Talking with my mouth full for @Essence Eats "Bite Back" Series Debut

ESSENCE let me be a food critic for a day and I got to do two things I love: TALK & EAT. Watch us dispute holiday cooking in the debut of their new Eats series, “Bite Back”!

If this mic is still on… what’s on your holiday menu tomorrow?

Design Thinking my future

Amid a year of new creative opportunities and evolving professional priorities, I’ve been obsessing over what’s next and how to achieve balance in said pursuit(s). So I’m doing what I’ve done for every class, website, album or child I’ve created: write down the things you want to see happen, research and reverse engineer that s#!%

Life Goals

• Live in Los Angeles

• Live in London

• Live in Johannesburg

• Live in Trinidad

• Codify the time vs. money conundrum

• Build or buy a house

• Build or buy a mobile home/office

• Coach youth basketball

• Always be mentoring

• Prove the creative theory of relativity

• Procure sponsorship to teach free LLC & Business Tax workshops in the hood and subsidize registration fees for my students.

• Learn to sing, play guitar and the drums

• Dunk again

• Learn braille and sign language

Work Goals

• Teach creative theory or digital art in college

• Work in music industry as a Creative Director

• Place visuals on a billboard

• Produce a visual album

• Sync music in a feature film

• Write songs for an animated film

• Curate or build an exhibit

• Build or direct a multipurpose creative space

• Play at least one festival per summer

• Write a children’s book

• Design major American sports uniforms

• Model for Pyer Moss

• Be nominated for an ASCAP, Grammy, Webby and/or MOBO

• Write a book about the creative theory of relativity

Collab Goals

• Spike Lee

• Jay-Z

• Beyonce

• Hank Willis Thomas

• Big Block Sing Song

• Sesame Street

• an NBA franchise

• Chance the Rapper

• Kenwood Academy (my high school)

• an HBCU

• Dav3 & Freedom (my kids)

• Gil Scott Heron (RIP)

• Nelson George

• Bill Simmons

• Malcolm Gladwell

davegilesII.com: this is a reel.

I’ve been fortunate to make a living off #music, #visuals, #performance, #coding and teaching people how to do all of the above for almost 9 years 🙏🏾 that said... I think I need a #website.