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Baby mantis

Posted on: January 30, 2014

Mid January 2014

This tiny little guy visited my windowsill marigold seedlings a little while back and had a little wash while I took some pics. I find it amazing how mantis eyes just follow you no matter which way their heads are facing…

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Posted in Photography
Tagged bug, cape town, close up, green, house plants, indoors, insect, macro, mantis, photography, plants & flowers, pot plant, praying mantis, south africa, summer

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New animation: Riki’s 21st invitation

Posted on: January 26, 2014

December 2013

Here’s a fun project I worked on at the end of last year: a custom animated invitation for a 21st birthday party. My client provided the idea, the script and voice-over as well as the photos of herself, her friends and family. I worked out the visual script, assigned costumes to the characters and brought it all to life through animation according to her specifications.

Posted in Animation & video
Tagged animals, animation, birds, birthday, castle, custom, disney, dreamworks, event, family, friends, garden, invitation, invite, plants & flowers, princess, private client

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Arc Reactor album art portraits

Posted on: January 25, 2014

Sept –
Nov
2013

Back in September last year I took some shots for Arc Reactor’s debut album Postmodern Construct. Now that the album’s been put for a while, I can post the images: the band wanted to do something different with their portraits, something that would express their individual personalities and also tie in thematically with the album. We came up with this concept of a combination of double exposure portraiture and photomanipulation, expressing elements of each member’s personality through a visual metaphor.

Here are the resulting portraits.

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Posted in Photography, press shoots
Tagged album cover, arc reactor, art, black and white, cape town, design, manipulation, metal, music, people, photo manipulation, photography, portrait, portraits, south africa

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Music: 2013 in review

Posted on: January 2, 2014

MUSIC

Happy 2014! Today marks my 7th anniversary of joining last.fm and though I normally claim the listening data on there doesn’t necessarily reflect what I’d say my favourite music over the last 12 months has been, this time round I’d say my charts are all pretty accurate.

Here’s the music I’ve enjoyed the most in 2013 (looks like it was a rather desaturated year; interesting, these matching colour schemes).

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Posted in Music, Ramblings, Reviews
Tagged editors, favourites, miracles of modern science, music, nick cave, review, rocking the daisies, the hives, the national

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Season’s greetings

Posted on: December 25, 2013

Christmas Day
2013

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating and exchanging gifts, and thank you for your support this year, it is much appreciated :) Be safe and happy these holidays!