Radarboy » News http://www.radarboy.com/v10 Get your booty on the floor tonight. Radarboy is a design collective and blog about all things art, design and street. Focusing mainly on Tokyo, New York, Berlin and Cape Town. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:25:00 +0000 en hourly 1 From King of Africa: Nollywood, Nigeria’s burgeoning film industry http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/from-king-of-africa-nollywood-nigerias-burgeoning-film-industry/ http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/from-king-of-africa-nollywood-nigerias-burgeoning-film-industry/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:46:26 +0000 george http://www.radarboy.com/v10/?p=1287 nollywood-011
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Nollywood, the Nigerian Film Industry releases approximately 1000 movies a year. South African photographer Pieter Hugo goes fictional in Nollywood. And Italian filmmaker Franco Sacchi documents how to make a film in eight days. Read more about it on radarboy’s King of Africa.

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We wish you, your family and friends an extremely happy Christmas and an amazing New Year.

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All King Of Africa T-Shirts are on SALE for $2!

Yes, a measly 2 bucks – seriously peeps, Christmas shopping… helloooo! People, mense, china, mfethu, it’s 2-buck-December until stocks last. Buy one, buy all three.

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Introducing Twitter on stealth mode: MorseTweet.com.

The first beta version of MorseTweet, an extremely useful tool to communicate via morsecode on twitter, has been released today.

The first morsetweet is thus:

•••• • •-•• •-•• •-•• — — — — |•-•• •- -•• •• • •••

http://morsetweet.com/?id=1

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Update (27/4/09):
- Added reverse translation.
- Fixed some minor issues with punctuation.

Some morse code trivia.

And more trivia, morse code was not invented by Samuel Morse:

Morse code vs. SMS battle:

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Video: Morse Code vs. Text Messaging

]]> http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/morsetweet/feed/ 0 Excellent, finally a black president http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/excellent-finally-a-black-president/ http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/excellent-finally-a-black-president/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:59:21 +0000 george http://www.radarboy.com/v10/?p=44

Textile Print By Heidi Chisholm

And South African Hiphop crew, Prophets of da Dity, Never Again, with the classic opening line: “Excellent, finally a black president”, celebrating Nelson Mandela’s presidency. And funny, 90s fashion is starting to look quite 80s.

]]> http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/excellent-finally-a-black-president/feed/ 0 Vote for your favourite King of Africa T-shirt Submissions http://www.radarboy.com/v10/news/vote-for-your-favourite-king-of-africa-t-shirt-submissions/ http://www.radarboy.com/v10/news/vote-for-your-favourite-king-of-africa-t-shirt-submissions/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:06:14 +0000 george http://www.radarboy.com/v10/?p=15 The first round of King of Africa tees are all printed and ready to ship. We are busy preparing for the second round. The assistant to the King’s Exchequer has set up a Flickr page for you to peruse and comment on future designs.

Although this is a monarchy, the King likes to hear from his subjects. Check out the Flickr page here

]]> http://www.radarboy.com/v10/news/vote-for-your-favourite-king-of-africa-t-shirt-submissions/feed/ 0 Radarboy broadcast relaunches http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/radarboy-broadcast-relaunches/ http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/radarboy-broadcast-relaunches/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:11:59 +0000 george http://www.radarboy.com/v10/?p=12 After many many months, and dead hard drive, international relocations and extreme world load, finally, radarboy is back on thew internets with more than just a cover page.

]]> http://www.radarboy.com/v10/blog/radarboy-broadcast-relaunches/feed/ 0 King of Africa: Tshirts have been printed http://www.radarboy.com/v10/news/king-of-africa-tshirts-have-been-printed/ http://www.radarboy.com/v10/news/king-of-africa-tshirts-have-been-printed/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:11:26 +0000 george http://www.radarboy.com/v10/?p=11 The first three King of Africa tees have been printed and are out circulating among a few royal sidekicks. Designed by Heidi, Radarboy and Brandt. Store imminent and site coming… (in Africa time), but in the meantime, please comment and communicate via our Flickr page.

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