BETT. - Biggest UK tradeshow on Educational Technology

Hey peeps

It is just a mad busy year already, I've been trying to get this entry down for a while, but just so much going on.

Last week I was at the BETT 2011 - the biggest trade show of educational technology, and I saw some gems, I tell you that had me purring with ideas. In the next few entries over the next few days I'll be updating you with some of the details and webites you can check out that could help you or your children get a step ahead...keep tuned




Next event I'm performing at is this Friday ,
view this facebook link for details

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=552102141&story_fbid=191206984229937#!/event.php?eid=103042483103390

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2011...and so it begins...meet Cynikal

Happy New Year!

So we are 9 days in to the new year - did you make any resolutions / are you still focused on them or have you given up already?

Check out a book called "The Answer", very helpful if you are really trying to make changes in your life.

Any how people hope you've been well, I took a nice extended break and now I'm back, and I've got some stuff for you this year! By the way make sure you check out the Mixtape by Tor Cesay that I mentioned in my last post, some real banging yet thoughtful music right there from a UK female hip-hop artist. www.myspace.com/toruk

Let's just start this year with some unique style, check out a very talented young man I interviewed at the latter part of last year - he writes and produces music, his genre is hip-hop and he is pretty rare in that he uses a live band. People I present to you "Cynikal"






Listen to tracks from 1st Beyonder album- Who is the one eyed king?

Listen to tracks from 2nd Beyonder album - Surrealism

Time Travel...

Someone tell me where the last 2 weeks went

Have I been in a time warp?
Its snowing again just like two weeks ago...but I can hardly believe the time's gone
And what did I do with it???

Anyhow I got some things for you to check out.
Check out Tor Cesay a female MC, a personal friend of mine, who is spitting some fire
She's just dropped a free Mixtape "Different Place" which you can download by going to

www.myspace.com/toruk

Some hot tracks on there - dropping some knowledge, so check it and spread the word
I particular like the track "Who's Got The Power", where she uses the beat Kanye West created for the track "Power".

Check it now you'll be hearing more of her on the airwaves.

Second thing for you today is for the basket ball players or coaches etc amongst you (or that you know), check out Getprobasketball.com which is designed for all those basket ball players who want to been scene by teams / coaches all around the world, could save you a mint.

I'll have you some video of my stuff and some interviews I've done early next year

Catch you later

Happy Holidays

Beyonder

Snow...and it all falls down...

Hey its December 2nd

I can't believe I havent posted for three weeks ...where did the time go?

Reading too many books on the go - confusing myself about the passage of time!

A little bit of Snow and the whole country is stranded, shut down, what would happen if we had a 2 week snow storm...or even a one week snow storm...we've only had 2 days (down in the south)?

So its almost xmas, got advent calendar full of treats to open each day up to xmas - oohhh lucky me!

Creative work wise - been doing alot of good research - got some good ideas, close to starting to formulate new work - part of the Certificate 18 project, I must have mentioned.

Also just finished a 6 week poetry project with Padddington Arts at a Secondary school in NW London, came across some smart imaginative children and some with too much talk! LOL

Snow bummed out the 2nd part of a project with a school in Catford today - but will rearrange.
At least I got some extra time to create.

I see World Cup hosts for 2018 and 2022 out today - and Qatar won 2022, I know somebody who runs alot of the football program out there...ay Miss P...LOL LOL, I wonder if I can put in an order for tickets now :-)


OK if you've read this far let me give you a little sumtin' sumtin' to check out - visit my man Chuck Perkins here and here where you can see him in a couple of Commercials for the New Orleans Hornets basketball team - later this month I'll upload an interview I did with the inimitable New Orleans Native when he was in London town.

catch you later peeps.

Beyonder

British Museum - Next Gen

Hey people

Its been so hectic the last couple of weeks,

Been doing all sorts, the results ofwhich I will be divulging to you in the near future,
One of the activities - I was invited to the British Museum to a presentation by some teenagers that research and comment on artifacts that the museum has in its srchive. I had worked with some of the young people hence my invitation. It was very impressive to see these teenagers at work. It was all araound a program the museum does called Talking objects - watch video about some of the objects here . The presentation was rounded off by a rousing inspirational speech by British Museum Trustee Bonnie Greer, who I will be interviewing for DCosmic.com in the new year, so stay tuned.

Just completed the 'moving on up' professional development program developed by Serious. Which was excellent, the creation of this blog came as a direct consequence of my participation in the program and there are a number of things I've added into my creative and business suite out of the program. Check Serious out here.

Got to shoot but will be in touch - by the way I'm down to 14th in the Metro Fantasy Football at the moment... :-(

Action!

Back in contact again folks

Apologies for the omission last week peeps,
I had expected to write, mid last week, but it didn't happen
And after that it was action actio action...

So last week I finished off my participation in the independent film "Love and Money"
It was a little chilly but still good fun. Another script for a short be coming my way soon so I keep you posted.

I realise I haven't given you "the in" where you can see some pics of some ofthe characters in the movie participating in the poster shoot for the film way back in the beginning of the year before filming of the movie took place. You can catch some pics here.

Also last week I along with some select others was fortunate to see in action and speak to in private, to the great scholar and activist that is Amiri Baraka, a write up of the experience and some great photos will go up on the www.dcosmic.com site in the "news" section next month.
I might even post one or two here.

Finally I should mention for those of you that are aware of the Fantasy Football competition that is run by the Metro newspaper for the whole football season, that this weekend my team took the number one position for the whole competiton - with over a 100, 000 teams. But there's a long way to go 29 games to be exact.

But there's nothing like being Number 1

Ciao

Holiday Heat - R&R

Hey hey hey

Back from a lovely break in the south coast of Turkey - the 30+ degree heat was lovely and the R&R was much needed.

Back in the game and I've hit the ground running!!!

Suppose I should let you know that Diaspora Diaries is screening on the big screen tommorrow at 6.30pm on Holloway road, all the details are here.
I'll be doing a Q&A afterwards as well.

One of the performances I did with Manorlogz - extreme spoken word, earlier last month is now up online, see below.




The Manorlogz site is now up, and they've got some exciting plans ahead for their online competition, stay tuned in the next couple of months with what they're up to at www.manorlogz.co.uk

And last but definitely not least you can read an enlightening interview I had with Tim Campbell the first "The Apprentice" winner, about business, creativity and his business charity The Bright Ideas Trust, check it here on my website DCosmic.com