Wednesday 30 July 2008

Nelson Mandela


First thing I would like to say is Happy Birthday Mr Mandela!!! :-)

What an inspiration you have been to not only black people but people from all over the world, different nationalities and from different religions/class. You have been a true visionary that has helped the world gain back a TRUE PERSPECTIVE of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral....Truly amazing person!!!

One thing I do have to address is the statue of Mr Mandela outside the Houses of Parliament. I pass there everyday on my way to work and I have notice how small the statue is compared to the rest of the statues around the square. Some people may think I am being picky or fussy but really this is very symbolic and I amazed how no one has raised the issue before.

Every other statue in the square for example Mr Churchill and a few more are all the same size and on the same level, however Nelson Mandala's statue is not. For me this is not good enough as we are living in the 21st Century where equal rights, racism, prejudice, and discrimination needs to be scraped for good PERMANENTLY!!!

This is purely my observation. I do feel it is unfair as Mr Mandela has fought for Africans and has showed determination, hope, faith, belief and power and this grandeur needs to be rejoiced not dimmed down or suppressed!!!!

Tuesday 8 July 2008

Wall.e


Yesterday i was lucky enough to see the film Wall.e at Disney i have to say it was AMAZING!!! :-) Disney. Pixar produced a heartfelt, warm, emotional computer graphic picture which i felt captured everyone's heart and soul in the cinema!

According to John Lasseter, "WALL•E" is the story about the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot that his programming was to help clean up. You see, it's set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again. Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a love story, because, you see, "WALL•E" falls in love with [Eve], a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her."

The humanization of Wall.e and the relationship it has with Eve (Eva as Wall.e calls her in the film) was unbelievable!

The Picture conjures up varied emotions as well as visually portraying issues we have in our society today; Global Warming, Recycling, Waste, Pollution, Obesity, Love and our relationships.

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Balham Bou on Mary Queen of Shops

Hey guys as you know, moi and Shaz designed Balham Bou's website :-) If you missed the show you missed out on great entertainment, but not to worry here it is, hope you enjoy! ;-)

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Thankyou!

I just want to say a huge thankyou to everyone that helped Shaz and I whilst we were producing work fo Balham Bou. Hope you guys watched and enjoyed the show :-)