Meet Odysseus. Odi designs under his own label called ArnReuby. His dresses are now available at MeMeMe in Long Street. Ask to see ‘the Jesus Dress’. If they kick up a fuss, tell them I sent you. Here’s his blog.
As a commercial writer, you won’t believe the weird shit people ask me to write. Aside from the usual assortment of radio promos, brochures for sanitary pads and direct mailers involving mouse traps, I’ve written ‘Happy Sweet Sixteen’ poems for rich kids whose parents can’t spell, ’silent narratives’ about dinosaurs that are obsessed with milkshakes, and even a weird-ass guide to different ’species of South African tourists’. So when my friend Tatum approached me some years back to help her out with editing a set of South African Affirmation Cards, I pretty much jumped at the opportunity, and clung to its skirts like a small child, burying my head in its legs and said ‘yes mommy!’. The cards have been an almost 5-year project, and last month we sat down to do the final editing, and yesterday I received my first box in my hands and am super excited to present Soulshine Affirmation Cards (click through to website where you can view the cards and order a deck for yourself by dropping her a mail):
I always make a point of reading OneSmallSeed, and it’s usually got the odd interesting article, along with the odd shocking photoshoot, but this time the team at OSS really outdid themselves. Really. This issue is called The Original Fake Issue and the theme is plastic. It features the work of Pierre et Giles, Brian Walker and a fab article on Jack Parow (here you go baby). This one’s for the collector’s pile.
Sad I missed Martha Stewart’s talk at Design Indaba, as she has been Week’s Biggest Bitching Topic in CT circles. Y’all don’t even understand. People been bitching about her glitter crafts.
They been bitching about her hairstyle.
They been bitchin about her glitter turkey.
They been bitchin’ about her ‘self-aggrandising’, her dogs and their blogs.
They been bitchin’ bout ‘how she’s not creative enough to be billionaire’.
They been bitchin’ about her ‘bad taste’.
They been bitchin’ bout the dead snake look in her eyes.
If Martha Stewart actually turned out to be Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Mary and Michael Jackson (miss u) all in one, holy crap y’all can bet they’d be bitchin’ bout that too.
If y’all know anything about Cape Town, you’ll know not being able to take part in Week’s Biggest Bitching Topic means am basically social outcast. Am nobody. Might as well be the ’sad l’il bro who’s pretending to be me with my old twitter name’. Would kill myself, ‘cept then who would give Georgia her steam treatments?
What to do y’all? Maybe Retweet some of the bitchin’?
RT @Marklives: Smother me with a Stenciled Hawaiian Flower Cushion
Dunno. Kinda arb. Kinda need ‘1st hand poison’ to ‘get my bitching game on’. Also bit skeptical about whether can generate enough poison to actually hate someone who fed noodles to Mr T. Think am just gonna hide out til the ANC Youth League issues another statement and I can ‘look people in the eye again’ (via being on an equal bitchin’ platform to them).
Missed u Martha. Next time.
Play area at Design Indaba where you could make Post-It Art. Hey who doesn’t love a Post-it? Note the giant Post-Its, for those are particularly awesome. Giant Post-Its! Off the hook y’all!
Ran into international Weblebrity PleaseFindThis at DI and *begged* him to let me take a pic. He obliged. Coz he is a chill bro.
Take a look at SA architect Mokena Makeka’s vision for the Green Point Stadium – inspired by an overturned protea. It didn’t get used but wow – pretty.
DI 2010 about start. Lots of black-rimmed glasses. Lots of grey. We’re back to fishfinger goodie bags – a plus. Lots of ppl walking around looking at iPhones. Feel at home. Among friends. First speaker Michael Beirut.
We are a go for mobile blogging! The good news is I’ll be blogging from Design Indaba. The bad news is I’ll be blogging from Design Indaba. So may not have time for ‘extreme wit’ and ‘fancy pics’. Follow me on Twitter for real-time updates, if you’re into that sort of thing.
If you haven’t been to a Design Indaba yet, then y’alls are missin’ out MASSIVE.
Y’all probably think ‘but I work in insurance, design has nothing to do with me’. Have added subtle twist to that though-provoking and hugely important piece of cinema from The Devil Wears Prada to show y’all what Design Indaba is all about:
“You go to your desk and you select out, oh I don’t know, that yellow plastic pen, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what kind of pen you use. But what y’all don’t know is that that pen is not just yellow, it’s not mustard, it’s not honey, it’s actually cadmium. Y’all are also blithely unaware of the fact that in 1968, Heinz Edelmann designed an animated video for the Beatles that featured this particular shade of yellow. It was called ‘Yellow Submarine’ – you may have heard of it? And then cadmium quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different fashion and interior designers. Then it filtered down into through car design departments and then trickled on down into some tragic stationery manufacturer who supplies in bulk to a corner café where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that yellow represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the design industry when, in fact, you’re using the pen that was selected for you by the people at this conference.”
If y’all are worried about ’sticking out’ or worried y’all won’t ’stand out’, just grab a copy of Monocle Magazine / Muppet and dive right in. You’ll be finesies! PS Whatcha gonna wear?
