June 4th, 2010 - sarahp -
Meet Hello Mother F*&king Nasty, an illustrator who’s making a new name for himself with his unique employment of all things creative. When trying to dig deeper, in search of some report-style info, Hello MF Nasty was cryptic in his answers, leaving me with more questions than I intended to ask. It’s refreshing not to be verbally abused with philosophical arty explanations that always leave me with too much to write about, yet nothing real to share. And without much elaboration on the ‘what’s and why’s’ I had written down, it really comes down to self interpretation with Hello MF Nasty’s art work. Art is subjective, and it’s empowering to be given the liberty to make up one’s own mind whether there is some bigger meaning, or if things really are sometimes as they seem.
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May 26th, 2010 - sarahp -
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup kick-off only 27 days away, things are heating up in Cape Town and our streets are already beginning to fill up with overseas fans eager to swipe some plastic and hand over notes all in a united love for the South Africa’s generous exchange rate. Diversity is waiting to be discovered, each corner promising new smells, sounds and tastes in abundance.
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May 10th, 2010 - sarahp -
Fiction: a love affair of all things dirty… A darkly lit battlefield of beats and bodies, and on May 2010 a birthday party…Cape Town’s cutting-edge underground playground turned 4. Tick tock, tick tock, the night held many surprises. Read more…
December 14th, 2009 - sarahp -
In a world of confirmations and calculated speculations, there isn’t much room these days for investing in creative pursuits that have the potential to crumble and fall. Concepts that stand no assurance are – so it seems – fleeting.
But, not all the time and not with every creative mind. For example, Cape Town kids seem to be pumping out insane ideas that shout a big “F**K YOU” to the commercial prossies whoring themselves for cash off the masses. Below the line and off the wall, ideas are being oxidized with new direction. Creatives in CT are making people question the things they think they know best.
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October 21st, 2009 - sarahp -
In a city where the trendies trend, the skankers skank and the posers pose, there are still a few individuals that are trying not to give a f**k and just do their own thing.
Two such kids are Shaun Gardener and Jason de Villiers, the visual vagabonds behind Fly School Design. Elusively extravagant and humble hearted, they’re keeping it real and keeping it local. Pushing each other, they share a mutual unwillingness to make money for other people.
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October 14th, 2009 - sarahp -
Shredded breakbeats and heavy sub-bass lines dominate Thursday’s in Cape Town, a day that promises a night of dirty physical, visual and audio disobedience. Indeed, it’s the night of It Came From The Jungle, an event of Liquid DnB and united abandonment. And just like the beats that bounce off the walls of Fiction, the place where it all goes down, It Came From the Jungle comes from humble beginnings back in 2006.
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