Love Birds

There is nothing like the marriage between a camera and a tripod. It’s a union made in heaven.

Breakout Session During Blogcamp 2012

Participants taking part in a breakout session during the just ended blogcamp 2012. It was the first ever blogcamp held in Ghana.

A boy jumping into the lake

In Ada Foah, a young man jumps into the Volta River.

A bird eye view of Ghana's Independence Square

In Accra, a picture depicting Ghana’s independence struggle. It contains monuments to Ghana’s independence struggle, including the Independence Arch, Black Star Square, and the Liberation Day Monument.

An Artist Using His Art to Educate Us

In British Accra, an artist uses his art to educate festival participants on how to keep the environment clean.

Recycle at it best

An artist uses waste materials to produce a beautiful product you can use for a very long time. He exhibits the product during this year’s Chale Wote Street Art Festival at British Accra.

Chale Wote Painting

The festival celebrates the vibrant art traditions of urban life from visual media, experimental theater, dance installations to extreme sports.

Artist expressing Themselves at British Accra

The festival featured a large selection of urban art traditions including visual media, experimental theater, dance installations and extreme sports. Following in the theme of this year’s festival, ‘outer space’ exploration, Chale Wote will install the Ghana Space Station and invite people to visit.

Light House

The festival will included a range of other events including acrylic street painting, graffiti wall murals and chalk art, photography displays, large installation art exhibits, Inside the Moskito Net (dance installation), a fashion circus by The WEB (Young Designer’s Hub), a Food + Craft Marketplace and Independent Cinema Screenings by Anokye’s Sword.

Street Painting

Chale Wote aims to bring about a sense of community and provide networking opportunities for Jamestown’s artistically minded residents. Following great success last year, this second edition was held in the town of Jamestown British Accra.

Art at it best

Words With Friends

Below is a review of the game from www.gamezebo.com

Words With Friends is a simple game which will both test and expand your vocabulary

Words With Friends is a hit, and for good reason. Scrabble aficionados and casual players alike have flocked to this game. While Words With Friends takes a lot cues from the classic word game (to the point where it often feels like a blatant ripoff), it’s constant one-on-one setting and it’s friendly approach make it easy to pick up and play. While light on features, most word buffs and novices will find enjoyment in this title.

There’s a lot which can be said about Zynga’s word game, despite it not being as deep as others. What separates Words With Friends from other word games is the emphasis placed on social interaction. With Facebook integration and a bright green notification when someone talks to you in the game chat, the social experience is well-emphasized, whether you’re playing with friends or with strangers.

The game itself plays just like Scrabble, but there are many minor changes. The board is the same size, but there’s a new letter distribution, letter values are different, and the double/triple letter/word squares have changed places. Those who play Scrabble with any regularity are likely to notices these differences, but they’re just as likely to fly under the radar for the rest.

If by some chance you’re not familiar with Scrabble, here’s how the game is played. Both players draw seven letters from a pool, at random. On his or her turn, the first player will place a word on the center of the board and add up the points listed on the letters, taking into account letter and word multipliers. After the first turn, you build the game like a crossword puzzle. Each new word played must connect to past ones and all adjacent letters (excluding diagonals) must form valid words.

Sure the actual gameplay of Words With Friends isn’t anything groundbreaking or original, but the real joy comes from the asynchronous gameplay. Like many Facebook and social games, there is no need to have both players playing at the same time. Yes, both players being active will make the game run quicker, but there’s always that chance of a game running long. A quick game suddenly slowing can be frustrating, but Zynga has a feature to keep things moving: The ability to play your games on both Facebook and the mobile app. Games you start on your computer can be carried over to your phone/tablet and played at your convenience.

Both the Facebook and mobile apps are wonderfully presented. The Facebook app is fitted with sidebar that shows your active and completed games. There’s also a top menu that allows you to create a username, mute the sound, find help, or post a challenge to your wall. There are also options to visit the store, use the chatroom, and various controls (such as shuffle tiles in your hand, or confirming the word you played). The mobile app includes all the same features but optimizes the layout for the vertical screen.
Words With Friends is free, and the base game may be hearty enough for most. Some people might want more, in which case they’re able to check out a few underwhelming premium options.

You can remove video ads, get instant feedback on how many points a word is worth before playing it, and get the chance to see how many of each letter remain. There’s also a Word-O-Meter, which shows you how good your word is compared to others you can play. These features are neat, but their effects are quite dim, especially for seasoned players.

Words With Friends is an enjoyable experience. It’s not known for its originality, but the straightforward and friendly approach creates a great time for anyone into competitive word games. Some people will be turned off and go elsewhere, like faster-paced games or the classic Scrabble, and that’s understandable. But for those who like to pit their skills against friends and have a dozen games going at once, Words With Friends is definitely something you should check out.

Team Rite Multimedia

Garrison Basic School put up a vintage  performance to beat highly fancied Mfantsipim to lift the 2012 Milo junior Basketball Championship on Friday.

The one-day event which attracted thousands to the El-Wak stadium saw eight schools drawn from three regions battle for supremacy.

The major ingredients of the game were present: suspense, anger, excitement , agony and disappointment characterized the event.

El-Wak Stadium

Crazy basketball fans were held spell-bound during the 4-hour competition with exciting lay-ups, extraordinary defensive work coupled with some breathtaking three-pointers and prolific scoring rate.

At the end of the day, the Burma camp based school were hot to handle as they edged past the Central regional champions to emerge as the new champions.

Greater Accra winners Kalvary could only manage a third place finish after beating Cape-Coast based Catholic Jubilee 26-11.

My I-tribute

A friend sent me this story a couple of days ago and I felt it was worth sharing it with you. It’s from the BBC website.

My I-tribute Scene Two

“Five people have been arrested in southern China after a teenager sold his kidney so he could buy an iPhone and iPad, state media have reported.

Those detained include the surgeon who removed the kidney from the boy in April last year.

State-run Xinhua news agency says the group received around $35,000 (£22,000) for the transplant.

The student is said to be suffering renal failure, according to prosecutors in Hunan province quoted by Xinhua.

Only identified by his surname Wang, he is said to have received about $3,000 for his kidney.

The 17-year-old was reportedly recruited for the illegal trade through an online chatroom.

The case was discovered when his mother noticed the new gadgets; when asked where he got the money, he admitted selling a kidney.

The group behind the operation have been charged with causing intentional injury and illegal organ trading.

While Apple iPhones and iPads are very popular in China, they are priced beyond the reach of many urban workers.

And there is a constant shortage of organ donors.

Official figures from the health ministry show that about 1.5 million people need transplants, but only 10,000 are performed annually.

Executed prisoners have been often used as a source of organs, but last month China vowed to phase this out over the next five years.”

I’ve been following some on the comments on the story and makes me wonder. Check out the debate below.

i think it is very sad and not really funny at all. yes, he made a mistake, but no one was there for him to tell him he is precious as a human being and that all the material things in the world don’t even come close to what he is worth.

Now now now people, what does Capitalism and materialism have to do with the kid’s decision? He wouldn’t know better. But if he was in a capitalist country with a good tax system, and therefore, school system, he is more likely to know better. The surgeon is more at fault here for not following an ethical code of practice like Western doctors, but the Chinese Government are also at fault.

The point isn’t what he bought, it’s that someone persuaded him to sell one of his organs so cheaply. A decision that he may live to regret for however long the rest of his life may be.

My I-tribute Scene Three