#bottomrightcorner – February, Week 01
This week we’ve started adding music we like to the bottom right corner of onesmallseed.com. We have DJs from all over the world and are interested in showcasing local talent also. If you have any tracks that you’d like to share with us, you’ve made or helped produce please email connor@onesmallseed.com or sarahclaire@onesmallseed.com. May the...
The Eco Movement: A New Vision for Cemeteries
Do cemeteries give you the creeps? Normally they aren’t the most relaxing places to visit. An Italian project, seeking to promote the realization of “green cemeteries” wants to change the way we honor our dead and construct our cemeteries. The project, called Capsula Mundi, envisions cemeteries full of trees instead of tombstones. Capsula Mundi...
LaurenceAirline’s debut collection brings hope to Ivory Coast
In the aftermath of the Ivory Coast humanitarian and political crisis, there is a fashion label bringing hope to the country. The concept behind LaurenceAirline is based on how fashion and ethnic cultures can successfully collaborate to create possibilities for the future.
Nicole Du Phessis – Blackbird Design
Nicole du Plessis, based in Western Cape, isn’t a stranger to us, she has a profile on onesmallseed.net and does great work for Blackbird design. You could not say she is just a designer she really knows how to handle herself through Photography too. Design isn’t just a job for her, it’s who she is!...
Orchard Library by HMC Architects
Officials at Orchard School in San Jose, CA, United States chose to improve their outdated campus library. Improving student access to technology, providing adequate space for a growing book collection and creating a central focus for the school were the organizers primary goals. The result is a modern building that is attractive for both students...
Album of the Week: February Week 01
February’s first album of the week is ‘travels..’ by Johannesburg based one small seed community member Elsa Bleda Join the onesmallseed.net community to begin uploading your own work, exchange comments and network with other artists!! Check out the album HERE
“Attack On Memory” by Cloud Nothings
Cloud Nothings were formed by university student Dylan Baldi in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009. Although they certainly sound like a band of middle-American youngsters, they don’t necessarily sound like a band of this year, as Attack On Memory would not have seemed out of place had it been released any time over the last two...
The Worm has Turned
A man of memes, music, words, life… Markus Wormstorm is a solipsist still smiling. Wormstorm was signed at 19 to the New York based record label Sound-Ink – which triggered a sequence of other events and collaborations that would influence the next ten years of his life. Check out an interview we did with Markus...
Exclusive Interview with James Lavelle of UNKLE
UNKLE was formed in the mid-nineties by two British school friends, Tim Goldsworthy and James Lavelle. They were joined by DJ Shadow, Money Mark (the Beastie Boys’ keyboardist), the Scratch Perverts and Japanese hip-hop crew Major Force. Goldsworthy left after a year because of artistic differences with Lavelle, and UNKLE has since seen many changes...
DUB STEPPIN’ WITH CAPE TOWN’S BEAT DROPPING BELLE, FUNAFUJI
‘Girls. All I really want is Girls.’ So, the Beastie Boys rapped it, but we’re all feeling it. Or her, rather. Meet Safiyya Bryce aka Funafuji… Cape Town’s little lass whose doing big things, things that make us sweat and smile. Dropping it like the boys and throwing in some extra cheeky feminine flare, she...
Juan Coleman: No bright lights and no bullshit
Juan Pierre Coleman is a rambunctious music man, master of all things creative and perhaps one of the hardest, most focused individuals you will come across. An analogue junkie, he has scourged the Cape Town electronic music scene with joyous abandon, composing musical banter and bristling, electronic dialogues.
From the horse’s mouth: Dead Alphabet talks tours, videos and beer.
I am not of course referring to the actual English alphabet, but rather the garage rock band based in Jo’burg. The four-piece band consists of Adam Edwards on vocals, Justin Gent on drums, Hugh Hunt on bass and Phil Klawansky on guitar and vocals.
