After a week of permission seeking and form filling, I hooked up with our friends from Stocktown Benjamin Taft and Teddy Goitom to help them shoot what would be a first in downtown Nairobi. A flashmob video for up and coming Kenyan singer Anto and Paragasha Band’s new single QWERTY Love. Fresh sound, serious dance [...]
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The Sun rises over Kibera
November 23, 2011 – 9:12 am
The Sun is rises over Kibera Hot Sun Foundation focuses on bringing out a realistic, challenging and positive image of those in the periphery of society. Spreading worthy ideas, both behind and in front of the camera, Kibera makes the Hot Sun shine bright in a part of Nairobi that generally is not that well [...]
Where we are
September 25, 2011 – 8:34 pm
The night at YMCA was cold. Actually it rained a lot that evening. And so our camping plans changed to sleeping in one of the rooms at the place. 9 people and over 17 beds at our disposal. J So early the next morning, a six man team of Sebastian, Alicia, Joel, Doug, Kazungu and [...]
Kenya roadtrip: Days 5- 8
September 25, 2011 – 8:18 pm
During the morning of Day 5 we started surveys in the town of Kericho with the help of a Peace Corps worker, Danielle, who lives nearby in a more rural town called Litein. People once again flocked around the vehicle as we positioned Mobius in a kind of parking bay underneath an Indian restaurant that [...]
What Took me So Long to sip Camel Milk?
February 14, 2011 – 5:58 am
So there I was, sitting on the red sofa at the Global lounge at The University of Hong Kong, where I had begun the week watching 1+1=11 Across Africa documentary and ended the week perched in the same place watching What Took You So Long’s Mongolian Camel Cheese documentary. Apart from it being a great week, it was a [...]
Making Philanthropy Easy, Essential, Effective
January 10, 2011 – 8:07 am
Written by Neha Mal, Fixer/Mover for the What Took You So Long Foundation, neha@whattookyousolong.org Encouraging Philanthropy might be the way forward for NGO’s to secure funds in order to sustain on an organizational rather than simply a project based level. This thought provoking statement is what had us walking into The American Center (Mumbai) where [...]
Quest for Camel Cheese: Morocco
November 30, 2010 – 2:53 pm
Sueminn Cho is a production assistant intern with the WTYSL team. Here she blogs about her first experiences traveling with the camel cheese crew across the deserts of Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania. “Come! Yes! You should totally come! We’re going to Morocco, more camel cheese, mid-November… Yeah, here, business card… See you in Morocco!” [...]
In Ulaan Baatar – home of the two-humped Bactrian camel
August 14, 2010 – 8:11 am
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu And step we do onto the 5.35pm 16-hour train to Ulaan Baatar with just minutes to spare. Exquisite scenery accompanies our working train-ride. After 33 hours to Beijing 16 hours breezes by. We feel the difference in the people – [...]
