The Essence of Art in Human Existence

"The light at the end of the dark tunnel". Original photograph by EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima. 2019. All rights reserved.

A world without Art is like a life without a spirit;
Like a soul without a heart.
Like an egg without the yolk.
Art is the essence of human existence that begun from creation and continues in the evolution of life in the universe.
- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima

You have heard such phrases like "a heartless soul!" and "there is no spirit in him".  So that is what a society that does not appreciate art becomes.
The brutish man or woman does not read and is not cultured in the ethical standards of modern civilisation.

TikTok, More On TikTok, Reels and Me

#TikTok is launching More On TikTok, its first TV app with @amazon TV and its head of marketing says it's an ideal testing ground for longer videos.
More on TikTok will be free and view-only at launch.

African Filmmaking On the Rise as Durban FilmMart Announces Programme and Opens Registration

African Filmmaking On the Rise as 11th Durban FilmMart Announces Programme and Opens Registration

Programme Announced as Registration opens for the 2020 Durban FilmMart Virtual Edition
Brave New Cinema

The Durban FilmMart Institute (DMI) has announced the programme for the 11th Durban FilmMart (DFM) Virtual Edition, which takes place from 4 to 13 September this year.

Riskcheck To Guarantee Your Safety and Security in Every Location

Riskcheck, a tech enabled security advisory service, is poised to impact positively on the situational and environmental awareness  of businesses,  NGOs, International organisations and the general public.

Soludo: 60 Thunderous Cheers for the Paragon

Soludo: 60 Thunderous Cheers for the Paragon

- By Ingram Osigwe

Sixty looks good on him just as Anambra looks up to him. As he turns 60, it is the fervent prayer of many Anambranians that he answers the clarion call to serve for they are ready to be led by him.

Using Photography for Art Therapy During the Trauma of COVID-19 Pandemic

#wednesdayvibes✌
Wednesday July 22, 2020
Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.

The Health Benefits of Art Therapy have been helping millions of people during the #lockdown  of the COVID-19 pandemic. And I have used my smartphone for Self-portraits in photos and videos on my moods at different times in self isolation showing my stream of consciousness.
The most appropriate photographs will be for the
publication of my new photo book, "SOLICITUDE in SOLITUDE: Overcoming the Trauma of COVID-19" which will be released after the lockdown and circulated worldwide by Amazon.
See my profile on https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

Can Instagram' s REELS Compete With TikTok?

The buzz of the week has been the launch of Instagram’s #TikTok Competitor, #Reels in India and I joined the discussion after I received the updates from Today in Tech by AngelList. 

I know that the overwhelming popularity of TikTok will rattle Mark Zuckerberg and others from Mountain View to Silicon Valley.

Lagos is the Most Resilient Megacity in Africa

Sabo area in Yaba, Lagos. From my "Lagos in Motion" documentary film on one of the most resilient mega cities in the world. “

"A Resilient City is one that has developed capacities to help absorb future shocks and stresses to its social, economic, and technical systems and infrastructures so as to still be able to maintain essentially the same functions, structures, systems, and identity." https://www.resilientcity.org › ...

The first interactive documentary film on the resilience of Lagos was "Lagos Wide and Close: an Interactive Journey into an Exploding City" produced in 2002 by Rem Koolhaas and The Harvard Project on the City. It was directed by Bregtje van der Haak.

#ThrowbackThursday - From "Lagos in Motion" Documentary Film Location

#throwbackthursday

Alpha Man with my Production Manager, Felix Omokagbo Jegede at the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas location in the Palms Shopping Mall in Lekki during the first phase of the principal photography of "Lagos in Motion: Sights and Sounds of Africa's Largest Megacity" in February, 2016.
My cast and crew had a great time of unforgettable moments of cinematic experience.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines (The MIT Press)