one small seed #30: Levalet’s Parisian Affair
When we saw this street artist’s work, we just knew he was going to go places! Check out how Levalet brings the streets of Paris alive:
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Calling Mr Brainwash
From his California home, LA street artist Mr Brainwash – born in Paris under the name Thierry Guetta – gave one small seed an exclusive phone interview. Originally published in issue 24 and now featured in our ‘Best Of’ Ten Years one small seed, in partnership with PUMA.
Completely Naked Woman Attends Art Basel in High Heels
German performance artist and psychologist Milo Moiré tried to attend Art Basel — which happens every year where the borders of Switzerland, Germany, and France meet — completely naked. With just the words of clothing items written on the appropriate body parts, she walks down a residential street, gets on a train and then queues...
Vagina activism | Shameless provocation or conceptual art?
Deborah de Robertis sits silently as museum-goers stop to contemplate the Luxembourg-based artist’s spread legs until a French police man arrests her for indecent exposure. On 29 May 2014, she walked into Paris’s famous Musée D’Orsay dressed in a gold sequin dress, and posed below the controversial 19th century painting titled ‘The Origin of the...
Little Dragon Release New Track ‘Paris’
After releasing ‘Klap Klap’ earlier in 2014, Little Dragon have now shared a second track called ‘Paris’ off their upcoming fourth album Nabuma Rubberband out on 12 May in the UK and 13 May in the US. The beat-y track is fit for the club and Yukimi Nagano’s melody-mastering voice is, of course, as dazzling...
ABSA L’ATELIER ART COMPETITION 2013
Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced. ― John Keats The submission time for the 2013 Absa L’Atelier art competition being between 4 – 8 March 2013, means it’s fast approaching and artists should be planning to complete their work by the beginning of March. Being one of the oldest and most acclaimed art...
Through rose glasses: Paris caught in coloured past
The city of love has been frozen in time. Seen only before in black and white and imagination, these photos taken by accomplished brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière show a Paris of the past. By using Autochrome Lumière technology, people, places, streets, architecture and fanfare from early 20th century life are illuminated.
In Rainbows with Michael Elion
A glimpse of spring hit Cape Town last week on Friday 7th September, and dancing on a rainbow seemed the perfect way to celebrate! one small seed caught up with Michael Elion artist / architect who mainly works on large scale public artworks. On behalf of Creative Week Cape Town he created a man-made rainbow,...
Jacrot’s musing cities
© Christophe Jacrot Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur – that of ’a person who walks the city in order to experience it.’ Frenchman Christophe Jacrot is one such chap. He scours cityscapes looking for the finest moments that a city can offer an observer and captures these timeless moments with...
Red Bull – Maximum Signal Control
In much the same way Da Vinci’s inventions were ahead of their time, Red Bull is creating a sound system so advanced it makes current sound rigs look like tapedecks. The Red Bull Music Academy World Tour kicks off in Cape Town with a three day event that we don’t want you to miss. Read on...
FlashBack | Breaking Down Wall Street | Issue23
Two things people do not want to see being made: laws and sausages. You might add ‘art’ to that list, but first watch this video of street artists Supakitch and Koralie painting a wall of the Museum of Modern Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. It offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the process of creation… it all...
