one small seed#30: A Face to Face Interview with Paolo Nutini
Paolo Nutini has millions of views on YouTube and has played with the Rolling Stones, but doesn’t even know the password to his Twitter account. ‘It’s all about the music, man,’ he tells us. Get to know him better in our face-to-face interview:
‘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.
Taylor Swift is “obsessed” with Nashville musicians’ mash-up!
All it takes is a little Taylor Swift magic to make a music video go viral! Nashville-based musicians Louisa Wendorff and Devin Dawson’s music video has so far received 8,874,221 views on Youtube with Taylor’s help by tweeting her 50 million followers. The tweet, saying that she is “obsessed”, was in response to the Nashville...
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...
#FYI: Tweet-powered cars and other cool shit…
At one small seed we believe in the power of unique ideas and novel concepts. Ranging from technology, design, art and music, we’ve compiled a collection of crazy, fascinating, funny and bizarre findings that we think would be of interest to you. Here are some of our favourite finds this past week. Stay tuned for...
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WE LOVE SEXY: THROUGH YOUR LENS
This is a call-out for all photographers and anyone who loves aesthetically pleasing images! We Love Sexy is a social activation through the power of photography that draws on photographs to capture the raw essence of what it means to be sexy.
Interview | Justin Bolognino: The ‘Synchronicity Architect’
Justin Bolognino is a jack-of-all-trades. The visionary entrepreneur has led marketing campaigns, produced documentary films, designed an environment for creative artists, and crafted inventive art pieces from some of the most unlikely, unreal materials. He does it all through the evolutionary gizmos of social media. The ‘Synchronicity Architect’ sketches his blueprint around making the hidden...
#FEED: Exploring the Physical World Through Online Instruments
Curated by Justin Bolognino and his dynamic online endeavours Learned Evolution and The Meta Agency, #FEED is a concept powered by Twitter that uses the digital environment to celebrate the physical world. It worked as both an event and a tool that narrated the 5-day story of the SXSW 2013 festival. As an event, #FEED...
FYI: A plant that tweets and other cool shit
At one small seed we believe in the power of unique ideas and novel concepts. Ranging from technology, photography, art and music, we’ve compiled a collection of crazy, fascinating, funny and bizarre findings that we think would be of interest to you. Here are some of our favourite finds from the last few weeks… Stay...
| Interview | Little Dragon
On the 29th of August, in an overheated hotel room in Cape Town, Shiba Mazaza sat down with Yukimi Nagano (vocalist), Erik Bodin (drummer) and Arild Wering (live keyboardist) – 3/5ths of the sensationally diverse Swedish electro outfit, Little Dragon. Now, in less than 12 hours – forming Part 2 of the Adidas Originals’ Live...
JOSEPH KONY: WORLD’S WORST WAR CRIMINAL OR MEDIA SENSATION?
Kony 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.’ This is the description under the Kony 2012 YouTube video, which has received more than 75 000 000 views in...
Savanna – Lemon Squeezing Tree Hugger
Savanna used their affinity with lemons and lemon trees to promote the annual Arbour Day initiative and encouraged their fans to plant and grow trees. How? By giving away lemon trees in-store, of course! Keep reading to find out about the on-going online competition which involves tree-hugging TwitPics and live lemon-suited tree planters!
Naked Woman Caresses iconic Nelson Mandela Statue