Album of the week: January week 2
January’s second album of the week by one small seed member and Cape Town based photographer SJ van Zyl titled ‘pixelicious’ is a collection of images he photographed and edited as team member and co-founder of Pixelicious Design & Photography.
PJ Harvey’s “Let England Shake”: A space affecting the production of music
PJ Harvey’s 2011 album – Let England Shake – was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. Why did she decide to record her album in a church, what kind of difference gives it to the music? There is so many space in the world, it’s not that...
Album of the week: January week 1
Featured as January’s first album of the week is titled ‘skin’ and shot by Cape- town based photographer Yasmin Ezzideen. ”These two beautiful girls have the skin condition Vertiligo which causes depigmentation of sections of skin. The two lovely ladies asked me to take these photos after they had met each other a week...
Singing Ringing Tree
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. Somewhere high on the moors looking over the town stands the ‘Singing Ringing Tree’. It’s one of a series of four Panopticons, meaning a structure, space or device providing a comprehensive or panoramic view. The Singing Ringing Tree is a unique musical sculpture in the...
Album of the week: December week 4
This series of beautiful black and white portraits is the first photographic project of Cape- Town based photographer Yasmin Ezzideen. Well done, these strong portraits look right through the soul!
Women in Media
Laura Mulvey the well known feminist film theorist first developed the notion of ‘the gaze’. A feminist theory developed to highlight the imbalance of power between the genders, and an analysis of the way men view women and how women view other women. What Mulvey argued was that the way women are portrayed in film...
A Pop Culture Debate: Plagiarism or Intertextuality?
Plagiarism is defined as the close imitation or purloining and publication of another authors work, ideas or expressions and representing them as your own. Intertextuality is defined as the shaping of one text’s meaning through other texts, either through referencing or by borrowing and transforming that work into something different.
The Sounds to tour Europe and the UK.
Swedish indie rock band, The Sounds will be kicking off 2012 by headlining a tour in Europe and the UK at the end of January.
ANREALAGE goes 8-bit inspired
Inspired by low resolution pixels, the experimental Japanese fashion designer Kunihiko Morinaga created his fall/winter 2011/2012 collection Low Resolution, under his brand ANREALAGE. Look out for an exclusive interview with the designer in Issue 24 – “Listen to my Colour & Look at my Sound” – out in stores beginning of January! But, in the meantime… ...
Album of the week: December week 3
Featured as december’s third album of the week is the fashion album ‘selfmade editorial’ by one small seed member and New York based photographer Sam Norval. This shoot was also featured in issue 23 – ‘Cult of Self’. To see what issue 24 -‘Listen to my Colour & Look at my Sound’ has to offer...
Album of the week: December week 2
December’s second album of the week, titled ‘Taking out the trash‘ by one small seed member and one of the winners of the fifth installment of the Selected Creatives competition Janine Kuschke Van Der Tuin is conceptual and tells a story that is miscellaneous and dark.