My flickr contact Alexandre Moreau took this shot with his Fuji X100S. It looks like a scan of a turn of the century image. The exposure, framing, and sepia tone all work well together to give it a great look. Brilliant.
Africa
The A to Z of African Dance
Dawn on the Serengeti
Flickr member Robin Jaffray has reposted an image taken a while ago with new processing. It’s spectacular.
Toto’s Africa
Tip: turn all of these up, zoom them out, they’re great.
Mike Masse and Jeff Hall perform and record a cover of Toto’s Africa. It’s a great cover and performance for sure. I saw this on wimp.com this morning which led me to another cover that went viral and an original.
Here’s Perpetuum Jazzile, an a cappella group from Slovenia doing a cover of the same Toto song. Amazing.
Here’s the group Toto (who wrote the song) doing it live in Amsterdam at the Heineken Arena on February 25th, 2003.
By the way, there are some wonderful and less than wonderful covers of Toto’s Africa up on YouTube. Enjoy.
William Kamkwamba builds windmills
Note the external links at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for William Kamkwamba.
This is a great story and it reminds me of this one.
[via wimp.com]
Dunes from the air
Gary Koutsoubis, one of my favorite flickr landscape photographers has a wonderful series called Aerial/Dunes taken from small planes flying over African desert areas. The patterns and textures in these photographs is incredible and I hope he compiles a book to collect and share them widely.
My First Udu
Was up at Joy Brown’s studio yesterday for our first annual udu clay drum workshop. We watched a video on playing them, played some early attempts that folks had made, then got to work making our own. This is my first effort: two chambers connected in the middle. Hopefully it will hold together through drying and firing and it will sound, well, like it will sound. Stay tuned.
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