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New painting: Chinese vase

Posted on: September 27, 2013

Mid September 2013

I’ve been doing a fair bit of painting lately…here’s a new work I completed last week as well as some process and detail shots after the jump.

Chinese Vase – oil, acrylic & ink on canvas – 50 x 70cm (2013)

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Posted in Art
Tagged acrylic, art, asian, butterfly, canvas, chinese, fantasy, ginkgo, illusion, ink, mountains, oil, painting, personal, plants & flowers, still-life, trees, vase, winter days

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Arc Reactor ‘Postmodern Construct’ album shoot

Posted on: September 19, 2013

Sunday 4 August 2013

Arc Reactor are releasing their debut album Postmodern Construct at the beginning of November; a while back I took some shots for the album (which I’ll post once the album’s been released) as well as these group press shots:

I also put together an animated teaser for their album that you can check out here.

You can see more of my editorial work for bands and musicians in my portfolio over here.

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Arc Reactor: Facebook | Soundcloud

Posted in Photography, press shoots
Tagged arc reactor, band, beach, cape town, editorial, long hair, metal, musicians, outdoors, outside, people, photography, portrait, portraits, press shoot, south africa, south african, weekends

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Spring in the Overberg: Elgin, Genadendal and surrounds

Posted on: September 17, 2013

3-6 September 2013

It may still be cold and rainy in Cape Town but spring flowers and blossoms have started blooming all over the place. With its farms and mountains, the Overberg region is looking particularly lovely at this time of year.

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Posted in Out & about, Photography
Tagged blossoms, canola, cape town, close up, daisies, dam, elgin, favourites, genadendal, getaway, grabouw, greyton, landscape, macro, nature, nights, old mac daddy, overberg, photography, plants & flowers, relaxing, river, south africa, south african, special places, spring, stars, theewaterskloof, time out, trees, winter days

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New animation: Arc Reactor ‘Postmodern Construct’ album teaser

Posted on: September 3, 2013

1 September 2013

A while ago I shot some portraits for Arc Reactor‘s upcoming album Postmodern Construct. Unfortunately I can’t post those just yet, but in the meantime, here’s a teaser video I made for the album, compiled from photos I took at their gig at Zula last year.

Postmodern Construct will be released 1 November 2013.

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Arc Reactor | See more of my animation work in my portfolio, over here.

Posted in Animation & video, press shoots
Tagged album, album teaser, animation, arc reactor, black and white, headbanging, loud, metal, music, parallax, photography, postmodern construct, stopmotion, teaser, video, zula

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Falling Mirror: Truth Sessions

Posted on: September 3, 2013

Saturday 31 August 2013

The last Saturday of August was also the last of Falling Mirror‘s ‘TRUTH Sessions’, a consecutive series of Saturday night shows at TRUTH Coffeecult in Buitenkant Street.