Big Think recently sat down with Scott Schuman aka. The Sartorialist for a 30-minute-long video interview. During the discussion Schuman talks about a number of topics, inckluding how he got started clogged, what he looks for while out on the streets photographing, and if he feels his blog has an affect on the wider fashion industry. Watch below!
found on huhmagazine
Yeah! Finally I went to CHOP, Peet Pienaar and Hannerie Visser’s secret restaurant. I invited my birthday-husband Desmond for an awesome foodie-design experience. We had a kick ass time with our friends Jacques and Toinette and met new ones as well and talked about funny things like “What would you prefer: being fried, bolied, sautéd, grilled…?” ;) The secret restaurant attracts good people that like good food (veal brain ravioli, vodka jelly, an amazing steak, smoked potatoes, a picture of a salad) and a rad experience.
An excerpt from an interview I did with the two geniuses.
Tell me more about it, the secret restaurant..
H: Well, it’s a secret.
P: It’s called CHOP and it only seats 12 people at a time and it happens once a week.
If it’s not a set restaurant, is it like a pop-up space?
P: Yeah, it’s a pop-up space and it got a set menu of 5-courses.
H: … and it’s on Thursdays. It’s 350 per person and it’s with beer and wine and water.
P: It’s quite an experience; it includes quite a bit of design and stuff, we’re trying to push things there that we love.
(For bookings, send an email to toffie@thepresident.co.za) – I visited the last one for now since the Toffie Food Festival will be their priority in the next days
See you at the Toffie Food Festival this coming weekend!
This is so supersmart. I like it.
Keret House is a project by Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala. And it soon be built in a narrow void between the buildings in the district of Wola, Poland. ”Keret House is said to have an interior that will vary between 122 centimeters and 72 centimeters, making it an extremely narrow crib. With a total area of 14,5 square meters, the new house will accommodate a workspace as well as a guest studio.”
found here
Yesterday on the Sea Point Promenade.
For all us bicycle lovers in Cape Town – I heard good news.
“Hey Cape Town cyclists, have you seen this yet? The Cape Town Bicycle Map was developed by the publishers of Mobility magazine and organisation Ride Your City, to encourage more people to use bicycles as a mode of transport. The map’s cover, logo and look was designed by Bradley Abrahams while the inside layout was designed by Bronwen Moys. The map identifies a network of safer, connected routes; locates bicycle lanes and parking; details cyclists’ rights and responsibilities; and provides information about bicycle signage.
Gail Jennings, publisher of the Bicycle Map series says, “I have wanted to create a bicycle map for Cape Town ever since I first picked up a cycle map of New York during a visit there. And since then, wherever I travelled and cycled – whether London, Paris, Gotoborg, Lancaster – I collected bicycle maps, my office wall is covered with them.”
This first edition covers the central city, the segregated West Coast to Milnerton route, the southern suburbs and south peninsula. The soon-to-be-released Winelands Bicycle Map will include the Durbanville area as well as the Winelands.
Individual copies of the A1 full-colour maps (folded to DL) cost R40.00 each; orders of 10 copies or more cost R30.00 each or pick up a free copy from these stores.”
Found on 10and5
I am and have always been quite a big electronic music fan (simply makes me dance ;)). Since I left Germany, I’m not really on the ball with what’s big there. So the other day I heard about Paul Kalkbrenner, checked out his music and loved it.
Wiki says: Paul Kalkbrenner (German pronunciation: [paʊl ˈkalkbrɛnɐ]) (born 1977 in Leipzig, Germany[2]) is a German electronic musician and actor from Berlin.
As of 2010, Paul Kalkbrenner has tallied up more than 15 years of experience as a producer and live act. The early 90s after the Berlin Wall fell were formative years for Paul, and after spending many long and sleepless nights on the dancefloors of E-Werk, Planet and Whale, the dream was born to make music himself. A job as TV editor got him through the mid-90s and financed his first music gear. By this point Paul had already decided that he did not want to be a typical DJ playing other people’s records, but rather to play only his own music, live in a club setting. His first tracks as Paul Kalkbrenner were released in 1999 on Berlin-based BPitch Control (the newly founded label from Ellen Allien) as the Friedrichshain EP, titled after his home district in the city’s east. A series of further singles and two full-lengths (Superimpose and Time) followed, plus continuous live performances.
Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner – ‘Sky And Sand’
(don’t like the video, but the sound!!)
pic found on eventim
“For our latest mission we constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. We wanted to see what would happen if New Yorkers were given the opportunity to amplify their voices to “say something nice.”
Find out more about this cool idea from improveverwhere.
Street art in Cape Town.
JR was in Cape Town.
A good ol game of scrabble..
… I found a page of the Koran in the month of Ramadan.
