Posts Tagged ‘eseohe arhebamen’

Photoblogger Patrick Amanama: Love in Lagos

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

“Love in Lagos”

Photographs and Text by Patrick Amanama

NEW PICTURES…..

Lagos means different thing to different people, to some, its a place to make money, a place where we spend most of our creative time in traffic, a place where even the unemployed or homeless are guaranteed a place to lay their head or a three-square meal as long as they put pride aside and beg and to a whole lot of people, Lagos is a place to love…

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Magic Making Music with Eric Shieh: The Cement Factory

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

If you haven’t friended him on Facebook, you’re missing some of the most witty “what’s on your mind?” commentary in the facebook news-feed slop-bucket.

I met Eric Shieh, poet, teacher, prisoner-advocate, musician, composer and my good friend, in college. I was still reeling from post-traumatic stress and (more…)

Wanted in New York: an Open Space

Friday, June 19th, 2009

A highlight of my European tour, Michael Steger’s Open Space is a refreshing oasis for the unwanted artist. Open Space was host to the continuation of Al Paldrok’s Diverse Universe as the first “International Printer and Performance Festival” and took place on Berlin’s infamous May 1st. Thousands of performers, protesters, party-goers and arts patrons descended on Berlin’s Kreuzberg, making for an insane spectacle that I cannot believe I survived!

You can view a selection of photographer and resident webmaster Luz Scherwinski’s photographs of the festival on the Open Space website here: http://www.openspace32.de/galerie.php or on my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/edoheart/ (more…)

domo domo: new music with Joel Mejia

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Back in April, Joel Mejia and I got together to talk about a film project. I had met him at my cousin-in-law, Katie Yamasaki’s, show, Pintando Postales. As I remember it, I was just about to leave when he asked me if I wanted to rap over something he had been playing with. domo domo is the surprising result of our first collaboration.

Listen below or on the Edoheart MUSIC page:

In Nigeria, domo is one way we Edo people greet each other. You say it twice to sound twice as nice. It seemed appropriate that afternoon, looking out onto a street, watching people interact, working with Joel for the first time, to simply say “hello”.
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