Celt Islam Visual Set: Space Invaders, Whirling Dervish and Arabic Calligraphy

 
Whazzup Family?Do you remember that oldskool coin-op arcade videogame called Space Invaders? This time Whirling Dervishes gonna dance the Sufi Dubstep Vibes...on top of those 8-bit Monsters!
In other words, I've just produced a visionary set of visuals for the Sufi Dub producer Celt Islam ...blending oldskool 8-bit Monsters with Whirling Dervishes and Arabic Calligraphy. You can see them all here. Celt Islam is an English Muslim, Sufi and a member of the northern British alternative dub/breaks outfit "Nine Invisibles " and " Analogue Fakir " . Celt-Islam uses a fusion of music from Dub/Electro/Drum andBass and collaborates it with Islamic/world grooves to create a Dub driven dance crossover. Celt Islam creates music in quite a diverse range of styles and genres. He produces Sufi inspired Global Grooves to create a sometimes Meditative Dub that transfixes everybody who comes across it, to Electro-Dub driven Drum and Bass to satisfy the dance world. Check him out on the official Celt Islam BandPage on Facebook

 Listen to these Trans-National Sufi Dub-Step Vibes...

  Ali Mawla by CeLt IsLaM by Celt Islam

Sarkozy, Burqa and The Bristol Vandal of Street Art

Nick Walker “Le Coran-can” Quai De Valmy, Paris 2010. Source: http://web.mac.com/nickwalkerz/Nick_Walker_Art/Gallery.html#3

Street Art is a(bout) controversial issue(s). If you want simple and meaningful examples, check out the seminal works by Banksy and Shepard Fairey. Having said that, the name of the piece you see in the picture above is "Le Coran-can" by Nick Walker. This time the punchy stencils of "Bristol Vandal"  are timely adressing the "tittle-tattle" or, if you want, the "scandal" - i.e. the Can-Can - triggered by Sarkozy’s decision to prohibit the wearing of the Burqa and Niqab in France.This is a controversial issue which is triggering a public debate in the global sphere: France, Europe, The World. In the same way, Walker targeted Pope Benedict XVI four-day visit to UK,  bedeviled by years of Catholic church sex scandals. See the piece below: "Cardinal Sinister". Whatever your opinion, it seems that Street Art strikes again, uh?

Nick Walker “Cardinal Sinister” Royal College of Art, London 2010. Source: http://web.mac.com/nickwalkerz/Nick_Walker_Art/Welcome.html