It’s been a few months since our last NYC show and we’re ready to come back at you with a bang. We have a ton of new music and some surprises we can’t wait to share with you this Monday, May 7 at the mighty BROOKLYN BOWL.
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Greetings! I wanted to give a quick plug to the documentary that I’m out here working on. It’s called Bike Lordz. Head over to the website to learn a little more, but here are some production stills I took. We’re following about 10 young BMX bikers around, documenting their everyday life and what they do with their bikes. It’s totally different than BMX biking anywhere else. Way more performance based than it is a competition. These guys are basically dancing on their bikes. I’ll post a video soon…
Some of the bikers we met today told us there would be some kids boxing around 4pm by the main post office in Accra. We went there, not exactly knowing what to expect. Would this be some totally fucked up kid fight club? We got there, and it turned out that a young professional kick boxer (who told us he had traveled all around the world to compete in fights) was reffing a match between 2 boys who couldn’t have been older than 8. There was a makeshift ring, made from chalk lines on a 10 x 10 sq. foot chunk of concrete. The guy said that he and the kids meet every Sunday to train. It was really an awesome thing. The kids were totally involved, and they had gloves and head guards on, so there was no bare fist fighting going on. A big crowd was gathered around watching the kids box. We hung for about an hour then headed home after a long, tiring, sweaty day of shooting the bikers.
Enjoy the pictures! More soon.
- Charles
Road Rash
03.24.2012
Don't hit a goat on your motorbike or your arm might look like this...
SK Kakraba Lobi
03.22.2012
Greetings from Ghana! Sorry it’s taken me so long to get a post up, but we’ve been busy getting settled, and I haven’t had the best access to internet to get a video or picture uploaded. Alas, we are moved into the house we’ll be staying at for the next month so it should be easier for me to post.
It’s really great being back in Ghana. Some things have changed a lot but mostly everything is the same. When I was here in ’08, they had just discovered oil off the coast and were tying to figure out exactly how to handle it. It was actually a big part of the presidential elections that were going on at the same time. 4 years later, a lot of things just seem a little nicer. The GDP is up and people are all living a little better. The cell phone situation is a lot better and cheaper too. When I was here before, the dollar was basically equal to the currency here. Now since the dollar is a little stronger, the exchange rate is about $1.7 Ghana Cedi (the currency here) to every $1 U.S. Dollar, and prices of things haven’t changed to match, which is great for us!
I’ve already seen a bunch of old friends that I made when I was here before. SK, the guy in the video above, was my teacher in ’08. He came and met me at the airport when I landed and escorted me to the house we were staying at for the first few days. We’ve seeing each other a lot during the week too.
We spent the first week really getting set up. Finding a place to rent, getting stuff for the house, getting Internet set up, buying phone chips etc…We’ve also spent some time with the “talent riders” (BMX riders) in Accra who we are here to film. I’ll post more on that later, once we have some good footage to post. We stayed out until sunrise the other night at a big street party where the riders went to show off and hustle. It’s was nuts.
Anyway, check out the video of SK above! I went over to his house the other day and he was practicing. It’s hard to get the real effect from an iPhone YouTube clip, but the xylophone is such a beautiful sounding instrument. Its so relaxing to just chill and watch him play. Hope you enjoy!
More soon.
- Charles
Ghana Tomorrow!!
03.14.2012
Friends & Fans! I’m heading to Ghana tomorrow (Thursday, March 15) for a month and I’m beyond excited! I spent some time there a few years ago, and have been dying to get back ever since. The picture above is from that last trip. I’ll be there with a small crew of people helping out with the making of a great documentary about BMX bikers in the capital city of Accra. The movie is called Bike Lordz. There will be tons of great music involved too. If you have a second, check out the tralier on the movie’s website: www.bikelordz.com
I’ll be posting photos and videos on here frequently so check back if you’re interested. If you like what you see/hear, spread the word! I’d love to hear from you too.
