STRIVE

'the infinite search for cool'

this pretty much sums up the lifelong endeavours of most cape town twenty-somethings.

anyone live in a pretty how town

where someones married their everyones

as heroic as it seems

in realms good and great withal

just a pretty bandit at the seams.

rapunzel's trick

                    
figure study: 'a capture of the movement of her hair.'

figure 1

figure 2

figure 3

figure 4

confidence

wayfarers. paired with cropped tee and high-waist skirt.

the cool in the cash.

i am dumb beside your body

I heard of a man

who says words so beautifully

that if he only speaks their name

women give themselves to him.

 

If I am dumb beside your body

while silence blooms like tumors on our lips

it is because I hear a man climb stairs

and clear his throat outside our door.

 

from "Poem" by Leonard Cohen

harem II

"Harem (Turkish, from Arabic حرم ḥaram 'forbidden place; sacrosanct, sanctum', related to حريم ḥarīm 'a sacred inviolable place; female members of the family' and حرام ḥarām, 'forbidden; sacred') refers to the sphere of women in what is usually a polygynous household and their enclosed quarters which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and came to the Western world via the Ottoman Empire."

 

harem.

colour & strife

these are some more portraits of simone i took earlier this year. i edited them with a different program this time, using a slight colour tint and the saturation tool.

wow i'm a nerd.

cherish that better half of you.

photoshoot at the simon's town ruins, october. the lighting around three pm was perfect for the late afternoon capture.

tea in wonderland

tea in wonderland with three sugars.

 did you notice the flyaway picnic basket?

sustainable harvest

so i know all you hipster slash liberals out there simply adore a good dose of coffee before you go back to your independant-thinking deskjobs with the ever-urban and infinite desire to be effortlessly cool.vida e caffe is the household brand, hell, there's probably one within four blocks of your lofty kloof street apartment (i'm talking local now because we're not in williamsburg and there's sadly no starbucks here).

anyway, what i'm trying to get to here is not gonna sit too tight with all you skinny jean-wearing, illy-drinking outfitters. big question today - what exactly happens before that serving of freshly ground coffee is ground and stirred and steamed and poured into your waiting to-go cup?

luckily, in the spirit of sustainable development, coffee giant ILLY thought twice about this.

Sebastião Salgado, whom I mentioned in an earlier post, has shot a controversial series entirely in black and white as a tribute to the coffe-growers in Brazil, India, Ethiopia and Guatemala.
In a profound offering to human dignity Salgado documents the story of these ordinary men and women and shows how, with every bean, our coffee is harvested, dried and selected.

makes you think a little bit beyond your morning fix, no?

original article

http://www.illy.com/wps/wcm/connect/us/illy/art/sebastiao-salgado/

heaven help that fleshly want

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. I recently came across one of his very harrowing works in my sociology textbook.

take a look and tell me you don't feel something.