I share a studio with two painters, and have to pass through Medina’s space all the time. It may be that her space is so much clearer and plainer than mine, and it may be that her abstract paintings influence the way I look, but I always feel my eyes find so much to see …
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Randomly beautiful
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Bernard Buffet
I spotted this image by Bernard Buffet in a World of Interiors yesterday, and then put in a tiny bit of effort to find out more about this artist.My skim of the Wikipedia page and Musee Bernard Buffet page told me that Buffet was a painter in Paris from the mid 1940s, and he died …
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The Watch Shop
When I picked up my freshly fixed watch from the watch shop on Friday, I had my camera with me, and they let me behind the glass counter so that I could photograph all the hundreds and hundreds of little drawers and boxes where everything is perfectly categorised. Well, almost everything is perfectly categorised: it …
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Get ’em while it’s cold
Oak leaves: available for free from the Company’s Gardens, all winter long. Hurry, get yours now, before I pick them all up to tape on sheets of paper. I did it to make nice shapes from behind. It’s part of my job.
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Back to the source
Delighted to report that the Dala horse cake tin I nabbed in my inaugural IKEA visit has finally galloped its way to the intended destination in Joburg: arriving at the source of my love of all things Swedish, just in time for a birthday. So pleased it arrived safely, Monica, and happy birthday, Jörgen!
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Shh! IKEA’s reading my mind
Do I sound paranoid if I say that I think IKEA is intercepting my thoughts? Well, listen to this spooky tale, and decide for yourself: It starts when I took lots of photos of dandelions in Central Park one lovely Spring day. About a week later, I decided to put all this spare time of …
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Bicycle Portraits
After cycling a bit in New York, I’ve felt quite downhearted about just how tiny the bicycle culture is in South Africa. But I just heard something that’s given me a lot of hope for what’s possible back home: Avid cyclists and excellent photographers Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler are travelling all over South Africa, …
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Been there, done that
People, I have finally been to my much-fetishized shopping destination: I have been to IKEA. I got there by walking through Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is the least gentrified area of NYC I’ve seen so far. Capetonians, at times it felt a bit like the back streets of Maitland, which is not an area I’d …
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Wrong Eyed Jesus
We watched a DVD of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus on Monday night. It’s a kind of documentary of a mood, following Jim White through the juke joints, prisons, trailer parks, coal mines and pentecostal churches of the Southern USA in a junked up car with a wooden Jesus in the boot, listening to the …
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