In 1999 he played his own composition at La Mama Theatre in New York as part of the tap dance show ‘Vaudeville 2000’. After moving to UK he started a long term collaboration with video artist Ra Di Martino, composing and appearing in three of Di Martino’s videos (‘Not 360’, ‘Night Walker’ and ‘August 2008’).
It is a means of marketing designed to generate an immediate response from consumers, where each consumer response can be measured, and later attributed to the corresponding advertising channel. It was first introduced in 2010 by Old Spice, with its well-known viral ads featuring actor Isaiah Mustafa.
Searching for Portia White, in Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada, Edited by Darrell Varga (NSCAD), University of Calgary Press, fall 2008. Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community, in Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada, Edited by David Devine (Dalhousie University), 2007, Halifax.
The lyrics in French were reflection of her life she admitted: Quand je me tourne vers mes souvenirs/ je revois la maison ou j’ai grandi./ Il me revient des tas de choses. Belgian band The Cousins covered the song in English as Story of a country boy on the B-side of their 1966 single You will find another baby.
Acarine recorded the song Stand Your Ground for Green Street. The band also appeared in the film as extras. Subsequently a proposed gig in Southend was cancelled by the police and the local Council following concerns about violence from rival hooligans.
Selim Matar. Selim Matar, writer, novelist and sociologist with Swiss and Iraqi nationalities, was born in Bagdad and resides currently in Geneva. He is founder of the movement known as Identity of the Iraqi Nation, chief editor of the trimestral journal Mesopotamie, as well as author of Woman of the Flask, a well known novel in the Arabic-speaking world.