Making use of our digital magazine features, we have been able to breathe new life to previous print content – and everything has truly come together, just how we always envisioned! Please take your time to go through this magazine (all at once or a little bit each day) as a lot of work went into producing every edition and every page, since we first launched in 2005. This issue is a superlative balance of content, comprising of traditional and contemporary art, photography, fashion editorials, exclusive interviews, videos, feature articles, music, and the best of one small seed TV.
 
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This week we feature an interview with Member of the Week Shaun Liddle, check out Groove Armada’s ‘single’ performance at super-club Trinity on Saturday 14 May and then head to The Labia on Tuesday 17 May for RVCA’s ANP Launch, with the screening of the doccie Beautiful Losers. On onesmallseed.TV we feature our controversial What’s Your Story with filmmaker Aryan Kaganof, and also release the behind-the-scenes of Ryan Kruger’s still-unreleased music video of The Parlotones’ – Should We Fight Back.

Competition-wise, make sure you have entered the Feiyue competition to win a pair of funky trainers. Then, for some evening entertainment, we have Seamus Murphey’s 12 short films that he created for each song on PJ Harvey’s new album Let England Shake and an animation short called Chick, which is an ironic take on the everyday male-female interaction.

Relevant links:

Member of the Week – Shaun Liddle

What’s Your Story? – Aryan Kaganof

The Parlotones’ – Should We Fight Back

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake ( 12 songs/12 films )

Chick

Feiyue Competition

What’s Your Story? – Aryan Kaganof from one small seed on Vimeo.

An explorer of all things creative, Aryan Kaganof (Born Ian Kerkhof) possesses a rare tenacity for raw experimentation. Working in a highly varied range of media (text, fine art, music and film), Aryan is a visual being with a macabre insight into the human psyche. A definitive leader in the digital revolution in cinema, he was the first filmmaker across the globe to produce a digital feature film on video up to 35 mm with his release of naar de klote / wasted in 1996. Three years later, he took this process to Japan to produce the first-ever Japanese digital feature, entitled Shabondama Elegy aka Tokyo Elegy. Aryan is also famed for making the world’s first mobile feature film sms sugar man in 2007.

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Recently he has produced the highly controversial The Uprising in Hangberg; a documentary that presents substantial evidence that metro police used unprovoked force when arriving in Hangberg on 21 September 2010 to tear down informal houses built on a fire break. At times suspended naked, blood smeared and silhouetted by hostile global images, Aryan Kaganof’s work reminds us of the fragility of humankind. A subjective voyeur, he’s prolific. And he’s watching YOU.

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Footage courtesy: ‘THE DEAD MAN2: return of the deadman’ distributed by CJC
‘SMS Sugarman’

Distributed by SMS music

Footage courtesy:‘Tokyo Elegy’ distributed by uplink
‘uprising of hangberg’

Music: ‘delirium cordia’- fantomas
‘sick zip everywhere’- melt banana

Joburg- A city in consistent fluidity. Meet Aryan Kaganof, a maven of all things creative. Aryan possesses a rare tenacity for raw experimentation. He’s a visual being, with a macabre insight into the human psyche. Suspended naked, blood smeared and silhouetted by hostile global images, his work reminds us of the fragility of human kind. A subjective voyeur and an inventor who cannot be found on a Sunday morning. He’s prolific and he’s watching YOU. Check out www.kaganof.com.

Hello Bruce Cowie. A Jozi boy through and through, this creative ambassador has been “doing his thing” in the design industry for over 11 years. Founder of Design Is A Good Idea, Bruce celebrates all of life’s marvellous obscurities. Noticing & promoting interesting things that others tend to miss, he illustrates how find extraordinary beauty and colourful flamboyancy can be found if we just look a little closer, for a little longer.

Frivolities aside, Chris Saunders is just another man with a camera. Alongside Murray Turpin (m18j92t), Nick Nesbitt (Kidu) and Clinton Jordaan he’s part of Team Uncool. Chris believes in the power of a collective energy. He’s about revolutionizing conventional ways of thinking, making great sandwiches, and hustling like Rudolf “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone.

Joburg isn’t dressed pretty. Shit goes down. It’s about embracing the intense energy. A real place for real people. No matter who you are, where you’re from or where you’re going, remember that “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You’er than You.”! So, from us and Dr Seuss adios amigos, we’ll be seeing you soon.

ISSUE 16 FEATURES:

• LOCAL DESIGN: SA’S CONSCIOUS DESIGNERS
• MUSIC: MASHUP – THE REMIX DEBATE
• GLOBAL MUSIC EVENT: RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY
• LOS ANGELES ARTIST: CLEON PETERSON
• LOCALLY INSPIRED: THE STORY OF ONE SMALL SEED
• FETISH FASHION: DARING THE SHOOT
• NU DENIM SHOOT: HANDS-ON POP
• EXPLODING THE I: ARYAN KAGANOF & NIKHIL SINGH
• JAPANESE GRAPHIC ARTIST: MARUMIYAN
• GUEST DIGITAL ARTIST: RUDI SILBERMANN
• LOCAL MULTIMEDIA ARTIST: SASAN
• UK PHOTOGRAPHER: RANKIN LIVE!
• ARCHITECTURE: FANTASTIC NORWAY
• LOCAL DJ/PRODUCER: TRIPLET OF BELLVILLE
• ETHEREAL SOUNDSCAPES: COAL
• CT LORDS OF DARK ROCK: THE SLEEPERS
• MISHMASH JOZI INDIE POP: THE BLACK HOTELS
• NEW WAVE LEADERS OF US METAL: LAMB OF GOD