It was Halloween, and the 8th annual South African Horrorfest was a week into its 10 day programme. As dusk descended on the Labia Theatre, a crowd began to gather for the evening’s show – a screening of the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, revived by a live soundtrack performed by The Makabra Ensemble.
In honour of Halloween, and to raise awareness/funds for the Lucky Lucy Foundation, a formidable crowd gathered at the Sea Point promenade for the third annual Great Cape Town Zombie Walk on Saturday afternoon.
Lame title, I apologise, but I’m stressed and tired am not dealing with it very constructively – instead of getting on with work like I should be, I spent some time outside with my cats this evening. Have to say I’m finding it hard to do anything else at the moment…There are a million things happening in Cape Town this weekend though, so hopefully I’ll have some more interesting blog content up soon.
Until then, here’s Jasper skulking around in the grass and Olivia, our grand old dame, both of whom have birthdays in the next 2 weeks.
It’s been way too long since I did something for illustration Friday, and this week’s topic was really cool so I couldn’t resist.
I drew this fish 4 years ago as part of an animation I never finished. It was always the one part of the piece I liked and I’ve been looking for an excuse to fix it up and use it for something, so, here it is. I still plan on sneaking it into a future animation, but till then you can see it splashing about on the links page of my portfolio.
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Waking up relatively unscathed on Saturday was clearly too good to last – Sunday morning hit me in the face like a ton of bricks. It had rained on my way back to the tent the night before, and an open tent flap (which happened to be above my sleeping bag) meant we needed to do some emergency late night waterproofing and then fight for dry floorspace before trying to go to sleep. But it was the last day of the festival, so we could take it easy.
