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Rising Up to sit down for a Q&A with OBEY
While a growing number of individuals – laughing, jamming, conversing and feeling the funk on the streets of Braamfontein, Jozi – gazed up at Shepard Fairey’s forming mural of Mandela, one small seed was gearing up for up our talk with the American contemporary street artist/illustrator/activist. Watch our video interview with the face and force...
Nick Cave and his Dancing Suits
We see with our eyes, listen with our ears, smell with our nose and feel with our body. Issue 24 – ”Listen to my Colour & Look at my Sound” is all about understanding spaces and sounds on completely different levels. On a similar level however, we have Nick Cave’s amazing sound suits to awake...
Diddo Velema’s “The Cure for Greed”
In a society where gross consumption and instant gratification is an everyday reality, we perhaps should be using ‘The Cure for Greed‘ by Amsterdam-based artist-designer-inventor Diddo Velema. What is his cure? Well, simply put: an injection of five ml crimp-sealed serum vial containing one dose of stabilized pure dollar ink mechanically and chemically recovered from...
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3D-Printing in Motion – Simply Stunning!
The 3D-printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures – designed by inventor/designer/artist John Edmark – only animates when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. Watch the beauty of science, spinning hella’ fast…
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Unleash Your Fingers: Hands-Down the Best Finger Dance!
In Unleash Your Fingers – a commercial video by LABANDEORIGINALE made for the Samsung Galaxy SII – you can discover the art of Finger Tutting, a new kind of dance performed by LA-based JayFunk. Some brilliant motion design here, just watch!
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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...
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We Couldn’t Not Post This Touching Story About Jose
Being abducted as a child, forced to mass-kill and managing to escape this fate is something that — for most of us — is impossible to fathom. Run Jose, directed by Dave Meinert, might be the closest we’ll ever get to understanding just a fraction of what it might feel like. The short film tells...
Miley Cyrus Just Can’t Keep Her Clothes On
Quentin Jones shoots a highly suggestive video of Miley Cyrus. Some have deemed it porn, some say it’s ‘artistic’. What do you think? Tweet us at @onesmallseedSA or leave a comment below!
MERCEDES-BENZ | Shaping Air: The CLA as a Sculpture
The 2013 CLA by Mercedes-Benz — with a record Cd value of 0.23 and a drag area Cd x A of 0.51 m² — is the aerodynamics champion within the Mercedes-Benz model range and among all production vehicles. What is more, the sleekly designed car goes into the record books as the most streamlined production...
| INTERVIEW | David Lewandowski: The Director’s Notes
The recently released video to Flying Lotus’ Tiny Tortures shows actor Elijah Wood dealing with the plight of a missing arm — it combines technical and emotional insight with creativity and has been praised as well as rejected by amputees’ commenting on YouTube. The mastermind behind the project and friend of Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus)...
EVERYBODY STREET | NYC IN FRAMES
Everybody Street is a documentary by photographer and documentarian Cheryl Dunn that pays homage to one of the most culturally and visually stimulating cities — the sometimes mean but always mighty New York City. Being a drawcard for impulsive adventurers from across the globe and rich in history as well as forward-thinking movements, the vibrant...
Will you stay with me, until the very end?
Watch artist Faith47 painting the cemetery wall in Gaeta, during the Memorie Urbane Festival, Italy. Directed and shot by Blindeyefactory. Artwork by Faith47 and music by The Frown (Length: 02.10)
Essence of the Urban Hippie
Damien Krisl is no stranger to the fashion scene. After winning numerous awards for his film Amphitrite his latest short film Urban Hippie is expected to make a splash as well. The short film tells the story of a young girl in love shrouded by her own feelings and imagination. Through explosions of colours and...
