Self Portraits

 This self portrait was just me taking in a moment of how nice my hair was and seeing how I could zoom in and learn how to focus better.

This one was from a photo shoot that was done for a radio show I have on campus with a few more classmates. This is like my signature pose for our radio show because I'm usually always thinking or give knowledge to people.

This portrait is of me doing a shoot for a video for WAUG and this was probably the stepping stone for me doing different things in my major.

This portrait is of me doing a shoot for a video for WAUG and this was probably the stepping stone for me doing different things in my major.

This is of a picture of me posing in front of the North Hills Christmas tree that they put up every year in the beginning of December.

  This is a funny self portrait of mine because it's a "Bitmoji" which is an emoji that looks like you and does different things or sayings. Also this is my favorite one because it says 'no'.

This self portrait is showing myself in three ways and I did this one because I thought this was basically saying there are always three sides that a story goes. His, Hers and the Trutth.

Day in the Life of a Sneakerhead

This is the beginning of the journey of a "Sneakerhead". In this day in the life blog, you will see where we go and what exactly what we are doing to get him some shoes. The person I documented is Gregory Poole. He has been collecting shoes for about a year now and has about 14 shoes in his collection. Gregory's first pair of shoes were a pair of "Three Peats" 8's but does not have them anymore because he sold them to one of his best friends, who also collects shoes. The process that we are doing today is the tickets. The tickets usually are only on Monday's and Tuesday's of the week that the shoes come out. On Sunday, Gregory made a list of all the shoes stores in Durham and Raleigh and called each store to figure out when they were doing tickets with a collective of 15 different stores. In the picture to the right, is us driving to a store to begin the process.

This picture is of Gregory at DTRL getting tickets for the Air Jordan 'Space Jams' 11's that will release on Saturday, December 10. This process is just waiting to get the ticket from the cashier. During this process you have to give them your ID and the cashier writes down your name, your shoe size and your number on the ticket. 

 This is picture is of Gregory writing down what store he received the ticket from. The reasoning of him doing this is because we went to 15 different stores. We went to different stores to guaranteed the chances of him getting the shoes on Saturday. The ticket process is you going to get a ticket and they do what I said in the last paragraph and then the store pulls a couple of names out of the box, bucket or whatever they put the tickets and the store will call you to tell you what time to pick up the shoes that Saturday morning.

This is Gregory looking at the different styles of shoes that Footlocker has. Usually when you go to the mall with a sneakerhead, they almost have to go to every shoe store in the mall. Mainly to see what the store has and if there is a pair of shoes that is a "rare cop", meaning those shoes are not just anywhere. Like for instance, those powder blue sneakers are not in the other stores that we went to together. 

In this picture Gregory is looking at a pair of Saucony's. These are usually not as high price of a price like Jordan's. Those shoes run about $110 for a pair of shoes. This is called a "quality check". Gregory is inspecting how the shoes quality is. Meaning if the shoe was suede then he'll make sure that the shoe has a high quality of suede.

This is another picture of Gregory doing a quality check and also double checking how the shoe looks. Gregory also saw how the Saucony's run big and he said, "I would love to get them but they just look big on feet."

St. Agnes Hospital; Saving One Life at a Time

Saving over hundreds of patients at St. Agnes Hospital, these nurses are far from ordinary. Opening their doors in 1896 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where this was the only hospital for blacks from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. at the time.

"At one time, the hospital trained over 75% of east-coast black nurses," said Dr. Sills during the tour guide on Monday. Dr. Sills, a librarian at St. Augustine's University, took a group of students to the historical landmark to see how the hospital still stands. Sills began to talk about Sarah L. Hunter, who found the hospital and was the wife of the fourth president. After their families service to the university and the hospital, they were honored by having a building named after them.


"There were over 125 beds provided for the patients in the hospital," Sills said as he pointed to the windows, "this is also a wood-frame building and built by the male students and staff of the university." He later talk about the nurses training. "The nurses training included learning how to sew, scrubbing, cleaning and cooking." Sills then says there was "no running water" in the building so they had to constantly boil water. There were more than 800 interns and over 600 nurses received a diploma.

With all this information, I thank Mr. Sills for this experience and knowledge about this institution and hospital.

Tis The Season

Mr. West isn't happy! Kanye West took the stage during his Saint Pablo show in Oakland, CA, on Oct. 22 to began a rant about his friend, Frank Ocean.

West threaten to boycott the 59th Grammy's if Ocean wasn't nominated for his two latest albums, "Blond" and "Endless". Although, West's request could be outweighed. According to Billboard, Ocean's label missed the Sept. 30 deadline, for reasons not made clear, for consideration despite both albums being released before the date.

"The album I listen to the most is Frank Ocean's album," West, 39, began. "I'll tell you this right now, if his album is not nominated in no categories, I'm not showing up to the Grammy's. As artist we've got to come together to fight the bullsh*t."

West also claims that the Recording Academy made exceptions for other artist, like Lady Gaga in 2010. "Gaga wasn't nominated for best artist, right? But they wanted her to perform at the show. So the Grammy's secretly changed something about the nominations in order to nominate her, in order for her to perform," West explains.

West then encouraged the head of the Grammy's to "come and holly at Ye."

The 2017 Grammy's nominations will be announced on December 8. The ceremony airs on CBS on February 12, 2017.

Interview with Aaron Thomas

A PR is not a easy job. A PR stands for Public Relations, which means to protect, enhance or build their reputations through the media. I decided to take this career path because I love fixing things that are broken or could build to be something way bigger than it already is. To get more information for this job, I went to my mentor, Aaron "Magic" Thomas, that works at our campus radio station, WAUG. Thomas was in his office full of old tapes of old events that has happened on campus the past years. Along with a couch and a blanket, just in case he gets tired. "Magic" was working on a project for the a WAUG poster.

Thomas first makes a joke saying, "Find where the money is" but soon after, corrects himself and says, "Networking is key and knowing your connections." Thomas then takes out his phone and shows me one of the females that went to school here and is now a promoter in Miami. "Her name is Vena and she'll be doing some hosting for our homecoming this week".

Magic also says "drive" is very important and you have to be "creative" to get through the door. "When people tells you no, figure out a way to make that a yes. There is always a way", stating Thomas after grabbing on his mouse to finish up some projects on his computer. By the time the end of the interview was over, Thomas says "you really just need to know how to talk to people and be a people person".

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