Cool clothing made in Cape Town from skeet
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Serenade your walls
‘The 10and5 Poster Project 2010 is the first of our annual initiative of South African designers and artists designing posters guided by one collective theme. This year’s exhibition is called Serenade your Walls, and is a collection of posters designed for 14 local bands.
The project aims to showcase South Africa’s finest local design talent, whilst simultaneously celebrating this country’s lively music scene.
Serenade your Walls features one guest artist from Argentina and 12 local creatives, who will be showing their A1 band posters at the AM I Collective Garage in Cape Town on 1st August and Wolves in Johannesburg on 5th August, respectively.
Please join us as we celebrate South Africa’s finest at our exhibition opening with wine, live music and very good design.’
Opening shows:
Cape Town: 1 August (Am I Collective Garage)
Johannesburg: 4 August (Wolves)
Artists:
Alex Latimer
Patrick Latimer
Lauren Fowler
FlySchool Design
Am I Collective
Justice & Innocent Mukheli
Rouleaux van der Merwe
Kronk
Brandt Botes
Anne-Sophie Leens (—> me!)
loveandhate
Merwe Marchand le Roux
Arno Kruger
Onehorsetown
Job Solario (Argentina)
Made posters for:
Sedge Warbler
Pity the Fool
Kwani Experience
HAEZER
Heuwels Fantasties
Van Coke Kartel
Desmond and the Tutu’s
Gazelle
Dirty Paraffin
aKing
Rattex
ETC Crew
Jax Panik
Driemanskap
Visit the facebook event page. and see you this Sunday :)
Flying Lotus, and others
Flying Lotus — MmmHmm from Special Problems on Vimeo.
New video for Flying Lotus / MmmHmm by Special Problems
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More yummy videos by Special Problems
Jonathan Boulet — North To South East To You from Special Problems on Vimeo.
Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement from Special Problems on Vimeo.
Fool
Band photo for Fool
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Fool is…
Zaki Ibrahim - vocals
Raiko - turntables
spo0ky - visuals
Dplanet - music
STREETS RAPS & US
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Front cover design for Rattex’s forthcoming EP STREETS RAPS & US
More artwork on its way for this project.
Hipstamatic
Having loads of fun with Hipstamatic for iPhone.
Who wouldn’t… :) :)
Another photo I love by Yosigo
I love this photo by Yosigo on Flickr.
Click here to view this photo and more
We’re having a paaaarty!
Flyer design by KOL
This month marks Pioneer Unitt’s 3rd birthday. By coincidence, it’s also one year since Kool Out started their, now infamous, Live sessions that have seen amazing international acts such as John Robinson, DJ Babu and People Under the Stairs rocking Cape Town. We had to do a joint birthday party to celebrate because you know there ain’t no party like a Kool Out party!
Kool Out Live Presents: Pioneer Unit All Stars
Ben Sharpa
Driemanskap
Rattex
Jaak
DJ Raiko
DJ ID
…and your host, Mingus.
Saturday, 29 May. 9pm at Zula Sound Bar, Long Street, Cape Town.
R40 on the door
This event also features a joint KOL and Pioneer Outreach in association with Red Bull Studios.
We will be hosting open mics throughout the city in preparation for the show on at Zula on the 29th May.
The winners of each open mic will perform at Kool Out Live, a final winner will then be chosen.
This artist will have the opportunity to record at Red Bull studios with the Pioneer Unit team.
Shows:
Friday, May 14 Kuils River
Event page on Facebook
Sunday, May 16 Phillipi (To be confirmed)
Saturday, May 22 Gugulethu
Sunday, May 23 Khayelitsha
See you all there!
Happy birthday Pioneer Unit :)
Mine, mine, all mine
Awaiting delivery of this new piece of equipment for my upcoming VJ sets :)
I present you the NOVATION REMOTE SL ZERO MKII
Can’t wait!! :)
Urbanmosadi
Urbanmosadi, photographer and stylist extraordinaire.
Catch her adventures on her blog:
http://urbanmosadi.blogspot.com/
Much love and respect :)
Some photos from her blog, more on http://urbanmosadi.blogspot.com/
Love & Light tattoos
Got 2 new tattoos by Manuela Gray at Wildfire in Cape Town.
Loving them :)
Photos by Dplanet, click any to view larger
Getting tattooed
The other side
Close up / Light
Close up / Love
After
Triptych
Tattoo earrings
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I’m getting new tattoos at the end of April!
I’ve got the finger ring, the cuffs, now for the earrings: 2 words below each ear, running down my neck.
Manuela from Wildfire will be tattooing me, also my first time in South Africa as most of my previous work was done by this amazing lady in Belgium.
Looking forward to see the modifications to the base design too, will probably be simpler, but we also talked about symmetry.
Catch you in a month for an update!
PS: The calligraphy below is the reference for the tattoo, found on http://ministryoftype.co.uk/
The Ministry of Type
Stunning typography blog by Aegir Hallmundur. He says:
The Ministry of Type is a weblog by me, Aegir Hallmundur, about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer originally from the far north of England, now living and working in Brighton in the far south of England. I love hand-tracing and recreating old designs as vector artwork, and there are many examples of that in this site.
I’m busy designing 2 tattoos for myself, and based them on this amazing piece of typograph Aegir mentioned on his blog:
from the Herb Lubalin Collection at Cooper Union
Simply stunning!
Another stunning treatment:
Fabric type
http://ministryoftype.co.uk/images/files/fabric-type.png
I’m in a band!! :)
From the Pioneer Unit blog - Dplanet wrote:
Every night this week I’ve been at the Red Bull Studios in Cape Town with Ben Sharpa, DJ Raiko and spo0ky, rehearsing our new collaborative project, Fourth Density Light Show (4DLS). 4DLS is a collision of freestyle underground lyrical hip hop, improvised electro-dub Robot Army Music (RAM) and analogue impulse triggered visual stimulus. Our ‘band’ consists of Ben Sharpa on vocals and Korg Kaoss Pad, me on Ableton Live and Akai APC40, DJ Raiko on Serrato and SL1200s and spo0ky on VDMX (VJing software).
These sessions are our first rehearsals together after months of planning. We first discussed the project with Ben while we were on tour in Réunion Island in June 2009. Having thought about this for so long now, it’s exciting seeing and hearing it come to life. Our first sessions are all about seeing what we can do together, so it’s a bit chaotic - but that’s just how it goes - we’ll work on polishing and tightening up once we’ve seen where we can take this.
It’s really important for us to maintain a feeling of improvisation throughout the show. So many so-called ‘live’ electronic music sets are a disappointment because there really isn’t that much improvisation - producers often just run their tracks and add a few effects. Obviously tracks need some sense of structure but there is no point going to a live show to hear music exactly the same way it was recorded. Reading the crowd and feeding from, and into, that energy is more important than getting through every track in our set list.
We don’t have plans to release this project as a recording at the moment - it’s just a live show concept. It’s possible we might release a DVD of a live show at some point, but we’ll think about that after we’ve done a few shows.
Ben and Raiko are flying out to France for the start of their latest European tour on March 1st. We’ll resume rehearsals when they come back in May. We hope to start touring 4DLS in the last quarter of 2010. To book 4DLS contact us.
Big ups to Richard and Ivan at Red Bull Studios for making us welcome and taking care of our technical needs. Check out the Red Bull Studios Cape Town blog.
Check out some lo-fi videos of our first rehearsal session…
Sweet - JAAK (Music video)
‘Sweet’ (‘sweat’ in Afrikaans) is the first single from Jaak’s debut solo album, Flêtse Maniere.
Sweet is a track about the everyday struggles of the people of the Flêtse (the ghetto housing projects of the Cape Flats) - from the mundane, like remembering to buy safety pins for the baby’s nappy, to the the more substantial, like poor service delivery and crime. All these struggles make the people sweat to make ends meet whilst striving to make their dreams come true.
Directed, shot and edited by Christian Denslow & Garth von Glehn for Greenhaus Productions.
Track produced by Hipe.
Shot entirely on location in Paarl, South Africa.
Listen to, and download, Flêtse Maniere for FREE at Bandcamp: http://jaak.bandcamp.com/
©2010 Pioneer Unit Records http://www.pioneerunit.com
spo0ky in Chew Magazine / Underground Issue #11
Check out my interview with Chew Magazine - The Underground Issue #11
If you view the Flip Book version online, you’ll also catch a video interview of me which we had loads of fun doing :)
SPOEK MATHAMBO’s new video
SPOEK MATHAMBO & MSHINI WAM - GWABABA (DON’T BE SCARED) from spoek mathambo on Vimeo.
Directed, Shot & Edited by Lebogang Rasethaba
Styling by Anthea Poulos & Spoek Mathambo
First video from debut Spoek Mathambo album, Mshini Wam release 3rd quarter 2010.
Spoek Mathambo is a South African artist who produces and performs post punk township tech with his live band Mshini Wam - Richard the Third, Jakob Snake, Yolanda & Avuyile.
VDMX / Basic tutorial
VDMX Tutorial 1 from vjwunderkind on Vimeo.
vjwunderkind says:
This is a tutorial giving a quick overview of Vidvox’s great software VDMX. It was originally created for my Master students in Luxemburg but I figured I might as well share it with the rest of the world ;-) . The only problem is, I keep saying “follow the mouse” but the mouse pointer isn’t visible, so you have to listen carefully where I am going to click and watch the screen closely as well. Enjoy!
PS: The sound is a bit low
Have a break
Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.
Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.
We all deserve to have a break - but having one shouldn’t involve taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests. We’re asking Nestlé to give rainforests and orang-utans a break and stop buying palm oil from destroyed forests.
capetown.unlike.net
capetown.unlike.net asks me what my fav places in Cape Town are.
Read more here
Congrats on the new site capetown.unlike! :)
Vote for spo0ky at the Design Indaba Superstars project
The brief
Show us what makes you an individual. Is it your heritage, your friends, your family? Is it what you love, your memories, your passions? Perhaps it’s the town you grew up in, or the languages you speak? It could be all of them; it could be one of them. What makes you an individual is what makes you different.
I submitted this design, made especially for the project:
And this is why it represents me:
This is a fantasy abstract self-portrait, exploring personal decoration, fashion and styling. It’s modern interpretation of tribal culture through graphic design.
I’m interested in how different cultures decorate themselves with jewelry, body markings, body modifications, patterns, piercings, masks, painting, tattoos, and headgear.
There is a lot of debate around modern African design aesthetic. I’m not claiming to know what it is or have the answer, but it is something I’m interested in exploring.
The graphic style is inspired by the bold geometric patterns, shapes and colours that are found in many traditional cultures. I also drew inspiration from the dynamism in Modernist Art.
I don’t necessarily have these ideas and academic references at the front of my mind when I design - they are just general themes I’m interested in exploring visually.
Vote for me!
and help me get in the national team of Design Superstars - your vote will influence the jury’s decision.
Thank you! :)
LOVE P&R - Part 2
A short movie of the Blue Bell SS10 campaign site www.bluebelljeans.com. The site will be launched the 2nd of february 2010.
Credits:
Agency & Production: Kokokaka
Directors: Petrovsky & Ramone
DoP: Axel Lindahl
Model: Tony Ward
LOVE P&R
PETROVSKY & RAMONE REPORT : JAN TAMINIAU / DUALITY
From http://unnouveauideal.typepad.com/
They’ve done it again.
Much respect and love to Petrovsky&Ramone;
Photography: Petrovsky&Ramone;
Hair: Hester Wernert & Siko van Berkel for MOGEEN
Make-up: Ellis Vaas, assisted by Dennis Michael
Greenhaus
Greenhaus Films is uploading their beautifully cinematographic portfolio of short films and music videos for all of us to watch!
http://www.youtube.com/greenhausfilms
We shot music videos for Jaak, Rattex and Driemanskap in 2009 with Greenhaus:
Rattex / Streets
Rattex takes you on a journey through the streets of Khayelitsha, his kasi (hood) is Cape Town, South Africa. Beat by Nyambz.
A Greenhaus Productions video.
©2009 Pioneer Unit Records
Driemanskap / Camagu
Camagu is the first single from Driemanskap’s debut album, Igqabhukil’ Inyongo.
The track is about the importance of respecting and celebrating your culture and its traditions, even if you are a modern urban youth.
A Greenhaus Productions video.
©2009 Pioneer Unit Records
They say:
Welcome to GreenHaus FIlms! The grass roots film crew bringing you a tasty serving of Juicy Short Films and music videos from the greenhaus kitchen all the way down in Cape Town, South Africa.
Though our home sit’s in the ‘Bo Kaap’ area in Cape Town, we are living and shooting all over the world from New York to London and Berlin…we got it on lock.
For info just holla at us…
info [at] greenhausfilms [dot] com
Jarring Effects / Brand new site
New website design for Jarring Effects!
You may notice a bit of Ben Sharpa design work around :)
