Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
YALL JUST DONT GET IT!!
Here is one for all the educators, parents out there who don't get it. There is revolution going on. Like Obama spoke to what is on the heart of the people. This video speaks to what is on the heart of us young people who think differently. We don't have ADD, you just don't teach in a way that holds my attention. Check out this video. MAYBE then you will understand.
Friday, December 5, 2008
10, THOUSAND HOURS? I GOT ALOT TO DO!!!
When I say I don't have time to chill, cuddle or hang out, my friends and family sometimes get so upset or bewildered. They don't understand why I am so busy.
So here is a little some thing that will help you understand me.
Read this excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers: The Story of Success"
Excellence at any complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.
"In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice-skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals," writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin, "this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery."
This is true even of people we think of as prodigies. Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six. But, the psychologist Michael Howe writes in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers Mozart's early works are not outstanding. The earliest pieces were all probably written down by his father, and perhaps improved in the process. Many of Wolfgang's childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Of those concertos that contain only music original to Mozart, the earliest that is now regarded as a masterwork (No9 K271) was not composed until he was 21: by that time Mozart had already been composing concertos for 10 years.
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about 10 years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that time: it took him nine years.) And what's 10 years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in 10,000 hours of hard practice.
Ten thousand hours is, of course, an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach that number, by the time you're a young adult, all by yourself. You have to have parents who are encouraging and supportive. You can't be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won't be enough time left over in the day. In fact, most people can really only reach that number if they get into some kind of special programme - like a hockey all-star squad - or get some kind of extraordinary opportunity that gives them a chance to put in that kind of work.
Man I got ALOT TO DO...
So here is a little some thing that will help you understand me.
Read this excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers: The Story of Success"
Excellence at any complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.
"In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice-skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals," writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin, "this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery."
This is true even of people we think of as prodigies. Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six. But, the psychologist Michael Howe writes in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers Mozart's early works are not outstanding. The earliest pieces were all probably written down by his father, and perhaps improved in the process. Many of Wolfgang's childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Of those concertos that contain only music original to Mozart, the earliest that is now regarded as a masterwork (No9 K271) was not composed until he was 21: by that time Mozart had already been composing concertos for 10 years.
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about 10 years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that time: it took him nine years.) And what's 10 years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in 10,000 hours of hard practice.
Ten thousand hours is, of course, an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach that number, by the time you're a young adult, all by yourself. You have to have parents who are encouraging and supportive. You can't be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won't be enough time left over in the day. In fact, most people can really only reach that number if they get into some kind of special programme - like a hockey all-star squad - or get some kind of extraordinary opportunity that gives them a chance to put in that kind of work.
Man I got ALOT TO DO...
This is a photo of Al Sharpton, Rachel Noerdlinger, Dominique Sharpton, Robin Kheperah Kearse, and me at the Common Celebration Capsule Line Launch with Softwear by Microsoft at Skylight Studios on December 3, 2008 in New York City.
Microsoft celebrates the launch of a limited-edition capsule collection of SOFTWEAR by Microsoft graphic tees designed by Common. The t-shirt designs. inspired by the 1980's when both Microsoft and and Hip Hop really came of age, include iconography that depicts shared principles of the technology company and the Hip Hop Star.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
R&B Superstar Usher Ramond Partnered On Casey Family Programs's It’s My Life Conference for youth in foster care, youth formerly in foster care and their advocates. Guess who was the host of the entire event? It was an amazing three days!!!
The conference, which takes place in Hollywood, CA, and is a key element in the efforts designed by Casey Family of Programs to help young people transition successfully to adulthood. Usher Raymond IV will host a panel with leading Marketing and Entertainment Industry Executives to kick-off the session.
Here are some photos from the event
The conference, which takes place in Hollywood, CA, and is a key element in the efforts designed by Casey Family of Programs to help young people transition successfully to adulthood. Usher Raymond IV will host a panel with leading Marketing and Entertainment Industry Executives to kick-off the session.
Here are some photos from the event
Thursday, October 16, 2008
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK...
Inspired by OutKast's "Get Up Get Out And Get Something", the level of employment in New York and the frustrations of black women and mothers across america, I wrote this song in like 10 minutes. I free styled it, just playing around. One of my home girls loved it and said that is something need to be on the radio!!! Let me know what you think?
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
USE YOUR VOICE ! REGISTER TO VOTE! SAY I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!
DID YOU KNOW THAT AS OF AUGUST 1ST, 63% OF AFRICAN AMERICANS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18-24 WERE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE... THAT'S CRAZY! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN ON NOVEMBER 4TH? WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE OUR ISSUES AND CONCERNS ON THE WORLD STAGE. TUBMAN, DOUGLAS, TRUTH, X, KING, AND OTHERS HAVE DIED TO MAKE NOVEMBER 4th POSSIBLE. WE COULD HAVE THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA!!! WOW! WE CAN NOT LET THIS CHANCE SLIP THROUGH OUR FINGERS... LETS MAKE HISTORY... TOGETHER. FOR TOO LONG YOUR VOICE HAS NOT BEEN HEARD. CLOSED MOUTHS DON'T GET FED! REGISTER TODAY! WHEN YOU GO THE POLLS AND VOTE YOU ARE SAYING..."I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!"
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
GIVE ME ONE MOMENT IN TIME
TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED. WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE OUR TIME TO GO. BY ACCEPTING THE INEVITABLE REALITY OF DEATH, ONE CAN TRULY BEGIN TO LIVE. WHEN THE CLOCK HITS ZERO AND IT'S YOUR TIME TO GO, WHAT CAN YOU SAY, YOU DID WITH YOUR TIME HERE? WHEN WILL YOU BEGIN THAT PROJECT, THAT YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR? THE ANSWER TO THIS WILL MAKE YOU LIVE FOR EVER. YOU WILL HAVE YOUR ONE MOMENT IN TIME THAT BECOMES ETERNITY.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
A Great Day In Brooklyn:::WHERE'S KAZI??????
Brooklyn, Stand Up!: Documenting the Brooklyn Renaissance is a year-long exploration into the many ways in which Brooklyn’s self-made artists, activists and entrepreneurs cross traditionally strict professional guidelines to challenge business models and social constructs. The project includes “A Great Day in Brooklyn”, monthly arts programming, a documentary film and photography exhibit and a newly created scholarship for Brooklyn students pursuing an education in the arts.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
KAZI BACKSTAGE WITH MS. BADU & MOS DEF
LAST NIGHT I HUNG OUT BACKSTAGE WITH MY NEW FRIEND ERYKAH BADU AND MY MAN MOS. SHE HEADLINED AT RADIO MUSIC HALL ALONGSIDE THE ROOTS. THEY DID THEIR THING, BUT MISS BADU WAS SPECTACULAR. SHE IS AN AMAZING TALENT, A TRUE SUPERSTAR AND ONE OF OUR LIVING LEGEND. WE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING TOGETHER SOON. LOOK OUT FOR IT!!
Friday, May 9, 2008
KAZI WITH VICTORIA ROWELL
ON MAY 9TH, DURING NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH, KAZI CAME THROUGH TO SUPPORT ACTRESS VICTORIA ROWELL AT BARNES & NOBLE IN NEW YORK CITY DURING A BOOK SIGNING OF HER NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "THE WOMEN WHO RAISED ME". THE PAIR ARE NATIONAL SPOKESPEOPLE FOR CASEY FAMILY SERVICES, ESTABLISHED BY JIM CASEY, FOUNDER OF UPS.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
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