Yes. It has happened.

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Ok so I’ve learned a bit though this whole episode of relative joblessness – a period which will soon be known as “the glory days”. First off:

1) I’m here to learn a bit about myself, and that’s where being on my ace for a while helps.
2) I change my mind like my underpants because I can’t distinguish what I want from what I really want, and cannot be missed.
3) this is a success. being able to rehearse every day and to have time to reflect inbetween is the success. forget the money thing for a mo and take a look at your life.
4) the car gets paid off and i’m back to rebuiling by early August (unless there’s some kind of graceful godly providence, smile smile). Then, it’s only smart decisions and action than half-baked plans and ideals.
5) the bigger picture involves travel, like she said. probably at the expense of music. which is fine.

Thanks to “Grace Kelly” for sending through this unique, QR Code photo frame artwork! Quick Response technology allows you to link to a website on your phone just by holding it up to one of those small, monochrome datamatrix images you’ve seen around. The design in this awesome piece links to the Pravda23 homepage.

We’ve featured QR artwork on Pravda23 before: check out the active, web-linking ink-on-canvas piece I did for a friend in Joburg, or more on QR Code.

Scan your friends! Check out BandFashion for web-linking QR Code T-shirts and more!

The final panels of Edition 2 of Dot Comic! Under the characteristically spontaneous guidance of my virtual companion Pravda23, I steal a fancy sports car. Pravda23 attempts to explain the fruitlessness of material pursuit. Added below are pages 15 and 16 of 16.

Edition 2 is presently being released as part of a series. Check back daily for updates on Edition 2 of Pravda23’s Dot Comic: Money & Wealth.

Edition 1

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D’ou Viens-Tu [v4.0] is a feel-good housey number with a catchy West African guitar lick which we’ll be dropping in Khayelitsha on Saturday. The rich French vocal samples are thanks to Aurel, one of my Gabonese students. Head to Chrome, Zula Bar or Dubliner in Long Street on the weekends and you’ll find him there!

A few shots from Tuesday’s launch of Grahamstown-based Jiggered Magazine and the Linda Stupart exhibition at YoungBlackMan on Roeland St, called Who’s Abject Now, Bitch?. Fresh air balcony vibes at the Kimberly Hotel.

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Shunt! [v4.0] is a tango nuevo number modelled on the work of Gotan Project, Nôze and Buena Vista Social Club. Bouncy violin licks performed live over this one. Grab your partner and tango, courtesy of the Pravda23 free download feed!

WombatSam goes up mountains to scream your tweets into the wind. Pravda23 joins in with a remix of one of the tweets.

Check out the full madness on I’ll Scream Your Tweets. Update your music by downloading Poke My Dad. Nickedy Nick Nack Knucklez gets cred for co-writing Poke My Dad. Knucklez, if you were my dad, I’d poke you.