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Kenyan rap, often called Sheng after a specific dialect, occasionally slips into the American mode, but generally sticks to Swahili. Muthoni (The Drummer Queen) and Octopizzo are formidable in both languages, lunging and stalking over a smeary, funky-drummer, triphoppin’ groove, jazzed with psychedelic synthesizer stabs.
Some more music for your Monday. Check out the rest of “The Drummer Queen Who Runs Nairobi Dancefloors” by Vivien Goldman on NPR Music. -L
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Easy Sunday, resting with my son napping in my arms.
He hasn’t a care in the world. Truly at rest.
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Best Pictures Of A Baby Elephant Playing At A Beach Of All Time
My heart just melted and I died. RIP.
Oh my!
Elephants deserve a day at the beach too.
Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone — best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone
Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak on creativity, echoing Susan Cain’s case for the power of introverts and the importance of solitude in creativity. (via explore-blog)
Needed to hear this.
It’s That Time of the Year by Alan Chan
