Category: Creative projects
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Falling In Love: 6 Women On When They Got Their First Tatts
Black Women With Tattoos is an on-going project examining how women relate to their tatts, and how the public in general views women’s bodies, specifically the comments which result whenever be-tatted gyal dem are out and about, flexin’ on this life thing.
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#Video | Author Rofhiwa Maneta On Black Men & Depression
Rofhiwa Maneta is an author who published his debut short story collection entitled Metanoia early 2017. He’s also a trapgod, a dope dude, and a father-to-be. We filmed this conversation in the wake of a personal breakdown he’d experienced at his workplace, one which led to him being hospitalised for a few days.
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Linda Sikhakhane: Of Coltrane, Mirrors And Otherworlds
Linda Sikhakhane’s head is tilted back. His eyes are closed. He takes breaths at regular intervals while listening to the playback of a song him and the quartet have just tracked. He opens his eyes momentarily after being nudged, lets off a smile, and goes back to his position of comfort. His saxophone solo continues […]
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#Photoessay | Inside Jackie Queens’ House Music Empire
Jackie Queens is an independent musician, a creator of alternate worlds, an avid house music head based in Cape Town, South Africa, and more. She enjoys having her ears bludgeoned by complex rhyme schemes of grime emcess, and is always up for a four-to-the-floor stomp at the nearest underground bass music turn-up.
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#Photoessay | Breeze Yoko’s Boniswa Goes To Town
The wind is strong. It’s Cape Town, end-March. Still, the wind’s muscled-up; buff and tuff! It’s all relative though, as with everything else in the city. So it’s no surprise that the CBD is experiencing relative calm while Woodstock, where multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko (TaKasi)’s been painting for the past two days, looks like a high-paced rave, […]
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#Phototessay | Behind The Scenes At Uno July’s ‘Isukile’ Videoshoot
When power cut in the middle of his studio session in November 2016, Gugs-born Uno July took a short break in the Red Bull Studios’ lounge in Cape Town — a medium-sized not-quite-room where talks with outstanding cultural figures whose work touches on, or is directly influenced by, music, are often held, and upon whose […]
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#Photoessay | Falko In Mamelodi
I asked Falko how he came to paint elephants. He told me a story about how he used to paint chickens, and stopped doing so after having a particularly bad encounter in Dakar.
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The Kool Out Doccie & Cape Town Rap Circa 2008 – 2012
I’ve wanted to pay homage to the period between 2008-2012. It’s the time I lived in Cape Town, and a time which, in retrospect, was vital to the development of Cape Town hip hop in that a lot of things — a lot of ‘firsts’ — happened.
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#Videografi | We Made A Thing With Author Phumlani Pikoli
“I’m disappointed,” remarked someone while watching a video I’d asked them to watch earlier today. “Do you like it?” the person continued, catching me off-guard. I felt inadequate.
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#Fotografi | Work Featured On Artist Fuzzy Slipperz’ New Website
Lisolomzi Pikoli has many aliases, and Fuzzy Slipperz will do for the purposes of this write-up. He’s a beautiful human, a conscientious painter, and a wild rapper, selectah and majivane. I met Fuzzy in rap circles circa 2008, and we’ve been kickin’ it since.
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