I threw a little party at my house last week Friday. It was a near-completely solo mission. T-Bird and Oneshot rocked up early to help set up, and I had some help clearing up. There were about 50 people throughout the evening. Johnny Cradle played the world’s most perfect house party music, and it was a great success.
A quick pic of the skull my old buddy Oneshot painted for the Tattoo Convention in Cape Town last week. Skulls were on display as part of a charity drive. According to the artist himself, the routine ‘money-goes-to-charity’ spiel that got all the artists on board for free turned out to be the routine ‘money-goes-to-organisers’, but that’s just a rumour.
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Check out the very same skull wearing the pravda23 top hat. Some pravda23 Sketching, perhaps?
Street Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia | Jason Eppink (Flickr)
It’s this burning sense that somewhere else, ten thousand miles away in Vancouver, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Buenos Aires, that ‘things are happening’.
I read the Internet, one art blog at a time. They’re all clean, slick, well coded little numbers with colourful CSS and snappy titles, the kind devised over an evening of guilloché. Wiki it, and then spot the matching word-for-word definition on the blogs of the young artists, desperate for recognition. Look at me, look what I can do!
When I was travelling the world a few years back, I noticed a sense of possibility. Regardless of where I was, people – people like me – were getting by somehow. They were finding ways, making plans, tossing themselves headfirst into a whirlwind just to feel the wind in their hair.
So how do we reconnect with this sense of possibility?
Right, who’s up for the name-and-shame game we call Trash Talk? You know, the game where someone sneaks a portable recording device into a room when nobody’s looking and records conversations? A few new ones added today, including:
Featuring:
Impartial News24 Reporter Duncan Alfreds Folk-minded Music Business Tycoon Tristan Waterkeyn UCT Radio Slave Stevie French
Featuring:
Car Owner Charisse Nel Opinion Monopoly Paul McNally Information Coloniser Tom Southey
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If you’re a weirdo, fond of surrealistic, semi-abstract nonsense, you have to understand just how redonks a page like this can be. Viral graphic meme / web application pravda23 has personally scoured the entire Internet [confused?] and declared the web page of Jack Handy quotes to be the funniest page ever uploaded.
It’s all over the news. South African trip-hop duo Johnny Cradle will be performing at the launch of pravda23‘s latest version, v2.7 [party details]. Originally from P.E., Johnny Cradle is awesome, and delivers muted, purple music along the lines of Massive Attack, Bjork, Morcheeba and Portishead. But in English and Xhosa which is very exciting to me.
Here’s the latest audio update from pravda23. Get with the music and download the separate audio tracks of Forgetfulness [v2.7] for your own remix projects.
Forgetfulness [v2.7] Separate files (19mb)
Men are called upon to answer
Men are called upon to fight
Women quietly understanding
Why the world must end tonight
Just messing around with a copy of Premiere donated to me by onelargeprawn, a regular contributor in the SA blogosphere.
Here’s the story: I was on an editing deadling for a friend’s family reunion I’d shot a few weeks earlier. I was desperately asking around for a program that could handle DV files, and she recommended Premiere, and pointed me in the direction of The Prawn. I went to The Prawn’s house, met him, and picked it up with thanks, doing the obliging ‘just-met-you-and-now-we’re-copying-software’ small talk. I even dropped a copy of The Kuleshov Effect [v2.6] on his machine before I left.
Pravda23 has decided to publish some of my early sketches online under the title ‘The Big Book Of Confessions.’ If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant or whatever, this is a tribute to all the time spent in all the back-rooms at all the coffee shops, bars and restaurants all over the universe, on some lunch break, sketching away, reminding myself to just keep going no matter what. I am ambidextrous. Some of these were done with my right hand, some with my left.
