Interviews

Lady Gaga is as amazing on stage as she is off. Find out why. #Oscars2015

A performance that took many by surprise at the 2015 Oscar’s was Lady Gaga’s ‘Sound of Music’ tribute, and this isn’t her only hidden (for some of us, at least!) talent. Check out this amazing collab. with artist Jeff Koons for her album ARTPOP – as well as the meaning behind it – in one...

#tbt | Q&A: Gold Coast Trading – Designer Emeka Alams

Emeka Alams is the mind behind the fashion label Gold Coast Trading. Seattle-based yet originally hailing from Nigeria, he decided to dedicate his heart and soul to the mother continent’s fashion-sporting cats. His designs borrow from the pride that Africans had in 1444, the year the slave trade started taking its toll. With a heartfelt...

Okmalumkoolkat: Fresh a$ Fuck

Smiso Zwane is the highly inventive, mustachioed and bespectacled 29-year-old going by the name of Okmalumkoolkat; co-accused at the visual/performance art outfit, Dirty Paraffin. Having partnered up with the likes of Spoek Mathambo, London dubstep trio LV and the Ruffest, this Umlazi-born, Jozi-based cat is not just a musician. He’s an artist, a writer, a...

Fuel 2015’s AfrikaBurn Excitement with a look back at our 300-page online ’12 Burn memory book!

AfrikaBurn 2015 is on everyone’s minds – well at least on ours! So, we’re re-sharing a something that’ll ignite your pre-Burn excitement and leave you smiling from nostalgia. It’s our stunning online magazine that we created after the 2012 AfrikaBurn… a journal into the Karoo that gives visual and written insight into AfrikaBurn. No picture...

Taylor Swift is “obsessed” with Nashville musicians’ mash-up!

All it takes is a little Taylor Swift magic to make a music video go viral! Nashville-based musicians Louisa Wendorff and Devin Dawson’s music video has so far received 8,874,221 views on Youtube with Taylor’s help by tweeting her 50 million followers. The tweet, saying that she is “obsessed”, was in response to the Nashville...

Q&A | Blitz The Ambassador: The Voice of Afrohop

Hip-hop artist Blitz ‘The Ambassador’s’ musical journey led him under the shadow of Lady Liberty to New York a decade ago. He was imbued with the sounds of afrobeat and the highlife music indigenous to his native Ghana, and inspired by the brazen voices of ’90s afrocentric rap. Since then he has garnered respect with...

one small seed Magazine Issue #28 / DIG 03: “#OP In The Name Of…”

Here’s the lowdown for one small seed magazine Issue 28 / Digital 03 – #OPInTheNameOf – where we have decided to say:‘Step aside, l’art pour l’art’! We pay tribute to the art, artists, initiatives and debates that are actively changing and challenging pre-existing ideologies’, in whatever medium and throughout the globe. In this issue we...

You’ve been Hacked

Forget dressing up – we got dialled up for a Skype video interview with Tim Fite, the Brooklyn-based artist-musician and the guy behind the project ‘iBeenHACKED’. Click Play and come meet Tim. one small seed magazine / Issue 28 / Digital 03: #OPInTheNameOf Issue, in partnership with PUMA.

Worth the Struggle for Syrian Rock Band

‘Music is our universal language, Arabic is our first.’ Headlining the music section this issue is our interview with alternative band Tanjaret Daghet. one small seed magazine / Issue 28 / Digital 03: #OPInTheNameOf Issue, in partnership with PUMA.

Vagina plaster caster turns to scanning naked body parts

Jamie McCartney, Brighton based artist, perhaps best known for ‘The Great Wall of Vagina’, has delved into photography with ‘The Sum of Our Parts’. The project was exhibited in November 2014 (Hove, U.K), featuring a series of portraits created from many individual body parts that were taken using a scanning machine. ‘The Sum of Our...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN BEHIND OBEY incl. video

Hennessy pours Fairey a collaboration invitation. one small seed magazine / Issue 27 / Digital 02: “Big Brands and Famous Artists” Issue, in partnership with PUMA

one small seed Magazine / Issue 26 / Digital 01: “The Irony of Reality”

one small seed, in partnership with PUMA, is extremely excited to release issue 26 of one small seed magazine – the “Irony of Reality” issue – which is also our first digital issue! We’ve done a 180 on the traditional page-turning experience, making it fun and interactive with videos just waiting for you to click...

45 Years Later, John Lennon’s Words on ‘War & Peace’ Highly Relevant to Today’s Crisis of Violence & Corruption

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced Lenon to do an interview about peace. 45 years later, Levitan produced a film about it. And now – in this time of period of shocking violence, corruption, poverty and...
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