Tower of Ten Thousand Scribes

IT'S THE LION FEELING

2011-09-16T11:10:00.003+02:00

143 - A Bad Blogger

2010-09-14T10:36:00.002+02:00

I've been slack at blogging but hard at work. Here's some sketches I've done during the break. All first off rough drafts...to lazy to finish them off.

142 - Cadbury Joy Characters

2010-05-12T16:20:00.002+02:00

First attempt.

second...

final.

and here's the commercial.

no i didn't animate...and the joy monster isn't my work either.

141 - knife and leather

2010-05-11T08:12:00.006+02:00

Here is a fascinating artist. He uses a knife to etch through leather as his medium. I am impressed.

140 - Man of the Coat

2010-04-22T10:59:00.004+02:00

i couldn't be bothered to finish this off properly. you'll just have to be happy as it is. i like the preliminary sketch...it seems more interesting than the "finished" product. go figure.

139 - holga grayscale

2010-04-21T16:39:00.002+02:00

138 - Studies

2010-04-19T13:53:00.003+02:00

I've been trying my hand at some black and white studies. They look clumsy I know but it's been awhile since I embarked on the boring task of making paintings look like photographs. The challenge of working them out of black canvas helps.

237 - Hi

2010-02-26T11:41:00.003+02:00

right. so that was a nice break.

here's a band.

236 - rainbow cat

2009-11-10T09:15:00.002+02:00

235 - the drop off

2009-11-10T08:53:00.004+02:00

so ja, here are some pics of my reef visit.

a school

clam

bubbles

nemo

234 - night of a thousand drawings

2009-11-06T13:04:00.003+02:00

so i said goodbye to this little lady on wednesday night as she made her way by envelope to 'night of a thousand drawings' i was working all night so never got to see the exhibition and have no idea if she sold or not. anyway, all for a good cause and for some random person in cape town.

233 - paronella park

2009-10-27T12:46:00.003+02:00

232 - i'm back

2009-10-22T12:16:00.000+02:00

from my schtint in aus

231 - K

2009-09-23T11:48:00.000+02:00

230 - GaanPro

2009-09-23T08:26:00.003+02:00

so i caved and bought rechargeable batters.
but i have found something to spend my christmas bonus on.

photos video product

229 - dance

2009-09-23T08:19:00.002+02:00

this is a clip from fiddler on the roof...massive skills...massive.

228 - colour holga

2009-09-21T15:35:00.001+02:00

227 - jacob zuma and kayne west

2009-09-15T15:42:00.001+02:00

226 - black and white holga

2009-09-15T12:17:00.006+02:00

well, with my digital camera's rechargeable batteries dying I had two choices, i could spend the rest of my budget on new ones or buy new film.
i went for the film.

225 - hayom baba

2009-09-11T16:50:00.002+02:00

224 - the fall

2009-09-09T08:33:00.004+02:00

okay, i think i have a favourite movie.
i love everything about it. good design, shots, story, humour, animation, etc.

trailer

223 - speaking of which

2009-09-04T11:12:00.006+02:00

here's a music video from mark ronson with an uncanny resemblance to the jessica rabbit scene from "who framed roger rabbit". the animation is alright but all in all it just doesn't hold the same craftsmanship that jessica's stage scene does.

first of all the animation is amazing. moving a character beautifully through all those camera shifts and perspectives with a 2d character is pure genius. the weight of this animation that i feel out weights the previous is the way the animator keeps you engaged the whole time and makes the character strong and in charge of everyone in the audience. jessica would walk all over the character above.

anyway, this video is one of mark's better ones.

222 - tokio hotel and the automatic

2009-09-04T08:49:00.006+02:00

so for the last month i've been hearing this track at probably the envy of every hot blooded teenage girl. anyway the reason why is because wicked pixels made this video. i got to do some robot designs for this project.

eg:

221 - it suits you matt

2009-09-03T11:03:00.001+02:00

nice

220 - taxi taxi

2009-08-27T09:11:00.003+02:00

you kinda have to be from cape town to get this

219 - stef bossie

2009-08-25T11:19:00.004+02:00

here's a dutch chap that sings afrikaans in a way that to me doesn't sound insulting. like i said to stephan the other day, i'd rather speak afrikaans with a strong english accent than put on the afrikaans accent because it just sounds like i'm speaking like an idiot.

218 - for snorts and giggles

2009-08-24T10:59:00.002+02:00

something i did for fun from some cut out images i found

217 - ohbijou

2009-08-24T09:50:00.004+02:00

i like this video. nice to see some stop motion animation making it's rounds in the music video arena.

216 - 000

2009-08-21T13:58:00.002+02:00

215 - yom sheeshee

2009-08-21T10:14:00.002+02:00

i've been waiting for this day all week because i didn't have a weekend break last time.
this is because we work hard to give the best we have.
anyway, speaking of attention to detail, here is a map that i scanned from the shots 2009 booklet and i couldn't help but pick out harare and i noticed that it was out...tza tza.

it's more like tete in mozambique.

214 - District 9

2009-08-20T06:34:00.005+02:00

so the buzz around the studio is that distric 9 is doing well. Admittedly after my comments on invictus, i have to say that the 'apartheid' theme in this movie is well used. i hope we see more of this sort of film making coming out of south africa.

anyway, here's the flick that caught peter jackson's attention.

live in joburg

213 - cinderfella

2009-08-18T09:29:00.003+02:00

so the last post got me thinking of jerry lewis

212 - freakazoid

2009-08-17T10:48:00.006+02:00

freak out

211 - son of jacob

2009-08-14T09:07:00.001+02:00

210 - gentlemen broncos

2009-08-13T08:58:00.002+02:00

so anyway, i want to watch this movie.

209 - fantastic

2009-08-12T09:09:00.004+02:00

so here's the trailer for fantastic mr. fox.
what do you think?
honestly i was really looking forward to this and now after watching the trailer i'm put off immensely. i can understand wes anderson being faithful to his cast and no offense to americans but this is a story set in england with english animals and english country culture except it's american accents and american humour and frankly the trailer comes off as an all american summer comedy for the whole family. i'll have to watch the movie as sometimes the trailer is deceiving but i have a hunch that wind in the willows and the wallis and gromit films will out shine this by far.

208 - MIX

2009-08-11T07:56:00.003+02:00

ever have one of those moments when you're singing a song and then inadvertently swap over to another songs lyrics and they fit in well together. well, i like to call that a "dj vu"

207- caught on bloom

2009-08-07T17:10:00.001+02:00

206 - magnetic fields

2009-08-06T09:13:00.003+02:00

i like this song

205 - mama

2009-08-05T10:36:00.002+02:00

you're the one

204 - Avishai Cohen

2009-07-28T10:24:00.001+02:00

i'm liking the new stuff from him

203 - EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EMERGENCY

2009-07-17T11:11:00.014+02:00

this has been a necessary action called for by stephanus in order to remove michael jackson from the top page. thank you for your cooperation.

202 - michael jackson

2009-07-09T14:49:00.002+02:00

so is michael jackson still alive?
click on the picture to read the intriguing post.

201 - 35mm

2009-07-08T12:10:00.003+02:00

200 - 200

2009-07-07T10:00:00.001+02:00

never actually held one in my hand

099 - spot a zimalian

2009-07-06T09:01:00.002+02:00

098 - because people have to eat

2009-07-03T08:10:00.001+02:00

097 - the beastie boys of the east

2009-06-29T09:34:00.002+02:00

cohenetmushon

like the music video

096 - volcanologist

2009-06-26T14:33:00.004+02:00

yup, that's what my dad wanted to be. he became an accountant instead. i am grateful to my dad for encouraging me to pursue what i wanted to do with my career choice. i appreciate the fact that he trusted me in this area. it is hard to let your child go and make a move into a career that isn't as safe as say a more generally available job. you want you children to be safe and secure so i really appreciate the fact that my dad let me go into a field that could very likely have left me high and dry. they say that earning a living and moving out of home is a step of maturity but i think doing what my father did was more of a maturity step than i could have ever have made at that time.

tatenda zvakanaka baba

095 - war games

2009-06-25T11:56:00.003+02:00

these little guys were all around my dad's study. i remember the terrains that he built as well. he put a lot of detail and effort into all of it. i remember how badly i wanted to play with them but they where strictly off limits. i can still remember the smell of the paint he used for them, it comes back every time i see these guys.

094 - why

2009-06-24T09:41:00.005+02:00

so yesterday was fun...in fact joy did not cease to flow from the fountain of joyness...turns out the rugby was on at newlands last night which meant that all you die hard fans gathered in your drones and caused some of us to take one and a half hours out of the usual twenty minutes to get home...there was little disconcertedness on this here face. When i finally got home, i needed a coffee and then subsequently broke the suger bowl. Feeling tired and pretty much over it, i decided to run hot water on my feet and hands because it was so cold yesterday, i could hardly type. anyway, i sat on the bath edge feet lifted up so that the initial cold water wouldn't get to them first and turned the hot water on...so i have one of those shower handle thingys...i didn't realise the lever was up so i subsequently drenched myself in cold water...which brings me to my father. My dad says that inconvenient things happen to him all the time, in fact it's his mode of humour...and he's good at it. when bad things happen to me in succession to the point of being ridiculous i end up replaying the events in my head and retell myself the story in the fashion my father would and i tend to laugh it off.

i remember one party where we had to go dressed as anything beginning with 'P'...my dad went as a pessimist.

093 - flying the fortress

2009-06-23T12:12:00.001+02:00

b17s remind me of my dad. he strung up one in my bedroom and i remember seeing it at night when i was lying in bed. it was one of his models that he bought, put together and painted. i like these planes more so than any other, most likely because of the affiliation to them.

092 - Baba Gee

2009-06-22T13:23:00.006+02:00

so ja, i've been taking the easy burner lately...much to the disappointment of you stephan...but never fear brighter days are coming...being that we have past the longest day of the year and so it only gets lighter from here on out...speaking southernhemispherically...wow...it's actually a real word...anyway, it brings me to my next point...father's day...yes...i thought of my father all of last week and have decided to post all this week in honour of him. little things here and there that will forever remind me of him.

Baba Gee

091 - gelukkig vaderdag baba

2009-06-22T10:32:00.003+02:00

090 - invictus

2009-06-11T09:51:00.003+02:00

invictus

so this is the new movie about the south african rugby team. not really that keen for it. i'm tired of seeing movies about south africa that always revolve around apartheid. there is actually more to this country and it's people. anyway, i am currious to hear matt damon's accent. leonardo dicaprio sounded like a south african exagerating a south african accent and he was suppossed to be zimbabwean. hats off for the effort though, it is a notoriously difficult accent to pull off.

especially noticeable when juxtapose the real thing

089 - have a good liver

2009-06-11T09:11:00.005+02:00

so music time.
above is Bon Iver. i like his style. took some getting use to his very deep soul searching tempo but considering he wrote the album in a wood cabin while battling mononucleosis is just beyond legendous. he was part of a band called DeYarmond Edison that split. he went the log cabin way and they went the Megafaun way...
and i hope you feel as richly vocab endowed today as i am.

088 - Persia

2009-06-10T13:42:00.002+02:00

087 - snap

2009-06-10T08:40:00.003+02:00

thanks ma...love it

086 - winter woolies

2009-06-09T08:55:00.003+02:00

so i got a nice surpise...yes indeed. today is particularly cold and was miffed that i have lost my ever faithful beanie, but all that turned around when i was handed a package by phumeza. she said "i think it's a gluv for your hands, from your ma in austria," anyway, it was a new turkish style beanie and o my is it sweet. ironically it matches the pull over i'm wearing today, i'll take a pic tonight and post it tomorrow...ooo, can you feel the anticipation. be patient my legends, all in due time. anyway the above pic is the pattern on the so fore mentioned headgear.

085 - the website

2009-06-08T15:51:00.003+02:00

it's been updated

084 - bibleface

2009-06-08T09:46:00.003+02:00

this took an extremely long and painful time to make

083 - pardon my language

2009-06-05T10:17:00.003+02:00

i love languages *

082 - dance

2009-06-02T10:25:00.004+02:00

some ashkenazim moves to a fresh yiddish track dropped by DJ Andrews

old school break dancing to crystal castles

081 - volkim

2009-06-01T13:28:00.001+02:00

081 - holga

2009-06-01T09:00:00.002+02:00

the latest

080 - alone

2009-05-29T17:19:00.002+02:00

opened up on this image randomly just as the track i was listening to sang the word above

079 - funny but kind of gory

2009-05-25T07:27:00.004+02:00

Gavin sent me this picture over the weekend...don't think I'll ever wish for that again.

078 - i have a car

2009-05-22T09:27:00.001+02:00

077 - turn and make a change

2009-05-21T08:19:00.001+02:00

076 - now now

2009-05-20T09:25:00.002+02:00

075 - historic bank transfer

2009-05-19T11:30:00.002+02:00

074 - doodle

2009-05-18T08:07:00.002+02:00

i like it when people draw me pictures

073 - don't be hasty

2009-05-08T15:16:00.002+02:00

this is the best thing i've read in a long time

As a personal boundary, I refuse to watch romance films or read romance novels. I have friends who have incredible boyfriends/husbands, but they sit and watch these films and say "why doesn't he ever do THAT for me?". I don't want to create expectations in my heart, I just want to be able to appreciate whatever romantic things my husband does for me in his own way, and not cheapen it by comparing it to something I've seen in a film or read in a book.

nicely said jenny

072 - facebook graffiti

2009-05-08T14:43:00.004+02:00

071 - baba

2009-05-08T08:12:00.005+02:00

070 - vi.sualize.us

2009-05-07T12:06:00.005+02:00

thought i'd have some fun with this error page

069 - GIF

2009-05-07T10:41:00.001+02:00

068 - Mutei Mathi

2009-05-07T09:24:00.003+02:00

some new stuff from the boys

067 - Andrew Bird

2009-05-06T07:45:00.002+02:00

i like

cool music video

i can not speak of the genius, it is beyond my keyboards ability

066 - Wortelgat

2009-05-04T08:53:00.002+02:00

065 - did someone say road trip?

2009-04-30T08:23:00.002+02:00

i'm off to wortelgat this long weekend...adeus

064 - AHHA

2009-04-29T09:52:00.002+02:00

063 - from the newspaper

2009-04-28T11:27:00.003+02:00

sometimes it's a good thing that woman are complicated

062 - wakened

2009-04-23T13:12:00.002+02:00

yay, i got to do some album art work, lots of learning curves where involved.

the band

061 - the voting polls are open

2009-04-21T15:20:00.002+02:00

cast your crowns to the karaoke king

060 - wall

2009-04-21T15:12:00.003+02:00

cool local project

059 - black and white

2009-04-21T07:25:00.009+02:00

farryl purkiss

priscilla ahn

first up is a local boy and then an overseas girl, like these tracks,
easy listening.
the names will take you to the myspace pages.

058 - law and colour

2009-04-20T11:23:00.002+02:00

057 - Thomas Feiner

2009-04-15T08:05:00.004+02:00

so i've been slack on posting. it happens. deal with it.
point is i've been busy with work and hunting around for things that may interest me. i like this guys approach. i think he still needs to push himself. he's close.

256 - mort sahl and the long weekend

2009-04-09T14:03:00.003+02:00

here's a clip in a not so joking part...also want to say chag sameach to all the easter festers.

255 - absolutely absalom

2009-04-09T08:22:00.004+02:00

and another blonde haired handkerchief clad jewish royal gets his hair stuck in a tree.

254 - distracted

2009-04-08T12:57:00.003+02:00

it's what i've been lately...basically because i'm learning 3d so ja, takes up a lot of time and so i haven't put pencil to paper for the last two days...realising now that that is not too bad actually, but still i feel somewhat estranged from my roots.

anyway that's it really...just posting a picture...character i'm doing in maya.

253 - sefira

2009-04-06T08:41:00.003+02:00

so time draws near to my favorite time of year and this year y-love and yuri lane have created a cool album for pesach. i enjoy listening to y-love's lyrics, he manages to cram a lot of info into each track and yuri lane does all the instrumentals...with his mouth. mmm.

252 - FWEEDEE

2009-04-03T10:37:00.003+02:00

i've been trying to find some classic 3d glasses but to no avail. i think i may have to make my own which could be interesting and possible end up real bad. it's funny, i remember having a few in my early years. it's always when you want something that you can't find it. then much later when you're completely over the thing, lo and behold you come across it, and then it's like, "i've been looking for these everywhere, how about that, now it's right here, fascinating." then you're all, "well...okay" and toss it to one side. Oh, ja. i completely for got about the whole reason for this post...i'm trying to learn FWEEDEE (3d) using maya, so...see how that goes.

don't you think this picture is just to awesome for words?

251 - Zohar

2009-04-02T13:59:00.005+02:00

erran baron cohen, is one of the founding members of zohar and has a well known relation. yes, that's right the one and only simon baron cohen the leading researcher in the study of autism spectrum disorders, on top of that his dad owns a menswear shop in piccadilly and that's not all folks his grandmother was an acclaimed baller dancer from germany. what a family. anyway zohar has some interesting fusions, i suggest a listen and check out erron's myspace as well...right i think that's it...no wait...no, no...that's it...oh right!...no...oh, yes he has a brother who did some movie or something.

250 - yay lekker

2009-04-01T11:47:00.008+02:00

so, i got my police clearance...seriously no joke, even though it's april fools. the word from pretoria is "we can like to have peoples soos jy". now of course i'll have to go stand in the queue for home affairs to hand it in...
*cries a little inside.

in other news, beni neti is israel's next priminister...again. this is a video of when he was 28. he has improved on his public relations and stage fright.

one more thing...aliens are attacking earth. secure a firearm and fire wildly into the air.

249 - we got the funk

2009-03-30T09:34:00.001+02:00

248 - Vashti Bunyan

2009-03-27T09:36:00.004+02:00

so i like her stuff, truly. she disappeared for a long time because she thought no one liked her music and then one day she gets a computer an internet connection and discovers a whole new generation that loves her music. which goes to prove a good point i keep saying to people who think that "generation y" doesn't have anything to identify with, live for, you know the general arbitrary claims that they think they have the right to identify with us.
Music is done differently with us. mtv and radio are not accurate displays of our generations music tastes. the internet people is where it's at. community centre star killed the fireplace star, radio star killed the community centre star, video killed the radio star, and internet killed the video star. my generation are the internet generation. we listen to music on the internet and not on tv or radio. so in general "video star generation" comment on "internet star generation" based on what they see and hear on tv and radio. of course it's going to be distorted. and now a "video/radio star" has found a "internet generation" more interested in her music than her own generation. i'm being completely general but seriously when my friends get together and talk about music they found and liked, we never mention tv or radio. it's all internet.

and while i'm at it. she's still stunning. although i think woman should embrace age with open arms. make up does get rid of wrinkles but it flattens your face and makes it boring, gray hair is natures way of lessening the contrast against your face and actually makes your face look fresher. wash your hair less often, consume more olive oil, and let your natural oils treat your hair. there is nothing more hideous than a woman trying very hard to stay young in some sort of competition with actual younger girls. why? like they can hold a candle to your layers of beauty. i mean judy dench is like a three hundred years old but she still turns my head.

247 - The Phelps and The Bees

2009-03-26T10:24:00.004+02:00

dude, don't know why but when i saw this music video i realised he reminds me of you. like the book by the way, will blog it when i'm done.

246 - Haunt of the Fire Head

2009-03-25T13:03:00.002+02:00

just messin' around with ideas