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My Work is on OpenSea!
Good morning! I’m just coming back from vacation and I’ve minted my first few NFTs on OpenSea. My work this year will center around a few topics, Black Excellence, Hip Hop, Sports, Meditation, and Social Issues. I haven’t started selling my pieces yet. If you like any of them, email (soweto.bosia@gmail.com) me, and I will […]
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WFT is an NFT?
Didn’t see Amazon coming?If you were in a Walmart board meeting in 1995 and said Amazon is going to try to eat our lunch you would have been laughed at. Most people thought Amazon was an online book store but it was a logistics company. NFTs is a decentralized global utility disguised as art. NFTs […]
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Ubuntu: The Love Bomb NFT Project (this is for the creators)
Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) is a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”. It is sometimes translated as “I am because we are” (also “I am because you are”), or “humanity towards others” (in Zulu, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu). NFTs can hold any kind of value. Blockchain + NFTs + Human value (passion) = infinite connection There’s no […]
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Lesson #1: Use what you got to get what you want
Don’t over extend yourself financially when you make your film. Case in point, when I decided to make my short film 2 AM I wanted to make it for $12,500. That number is relative depending on your socio-economic background (for me it’s high AF). I was talking to an executive of a film festival and […]
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One of my favorite Spielberg shots
Steven Speilberg is a master storyteller and this shot from Catch Me If You Can is one of the reasons why. The setup is simple Frank,Leonardo Dicaprio’s character is walking to his hotel room and he catches the eye of a model played by Jennifer Garner. I’m sure the script simply says Frank walks to […]
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It’s Been a Long Time
It’s been a while since I posted so I wanted to talk about what I’ve learned since wrapping on our shoot. I have to talk to my team about what’s going on. I ran into an issue with renting equipment. It was on me because I misread the email the rental house sent me (correction […]
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When They See Us shows how powerful storytelling is
People, people we are the sameNo we’re not the same‘Cause we don’t know the game Fight the Power by Public Enemy I recently watched the first episode of Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. To be honest I had to pause it in the middle to look up the whole story (yep that means read Wikipedia […]
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The Jason Mitchell Effect
If you haven’t heard Jason Mitchell was fired from Showtime’s The Chi and Netflix’s film Desperados. We don’t know the specifics of what he’s allegedly done but we do know that whatever it was it got him let go by his reps. He allegedly harassed his co-star, Tiffany Boone on The Chi, it got so bad that she had her fiancé […]
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Mentor our kids to excellence
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Hidden Brain and Shankar Vedantam was talking about the likely hood of coming from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top is 7% according to a study, don’t ask me where the study comes from but a similar study was cited in the Freakonomics […]
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Color or black and white
I was talking to a potential editor about my project and he asked if it was going to be shot in black and white since it’s a film noir. I thought about it and I responded I’m not sure. The most important question is how will it serve the film? I want this film to […]