I’ve always said that I can’t draw to save my life, and I really envy people who can draw; they don’t have to worry about sets and locations like the rest of us. I accepted an assignment from the Kwani Trust to illustrate some stories for one of their upcoming publications the other day. The original plan was to make some sort of photo collage thingie – but the stories turned out to be quite abstract; photography wouldn’t cut it (how do you illustrate a story about lovers who like playing chess and having abstract conversations in a bathtub?).

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Shooting a catalog sounded like it’d be boring, but Sandra (the model) and I spent an afternoon ooh’ing and aah’ing at a coming-soon new collection by Kepha Maina – it’s all very curvy and sleek, and should be out in a little while – thought I should share.

The STINGO team and I had a very eventful photo shoot (I’m really enjoying the STINGO shoots, by the way) about a month ago – we drove out to Magadi with colorful menswear from Kepha Maina (one of our team-mates) with a grand plan to shoot in the wild with our model – Alwy (who’s awesome). For a start, one of our cars broke down on the way there, and we were towed to the location (not the grand entrance we would have liked – ).
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Despite appearances (on this blog, anyway) I have been working! I’m happy to introduce STINGO; a collaboration between old and new friends like Kangai Mwiti (makeup), Kepha Maina (fashion design) and Lucille Kahara (production); and Sunny Dolat (photographer/stylist/casting director/ball-of-energy).

Stingo is part fashion blog, part photo experiment, part workshop. We’ll make up the rules as we go. We’ll see how it goes…

The good folks at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi asked me to help them design the logo, graphic elements and the event space of the first of the BLNRB-NRBLN concerts in Nairobi. The BLNRB-NRBLN is a project that intends to bring together the electronic music and hip-hop scenes from Berlin and Nairobi respectively.

Find out more at the Goethe-Institut website, or on their Facebook page. Their first concert was held at Club Undecided in Westlands, on Saturday the 27th of March, and it featured performances by Modeselektor, Ukoo Flani, Jahcoozi and Abbas among others.

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