MARKET TONIGHT AT TJING TJING BAR

Together at Tjing Tjing Bar tonight. 

I'll be selling my wares amongst these other fabulous friends and fellow creators. 

There'll be free drinks from Bacardi for the early birds. Get there early so you can get in, last time there was a queue to get inside.

I'll have my prints, xstitch, cards, tags and feather earrings for sale.

I do commissions such as personalised blog headers, branding, custom x-stitch hangings and anything else you'd like to throw my way, come have a drink with me and let's chat :)

See you at 6pm!

Lost & Found

Hey!

If you're in JHB, you should go to this tonight / 24th November!

I'm exhibiting some of my work as well as 2 new pieces in the theme of "lost and found"

I'm quite proud of these two pieces as I spent countless hours on them. 

I'm also very excited to be exhibiting in Johannesburg again.

Here are some sneak previews of my works in progress from my posters.

The prints will be on sale as editions.

GENE KIERMAN & ALBERT COERSTE AT HAAS

Gene's exhibiting his artwork this Friday at Haas gallery!
See you there for a glass of wine and awesome art!

WHEN A FONT TURNS INTO A SONG

I've been doing some Font downloading.
Lots of it. I came across this beautiful blog with a list of free fonts that has taken me most of 2 evenings to get through all the amazingness. I'm not even sure how I got through to the blog in the first place, it was probably through my Pinterest. 

I made a new typography friend through all these links and I tweeted at him (@JamesTEdmondson) and mentioned how beautiful I thought his typography is and he sent me this!

Then, I came across a very cool design web design site and saw this snap shot of a site with a cat on it and some other lovely desaturated images. When I clicked on said image, it took me to a site filled with animated gifs!! My favourite! 
I clicked on the cat having a self bath instantly. Then some music started playing and it was quite nice. 
I then saw that the whole album was a free download. 
So, I downloaded it. 
I'm listening to it as I write this and it's very lovely, soft, folky, ukeleleleleyy music, beautiful male vocals and and. Great website, great music, all for you.

Look at the rad gifs, listen and download here.

Sean Lam:
Hanging Up The Moon is a 'self titled' 11 track album comprising of a series of home recordings.

It's been awhile since I've done something musically and this album is the result of me trying to satisfy that urge to get back at music making. Since I currently do not have the time to commit to my band, the only way forward is to do this alone and at home. All the recordings took place in ungodly hours (hence the moniker), mostly because that's really the only window of time I have. The stillness of the night and early mornings also helped, for I was simply working on this album in my study and not a sound proof studio.

In terms of the music, its really raw and simple stuff. I wanted to get back to writing songs that I can play in their entirety using just a guitar or ukulele, campfire songs if you'd like. Going folk this time around allowed me to better focus on the crafting of words. The minimal instrumentation was also fitting in terms of the mood and feelings I was trying to convey. The process of writing these songs and getting them out of my head have been rather therapeutic for me. I do hope you will enjoy listening to the album as much as I enjoyed making it.

Thanks

Advertising on Between 10 & 5

I made an animated gif for my advert on the Between 10 & 5 site.
You can check it out here.

I wanted it to look like a fuzzy black & white tv screen flashing "subliminal messages" of my work.
Let me know if it works :)

I'm sharing the advertising space with Says Who, Studio Muti and Social Contract

SA Blog Awards

After tweeting this link and talking about with other prolific bloggers in the country, I've decided to not take part in the SA Blog awards. At all. Ever.

If they can't take the time to research what's happening in the blogging world in our country, then I can't take the time to even pretend like I want to take part.

Another blogger forwarded me a letter from the SA Blog awards (no one has got back to me yet) and this is what they have to say:

Thank you for your comments regarding the categories.
 
We are aware of the recent Cape Town award. The design category is however a very broad category and as such there are several different types of sub categories for design, as you have correctly pointed out.
It is however not feasible or practical to create awards for categories and sub categories, and virtually impossible to get clarity on the design category.
 
As an example design could be fashion design, web design, business design, communication design etc... 
These blogs could then spill over into other categories which are more definable. 
We are trying our level best to ensure the blog categories are easy to enter, understand and practical to manage.
 
We really do appreciate your input, and will consider additional categories in future. 
 
Best Regards
SA Blog Awards

So that's the answer why your design / DIY / Fashion / web design / interior design / insert anything creative here, will not be taking part in the SA Blog awards. Because it's too broad a subject therefore it most certainly doesn't count and we'll leave it out altogether.