complete, we rig him and import him into the game for play. Since 2006, the goal was always for this world to feel like you could reach out and touch it..... More at sumkilla.substack.com