The Sound of Nature: A Vinyl Made of Wood
Life is made up of a series of ones and zeros – these sets of data are fundamentally what connects us. Especially when they form a symphony and tell a story like no other. Bartholomäus Traubeck makes a record player that can interpret the data in tree wood into music! Human beings have communicated and...
Fairytales Gone Wild: Snow White Behind Bars
We all know the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Alice in Wonderland. Our childhood wouldn’t be complete without them…but just how well do we really know these fabled women? Spanish illustrator, Marilen Adrover, is responsible for the work that portrays some of fairy tales’ most recognisable protagonists posing for their mugshots....
Pharrell Williams New Menswear Range Is Complete Rubbish
Would you wear jeans made out of old cans, bottles and paper found in the ocean? Pharrell Williams believes so. He teams up with Dutch designer luxury streetwear company G- Star to create high end clothes from recycled plastic. The 41-year-old – who is known for his distinctive style in music, fashion and design –...
Miley Cyrus Just Can’t Keep Her Clothes On
Quentin Jones shoots a highly suggestive video of Miley Cyrus. Some have deemed it porn, some say it’s ‘artistic’. What do you think? Tweet us at @onesmallseedSA or leave a comment below!
Spider Man is on Neighbourhood Watch!
For whatever reason, we’ve all dressed up as our most beloved superhero. Whether it’s the Man of Steel or Batman — we’ve all been there. We’ve also experienced nostalgic sadness when our spandex wouldn’t fit and our capes started to drape around us like a bib. I’d bet that even today you’d get a bit...
Vagina activism | Shameless provocation or conceptual art?
Deborah de Robertis sits silently as museum-goers stop to contemplate the Luxembourg-based artist’s spread legs until a French police man arrests her for indecent exposure. On 29 May 2014, she walked into Paris’s famous Musée D’Orsay dressed in a gold sequin dress, and posed below the controversial 19th century painting titled ‘The Origin of the...
Inspiring Street Art That’ll Awaken Your Creative Senses!
Here’s some amazing street art we found on the net to stimulate your creative brain cells. These street artists have successfully combined real-life features to create a piece of art that ‘lives’ because it involves its surroundings and beholders.
#sonar2014 | Spain’s Most Prestigious Festival of Advanced Music & New Media Art Comes to Cape Town
Sónar — Spain’s most prestigious International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art — is about to kick off in Barcelona. Taking place from 12-13 June, 2014’s line-up promises to live up to its ‘first class reputation as a leading reference for international festivals.’ Massive Attack, Caribou, Woodkid, Lykke Li, MØ as well as...
Psycho ‘Toons Are Here To Spoil Your Childhood
Beware, the following is strictly PG-rated material — the images will certainly confuse childhood beliefs of what’s good and bad. You may still recognise Goofy as Disney’s dopey-eyed dog, but he’s lost his silly charm. The cartoon-turns-splatter images were created by artist Dan Luvisi, who takes great pleasure in ruining childhood dreams, not only visually...
Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s Transsexual African Priests
Nigerian-born photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode was a groundbreaking figure of the 1980s whose work is permanently exhibited at museums in London, New York, Helsinki and Sydney. It has, however, taken 25 years for the first gallery in Africa to showcase his thought-provoking work and, sadly, Fani-Kayode — who died in 1989 at the age of 34...
Share The Love | Secret Love Project 2014
As with those crystal balls that still hang off various inner city streetlights, you might be wondering what’s with all the heart signs spray-painted and stuck up around our city as of late? Local artist, Michael Elion, is back with another project that’s taking over our CBD. As a social engineering experiment and part of...
Selected Creative | March 03
What exactly is a Selected Creative? It’s a one small seed initiative that takes talented, local artists and provides them with a platform to show their work. A Selected Creative needs to offer something fresh and intriguing in terms of technique, concept and execution. This week we are excited to present our newest Selected Creative,...
Saman Kesh x Placebo | Can You Solve The Mystery?
Although Saman Kesh developed a fascination to ‘visually lie’ early on, he first made some significant moves toward filmmaking when he was 18. After he decided to give up his focus on business to study at the Art Center College of Design, he went on to win SXSW Best Music Video 2010 as well as...
