THE WORLD HAS CHANGED...

January 25, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

…AND SO SHOULD WE.

Fact of the matter is that things have changed. Dangerously so but yes, the world has changed and yet it still intends and continues to spin on.

We’ve fought a lot about alignment and cohesion. We’ve fought over doing things in ways that “make sense” as to gain some degree of community visibility and identity reinforcing a sense of public trust…but that has not happened. Even as being within the North Bethesda Community, we haven’t seen too much progress in community building or even visibility…but it is what it is.

As it comes down to Art, Design and Photography, there’s so much that we still have yet to discuss and consider. As an operation, we have the same goals which are to contribute to the world but with much change having happened, we’re looking to shift our paradigms. Especially because who we are and what we are matters within the realm of Art and Artistic Expression as it affects the rest of the worlds around us, a further catering to the Black and Brown African American communities stands firm.

THE ART SHOULD REFLECT THE TIMES.

As creatives, it’s really important to be tune with what informs you—the world around you. It’s important to take notice to the things going on because art captures the mind’s creative vision in the midst of thought, time, influence and circumstance. Where our minds are matters when we create which is why the process of creation should not be limiting or limited but expanded upon. The order of chaos and the chaos of order if nothing else should be entertained as an artist where what makes sense can almost—if not more—be equal to that of those things that do not. We are truly residing in a time where things most certainly do not make sense…but then again…

BEING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ARTIST

Most of what I strive to do has everything to do with being an African American Male Artist. Sexist and opinionated and confident only as a means of hiding hurt, pain and trauma. Again, having grown up in the 80’s 90’s and early 2000’s my goals are set in being real and authentic no matter who that bothers or offends. I only want to be that which I’ve been at conflict for so long—that which is truly…me. The good and the bad. The chaos and the order. I am all things that this life has been and has made me as today.

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NūH™

January 18, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

IT TRULY IS TIME TO TRY SOMETHING NūH™.

Yes, it is about the Art. Yes, it is about Design. Yes, it is about Photography.

It is also about a new sense of spirituality and identity as a result.

It is the spirit of being human. It is the POWER of being human. It is that all human beings are descendants of those Melanated Peoples from thousands of years ago.

A Message:

*As an business representing an African American Artist and Artistry, we’re dedicated to using our resources of creation to create for the further appreciation, encouragement and inspiration of Black and Brown People, Identities, Communities and Cultures.

What it means to be a NūHUMAN is to move beyond the confines of what was to develop what can be. It is about the next stage of being human. Shedding the skin of the old and burdensome in favor of concepts, ideas and philosophies to catapult us into the future, it is truly about unity—unity for being Human.

The Statement:

We are now beyond the definitions, measurements and descriptions mandated from others to define our identities, our activities, and the construction of our worlds, realities and lives. We are NūHUMANS!

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2026 AND NEW THOUGHTS!

January 11, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

NOT #JusTHOUGHTS…but then again.

Of some of the greatest differences between animals and humans is the ability—our ability—to create worlds. Humans are capable of perceiving the world to imagine and reimagine then to work towards creating and manifesting those thoughts—those…ideas and concepts. We can perceive and critically think about those things around us—physical and non-physical. We can create our worlds where we’re truly free to do so. Without manipulation and influence, we have the power to create our own spaces and places that not resemble and represent who we are but also influence us for the future.

In light of all that has occurred in 2025 and even currently, we as a business are engaged in developing products and activities to further appreciate, encourage and inspire Black and Brown individuals, entities and communities for the future. We believe in conscious work. We believe in conscious and intentional work to create the worlds we need and deserve. It may not seem like what might be needed but it’s what we’re providing based on what we believe and are coming from…and that’s that the Melanated deserve more than what’s ever been given!

INTELLIGENCE. ETHNICITY. INNOVATION.

*While there are many things going on, we must not forget to take time to look within to see where we are as a people in order to move forward. Keep in mind that all that’s being done is because of fear—their fear. This was an important time for them to gain power because the landscape has been changing and changing quite quickly. Black and Brown and other People have been able to see progress and success via technologies, knowledge, information and access to new kinds of markets. With all this chaos, we become entrenched and encompassed in thoughts and ideas about self-pride and identity in the form of freedom and rights. We must not forget to look beyond the today and the ideas of today about the future. They’re already looking towards the future where they are supreme. They feel unburdened by issues and obstacles and oppression. They and theirs will feel empowered and free and that “empowerment” and “freedom” allows for room and space for thought.

We must continue to think of ourselves beyond the confines they’re continuing to try to burden us by. Some of us must think further and further into the future because the future deserves for us to. Let us be further encouraged, inspired and empowered by our adversities to build and build better upon what was before. While we continue the fight for today, let us give a way for the next to fight for tomorrow…today and always into their tomorrows.

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SOMETHING THAT MATTERS!

December 30, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Inspired by select reads and self-development programs, for 2026 we’re using our creative pursuits to inspire other motivational pursuit to encourage and inspire.

Our art—the Art of Liam Ian Black and others—is to reflect who we are and where we stand. Where we’re from and where we’re headed.

I’m a Father and Husband while being an Artist, Designer and Photographer. I’ve been moderately loved and almost abundantly hated for ensuring my own survival. I’ve endured child abuse and abandonment and even lies about my father only to never learn the truth. I’ve existed in a place and space where I questioned my own existence being told that I shouldn’t be here and that I wasn’t intended because “she” wasn’t in love with my father…which is why she couldn’t remember who he was.

I’ve seen loss. I’ve known disappointment. I’ve wrestled with existing within lies when those lies have made the dimension, reality and life that was once me and my identity. I’ve known what it's like to feel like the step-child and to never truly feel accepted or included—fully included and accepted.

Returning to the ideals of self-work thru self-reflection not for self-mastery but to truly give and contribute to others.

I’ve known solitude and loneliness. I’ve known the feeling of helplessness within busy packed rooms. I’ve known what it feels like to cry only to have people believe you’re “doing too much” or exaggerating your pain. I’ve known what it feels like to be caged and even starved. I’ve known what it feels like to be reduced down to noting more than a burden…and out of all of this…

I’ve come to believe that my continued existence…is…divine. Divine. No more divine than anyone else’s but that which would be unique to every unique individual. This unique life of mine is uniquely divine.

*As we move forward, we’re striving to keep artists, designers, photographers and entrepreneurs appreciated, encouraged and inspired. We’re reducing our pricing for the new year for Coaching and Consultations.

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WE LOVE BLACK WOMEN!

December 27, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Whether it’s love or the perversion of lust, it is what it is which has made me the man that I am. I am who I am and to be honest, I love it. I love me…because I love Black Women.

As an Artist, Designer and Photographer, most of my creative ideas have been informed, influenced and fueled by the beauty of Black Women. Whether toxic or not, I’m a man who loves the scene of the Black Woman. While I enjoy the sight of all physically attractive women, Black Women will always take the cake. Perhaps a bit over-sexualized at times, I do—therefore we do—enjoy all that is the Black Woman.

We don’t and won’t shy away from what has existed for so long to help others create industries, markets and careers. Yes, sex sells and it has inform me in how I like to create Art, how I develop a Design, and how I like to shoot photography. My ideas come from growing up in the heavy magazine era—a pre-social media cellphone time. VIBE, The Source, XXL, Black Men, GQ, and even Playboy, women have held healthy prominent roles in relation to business and the heterosexual Black Man’s identity and ideas on the manhood. I’m a product of this. Music and music videos and other cultural influences having impacted me, the commercial art of the magazine is what has informed me…and so…

FVK™ MAGAZINE - WE LOVE BLACK WOMEN!

Of the greatest artistry of this world, the woman—the Black Woman—reigns supreme to us. Fully clothed, professionally dressed, swimsuit, lingerie, or even nude, we are accepting the natural artistry that is the Black Woman. With that, we are commissioning a dedicated project to feature Black Women as Inspiring Natural Art for Artists and Creatives. While there may not be any redeemable qualities (as it was mentioned to me) about projects of this nature, we also understand industries and businesses and even artists incorporate sex, sensuality and sexuality for their level of perceived integrity and honesty to what it is to be human—an art of being human. Well as an experiment, we’re going to continue to develop and run with this.

BLACK WOMEN. BLACK MEN. BLACK FAMILY. BLACK COMMUNITY. BLACK CULTURE.

The approach to balance is in acknowledging, appreciating and celebrating the best and greatest of Black Community and Culture. Everything that informs, influences and inspires healthy artistry for the future of the Black Community and Culture. We feel it’s all connected. Whether it is sex or sensuality, it’s needed for the union of two to become one and create families. What it means for a man to be attracted to a woman and a woman to be attracted to a man. While there’s controversy there, it has—in its most natural and carnal form—help to build societies, businesses and civilizations.

Yes—yes indeed—sex sells and it is an unfortunate and dysfunctional sometimes diminishing aspect yet prominent part of Black Culture and Life. It is however what has developed and shaped many of us into this modern day. Despite over-saturating and manipulating our perceptions, the fact is that the woman—the Black Woman—is and will always be the sex symbol—the goddess amongst men and so she inspires creation. She inspires creation and artistry for she is creation…and…artistry.

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LIAM IAN™

December 08, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE JOURNEY IS ALSO ABOUT ALIGNMENT.

LIAM IAN LLC @ TUMBLR

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WEEK 50 - JUST 2 MORE WEEKS TO GO!

December 07, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

PRODUCTS, PROJECTS & SERVICES

We’re just a few weeks away from the end of 2025 and it’s been something of an interesting ride. With the different situations and circumstances introduced by the current US Administration, we’ve seen Communities of Color greatly impacted in more ways than one. While the political, social and socio-economic scenes undergo activity, change and impact, we see our priority to further develop and curate products, projects and services as essential. We are here to still serve.

2026 PLANNING PROCESSES

While we’re still in business, we’re gearing up to plan and position for the coming 2026 year. Our job is to review and assess accordingly to what’s needed internally and externally. We’ll be reviewing our intentions and agendas to ensure there is alignment with what we know is working and what is not and to gain a better scope and vision on the things that go beyond revenue generation and profits. We want to affect and impact our communities as best as possible with consideration to the changing landscape and shifting priorities in messaging.

STREAMLINING FOR MORE

We’re constantly pitching and playing around with new ideas and concepts for new and newer projects—though some never really make it to light. For 2026, we’re looking to scale back a bit and refine what’s on our plates. Given the potential of things to affect the audiences and communities we’d like to serve, it shouldn’t go underestimated that we must adapt and change and therefore plan and position for effective performance as a business operation.

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BUSY WEEK: WEEK 47

November 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 47: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT—Art, Design and Photography Products (Nov 16 - 22)

THE BUSINESS QUARTER: APPROACHING THE END OF 2025

• Focus: Review & Consolidation of Project End-results + combining past works into new compositions.

• Challenge: Merge past and/or standing works to develop products series.

• Marketing Angle: Share the layered process and encourage others to remix their own work.

Operating within the week of Thanksgiving, the true (Christmas) Holiday Season begins. With that comes the greatest potential and opportunities position for community activities and sales. Our effort will be get all product proposals under review and discussion to refine the list and begin the process developing them. Product marketing plans are to be developed prepared for implementation as well.

Our proposed product list is Artistic Digital Products, Wall Art and other publishable goods.

LOOKING FOR NEW RELATIONSHIPS!

As we continue to develop newer and newer projects, we’re also looking to collaborate and partner with those that excel within those same fields.

If you are a Visual Artist (Sketch Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor, etc.) who is EXCITED to share their work, we’d love to network and collaborate with you!

We’re looking for other creators within the local North Bethesda, MD (and surrounding Washington, DC areas) for Artists, Designers, Photographers and other Creatives to build and commune with. As LIAM IAN™ symbolizes growth and change for one man of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, we want to features those who symbolize and embody that as well.

Contact us TODAY for more information!

A SPECIAL MESSSAGE

Let their efforts be to strengthen and empower rather than invoke and stoke fear. Individually and collectively, our efforts must be to assist in not only educating, appreciating, celebrating and encouraging Black and Brown Communities, Identities and Cultures but in actively encouraging change and innovation as the needed response to all that’s being done. We must get back to an era or philosophy that served as a beacon of what could be for Black and Brown People casting aside the things that have come with dynamic commercialism and corporate socio-economic agendas. Principles, values, philosophies, and ideas that saw People of Color in colleges and raising families and contributing healthily to local and larger communities. We must reignite the light dignity, integrity and wisdom within our people because at the end of the day, it truly does take a village. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

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CONTINUED ART DEVELOPMENT

November 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

QUARTERS AWAY AND YET…

…we’re continuing the process of developing meaningful Art representing Black and Brown People, Communities and Cultures. Adhering to the purpose of providing positive and meaning products to those audiences with the idea of “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.” in mind.

Simple works, our artworks aren’t large at all but there’s specific reason and purpose behind and about them. Being inspired by other artists, we’re continuing to chart a path of identity and meaning for those we represent and continuer to strive to serve.

Whether personal works or works to display. our works convey messages worth seeing and hearing and talking about. We’re holding nothin back in bringing to market concepts and ideas that once encouraged and inspired a generation before the rise of dynamic mass commercialization of Black and Brown Urban and general Urban Arts. This is the era that has informed us and so we the greater of potential in these areas of creative style and philosophy; “Nothing has to make sense as long as from those like us and know us, what they’re producing touches us.”

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RE-CREATION PROJECTS

November 09, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

SOMETIMES ITS JUST ABOUT CREATING ART!

Without dragging it out, we’re creating specifically based upon what inspires us; we’re doing re-creation projects. Inspired more and more by concepts and ideologies such as those conveyed and implied by “STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST” by Austin Kleon, we’re keeping it moving by not limiting ourselves. We’re creating behind what we’ve seen other creators do. Re-creation isn’t just recreation. It’s not a process of duplication. It’s the process of attempting to achieve what was already done without the same assets and resources but more using what’s at our own disposal.

The key is to implement effective and impactful projects. The point is to choose projects that are worth re-creating—meaning they have a particular and specific meaning or intended impact as identified and understand thru how they were originally done. Also they should apply to the artist, designer, photographer, business or brand as being developed as stand-alone or associated projects. Basically, we’re not—I’m not—just coming up with things to shoot, design or artistically redevelop, there’s a point to it. There’s meaning, vision and purpose.

In this month of November, we’re still striving to complete our “BLACK BRILLIANCE” project and with that, we’ve discovered newer and other concepts to convey they message and messages.

*We do not own the above imagery. WE support and post them for educational purposed to inform. We are encouraged, informed and inspired by them for the communities and cultures we serve. Please contact us for Source and Ownership information and for removal requests where applicable.

CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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LIAM IAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY @ HOME!

November 07, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Local Grand Community Shooting - North Bethesda - Montgomery County, MD

Done as practice photography for Liam Ian, this selection applies to the Personal Professional Portfolio of Liam Ian Black and LIAM IAN™.

[Shot with Canon EOS 80D : Canon 50mm Lens.]

Photography by Liam Ian Black. Assisted by Levonte Chavis. Website administration and posting by Kendra A. Philpot.

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CONNECTIONS & CORRECTIONS

November 07, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

FINE TUNING THINGS SO IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO THE COMMUNITIES WE WANT TO BE IN AND BE FOR!

I’ve learned recently that I’ve made something of a substantial departure from what and where I started with intention for where and what I wanted to be. I’ve allowed things to get far and away from the initial ideas and intended endgame goals. What I also understand is that this is a normal part of the process of success. Success isn’t something that happens overnight nor does it happen in a straight single line. In business—especially if you are also the primary artist—wires will get crossed and things will be dropped. No one person can do and be everything…even if they think they can…even if they have help.

REMEMBERING WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT.

Friends have helped me review, recap and recover ideas that I had long forgotten about. Of these were the dream of being the brand name of luxury items that people would have. Within their homes or on their person, I wanted to be a name that meant something to People of Color representing Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation within Art, Design, and yes, Photography. I’ve had no aspiration of shooting parties or other affairs because I call myself a Photographer. No. I’ve just wanted to create. Creating thru Art, Design and Photography, my goal was to produce goods that would represent and symbolize the best of Black and Brown Individuals, Identities, Cultures and Communities. Somehow…I’ve lost this. I’ve lost this and even gotten lost in everything done to actually do it. Now…

I believe in the potential of Black and Brown People. I believe in Black and Brown People with a specific focus on African Americans and African American Communities. It’s thru all that I’ve encountered, endured and survived that have led me to the person I am today. While not perfect, I’m pretty okay. I’ve been afforded many things—including wisdom thru pain, sorrow and hardship—and so I feel the urgency and priority and responsibility to pass on what I know to one of the most deserving, impactful and significant communities to ever exist, that of the African American.

INTELLIGENCE. ETHNICITY. INNOVATION.

These three words—to me—totally represent and embody what it is to be an African American. Black and Brown. Light-skinned and dark-chocolate. Short and tall. Celebrity and not, what it is to African American is to of a heritage that no one else could ever come close to. While other words like Resilient, Enduring and Dynamic can easily be among those to convey and conjure the spirit of African Americans, it’s truly what has come to light about the power, potential and promise of African Americans out of centuries of oppression and death that inspire the words we’ve chosen.

The matter of LIAM IAN™ / LIAM IAN LLC™ is to create products and services that help to enhance, inform and even appreciate the greatest of possibility for Black and Brown Communities and Cultures. Wall Art, Digital Designs, Wall Art Photography, the goal is to create those static items and goods that go the way of creating, enhancing and defining someone’s world. Decor and apparel. The goal is to create and manifest a better world…or at least the potential of.

And then it became so much more.

Thru Entrepreneurship and Art and everything else, I discovered I was and am capable of so much more. Because of what I’ve learned and even the uniqueness of who I am, I discovered that there’s been so much more beneath the surface. Yes. I learned about William B. Philpot IV making a more complete transition into the artistic persona of Liam Ian Black. And with that knowledge tied with ambition, things became…bloated and over bloated.

With a greater push to end 2025 out on a profoundly positive note, planning for 2026 has already begun.

CONNECTIONS & CORRECTIONS

It truly is about connection—not connection to others exactly but more connection to each creative and operational category. It’s about alignment to those core agendas and intentions that we began with—that I began with. The correction is to steer away from those activities that haven’t had too much to do with what was initially intended to come back to a place of revealing and sharing all that is and has been Liam Ian Black. Urban themes mixed the complexity and sophistication that has me the unique being that I am. Deep and rich colors; Black and Browns, Silvers and Golds. Deep reds, greens and blues and everything else that is rooted at my core. No matter the category, it’s to showcase who and what I am as an African American Man surviving all that I have and counting it all as blessings to the life I live today.

*Especially when in business, take pride in your mistakes as well as your successes. Don’t be afraid to take chances and push the limits a bit…even if it seems to not make sense. Follow your gut instincts and get creative because if you’re not solving a problem, you should be bringing something fresh and brand new to market. This is a part of the artistry of being an entrepreneur. This is a part of the artistry of being an artist in entrepreneurship. Especially if you’re an artist or true creative, nothing is certain. Nothing is certain…but you just keep reworking the formulas until something hits.

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TWO CONSULTATIONS IN ONE WEEK.

November 06, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Jean-Michel Basquiat (Self-Portrait), 1982

SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS BUT BOTH HIGHLY ENLIGHTENING…as the Consultant.

LESSONS

Never underestimate the need to be heard and the feeling of connection.

Two consultations this past week and upon review and assessment, l've come to the conclusion that I limit my own self sometimes. I limit myself by thinking I need to be seen or heard. Sometimes we get in our own way of creating when trying to create to appeal...when what we really need to do is to create for ourselves.

Learn to create for yourself. Take yourself out of the commercial, corporate and capitalist mindset of doing for money and do your thing by creating to express yourself. Create to manifest the version of yourself you want to become. Create to not only communicate but to also grow.

We lack adequate development sometimes because we're only facilitating growth as defined and directed by our environments. True growth-the catalyst to true powerful impactful growth-comes from making the decision to change and change in the way of refusing all that is and has become normalized within our families, friendships and communities. Question who you are and what you have done and test the waters in doing things different than the regular scheduled programs.

When you "do"—when you act for change--act for yourself and NOT for others. Truly, it will always be others that after yourself will serve as your most difficult obstacles yet powerful lessons.

—Liam lan

*Fact is that some can actually produce with an intent and pursuit for some financial gain taking on the agendas or commissions of others but then there those who rely on pure mental and emotional inspiration. It’s not my advice to not create or produce for profit but there’s much ore value in those works that represent a moment, perspective, or experience that fuel the creative process.

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PIKETOBERFEST @ PIKE & ROSE!

November 02, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

AN EXPERIENCE FOR NORTH BETHESDA LIKE NO OTHER.

While Piketoberfest (at this point) was some time ago, we captured some content about the event. Held at Pike & Rose of North Bethesda, the occasion was a family fun community event saturated with activities, music, food, art, crafts and fun. Let’s not forget the beer either!

Family-friendly, this event was diverse and absolutely welcoming with many people out on display. A safe space for many, this was a more than healthy mix of all peoples; Black, White and Brown. The young and trendy to the sophisticated adult to the event active elderly. People and Community is what it was all about positively reinforced by the local businesses and community-engagement organizations. Unity was at the forefront under the banner of enjoying each others company under a late Summer Sunday Sun.

*Photography was implemented independent of any request or commercial association. Pike & Rose is a part of the LIAM IAN™ local residential community. No paid partnerships, sponsoring or commercial affiliations.

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LIAM IAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY @ HOME!

November 01, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

PROJECT & PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: PEOPLE AND IMAGES

What I do enjoy so much about being a creative is the authority and autonomy to be as authentic as one deems necessary. Thru the exploration and experience gained from delving deep, one truly can learn the most about themselves by pushing beyond the confines pressed and applied by others.

While the style of this photo shoot was truly to get to know others, the effort was also sot pick up the camera. The camera—that which almost everyone everywhere has access to nowadays—was a critical piece as not only the tool to capture artistry be used as the final piece to a larger perspective artistry.

In editing, the style and concept philosophy is to further adhere to the aesthetics of LIAM IAN as a brand and Liam Ian Black as an artist. Deep and interesting contrasts while centering on and off of the subject. Mixed the sepia tones and other deep hues, the effort is accomplish a magazine commercial look consistent with high fashion and style aesthetics. The effort is to have this project completed with edits and posted this coming 45th Week of 2025.

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TAKING A RISK ON ME...BUT THAT'S OKAY!

November 01, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

I am what I am and that’s complicated. Not more complicated than anyone else but then again perhaps.

—A Message from Liam Ian

It isn’t my goal to become a grand commercial corporate platform. No. It’s not my goal to hide behind lies or misperceptions. It’s not my goal to create a character of my “authenticity” but more my goal and intention to be as best as I can be to appreciate, encourage and inspire others. My goal is and has been to some degrees to have served the communities that have made my life so abundantly complicated while rich. Thru the traumas of abuse and dysfunction, deprivation and loss, depression and a lack of self-confidence, mistakes and muted successes, I’ve succeeded in achieving much more than what I would have ever guessed. It is today my task—as an Artist, Designer, Photographer, Father, Husband and “Black” Man—to serve as the representation of what an African American Man could be…beyond the confines of descriptions and identities that have become socially acceptable and commonplace.

I’m not here to submit. I’m here to create.

As I continuously point out—to a fault I might add—I am not a perfect person. I am not perfect but I am also unique and very different. I’m not more special than the next yet I am special nonetheless. I’ve survived much while never giving up on my goals nor the gifts for which I was blessed with early on. A man of the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s, I am complex full of good and bad stuff. I grew up in different hoods never really having one particular “home” except for those areas I would then come to represent. I’m DC. A DC native, I’m heavily artistically influenced by New York to Los Angeles to African European ideas and concepts. While I’m much more now a Jazz, R&B and Alternative music enthusiast, I embrace the fact that I used to submerge and saturate myself within Hip Hop, Rap and Go-Go. Smoking Black-N-Milds, drinking Old English 40’s and going to the club every weekend was my thing. My fellas were more my family than anyone or anything else while the pursuit of fine Black Women were always on the agenda. Sleeping on couches and even benches, I’ve grown. I’ve grown to sleep in peace within my own bed with someone who would not only be the mother of my child but my Ride or Die.

Within the “positives” of my life I’ve also had to deal with the negatives that helped paint if not just reveal those positives. I’ve grown…and yet…I’m still me. I’m still me and I’m proud of that. Not perfect. Still toxic. Still nasty. Still a lover of everything that was once the pinnacle and prime of Black and Brown African and Latino American Urban Culture, I am still me…but more.

Working With Me…

…will always be a risk. People should know that. I’m an Artist, Designer and Photographer willing to take on just about any project to push the boundaries of what is familiar and what I can do. Taking a risk on me may pay off or not. Taking a risk on me may pay off early or later. Taking a risk on me is a risk but I have yet Mohave let anyone down. Models paid. Contractors paid. Clients served. Collaborations achieved. I’ve had my ups and I’ve had my downs but after over 12 years of entrepreneurship with 4 years being LIAM IAN™, I’m proud to say I’m still here. I’m still here, this business is still here, the goals are still here…and still being pushed forward.

I’m no saint and I’m willing to admit and stand on that every single day…but that’s what makes me, my business and what we do authentic; I’m truly doing me and us and if you can’t see the artistry within that, then we just won’t be working together. It’s that simple.

I can be found in many places within social media as a man and a business. No matter the location I will however stand on also appreciating those that have given and supported me. My artistry is continuously fueled by Art, Design, Fashion, Style, Photography and other forms of media that helped convey the changing landscape of Black and Brown Native American, African American and Latino American identities and communities.

*Truly I never thought I would be at the place that I am but I feel fortunate. I feel fortunate to have it and because of it. I never considered myself to be much but I also knew that there was a lot inside me and I’m thankful. I am thankful. For whatever I gain—thru the failures as much as the successes, I’m thankful and grateful. As I am—we are—poised and positioned now more than ever to include and collaborate with others, we’re striving to making it happen. The transition is from Artist to Art Direction is proposed to be the goal of 2026. We’re planning now to gain a creative foothold on tomorrow.

CONNECTED: TAKING A RISK ON ME...BUT THAT'S OKAY!

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tags / A Special Message, Liam Ian, Liam Ian Black

THE CIRCLE: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART.

October 26, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WE’RE HAVING A SPECIAL SESSION TO TALK ABOUT THE ART WORLD TODAY.

The goal is to be beyond what has become so much in abundance and commercial. The goal is to talk about things that go deeper than just the issues of the day. It’s an attempt to tap into subjects that society has been driven away from for convenience over community; an intimate understanding of individual human identity, reality and dynamic to build upon community.

In the context of what we do and who we are, conversations about the Black and Brown African American experience will always prominent to and for us. The fact that in America—the home of African Americans—oppression, repressions and suppression still do very much exist. While immigrant cultures come here even in the modern day in the pursuit and attempt of a building a better life for themselves, it has been my experience that African Americans—who hold the concepts, intentions and ideas of immigrates that came before—inherently have an authority of what it is to be creative…here…in America. Whether paint and portraiture, architecture and design, style and fashion, engineering and technologies, African Americans do not fall behind the standard…especially if not disproportionately affected by social standards and conditions.

As a matter of what is being done by the current administration where the apparent clocks are being turned back, we’re engaged seeking out others within the African American communities that do not fit the molds that commercial and corporate entities have deemed the societal definition and identity. In this case and manner, we’re seeking those artists and visionaries that go beyond the perspective of accepting what is today…in order to build a different and new concept for tomorrow.

The drive to take advantage of what racists and other who remain in denial about pertaining the significant place, position and identity of Black and Brown African Americans within American and the larger international community is to build upon the strong platforms that have been given to us. To resist the urge of conformity or even the ongoing acceptance of behaviors and actives that truly serve at our detriment rather than our collective empowerment. Our goal is to get beyond the comfort zone of what has become the Black and Brown identity today in getting to a more profound and innovative place for tomorrow.

*Being pitched as means of building greater community, the concept still applies to that of The NūHUMAN Project and Foundation. Our effort—my effort—is to further use the Arts as a profound means community building and conversation. As I know none of us are perfect, I stand squarely in that position confidence within imperfection. That confidence—that confidence thru experience and exploration resulting in self-defined excellence—is what I want to encourage to others. Especially to those communities that need it as a form of recovery, we want to further invite, embrace and encourage others. —Liam Ian

CONNECTED: THE CIRCLE: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART.

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FVK™

October 17, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHERE THE MODERN TAKE ON NATURE’S GREATEST ARTISTRY TAKES SHAPE. FVK!

With social media, we’ve customized our own blog / magazine platform to share and showcase what we love about modern Art and Culture.

Art, Design and Photography have served to create some of the most impactful form of communication, the magazine. Lifestyle, Culture and Community, magazines still exist today because the collection of the forms of creativity have gone the way of creating and engaging worlds that some would never have the opportunity to. Something like yet predating the internet, magazines are a staple of media and communication for all that is encouraging, informative and impactful…and so…we have FVK™.

CONNECT WITH US!

While sharing—for educational and informative purposes—media, content and images that we relate to, we’re working to develop our own. We’re striving to feature subjects and topics that truly go the way of appreciating the modern positive aspects of Black and Brown Culture while still encouraging and inspiring better ideas, concepts and standards that make them so much better…especially for the future world.

CONNECTED: FVK™

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THE POP-UP ART SHOW!

October 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE END OF YEAR IS FAST APPROACHING AND WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2025

We’re hosting an small impromptu Art Show to share and dialogue about the state of Art within our local area of North Bethesda and the larger surrounding communities.

Our goal is to see who’s out there and what’s out there local to entertain and support.

We want to show our support for local art seeing and hearing what other voices have to say in this modern day.

Location: The Grand of North Bethesda

Time: 5 - 7 pm.

*As creatives, it’s important to not only stay true to our individual to collective creative philosophies, perspectives and experiences but to also entertain the worlds around us to strengthen and expand the opportunities to implement more creative projects.

CONNECTED: THE POP-UP ART SHOW!

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tags / Art, ART, Arts Event, Activities & Events, Events & Activities

REVISITING IDEAS: DXPESHYT!

October 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THERE’S A LOT THAT HAS AND CONTINUES TO INFORM AND INSPIRE WHO AND WHAT WE ARE.

WHERE JUST BEING REAL.

As a business operation, we’re striving to streamline and adhere to the ethics and ideas of doing good business. As a business based within the arts, we want greater to adhere to the TRUTH of who we are. For the Black and Brown—African American and Latino Communities, we want to stay true and be our authentic selves because this is the communities we truly want to serve and represent.

As we propose, develop and explore ideas and concepts for Art, Design and Photography projects, this is what influences if not inspire those ideas.

LIAM IAN™ / LIAM IAN LLC™

*We do not own the above imagery. WE support and post them for educational purposed to inform. We are encouraged, informed and inspired by them for the communities and cultures we serve. Please contact us for Source and Ownership information and for removal requests where applicable.

**As an Artist and Creative born of this modern world, my vision, mission and intentions are continuously informed by those things that have made me. Let’s face it, not all of those things are necessarily for the kids. I grew up raw. I grew up disadvantaged. I grew up and out of the hood. A love for Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rap. A love for the functional dysfunctional. Black Women. Fast Cars. Nice Clothes. As I’ve always aspired to do and become better and better…I’ve never forgotten where I’m from. I’ve never forgotten who I am and what I’m all about. While I’ve grown to have become a person and version of me, I’m still me at the core. —Liam Ian

CONNECTED: REVISITING IDEAS: DXPESHYT!

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tags / DXPESHYT, Social Media, Social Media Influences, Influences, Reviews, Review