Lately I’ve been watching more interesting movies through streaming than on DVD. Maybe because independent directors find it easier to showcase their movies online and get some profit than trying to enter the regular distribution circuit. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, we watched Le Havre by director Aki Kaurismäki and [...]

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  If you regularly read this blog, you know that I’m working on a quilted banner inspired by the ceiling pictures of the Debre Berham Selassie church in Gondar, Ethiopia. Instead of paint, I’m using fabric and embroidery floss to recreate the images. [...]

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A Maker Faire is and event where all kind of creative inventors gather to show their gadgets and projects. A few days ago the Maker Faire Africa 2012  took place in Lagos and young and old creators made public their inventions. Africans are extremely creative, and anyone [...]

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I found online a beautiful Ethiopian animated short film called “Hisab” (bill) that narrates the classic Ethiopian folk tale “The dog, the goat, and the donkey”. It’s a stop motion film made by painting on a single surface canvas. The author is Ezra Wube, an Ethiopian artist living in the [...]

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