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Conceptually, it would feature an underground hedonistic den of iniquity that would symbolise the darker side of urban living. Behind the scenes were oiled-up models and lacquered lips as a storm brewed overhead and a caged Rottweiler threatened to break loose into the grungy mechanic’s workshop.

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Making use of our digital magazine features, we have been able to breathe new life to previous print content – and everything has truly come together, just how we always envisioned! Please take your time to go through this magazine (all at once or a little bit each day) as a lot of work went into producing every edition and every page, since we first launched in 2005. This issue is a superlative balance of content, comprising of traditional and contemporary art, photography, fashion editorials, exclusive interviews, videos, feature articles, music, and the best of one small seed TV.
 
So, without further ado…
 

 
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one small seed magazine 26 | digital issue 01: ‘The Irony of Reality’ Issue is in partnership with PUMA.

Take a look at behind-the-scenes footage below and view her shoot in the magazine HERE.

 
 
Couple 01: Adam and Eve

Couple 02: Frida and Diego

Couple 03: Cleopatra and Caesar

Couple 04: Bonnie and Clyde

Credits:

Photography: Rebecca Handler
Stylist: Phil Gomez
Makeup: Ewa Perry
Hair: Joey Oso
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CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE ISSUE 26 | DIGITAL VERSION 01 – ‘THE IRONY OF REALITY’ ISSUE

 
Lose yourself in the intricate and abstract photography of Oliver Barnett in his article featured in the magazine, entitled ‘Organic Surrealism’
 
 
 

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In 2011 the brand collaborated with Wutang’s RZA to bring out Chambers, a range of headphones that was featured in Issue 23 of one small seed and will be hitting SA stores soon. Following Chambers, January 2012 saw the release The Superlative Conspiracy Issue No.1: Fall/Winter 2011, a popular culture street-style publication filled with some epic interviews and features; from ODB to Jason Lee, from fashion to photography.
 
We caught up with the guys from WeSC.
 
The Superlative Conspiracy Issue No.1 has recently appeared in select stores in Cape Town. Will this be a regular sighting?

Yes, the No.1 is now out – finally – and the No2 is in the making and will be released in early spring 2012! It looks as if the Superlative Conspiracy No.’s will be published 4 times per year – we have stories to tell and hope to be able to present them to you as often as possible.

WeSC the No.1, give it to me in a sentence

The No. 1 is a collection of some of the best things from the Superlative Conspiracy – the people, the ideas, creativity and stories!

What set fire to this project? Who was the team that worked on it?

Many years ago, WeSC did a magazine that came out three times – then something happened and we now figured it was time to gather the troops and do it again! There’s so much creativity in this world and such a huge amount of things happening all the time that we want to tell people about, in an entertaining and interesting way.

Can people contribute – writers/designers/photographers?

Absolutely!

Where can we pick up the mag in Cape Town?

astore, Baseline, Bonafide, Shelflife, Suntrax and selected coffee shops.

Seems like things just keep on happening for WeSC

We never stop, that’s the thing. With a lot of people contributing to the brand and being a part of our world, the year 2012 looks like it’ll be as interesting as you imagine it to be. We’re releasing the Superlative Journey together with smart (a collaboration including a headphone and a car), collaboration with Eley Kishimoto, the collections, continue to work with the WeSC x RZA: Chambers by RZA and a lot more.

Thanks very much! And from publication to publication, here’s to keeping print alive!
 
 

At the end of 2011, WeSC and RZA celebrated the launch of the Chambers by RZA at Trousdale LA. With the Chambers by RZA on display, a performance by Talib Kweli, DJ set by Paul Banks, the night hosted by Mike Epps and WeActivists The Lady Tigra, Eddie House of Steed Lord and Pase Rock spinning the night was, to put it frankly, fucking awesome (WeSC)

Interview by Sarah Claire Picton
Filmed & Edited by: Danozone
Photos by: Justin Jay

Syd Barrett, Wassily Kandinsky, Duke Ellington, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Feynman, Lady Gaga, Pharell Williams… all geniuses who helped shape their world. And all synesthetes. Synesthetes ‘suffer’ from the extraordinary neurological condition Synesthesia and experience automatic involuntary cross-sensory stimulation. They read numbers and letters in colour, hear sounds in colour, taste in colour and even touch in colour. The crossed wires in their heads leave them just sane enough to survive outside asylums and just mad enough to lead lives of invention, art and profanity. Words

The ’60s saw an explosion of pop culture as advances in communication technology brought art to larger and larger audiences. This also made the interconnections between media more important as people’s cultural vocabularies grew richer and more demanding. Painters traced the lines of mass-produced palimpsests and literary references littered music and cinema… two media that were now inextricably interlinked. Jefferson Airplane advised, ‘Feed your head’ and Norman Bates assured us that, ‘We all go a little mad sometimes.’

Grapheme Synesthesia - seeing letters and numbers in colour

The term ‘color organ’ was coined in the eighteenth century and referred to a tradition of mechanical (and then) electro-mechanical devices built to represent sound or accompany music in a visual medium. One hundred years later, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe proposed in his 1810 book Theory of Colours that musical and colour tones shared common frequencies, echoing Sir Isaac Newton’s observations. In the 1980s, Steve Mann regarded the Internet as a ‘Sixth Sense’, which could be mapped to the other five senses by way of such synthetic Synesthesia. Lady Gaga said in a 2011 interview that, ‘When I write songs, I hear melodies and I hear lyrics… but I also see colour.’

Stroop Interference

The word ‘Synesthesia’ has been used for 300 years to describe very different things, from poetry and metaphor to deliberately contrived mixed-media applications such as Son et Lumière shows (‘Lightshow’), which is also a song title by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta from their 2003 album De-Loused in the Comatorium. There are over 60 reported types of Synesthesia, but these are the five most frequently encountered… (continued)

“An LSD experience without the LSD” -that was a laugh. In fact, the heads are pouring in by the hundreds, bombed out of their gourds, hundreds of heads coming out into the absolute open for the first time. It is like the time the Pranksters went to the Beatles concert in full costume, looking so bizarre and so totally smoked that no one could believe they were. Nobody would risk it in public like that. Well the kids are just having an LSD experience without the LSD, that’s all, and this is what it looks like. A hulking crazed whirlpool. That’s nice.
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

… To read the full feature, pick up a copy of the latest issue of one small seed magazine and click HERE to read the full breakdown of issue 24!

An example of a synesthete who sees the months of the year in colour

Check out this video that illustrates the magnificent realm the Synesthete (n) lives in and for a more informative breakdown down video, simply click HERE.

words: sarah claire picton, illustration: mark venter