Saw This On LinkedIn, Thought It Was Pretty Cool. It Was The Second Half That Was Shared In The LinkedIn

Listen up Jay-Z, this Muslim woman’s got something to say to you.

It's ironic how feminist pop icons sometimes have to objectify themselves to spread their message. Then again, I don't suppose there's a more effective way to spread the Gospel of Gender Equality to as many people as possible... 

Feast

Being That Baklava Guy

On making phyllo pastry confections during college

My submission to the Vocal Media Create Your Happiness challenge! This is a revisit of my previous baklava piece

The Way It Works (Jackie Nicole x Lazy Rich x Porter Robinson x Amba Sheperd x Dj N8 Dogg)

Credit goes to Jackie, an awesome singer and JSA'r; Enjoy! Djn8doggoficial@gmail.com

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the time when art was enough

but it doesn't satiate anymore, this "writerly" fate I once had

This piece by my high school prom date gets at why I decided to compartmentalize my childhood dreams of becoming a published writer into Vocal Media (link here: https://vocal.media/authors/james-bao-1)

24 Hours of King County Metro

"This animation shows 24 hours of Metro activity, over 200 bus routes on more than 12,000 trips. In this animation every bus is on time. Each bus is represented by a black dot that moves between stops. The bus positions are computed every 6 seconds of real time, though the bus routes are approximated as straight lines between stops (faint grey dots)."

Getting the most out of 20 bucks- lunch, jazz music, and a picture with the school mascot!

>_< on We Heart It. Not a bad cosplay of Annie Leonhardt #SnK #attackontitan #megumi_no_kyojin

The Baklava Dude

There is the joy of eating food, and there is the joy of gifting food.

Wrote this piece in a hurry for Vocal Media’s The Perfect Pair challenge. It got removed from the challenge a couple hours after being accepted as a story, but oh well. I wanted to write about one of my quirks that I picked up in college. 

Google — Year In Search 2021. Touching reminder that we’re all in this together

Naveed Chowdhury

Notes Toward a Dreampolitik

Right now I am in Los Angeles. I spent the holiday in the Dutch Caribbean, and my long trip back to California turned out to be several hund

This was a really good blog post. Places are so much more than how they voted in the last election.