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·May 1

#56: Why E Dey Happen was cheaper than Hanky Panky

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…

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·Apr 30

#55: April 2023

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…

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Apr 29

Stupid

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

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Apr 29

Mad

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.

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Apr 28

Fintech

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.

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Apr 23

Forest

The hotel spa is booked for the day, so Carlston (the receptionist) works out another option for my massage. It’s somewhere in town, so we get a Tuktuk. …

Travel

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Travel

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·Mar 23

#53: State of the Studio

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…

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#53: State of the Studio
#53: State of the Studio

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·Feb 26

#51: Act 2

If you haven’t, read the manifesto first. Act 1 of wuruwuru crescendo’d at the Show & Tell last December where we presented Hanky Panky, E Dey Happen and LUDO to an audience for the first time. It marked the end of two years of production experiments. Since then, we’ve trudged…

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#51: Act 2
#51: Act 2

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Jan 15

New Themes

My themes for 2022 were migration, community and money. Migration: I tried to move away but ended up moving around. It was good motion though, and now I have community in Nairobi and London. …

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New Themes
New Themes

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Dec 3, 2022

Friday Night Void

Getting older and recognising my patterns of behaviour has been really interesting. For instance, the Friday Night Void: the tendency for me to feel sad and alone after a really busy week. This condition is triggered by a sharp drop in things I have to think about. Because I can…

Journal

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Friday Night Void
Friday Night Void
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