Category Archives: Video

Mushpa + Mensa in the 21st Annual Cucalorus Film Festival 10×10

November 18, 2015Art, Clothes, Comedy, DIY, Documentary, Fashion, Feminism, Film, Green, Homemade, Jewelry, Kickstarter, Latina, north carolina, Organic, Small Business, T-shirts, The South, Video, Woman Owned Business10x10, 21st annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Andy Nielsen, artist, Brianna Okamoto, Cara Reynolds, CastleBranch Inc, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Cucalorus, Cucalorus 10x10, handmade, Hillary Scott, ILM, Josh Stowe, kickstarter, Maria Emilia Borja, mushpa + mensa, Mushpa + Mensa in the 21st annual Cucalorus Film Festival 10x10 2015, Mushpa Y Mensa, North Carolina, Norwood Cheek, stray local, tekMountain, Willow Garden, Wilmingtoncara007

Last week we went to Cucalorus’s opening night party.

The next day I got the flu.

The next day we made a movie.

The next day I was in the ER.

The next day I hurled all day.

The next day we were at the Cucalorus 10×10 Screening and CONNECT Presenters Party.

This was my last week and this is the film we made with our great team (Brianna Okamoto, Josh Stowe, Andy Nielsen, Hillary Scott). I wasn’t sure I was going to make it, the movie that is, but when you have a dream and are given an amazing opportunity you push through it all to get there.

-Mushpa

Faith in Humanity

October 5, 2015Cuban, happiness, Inspiration, Latina, Music, Music Video, Video, You Tubecuba, Faith in Humanity, guantanamera, inspiration, Mushpa Y Mensa, music, musica, Playing for Change, Song Around the Worldcara007

It’s people like these that restore your faith in humanity.

Thank you to all these beautiful musicians that made this rainy day a happier one.

Cheers!

Que viva los musicos de todito el mundo!

-Mensa

We Got Into the Leaf Festival

August 27, 2015Art, craft, crafts, Cuban, Dance, Documentary, Ecuadorian, Environment, Fashion, Gay, gOD, Green, happiness, Inspiration, Latina, Lesbian, Literature, Love, Organic, Poetry, Queer, sewing, Small Business, Spoken Word, T-shirts, Video, Woman Owned Business, Women, You Tubeart, artist, Cara Reynolds, clay bead necklace, clay beads, crafts, DAS, diy, eco-friendly, etsy, fashion, fear, felt, gay, God, God is a Woman, handmade, Happiness, homemade, jewlery, Leaf Festival, lesbian, love, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa, Mushpa Y Mensa, North Carolina, organic, queer, screen printing, stuffed animalcara007

We got into the Leaf Festival. I was unaware of how much I was pulling away from faith, mysticism and the Truth until I watched this video. I have been worrying about bills, money, and bullshit and forgetting about miracles, beauty and truth. Logistics are a lie. I am blessed and amazing and God is good. I’ve got nothing to worry about.

Everything is better than okay. I got into the Leaf Festival and have nothing to fear but fear itself.

-Mushpa

Just Another Wednesday Night For Mushpa y Mensa

June 25, 2015happiness, Inspiration, Small Business, The South, Video, You Tubebalancing act, Cara Reynolds, Front Street Brewery, Glass Magic, Happiness, ILM, magic, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa, Mushpa Y Mensa, NC, The South, Wilmingtoncara007

Moving to Wilmington, North Carolina after living in NYC for over 16 years seems like a big deal, but it wasn’t. Change is a good thing. Life is good. You find all sorts of amazing people and things here you can’t find up North. For one, people are nice and swimming in the ocean I don’t bump into dirty diapers or needles. I said it. :]

Anyway, I decided I am going to start to highlight my new life in the South and the people I run into. Tonight’s southern star is a bartender at Front Street Brewery who wowed us with his glass magic.

Enjoy.

-Mushpa

Free Emo Love Songs

May 26, 2015Emo, happiness, Music, Music Video, Queer, Video, You TubeBehind the Glass Sessions, Cara Reynolds, Coloring, Control, Control Behind the Glass Sessions, Emo, Emo Love Songs, Kevin Garrett, Kevin Garrett - Coloring, music, music videocara007

Free music is where it’s at. These jams are just the right amount of Emo. :]

…and then a little more,

-Mushpa

Unlocking the Truth

February 20, 2015Art, Documentary, happiness, Heaven, Inspiration, Music, Music Video, VideoAnnette Jackson, Eben Bull, Guillermo Hernan Peña-Tapia, Harry Nelson, heavy metal, Hillary Spera, inspiration, Jarad Dawkins, Julia Wilczok, Luke Meyer, Malcolm Brickhouse, Matt Burke, music, music video, the avant garde diaries, THE AVANTGARDE DIARIES, Tom Davis, Tracey Brickhouse, unlocking The Truthcara007

My friend Sabrina school me on amazingness once again. I love these 6th graders (here, now they’re 7th graders). Beauty and Truth aka Malcolm and Jared.

Always remember, you bully people and you’ll end up homeless. Truth.

Rock on!

-Mushpa

Becoming Friends

January 24, 2015active, Activism, happiness, Inspiration, Love, Music, Music Video, Political, Politics, Video, You TubeBai Kamara Jr, Bai Kamara Jr Making Beggars Into Thieves, Good Day, in darkness and light, liquid happiness, Making Beggars Into Thieves, peace in musiccara007

One of my friends asked to chat me up on g-chat, so I logged on and added her today. It’s been a couple years since I’ve logged onto g-mail. I decided to check out my emails and saw an email from 2011 asking me to add BAIKAMARAJR as a friend. Obviously by now the request had expired, but I went to check it out the YouTube channel and this is what I found….greatness and beauty. This reminded me that life, God, the Universe always has my back, blessing me with what I need when I need it. Everything is bigger than what I think I see in front of me.

Life is a miracle everyday in darkness and light.

Peace,

Cara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5eRrV8HIw