THE ONCOMING PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTER!

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"Driven by the core values of intelligence, ethnicity, and innovation, we’re dedicated to harnessing the power of static arts to enlighten and empower People of Color, Ethnicity, and Culture. Through our work, we aim to redefine representation, educate, and inspire a brighter future for all, fostering understanding, appreciation, and progress."

Soon the heat will be on…and the people will be out and about. With so much going on around the world, the world sees constant and continual change. Thru the lens we’re striving to capture that change. Getting back into the artistry of using the camera to create, we’re looking to complete standing projects while engage new ones that go to the heart of life as we’ve known it. Our photography projects go directly to product development. Additionally, we’re striving to break into storytelling with our work. Stories that reveal the truths and hearts of People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture—we’re looking to transition into realms of artistry and creativity that we haven’t before. This is how we intend to grow.

THIS YEAR IS ABOUT DIMENSIONAL EXPRESSION

Consistent with the 2024 theme of “The Dichotomy of…”, we’ll be venturing into types and categories of Photography that truly engage Artistic Language and Aptitude. The starkness of Shape and Form that cultivate our paradigms about Art and Design. The ability for Art to Communicate is historic ways that transcend into the future. As we concern ourselves with the honesty and integrity required to claim artistic license and authority we’re fully engaged in discovering the deeper levels, possibilities and opportunities for dominating our of destruction; while striving to serve the African American and Black Spirit, we’re working to reign it in as well. Centralize it. Analyze it. Dismember it to understand the flaws and dysfunctions then to put it back together again to stand former and stronger into the future.

Summer 2024 is a time to attempt the capturing of African American, Black and other People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture as to further “stew the pot” that is rich and full of nutrient and flavor…with a monochrome lens.

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THE ONCOMING PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTER!

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2024 ARTS QUARTER CREATIVITY LIST

WE’RE STAYING FOCUSED ON CREATING AND PRODUCING. WE’RE PRODUCING AND CREATING CONSISTENT WITH WHO WE ARE AND THOSE THINGS WE HOLD MOST DEAR.

Adhering to our 2024 RED BOOK PLANS, we’re creating with the intention of not only expressing our interests, concerns, paradigms and artistic perspectives but to also market products that have specific and unique meaning and purpose to those we’re most interested in. While our audience is large and diverse, we’re still actively interested and engaged with Communities of Color, Ethnicity and Culture. As our Arts Quarter is dedicated to the development of manual and handmade physical artworks and pieces, we’re striving to stay focused on the theme of 2024 (“The Dichotomy of…” LIAM IAN) and those categories that we’ve already established ourselves within.

Here is our preliminary list of artworks and artwork categories we’ll be entertaining and creating:

JANUARY - DRAWING & SKETCH: Getting back to a place of authenticity and originality for creating. Where the mind once had a place to fulfill its dreams.

FEBRUARY - SKETCH & PAINT: Getting more elaborate with what’s being done. Centralizing the ideas to go beyond the pen and the pad to things more complex and therefore sophisticated.

MARCH - PAINTING & PHYSICAL MULTIMEDIA: That integration of the complex and sophisticated to things that are much more of the everyday and modern world. Extracting the different elements to set them as ingredients for an artistry that should be unlimited.

As we’re in business to stay creative, we’re working to further bring order to the chaos of creativity that influences and informs who we are. Our schedule is keep our focus on the things that truly matter. It’s about process and patience. Skill, intention and vision. It’s about the innate ability to manifest what resides inside waiting to be set free.

THE LUXURY OF CREATIVITY

We believe in the capacity to develop messages that carry powerful meaning and purpose to People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture. Standing out and apart from means a lot to us. Much more is the ability to create and manifest that which is honest to us and who we are.

THE PATH WE’RE ON

At our foundations, LIAM IAN LLC is specifically and solely designed to reflect the attitude and disposition of Liam Ian Black (William B. Philpot IV) as an African American Artist, Designer, Photographer and Entrepreneur. Our path is to continue to impact and make an impression upon Black and Brown African American Culture and Community in America.

2024 serves to Appreciate, Encourage and Inspire people to not only continue to create but to create with Vision, Mission, Meaning and Purpose. Within our ARTS Quarter, we’re developing custom works inspired by established art and artists marketed for high-end markets and audiences. Incorporating a minimalist tone, composition and structure our works are cultivated with the intention of adding abstract depth and value while still containing and conveying classic cultural concepts and ideas.

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ADDITIONAL CREATIVITY ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

Ai ART DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

As the ongoing aspect of creating, we’re furthering our activities with Ai Art and Ai Art Generators to produce works for other project, product and service developments. We’re leveraging our access, assets and resources to further our custom IP and selective messages.

JANUARY

• REWRITING THE LANDSCAPE: Ideas and Concepts Turned Black. We’re taking a look at what has been done to develop the new. The goal is to innovate upon who we were to get to the next level of who we need to be.

FEBRUARY

• BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Empowering Imagery for the African American. Immersing ourselves within the place of Art within Black and Brown Culture to produce Inspiring and Empowering Images. Not just in history though but also in conjuring ideas, concepts and visions of the Future.

MARCH

• CREATING NARRATIVES: The Power of Images to Influence and Impact. As we further create and engage other technologies to create, we’re stepping into dynamic storytelling to further appreciate, celebrate and empower. Moving into the 2nd Quarter, we’re preparing for Design works that will help continue the cultivation of positive messages.

The following Quarter of Design promises to be one full of innovative and meaningful designs and messages. As we look and seek to elevate ourselves within and beyond all the issues of this world, we’ll also be striving to develop and fulfill projects that will serve for the following Quarters. Our DESIGN Quarter begins the 14th Week of 2024, Sunday March 31.

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PERSPECTIVE

FURTHER INSPIRED BY VIRGIL ABLOH…and so many others.

With 2024 fast approaching, we’re looking to reposition to become a better business operation catering to a more refined yet still diverse audience. Strategically, we want to offer products and services that truly add value and substance to our customers and clients. We’re strive to redefine what is to be of influence and impact for tomorrow. While Art, Design and Photography are the core of who and what we are, we’re moving much more into technologies in Ai Art Generation and Animation paving the way info dynamic storytelling. What might be the normal everyday for someone else, we’re changing the perspective of life to be like art. We are Art!

Beginning within the 2024 Arts Quarter, we’re developing projects and products that embody and symbolize who I am—who we are—within the African American communities with the hope of acting as signals of the potential of our collective futures. LIAM IAN will be using the opportunities to create to move further and further into setting the stage to introduce the necessities of a progressive life for People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture.

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As I further my journey into the discovery and development of my Artistry, my Artistic Capabilities and the Style that would become my Signature, I’m informed and encouraged to also delve deep into who I am as a Black Man and Artist who’s endured and survived much. The light and the dark. The good and the bad. The dualities of who I am and the dichotomy of my life. Reducing it all down; “The Dichotomy of…LIAM IAN.” As my Spirituality inspires me, it inspires my Art. I am the product of years of detriment and deprivation. Death and cultural deterioration. In having come out resilient from being abandoned and cast aside and fatherless, I continue to discover, reveal and establish who I am within and amongst this world. —LIAM IAN

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CONNECTED - PERSONAL NOTES OF LIAM IAN BLACK - © 2023 Liam Ian (LIAM IAN LLC)

BUSINESS TALK IN THE BUSINESS QUARTER

BUSINESS & REVENUE GENERATION - 4TH QUARTER 2023 - PRODUCTS & SERVICES

The necessity of doing business is to generate revenue. The purpose is not only to create a formal presence but to also engage in developing monetary value—demand measured in monetary value. While being an Artist is essential to who I am as a Man of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, being an Entrepreneur is essential to moving beyond the confines of just being a Man. In closing out 2023, we’re looking towards 2024 to begin making the necessary changes that need to be made.

2024 PROJECTIONS

Like so many others now, we’re incorporating Ai within our overall business structure to assist in enhance services and production quality and streamline general internal business performance. While we’re still a small operation, we take pride in business platform that services private clients to enact private work. To do so, we must stay at the forefront of tech within the Arts and Artistic Industries.

While the business is still heavily dependent on me, Liam Ian Black, to further develop and establish my identity, in 2024, the (proposed) vision is to further use the canvas of my life as the canvas for which the business seeks to market and be branded by and upon. With the advent and incorporation of such platforms such as Adobe Firefly and others, we’re looking to continue providing high-end imagery, media and content services for those we serve. Resisting the temptation to get ahead of ourselves, we’re focused on maintaining our relationships within our local communities to be of impact and affect.

WEBSITE REDESIGN

We’re planning on January 1, 2024, to be a week with this website out of service due to redesign, overhaul and update. We’ll be looking to streamline the site design for greater UI and navigation mixed with a total refresh of imagery to prepare for those projects that should serve or at least influence the relative aesthetic impact. Integration of Ai resources will be further invested into the overall scheme and dynamic of the site. More info to come.

ART PLANS: QUARTER 1 - 2024 - ARTS QUARTER (Manual Art Production)

As proposed, the first quarter of 2024 will be the Arts Quarter with expectations of engaging in the production of physical artistic projects and products. Canvas Paintings and Paper works. The intention will be to develop works that are consistent with Vision, Mission, Intention and Message of LIAM IAN LLC as a whole for the 2024 year. This message; “LIAM IAN - DICHOTOMY: The Dual Realities of Liam Ian and William B. Philpot IV.” Included within this is the creation of Ai Assisted Works and manual electronic/digital works using such platforms as Adobe and Procreate.

THE CIRCLE: ASSISTING OTHERS TO PREPARE FOR 2024

While we continue to research and plan for 2024, we’re acting and providing for those who are within…our Circle. We believe in cultivating a collective goal of interrelated activities that support each other within our respective yet associated endeavors. While some may not see opportunity, where we do we want to help others to see as well. For information, contact us HERE.

WE ARE GOING TO SUCCEED…IN PROVIDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT HELP TRANSITION WHO, WHAT AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY. YOU CAN WATCH US OR YOU CAN BE WITH US!

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This message is for one person…and you know who you are; Listen, Entrepreneurship is much more of a profound idea than just being in business. Entrepreneurship is about the expansion of who you are to go beyond the confines of what society tries to place upon you. It’s not about the money—I mean, it is…but then it’s not. Entrepreneurship is about ones ability to create, christen and launch a vessel to embark on a journey that others just cannot. It is encouraging and empowering. It’s thought-provoking and requires critical-thinking. Entrepreneurship—being in business for yourself and your own goals—is about fully creating a space within your community and the universe for opportunity to knock on your door knowing you’re prepared to unlock and answer. 

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BUSINESS & REVENUE GENERATION - 4TH QUARTER 2023 - PRODUCTS & SERVICES - CONNECTED - PERSONAL NOTES OF LIAM IAN BLACK - © 2023 Liam Ian (LIAM IAN LLC)