As a result of the whole Afrigadget saga (which, frankly, is overwhelming), a question that has come up plenty of times is: "Did it work?", and "Do you have photos that were lit by the cardboard lights?". Here's a unedited photo I took of Mbithi using the two units I made:



There. Nice, clean light.
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The good people at AfriGadget thought they'd share my DIY cardboard lights on their site (thanks, guys!).

It's actually a very interesting blog, with lots of innovative DIY ideas by our fellow Africans. We're not only about drought and AIDS, it seems.

Check it out!

More of the Scratch To Reveal artwork. There's a certain joy to be derived from ripping people into shreds...

New music promo for Just A Band - the coolest clients ever. :) Closeup shots in the promo above were lit using the cardboard-box lights I mentioned below.

I took way to long to get the energy to sit down and finish this one. It's the second (and last) video from the shoot last year - which I'll never mention again.

Using lessons learnt from my first video
shoots last year:

1. the sun is REALLY powerful,
2. but very unpredictable,

I set out to build my own personal sun -
controllable, consistent, white light - using
ordinary household equipment. DIY till I
die and all that.



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I totally forgot to share this here. The video
from the first-ever-video-shoot I did last
year on YouTube.

And no, I don't do videos. Yet. It was an
experiment!



The band's website is now up - where you'll also
find some desktop wallpapers I did for them the
other day.

Here's a look behind-the-scenes at a
shoot I did with Kate the other day,
and some of the results from that shoot.

It was always fun to see models having
tea with outrageous face-paint/hair on.



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I met a "hard-news" photojournalist the other
day, and he showed me his portfolio. This consisted
of several hundred very disturbing photos from
the chaos that engulfed Kenya in the beginning
of this year.


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I dropped my camera on a cold, hard marble floor
today. Oh, the guilt, the shame...

Thankfully Nikons are rugged little buggers.