English twitter: @kidethnic
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
Tumblr: kidethnic.tumblr.com
日本語のtwitter: @masalasoccer
ALSO BY KID ETHNIC:
Twitter
I twitter infrequently. But hope we can stay friends.
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
NEW VIDEO: "Let Me In" - Nyck Newz Ft. Shane Mosely · 23 days ago
Lots of collaboration on this one:
Directed and Edited by Saleem Reshamwala :
Rappers: Nyck Newz NyckNewzSLMG and ShaneMosely (opening for Diggy Simmons on Friday MAY 4th)
Graphics:
Chris Martz : ChrisMartz ,
Crew:
Mandy Padgett: PandyMadgett ,
Ricky Leung: Just_Ricky
Model: Tyla Glover: Tyla_Glover
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NEW VIDEO: Carolina to the Congo: A Beat Making Lab Experiment · 35 days ago
Just shot this interview with Pierce Freelon (of The Beast, look for them at Hopscotch) and Apple Juice Kid. Edited with some great footage from Jon Kasbe and some more great footage from CulturesOfResistance.Org.
The Beat Making Lab is taking a bunch beat making of equipment to youth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just to see what happens.
Which is awesome.
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LO-FI VIDEOS: An Easter Greeting Card, And Other Quick Projects · 48 days ago
So, continuing my tradition of making incredibly low-fi video greetings: Happy Easter.
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Also: If you’re in Berlin, be sure to check out my friend Onika’s ARTSHO3.
A very tiny book I wrote is featured at the show. Onika asked me to talk a bit about the process I use when making videos and illustrations, so here you go:
And the good folks of Cocoa Cinnamon just broke 25k with 3 days to go. Pretty amazing, and they’re grateful.
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Kickstarter Strangeness: A Chocolate & Coffee Lounge Got 20k · 57 days ago
So, I recently did this video for Cocoa Cinnamon’s Kickstarter:
They just broke 20k in donations. Which is neat.
BUT ALSO: Kickstarter is entering into some kind of weird magical territory.
It was one thing when people used it to basically pre-order art.
But now regular people are basically just paying cash to vote as to what kinds of businesses they’d like to see exist in the world.
Unexpected.
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IN OTHER, YOU KNOW, MARKET NEWS:
My friend Marc Bellemare is discussing a topic I love:
System D and “Hustle and Flow.”
The first micro-doc I ever made was about a cell phone market where people figured out all kinds of ways to make trade happen, on and off the books. Would love to get back to shooting in that kind of environment.
In the mean time, riding the back of public buses in the U.S. lets you see all kinds of creative markets. And, so far, none of the the ones I’d expected.
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NEW VIDEO: The Return of the Return of Masked Female Mexican Wrestling! · 89 days ago
Just finished Video number 7 of the 33 videos project. Masked Female Mexican Wrestling for a good cause, can’t really go wrong filming that.
And Video Number 6?
A quick promo for the world’s most absurd camera case: A vintage camera to go around your cell phone camera (Okay, so it’s actually a 32 piece polycarbonate fake vintage camera. But still):
I will say this: 33 videos in a year is turning out to be more work than I expected. Right now, making videos is pretty much all I do outside of work…
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I Drew the Super Bowl · 107 days ago
Last night, a friend challenged me to draw the Super Bowl in real-time.
It came out like this (excerpt):
You can how it unfolded in real-time here (recommended):
I Drew the Super Bowl
Or get a quick look with the slide show below (with a pleasant full-screen button):
Pretty fun stuff. On to the next project.
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Video: Masked Mexican Wrestling Returns to Durham · 125 days ago
Video #5: Luchadoras 2, The Return of Masked Wrestling to Durham
This one is a promo for an event benefitting the non-profit N.C. Dream Team.
And Video # 4 was a quick promo vid for the Wounded Warrior benefit at Casbah. With a Hogan Child.
And so the 33 video project continues…
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VIDEO: Something Strange Keeps Happening to Me · 163 days ago
I believe I may have broken my mirror…
Video #3 of the 33 videos I’ll make this birth-year…
Most will be larger, but in this project I feel I must: Keep Things Moving.
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And I Will Make Japan My Living Room · 171 days ago
Or rather, make my living room Japan.
The lovely folks at The Campus Style requested an interview with local rapper Toon. They sent over their questions and said we could shoot it however we want…
So, he came over to my apartment and we shot it with a bit of a Japanese twist. Of course.
Video #2 of the 33 videos I’ll make this birth-year…
Next One: Next Monday.
Incidentally, if you’re learning Japanese, perhaps you’d enjoy A Very Brief Article on Keeping the Love for the Japanese Language.
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New Video: Las Luchadoras! (in Durham, NC) · 187 days ago
The first of the 33 videos I will make this year: a promo for an awesome event at Motorco.
No dolly or crane, so I had to get help from good ol’ rapper and a skateboard.
(And much thanks to awesome director Jason Ho, who taught me how to film cyclists during the shoot for TheTribe & Big Cats’ “Good Life.”)
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