Directed by Mark Valino.

Wow, just catching up with things after a long 24 hour night/into work morning/day/afternoon thanks to the sickness that was the Freedom Writers release party last night… and this dude Delisca would know exactly what I speak of cuz I saw him in line with the rest of us, showing that Toronto hip-hop love!

Part of the “Sounds of My City” Series (6 of 6)

Directed/Filmed/Edited by: Mark Valino
Written & Performed by: David Delisca

David’s Statement:
Keep It Goin’ comes from a guest contribution that I did for my boy Crossword’s project “Different Light” EP. A while back, Crossword asked me if I could write something about persistence and I said “yea, waddup, I gotchu” and that’s how Keep It Goin was born.

The idea for it stared during my genesis as an artist in Canada with all the adversity that was against me as a new artist trying to make a sustainable lifestyle doing what I love. As a new immigrant during that time, I had issues finding my stance while having financial issues and this is something that I am not the only one who relates to. New immigrants and new artist will suffer resistance but they are to trust their persistence and keep it goin to make it through.

I met up with the smooth playa Valino after having developed a relationship through our ties at Manifesto and I yearned to work with and then the universe like “aight, imma make this happen for ya’ll’ and then whoop, there it is.

Follow David on twitter here:
https://twitter.com/DOdelisca

Stream KJ’s “Water” album here:
http://soundcloud.com/keitajuma

Valino’s Log:
In February of 2013 David posted a FB status update saying that he was curious what a video artist could do with his work. Knowing that David is a hugely talented writer I took on the challange. Although it would take half a year for us to actually get together to shoot something it was a project I had in the back of my mind all through a busy summer. I picked the grange park for a bunch of different reasons. One being that I walk through this park everyday and there are so many great angles to shoot in this downtown park and so much goes on there in terms of culture. Second was because I felt it went with the theme of his piece, being about struggling artists and what better place than in between the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Ontario College of Art. Also through our Manifesto roots we decided to showcase some of the new line of clothing which also fit the theme of Art is Power. This video was roughly planned and executed with little to no plan which I try to do at least one of these shoots a year to keep my skills sharp and works as a creative exercise for me. This was shot within the span of 3hrs on a beautiful sunny day in September and fully edited in 6hrs.

follow Valino on twitter here:
https://twitter.com/#!/MarkValino
www.MarkValino.com

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