I’m slowly building an audience for the studio — as planned. It’s a healthy mix of serendipity and being less afraid to put myself out. Very curious to see what this looks like by year-end. Album Cover Bank We completed the website for the archive (albumcoverbank.com) in July and organised a Show…

The Book of Mormon has been in my face in probably every major city I’ve been to recently so I’ve wanted to see it for a while. Finally, a few days ago, I get tickets for two and excitedly carry Princess along. But ooops. It was so racist we left…

These last five months in Lagos have given me so much. Because man, I’ve been so afraid and anxious. Afraid of shame and conflict. Anxious about people. Afraid of being too simple for the world. Anxious about being popular or having the center of attention. Afraid of romantic love and…

Hanky Panky cost (~ $18k) to produce over 2 years, while E Dey Happen cost N1.4m (~$2k) over 4 months. The major difference was the cost of animation: the original animators for HP dropped off, and we had to hire a new team, so we ended up paying twice. The…

April was tres interesting. We published the Hanky Panky documentary, started using Instagram, kicked off Feel Good, and did some work on Album Cover Bank, Spectrum and Roses Roses. I also talked to more people about the studio and got a lot of good advice. Thanks to Emmanuel, I discovered…

Stupid Hard pill to swallow but so much of popular culture is so stupid. No, fucking stupid. I prefer to fail than to conform.

Mad Spent so long feeling like a mad person. Only to realize so many people are mad. My own madness is just that I write about my shit and refuse to talk about it until I’m ready.

Fintech I really hate it when someone says “oh do you work in fintech”, and now I’m wondering why. Why do I feel ashamed about my job? It’s because it makes me feel like a stereotype. I don’t like feeling like a stereotype. Why? Hmm.

Over the next few years, the plan is to evolve the studio from a one-man company into a non-profit co-op owned and run by members. If successful, I imagine other people can use similar models to create and sustain creative communities that play and grow together. Operations wuruwuru will run in…