The World According to Doug Aitken
Since his first exhibit in 1991 Doug Aitken, the conceptual artist from Los Angeles, has challenged conventional notions of what art can be. He is known for his innovative use of various mediums in order to create work that discusses how human memories and time fuse together with the world around us.
GOO GOO DOLLS | EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Ahead of multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated alt-rockers The Goo Goo Dolls’ new release Magnetic on 7 May 2013, one small seed in collaboration with Warner Music Gallo Africa (who have signed the likes of Led Zeppelin and The Black Keys) present you the video to the first single off their tenth album. You can pre-order it on...
Le Petit Prince a 70 ans! Joyeux anniversaire!
The Little Prince was born into the oncoming turmoil of World War Two, yet the tender fable has become a revered artifact of wisdom, truth, and a gentle search for social justice. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry may not have lived to witness the extraordinary fate of his prized literary brilliance, but as 6 April 2013 marks...
Here’s to the Dreamers: A closer look at 2013s imaginative fashion
Many designers have been focusing on ‘functionality’ lately, on making clothes that can easily be incorporated into a person’s preexisting closet. That, however, is not the objective of all ateliers. For the 2013 collections a number of designers presented opulent collections that created fantasy worlds and played with one’s imagination. The following are four collections...
AWARD-WINNING UK INDIE ACT ALT-J TO ROCK 2013’s DAISIES!
Rocking the Daisies is no stranger to SA music-lovers. The alternative, rock-centric festival has been a fixture in the local music scene for the past eight years, and with artists like Bloc Party taking the stage and 15000 tickets being sold last year, the music event shows no sign of slowing down. This year they...
Max Papeschi: Butchering Innocence
Max Papeschi may have begun his career as an author and director in film, television, and theatre, but the avante garde daredevil has twisted his skills into something a little more wicked. The satirical artist is known for his nightmarish re-intereterpretations of children’s fictional favourites. His visions see Mickey Mouse as a naked prostituting Nazi,...
#FYI: LED petrol stations 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...
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER | THE JAZZ EDITION
Every week we compile a selection of music to sing you into the weekend and list them in a post called #bottomrightcorner. Sometimes new tunes, sometimes themed tunes and sometimes we ask a music aficionado to choose the tunes for us. The 14th Cape Town International Jazz Festival kicks off today with a killer line-up...
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...
| Q&A | Skate-Home: Skateboarding X Interior Design
Skate-Home is an innovative Spanish design company that brings together skateboarding and interior design. They say that family business is risky business, but husband and wife Manuel Llorens and María Tamarit team up to re-create their passions. Llorens brings the knowledge and culture of skateboarding and architecture, while Tamarit fuses the two together in minimalist...
Rich Mnisi: Escaping Reality
Rich Mnisi is a third-year fashion design student at LISOF – one of South Africa’s leading Fashion Design Schools with locations in Johannesburg and Hatfield, Pretoria. Mnisi recently started studying photography after a year of taking images without any academic experience. He tells us that ‘[his] photography is quite the yin-yang with hints of darkness...
Coco Bryce – Club Tropicana
The official video for Coco Bryce‘s title track of his second album Club Tropicana on Fremdtunes is directed by Thomas de Rijk (aka Halp). On his latest LP, the Dutch producer indulges in the sort of musical alchemy that sounds like a recipe for disaster on paper, yet as the album unfolds the concoction Bryce...
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER – THE QUENTIN TARANTINO BIRTHDAY EDITION
Every week we compile a selection of music to sing you into the weekend and list them in a post called #bottomrightcorner. Sometimes new tunes, sometimes themed tunes and sometimes we ask a music aficionado to choose the tunes for us. Yesterday, 27 March, Quentin Tarantino — creator of an intertextual movie-planet as distinct as...
