“Now the training of men [BY WOMEN] is a difficult and intricate task. Its technique is a matter for educational experts, but its object is for the vision of seers.” -W.E.B. DuBois SEDUCTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. INTELLIGENT ART. PSEUDO-ESOTERIC AGENDAS. Iman Sylvain is both the Succubus and The Talented Tenth.Tumblr (3.0; @succubusandthetalentedtenth)http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5orrk0hD01r0nr3eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Why I feel my heart begin to thaw</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/25195404627http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/25195404627Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:21:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3ct34hy1r0nr3eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Creepy Crawlers AKA Creepy Criminals @The Elks</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/21405962797http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/21405962797Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:46:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22vl3wDEx1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22vl3wDEx1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>My Project BudBurst</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20612595339http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20612595339Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:55:51 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1xvbcUHcE1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1xvbcUHcE1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Falling for the Afro</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20453620295http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20453620295Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:01:58 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo6_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo7_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kdteQyCo1r0nr3eo9_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>A bit of Cancun.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20027765777http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/20027765777Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:15:00 -0400<p><span>Dr. Michael Gurevich, professor of Performing Arts Technology at UofM, asked my thesis adviser to collaborate on a performance art piece in the woods next month. The performance will feature John Cage-esque stories about mushrooms during a spring foray. Apparently John Cage was pretty respected amateur mycologist as well as rabble-rousing composer and author. Thus, members of the Tim James Fungal Genetics Lab were asked to write stories about cool topics in fungi in a John Cage style. Here&#8217;s my attempt:</span></p> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal">The Iceman and the Tinder Polypore</p> <p class="MsoNormal">5,000 years ago Ötzi’s wife perused the forest somewhere between Italy and Australia.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A beautiful dead Birch tree stood covered in <em>Fomes fomentarius</em>, the Tinder polypore.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“How miraculous,” she thought, “that life will always spring from death.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">She harvested the mushrooms for the man she loved, knowing that one day they too would succumb to microbial decomposition.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">She stitched him a fine lanyard upon which she adorned the fungal fruiting bodies.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Clever she was, for the pieces of jewelry she darned not only served well for fashion, but was rumored to have medicinal benefits as well.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Her husband cherished the gift, and carried it with him to his icy grave.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Close to his heart he wore the necklace made of tough skeletal hyphae that the glaciers could destroy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now this piece serves as a relic from a love story told long ago, preserved in Tyrol Museum of Archeology.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Too bad the Ice Man lost the fight against parasites; maybe the polypore wasn’t medicinal after all.</p> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal">Nine Times around the Fairy Ring</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The children run around the fairy ring exactly nine times, never daring the tenth, waiting in anticipation to see the fairies dance their lovely dance and sing their joyful songs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The children’s mothers warn them of the dangers that arise when bad little boys and girls cross that fantastical mushroom line.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“The fairies will make you dance until you are overcome with madness, or exhaustion, and then you will fall to your death.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Once inside you will become invisible to other mortals. And because you can never leave the circle, you will have to marry a <em>fairy</em>.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“If you are a murderer or a thief, you shall be hanged once you set foot in the gally-trap.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Folklore tells us that this is where the Devil set his milk churns.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is where the witches and elves gather under full moon light, around the toadstools which mark the edges of the mycelia mat.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Underground the hyphae extend from the sacred central point where the first spore germinated.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now this one fungal individual has exhausted the energetic resources of the soil, and so has sprouted mushrooms around the perimeters, as if marking its own gravestone.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The fairies toast at the wake, or use the sporocarps as umbrellas.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now some do say that building a house around a fairy ring will bring your family fertility and good fortune.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But you must be quick if you are to spy them!  </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ephemeral they are, for the fairies only dance tonight.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And the evidence of their celebration does not last any longer than 6 days. Furthermore, insects and deer love the taste of these 60+ species of mushrooms.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Before we worried of being enthralled by the elves’ illusions when lured to these mysterious circles, now we spray fungicide on turf grass and call it disease control.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/19013659632http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/19013659632Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:12:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_SA_kvN3pVk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Le dance n’est pas mort.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/18920243529http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/18920243529Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:37:05 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzckevvKHL1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>R.I.P. Whitney Houston.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17562287528http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17562287528Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:49:43 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc9heZx2L1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc9heZx2L1r0nr3eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc9heZx2L1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc9heZx2L1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc9heZx2L1r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17553722099http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17553722099Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc97fGjwX1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc97fGjwX1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc97fGjwX1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17553530853http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/17553530853Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:47:38 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxbcviAa9y1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxbcviAa9y1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxbcviAa9y1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/15336659303http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/15336659303Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:02:05 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9j3kvWiz1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9j3kvWiz1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9j3kvWiz1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/15286646426http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/15286646426Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:21:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4aqjS7c71r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4aqjS7c71r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4aqjS7c71r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4aqjS7c71r0nr3eo4_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Old stuff.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/12314629746http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/12314629746Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:51:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo7_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltagqkeZ8m1r0nr3eo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/11635657570http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/11635657570Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:13:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6to3YXgL1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6to3YXgL1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6to3YXgL1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/9948574814http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/9948574814Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:55:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpjt7wZxJR1r0nr3eo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/8593852300http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/8593852300Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:07:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loz11cNTkl1r0nr3eo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Alibi Crew presents Riddim Warfare at the Crossroads, Ypsi, MI. July 15th.</p>http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/8112337143http://succubusandthetalentedtenth.tumblr.com/post/8112337143Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:46:00 -0400