The Last Afrosocial
By Aisle3Films
It was the last picture show. Pangea’s Afrosocial started as one of ArtMonday events at Apache Cafe and Lounge in Atlanta. Originally themed as a figure drawing session in a lounge setting, Pangea pushed the envelope to creating an interactive experience for Art Lovers as well as Artists. Tagged as that ‘Different Kind of Date Night,’ the intent was to engage all attendees in an escapade that was intimate, celebratory and memorable. We created themes that tested the boundaries of afrocentricity, art and sensuality. Some were successful than others. All were engaging and adventurous and artistic. This is a collection of moments that celebrate our last picture show at the Apache Cafe and Lounge on 3rd Street, Atlanta.
Interlude: Blvckbirdi is dancing with the morning light…
The Sun decided that it wanted to play. Rising from the east, moving between the leaves in the trees,...
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GoddessYEME and her uneasy KING
When the day was over and his head was low and the drink was not enough, the GoddessYEME was...
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SHE is the Universe…
Stars are my children as I give birth to galaxies. I wrap myself in nebulas like blankets and jam...
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pgp420: AJA and Blvckbirdi are playing with US
Jordan Peele’s 2019 film, Us served as a mystery, thriller, and most definitely a comedy fit for a date...
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pgp236: earthSista… smoke
earthSista… smoke It dances… Elusively… mysteriously… seductively… Smoke. It calls you. Coyly it teases you. It offers the promises...
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pgp046: cool jazz with lois lane…
We were in a living room that felt like a cool jazz set when I took these shots. I...
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earthSistas… Primal Paint, lively uncensored
creative… intimate… intimate… Inspired by the experiences with Bobby Williams’ Primal Paint at the AfroSocial, earthSistas JadeFox, Ororo and...
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Chadoe… the summer sun’s respite
Cooling winds of winter are approaching in these days before the holiday and I looked back and remember the...
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Nubién…an Urbanista at the Farm
Lively and focused, earthSista Nubién strolled thru Atlanta’s Goat Farm coy and confident. The beautiful spoken word artist was her...
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Roots of the Garden… PrettyBlak is just cool
Maurice Evans is the photographer and PrettyBlak is the muse. And together they have created some astounding works. No...
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What is Healthy Black Sexuality?
By Scottie Lowe For all too long Black sexuality has been defined by extremes. We have been defined as...
earthSistas in the Garden
The Sun decided that it wanted to play. Rising from the east, moving between the leaves in the trees,...
How do i describe vibe i have with you even when I’m not with you How do i describe...
We’ve been hosting a photography meet-up called Pangea’s Shooters Lounge since April. It is the social shooting event that...
earthSista • Nudist • Muse • Dancer • Yogini • Songstress • Wild, Magical and Free • Merlioness She...
About a week after her Nature Stroll shoot for the Garden, earthSista Serene was ask to do a shoot...
Last year, earthSista ChrysalisSun – Pangea’s travel guide – organized an informal nature retreat for the Garden’s Cultivators to...
Thirty Minutes in the Garden is a name that can be misleading. For example, it started out as an...
An Artist, a Designer, a Photographer and now a Blogger, I don’t know the word that describes what I...
The Afrosensual Aesthetic
On an impulse, a few of us came together for a late night #AfroSocial at Pangea’s studio in Atlanta...
Part one of an AfroerotiK romance My entire relationship with Charles, what little there was of it, consisted of...
By Scottie Lowe For all too long Black sexuality has been defined by extremes. We have been defined as...
DJ Rahdu – The Suite Spot: Maxwell Remixes Mix by BamaLoveSoul Intimate moments, alone, captured while the faint taste...
When it comes to my definition of a woman of authentic afrosensual beauty, I think of TAJ. I met...
They did not wait. Against a backdrop of silent waters, blue sky and a warm breeze, earthSista Luna and...
At the end of a day of shooting EmJae wandered to the dark side of the Garden. It was...
SirReal Photography presents Signature: blax·ploi·ta·tion A genre of American film of the 1970s featuring African-American actors in lead roles...
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pgp202: Joyous Fashions from the HarvestGirl
"It was a wonderful funnty joyful day with the earth sisters of Pangea's Garden. ~ Giving Thanks for this...
pgp210: Soundcheck with Anthony David & India.Irie and WORDS
Soundcheck… I’d seen the video “Words” a long time ago. It one of the faves in the Garden’s YouTube...
pgp416: Free Black Panther screenings by AMC for the first week of Black History Month
From Showbox APK Starting today, Black Panther returns to select AMC theaters all over the country for a special...
Pangea’s Lookbook: Sun Goddess Jewelry’s stylings on earthSista AsmaraMaat
The overcast day made for a smooth diffused natural light over AsmaraMaat’s first shoot in the Garden. Personally, I...
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pgp190: RepJA goes Naptually Rude
by earthSista Kire Na RepJA could not have chosen a better set of models. The ladies and gentlemen of Pangea’s Garden...
pgp202: Joyous Fashions from the HarvestGirl
"It was a wonderful funnty joyful day with the earth sisters of Pangea's Garden. ~ Giving Thanks for this...
Nobella and a natural hair show…revisited
Originally published on May ll, 2013. The 22nd Annual Taliah Waajid World Natural Hair Show is Saturday and Sunday,...
Vanity Fair’s For the Love of Lupita Nyong’o by Jackie Nickerson
from Vanity Fair “Nyong’o could almost be describing her career, except for the accidental part. The year started with...
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Interlude: Blvckbirdi is dancing with the morning light…
The Sun decided that it wanted to play. Rising from the east, moving between the leaves in the trees,...
Sunset’s Soundcheck: Joi’s Hot Heavy & Bad
Joi is without a doubt one of Pangea’s honorary earthSistas. Her fearlessness, confidence, sensuality and disregard for boundaries and boxes is the stuff of legend around these parts. While she’s never gotten the mainstream following she deserves, we all know, love and support her, and we hold her dear...
Sunset’s Soundcheck: Durand Bernarr – THE Voice
Durand Bernarr. Etch the name into your memory. I first wrote about him here (shoutout to eclectic alexandria – I discovered him through her tumblr), and since then I’ve fallen deeper in love with his work, his growth and that voice. I’m not alone. Just ask his 11,000 +...
Violet… lovingly adorned
Emerald trinkets gracefully draped Violet’s shoulders, ears and wrist while Nobella added the final touches of the earthSista’s adornment; bright white dashes above her eyes. These captures were part of a series of images Nobella and I had been working on. We’ve been creating pictures of her jewelry and...
20 Questions with RaeOfLite
Impulsive and vibrant, her upbeat manner is positively infectious. RaeOfLite is ALWAYS smiling and laughing. This adventurous sista is never afraid to try new things and share ideas. She seeks the unusual and grabs onto the unconventional. She searches for truths in the nooks and crevices of those dark...
FELA’s muses at the Apache Interlude
Vincent I really should not say this but Pangea’s events are the bane of my existence. I mean it, really. They are SO chaotic and organic and stressful. They eat up too much of my time, making it difficult to maintain any semblance of an editorial schedule for the website....
Afrique Electrique With Josh Milan @ Cafe Circa Atlanta Ga 9.25.2011
One Sunday night I went over to Cafe Circa to check out Salah Ananse’s Afrique Electrique party with special guest Ramon Rawsoul, drummer Lil John Roberts, and House music legend Josh Milan, from Honeycomb Music . Ramon Rawsoul opened up the evening with his Deep House selections, then Lil...
The Awkward Black Girl Adventures present The Icebreaker
“The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” is the online tv show that follows the title character and friends as she navigates through life, love and awkward situations. ABG is also universal. It’s a series with a black female character in the lead role, but at its core, it’s about...
pgp226: UdoU… Sepia
I learned that my body is perfectly imperfect… I’m aware that “sexy” is all in the mind. Sepia My self-photography is an evolution of sorts. I see myself differently now at 32 then I did at 25 when I first started. My thoughts about beauty had changed as soon as...
an afrosensual moment…
we didn’t know how far we would go… pressed against the window she moaned and welcomed him longingly, he thrusted deep again and again embraces… bites… kisses an Afrosensual prelude… to a moment AfroerotiK More to come soon in Scottie’s AfroerotiK and AfroerotiK.com Scottie Lowe, owner and founder...
Warning: If your butt isn’t big, you may not be Black
By Shannon T. Boodram of Sway Magazine Until recently, wide hips, thick lips and solid derrieres, common among many Black women, were passed over and deemed unworthy of even an honourable mention in the working definition of beauty. But this year, Allure magazine announced there has been a milestone...
pgp273: House of Blended Ink Yadiyda: Atlanta’s Home for the Artist Entrepreneur
Via The CCCollective When we spoke with Co-Owner & Operator of House of Blended Ink (Hobi), Tamarah Jones aka SHE, she spoke with us about her and her partner, Ramon Taylor’s, vision for HOBI as a “home for artists” where the creative can have a professional ends to their...
pgp133: ivysion…
The words of Timothy Ivy… “In my day to day life I’m a photojournalist for various publications. For 20+ years I’ve been privileged to tell local, national and international stories with my camera. I’ve been allowed into the lives of both famous and every day people.” “In that time...
pgp343: FELA’s Beauty, a Pangea Meet&Greet
Over the summer we hosted a group photoshoot that carried the theme, FELA’s Beauty, and we featured images from the event HERE. Pangea has a history of creatives who, on occasion, have created captures with this cultural aesthetic in mind and in this case, photographers Lori Branch, Bobby Williams,...
pgp410: Visions of The Afrocentric Pinup Girl
CLASSIC BLACK GIRL BEAUTY. A. CELEBRATION. A. REMIX. REDEFINING. Classic Hollywood Style defusing it through an Afrocentric Beauty Aesthetic. That’s the… mission statement… the brand of the The Afrocentric Pinup Girl, the brainchild of model/actress/photographer Tanisha L. Pyron. We’ve featured her explorations in this aesthetic approach in the past...