#EDIT: willow is esperanza spalding

[cyborgrhodey]

sabrina carpenter is giving strong dolly parton vibes and im here for it

[bboyplankton]

R&B/Pop/Alternative/Jazz /Reggae Albums 2019

1. Kyle Dion – Suga

2. Ari Lennox – Shea Butter Baby

3. Tory Lanez – Chixtape 5

4. Lucky Daye – Painted

5. Anderson .Paak – Ventura

6. Matt Martians – The Last Party

7. Ciara – Beauty Marks

8. Snoh Aalegra – Ugh, those feels again

9. Steve Lacy – Apollo XXI

10. Eric Bellinger – The Rebirth 2

11. James Blake – Assume Form

12. Khalid – Free Spirit

13. Devin Morrison – Bussin’

14. Mahalia – Love and Compromise

15. Sammie – Everlasting

16. Lion Babe – Cosmic Wind

17. SiR – Chasing Summer

18. Shay Lia – Dangerous

19. Johnta Austin – Love, Sex, & Religion

20. Elhae – Trouble in Paradise

21. Vedo – Vedo

22. August Alsina – Forever and a Day

23. Toro y Moi – Outer Peace

24. Ariana Grande – thank you, next

25. India.Aire – Worthy

26. Sinead Harnett – Lessons In Love

27. Free Nationals – Free Nationals

28. Lophiile – To Forgive - EP

29. Xavier Omär & Sango – Moments Spent Loving You

30. Tori Kelly – Inspired By True Events

31. Emotional Oranges – The Juice, Vol. 1

32. Chris Brown – Indigo

33. Kaytranada – Bubba

34. Mac Ayers – Juicebox

35. BJ the Chicago Kid – 1123 (Deluxe Edition)

36. Arin Ray – Phases II – EP

37. Emotional Oranges – The Juice, Vol. II

38. Kehlani – While We Wait

39. Raveena – Lucid

40. Shal Marshall – iShal

41. Kirk Brown – Vibes Up

42. Rafael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee

43. Gary Clark Jr. – This Land

44. Prince – Originals

45. Billie Eilish – When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

46. Koffee – Rapture EP

47. Summer Walker – Clear – EP

48. The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow

49. Rex Orange County – Pony

50. Moonchild – Little Ghost

51. Col3trane – Heroine

52. Yuna – Rogue

53. Eryn Allen Kane – a tree planted by water

54. Jazz Funk Soul – Life and Times

55. Kaytranada – Bubba

56. Rotimi – The Beauty of Becoming

57. PJ Morton – Paul

58. Willow – Willow

59. Eric Bellinger – Cuffing Season 3

60. Ye Ali – Private Suite 2

61. Julian Marley – As I Am

62. Daniel Caesar – Case Study 01

63. Summer Walker – Over It

64. Elle Varner – Ellevation

65. Sabrina Claudio – Truth Is

66. Jacquees – King of R&B

67. Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse

68. Alex Isley & Jack Dine – Wilton

69. Beyoncé – The Lion King: The Gift

70. Tayla Parx – We Need to Talk

71. Solange – When I Get Home

72. Problem Child – Problem Is a Problem

73. Bobby Sparks ii – Schizophrenia: The Yang Project

74. Blackbear – Anonymous

75. Konshens – Badman vs Nice Guy

76. Phonte – Pacific Time – EP

77. Flevans – Part Time Millionaire

78. Gallant – Sweet Insomnia

79. Marc E. Bassy – PMD

80. The Black Keys – “Let’s Rock”

81. R.LUM.R – Surfacing

82. Flying Lotus – Flamagra

83. Akon – Akonda

84. Rotimi – Walk with Me

85. Che Ecru – Ghosts Need Love 2 -EP

86. Lyfe Jennings – 777

87. Umi – Love Language – EP

88. Justine Skye – Bare With Me -EP

89. Layton Greene – Tell Ya Story

90. Doja Cat – Hot Pink

91. Zacari – Run Wild Run Free – EP

92. Roses Gabor – Fantasy & Facts

93. Eric Bellinger – Saved By the Bellinger

94. Rashaan Patterson – Heroes & Gods

95. Tinashe – Songs For You

96. Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)

97. Kiana Ledé – Myself

98. Mila J – December 2018 – EP

99. Tank – Elevation

100. Weezer – Weezer (Teal Album)

101. FKA Twigs – Magdalene

102. Sara Bareilles – Amidst the Chaos

103. Ye Ali – Traphousejodeci 2

104. Ye Ali – Private Suite 2

105. Kirk Franklin – Long Live Love

106. Tryezz – Alternate Routes

107. Angie Stone – Full Circle

108. Banks – III

109. Tink – Voicemails

110. Trevor Jackson – Rough Drafts, Part 2

111. Alessia Cara – This Summer -EP

112. Nikki Jean – Beautiful Prison

113. Emeli Sandé – Real Life

114. Kalin White – Flight 1023

115. Isabella – 12 Angels

116. Quinn XCII – From Michigan With Love

117. Weezer – Weezer (Black Album)

118. Mereba – The Jungle Is the Only Way Out

119. Ed Sheeran – No.6 Collaborations Project

120. Ye Ali – Jodi

121. Kara Marni – No Logic

122. City & Colour – A Pill for Loneliness

123. Future – Save Me

124. Baby Rose – To Myself

[thenoticeblog]

A Look Back at 2020 and 2021...

Hey Folx!

So, we here at The Notice Blog have been hard at work over the last two years, and wanted to share with you the projects we were able to manifest with your support.

This spans everything from investigative journalism, experimental films, boundary-pushing music videos, and our current feature film effort: the Afrofuturist, Anti-Capitalist, Womanist Horror script, Willow.

Thank you all for supporting us in our mission to champion and develop narratives from marginalized communities. If you are excited by our work, please make a tax-deductible contribution to support our nonprofit here.

And without further ado, let’s take a look at the past two years 2020 - 2021:

Willow (Full Production) Willow is set in an alternate reality where people feed on the weak to survive - Black and Brown communities are targeted the most. Until the tables turn... at a price. Willow follows a community activist’s fight to pay that price at whatever cost. The script hones in on ideas of inequality, racism, capitalism, surveillance, policing, and gender, where the world of the film explores the possible future consequences of our present reality.

A Good Haunting (Full Production) I had the privilege to direct in collaboration with Holland Andrews and Katrina Reid on this film. We wanted to produce an exciting experimental film that addresses mental health, healing, and the supernatural.

05.07.21 Test Shoot (Full Production) Celebrating and Centering Black Spaces, memory, joy, flexing, the fluidity and deconstruction of gender and so much more “Test Shoot” takes on a life of its own. As NIC playfully explores different forms of physical Black expression, they give new light and appreciation to the fruit of Black spaces.

Release (Co-Production: Co-Directing, Editing, Director of Photography, Gaffing, PA) Awards: Winner of Best Experimental Film at the 2020 Fargo Moorhead LGBTQ Festival  Official Selection of the Queer 2 Queer Festival. Official Selection of the 2021 NYC Downtown Short Film Festival Honorable Mention at the London Seasonal Short Film Festival Official Selection of the 2021 Bitesize Film Festival The 2021 Gold Award for Experimental Film at the Hollywood Gold Awards The 2021 Special Jury Award at the Uruvatti International Film Festival

Here’s a film that I’m REALLY proud of: “Release.” I co-directed, edited and DP’d (director of photography) on it. And I was smart enough to ask for help from Katrina Reid (1st AD/ Production Manager), Dominik Czaczyk (Gaffer/2nd Camera) & Sultan Ali (Grip/2nd AC). After nearly two months of pre-production, we managed to turn two days of shooting into a masterpiece.

Snakes Dance Too (Full Production) An experimental dance film A meditation on shadows and light An interplay of repetition and flipped perspectives A call and response between black creatives

Dance, projections, & Esperanza Spalding’s entrancing music, all come together in multimedia, multi-sensory experience. It’s a tribute, a conversation across disciplines, and a celebration of creativity during the 2020 Quarantine era. This film was originally created as the projected backdrop to Katrina Reid’s improvised live performance, presented by Dance in Bushwick.

Mirrors (Co-Production: Co-Directing, Co-Producing, Editing, Director of Photography, Gaffing, Audio, Grips, PAs) When 17-year-old Alma Jean finds her mother dead, she must pack up her life and move in with her mother's ex-lover, a woman she doesn't know. Her new guardian, Bird Wilson, is the town pariah and unused to sharing her home. Will mourning the death of a shared loved one bring Alma Jean and Bird together or push them further apart?

“Mirrors” was commissioned as part of a playwriting residency by Freedom Train Productions (Andre Lancaster, Artistic Director; Aurin Squire, Director of New Play Development) in 2010. Mirrors received a staged reading as part of Freedom Train Productions’ FIRE! New Play Festival on July 23, 2010. The reading was directed by Mekeva McNeil.

Como Eres (Full Production) Como Eres is a short film highlighting the tradition of Bomba, a dance style & music developed in Puerto Rico. Its strongest influences coming from West African culture via TransAtlantic Slavery. The word Bomba describes the rum barrels, enslaved Africans repurposed into drums.

Traditionally, “Bailadores” (male dancers) perform their “Piquetes” with their body and the “Bailadoras” (female dancers) perform with the body and/or skirt with the petticoat. However, Milteri of bomba dance company wanted to do something different. She wanted to challenge gender constructs behind this.

Keep At It (Full Production) Celebrating and Centering Black Spaces, memory, joy, flexing, the fluidity and deconstruction of gender and so much more "Keep at It" takes on a life of its own. As NIC playfully explores different forms of physical Black expression, they give new light and appreciation to the fruit of Black spaces. A handball court in Brooklyn becomes the backdrop of a sharp Trap music video. Here, the Projects receive homage, not disdain. Each moment, swells into layered and subtle messages meant to keep us guessing until then.

This video was featured in part of NIC Kay's #blackpeopledancingontheinternet residency at the New Museum in June 2021.

Ok Trombone - Giffen Good (Full Production) Imagine something that becomes more valuable, the more you sell it. That’s a Giffen Good.

Jim suggested we do something on Wall Street and Time square to centers of capitalism. All we needed was a Dancer who could embody the everyman trapped in this world of consumerism and superficial valuations. I suggested the uncanny Orlando Hunter, a stunning performer & choreographer I met a couple of years ago. And everyone agreed. But we had no idea just how much brilliance he would bring to set that day.

Immaculate Re-Conception of Kraig Lewis, and Defund NYPD (Full Production). Both are part of a larger series called: The Gang Database Series: Stop and Frisk 2.0:

This documentary follows local activists partnering with the Legal Aid Society, Just Leadership USA (JLUSA), NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defenders, and more to ban the use of "gang databases" by the NYPD.

But this time, community members and activists alike are also bringing with them a philosophy and practice that fundamentally changes everything: Abolish the Police.

We’ll cover a litany of activists across the country, who are both fighting against over-policing, and providing healthy alternatives, under the philosophy of “Abolish the Police.

Other Notable Projects:

Tell Me a Story & I’ll Write you a Poem shooting, editing, producing Sweet Water - panel discussion + screening shooting, editing, producing The whole thing shooting, editing, producing Pass Me That Vaporizer - directing, editing, producing Georgia Mud - shooting, editing, producing “Unbroken” Quarantine - cinematographer, choreography Sub(urban) Archives - lighting  Black Thoughts - Co-Opting Capitalism Program -  State Garden Rumba - Pregones Theater series celebrating Nuyorican history and culture in the Bronx - cinematography, editing,  At the Wall - special video for Re-Entry Rocks virtual gala - editor The Backstory - Official Selection into the Just Us Film Festival The Apartment - Commissioned by Mecca McDonald - exploring themes of body positivity, Black love and healthy breakups. - producer & editor Fiscal Sponsorship Program  -  Neu Lunch | Digital Drama Class - editor & Fiscal Sponsor EcoMundo Fundraising Video - Workers Co-Op for domestic workers The Notice Foundation Programs editor Greenwashing Video for Pildora Sustainably-Sourced Clothing Brand based out of Mexico City - Editor producer Finding (Norm)al - Editor School for Legends Promo - Editor Strange Fruit Video - Editor Here by Kendra Foster, Grammy award-winning R&B artist Eugenia Shea Butter commercials 1, 2, 3

THE NOTICE FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

Your contributions specifically support the Notice Blog’s 7 Main Programs. Through these initiatives, we’ve helped provide Online drama courses for middle schoolers, quality production to BIPOC & Queer artists like Mykal Kilgore & Azure D Ozborne-Lee. Take a look at Our Programs below:

TNB Studios - Offering affordable video production to marginalized clients and marginalized narratives. This ongoing project seeks to expand access to high-quality, award-winning video production and editing to BIPOC/Queer/Immigrant businesses and activist groups & narratives. As a result, we’re adding equity back into the film industry for underprivileged/distressed people, as well as helping eliminate prejudice and discrimination in the film industry.

The Notice Blog - Our primary focus is to provide a news media platform that not only focuses investigative news reporting on issues concerning underrepresented communities but also sustains a space for journalists/activists/everyday people from underrepresented communities to tell the news from their perspective, as well as express their experiences and viewpoints through creative narratives. The goal is to help foster underserved communities’ participation in digital media, which will subsequently further gains in employment in the fields of journalism & digital media, as well as help further community involvement in social justice initiatives concerning their own respective communities.

The Willow Project - focuses on hiring BIPOC folx behind the camera, as well as in front of the camera, requiring that the production hire 90% BIPOC folx, hire locally, work safely (according to SAG-AFTRA safety guidelines), and host an ongoing series of panel discussions and workshops for BIPOC/Queer/Marginalized folx in media. And that’s not just through furthering representation of BIPOC in “White spaces,” but by continuing to encourage their employment in positions of power throughout the entire filmmaking process.

The Notice Blog Film Festival Spotlighting and rewarding ground-breaking work in Journalism, Art, and Activism. This project seeks promote media that helps eliminate prejudice and discrimination, as well as the advancement of education about topics and issues pertinent to marginalized communities living in the US.

Fiscal Sponsorship - Offering funding opportunities for BIPOC/Queer/Immigrant journalists, artists, and activist groups/projects with charitable purposes. 

Co-Op Capitalism Program - Launching self-sustainable business initiatives that primarily support liberation through various methods. Our first project initiative, Black Thoughts, was a therapeutic Mango Shea Butter that donated 10% of gross sales profit to the Movement For Black Lives, and the United Negro College Fund. Helped eliminate prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by law;

The Jade Marie Notice Artist Grant This year, we’re offering our very FIRST Artist Grant for $2,500 to a multidisciplinary artist to commission them for a project that channels our motto: “Always Question. Always Explore.”

Submit to: Paul A. Notice II  | 1914 Palmetto St., Apt 1L, Ridgewood, NY 11385 | 917-593-0369 | paul@thenoticeblog.com

Personal Statement, Name, Address, Portfolio of Related Work, Resume, References, Project Description & Explanation of why Project relates to our charity's goals and values.

Applications Accepted Beginning: February 24th, 2022

Application Deadline: June 31, 2022

Notification of Winner: August 1, 2022

Project Debut:  November 10th, 2022

Applicant MUST be living within the United States, 25 years or older, and qualify as a working artist.