January 2012
70 posts
Occupy Nigeria by Digital Artist David Osagie
37thstate:
These powerful images are by David Osagie who is a Nigerian digital artist, his works feature tradition and perfection in a mix of surreal, African and grunge digital pieces. His recent works have been influenced by the Occupy Nigeria movement.
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Video: Youtube/mathewmho
Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning...
The problem with the over saturation of...
I read them
I keep them
I forget them
and
I return to what I was doing right before they showed up
“Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for...”
– PIRATE BAY, PRESS RELEASE (18 JANUARY 2012). (Found via pipperipembo.) BOOM! (via tobia
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Ethnocentric Literature : My Dear African
Ive seen quite a number of posts on here, about what classify’s as literature. Some people think they have some certification or social grounds to speak on this, based on the amount of Nabokov’s , Caroll Oates, Gaiman, e.t.c book pictures or quotes they put up on here, and you know what , I honestly don’t care. I really don’t give a fuck. Don’t tell me ” Paolo...
WatchBY Creative Director of Maverick Films : Ruyi Irabor
” SUBSIDISE THIS”
This is an amazing short documentary on the Nigerian Fuel subsidy
People say suffering builds character, at least we are taught this along the way. But I have seen suffering take over the mind, soul , strength of a human being. Ruthlessly destroy, break, crush the fiber of one’s will, and not all are able to stand up. Suffering builds, and it destroys, it loses, but more than often it wins
- MangoIslandFugitive
Seems to me
.. that the only time some white people are racially sensitive is when their usually insensitive points of view are addressed in ” Shit white girls say..”
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn ( Very relatable to Nigeria right now)
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I have a project I have called ” The...
Graduating in May
.. and my whole family expects me to know what I want to do with my life, at 22?
hell no..
Im going to travel and immerse myself, because when Im older and have all these responsibilities. I know, that I will regret not doing it