Archive for July, 2011

OK Go + Pilobolus – All Is Not Lost

OK Go’s videos are always fantastic. Watch this one.

Have a relaxing weekend!

pix by cristo balpalma

Happy Friday.

pool found here.

The Bicycle Portraits project

Have you heard about the ‘The Bicycle Portraits project’?


“Myself, Stan Engelbrecht and a good friend and fellow bicycle enthusiast, Nic Grobler recently started a project investigating South African bicycle culture, and the lack of cyclist commuters out there on our roads. We are currently raising funds to turn this project into a self-published full-color hard-cover photographic book ( similar to a previous book I’ve done, African Salad - www.dayonepublications.com ). We are shooting the entire project from our own bicycles while traveling around the country – we are meeting everyday South Africans out there while they use their bicycles.”

Agree.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
— Chuck Palahniuk

via swissmiss

Tree houses

Lately, tree houses are on my mind… one day I want to live in one; as a kid I played in them, my parents still have one. I found this beautiful tree house hotel in Germany, maybe I must spend a night there on my next visit. Some awesome tree houses I found for inspirtation.

pic 1 +2 by sunsurfer, pic 3 by everything inspiring, pic 4 by cunha, pic 5 by tumblr, pic 6 by moroshka, pic 7 by inventorspot

Nelani and Tiaan, Le Franschhoek, Franschoek

This is one of the few weddings I couldn’t be part of since Desmond and I started shooting weddings together… due to good reasons. He did a pretty good job without me… Have a look at Nelani and Tiaan’s beautiful high tea wedding.

Guy Tillim – Second nature @ Stevenson, Cape Town

Nice new exhibition running from today, 27 July – 3 September 2011 at Stevenson, Buchanan Building
160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town.

“For the past year Tillim has been photographing the landscape in French Polynesia. He was drawn to this landscape that has been continuously sketched – and later photographed – since Captain James Cook’s voyages in the late 18th century, perhaps because it almost eludes convincing representation. In reading the accounts of the artists who accompanied Cook, Tillim was interested to note that their debates on-board ship around the subject of the representation of landscape are very similar to those we have today: how much do you ‘give’ a scene and how much do you let it speak for itself? In this regard, he explains his own difficulties in finding a way through this binary because of our strongly conditioned notions of the frame and the picturesque..” more info here.

Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business

I just watched this talk and think you should watch it, too. Do good ;)

Ruth & Branden

Desmond and I took Ruth and Branden to Newlands Forest for some love-shots. See the rest here.

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