"Caught up in these ways, and the worlds gone craze
Don't you know it's just a phase
Case of the Simon says
If I forget the truth then my words won't penetrate
Babylon burning in the place, can't see through the haze
Chop down all of them dirty ways,
That's the price that you pay for selling lies to the youth"
2011 A.D (African Digital) : I think we are living in very exciting times,also very challanging i have to say.The year has hardly started and economies seems to be in turmoil,Brisbane is afloat and it seems Africa will obtain its 54th country.I had to sit down over a cup of coffee and make sense of all of this madness! Now let us ponder and reflect on the brightness of this African sun (son).I think we have so much to be greatful for,just this morning i could rotate my tap and taste the sweetest of water.I have to be honest it made me think,im always in constant bliss between reality and thought,present and past,Toureg and San,drought and sand! Every ticking minute becomes a ever elusive past,one that we could reflect over and undig like a archaeologist.I started digging and finding out what life was like under apartheid for my parents,this state of apart ness what was it suppose to yield,why do we as humans seek to impose and frown upon each other? I was struck when i heard the story of my friends Grandmother who visited Canada during the apartheid years,what stood out for this lady was the fact that she was treated like a human in a country that was strange to her.This morning i woke up from a blistering headache that stared at me like the blazing sun in a deserted island of sand;i had to sit down and reflect!
In my thought's i found the bluest of skies the clearest of oceans,i finally attempted to open my mind and i found i was still in this space with water and the clearest of skies.Hmmm where am i! Sometimes you find yourself in a desert and barren land and refuse to acknowledge the beauty in all of this "mess".To the future and whatever it may hold,may we all become fisherman in this deserted island.
Who are we? a photo project i wish to do capturing portrait images of various faces in my community (coloured).Through these images i would like to question our identity and our place in this world where everything is centered around black and white.What happens when you black and white and every other nation on this planet?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more.
Ya see, in life I know there's lots of grief,
But your love is my relief:-Bob Marley
@rushayRushay Booysen
I think this democracy has turned us into a melancholic state for no one can be free when others are oppressed
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
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- Rushay Booysen
- Avid music lover thats been involved in local scene marketing,managing,promoting and spreading culture through arts.Keen photographer whose interest are photojournalism.Worked on radio,websites and various community projects.Invited as guest speaker to Stanford University in 2004.Feb 2007 Spoke at New York University,California Lutheran University,Michigan University and The African Museum in San Francisco.I have worked on several web projects aimed at bridging cultural gaps one such project was with Fundacio la caixa a digital library hosted in Barcelona,Spain,so in between web browsing and image blogging im constantly seeking ideas to create debate and exchange
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