Cinema Thursdays

 

The KZNSA Gallery along with the Durban Film Society collaborates in splitting the year into three, where they showcase international art-house, classic, foreign, experimental and generally interesting films. The setting for the evening is one that allows you to bring your blankets, snacks and vino, and relive the era of the drive-in as the screen flickers under the starry sky. Worry not, if the temperamental Durban weather threatens to rain on our parade, the screenings are moved inside to the tiered café seating.

The films are chosen according to themes, this season, themes were ‘Day Dream’, ‘Childhood Memories’, and ‘ The stuff of Nightmares’. Movies are from all over the place range from French, Japanese and age old 70s and 90s cinema. These are films for those of us who are experimental and have a taste for the alternative.

“The goal of Cinema Thursday Picnic Screenings is to contribute to the development of a culture of film appreciation and filmmaking in Durban, and not for the financial gain of the organizers. However, there are running costs incurred by the Gallery, such as set up costs, and the security guard, which we’d like people to help covering. A collection box is sent around at the screenings into which we’d love for the audience to place their donations should they feel moved to do so” Sarah Dawson

The Screenings are put together by Sarah Dawson who has shown a vast collection of films and has made the screenings the success they are. The screenings are held only on the First and Third Thursday of the month, the next one is on the 7^th of October. This seasons films have ranged from Dir. Hayao Miyakazi’s (Japan) Spirited Away, Dir. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (France) City of Lost Children to Dir. David Lynch’s  (USA) Eraserhead.

New Sound

My favorite scene in the movie ‘I think I love my wife’ is when Chris rocks childhood friend realizes she is “the old bitch in the club”. I think that scene rings true to the current state of hip hop even though it(hip hop)has tried to deny this for a while.

In what better way can this be made evident than to have new comers using you as not only a reputable reference point the construction but influence to them doing what they do.

With the introduction of new age kids that create music that does not subscribe to the initial sound of hip hop but has an undeniable boom bap sound alike sound that has for the past 40 years been assimilated to this genre. Kanye West and T-pain introduced auto tune which many followed and it was ultimately adopted as an extention of hip hop.

But just off heir heals Kid Cudi and the South African duo Locnville have introduced a sound which has an undeniable hint of hip hop but this sound is further extended by its mixture of electro.

This new representation of the current experimental nature of the modern day youth is slowly integrating people’s tastes.

The question that I want to pose to this new generation sound is what shall we name you? We are tired of explaining who you are to people instead of calling you by name and them knowing who we are talking about.

 I  for one think  screaming out:”hey you black dude that looks like a white dude when the sun is at its highest point, with a bit of Chinese English accent and overly cocky attitude” whenever I want to get your attention.

But with all that said I really think you should get a name so that they could stop calling you hip hop because as much as you cool it is in your best interest to stand on your own and not under the already crowded hip hop banner.

Imagine Durban

“So I am running a bit late for work but my sister who was supposed to be here an hour ago is not here, to make matters worse is her phones off, just great! This is just what I need for today.I get out the house drop the keys off Mrs. Stuart’s house my next door neighbour, she knows almost all my family members even some of my cousin’s cousins. Since she will be at home for most of the day I asked her to look out for that beautiful brat called my sister.I close the gate outside Mrs. Stuart’s house and the next Mynah bus arrives. Who would have imagined such convenience up here in Glenmoore?”

 

 

Ow just incase you lost, this is not reality, my neighbor is a Zulu, but this is my little fantasy for a perfect Durban. Imagine Durban is a campaign that has been around for a while now, apparently the campaign began in Canada and its success made many other countries want to try it out.

It is all about each person writing down what they’d love to see change about their city and then see what they can do to make that happen. If you dispise the Dirty city streets, then stop throwing dirt in already over flowing bins.

I haven’t moved into the surbubs yet, but I have been creating good relations with all my neighbours and integrating them to my daily routine ever since I found out about the idea. Just like I never sleep without having seen my brother who sleeps in the other room of our house, I try never let a week go buy without conversating with the neighbours and when having braais they the first to know about it, infact if they ever smell braaid meat when they weren’t told about it I want them to find it odd enough for them to investigate it.

  

We wonder what your fantasies about Durban are.

Raised by the power of “will”

This is what we call a power house, from a father who needs no introduction to the wife who is both beautiful as she is talented comes, Jaden Smith and Willow Smith 

Jaden has shot a movie named the karate kid with the legend Jackie Chan currently playing @ cinemas around the world …

but this story is about Willow Smith, at the age of 9 has already negotiated her first record deal. The hit song “Whip My Hair” caught Jigga man by surprise when he first heard Willow. Jay-Z speaking on the Ryan Seacrest show tells us how the mini diva won him over.
















Jay-Z on hearing Willow:“I was like, ‘Man, that record’s a smash.’ And then [Roc Nation partner] Jay Brown said, ‘She’s 9,’ and I was like, ‘Whoa!’ And he was like, ‘She’s Will and Jada’s daughter,’ and I was like, ‘Whoa!’ and it just went from there.”

We would like to introduce Seal to you. Now some of you only know the Batman  theme song from a rose. Now we LOVE Seal,





Kiss besides his style and beautiful wife Heidi Klum,

we think that he sings well. We are currently in possession of his new album Commitment - Seal VI and are loving every moment of it. Here is the remake of    Change is gonna come

Perfect Gentleman

So we have come to realise that not many people in our circles blog or even follow blogs. So we have decided to introduce those people to blogs we have taken great enterest in.

First on the list is the blog by a friend of ours,Perfect gentleman Player to those who know him from back in his rap days with his baggy attire and Mxolisi Ngonelo to everyone else who met him after redefining his look to a more clean cut and formal look. His  blog is a reflection of this.

 

Mxolisi Ngonelo

Mxolisi is the only man that has talked about shoes and we didn’t mind, infact we rather enjoy his observations of the modern day man tendencies.

When we grow up I think we going to be like player.

Get ready for more.

Hope Project

We met Wesley Van Eeden in his first year as a lecturer at Vega Imagination Lab where he was a Visual Communication lecturer. Since then we have been privately following his work.

Wesley Van Eeden

This man possesses a lethal combination, a hardworking ethic and a mastered talent. We think what makes him even more cool is his consistent desire of spreading a positive message through his work. Even his website titled hope project is a testimony to this statement.

This man has a runway of awards, has been doing exhibitions for a while in the prominent cities of South Africa.

Dooban

We have been looking forward to letting you know about this dude for a while. If you run around the Durban city circles and aint know about him yet and then, I’d like to introduce to you one of the scholars of branding. Xolani Dlamini, a graphic design student steadily making substantial waves in Durban street fashion with his Dooban label.

             

We reckon very soon Dooban will be one of the most influential brands in Durban and hopefully the whole of South Africa.

Musgrave News Café is has for a while now been the host to the many fashion shows, though it has been a few months since hos last showcase, we steadily await his spring collection…   

As an extention to the label he has a blog out called eyefly-magazine. The long and short of the blog is that it is a scrap book of what a Dooban consumer would be like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

NIKE

So I am running around the net trying to email things to their rightful owners but my email kept timing out on me. So I took a detour to one of my favorite blogs which I shall reveal later on and I came across the Nike Sportswear Facebook group. I saw some dope outfits as usual. Like this: 

I lately have a great fear of bright colors ‘cause I might get mistaken for another of the crump kids. But this is undeniably fresh and I would rock.

I am an undeniable Nike fan, more because f their approach to the market more than anything else, but I wont deny loving their clothes either.