Any exhibition featuring work by Ben Johnston, Jason De Villiers and One Horse Town, is worth attending but this one has a great name and a very nice poster so it will probably be better than the others.
The exhibition will open on Friday the 3rd of February at Yours Truly – 175 Long street – at 18:00.
Come and join us for some eats, coffee or an alcoholic beverage and some great artwork.
Work will be for sale on the night.
Adriaan Louw continues to prove his diversity as a photographer by showing us that on top of being a great band, tour, and nightlife photographer, he also has skills as a fashion photographer. Nice, check out his work here.
American fashion designer Alexander Wang featured Die Antwoord in his latest spring fashion video. The video doesn’t give too much away in terms of the relationship between Wang and Die Antwoord, it doesn’t seem they are wearing Alexander Wang clothing, unless he has done a Die Antwoord inspired range.
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Tonight is the launch of Markus Wormstorm’s album, Markus is one of the pioneers of electronic music scene in South Africa and while his sound has evolved and progressed he has always pushed the boundries in everything he does.
His album is available for free download here, have a listen.
Below is also the video for the single, Eve’s Twin, a film by the multi award winning Jannes Hendrikz.
Bacardi is 150 years old this year and will be celebrating in style at this year’s Up The Creek music festival in Swellendam.
Their official birthday falls on 4th February – Bacardi Founders Day – but with 4 days of music and comedy lined up at UTC this year, Bacardi will get us all in the party spirit from Thursday and take us right through to Sunday.
Bacardi have been throwing parties since 1862, and man, there have been some parties. Even prohibition didn’t stop them – Bacardi doesn’t like to waste a great tasting spirit so they gave it away for free! They’ll be doing more of the same this weekend, with the spirit, as well as the prizes flowing like the Breede River.
The third Toffie Pop Culture Conference and Festival is taking place at the Cape Town City Hall from Friday 30 March to Sunday 1 April. Toffie Pop is a three-day conference-festival and will focus on contemporary popular culture, design, music, magazine publishing, art, sound design and everything else that entertains and distracts us, all in one space.
A record number of more than 60 of the world’s best designers, artists, musicians, film directors, magazine editors and publishers have been confirmed as speakers and exhibitors. The conference line-up includes:
• Penny Martin (UK): Editor-in-Chief of The Gentlewoman (one of our favourite magazines)
• Roel Wouters (The Netherlands): Film director/designer
• Omar Sosa (Spain): Art director, publisher and graphic designer of Apartamento magazine
• The Mingarro brothers, Juan and Alejandro (Spain): Brosmind Studio in Barcelona
• Malibongwe Tyilo (SA): Fashion buyer, scenester and blogger (skattiewhatareyouwearing.blogspot.com)
• Athi-Patra Ruga (SA): Well-known performance and contemporary artist
• Chris Bisset (SA): Film director
LA.Vi, one of the great young bands emerging from Cape Town’s music scene, has just released a single, Far Away Place, and it’s available for free download. Enjoy.
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Mandy Barker has taken inspiration from garbage polluting the earth’s natural beauty, one of the saddest footprints man has left and continues to add to. Her series Snow Flurry, contains only plastics collected from beaches around the world. She manages to take one of the most upsetting consequences of the contempary human lifestyle and make is beautiful, while bringing the disgusting effect we have on the earth to people’s attention.
Here it is, the new Die Antwoord video, you are probably either going to hate this or love it, but you can’t deny it’s going to get a lot of attention.
It’s seems they don’t really care what the South African public say, they are going to do ‘their’ thing full force.
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