President Obama

I AM SO PROUD!!!!!

May this be the time for people from all around the world gain faith and hope for the new president for the United States! Who would have believed a BLACK MAN would become president, but that is the power of prayers and faith. People like Martin Luther King pathed the way for the victorious day!!!

Congratulations Obama! may your reign be victorious! All the best for you and your family! :-)

Kate Moross in the Nike pop-up space at Bateman's Row

On the 30th of September I attended the Nike pop up space in association with YCN with the guest presenter Kate Moross (illustrator/graphic designer). The talk was quite general, talks on design, what to do after you graduate and of course the variety of projects kate has produced for brands such as Nike, Cadburys and many more.

This talk was inspiring especially for me, I dont class my self as a new graduate as I graduated last year, however, its still very beneficial to here peoples questions and listen to the discussions!

Kate has produced some SHIT HOT!!! work, she has done well for such a young age! Keep it up girl!! To all designers and creatives out there, keep up the hard work, dont think that work will come to you on a plate, sleepless nights are required, but always keep the spark, passion and love alive for your creativity!!!

Orange Rockcorps

This was such a good night!! It was amazing to see Buster, oh my gosh Ludacris was brilliant!!! The concept of the whole event was fantastic and i hope they will continue this from now on! The fact that they held Buster Rhymes in customs was absolutely ridiculous, spoiling a positive, night and message for the people by creating a smoke screen !Why is a good cause always suppressed?!! This needs to end!!

However, the night was brilliant, the variety of music was good and the people was full of positive nature it was magnificent!! Well done Orange, it was such a good event hope it goes on for a long time!!

Orange Rockcorps

Guys not sure if you heard about Orange Rockcorps, its a brilliant concept and opportunity for people to see musicians at a concert for free. This year Busta Rhymes has confirmed he will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th September 2008! Other artist will be announced later....so whats the brilliant idea behind this i hear you cry, well instead of buying for a ticket to see you fav artist live, you earn it by doing voluntary work around your area! When I heard about this was was so up 4 it!! So you do 4 hours of painting, gardening absolutely any volunteering work......Today I was at Lollard's Adventure Park in Kennington, it was the first Adventure park in the UK, i met loads of cool peeps and did loads of paintings!! Best of all i got my ticket woooo Busta here i come lol!!!

But on a serious note, the idea is fantastic, not only you will receive a ticket to see the most coolest artists around, you are giving back to your community. By doing this you can make some cool new friends, socialise with people from all different walks of life and feel good you have done something other than your self!! Its wicked!!!

Big love Wall.E style for all of the youth workers that do their part for the community cause I don't think they get the recognition they deserve, but today i saw so many things which i didn't know before at i just want to share the love!!!

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!!!!

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.

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! ;-)