Mumbo Jumbo

I havent been bloggin for a while....loving spring time and the great outdoors. Rocking the Daisies was crazy. only fully came back to reality an entire week afterwards. Also, amidst the second wave of twitter addiction hitting me hard (follow @yangiswa for some all day BS and non stop yapping) The Dim Sums were getting much love at the You&Me Market, thanks to those who came and supported, I realised that my true purpose is to feed people. As Bob Marley said, 'a hungry man is an angry man' !!! a way to a man (or just people in general) 's heart is through the stomach. too true. so again, thank you to those who came through, and trust me, more varieties, new and improved recipes coming soon.

Not forgetting Doe, my first born. She is doing it again.

*We're calling for submission to our 2010/11 photo series range.*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some special guest contributors were contacted. If you want to take part in it, please see details here. (excuse the roughness of the site...still tweaking it. but all you need to know is there)

Last update. Our guest blogger Iona, the Danish delight had just returned from Kenya with some amazing jewels and vintage finds...an example...

interested? drop me a mail! (there're also clothing items and hats, can organize postal if need be)

Finally, onto what has been fascinating me from around the globe brought to me AND YOU via the great interweb...

Cee Lo Green 'FUCK YOU'- this song makes my day!

Whatelse has been fascinating are these incredible creations by Jean Paul Gautier and La Perla

HOT.

Citroen X Lacoste

not too sure about the car though. abit too futuristic for my tastebuds...but at the same time, i do like it, never seen anything like it.

Art X Biker Jackets by Sisley

18 artists were invited to interpret the biker jacket for an exhibition hosted by Sisley

* i love this one with the Basquiat piece...

Ksubi 2011 eyewear PLUS campagne concept too dope!

Classic images by the original Melvin Sokolsky. 1963 for Hapers Bazaar...He was a true 'ancient future brother' and definitely on my hero list!

last but not least....Kim Kadashian spotted playing in the ocean with Justin Bieber?!!! I wanna say...........HUH?!!!!!!

We like things!

Happy weekend, as i pack my little bag off to the seaside for a retreat with my piiiiiiiimp crew.

in Okmalumkoolkat's words ok shaap ok shaap! have a good one!

JR 2010- 'Unframed'

Hello all, I have the worst hay fever of the (i will repeat) WORST kind. I feel that my nose is about to fall off. Spring is pretty but, not so in my world! I would actually do a rain dance if it does rain in Cape Town tonight, because I need them damn pollen to be washed away!!!! agggg man. here's to spring...yay. and to trees being killed in the form of tissues and my brain crying a river.

nonetheless. I only stumbled upon this today, im sure its not new news to most..i shall share it anyway...

Street artist JR's new series called 'Unframed', taking source images by Man Ray, Copa and Salgado etc. and pasting them in different spaces around the world, giving new meanings and contexts to the same places.

These were done in an Images festival at a small Swiss town. word on the street is that he will take the project around the world.

Interesting and very cool.

via 'hypeaintshit.com'

Hank Willis Thomas exhibition @ Goodman Gallery

Max and I were at The Boogie last week, and ran into an artist from New York. We had a great convo about lotsa things, life, people, art, the term contemporary, photography. Although I had a bit more gluwein than i should in the afternoon, due to passing learners celebrations avec Carine. I do remember a lot of the conversation. It was, as they say, enlightening.

Hank is a photo conceptualist. is it somewhat like an art director?

In this show titled "All things being equal", he simply explored the language of the Advert, how the Ad is so embedded in our everyday thinking, that using this language to express visually can reach more audience. He based his ideas of this show on the concept of race. re exploring race in this modern visual language shed a new light on, in my opinion, how ideas of race have transformed but still so relevant in our lives. Which i thought was impressive. clean, simple, gets under your skin. A man of few words, but every word weighs a great deal. I was learning.

Unfortunately no snapshots of the social aspect of the opening. But you can go here for some.

go see it, i think it will last till first week of October.

for more info http://hankwillisthomas.com/home.html

http://www.goodman-gallery.com/

Big tings!

Our boy Mr Fuzzy Slippers is having his first solo exhibition on the 16th of September. If you are in Cape Town, do check it out. It will be on at 38 Special Gallery on Buitenkant Street.

Fuzzy is one half of Mufuta Ink, the art duo who designed two prints for Doe last season.

Guess what i will be wearing to the opening. So proud of Fuzzy right now. exciting times indeed.

THE THINGS PEOPLE CAN DO WITH THEIR HANDS

'there's no glitter in the gutter', so get your mind outta there.

Check out Meredith Dittmar creating incredible, surrealist pieces with clay.

(click on image for an enlargement)