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From the archives: June/July 2005-2011

Posted on: June 25, 2011

June/July 2005 – 2010

I’ve been taking photos for ages and really got interested in photography when I was around 14/15. One of the things I love about the whole digital age is that you can take as many photos as you like without worrying about film and development costs; in my mind this means ‘take photos of everything, all the time’, so that’s what I did for a long time and now I have hardrives full of forgotten pictures…

It seemed like a nice idea to go through them and re-look some of the more interesting ones, so here’s the first lot from the archives, from this time 6 years ago up till now…

2005: shooting with a Canon Powershot A95 – the most wonderful compact I’ve ever used…my dad also bought a second-hand Canon film camera round this time an I took a few shots on it too.

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Tagged 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, archives, back in the day, cape town, film, ixus, macro, memories, mountains, nostalgia, plants & flowers, point and shoot, powershot, teenage years, winter

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New Animation: Capitec’s Swapping Mall

Posted on: June 23, 2011

First pieces of animation I’ve done in a looong time, here are some stills from the 3 instructional online videos I’ve just completed for Capitec Bank’s upcoming Swapping Mall event:

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Check out the actual animations over here or see them in situ on the Capitec Facebook page.
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Part of a Facebook campaign; I did the animation & direction, all the other stuff was a collective effort between my colleagues at Mnemonic & +One.

Posted in Animation & video
Tagged animation, capitec, collage, facebook, infomercial, mnemonic, quirky, work for work

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Van Coke Kartel, Stonecollar & Coal acoustic show at Mercury

Posted on: June 22, 2011

Friday 17 June 2011

A while ago I came across Coal and really liked the two tracks of theirs that are online. I did, however, get the feeling that both were missing something and decided that that ‘something’ would undoubtedly come from seeing Coal live, and so I was really keen to see the band. Lucky for me I didn’t have to wait long and got my wish last Friday when they supported Van Coke Kartel and Stonecollar at Mercury.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, cape town, coal, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, jumping musicians, mercury, music, photography, rock, south african, stonecollar, van coke kartel

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Your LMG’s 50th issue bash at Mercury

Posted on: June 16, 2011

Friday 10 June 2011

The good people at Your LMG celebrated their 50th issue with a great line-up of bands at Mercury last Friday: Peachy Keen, Sabretooth and 2 (unplugged and…’plugged’ I guess) sets from Taxi Violence all made for a really fun night.

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Tagged cape town, double bass, electric fans and long hair, gigs & festivals, guitars, mercury, music, peachy keen, photography, rock, rockabilly, sabretooth, stage diving, taxi violence, weekends, your LMG

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We Are Beautiful Losers at A Word of Art, Woodstock

Posted on: June 8, 2011

Friday 03 June 2011

I was at school with the guys in Beatenberg, so it’s pretty criminal that I hadn’t gone to see them play before last Friday. They were main reason I went to We Are Beautiful Losers, but the fact that Bateleur and Jeremy Loops were also playing was a really nice bonus.