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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.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged alternative, cape town, coffee, falling mirror, gigs & festivals, guitars, reunion, rock, south africa, steampunk, truth, tul microphones, veterans

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New painting: The Messenger

Posted on: September 2, 2013

2009 – August 2013

I started this painting back in 2009…well, I say ‘started’ but really I just did the vaguest of backgrounds and then left the board to stand around gathering dust (and a shocking amount of cat fur…) for 4 years.

I’m really pleased to finally have finished it! Though it was a mission to paint because I don’t have an easel and so had to do most of it lying on the floor. Think it’s definitely time I rectify that.

Oil & acrylic on masonite board, 1.2 x 0.8 m

Some detail and process pics after the jump.

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Posted in Art
Tagged acrylic, art, aurora, birds, crow, dark, fantasy, girl, harbinger, lake, memories, message, messenger, mystery, night, nights, oil, outdoors, outside, painting, portrait, raven, sky, stars, surreal, weather, wind, winter

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West Coast daisies

Posted on: August 27, 2013

21 & 22 August 2013

An annual harbinger of Spring, the carpets of flowers that decorate the West Coast (usually from late July/August onward, depending on the weather) are really special, beautiful and always worth visiting. I spent some time in Langebaan and Saldanha last week doing just that…

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Posted in Photography, pretty things
Tagged annual event, beautiful, birds, cape town, childhood, favourites, flower, geelbek, kraalbaai, lagoon, landscape, langebaan, memories, nature, out in the country, outdoors, outside, plants & flowers, preekstool, roadtrip, saldanha, sea, spring, west coast, west coast national park

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One Night in Cape Town 2013 at the Grand Arena

Posted on: August 11, 2013

Thursday
8 August 2013

I’m so glad that once again those in Cape Town who weren’t heading to Oppikoppi were given the chance to see the festival’s international headliners on one night at Grand West casino, and this year those headliners were Manchester Orchestra, Yellowcard and the epic Deftones.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged american, cape town, deftones, gigs & festivals, grand arena, grand west casino, guitars, international act, jumping musicians, long hair, manchester orchestra, music, oppikoppi, photography, rock, yellowcard

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Illustration: Moths

Posted on: August 4, 2013

ART

I love moths. I’ve wanted to do something with them for a while, so I stole a few hours last night to draw this. The ones featured are based on an Atlas, Chinese Luna (both from the fanciest moth family, the Saturniidae) and Garden Tiger, which sadly all live nowhere near where I do. I generally only ever see little dusty grey ones, so I included one like that in the picture too.