Art

Lady Gaga is as amazing on stage as she is off. Find out why. #Oscars2015

A performance that took many by surprise at the 2015 Oscar’s was Lady Gaga’s ‘Sound of Music’ tribute, and this isn’t her only hidden (for some of us, at least!) talent. Check out this amazing collab. with artist Jeff Koons for her album ARTPOP – as well as the meaning behind it – in one...

Celebrate Fresh Art from Africa & get to “THAT Art Fair” in CPT | 27 Feb-03 Mar

An ARTsouthAFRICA initiative, THAT Art Fair is the freshest new art event to hit the Cape Town creative scene! So, if you’re in the Mother City this weekend (27th Feb – 03 March), then make sure you join the rest of Cape Town in celebrating #FreshArtFromAfrica with THAT Art Fair! Read on to find out...

Cocaine-Snorting Oscar Statuette placed on Hollywood Blvd.

Los Angeles-based street artist – Plastic Jesus – often crosses lines with his controversial art, where is known for using satire, criticism and humour to engage and make accessible various political, urban and socio-economic issues. And lines it was, when on Thursday, 19 February 2015, the artist placed a life-sized cocaine-snorting Oscar statuette on LA’s...

Fuel 2015’s AfrikaBurn Excitement with a look back at our 300-page online ’12 Burn memory book!

AfrikaBurn 2015 is on everyone’s minds – well at least on ours! So, we’re re-sharing a something that’ll ignite your pre-Burn excitement and leave you smiling from nostalgia. It’s our stunning online magazine that we created after the 2012 AfrikaBurn… a journal into the Karoo that gives visual and written insight into AfrikaBurn. No picture...

3D-Printing in Motion – Simply Stunning!

The 3D-printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures – designed by inventor/designer/artist John Edmark – only animates when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. Watch the beauty of science, spinning hella’ fast…

‘Life is what happens to you while you’re looking at your smartphone’

Eduardo Salles’ quirky and colourful illustrations do more than provide a good laugh. The Mexican illustrator and designer’s series entitled ‘Cinismo Ilustrado’ (‘Cynicism Illustrated’) uses satire to confront ideas of religion, politics, the environment, and popular trends in the 21st century.

Yes, these paintings actually breathe…

It’s really hard trying to figure out what makes Alexa Meade’s paintings literally alive! There are no telltale signs in the actual paintings, until you see how the artworks are created.

We Hope You Bought it! Thumbs up Cassper Nyovest.

Cassper Nyovest, South African recording artist and producer, released the official music video for ‘I Hope You Bought it’ from his debut album Tsholofelo in December 2014. It has, so far, received 77,008 views on Youtube and 1,238 thumbs up! The video shows the process of airbrushing the Tsholofelo album cover, to show that: Although...

Homophobia, sexism, greed & #instant oral: the dark truth about modern society.

Make sure you do a double–take when you look at the illustrations by Spanish artist Luis Quiles (aka Gunsmithcat). There is a dark and shocking truth hidden behind the cartoonlike, and brightly coloured illustrations. The messages are unapologetic and unsettling, putting modern society in the limelight for all to see! The animated characters depict scenarios...

one small seed Magazine Issue #28 / DIG 03: “#OP In The Name Of…”

Here’s the lowdown for one small seed magazine Issue 28 / Digital 03 – #OPInTheNameOf – where we have decided to say:‘Step aside, l’art pour l’art’! We pay tribute to the art, artists, initiatives and debates that are actively changing and challenging pre-existing ideologies’, in whatever medium and throughout the globe. In this issue we...

You’ve been Hacked

Forget dressing up – we got dialled up for a Skype video interview with Tim Fite, the Brooklyn-based artist-musician and the guy behind the project ‘iBeenHACKED’. Click Play and come meet Tim. one small seed magazine / Issue 28 / Digital 03: #OPInTheNameOf Issue, in partnership with PUMA.

RESISTANCE Project: Breaking the AK-47

Ralph Ziman’s RESISTANCE is a giant public art installation in Cape Town; a world record spanning more than 100 meters. Watch the 14-minute doccie on how the giant artwork depicting a broken AK-47 was formed! one small seed magazine / Issue 28 / Digital 08: “#OPInTheNameOf” Issue, in partnership with PUMA.

Vagina plaster caster turns to scanning naked body parts

Jamie McCartney, Brighton based artist, perhaps best known for ‘The Great Wall of Vagina’, has delved into photography with ‘The Sum of Our Parts’. The project was exhibited in November 2014 (Hove, U.K), featuring a series of portraits created from many individual body parts that were taken using a scanning machine. ‘The Sum of Our...
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