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a useful place to jot down thoughts and remind myself what i spend time thinking about and doing, especially when i forget at the end of each month.Great new video from The Maccabees this morning. Some great raw photography coupled with an excellent use of layering techniques to interweave and really tell a story through the film.
This video could only be made in the UK, about the UK. And choosing Roots Manuva reinforces that nicely.
Fair warning, the content is pretty heavy.
Via itsnicethat.
More Africa action on the blog this morning, its Friday and that means its time for some electric rhythms to welcome in the weekend.
DJ Mujava has a crazy African story, growing up on the streets and now on the cover of the excellent French music magazine, Vibrations.
The track above, Mugwanti, captures everything that rocks about African music. Energy, passion and an uncanny ability to make you want to dance.
Happy weekend.
I started blogging because I wanted a place where I could capture all of the things that I see that I like and trigger me to think a bit.
Its pretty humbling then when you come across blogs like afrigadget, a site with genuine purpose and meaning.
Afrigadget is a blog dedicated to examples of African ingenuity applied to everyday issues faced by African people. Its an inspiring collection of hacks and workarounds from improvised lamps to build-your-own electric bikes.
What I love about the blog is that its just got so much purpose. Each idea showcased is powerful in its on right, but by pulling them together in one place, afrigadget is opening up the pathway for the ideas to be shareed, and built upon, right across the continent.
I have been spending some time on a site called Quirky recently, which is quietly socializing the design experience to create better and better products.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if these powerful concepts could come together - matching consensus process expertize with ingenuity and imagination. That feels like a genuine helping hand to the developing world.
Laugh all you want about the concept of blogging, but for every ihatemyparents, there is a blog like afrigadget sparking some real change.
