settle down settle down... street art is not just a trendy fix... its an expression of ones environment and experiences... its not about fame and fashion... its about communication... these photos are taken by Tim Hetherington look under the war graffiti section and weep for this beautiful sad world.....

fly on the wall have just brought out the fokofpolisiekar documentary which was excellent... and i still love this circular painting video they put together about a year ago... you can see more of their work on their website

thursday i saw a guy knocked over in the street. friday my boyfriend and i broke up. my heart... then i somehow came across a cow being sacrificed, the crowning of a new xhosa king in the western cape. so amazing and meticulous are the men who disect the cow. the heart removed. my heart soothed. anscestoral connections. i have none. but am humbled by this strong culture. watched the blk jks. walked up the mountain with them. slept on a hill in the sunlight. found a print of wild horses at night. this is in front of my bed now. to calm the hollow feeling in the morning... watched mr devious documentary last night and also billy the kid...
life is a myriad of pain and love and somewhere inbetween there must be a reason for this wheel of fortune moving so fast so endlessly...

one of my pet hates is seeing these trucks that pack workers in like cattle...
sometimes on the back of a bakkie there are so many guys squeezed in that you cant believe some dont fall off...
is this a legacy of apartheid where the rights of the labor force are so insignificant...
where some peoples comfort are worth so much less then others....
lets never forget what this country is built on... the sweat and hardship of many exploited men.... aluta continua

every bit of it.....

the sweetest and wisest artist in my life when all else fails cashril+ is there...
take a look at his latest comic launch at word of art

here is the link to the cashril+ website

see the pics of the launch and the link to the comic illustrations
and his animation

mmmm..... were on our way to the transkei...

every time...*******

.... im thinking parkjams in devon valley favela... cows and horses reigning free in the valleys of the transkei...missions into falling huts.. raining windswept beaches in the morning...lost... searching... finding...some idea of home...

i was reading the book the bang bang club
on the roadtrip... its powerful and strong and sad and devastating and made me think about how when i was alive when some of this was going down... i keep thinking as i read... i was alive then... sharing time with these stories...

its the story of four south african photographers Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter, and Ken Oosterbroek who banded together during the most violent times in our countries history to document the real and hard reality that most people would have preferred to ignore... it gives one perspective into the violent history of our country... and is a very personal account of the ethical and emotional struggles that war photographers have to deal with...
you can view some of the bang bang club's photos here...
and an audio slide show on the new york times site

something we are all searching for
despite the fact that it found us long ago....

this dark and intrepid man is a musical and artistic genius.... ive always been fascinated with his band the wild eyes.... as well as holding his illustration work in high regard...
his graphic novel can only be super fantastically beautiful and intricate ...

take a look at his website and see some of what is coming out from under the south africas stormy skies...

love and hate hail from pretoria but now reside in slaapstadt.... comprising of artists 351073 and black koki...
they are doing some work on the street and allot of illustration and painting... i got my brother one of black koki's paintings for his birthday and ive got one of 351073's hungry dogs next my light switch which reminds me to see in the dark and look into daylight fearlessly....
they also work near me and i step into their studio for inspiration from time to time...

you can page through their flickr account. ill keep you posted when they next do any shows...okay....