I’m exhausted. I know, I’ve been on holiday for the last couple of weeks (but that was visiting family, so it’s not really "restful"), and I mostly just took the last two months "off" to move to Dublin. But a new baby, moving continents, catalogue production, many shows, starting a PhD, quitting my three jobs [...]
We arrived late on Sunday night from Dublin to NYC for the holidays, and boy does aerlingus have it down when it comes to passport control – we did it Irish side, so no waits in NYC. Sid was a bit cranky from no sleep on the flight, and mucho ducho jetlag, but “cranky for [...]
Sasol wax art award 2007 Call for EntriesSasol, the world’s largest producer of wax, has announced the launch of the Sasol Wax Art Award 2007. This award is aimed at established, professional artists resident in South Africa and seeks to reward innovation and excellence in the visual arts. Artists will be judged, through a peer [...]
I have no idea what they sound like, or even if this is real, but don’t you want to buy this album? I do. Someone send me one? AVANT CAR GUARD 19:30 Friday 15 December 2006 at Bell-Roberts Contemporary Skakel oor na die Donkerkant is the launch of the AVANT CAR GUARD limited edition album [...]
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, MAKE magazine — MAKER FAIREhttp://www.makezine.com/ Tuesday Dec 12, 7pm, Odessa Club Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of MAKE magazine will give an informal presentation followed by a conversation about their work in creating Maker Faire, an event bringing together art, science and home-made technology. "I saw the future of conferences today. [...]
Dear AllI’m pleased to announce that the screening of the 2006 Postgraduate Student Animation project, 19 Minutes Later, will take place this Wednesday at 6:30PM in the Seminar Room at the Digital Convent, Wits University. Please come and support the students and all the hard work they’ve put into this project, along with all the [...]
Somebody bombed my comments section and nearly crashed my server, so they shut me down. I’m back now, with a more recent spam blocker and wordpress version, but altho I’ve found blockers, I’m yet to find an efficiient bomb tosser… If anyone knows anything… Thanks. Stupid interweb spammers. We hate them.
For those of you missing links and rants and good ole fun around art and design in the form of a South African blogger, I’m sorry to have disappointed as of late. Still, I should mention that there has been a lot of movement of the blogging kind over on Andre SC’s site, PixelPlexus – [...]
e-Bayed myself another of my favorite scanners for performing images last week, built another battery pack, and hit Autumn in Donnybrook. Only caught the end of the season, but am so glad I did! It’s not only the leaf colors and interesting shades of damp that astonish me – the sky here, and how it’s [...]
Went to go see this and drink beer the other day with the Dublish arts crew… Fun. MAIM XI vs All Hawai Entrees Lunar Reggae XI 3pm , Thursday 30th November 2006, Pallas Studios, 17 Foley street, Dublin 1 Pallas has been Invited by curator Rachael Thomas to do a project in reaction to All [...]
