Interviews

INTERVIEW | BEAT DIMENSIONZ presents ERIC LAU

The final installment of the multimedia & audio visual feast – Beat Dimensionz – featured a live beat installation by the British producer & internationally acclaimed DJ, Eric Lau. For someone so revered in the beat-making world of music, let alone hip-hop, Eric Lau is a pillar of humility and kindness. He seems like nothing...

The Fashion Movie Project – Videos Revealed!

The Fashion Movie Project is a collaboration between 10and5 and the Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design. The idea was simple: get young Cape Town-based photographers to team up with a styling team from Elizabeth Galloway as well as a local fashion label. The aim? To make a short fashion video with a Canon 7D....

SANELE CELE & TEMPRACHA | SUNNY CITY STYLE

Sanele Cele is the founder and designer of Durban-based lifestyle and clothing brand Tempracha. Over the past six years, he has been crafting a niche for himself as a maker of progressive urban wear while collaborating with the likes of Dirty Paraffin and Spoek Mathambo. Our contributor, Sihle Mthembu, caught up with him and spoke about style, inspirations...

| Video Interview | “Langa”: A photo-essay by Luke Daniel

In issue 25 of one small seed magazine, we featured a seven-page spread on local photographer Luke Daniel’s most recent project, entitled Langa. On 19 October we caught up with Luke again for an interview at Cape Town’s Iziko SA Museum where his Langa photographs were being showcased as part of the Land and Cityscape...

‘Art is like a Weapon’ | Q&A with LoRo VeRz

Dazzlingly vibrant and playfully grown-up is the work of Brazilian graffiti artist, illustrator and humourist LoRo VeRz. After graduating from the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in 2001, he has exhibited in cities around the world and has customized adidas trainers for the 2012 Olympic Games. And just recently, he was asked to transcribe...

KINKY DISCO | INTERVIEW WITH THIAGO KANAN

Summer is here and our sun-kissed surroundings scream to be transformed into sexy dance floors. What we need are sensual cocktails, enticing beats and Thiago Kanan, the man behind the Kinky Disco parties, to organise the whole thing. The season has just started , so we got Kanan to explain how he has managed to satisfy so...

THE ART OF THE HUSTLE | ATANG TSHIKARE

Andy Warhol used to draw shoes in his early creative days and went on to mark an important spot on the cultural timeline – he became a pop art legend. Just like Warhol, Cape Town based artist/illustrator Atang Tshikare claims that he ‘used to have a shoe obsession’, which first led him to draw and then...
A MUSIC LESSON WITH CHRISTIAN TIGER SCHOOL

A MUSIC LESSON WITH CHRISTIAN TIGER SCHOOL

Luc Vermeer and Sebastian Zanasi form the psychedelic/dream hip-hop duo with the random name: Christian Tiger School. Influenced by the LA beat scene, they are bringing the fresh sound to South African shores – with success. The launch of their debut Third Floor earlier this year, their opening set for Little Dragon and performances at...

Win Tickets To Bruno Pronsato Live | Interview With Mike Kennedy

If you didn’t know already, Mike Kennedy is one of Cape Town’s most revered entertainment masterminds… If you’ve ever partied on a train, jammed hard at the Beach Bar at 49m Rocking the Daisies or wound up on the dancefloor with a pretty young thing at Chukkachurri on a Friday night, it’s probably because of...

Underwater with Ilse Moore and Elsa Bleda

Small-town girl Ilse Moore grew up at a yacht club in the Free State, where she spent most of her time sailing and skiing… She later went on to get her visual arts degree where she first started experimenting with photography… Getting back into the water was simply inevitable. Always on a mission to defy...

Interview | Warming Up to Phat Jack: Win Tickets to the Next Make-Believe/We Are The Noise Event

Another one of sSHADOWWORKSs’ very own, Joburg-based Jack Gorton, aka Phat Jack is one not to be missed or messed with. Nu jazz, downtempo and deep house are his staples, and alongside his events planning, his record store and his producing endeavors, Mr. Gorton does many lovely things, like returning to Chukkachurri to perform this...

New Wave Noir Wave | Interview with Petite Noir

Yannick Ilunga aka Petite Noir, the inventor of ‘noir wave’ and member of the Capital of Cool creative crew just brought out his new single Pressure and a trippy music video to accompany the tune. Freshly back from London town, he spoke to us about what inspired him, unique music and bad grammar. How do...
THE STALKED

THE STALKED

Stalking has become easy in an age of social media. In fact, most of us are quite content to release private information into the whacky world of the www. Christine Hogg speaks to Alice Toich, who examins this phenomenon by painting portraits of Facebook users who she ‘stalked’. “None is so famous than the example...
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