Assignment 03 - About the Author

I was brought into the world for the sole reason of making it awesome. I was raised as an urban Nigerian and despite my larger than life frame, was given a smaller than significant character. This contradiction began my never ending desire to forever defy expectations and all that could be presumed from me.

After a 15 year period of being groomed with the most elegant living and the most pathetic and emotionally scarring aspects of the Nigerian-British education system, I was then sent to Texas to finish off my hi school years.

Hi-school was where I first realized my potential. It seemed that all I had learned in my past residence had taught me the evils of humanity and the frailties of all people. So while I apprenticed under my aunt, one of the greatest chefs of them all, I also worked on manipulating and controlling the minds of my fellow colleagues. I also learnt the benefits of hard work as well as creating the illusion of hard work and finally, where the balance between the two lay.

Once I had arrived in college I realized that all that I believed I had learned was for nothing. As it turns out we all end up is the same boat as everyone else. The differences only mean different techniques must b e applied to reach out goals. Kinda saddening... but also kinda Nice.

I mean, it means this world is balanced in the end. No group is overpowered.

Unless god decides to Nerf Asian gamers... those guys are just too good.

Pogo - Expialidocious

Pogo is an Australian gentleman who has taken sounds and words from the movie Mary Poppins. His process is to use personal sine wave bass and custom drum sequences to assist the sounds from the movie in creating a full fledged song. In the way that it has been utilized, it is far-from its original piece.

While the video is not very subtle, the song itself stretches to greater heights through his tremendously melodic arrangement. He uses all techniques from reversing and looping a particular section of background music, to finding words that, once taken out of context and set on repeat, are more musical than they are logical. The latter techniques is one of the most fascinating aspects of his videos. His ability to use words yet not truly have any coherent sentence, therefore forcing the listeners mind to accept it as a musical rhythm. The fact that this is the main point of his work makes him unique in a way that the movie piece had little-to-nothing to do with.

Pogo has made quite a number of these songs. All available for free on the internet. While some of them are quite obvious over where their sounds were extracted from (Alohamora) others are even more cryptic and stretches farther away from their origin (White Magic). However Expialidocious seems to have hit that sweet spot where it is its own creation yet still receives attention because of its original forms popularity.

BLOG ASSIGNMENT 01 - Back for Another Semester

Once again I return to New Media video to try to fail even less than I did last time. How cruel it is, in such a case that the first thing I am to do is lead a team of otherwise hopeful people to doom by appointing me a "leader".

Let it be known that I am a tremendously gifted follower. I have the ability to follow instructions to the teeth and to take such amazing initiative. It would be fair to say that I am the stuff that makes leaders and the society they represent successful. However when it comes to NOT being the follower, I am wracked with confusion and uncertainty. I still consider unwilling leadership to be more frightening than public speaking.

However my team were very sporting and helped things move along gracefully. I most likely embarrassed myself multiple times but the fact that we completed the project the day and that far along says something worked.

I think next time I'll feign novicity.

Wait... that isn't a word!