| Personal Philosophy |
“Live life in balance and smile.” |
| Career Objective |
Establish an International Educational Art Foundation. |
| Current Academic Status |
Accepted Research Fellow for MA at Institution of Education, London:
Gender Studies & International Development
Visiting Tutor Selection for The Art Institute at Bournemouth |
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| EMPLOYMENT |
| Present |
Freelance Writer for Ben Television UK and www.afrobrit.com
Self-Employed Creative Identity D Ank Unlimited, Steady Records, Sound Vibration, IOTA Press |
| Title |
Founding Director/Writer/Poet, Performer |
| Duties |
Through participation in cultural exchanges, document local and international social activities by means of photography and creative writings. Book published Artist@Large, Poetic MC, Lyrics. ISBN 0-9703353-1-8
Also Freelance Writer for BEN Television |
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| Pulse |
Manage and direct "IOTA" International Organization of Talented Artists, an Online Art Magazin , a showcase of Artists artworks from around the globe |
| Title |
Founder/Creative Editor-In-Charge |
| Responsibilities |
Soliciting creative individuals for exhibition via the internet. Write articles, design visual concept for the e-magazine. |
| Duties |
Photography, data digitising and storage, management of Online Art Magazine and appearances. |
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| November 2003 |
Free One-Man show Poetry and live acoustical mixing with electronic beat box in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Performed at the Burger, a local café which showcases live music for over 10 years. |
| May 2002 |
Performing Artist, Opening Act for the Lee “Scratch” Perry concert at Stadion Tasmajdan in Belgrade, Serbia. An audience of five thousands people came to this event. |
| July 2001 |
Reggae Performer, Master of Ceremony for the Exit Noise Summer Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. |
| Title |
MC/Cultural Ambassador |
| Responsibilities |
Fostered an atmosphere of peace, love and unity through spoken words & music. |
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| Oct. 99-Oct. 00 |
Turner Broadcasting Service in Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Title |
Technical Assistant |
| Responsibilities |
Maintained and repaired machines, management of printing center and equipment. |
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| Interlude |
Turner Network Television & World Championship Wrestling Spring Party for TNT and WCW in Atlanta, GA, USA. |
| Title |
Master of Ceremony (MC) for Spring Break event at the Techwood Campus. |
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| Jun. 98-Oct. 98 |
Elkins Telecom, Tower Division in Atlanta, GA, USA. |
| Title |
Civil Engineer |
| Responsibilities |
Masonry construction of telecommunication relay units’ platform for 150-200 tower communications units. |
| Duties |
Construction planning , electrical grounding, cable feed for wireless communication system, construction of concrete platforms. |
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| Oct. 98-Nov. 98 |
Rick Taylor Photography in Atlanta, GA, USA. |
| Title |
Photographic Assistant / Production Manager |
| Responsibilities |
Booking of clients’ weddings. |
| Duties |
Coordinated postproductions of wedding albums and booking for photo documentation of wedding ceremony. |
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| Sep. 97-May 98 |
South China Morning Post Magazine and Asia Magazine in Hong Kong. |
| Title |
Independent contractor / Freelance Photographer |
| Responsibilities |
Documentation of people life style living in Hong Kong for featured weekly column. |
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| Sep. 97-May 98 |
Hong Kong, China and Japan |
| Title |
Photographer |
| Responsibilities |
Self-assignments Independent Photographic Book Projects of Hong Kong, China and Japan, "Zentao Taozen, Remebering Their Faces".
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| Sep. 94-May 97 |
“Visual Opinion” Magazine, School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA. |
| Title |
Founder, Advertising Manager, Photo Editor, Writer, Poet |
| Responsibilities |
Acquired and arranged advertisements for the magazine. |
| Duties |
Created & implemented advertisement rates. Directed photo assignments, edited students’ photos for magazine photo essays, wrote articles and poems for magazine. |
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| Interlude |
Radio Personality {DJ} for WSVA Student Radio |
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| Oct. 95- May 96 |
1996 Yearbook, School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA. |
| Title |
Editor-in-Chief |
| Responsibilities |
Created and supervised the layout and production of 1996 Yearbook with the first edition of the University’s CD-ROM yearbook format. |
| Duties |
Employment of yearbook staff, coordinated 1996 yearbook documentation and post-productions. |
| Special Duties |
Post-production tasks, designing, photographing and video-graphing. |
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| Sep. 90-May 93 |
Essex County College, Student Life & Activities Office, Newark, NJ, USA |
| Title |
Photographer |
| Responsibilities |
Documented student life & activities for Yearbook “Ecco Log”, Newspaper “Ecco” and the Athletic Departments. |
| Duties |
Black & white and colour films development. |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
| Jan. 96-May 96 |
Beacon High School, “After School Program”, New York Board of Education with School of Visual Arts Teaching Program in New York City, USA. |
| Title |
Photography Teacher |
| Responsibilities |
Taught and lectured on basic Black and White 35 mm film processing & printing. Assisted students in documenting school activities. |
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| Jan. 96-May 96 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York Board of Education, School of Visual Arts Teaching Program in conjunction with Rafael Cordero Bilingual Junior High School of New York City, USA |
| Title |
Educational Staff Assistant |
| Responsibilities |
Utilized Art Workshops to teach and lecture on various art skills, behaviours and understanding of World Arts and Cultures. Chaperon students visited through the Museums and Galleries. Engaged students in drawings and documenting of Ancient Works of Arts. |
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| Jan. 96-May 96 |
Rafael Cordero Bilingual Junior High School, New York Board of Education, School of Visual Arts Teaching Program in New York City, USA. |
| Title |
Art Teacher |
| Responsibilities |
Chaperon students visited through the Museums and Galleries. Taught & lectured Art to students in transition from Spanish to English. Designed Art lesson plans. Engaged students in hands on projects of their modern interpretation of Ancient Works of Arts. |
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| Sep. 95- Dec. 95 |
Public School 40 / PS40, New York Board of Education in conjunction with the School of Visual Arts Teaching Program in New York City, USA |
| Title |
“Special Education” Art Teacher to Third Graders with mental learning disorder |
| Responsibilities |
Prepared Art lessons around students yearlong theme on Native American Culture. Engaged students in Vocal Expressions, drawing, painting & leadership roles while studying the Arts. |
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| Sep. 95- Dec. 95 |
Beacon High School in New York City, USA. |
| Title |
Creative Computer Lab Teacher’s Assistant |
| Responsibilities |
Assisted 11th Grade Teacher in developing computer. Magazine design class. Conducted lectures, formatted student group, assigned projects pertaining to their individual magazine concepts. |
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| EDUCATION |
| 2006 |
Research Fellow on Gender Studies & International Development @ Institute of Education, London |
| 1998 |
Shodon First Degree Black Belt
Bujinkan Dojo in Japan
Under the Directions of Grand-Master/Soke Dr. Massaki Hatsumi Ph. D and Senior Instructor Doug Wilson |
| 1993-1997 |
Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts in Photography & Art Education
School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA |
| 1989-1992 |
Studies: Liberal Arts. Transferred to School of Visual Arts, New York City.
Essex County College, Newark, NJ, USA |
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| AWARDS |
First prize BEN TV writing contest
Honorable Mention from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
School of Visual Arts Chairman Merit Award
School of Visual Arts In-Resident Grant
Visual Opinion Scholarship for three years
Yearbook Scholarship
Bursar Scholarship
In-house Scholarship for Dorm Representative
Essay County College Presidential Award
Outstanding Photographic Service from Essex County College Student Life and Activities Office
Acceptance of creative book projects by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Schomburg Center for Black Research / Division of the New York Public Library
Alert Driver Programme from Hong Kong School of Motoring for Light Goods Vehicle |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Artist@Large, Poetic MC, Lyrics |
A book of 120 poems and their inspirations
http://www.dankunlimited.com/the_scribe/poetry/aal.html ( ISBN 0-9703353-1-8)
Literary Distinctions: Accepted collection by the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague and The Royal British Library in London.
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| Tao Projects: Tao She, His Tao, Tao Eat |
Three books of poetry and illustrations
http://www.dankunlimited.com/tao
Literary Distinctions: Accepted collection by The New York Museum of Modern Art Library and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/The New York Public Library.
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| Zentao Taozen, Remembering Their Faces |
A photo documentation with Zen and Tao insights
http://www.dankunlimited.com/zttz
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| Photo Eyes |
First photographic book with poems |
| Children of the Arts |
A joint Art Education children book |
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| RESEARCH |
| Entrance Research Essay and Presentations |
http://dankunlimited.com/the_scribe/writing_project/docs/AJS_presentation_Art_Institute_Bournemouth.pdf |
| Research Articles |
"Her Sovereignty" "Through the "Womb-Man" of "Africa" "Sharing Some Words on Thy Mother"
http://dankunlimited.com/the_scribe/writing_project/her_sovereignty.htm |
It's a Shame
http://dankunlimited.com/the_scribe/writing_project/shame.html |
Jamaican Abroad, The Tragic Myth
http://dankunlimited.com/the_scribe/writing_project/ja_abroad.html |
Hip-Hop the Diluting of Full-Blacks
Voices of Sovereignty Teaching the Teachers
http://www.iota.tv/steady_records/articles.htm |
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| SKILLS |
| Art |
Public Speaking, Writer, Poet, Drawing, Painting, Graphic illustrations |
| Education |
Art Education Teaching, Photographic Education |
| Computer |
Macintosh + PC Computer literate |
| Programs |
Avid Video, Premiere, Director, QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Soundedit 16 |
| Engineering |
Machine Shop, Journeyman level(Free Mason)
Carpentry, Welding. Skilled in various Hand tools
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| Specials |
Outstanding Interactive & People skills and A “Vegan” Chef, Culinary artist of vegetarian exhibitions |
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| CREATIVE WORLD WIDE WEB PROFILE |
| Poetry/Publishing |
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=37348&sitename=wordpower&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry
http://www.dreamagic.com/poetry/steadyspear1.html http://www.lightmillennium.org/2004_wpcomes/ajsteadyspear_poems1.html
http://textbook.abebooks.co.uk/Title/55736/Artist+Large+Poetic+MC+Lyrics.html
http://www.jahworks.org/music/features/poetry_negroman.html
http://www.jahworks.org/music/features/feeling_the_vibes.html
http://www.ecampus.com/book/0970335318
http://members3.boardhost.com/roadking/msg/1107.html
http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,23131,23135,quote=1
http://opc4.kb.nl/CHARSET=ISO-8859-1/DB=1/LNG=NE/LRSET=2/SET=2/SID=a7461645-1/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=6
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=37346&sitename=wordpower&password=&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry
http://www.juarez-mexico.com/cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0970335318&language=spanish
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970335318/202-8298637-5664642
http://www.timbooktu.com/steadysp/steadysp.htm
http://72.29.83.85/~soundsl/vBulletin/archive/index.php/t-14.html
http://indybay.org/news/2003/10/1655839.php |
| Video |
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteadyRecords |
| Music |
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=509768
http://www.members.lycos.nl/fioew/links.html
http://www.alexandria-press.com/online/online15_exit_noise_summer_fest_vuksa_velickovic.htm
http://www.mperia.com/displayfull.php?searchby=artist&id=21526 |
| Photography |
http://www.frommers.com/tips/photography/
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=5927&cat=578 |
| Painting |
http://www.80vragen.dse.nl/win.htm |
| Membership |
http://www.ackee.com/u.php/ank3823
http://intaaudio.co.uk/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=134&sid=3c95544a1b84df77f70aac9527756d67
http://www.musofinder.com/users.php?u=AnkSteady |
| Staff Writer |
http://www.bentelevision.com/pre/notebook.html
http://www.publicenemy.com/pb/viewtopic.php?t=7135&view=next&sid=8be4f9b6019158357f208e8f53f3fcd1
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/1655839.php |
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| DOWNLOADS |
CV (.doc)
CV (.pdf)
References (.pdf) |
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