when you have a border line weird fascination with walls like i do you notice all kinds of strange happenings on their surface....
for instance this old micro throwup in observatory, cape town, was sadly capped a few years back and has faded beautifully into the wall over time...
on top of this - really neatly in a shiny gold paint these words have been carefully painted out... its been there for ages and brings certain unexplainable enjoyment to my day everytime i pass it...

ive developed a fascination with this certain style of painting...ive seen it in cape town and durban... harbour towns.. the stowaways from boats that travel from north and central africa, to south africa and then to europe leave these messages.
its a very undocumented and harsh journey that they go through and the places that you find their work is under railway bridges and hidden shelters... like them elusive and hard to find

louis minaar is an artist that hails from pretoria, south africa... his show - 'originale' was held at salon91 last week. see the write up and pics from the show by ernst alex and here is a link to two of his videos - one on youtube
and his picturebook experiment video on facebook

but it aint....

my absolute and definite favorite artist in the universe is cashril plus....
this is the piece he did at searle st for his eleventh birthday day... on his own... yip..... sharp sharp....

possibly one of the most unpublished scenes in the graffiti world... but one of the toughest..... all respect to the train writers of south africa! dodging bullets, gangsters, security gaurds with guns and on the look out for copper cable theives... heres a short glimpse into some of the damage that cant be undone...

south africa is indeed a complex place .... die antwoord is evidence of this...
this music video.... is... duidelik.... the part at the end where waddy dances makes ...me .. laugh.. so hard... but i suspect you may have to be south african to completley understand why... check out their myspace
....and check out this bevokde music video vannie kaap van suip...

a good friend of mine mike saal draws in dreams... i love his work....
here is his site...

my friend breeze sent me an email ... 'please send me the pics you took of me with the cow heads from when we painted johannesburg taxi ranks last year.... ', he asked...
so looking through my backup files i found them and thought id share one with you as well...
memoirs from sunday painting sessions on hot summer days... bright red walls amongst outdoor meat hacking taxi ranks....
the inner city of joburg - nothing quite like it i thought.....

the woodstock blues.....

Kudzanai Chiurai is a young revolutionary Zimbabwean pop-artist who lives in South Africa.
Ive been following his work for some time...
Last week Kudzi opened his first show in Cape Town at the Goodman Gallery.
Entitled Dying to Be Men, Kudzi’s striking mixed media works are politically charged and carry with them a certain energy from the streets...
Heres is a link to some of his work from the show and his last project yellow lines...

chalk on cement.... sadness on hope... chills in shadows... hunger under bridges... disenfranchised with no blankets... what is wrong south africa... what is wrong africa... what is wrong planet earth....

you know my favorite artist is cashril+
his comic launch is tomorrow night... were organizing a small intimate event... im very excited... ill post some images from the show soon.....

there are many ideas going around about why we are alive... this one i found in joburg some time ago... a good and simple analogy... more palatable and conceivable then any heavan and hell philoshophy... my sunday night thoughts... are meandering into the darkness of sleep... more later...x

yes.... it is... a penis rocket.....

nice time kids..... ugly americans... hard livings.... NTK...UA...HL....CPT hosh.... it makes me home... sick....

my good friend motel 7 is an artist of sad inverted fairy tales....castles and weeping childhoods. skulls and candyfloss.... were really sad to lose her in cape town as shes moved over to europe.... but her work needs to fly...for sure- here is her new website....
http://www.motelseven.com/
feast your eyes and your inner twisted child......*******