finally – radio we actually want to listen to

30 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG recommends, Celebrity, Parties, bloggers, cape town, south africa, weblebrity, 1 Comments

LA, PD and CTG

Went to the launch of 2oceansvibe radio on Wednesday night – you’ve never seen the New Cape Quarter so packed. It was an awesome evening – Jack Parow played live! Which rocked! Lots of good wine and pretty people. But the best part is the fact that we don’t have to listen to mass market radio anymore! Thank DOG. Because I’m NOT mass market. I’m CTG.

Click here to check out the pics from the launch.

Click here to check out 2oceansvibe radio site.

Click here to stream 2oceansvibe radio live. You can actually stream it on your phone! It totally works real time – perfectly! Ja, radio really is obsolete isn’t it… miss u AM / FM. Kinda. Not. Have thoroughly enjoyed the first 2 days of 2OV radio - Richard Hardiman and Seth are doing a great job. Don’t you think they’re really funny to listen to? Especially since they’re talking about things that are actually relevant to CTG’s interests – completely unlike ‘normal radio’. Plus I find myself actually liking ALL the music. And even the ads! Hehe. Tune in and enjoy.

Makeup, styling and shoot creds

22 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG, advertising, cape town, cosmetics, fashion, lifestyle, photography, shoots, south africa, weblebrity, 0 Comments

Since a lot of people have asked who shot and did the styling on this Nomu competition poster, I thought I’d follow up. Samantha Laura Kaye was the makeup artist and stylist on this job – click here to see exactly what products she used on me. You’ll want to get hold of that studio finish foundation – it’s amazing. The photographer here was exceptional Robert Miller – CTG’s official photographer, FYI – and he sent through some of these out takes and behind the scenes shots.

Things are still chilled. Like the champagne.

Twitter break. Very NB

Champagne break. Possibly even more NB.

Bubbly kicking in. Getting kicky.

Getting a little coy.

Getting loose. Wild, even.

Too much fun! Sam and Robert make it very easy for CTG’s plebby un-model-like self to play Kate Moss-Kate Moss. Looking forward to some more interesting shoots coming up…

netprophet: what a ride!

17 May 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Celebrity, bloggers, cape town, south africa, technology, weblebrity, 3 Comments

Netconference panel: Stephan Ekbergh, Sarah Lacey and Stephen Newton, hosted by Richard Hardiman

Went to the delightfully geeky technology and entrepreneurial-focused Netprophet conference last week, which has suddenly become amazing. it’s of the same standard as Design Indaba, except it’s totally free! i guess having Old Mutual funding much of it certainly helps. really – i was blown away. I was there as ‘media’, so put clothing over the lingerie to appear vaguely respectable.

Everyone there was on either a laptop, an iphone or an ipad. Felt right at home. Felt like, for once, no one was judging me for being on my phone. It felt good. A safe place. A happy place.

I won’t go into details over each speaker, but i’ll tell you who i thought stood out:

Rich Mulholland

Rich Mulholland, obviously. He had the crowd eating out of his clicker. I’ve never seen him speak before, and i love that he doesn’t take himself or his weblebrity status too seriously. Y’all shoulda seen some of the egos in the room, and Rich seemed pleasantly free from all that.

The Stephan Ekbergh, Sarah Lacey and Stephen Newton panel was great, because they were all such personalities. Between Stephan calling himself a “caveman” in comparison to Sarah, and Sarah’s no-bullshit, smart opinions (I’m kinda over cloud-computing too heh) and Stephen Newton’s experience, they made for good listening. And then Vinny Lingham tossing out the tweets about Stephan not investing in local startups, and then Stephan’s later blog post explaining that his entire business is South African anyway… oh my lord! Wonderful cross-mediumed geeky hilarity!

Adi “I don’t take funding” Pienaar had a good story too. Woo Themes have done undeniably well.

Adi Pienaar of Woo Themes

Highlights included the video intros – we even had a massive talking Seth Godin head! It’s like he was right there, with us. I felt close to him. I felt his presence.

Oh Seth! Blessed were we

Loved Vinny Lingham’s kid up there in a bear suit, for why have kids if not to dress them up as small animals? Right Frances darling?

Vinny and his kidbro

Well done to the Netprophet team, and to Old Mutual and the other sponsors, for sponsoring such an awesome and worthy event. It’s super inspiring. If you use the internet in your business in any way, you really should make an effort to attend next year.

Site of the Week: Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor

31 Mar 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in art, beasties, bloggers, weblebrity, 2 Comments

I present: Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor – the official website!

What on earth are you still doing here? Hit up Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor immediately!

Julia Allison quits blogging. Oh lawd.

24 Mar 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in bloggers, technology, weblebrity, 5 Comments

Julia Allison has ‘quit the game’.

Is this a foreshadowing of things to come? Will other bloggers ‘get over it’ and ‘drain their souls’ and just ‘up and quit’, one day, when you least expect it?

Some of you may know JA, some of you may not. She’s not relevant to everyone. But as someone who’s been blogging for over 5 years now, I’ve come to see JA a pacesetter, a blogger who pioneered the art of lifecasting and certainly someone to look up to when it comes to handling criticism. JA nobly shrugged off some very harsh shizz, including a douchebag who had no life and took to reblogging every post of hers with a negative, Julia-sucks slant. Every. Post. Yes, that’s like a whole new level of loser. I’d link to it, but losers like that don’t deserve links.

So after 6 years of this, she’s over it.

Which brings up some very NB questions. Namely…

who will be the new JA???? (start the clock ticking… I give her 3 weeks max from the moment this question is posted before she comes back). Ah Julia, don’t quit. Take the time you need. Change. Like the quote you posted in your farewell piece:

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Curious Case of Benjamin Button

But please, don’t quit the blogs! xo Alex