For a moment in time, Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde plays god and creates a perfect cloud — just long enough to be photographed and captured forever. The idea is to fill an ominous empty gallery with an element that is intriguing and fleeting.
Life is becoming music. Tama Art University student Jun Fujiwara, has invented a bottle in which sounds are trapped in and then mixed to make novel music. In the spirit of the ‘i’ revolution where iPods, iPads, iTunes and such make an experience as personal as possible, this sound in a bottle takes the concept...
Icebergs can prove the latest gift from nature to arouse artistic passions. These titanic sinking formations can now earn their stripes in this imaginative world – literally. First captured by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen miles north of the Antarctic, striped icebergs are as abstract as a child’s painting, precise as Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, as...
Bringing you the best in global tattoo culture, The Cape Town International Tattoo Convention 2013 – taking place from the 25th to the 27th of January – is currently the most important lifestyle festival of its kind on the African continent. one small seed is giving away three single tickets for the opening night on...
Make sure your groovin’ shoes are polished, you’ll need them for this week’s bottomrightcorner. Since we interviewed The Ratrod Cats, Th’ Damned Crows and The Vodun Haunts last week and posted a piece on CT’s ’50s revival scene, we decided to make it all about rockabilly, psychobilly, whatever-fuck-a-billy but most importantly move-a-bility! Including tunes from...
The night of January 16th saw the weekly event – See You Next Wednesday at The Assembly – paying tribute to the legendary home of punk – none other than the historic CBGB. Initially intended for country, bluegrass and blues, the New York City night club soon favoured the disorderly. It saw bands like The...
This week’s Album of the Week is entitled Dreams and Nightmares by Janine Kuschke. It’s a generous compilation of haz-ey black and white as well as colour shots that safely lead you through the highs and lows of the unpredictable land of dreams. Prepare to be moonstruck!
Images of the Week features four astounding visual delights every week from one small seed network. At the end of each week, we add four more images from onesmallseed.net to the relevant month’s gallery collection on onesmallseed.com. All images are the featured works of members of one small seed network, our creative online community. To have...
This week’s #bottomrightcorner is dedicated to Soul. Soul as a genre, soul as a lifestyle, soul as a state of being, as a representation of life and everything we are… Soul, soul soul. Please enjoy this lovely selection that celebrates the part of you that is moved by good music… after all, for some of...
A lot of us will know Them Tornados. They’ve had many of us swing our body parts about at the one or other Cape Town show. Sadly, their sound — rockabilly — has always appeared to be a rather isolated venture in this city. With more and more bands that loosely fall into the psychobilly/rockabilly...
K.C. Royal (guitar, vocals), Rickabilly (drums, vocals) and Double Dave (double bass) are The Ratrod Cats. They’ll catapult you back 60 years in a coupl’a strums and, before you know it, your feet tap ADD style. Their EP is in the making, but they play gigs frequently for rhythm addicts. Check their Facebook page for updates. Before...
Th’ Damned Crows are made up of Liam McDevitt (vocals, double bass), Sven Duncker (guitar), Ronnie Belcher (drums) and Zoltan Tibor Szabo-Taylor (harmonica). Being devilish as well as dexterous by nature, they manage to combine buoyant blues with riotous rock ‘n’ roll. They released their first single ‘Blue Eyed Devil’ on Friday 11th, 2013. Click...
