The good people over at African Digital Art asked me a bunch of questions and here’s the results.

Thanks for having me, guys…

Here’s something a little different – my most recent shoot from PLUS. People seem to like him.

Finally finished editing the Stan video (see “It’s A Wrap”), and here it is:

It’s a pseudo-homage to all the sci-fi dramas with hokey computer interfaces I watched when I was tiny and impressionable (read geeky jokes about computer usability representation in movies here and here – I only broke a few rules, ha!), and it’s my first time to actually TRY and include some sort of mini-narrative within a 3 to 4 minute promo.

Does it work? You tell me – feedback is always welcome.

Big thanks to Lisa Forsberg and everyone at Penya Africa for throwing ideas at me over a 3-day shoot (whew!) and to Stan, Wangeci and the rest of the cast for being cool about wearing costumes and running around looking serious.

I forgot to post this rather sketchy animation I did for TRNSMSSN. Accompanying track from an unreleased Just A Band demo – “The Light Fantastic”.

A bird? A plane? A carbon-neutral F-16 disguised as a friendly-alien-carrying UFO? Who knows?

I’ve never really enjoyed shooting product packs until I had to do these sweet things from H20…

and the subsequent playing around with:

People should make more of these sexy packs, I say.

Here’s another piece that showed at TRNSMSSN – “2012″; a piece that was inspired by the hardcore photographs that Boniface Mwangi (who makes us studio guys look like wimps) took of the violence that happened in Kenya after the 2007 General Elections.

I’m of the feeling that we haven’t learnt much from what happened (we still have internal refugees two years later), and there’s a general feeling that when we go back to the polls in 2012, it’ll start all over again because the people in charge (”Honorables” Kibaki, Raila and their friends) didn’t lose any of their family or property in the violence, they don’t see what the big deal is.

I fervently hope not. Fingers crossed?

Here’s the video I was talking about earlier – finally up on YouTube. First time working with a prime lens and available light only (who needs lights? Ha!).

I wrapped the longest music video shoot I’ve ever done (three days) yesterday – for Stan’s “Wangeci” – a single from his debut album “Kenya Debut”. Cool stuff – got some nice footage, made new friends, lots of light and color. I won’t edit it for a few weeks, so I can concentrate on TRNSMSSN (Aaaaaaargh! One week to go!); here’s screengrabs from the raw footage in the meantime.

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I also finished the second PLUS shoot (”Here’s Kevin with the Weather”) sometime last month – this time with Kevin from Classic. I’ll post those as soon as this month is over (if I SURVIVE this month, that is).

I’m going crazy shooting videos back to back, all for the TRNSMSSN show next month. I’ve just finished shooting/editing the promo for another Just A Band song – If I Could. This time, I was playing around with split-screens and working with the very talented Patricia Kihoro and Kevin Maina (aka K2 – who was the “astronaut” in Fly). Fun!

Anyone who wants to see it will have to wait for the premiere on TRNSMSSN. I’ll YouTube it quickly after that.