Jamie McCartney, a sculptor and ‘Plastercaster’ from Brighton, UK, has spent years making and arranging 400 plaster casts of vaginas to create ‘The Great Wall of Vagina’. One would imagine he must be pretty charming to have convinced such a number of women to strip off for him… Where did the idea for this come from? I...
DREAM: Joburg 2011 is an initiative adopted by Dion Chang (Flux) as the South African version of The Dreamers Project, one which aims to send out a message of unity amongst artists, using different art forms and visiting countries around the world. This one is a photography project, based in Johannesburg, taking place this Saturday...
Syd Kitchen died three weeks ago. One of South Africa’s great musicians, Syd was a folk artist whose musical history is inextricably embedded in that of our country. At Splashy Fen, South Africa’s longest running music festival, he was the one artist who had played every single year since the beginning. 1990 to 2010. Sadly,...
Hesitation is what first sprung to mind when a friend quipped: “Louie Vega live at Orlando Stadium, let’s!” My response, nothing short of a succinct snub: “Orlando at night? Never!” In the end house music won as my incurable FOMO got the better of me! Louie Vega, Tira, Liquid Deep, Vinny Da Vinci etc all...
As with our Images of the Week, our Album of the Week is featured work from onesmallseed.net that is showcased in our weekly newsletter. For our first album of the week, we feature the work of Kass DEA, a vibrant and sexy fashion story entitled Step out of the box and step into make believe....
They look like mannequins; dystonically catatonic robots with Tourrette’s syndrome; their animated twitches are infectious… the blotched, syncopated ilk of their music is calming, in a strange yet effective, systemic way… Twitter is deceiving in how it flashes sound-bites across one’s screen; its soundbites somehow tragically morph into recursively cancerous formations, each iteration building upon...
Digital creatives are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with. one small seed has managed to travel to the far ends of the earth to bring you an exclusive interview with an illustrator by the name of Missy McCullough. The Los Angeles native currently lives in her downtown loft, accompanied by both her...
For our second episode of Boom+27 we check out Toffie Pop Culture Festival, the 12th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Desmond and the Tutus performing at Assembly and the latest exhibition at the Woodstock gallery Museum.
It’s always been my ambition to write the most influential, most widely read, most controversial book of all time – James Frey Fresh from his battles with Oprah and Larry King, James Frey’s got a new target: God. In his new book, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ is alive and...
The work of top South African artists like William Kentridge, Roger Ballen and Mary Sibande is currently showing in Brazil, as part of an exhibition of contemporary South African art at The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, or MAC).
In issue 22 of one small seed, The Joburg Issue, the notorious DJ Chubbi from YFM takes us on a Jozi street tour through all his favourite stops in the art, music, fashion and nightlife scenes. One of the art stops is Unity Gallery in Newtown, and Chubbi stops to chat to the owner, Andrew...
On 26 March 2011, Joburg hipsters and dance junkies descended to the house of indie, better known as The Alex Theatre, to pay live tribute to Flash Republic’s latest offering: Killer Moves. That night Flash Republic brought new meaning to the saying ‘if it aint live, it’s dead’ as the South African dance trio...
I heard about the Pan African Space Station from the guy working in Cape Town’s raddest little record store, Mabu Vinyl. He was playing some wacky ’70s electric jazz by the American jazz legend Chick Corea (look him up), which got me stuck in the shop and chatting to this guy as he was mixing...
