Fresh Chickens!
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 11:23PM Yup... He's deliverying chickens... very very fresh chickens.

A fascinating introduction to the context of Africa.
What I'm reading right now...
What I'm listening to right now...
What got me hooked on Eastern Philosophy.
A novel and alternative view of reality.
The best translation, in my opinion.
One of the most formative books, for me, in a decade.
In the Pixel Corps, we call this "The Good Book of Brinkmann"
If you are going to make your own film with your own money, read this first.
In the Pixel Corps, we call this the "Good Book of Wright".
One of the best CDs from one of the best artists in Africa (or anywhere).
Classic Hoodoo Gurus...you gotta love it.
What I work to 90% of the time...
The best song you never heard from the Verve Pipe.
One of my top 10 albums ever...
I got into a political debate with Billy Bragg in 1991. I lost. And it changed me forever.
You've probably never heard this song before... more's the pity.
One of my good, and painfully talented, friends...
Great music, Great lyrics, Great Singer.
I saw Blick at HIFA in 2007. Incredible. From Cameroon, in French, mixes well with Brazilian BBQ. This song is a good start.
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 11:23PM Yup... He's deliverying chickens... very very fresh chickens.

Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 6:46PM I took a day out to see the woodcarver's market... these markets, and the artists that work there, always amaze me. It's a group of markets with a 50-60 artists right behind it working away.
Lathe - Old School

Wall o' Sculpture (not all the sculptures are PG)

Sculptor "Mr. Africa"

He's been working on this for 3 years (on the side)...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 3:46AM Mikumi National Park is about 4 hours out of Dar Es Salaam... It's my third visit here. It's smaller than something like Ruaha but easy to get to and it has many of the animals you want to see... Zebras (here), Giraffes, Elephants, Wilderbeasts, and Lions (though we didn't see any Lions). On one half of the park, you need to be careful of Tse Tse flies (partially because of sleeping sickness but mostly because the bite is painful and sharing blood with Zebras is, well, gross).But in the majority of the park, you just need to pay attention to having enough memory on your cards!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 11:03AM Of course, you see this all over the place... women (and a few men) carry crazy things on their heads. I'm told you need to really learn this young to every really be able to do it well. But once you know it... you're hooked, evidently. It's a lot less effort than what we in the west do.
Canon 5DMKII - Shot at 60mph
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 10:47AM So, as you are waiting... almost anywhere in Dar... guys come up selling you DVDs... not exactly legal DVDs but, not exactly illegal (here in Tanzania). These aren't in crude boxes, they are shiny slips with chinese branding. Iron Man 2 was available 2 days after it was released in the theater. New movies are usually camera recordings from some odd again while older movies tend to be DVD rips.
The price for the fine facsimile? $3.00 each.
What's interesting is that in some African countries, pirating foreign films is completely fine but local films are verboten. It's often hard to even find a place to buy legal DVDs.
The answer is probably not trying enforce copyright laws in Africa. The most effective way to solve this would probably be to sell DVDs in Africa for $3.00... Not much margin but probably more income than the alternative.
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