Thursday, 14 August 2014

SAKATA MASHARIKI JUDGE JO1 GOOD LOVE VIDEO SHOOT (Behind The Scenes)






















Photography by: Oska Matasi.
WATCH #GoodLove Video here: http://youtu.be/bI7JqHGx0bE

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Monday, 11 August 2014

WAKILISHA as it HAPPENED on The 10th of AUGUST Thru Pictures.














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Sunday, 27 July 2014

WAKILISHA 'Street Cipher" AS I SAW IT!!!!!













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Sunday, 22 June 2014

Quarter-life Crisis!!!!

                It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones.


                  What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.
You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life; You feel alone and scared and confused; Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
             You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better; All this while you had been convincing yourself that you didn't want to be tied down to any person; Now suddenly you have moments of self-doubt when you wonder if you waited too long and let someone special get away. You love someone but maybe love someone else too, and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person! Random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic; 

              You want to be independent but suddenly, the idea of having the stability of a special someone to trust and lean on doesn't seem all that bad. You want to be your own person and yet be taken care of at the same time.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender.
We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. 



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Saturday, 21 June 2014

The Art!!!!

B-boying or Breaking, also called Break Dancing, is a style of street dance that originated among Black and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s.
The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Russia and South Korea. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, b-boying consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. B-boying is typically danced to hip-hop, funk music, and especially breakbeats, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns. #Breaking covers both Bboying and Bgirling. In other words, bboying and bgirling make up the #Breakign pillar of hiphop culture.

 A Practitioner of this dance is called a bboy, bgal, or breaker. Although the term "breakdance" is frequently used to refer to the dance, "b-boying" and "breaking" are the original terms. These terms are preferred by the majority of the pioneers and most notable practitioners. There are many elements of b-boying that can be seen in other antecedent cultures prior to the 1970s. B-boy pioneers Richard "Crazy Legs" Colon and Kenneth "Ken Swift" Gabbert, both of Rock Steady Crew, cite James Brown and Kung Fu Films as influences to b-boying.Many of b-boying's more acrobatic moves, such as the flare, show clear connections to gymnastics. An Arab street dancer performing acrobatic headspins was recorded by Thomas Edison in 1898. However, it was not until the 1970s that b-boying developed as a defined dance style in the United States.

  There are four primary elements that form b-boying. These include top-rock, down-rock, power moves, and freezes.

Female presence.

Like the other aspects of hip-hop culture, graffiti writing, MCing, and DJing, males are generally the predominant gender within breaking. However, this is being challenged by the rapidly increasing number of b-girls. Critics argue that it is unfair to make a sweeping generalization about these inequalities because women have begun to play a larger role in the breaking scene. Despite the increasing number of female breakers in other parts of the world Africa is creating more awareness in female breaking, another possible barrier is lack of promotion. As Firefly, a full-time b-girl, says ...
"It's getting more popular. There are a lot more girls involved. The problem is few workshops and that the promoters are not putting on enough female-only battles."More people are seeking to change the traditional image of females in hip hop culture (and by extension, b-boy culture) to a more positive, empowered role in the modern hip-hop scene. The lower exposure of female dancers is probably caused not by any conscious discrimination, but simply by the fewer number of female breakers compared to the number of male breakers. However, both males and females do practice this art form equally together and are competitively judged only by skill and personal expression, not gender.
                                                                               (Some of the info courtesy of Wikipedia).
Photos Courtesy of: Roy King, Kibuuka and Eyelense.

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