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Information on the West African giraffe (not East African like in the video):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_giraffe

From Abuja to Nairobi, our latest 'reality' short video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFpZQB36K8w


Enjoy.

Hi everyone.

Check out this new video we just produced for this photo book of over 140 amazing images from Kaduna, Nigeria:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu7ZxPY-KMA&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1



Preview and get the book at:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/ismaila-ikani-sule/everyday-kaduna/hardcover/product-21003587.html

VillageBoi:

You're welcome. The competition has big backers including Google+

Niiiice

Thanks, VillageBoi

I came across an article online on the AfriNolly competition earlier this year but I didn't bother reading it since the word 'Nolly' had me assuming it was just for 'Nollywood film' producers. Never mind, next time.

Here you are

A palm tree being brought down in Kaduna:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uQLIHOF38


Bonus clips.

Bats:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJ03ieGZxU&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1


Bees:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MryKfuAAfk0

VillageBoi:
Was that a scorpion @2.44? It was bloody HUGE!! And the red in the trees @3.40 - simply beautiful.

I love those trees as well - red flowers seem to outnumber and dominate their green leaves.

Yep, some guy with keen eyesight spotted that scorpion in the grass right from up on the second floor on a building in the UNILORIN campus. He ran downstairs to take it out before it stung someone.

VillageBoi:
Dude I don't even have to talk - you know exactly what I say about every video you post.

This one is the same... I love, love, love, love, love your videos. Nature just kills. Dayum, I wish I were there.

Ooh, you've bought a new camera right? Wikid!

I'll tell you something funny that just happened. I was on the phone to my sister then started watching this video and after 3 mins I was like "Why did he post a video with no sound, he never does that." Bushman wey I be, I had the wrong headphones on lolol.

Watching it all over again now... yeehaa!!

Hahaha, that part with the headphones was funny!

Thanks for the kind encouraging words, man. No, no new camera just yet.

Nigeria is lovely, people are just always too busy to notice or take things for granted. Just stop, stay quiet, observe with a camera in hand and you'll see what I mean.

Welcome to Ilorin:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeJ_bOE1zI0&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1

Strange...?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOX-wdm-9yg&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1

VillageBoi:
I always like your little mini-travel videos a lot. Keep on making them. Nice one bro!

Thanks, dude. With any luck and a lot of traveling around Nigeria, there should be more of these videos to come.

Any Igala people in da house?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZvjGmTnvnU&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1

Dry season images from driving through the savannah regions of Nigeria over the course of one week presented in less than nine minutes.Watch out for those camels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8hFF97fdY&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp

Forget towns and cities, I'm seeing videos of Nigeria's wonderful countryside areas like Obudu and this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF242JZ9C4A&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp

tpia@:
interesting.

didnt know the floods reached the north as well.

Yes, news reports show floods all around the country.

Wo-ow (and check out the double rainbow):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcToCLxXqFs&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp

You have to see this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8-9TSjQvI&feature=plcp

MacDaddy01:



If we ever find aliens (intelligent life) on other planets, then clearly, the god of the Abrahamic religions is quite a fraud.

Aliens would show the bible and Koran to be incomplete as there is no mention of life on other planets. What if the aliens are more intelligent but atheistic? Have you considered that?

Actually one of them (probably both) does, look it up.
What if aliens are more intelligent and look for origins of the energies running the universe based on concepts totally impossible to our knowledge of physics and they turn out not to be atheist? It doesn't really matter what they are so long as they also exist as creatures existing within the same confines of our universe.

MacDaddy01:

If humans can create artificial life, your god becomes less special. He is credited with creating human life (which is a lie if
you consider evolution). Creating human life would not be special anymore. Your god wont be special anymore

Creating artificial life actually means you couldn't create the real one. The best we can do is use things already created even right down to atoms, particles and cells. Plus given the statement "God teaches man what man knew not", man would be stuck to having ideas generated time after time in his mind. The theory of evolution like growth of organisms and existence needs something to work - constant change from one state to the next. When you think about it, everything in our universe tends to rely on movement or change from one state to the next. The big question is what is causing all this change, it can't be residual energy from the BigBang because then energy or force from somewhere else needs to have been impacted from yet another source or origin causing the BigBang. It's been baffling scientists for ages (adding to confusing between theories of relativity and quantum physics).

It's human nature to believe in something whether people call it religion or scientific ideas, in the end it winds up to the ultimate end. In the past when someone had the knowledge to do things no-one could understand, it would be called miracles. Today they'd be scientific facts.

So you have your beliefs friend, others have theirs.

No need to be scared of your belief, son.


No wonder it's said it's logical to assume humans are illogical. A little thinking helps the brain, that's what it's for.

Don't be fooled - racist undertones and a history of US leaders and friends attacking and bombing other countries has led to the general responses worldwide to the hate-filled film.

Just imagine a white person making a movie calling Martin Luthor King (not even Jesus yet) a love-vendor who taught African-Americans to be violent drug-taking gangsters then someone showing it on TV in a place like Harlem.

"Two long term threats to the atheist belief in no God are:
1. the belief that humans can one day create artificial life
2. the belief in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial aliens.
"This would be dangerous because if you believe humans can create artificial life and that there are beings more intelligent than humans then eventually either you or your future descendants will come round to believing in a Supreme Being above all others creating all life.
"Thank God the rest of us are still intelligent enough to appreciate the natural instincts acknowledging a Creator."

- Anonymous

The IT industry's built on companies copying one another.
Anyone seen the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?

The whole game is about who pays for and obtains the patent for the idea. A lot of patents aren't owned by the people who originate the ideas.

Wow, wow, wow Microsoft too?:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdsRiMD2bI&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp


At least they can say they only derived inspiration from the guy's concept.

I've seen clips of old Nigerian tv series like New Masquerade, Samanja, Bassey & Co. and so on and I believe they were truly talented, professional actors skilled in their craft far more creative and believable than many Nollywood home videos produced today.
I don't think those old series had high budgets for their quality work.

You don't need millions to tell a good story.

There should be many creative Nigerians out there waiting to make their mark and possibly the current producers will eventually get better.

There isn't really a 'part 3', that was a different movie about the same person by different people.

The first part's truly the best one.

It is a very well-made enjoyable movie, a biopic, about Ip Man, Bruce Lee 's martial arts master. It stars Donnie Yen as as the character Ip Man amidst his life adventures before and during the World War 2 occupation of China by Japanese troops.

It's a fun movie even without the fantastic martial arts featured (The Raid just narrowly beat its 'wow!' factor).

Ip Man was a grandmaster in the martial arts of Wing Chun named after the woman who originated the style. Wing chun is also Sammo Hung's liked style and he choreographed the fights then starred in Ip Man 2. Ip Man is credited with spreading the Wing Chun style around the world and famous taught Bruce Lee who would later go on to further develop the techniques into his own Jeet Kune Do.
Interestingly, Donnie Yen, star of Ip Man and Hong Kong's top action star today, learnt his martial arts from his mother as well who was a grandmaster. Plus Donnie Yen is considered the closest to Bruce Lee by many, in terms of speed and technique.

Read more:

http://lively-destiny.blogspot.com/2010/05/ip-man-story.html



and

[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_(film)[/url]

Awesome slow motion:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBjctSABSQk&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp

The Raid has been called the best action film of the decade by many. The last time we had such seriously mean martial arts action must have been Ip Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=macWh15uVu8


There's really no need for a Hollywood remake of The Raid.

The movie actually features Indonesian silat martial arts not kung fu (Chinese).
It was directed by A Welsh man who relocated to Indonesia with his Indonesian wife.
The movie was an independent product which then had its marketing/distribution rights bought by Sony (of the Kung Fu Hustle fame).

None of the above.
Just watching.

VillageBoi:
Wow, really beautiful stuff. Loved the metal 'ants' @ 4.58 Well done to all the students. Nice work.

PS - Skip the first 3mins30secs - driving shots of nothing; like a bad drag, drag, drag Nollywood film!

Exactly, first 3mins &25secs better suited for travel fans and a bit shaky but very colorful. Check out the reaper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfT5gxc4A8c&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp
Nice one.

"Nigerians truly cannot see all the gold we see them sitting on."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqayc1i-7V4&list=UUgHx6c44GIr8oEBHnnARmLg&index=1&feature=plcp