I MAKE ZINES .

from the south

Faith47-The Cape Of Good Hope from Rowan on Vimeo.

TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS-photographer friends of mine

MIA YATES-
http://www.squareplay.blogspot.com/




YASSER BOOLEY-
http://yasserbooley.wordpress.com/2009/

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it”

Albert Einstein

GOODNESS GREATNESS

so heres the idea --
Goodness Greatness is their experiment. They are interviewing friends and some of their friends. And then their friends' friends. And the friends of those friends' friends and we'll see where it all goes. There are inspiring people all around us and we're setting out to discover them…

i think u should give it a looksee --

AN AFRICAN IN THE NORTH--~ The Status of Greatness ~

To all my friends around the globe...

You are kindly invited to the Swiss Edition of my body of work ~ The Status of Greatness ~

Be there and also don't miss the official opening party CHIC AFRIQUE.

Looking forward to welcome you on board, in the harbour of Basel.

If you unfortunately cannot make it, send on the invitation to friends that might.

If you can just let me know and I will put you and whomever on the guestlist.


Best regards all the way from Switzerland.


~ Xander ~



http://www.myspace.com/yogazelle
give a listen to his musical side --

REVIEW BY MILES KEYLOCK
writer for the mail and guardian -south africA

Blame Nandos but South African TV has a new hero. Call him the “yapping, benign and slightly ridiculous dictator” or Idi Incarnate. And like his namesake, he’s everywhere. "We've been Having It?” Boy have we ever! So much so that if a buffoon break-dancing to “Brrrrrrrrrr,” leaves you cold in the light of the Zimbabwe crisis and the xenophobic attacks you’re pretty much alone. Vodacom received only a paltry handful of complaints about their Idi piss-take. “The vast majority,” claims the Cellphone Giant, “love it”. Nothing wrong with that, right? After all we celebrate Zapiro’s wry satirical send-ups of politically buffoonery. Sure, but as theorist Achille Mbembe tells us, it’s a slightly different story when we cross into the popular domain: “It is with the conscious aim of avoiding such trouble that ordinary people locate the fetish of state power in the realm of the ridicule; there they can tame it or shut it up and render it powerless. This done, the fetish takes on the status of an artefact that is a familiar friend, a member of the family, for the rulers as for the ruled.” Mbembe’s point is that via ridicule, ruled and rulers enter a promiscuous relationship; a "convivial tension" of familiarity that results in the mutual "zombification" of the dominant and the subordinate.

It’s directly in this fraught space that electronic pop artist Xander Ferreira, a.k.a. Gazelle stages The Status of Greatness, his first solo exhibition comprising a selection of staged photographs, performances, installation, video and sculptures best described as Pieter Hugo meets Monty Python. According to Ferreira, the works are concerned with unpacking and actively coercing the mechanics of political and cultural celebrity unique to numerous African states post-independence. A piss-take of the piss-take? Or is Ferreira simply cashing in on the latest exotic “African” cool-but-kitsch bandwagon? Hard to tell, but whatever the case, it’s a fashionably timely intervention worth checking out – just remember to wear your safari suit.

We missed each other totally while I was in Shanghai

GRAPHIC ARTIST AND electronic MUSIC producer
DAI CHENG and his girlfriend 王灵 wangling
an amazing creative duo

give it a looksee and a listen,
some nice tracks of his blog.

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 "Many Things"

*WLTF ---what does it mean to u -- one click away

ME: MUSCLES & I

Brief by guest Editor: Stéphane Malysse

Between the “body-sign” and the “instrumental body”, between what we can do with our body (visible on TV, beach and other public spaces), and what we have to do with our body (body manner), considering our free will, the “body-ego” seems to have stimulated several personalities, which incorporate individually the identity images of others bodies...

“Change your body, change your life” or “ You can have the body you want”... in its shape, as well as in its gender. By means of complex mechanisms of body stereotype assimilation, the body becomes a virtual surface, a place where sexual and social identities are nurtured. Saturated of stereotypes the body seems like an unfinished painting, and becomes an auto-plastic object. What is the body capable of? What can I do to be who I want to be? What muscles have to do with me?

WLTF is open to you, yes YOU. It doesn’t matter who you are, all we care about is what you yearn for, deep down inside, in those hard to reach places. And if you can interpret that in images, then that is what we want from you.

What is WLTF?

WLTF is an original, international project without precedent that I run and edit independently with some help from very talented people from around the world.
WLTF is aimed purely at art photography and ideas that are about or deals in some way with sexual desire without being purely pornographic.

WLTF is about the subjective expression of our inner-most desires and all of the different readings that the juxtaposition of images and ideas can potentially generate.

Every online issue is dedicated to images only, and all of the work is edited in juxtaposition as opposed to linear editing by author. The print version will also encompass the work we are developing on the blog, with interviews, features and articles.


What does WLTF mean?
Well, It’s a play on the old WLTM dating acronym... you can work out the rest yeah? No? Ok,
it means Would Like To Fuck.

Chief Editor:
Rodrigo Novaes
rodrigo[at]wltf-mag.com

Submissions:
submit[at]wltf-mag.com

In the spirit of it all

...

I am an African.

I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa.

The pain of the violent conflict that the peoples of Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, Burundi and Algeria is a pain I also bear.

The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human degradation of my continent is a blight that we share.

The blight on our happiness that derives from this and from our drift to the periphery of the ordering of human affairs leaves us in a persistent shadow of despair.

This is a savage road to which nobody should be condemned.

This thing that we have done today, in this small corner of a great continent that has contributed so decisively to the evolution of humanity says that Africa reaffirms that she is continuing her rise from the ashes.

Whatever the setbacks of the moment, nothing can stop us now! Whatever the difficulties, Africa shall be at peace! However improbable it may sound to the sceptics, Africa will prosper!

Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!

Thank you.

Thabo Mbeki (Delivered on behalf of the African National Congress, on the occasion of the adoption by the constitutional assembly of "The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill 1996." Delivered in Capetown on 8 May 1996)

A ZINE STORY ....