With 2013’s We Are One Colour Festival and The Colour Run, South Africa has joined the global dye-tossing trend. Locally as well as globally the Hindu tradition-inspired events have, however, not gone down without controversy. We Are One Colour Festival — initially Holi One Colour Festival — omitted ‘Holi’ from their name, the for-profit organisers...
Designer Ying Gao brings together science and fashion to create a spectacularly original design, like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
After a five year disappearance from the music world, Christopher Porterfield has set music reviewers ablaze with his re-emergence as Field Report. The folk band was founded by Porterfield, with the name being anagram of the singer/songwriter’s last name. Porterfield found his feet on music stages playing alongside former bandmate Justin Vernon — otherwise known...
For the Saint Laurent pre-fall 2013 ad campaign Hedi Slimane called upon Freja Beha Erichsen to bring the clothes to life. The Danish supermodel brought her rocker attitude to the collection of slim-fit smoking jackets, leather pieces, and easy blouses for a final product that comes across as equal parts refined and edgy. Shot in...
Praised as one of the pioneers of ambient music, Brian Eno is an unshakeable legacy within the music industry. With musician, composer, record producer, and singer tacked to his name, Eno is showing his true skills as a multitalented elite with a kaleidoscopic audiovisual installation. First released as a software and DVD set in 2006...
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 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...
Violence against women has been one of the resounding themes of 2013’s storybook with riots breaking out in India and South African communities taking to the streets in protest against gender-based atrocities. British fashion designer extraordinaire Vivienne Westwood has tailored the fashion industry with her daring designs and fearless opinions. While advertising in fashion has...
Capetonian artist Brett Williams has a knack for exploring rawness and vulnerability in the human form through his daring art pieces. In part one of our discussion, he talked to one small seed about his craft and his process of creation. In part two Williams tells us about his discovery of his colour-blindness, his art...
Colour-blindness and art may seem like an unlikely combination, but Brett Williams is chalking the colour in emotional rawness and vulnerability through art. The Cape Town-based artist is diversely talented with a penchant for acting and an ability to re-create and re-interpret the human form in his striking artworks. His subjects are people of all...
Coming from Newcastle, UK, the young producer Nick Cooke aka Cuttooth has recently released his second LP and the first on 4lux Recordings. Featuring vocals from Hitomi (King Midas Sound/Ninja Tune), Sarah Linhares (Onra/All City Records) and Bridie Jackson (Glastonbury Emerging Talent 2013 Winner), the self-titled LP was dubbed by 4lux as dubbed ‘An excellent...
Hailing from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Tim Atkins is one young photographer worth watching. At 27 years old he has already worked with several internationally known photographers and is a focused artist. After receiving a diploma in fine art photography he began his career as a professional photographer and has since been busy expanding his portfolio...
Africa is the root of everything we know, from the first of humankind to stand on two legs to the origin of every technological device we use today… and the mix and diversity of cultures on this continent is staggering; from the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains, to the Bantu tribes in the east and...
