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This is the second installment of Modern Musings Spotlight on my ever growing blogroll|link list, see the first installment here.

This time I will introduce you to a lovely lady who has become a major muse of mine, Purple Zoe author and creator of the UltraViolet Underground.

Becoming a social and political activist entails exposure of inhumane activities and it can be hard to keep my creative spirit alive, Zoe has skillfully combined creativity and activism so well that she is a constant source of soulful inspiration. I am currently working on a speech for class on the inhumane acts of genetic modification of life perpetrated by multi-national bio-tech companies like Monsanto and when I need a break from the horror, I have Zoe to turn to.

She has turned me on to auditory artists like Simone White with such a poetic introduction:

“Her voice was crafted for lullabies by the Earth-kissed Queen of the Tree Whisperers in the Scarlett forest, where all is awake until she lulls the all to sleep, with wisened rhymes and hushing tones designed as a restorative of Higher Mind. Simone White will entrance you, holding you captive to dimensions in her melodies that wield tales of cold realities with gentlest form, making you forget for just a moment that nightmares ever plagued the Giant Village of varied tongues.“

Zoe gave me the heads up on Erykah Badu’s latest album Nu Amerykah. I don’t have cable and rarely listen to the regular radio so I would have never known that one of my favorite artists, Badu had dropped a new level of consciousness.

Here’s Badu’s Honey:

Purple Zoe has shed sunshine on independent artists like Kara Walker.”Made up of the stuff of legends, her work has a timelessness that is both disturbing, liberating and unequivocally required. In the world according to PurpleZoe, the best art is the work that pulls you into an embrace and takes you somewhere, whether it be a place of pain or pleasure, then leaves you with the awe of creation flickering in your eyes as you try to grasp the secret of the miracle before the afterglow fades.“

The Underground is all about the promotion of aware creation:”Working with chalk, graphite and recycled paper, Tabitha Bianca of The Pairabirds brings a unique world to the table with meticulously stylized pieces. Her imagery is authentic, and languid. Dreamy, and earthy.Combining the essence of modern, retro and funk elements of the jazz, funk, Atomic age, with 70’s color combinations and 60’s pop culture, she birthed the aesthetic for The Pairabirds to the high praise of her peers and eager clients.“

Tabitha Bianca’s Pairabirds creations engulfed me. Art speaks directly to the soul. I really hope to own a piece or two or three of her creations, they are really reasonably priced but yet outta reach for this poor student, for the time being at least. When the time comes though these will be mine:

Exploring the Ultraviolet Underground’s sidebar led me to yet another musical find via Okayplayer.com Lykkie Li, a Swedish musician that I can really dig.

Zoe holds such a large part of my soul due to her activism. She sheds light upon the crisis in Darfur, Haitians reduced to eating mud pies, the power of vinegar, and consistently sends out action alerts where we can participate in restoring the world.

In edition to regularly blogging, Purple Zoe puts out a magazine, the Purple Mag of course. On the sidebar of the UltraViolet Underground look for Purple Mag’s Downloadable Digital Splendor. Click through the cover shot to download a great collection of awakened art, prose, poetry, interviews, and reviews, all created with a pure wholistic view.

I am looking forward to reviewing Dazjae Zoem’s Maji check out the press release here.

So get yourself over to the realm of the UltraViolet Underground and swim within the inner consciousness that is the only force strong enough to restore the harmony of the world and her creations.

I am going to place the spotlight on my ever growing blogroll|linklist, due to my scouring the web for information passed over by the mainstream media. I will be including a short review, and would love to know your own thoughts on the site and it’s contributions.

I will start off this series with It’s the END of the WORLD as WE know it. A video blog or vlog speaking on the current events with a heavy dose of bad language and cynicism. It’s a combination of real news and yelling at the asinine politicians, that’s why I like it.

The host of the vlog is The Stimulator, a computer generated mash up, think Max Headroom but cooler, who has been doing the do on the doo doo since June of ‘04. The Stimulator also interviews persons that I bet you won’t see anywhere else.

Some of the most recent topics dissected are Oil Pimping, Nuclear Jihad, Trillionaire Debt, Habeas What? and Meteor Vomit.

Where to listen? 4ZZZ, POP Defect Radio, WMPG

Where to watch? Free Speech TV, IndyMedia Presents, Off the World TV, Vision TV

So what do you think of It’s the END of the WORLD as WE know it?