Galleries of SA vanity plates
Wired ran a cool little story on a gallery of nerdy vanity plates. The gallery was put together by Royal Pingdom and ranged from OPN SRC (Open Source) to GEEK AFK (Geek Away From Keyboard). A quick Google found several SA sites tracking South African vanity plates. Check them out at Aquila Online, VanityplateSA and Ostendo. Plates range from South Africanisms like Ebenz (on a Merc) to the obvious IH82W8 (I hate to wait) on a GP registered BMW. Then there is SORRY 4U2 (also a BMW),... Read More
The Beijing anti-brand logos
With the Beijing Olympics at an end I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the anti-logos floating around cyberspace. Mostly they commented on the repressive nature of China’s government. These images were found using Google Images. Because they appear all over the Internet it is difficult to attribute copyright. Tweet Share/Bookmark Read More
The quest for real: Anti-Restaurants
‘Anti-restaurants’ or ‘pirate restaurants,’ as explored by The New York Times (registration required), are underground communal food experiences that is popping up all over the United Sates and the world in a backlash against the desocialisation of eating (and everything else). Run by an assortment of people from diverse backgrounds (chefs, cookbook editors, ad execs and cross country travellers apartment hopping as they go) people pay up to help make the... Read More
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra says feel something real
This poster campaign done pro bono by Lowe Bull art director Juliet Honey urges people to one again ‘feel something’ in a world of pop and plastic. “The symphony however, is very real – real music played by real people, in real time,” says Honey. She set out to find photographs that would evoke real emotions, as the orchestra’s music would. The campaign won Lowe Bull a bronze at the 2008 Loeries, for outdoor, and took first place in the Creative... Read More
Middle of the road Sasol risks arty ire*
Business Day picked up on an interesting story yesterday. Artist Richardt Strydom won the Sasol New Signatures art prize for his black and white photograph depicting a half naked couple with a baby doll and their dog. Titled Familieportret2, the image is set in a bleak, uncared for urban back yard. The artist describes his work depicting and exposing, both literally and figuratively, “the extreme misery, the pathos and dehumanization of poverty. In a true sense, it... Read More
