#Vashti Harrison

[fyblackwomenart]

Vashti Harrison

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to the 2024 Caldecott books!

[letmewriteitdown]

Sometimes when I am painfully sad and nothing else brightens my mood I go and find a picture book to read.

I take a little bag, I walk to the library close to me, and I pick up as many children's books as I think I can reasonably carry on my walk back home, and then I read them.

I know it seems silly and a little ridiculous, but looking at the art, I feel good. Reading the story, I feel good. I feel like that little person that I used to be that thought I would always have enough time and creativity to write pretty books and then spend downtime reading pretty books.

Recently I had one of those down days and I brought home the amazing picture book Big by Vashti Harrison. I saw Vashti Harrison's name on the cover and I snagged it right away.

I read Hair Love by Matthew Cherry and I completely fell in love with Vashti Harrison's art style in that book and wanted more.

Big was perfection. The story is sweet, quiet, and filled to the brim with painful memories that somehow play out to brighten your heart.

The book manages to be devastating in the emotions while being filled with a bright and amazing feeling of self love and acceptance.

The story is amazingly illustrated and each illustration adds to the mood and delicate story being told. There are soft lines, beautiful colors, and tiny details (the words of love even in the end papers) that just stitch the entire book together and make it a fantastic experience.

When I was done reading my little library stack, I was still a little sad, but very very glad to have found this gorgeous gem.

[covergirlnay]

Video credit: @thewokemama

If you want to ban uplifting stories with people of color, just say that. Based on this list, my office library is in complete violation. 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 Oh well. All of my students love the books that I share with them. Especially the ones that they do not normally get to see. 🤓📚

[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

Lupita Nyong'o's children's book is so beautiful 🌌

[zuezuesknots]

New cousin on the way!

[archandshri]

General update/Consumption from Shri - 12/04/24

Hi Archie and Peeps!

Hope the move went well with you Archie! Moving is so much energy in all forms from the brain to the physical - so hopefully it when as smoothly as a house move can go!

I'll be doing a general update today; mostly looking at what I've been consuming at the moment. This is because I am in the middle of finishing stuff for the deadline (I've got one at the end of this month for one of them ˙◠˙ ) and feeling like my brain is slowly melting somewhat.

So Just a chill update today!

What I've consumed and would recommend:

Link Click - great Chinese animation, waiting for season three ˙◠˙

P.S. Absolutely obsessed with session one opening Back in time, like they really didn't need to make it such a bop!

Witch Hat altervia - on the Forth Volume now!

Absolutely love the found family vibes! Also, look how pretty it is!!!

Sherlock and Co - This is a great modern podcast of Sherlock, what more is there to say.

Half-life by Livingston and Beautiful Things by Benson Boone - I've been listening to these songs on repeat! They very much remind me of one of my comfort characters Tossgo

Keeping Finance Personal by Ellyce Fulmore - Slowly making my way through this one because it's got a lot of homework I gotta make sure I do!

Oh, I also read this amazing picture book called Big by Vashti Harrison.

Some of the spread in this book *Chefs Kiss*

Anyways that's all from me folks! I'll see you soon

Hope you all have some lovely dinners!

Shri

[k00299141]

Vashti Harrison is the Illustrator of the book Sulwe that I am looking at for reference and inspiration for my 2 week brief “World Building”.

Her style is very magical to me, and I love the use of the colours and the designs of her characters.

Her tones especially are quite beautiful to me.

She got a BA in Art and has been a bestseller in the USA for her books.

One thing I love about her work is just how inclusive it is to all children, white or black.

Source: https://www.vashtiharrison.com/

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Virtuous Con announces Vashti Harrison, Rodney Barnes and Roye Okupe as guests! 

Virtuous Con announces Vashti Harrison, Rodney Barnes and Roye Okupe as guests!  #virtuouscon

[typewriter-worries]

folk songs everyone should listen to at least once

I'll Be Here in the Morning by Townes Van Zandt 

One of These Things First by Nick Drake

Something on Your Mind by Karen Dalton

Cannock Chase by Labi Siffre

I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind by Vashti Bunyan

Love Is Our Cross To Bear by John Gorka

Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) by Connie Converse

Ventura Highway by America

I'd Have You Anytime by George Harrison

By The Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell

April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel

The Kiss by Judee Sill

[fyblackwomenart]

Vashti Harrison

[thewillowstreet]

What are your current musical obsessions?

Patti Smith, Vashti Bunyan, Hozier, Joni Mitchell, Florence's dance fever, Sufjan Steven's new single is also great, and specifically the version of something by the beatles in Anthology 3

[olipeaksforever]

sometimes you think too much: a trucoop (mini) playlist.

i decided to make another playlist of these two because i miss them so much and their relationship!

Featuring: Julee Cruise, Chet Baker, Tears For Fears, Bruce Springsteen, Suicide, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, The Millenium, Jan & Dean, The Zombies, George Harrison, Emitt Rhodes, The Beach Boys, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Adrianne Lenker, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Felt and Sibylle Baier.

Genres featured: dream pop, jazz, new-wave, electro pop, classic rock, folk and lo-fi.

[covergirlnay]

My favorites 2023

1. My favorite albums: Lady London- S.O.U.L., Ciara- Ci Ci, Chris Brown- 11:11, Lola Brooke- Dennis Daughter

2. My favorite movies: Barbie (that was for the 60s-90s babies 😄) & The Little Mermaid 🧜🏽‍♀️

3. Favorite Picture book: Big- Vashti Harrison

4. Favorite young Adult Novel: Invisible Son- Kim Johnson. This book was on my heart for days after finishing it.

*honorable mention: Love in Winter Wonderland

5. Favorite Nonfiction book: I’m not yelling- Elizabeth Leiba

6. Favorite Graphic novel: Curlfriends- Sharee Miller

7. Pivot point: Passing that test 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

8. Lesson: Continue to have hope 😌❤️‍🩹

[tiredfinch]

also here's marauders music taste hcs (period accurate), but some characters aren't included bc I'm not super deep in fandom so I don't . know/think anything abt them.

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james- I think he'd be a big fan of all the music of the now and maybe 10 ish years earlier. lots of sixties duwopy pop-rock like the beatles, the zombies and the turtles but also more contemporary stuff; Fleetwood Mac, Wings, the Pretty Things, Frank Zappa, the Eagles, Queen and Bowie (not glam, disco. so like thin white Duke era- not that he'd mind glam bowie I just think he'd prefer disco bowie)! also I think like Ambrosia and other 70s pop he'd dig.. but I think he would be totally in love with Fleetwood Mac, especially their album Mystery to Me- because it would remind him of lily. I think he, along with alice, would get lily more into fleetwood mac.

lily - I think she'd really prefer 50s rock and jazz .. blues and soul too, though I don't think she'd mind later rock. she just seems very buddy holly/chet baker/frank sinatra/ray charles/ella fitzgerald/nina simone, I also think she'd really like otis redding but he's 60s lol, oh and I think she would've LOVED the monkees when she wad younger and would think theyre brilliant.

sirius - glam glam glam and then also punk from the late 70s-81.. also goth+post punk music (ie. the cure, echo and the bunnymen, the smiths, siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, joy division ect ect) but I always think of goth as sort of a mid-late 80s thing so I don't think he'd have really been exposed to alot of goth bands because he was. in jail... but I think David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and then like Television, Patti Smith, the Clash, Iggy Pop, the Stooges. yk.. but also a lot of what James listens to as well!:3 bc they r bff! also I think remus and sirius share great love for queen :)

remus! - folk! and art rock! I think he'd like a lot of the glam sirius listens to and I think he'd be a very big velvet underground fan. as for folk, I think Bob Dylan, Vashti Bunyan, Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, Simon and Garfunkle, GEORGE HARRISON!! - that sort of vibe.. also also think he'd share folky stuff with lily and she would rather enjoy it !

peter - I don't think he really listens to music tbh, not in the way where he'd have favourites. just whatever is on the radio/the records his friends play!

alice - I think she lovessssss female artists and makes a point to listen to them. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin, very varied but very girl, because I think Alice is a big fan of women doing things idk. bisexual moment 4 her. I think her and lily would also both share a really great love of Stevie Nicks and be like fanatics of hers.

frank - I think bro LOVES reggae idk. Bob Marley fan. culture/jimmy cliff/the gladiators. I also think he'd like a lot of "dad rock" bands, led zeppelin/steely dan/the eagles/the who/the kinks.. yar naur. he's a man❤️🙂‍↕️

severus - classical music snob, probably inherited from his mom. loathes rock n roll idk. seems like THAT SORT OF GUY..

regulus - lots of classical and jazz, but not in the way severus is like pretentious, I mean coming from a muscianship standpoint. I think he'd especially love miles davis jazz wise and beethoven+liszt classical music wise (ie. I think he'd have a great love for romantic music, even though beethoven isn't usually considered romantic- just LISTEN to moonlight sonata, it is DRIPPING with the emotion of romantic music).

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I also have a list of music artists I think would be witches/wizards in the wizardings world, so I might post that soon:)