Creatr Waves

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay, Marvin explores the impact of Jon Wexler, a dot connector and cultural reader who allowed his curiosity to lead him to supporting cultural influencers and creative people in general. Whilst at Adidas, Jon Wexler identified a space outside of sports performance that could be tapped into and invested in at a high level in relation to endorsements, with cultural...

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay, Marvin explores the origins of workwear, looking into the foundational workwear items, analysing the workwear DNA and the various ways that workwear has been adopted within pop culture. Link here for video version of video essay: https://youtu.be/CFhXoIlsZd0

Send us Fan Mail In this episode,  Marvin virtually sits down with Daniel Davies. A musician, creative and thinker. They explore various topics such as his journey the past year as a member of music group, House Gospel Choir, his experience in Paris, public prototyping in music, having an appreciation for the process, creating art for the long term that people can take with them along their journe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Big Ugs virtually sits down with Marvin to discuss his journey as a Newcastle United FC fan, the idea of football transcending sports, his experience meeting previous Newcastle United FC owner, Mike Ashley and linking up with Magpie Channel TV. Big Ugs' instagram:  @bigugs_ To watch the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/WeY_yhrqEMw

Send us Fan Mail In this first What's Next video essay, the longer form video essay offerings from Creatr Waves, Marvin analyses the career of Rihanna , including the ecosystem around her and her interactions with it. Marvin then recommends what he would like to see her do gong forward. To watch the video essay, link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80xegl67ZQ

Send us Fan Mail Marvin previews longer form video essays which that will fall under a new series called What's Next.  To watch preview click here:  https://youtu.be/wbhmkHTmev8

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay, Marvin analyses a very nostalgic Nike commercial that involves a cartoon stick man character, Brazilian icon; Ronaldinho, British football freestyles powered by the music from legendary producers; The Neptunes.  The video essay is available here:  https://youtu.be/Mhp0p1y9sQY

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Marvin virtually sits down with BadMan F of Andy Thussy Warhol, a performance artist with two different personalities. He touches on how he turns wrestling moves into visual art, how memes have reached the forefront of visual art and communication on a global level, how he see's the relationship between studying the past and originality and more.  BadMan F re...

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay, Marvin explores how Kendrick re-engineers the busyness of his lifestyle.  Video essay is available here:  https://youtu.be/n7myo0wsZxk Intro music and outro by Sam. Avi: https://linktr.ee/Sam. Avi

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay Marvin Amankwa-Dei explores the impact that Shiggy's dance challenge had on the success of Drake's In My Feelings.  To watch this video, here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_b3nUh3PI

Send us Fan Mail In this video essay, Marvin discusses the possibility of an internet hall of fame. He explores the impact of Soulja Boy, Jamal Edwards, Eric Thomas & Gary Vee on the internet.  To watch the visual version of this, here is the link:  https://youtu.be/JqzhxSzxhGg

Send us Fan Mail Yen Ting explores his journey towards becoming a multi-hyphenate and a multi-disciplinary professional, powered by architecture, design and research.  In this episode, Yen ting talks about how his bachelors in Architecture at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, his masters in the US at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and PhD in Innovation Design Engineering...

Send us Fan Mail Sam. Avi- a music producer and visual artist with a love for animation and video games. This episode explores the importance of sound effects and music within video games, why creators should take their audience on a journey even if they aren't ready to move into a direction and more.  Sam Avi's linktree: linktr.ee/Sam. Avi Sam Avi's Instagram: @linux.avi

Send us Fan Mail This is the audio of the video essay, where Marvin examines the importance of the 06/07 season to Ronaldo's career in the grand scheme of things. You can find the actual video essay here: https://youtu.be/FeKs_E9N0QY Intro music and intro voiceover by @linux.avi on Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail In the Netherlands, due to it raining for half of the year, the conditions for skateboarding aren't the greatest during that period, so people tend to indulge in other fun and creative outlets. In this episode, Ruben Tevreden talks his creative process as an illustrator, the parallels between art illustrations and skateboarding. He highlights that skateboarding is essentially...

Send us Fan Mail Brendan Morawski touches on the role that engineers play during music recording sessions, highlighting his experiences in the studio with Ariana Grande, Rihanna and Alicia Keys, as well as detailing how important it is to value your contribution to the studio session experience, regardless of your role. He gives advice to aspiring recording engineers on how to approach the science...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Herrera, the admin of the ever growing KanyeUnlimited page on Instagram, talks about how he gathers content for the page, what he has learned about Kanye, his fanbase and the art of fan pages, what he would like to see in the upcoming Netflix Kanye docu-series and more.  Eric’s favourite unreleased songs by Kanye;  Kanye- Apologise;   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOja1RfGU...

Send us Fan Mail Jaxon Ray talks his love for all things vintage. He has a need for imperfection when it comes to his fashion creations but strives for perfection when it comes to creating movies, and explains his reasoning behind this. Through studying the work of various directors, it has sparked his appreciation for  movies that can lead to high school kids talking about it for for 2 weeks stra...

Send us Fan Mail During this episode, Marvin connects with music duo Dr Vades on their foundation in music. Dr Kane makes a brief appearance at the beginning, touching on the dance challenges that he created during the late 2000s and early 2010s period and expands on his thoughts on dance challenges in the Tik Tok era.  Jay Vades explores a time where he needed to take a step back from making musi...

Send us Fan Mail Marvin Amankwa-Dei provides a brief monologue, detailing the origin of Creatr Waves and it's mission.