#FlashBack | Mustafa Maluka Prodigal Son | Issue 08
Part Big Daddy Kane, part Rembrandt van Rijn, Mustafa Maluka is taking the international art scene by storm with a contemporary brand of portraiture as culturally and stylistically complex as the world we live in. Dylan Culhane investigates the phenomenon. Eerily penetrative eyes stare out from bleary, dribbled visages caught in a vice between Pop...
#FlashBack | Irony and Empathy in one divide | Issue 06
The pretended ignorance of vegetarian photographer Jillian Lochner’s work offers a humorous touch that lingers in the mind a lot longer than a slap on the wrists. When I asked this tiny heavyweight photographer, Jillian Lochner, how this idea was conceived, she explained that shooting without any preconceived ideas, but rather from a knowing that...
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Stark On Spokes: The Interview
Shane Cooper better known as Card On Spokes took the time out to contextualise, for one small seed, the upcoming release of the song ‘Disguises’ as well as his new EP set to drop early 2013. There’s something about the melancholic synths and the pitter patter of the hihats building into the drop just before the distorted...
| Interview | Sven Kristian: Batman vs. Batman
Born in a small town on the west coast of Namibia called Walvis Bay, Sven Kristian abandoned studying Hotel Management to peruse a career in photography. Now in his second year of photography, we talk to the German-Namibian about realising his ideas, becomming the new Storm Thorgerson and a whole lot more…
#bottomrightcorner – September week 01
Just when we thought we’d all perish, Spring is finally here! This week’s #bottomrightcorner is a bipolar mad scientists’ wet dream, with a little summ’n summ’n for everyone, just in case you missed them. Featuring the local and the international, the commercial and the underground, from hip hop to wonk to jazz and beyond… With...
The Dragons stole our heart
On a cold and rainy Friday night in the mother city we were lulled by a new yet familiar sound, entranced by electro and swayed by soul, not to mentioned truly funked by house – our house it seems, borrowed and brought back blue and new and wow and true. ‘Dreamy, shifting rhythmical moody rainbow...
Album of the Week: September, Week 01
September’s first Album of the Week is by one small seed’s founder and editor-in-chief Giuseppe Russo, taken at Little Dragon‘s performance in Cape Town on Friday 31st August 2012. To read the interview we did with them two days before they played, click here!
| 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...
Win Tickets to BALKANOLOGY: ‘THE MASKED VAMPYRE BALL’
The science of the Balkans… Balkanology. It’s the name of a Cape Town collective that celebrates the madness of Eastern Europe by throwing entirely Balkan-themed parties. The madness of Eastern Europe? Think Emir Kustarica’s Black Cat/White Cat or Liev Schreiber’s Everything is Illuminated. There’s a lot of madness there. And there’s a lot of madness...
Two Dogs and a Little Bird: Arno Carstens’ “Atari Gala”
Award-winning South African music veteran Arno Carstens is still going strong and is set to release his 4th solo album – Atari Gala – on September 10th 2012. The first single and music video off the album, entitled ‘Two Dogs’, gives us a taste of what’s to come. An outstanding and profound piece of music,...
Two Dogs and a Little Bird: Arno Carstens’ “Atari Gala”
Award-winning South African music veteran Arno Carstens is still going strong and is set to release his 4th solo album – Atari Gala – on September 10th 2012. The first single and music video off the album, entitled ‘Two Dogs’, gives us a taste of what’s to come. An outstanding and profound piece of music,...
Popcorn, Chewing gum, peanuts & bubblegum – but this ain’t no drive-in
A dark August evening in Cape Town; the city is wet and everyone is scrambling to get to their Happy Hour. The date is Tuesday the 21st; it’s the fourth instalment of Short & Sweet. Aside from the unforgiving weather outside, it had been a tough week for film; Tony Scott had just tragically passed...
Images of the Week: August, Week 05
Images of the Week features two astounding visual delights every week from one small seed network. At the end of each week, we add two more images from onesmallseed.net to the relevant month’s gallery collection on onesmallseed.com. All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To...
