Saturday, September 24, 2011

Lana del Rey - Video Games





Swinging in the back yard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name

Open up a beer and
Take it over here
And play video games

I'm in a fair sun dress
Watching me get undressed
To a party down town

I see you, the best is
Leaning for a big kiss
All is fair in my heart
Playing video games

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew.
They say that the world was built for two.
On our way with living
If somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

Singing in the old bar
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame
Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
He's drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of
Watching all our friends fall
Leaning out of old cars
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew.
They say that the world was built for two.
On our way with living
If somebody is loving you
Baby now you  do

(Now you do)

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth wit' you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew.
They say that the world was built for two.
On our way with living
If somebody is loving you
Maybe now you do

Maybe now you do.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Unwanted Knowledge

"Kowledge: the awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation."  - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/knowledge
The moment you hear something you shouldn't have, or realise that what you had just heard or read is something you would rather forget and that it wouldn't benefit your current state of mind in any way... it's too late. Yes, it's too late, the unwanted "knowledge" just corrupted your mind - nothing will ever be the same again. From now on, your "pure" idea of what was, is now a corruption of what is. Pre-supposing now is the field you're an expert in and any further encounters with what you thought something was, will now fully be judged and analysed by your wonderful mind filled with unwanted knowledge. Your view of the world will change. Your idea of the people around you will change. You will change. Unknowingly you will act and react different towards people and ideologies. Change is upon you - suck it up. Never again will you get rid of the Unwanted Knowledge that infiltrated your mind. The world and its people will be much less innoscent in your eyes. Your awareness of any future event or situation will be sharpened and more and more in tune. Unknowingly the unwanted knowledge creeps your brain and pollutes your future. 


Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Pinhole

The pinhole camera is a manual, lensless,  handmade camera. It literally takes long-exposure, out-of-focus photos through a pinhole that projects an inverted image into a darkened box.


Why use it? It's got a weak perspective. You have to know how to develop film. You can also only take one photo before you have to unload the camera in the dark and reload a fresh piece of film. It isn't really accurate at all.

It doesn't matter... Use it.

I'll tell you why...  The whole idea of the Pinhole Camera isn't accuracy. It isn't the perspective. It's the feeling - The feeling of capturing an image with something that was handmade, by you. 

It's the nostalgia...

...and sometimes using something that isn't all that perfect is what makes it perfect.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The "Wedding"

Traditional White Weddings

This sad Western Cultural Phenomenon rather should have taken the form of a Funeral. 


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Society's Child

Die Mens – weereens die onderwerp. Altyd die onderwerp. Word of advice: Moenie probeer om die kommersiële gedeelte van die samelewing te verwyder en te vervang met alternatiewe idees nie. Op die ou end van die dag het jy ‘n gemeenskap vol alternatiewe ideologieë, wat glad nie meer vir jou alternatief lyk nie. Kyk om jou, die proses is al amper voltooi. Die proses is al lankal aan die gebeur, in fact, dit is al amper heeltemal klaar.

Die alternatiewe beweging kan onder geen omstandighede funksioneer sonder ‘n teen-sisteem nie. Dit is nodig. Dit moet daar wees. Sonder dit is daar geen rede om alternatief te probeer wees nie.

So is ‘n nuwe anti-alternatief besig om vorm te kry – let wel ek gebruik die term “anti” nie in ‘n negatiewe opsig nie . Sien dié “anti” as ‘n meer alternatiewe beweging of selfs nog ‘n ander tipe alternatief, nie dieselfde as die vorige Alternatief nie. Enige nuwe alternatief is ‘n kind van die sisteem. Die twee is indirek soos ‘n rebelse adolessent en ‘n konserwatiewe ouer.


Musiek bring die ergste in jou uit.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Downgrade

Ons "Downgrade" om in te pas, nie waar nie? Ons gee dikwels ons intelligensie prys om aan die oppervlakkige gesprek van die samelewing te deel.  Intelligensie word deur baie beskou as 'n bedreiging en goeie taalgebruik intimideer die norm. Dus downgrade jy om deel te wees van 'n of uitsonderlike undercover samelewing of 'n uitsonderlike dom een.

26/11/2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Pretending "Not To Pretend"

Mense is oor die algemeen vir my 'n ongelooflike uitputtende spesie.

Jy kry sekere siele met wie jy vreemd genoeg heelwat goed oor die weg kom, by wie jy kan ontspan, mense by wie jy nie hoef te "dink" nie. Ongelukkig kry jy dan ook weer mense by wie dit vir jou onbewustelik voel asof jy "pretend".  Daardie mense wat meer oor ander "omgee" as oor hulle self.  Hierdie "mense" van wie ek praat suig jou siel uit en gee niks terug nie. Hulle neem al jou tyd en aandag in beslag, maar gee nooit van hulle eie nie. Hierdie mense luister nooit werklik nie. 

Die mense is nie noodwendig sleg, ongewild of karakters met wie jy jou nie wil assosieer nie. Die mense is vriendelik, geduldig, ordentelik, (ek kan 'n hele paar briljante eienskappe opnoem), maar die probleem kom egter in by die woordjie "TE".... Hulle is TE vriendelik, TE geduldig, TE  ordentelik en eenvoudig net "TE GOED".

So goed dat jou onderbewussyn dadelik, in die mense se geselskap, probeer vergoed vir jou doodnormale gebalanseerde lewe deur instinktief  ook "vriendelik" te raak. 

BLY WEG!

Bly weg van hierdie "Goeie Spesie" wat jou persoonlikheid onbewustelik algemeen laat voorkom. Bly weg van die siele wat TE GOED is om na jou te luister.

Don't waste your time on these people, while they're not wasting any time on you.



Thursday, September 30, 2010

The "Legit" World

Who made us to believe that this world we live in is a legitimate “sane” world? I blame it on Capitalism.  Money is the root of all insanity. Either way...

We make assumptions daily. We assume that what we see on our news-channels is the truth.  I believe that the average citizen know nothing more than what this over-ruling authority wants us to believe.

“Ons gaan blindelings deur die lewe en verkies om nie die moontlikheid van ‘n ‘Wêreldmag’ raak te sien nie.'

We prefer not to see it because this reality just sounds too “insane”.
We then pity and criticize those who realise that this insane reality is in fact the truth.

....Net ‘n mening...

"Though knowing that doesn't change a thing - you still need to live legit."

Thursday, September 9, 2010

"Smoorverlief" MK 2009

Vandag presies 'n jaar terug (09:09:09 - 09/09/09) het ons by die studio ingestap... Not knowing what to expect.  Wel.... Dit was life changing. Die mense daar was life changing.

Daar klou 'n sekere Nostalgie aan daardie tyd vas - 'n Nostalgie wat nie wil laat los nie. Die "oom" by wie ons gebly het. Die (h)ond wat 3uur in die oggend vir die maan blaf. Die (h)asie wat ons sommer Ben genoem het. Die "oom" se mini library in sy studeerkamer (waar ons tegnies gesproke in gebly het). Ons eerste keer in Don't Look Down Productions - die plek se INSANE dekor. Die Taxi Violence in Wilma se kar. David se unexpected, yet inspiring, woorde by die cantine - "The salvation has come, I put a smile on your faces". Die konsentraat in die scaley badkamer. Die Black Velvet.  Die "cheerleading" ou in Studio1, Elma, Sean en obsiously ook die ou in die pyjama-pants. Die wawiele saam met Wim en Wilma op Republic se gras. Die tour deur Randburg saam met Tums en die Coco-Pops add wat nie een van ons nog ooit weer gesien het nie. Die instant connection wat ons gehad het...

Dit was die  wêreld waarin ons gemaklik was. Ons het ophou "soek" nadat ons daarop afgekom het.

We knew that we've found what we've unknowingly been looking for.  




ZDM -(MK)Vrede! 

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Listen to Travis!

'n Glas yskoue water (met 'n pikante suurlemoentjie in... o ja en moenie die ys vergeet nie) staan op my lessenaar. Daar staan werklik nooit "beverages" op my lessenaar nie.... Hoekom? Ek is gefokus en ongelooflik perfeksionisties.  (Mooi Dan, wie flous jy nou eintelik?) Nee, die eintelike rede is dat ek soms (al is ek hoe perfeksionisties) baie lomp en verstrooid is, en my klein tegnologiese "heelal" staan ook dag na dag op die lessenaar.

Rustig sit ek en organiseer hierdie klein "tegnologiese heelal" voor my, met die glas water tussen my arm en die laptop (skaars 9 maande oud).  Ek moet dalk ook net noem dat my refleks reaksies nogal op standaard is, ongelukkig nie so op standaard dat ek in beheer is daarvan nie.  Die volgende het ongelooflik vinnig gebeur: Ek het geskrik (vir wat weet ek nie), my hand het vorentoe geskiet, ek het dadelik opgespring, 'n redelike getal kragwoorde het op die heilige Sondag my mond verlaat, ek het die glas weggestamp, die laptop afgesit, uitgeplug en dit omgekeer en probeer droogmaak. Dit is ongelukkig steeds "kop-onderstebo" op die handoek - nou nie meer in een stuk nie.

Ek voel soos 'n IDIOT! 


Ja, nie omdat ek die water omgestamp het nie, maar eerder omdat ek nou al my foto's, werkstukke en 'n hele paar persoonlike files kwyt is. Ek het net vandag besef dat ek verkieslik na Travis (dit is nou my gewete/ die stem in my kop/ wat jy hom nou ook al wil noem) moet luister, hy het inderdaad aan my genoem dat ek nie water na my lessenaar hoef te neem nie - aangesien ek nie eers werklik dors was nie!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

On January23, 2008 three musicians came together to discuss the electric guitar.

Last night I saw something life changing....(a bit too late, but still life changing).... A documentary following a meeting between 3 generations of guitar virtuosos.


Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge


"Who says you need to buy a guitar?" - Jack White 



Watching Jack White talk and play felt as if I could get to know a piece of his soul. His pure sound ferociously grabs your ears and leads them to a tranquil place where you can't get enough of it.

Jack White listening to his favourite artist - Son House.



Playing for The Raconteurs, White played until his fingers bled.


I'm not going into Jimmy Page and The Edge right now (I don't want to give away ALL the good stuff).  There's really not much more I can say, except that anyone who listens to "quality" music NEEDS to see this.... and remember.... It Might Get Loud.


It Might Get Loud - a film by Davis Guggenheim.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Our World Of Pantomime




Ons leef in hierdie wêreld van Pantomime wat ons vir onsself geskep het. Doelbewus ontduik ons die woorde wat almal dink, maar niemand sê nie. Hoekom? Jy's bang. Jy's bang vir verwerping - onbewustelik mime jy jou lewe om en staan dan verontwaardig en kyk na 'n "mensdom" wat jou oënskynlik nie verstaan nie.

Moenie vingers wys na almal wat jou alleen op die verhoog los nie, you don't seem to want any company. Diegene wat fine is met die feit dat dit net jy op die stage is - I'm happy for you.
As jy nie van jou selfgemaakte play hou nie... PRAAT. Jy sal unconditional understanding ervaar.

Ongelukkig is "praat" nie so maklik nie - almal kan praat, maar sê jy regtig wat jy wil sê? ..Of mors jy net jou mede mimikus se tyd? Nou ja, dit daar gelaat. Ons is almal 'n klomp actors wat die wêreld se script volg en dan verontwaardig rondstaan.