Between Music and Painting | Brian Eno | 77 Million Paintings
Praised as one of the pioneers of ambient music, Brian Eno is an unshakeable legacy within the music industry. With musician, composer, record producer, and singer tacked to his name, Eno is showing his true skills as a multitalented elite with a kaleidoscopic audiovisual installation. First released as a software and DVD set in 2006...
| INTERVIEW | David Lewandowski: The Director’s Notes
The recently released video to Flying Lotus’ Tiny Tortures shows actor Elijah Wood dealing with the plight of a missing arm — it combines technical and emotional insight with creativity and has been praised as well as rejected by amputees’ commenting on YouTube. The mastermind behind the project and friend of Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus)...
Vivienne Westwood: Modelling Domestic Violence
Violence against women has been one of the resounding themes of 2013’s storybook with riots breaking out in India and South African communities taking to the streets in protest against gender-based atrocities. British fashion designer extraordinaire Vivienne Westwood has tailored the fashion industry with her daring designs and fearless opinions. While advertising in fashion has...
Brett Willliams | Chalking the Colour in Vulnerability | Part II
Capetonian artist Brett Williams has a knack for exploring rawness and vulnerability in the human form through his daring art pieces. In part one of our discussion, he talked to one small seed about his craft and his process of creation. In part two Williams tells us about his discovery of his colour-blindness, his art...
Brett Willliams | Chalking the Colour in Vulnerability | Part I
Colour-blindness and art may seem like an unlikely combination, but Brett Williams is chalking the colour in emotional rawness and vulnerability through art. The Cape Town-based artist is diversely talented with a penchant for acting and an ability to re-create and re-interpret the human form in his striking artworks. His subjects are people of all...
Cuttooth: subterranean downbeat blues
Coming from Newcastle, UK, the young producer Nick Cooke aka Cuttooth has recently released his second LP and the first on 4lux Recordings. Featuring vocals from Hitomi (King Midas Sound/Ninja Tune), Sarah Linhares (Onra/All City Records) and Bridie Jackson (Glastonbury Emerging Talent 2013 Winner), the self-titled LP was dubbed by 4lux as dubbed ‘An excellent...
Interview | Tim Atkins | African Zoo
Hailing from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Tim Atkins is one young photographer worth watching. At 27 years old he has already worked with several internationally known photographers and is a focused artist. After receiving a diploma in fine art photography he began his career as a professional photographer and has since been busy expanding his portfolio...
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| Video & Interview | I See A Different You
Africa is the root of everything we know, from the first of humankind to stand on two legs to the origin of every technological device we use today… and the mix and diversity of cultures on this continent is staggering; from the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains, to the Bantu tribes in the east and...
A Naughty Fairytale | Ellen von Unwerth
She began her career as a model but since she snapped her first photograph Ellen von Unwerth has enthralled the fashion and pop industries. Her explosive, sexually charged imagery is a playful exploration of femininity and female power. Known for her ability to capture seductive fashion narratives, von Unwerth has spent two decades featuring her...
SEAN SULLIVAN | THE IMPOSSIBLE COOL
Sean Sullivan — a writer, photographer and director — collaborated with Russell Blackmore of Sonic Editions to curate a collection of impossibly cool, rare photographs found at the maximum security Corbis Archive at Iron Mountain, Pennsylvania — Jim Morrison, Martin Luther King and William S. Burroughs are just a few who are part of this...
Nick Knight | Haute Death
Since his first foray into fashion photography, Nick Knight has ignited the industry with his re-conceptualisation of beauty. His bold looks and daring techniques have shaped him as one of the pioneers of modern photography. Knight’s entrance into the photography world has seen him flash through the editorials of Vogue, Dazed & Confused, W Magazine,...
Contact to The Caverns of Telos | The Lumerians
Influenced by music that transcends cultural, historical and genre assumptions, such as 1970s German Krautrock bands Can and Neu!, as well as African, South American and Turkish psychedelic rock, The Lumerians manage to create a sound that is neither of past, present nor future but simply of intelligent but not over-thought quality. This may be...
| interview | Old Money: real life black science fiction
Ahmad Julian aka Scheme and Andre Oswald make up the New York duo OLD MONEY. Together they create music which blends influences of global bass, soul, dancehall, spoken word and hip-hop to stretch the limits of new-age music. They’ve performed and DJ’d alongside the likes of The Cool Kids, Maluca + Paul Devro (Mad Decent),...
