Mariana Makwaia (@marianamakwaia) • Hey
Mari is a mixed race artist, singer and producer born and raised in NYC.
Publications
- Respect people
Debate opinions
- “Last summer, you said this summer”
Just $BUILD it.
Mint on Zora: https://zora.co/collect/base:0x267973fd8b7139a321bf862a9cc3a66e63fe3276/2?referrer=0x58A35cF59d5C630c057aF008a78bc67CDc2EC094
- Why do you think we’re being taught to censor ourselves?
- We are dangerous to those who hoard power when we think and act freely, when we speak our mind and when we organize collectively.
- The serpent is my favorite character in religious texts because he reminds us to question authority
- Curiosity is my favorite sin
- Resist conformity, challenge what’s becoming the norm, and allow your art to express your freedom🤘🏽
- a little process video for you 🫶
- It’s cloudy in LA td so wanted to leave this here for whoever wants a lil “sunshine” ☀️
From a hot summer day in Bushwick - we crowded 50 ppl into the studio with broken AC so fashion decisions were made 😭
- Our identities have been co-opted and are being used against us. Society today is about a performance of self.
People’s truth lies in their behavior.
- Identity has always been interesting to me. So much of society today is about a performance of self.
If we focus too much on curating our image, we’ll lose our essence- that unique drive for something real and unknown.
- Remembering Julia Ward Howe who created the original Mother’s Day in 1872- Mother’s Peace Day - an anti-war plea in which mothers asked for peace.
“We, the (women) of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs”.
- We’re used to plastic figureheads shilling products for corporations that we don’t need.
How do we uplift new voices?
- Hollywoods dying y’all - we really get to witness this and build something better in our lifetime🤘🏽
- Govt: oh no they stopped going to mcD and starbucks let’s ban tiktok and talk about the met gala
We: block the influencers too
- day 12 of sharing my first 1:1 visual NFT on @lens/orb_club 💎
a lot of people have asked me why did i priced it so high 👀
long short short, it means a lot to me and i know its worth as well as my own 💯
the vision i have for this song will be a mini movie that requires capital for treatments, actors/actresses, videographers PLUS the rewards the holder will receive, not to mention sustainability while i complete the project 🙏🏾
give it a retweet and let’s find out who will be the lucky duck ✨
- Here are some real world examples of how hackers influence culture:
- Anonymous vs Scientology and Tunisian govt and ISIS and Visa/MasterCard etc
- Kpop stans fudding Trump’s rally
- Snowden vs NSA’s global surveillance programs
What else can you think of?
- Bob Marley Mix
- Who else loves those little ghosts in AI generated images?
- “do u rly?” live in LA ❤️🔥🤘🏽🥀
- My toxic trait is I always end up taking the path marked ‘Do Not Enter’
- If you ever want compliments go dress goth in the middle of a rose garden 🖤
- Waitttt people really calling him P Drizzy now 😭
- Some BTS for the TL 🤫💗
- Come Recommended live in NYC ❤️🔥
- Politics has always been performance art we just lost the plot along the way
- If people on twitter and tiktok could find the real Legion I’m sure they can find Drake’s daughter too 👀
- Come Recommended live in NYC ❤️🔥
- Platforms want influencers
Movements want artists
- I’m obsessed w dystopian / apocalyptic movies tv shows and books and I can’t tell if it’s cuz I actively think we’re all about to die or if it’s just stimulating without the gore of horror.
Anyway- any recs?
- Nothing lifts the spirits like sitting for a deposition with NYC slumlords
- WIP from my new project- who wants a taste? 🍒
- Lots of cults start near Hollywood cuz everyone’s too focused on how they’re gonna get famous to listen to their intuition
- Latam is all chill, have a good time, hate your politicians and embrace vices
- Something Feels Off 🫠
1/1, 8000 #BONSAI, thanks for looking!
- WIP from my new project- who wants a taste? 🍒
- America is all drink Kool-Aid, worship false idols, sell guns, eat hot chip and lie
- What if web3 counteracts the dead internet theory?
- Teji made a dope CC0 Album called “Internet Kid”
I took the beats and made a Tape called “Quit”
Looking for someone who can make a cool mint page :)
- Why is Gen X all middle management and YouTube tutorials?
- Anyone else having trouble w notifs on here? I’ll get them like 1/3 of the time
- Art is not thought
Art is not culture
It is a third thing
& must be protected
- Manifest your destiny
- Snuck into a basement to practice drums for the first time in a year- jamming to my intrusive thoughts 😭
- It’s not that I’m anti social I’m just not parasocial
- People that look too perfect or seem like they got their life perfectly together freak me out
- Stuck In A Loop
I made this piece last year and never shared it, I came across it again this afternoon for the first time and thought it would be worthy of being a 1/1 👀
1/1, 7000 #BONSAI, thanks for looking!
- Divine Beesechurger
- Why don’t people have liminal opinions anymore?
These days you’re either on one side or against it
- Goodnight 💚 open the full photo to see some beautiful forest 🥹