Catch ZUBZ tonight at Bassline
We’ll never forget the first time we saw Zubz live at the Songwriters Club in Newtown about two years ago… He had the biggest live band ever and the most awesome backing vocalists that included two of our favourite diva’s, Lois and Pebbles who simply blew us away. Zubz elevates hiphop as we know it to another level, adding layer upon layer to his songs, resulting in a multi-layered tapestry of… colourful uplifting music. Good news is his next album is out – catch him at Bassline tonight! Super MC Zubz launches his hot new album Headphone Music In A Parallel World this Thursday the 30th November at the Bassline in Newtown. R30 gets you in to this event that starts at 7:30. Get your ears ready for the surreal sonic trip super talented MC Zubz will take you on with his new album Headphone Music in a Parallel World. Don’t expect the usual hip hop album; this one sees Zubz being inspired by sci – fi and quantum physics as well as the state of the world “I called it that because it’s an out worldly sort of trip where you leave this reality and get into a parallel reality running concurrently with this one.” It’s been two years since this Zambian born, Zimbabwe raised, Grahamstown IT trained and Johannesburg based 30 year old released his SAMA nominated debut Listeners Digest, though during that time he kept on polishing his talent, “I never stopped recording – the songs on this record are tracks I recorded a year ago, and before that I was recording too.” Whilst recording Zubz (AKA Ndabaningi Mabuye) was inspired by his travels: to Zambia for the unveiling of his fathers tombstone; Cape Town where he performed with his band The Origins who also joined him at shows in Norway and Finland. “It was a period of moving around and experiencing different aspects of music, myself and people and so then I ended up seeing things with a broader lens.” Travelling gave him the space and time to think and see things in a new light. “When you travel you approach these things differently, when you don’t travel that much you forget they exist, you focus on day to day stuff that distracts you from the things that this album brings out&” His outlook was altered to the extent that when he returned he changed his album, “Before I went on those trips, I was 80 percent done with my album. But after those trips, I decided to remove certain tracks, because my mind set had shifted drastically, it had really flipped. Those songs didn’t...
What are you doing for World Aids Day?
Oh yes, it’s on Friday. Did you know that by 2010 it is estimated that there will be 22 million Aids orphans. Come on Representers, do your bit to support all the many initiatives going on around World Aids Day on Dec 1. We have two projects to recommend – both involving photography or art, we’ll let you know what else we come across. The first is a digital storytelling project initiated by href=”http://www.photovoice.org/html/projects/photovoiceprojects/africaandmiddleeast/youthphotoreflect/projectbackground/” mce_href=”http://www.photovoice.org/html/projects/photovoiceprojects/africaandmiddleeast/youthphotoreflect/projectbackground/” >Photovoice.org Working with youth in Orange Farm, they are training them in the use of digital photography and IT – this is the first exhibition showing their work. The second project ” I Love You Positive Or Negative “ is an Alliance Francaise collaboration with France-based “Designing Hope” organisation. Local artists have interpreted their feelings around Aids and one of Represent’s friends, Rhett Martyn is part of the crew. Go and see it! ====================== PHOTO REFLECT Exhibition Event – Witness to HIV/AIDS “We are proud to be from Orange Farm, we are proud to be South Africans. We want to invite our audience to listen to us and to learn from us so we can take action together” – Members of the Photo Reflect youth project. In October 2006, the international charity organisation PhotoVoice and local partner the Vukuzenzele Reflect Community Organisation (VRCO) that operates in the township of Orange Farm, began a two year programme working with youth infected and affected by HIV/Aids. With participants aged between 16 and 33, the Photo Reflect project is an attempt to empower the youth of Orange Farm with the necessary tools to tackle the many challenges they face living in a marginalized and vulnerable community. Through the specific use of digital story-telling and digital photography, the participants are given the means to document and voice their personal experiences, deepest concerns and attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS, whilst increasing their capacity and to generate an income through photographic or IT skills training. It is a fact that young people in this country are the most severely affected by AIDS. The largest proportion of HIV infections occur amongst people between the ages of 15 and 24. However, statistics aside these are unique individuals whose daily realities cannot be underplayed. This project seeks to understand the barriers that limit behavioural change and prevention of the disease as well as combat the stigma and stereotype attached to people living with HIV/AIDS in disadvantaged communities across South Africa. Equipped with their own digital cameras, the participants of the project began a series of intensive workshops that are set to continue until Christmas 2006 and resume again in January 2007 with an emphasis on...
Catch RESFEST in Cape Town
Filmakers, music video people, creatives, designers, dops, animators, runners, grips, dreamers, commercials directors, commercial wannabes – if you love celebrating brilliance in film, get down to the RESFEST that is stopping off in Cape Town on it’s way from Canada and moving on to Austria on it’s 43 city 10th anniversary tour. We’ve got our girl Canda to go and check it out and will let you kno… w how it goes. Website here. RESFEST 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Labia on Orange 29 Nov – 2 Dec RESFEST’s 2006 global tour marks the 10th anniversary of the pioneering film and digital arts festival, which kicked off this year with a special presentation in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, from October 19-22, followed one day later by its Paris debut at the esteemed Pompidou Center. The festival will continue on to more than 43 cities on six continents around the world, captivating audiences with its signature mix of innovative film screenings, informative panels, experiential parties and cutting-edge performances. Resfest will be screened in Cape Town at the “Labia” on Orange from 29 Nov – 2 Dec. The festival received a record 2,200 film submissions this year, with programmers viewing hundreds more in assembling a stellar collection of outstanding short films, dynamic music videos, experimental animation and cutting-edge motion graphics. In addition to Paris, RESFEST will debut in Berlin, Eskisehir, Jakarta and Lima. The festival will culminate for the first time ever in the United States, with a series of expanded seven-day events to take place in March and April 2007 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In another first, the festival will be presented in high-definition during these spring engagements. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS To celebrate this commemorative year, RESFEST will feature a pair of special anniversary programs looking back at its decade-long history of revolutionary filmmaking. Unsung Heroes: Music Video Gems from the Archive gathers directors who’ve turned the music video into an art form, with classic promos for Air, Cornelius, UNKLE, Phoenix and others, while A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films compiles milestone short form work that has become the stuff of RESFEST lore, including Michael Overbeck’s Tongues and Taxis, Bob Sabiston’s Snack and Drink and Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar. Three more thematically arranged short film programs highlight intriguing new work: State of the Art offers a collection of live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary that will point the way for filmmakers in the years to come; Out of the Box highlights the adventurous, absurd and eccentric; and Fear and Trembling examines the horror trend that has swept the film world of late. Programming...
Vote for Bevan’s ROBBIE WILLIAMS video
Many of you will remember him from the Toastie breakfast show on tv, others of you may recognise him from his hairstyle… But he’s our Bevan i’nit and he’s entered Robbie Williams music video competition! We need you to vote for his video (if you like it of course) so he can win some pounds and ‘ave it large. Click here for the site. … Here’s the deal: Robbie Williams is collaborating with seven different filmmakers to create seven original short films using the tracks from his new album Rudebox. Now he is inviting all the independent filmmakers out there to provide the eighth for his track The 80’s. The winner, chosen by Robbie Williams, Lord Puttnam, Jonathan Ross, Jules Oldroyd (Head of T4) and a prominent film commissioner, will win a ý7,500 prize. There is a further prize of ý7,500 for the winning film as voted by the public. And here’s how to do it easily from Bevs people at Comedy Underground: Co-founder of the Underground, ace director & generally cool oke, Bevan Cullinan, has, with his producer Gary, shot and entered a Robbie Williams music video competition and needs your help to vote them to the top so that they can become mildly famous overseas and win the prize money to pay for the film! The music video is very funny and features Bevan, James Cairns and Chris Forrest in a film called “LIKE A HOOLIGAN”. You’ll recognise them in the thumbnail JPEG (standing in 80’s Leotards, looking like they were dressed by the Salvation Army dance gear surplus store). What we need you to do is to go to www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts and register on the site. DON’T BE SCARED. These are nice people who don’t spam. If you are uncomfortable with providing your telephone number, put a fake one in (they’re just needing it in case you win so that they can call you, but you’re not entering a film, so it doesn’t matter). They just need you to register so that they can keep a check on allowing only one vote per register. What is very important is to keep checking for a return mail with a link that you will need to click on to verify your vote, it is to stop scam voting on dormant accounts (hope this makes sense). The votes count as ratings. Vote 1 for crap and 5 for eternal kifness (the judging is not based on the amount of votes). We’re hoping to get votes between 3 and 5, but if you feel it’s worth 5, we’d love you long time (insert nervous laugh here)! Unfortunately, if you are on...
Vanessa is our first Survivor – You go girl!
Exciting, nail-biting, neck on neck, riveting – what more can we say? Big ups to Mnet for a job well done – we can’t wait for the next installment. To Vanessa Marawa, the deep-voiced one, well done babe, it’s a win for women and black women both in SA and the world over – nice one! Jacinda – jammer meisie- jy was baie slim en het goed gespeel maar jy kon meer vriende gemaak het. And as for th… at make-up – you look much better tanned and fresh. We’re delighted with the results and are so glad we hung in for the action – Mzi bro, you know we love you – but that was a weird last grasp at straws bru and what we believe sealed your fate. You will surely have a colourful life post this experience and we wish all the contestants the best. Thanks for the entertainment. ================================ What an awesome twist in the penultimate episode of Survivor finally giving the viewers some nail-biting moments – Gareth is out and two of our favourites Vanessa and Mzi are back in… we love it. Come on Representers, place your bets. Who is it going to be? Here’s our bet: In an ideal world our favourite sexy fisher man would get the bucks: 1. Mzi 2. Jacinda 3. Zayn 4. Vanessa But we also have a funny feeling there may be a female winner – so we’re also watching Jacinda and Vanessa closely. So next week is the BIG ONE – we wish all the contestants good luck and we count down the days till SUNDAY when all will be revealed. Two of our biggest supporters L-Boogie and Noxyrsox (Sharpile girls!) give us their take on this weeks episode and for anyone that missed it, see the press release from Mnet below. L-Boogie How delicious was the penultimate episode of Survivor? Not only are Mzi and Vanessa back in the game, they are now also calling all the shots at Burba. The show started with Lezel making her way to Dead Man’s Island to join Mzi, Vanessa and BBrigitte. Only they were not in the mood to play best chums with her; and gave her one of the coldest receptions ever given to anyone on a reality show. Yummy. Better still and proving that what goes around comes around; Lezel blew her chances of returning to Burba when she was the first person to fall in a challenger that involved standing narrow poles. Mzi and Vanessa stood the test; and shocked the hell out of Zayn, Gareth and Jacinda when they re-joined them for immunity challenged....
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