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Tag: photography
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iPhone cases are here!
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SA creatives featured!
I always get a kick out of seeing South Africans making name for themselves!
This issue of NICE features great talent from Jozi.
Enjoy!http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf
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the gallery is open!
I’d like to thank everybody who clicked and requested my gallery opening – it worked y’all!!!
now everybody can click on through to http://instacanv.as/absolutwillie and have a look at my debut exhibition:
Pretty Liturgical – textile studies of religious vestments.
and best of all? you can now legitimately OWN your favorites!! so go on and buy, buy, buy!
I’ve got tuition to pay for ;0)
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selling out to school up
so here’s the deal: I’ve applied to my alma mater (Stellenbosch University) for acceptance into the Postgraduate Certificate in Education program for 2013. it is a full time, residential program which will (finally) make me a “real” teacher in the eyes of the local job market.
getting certified as a teacher will open the doors to a proper job at home – something which is frustratingly unavailable despite my existing qualifications and international experience.
here’s the kicker though: it is going to cost me about US$10,000 for the year…
while I am taking on every freelance opportunity that I can grab hold of, including piece-jobs of manual labor, it is becoming all too clear that I need to investigate additional avenues.
remembering the popularity of my photography when exhibited in Missouri (when the conditions of my visa prevented me from accepting payment for them), I’ve decided to put my work up for sale again. issues of copyright, production, pricing and international postage are a frightful headache, and I need some way to test the market and see wether this is a worth while venture.
enter Instacanvas:
Instacanvas offers me the opportunity to open a gallery, where they handle sales, printing and shipping of purchased artwork. naturally they keep the lion’s share of the money, giving the artist (me) 20% of the money made in sales. I get to retain copyright on all my images, thankfully, making it possible for me to take things further when feasible.
so I put my name down, and readied my photos.
what can you do to help? plenty!
- first of all, by merely clicking and requesting my gallrey opening on Instacanvas, you help move my gallery’s opening to the front of the cue.
- secondly, once the gallery is open, you could buy my prints! (Remember, I get 20% – so I need BIG sales, and plenty of them!)
instacanv.as/absolutwillie
- OR, if you’re feeling generous, you could send a donation / become a sponsor! (leave a comment and get in contact)
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just now a homo saved my life from a broken heart
just now a homo saved my life with a song!
again, thank you to Perez Hilton for introducing me to Sia Furler.
http://www.ifilm.com/efpI just ordered her album. “Breathe Me” is probably one of the most amazing indie songs I’ve ever heard!
This is Sia’s bio on her space: http://www.myspace.com/siamusic
“my name is sia furler. i am a unicorn fart. i was born out of the butthole of a unicorn called steve. someday i’ll die. between now and then i’m going to keep my shit together and sing my fucking heart out. i love dogs. they’re my people. one day i’ll write a real biography.“
also check out: http://www.siamusic.net/
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Perfume
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Official Perfume Movie Site | Perfume
Visually, this rendition of the novel is magnifficent! Add to that genius in storytelling – and you have a winner!
Feel free to check out the site as well – and crank up the volume! The score is amazing!!
Blogged with Flock
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Going the obsessive route
(aside) My addiction to the HBO series “Carnivale” was abruptly transformed into an obsession. I watched the last episode of series two last night… I’m still struggling to deal with the fact that series two is “all she wrote”. There’s nothing else. All the hanging plot lines are left unresolved.
I couldn’t sleep last night. Sophie’s transformation bothered me that much! And now that I know there’s no ‘next episode’ – it’s driving me crazy!!
Why HBO? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!????????????
*sob*
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Urbex Inspirations
How beautiful is this? I’ve decided to braden the scope of my blog to include images, words and experiences that move me. (I could probably go on about the urban vernacular, but will spare you, for now at least.)
“Once state-of-the-art mental healthcare facilities, Kirkbride buildings have long been relics of an obsolete therapeutic method known as Moral Treatment. These massive structures were conceived as ideal sanctuaries for the mentally ill in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Careful attention was given to every detail of their design in order to promote a healthy environment and to convey a sense of respectable decorum. Placed in secluded areas within expansive grounds, many seemed almost palace-like from the outside. But growing populations and insufficient funding led to unfortunate conditions that spoiled their idealistic promise.
Within decades of their first conception, new treatment methods and hospital design concepts emerged and the Kirkbride design was eventually discarded. Many existing Kirkbride buildings maintained a central place in the institutions which began within their walls, but by the end of the twentieth century many had been abandoned; several had been destroyed. Although a few have managed to survive into the twenty-first century intact and still in use, many that survive sit abandoned and decaying—their mysterious grandeur intensified by their derelict condition.”
