Our friend Ross said, "Countdown 9 months and you'll be pregnant before the 9th month. That's what happens when you get a puppy." I have to say I'm love drunk for this fur-lined heartbeat creature. But I am not convinced I'll love a unfurry human baby more. Unless they come out hairy with a furry back. Chances of that happening are high with Greek blood running 75%. I'd hashtag myself #I don't-have-a-maternal-gene except for cute adorable puppies. We named him Lorenzo and we think he is the best dog anyone could ask for!
So I made this video clip for his fan-club overseas and across the country. This was a mission we did in our first week as puppy parents.
He has grown to walk easily on a lead and cruises through the city with me so easily. I took Lorenzo on an epic city walk into Cape Town Centre. We visited the Castle of Good Hope, went shopping in the Grand Parade, and he managed to sniff out every KFC Chicken Licken chicken bone that gets thrown on the street after 1pm lunch. Needless to say, his 1 hour cruise means he's cuddled up right next to me on the couch as I write this. Another hashtag moment #nothing but love for the pupson.
The moat around the Castle of Good Hope
Puppy parent supplies
His winter jersey by the Vredehoek Ravine
August 23rd, why do I think he looks so mature?
Just the daily chill.
This is Lorenzo's pretty mom. And maybe his dad behind her!? She is a Staffordshire Terrier and dad is believed to be a pavement special: German shepherd, Africanis, mix!
First day at our home, Aug 7th.
Took this for size reference. I'm a size 8UK/9.5US. He looks like a furry chicken deer.
This was our first sighting of him on African Tail's Facebook page. He is 10wks here.
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I used to work in Exharia, Athens-Greece. I read the walls from the Ommonia Metro station all the way to Exharia's platia. For me, reading the walls shared the visual pulse of the city, the issues, the political climate, the stories unheard. Today, I don't read the walls. I live in South Africa. But today I read the Athens News from the internet: "Racist violence escalates." Citizens hating citizens, humans attacking humans within these man-made borders we create.
The unrest in Greece is not isolated there. The messages I read on the walls in Greece reaffirmed why I love graffiti. They portray different headlines and display opinions in different syntax without a web address or a printing press. Just some spray paint, a marker or a sticker will do.
They are public forums. Tales are told. I took these photos last summer and the messages still ring true. Anti-violence. Anti-Xenophobic. What is Xenios Zeus, the Athens police campaign to kick out anyone without govt. papers, going to do for the betterment of our world? To all the writers in Athens: Keep pasting, keep writing peace on Athens streets and advocate for change.
A wheat paste paper sticker on the wall with the image of HATE. Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
This is my favorite of our cultural pluralism. Freedom is a global right.
Greedy servings of the pie. Austerity serving anyone? Pro-Hemp stencil on the top right corner.
"Running from the thoughts, I keep bumping back into it, trying to get away-keeps dragging me into"
Note: look are the Burqa stencil and then the X over it.
In the streets near the public university
Anyone is a Citizen member
Pissing on the Golden Dawn (far-right political party in Athens, Greece)
Husband and wife team weave visuals and syntax about Madagascar. Read all about it here on Wavescape's breaking news story: I Like to Move it : In depth about the Malagasy travels!
and yes, it was our honeymoon. Thank you TrueBlue Travel for organising a sweet trip!
Pirogues in in Fort Dauphin Tolagnaro-Libanona Bay
Beer at Talinjoo
Young Malagasy girl braving the warm yet winter Indian ocean
Learning French and Malagasy along the way in order to get a meal!
We thought this Lemur reminded us of Desmond Tutu-blessing us with his wisdom of the forests
What Madagascar produces: Vanilla
Young Malagasy boy fishing from a handline in Fort Dauphin Tolagnaro
Reef fish off the coast in Fort Dauphin, Tolagnaro
There are incredible stories to be told. And dancers who use their body to express and encapsulate emotion is a language, a story in itself. I filmed African Cypher Dance Session on my phone at Fly on the Wall Production House in Cape Town, December 16th, 2011: Dance crews that perform and compete at contests like the Red Bull Beat Battle in South Africa and around the world. Check the trailer link below.
I have always been captivated by music and dance. I couldn't resist the urge to film on my phone in the dark warehouse above Roeland St in Cape Town. The pantsula artists had woven a whole sequence of comedy, sex, violence and gender roles with innovative movements that put the whole cypher into a hypnosis.
Now, another fresh young filmaker, Ziggy Hofmeyr, is raising funds to share a story with the world about dance, love and quest. Pop, Lock 'n Roll -- Indiegogo: http://igg.me/p/191398
If we support filmmakers, creactivists, dancers: Culture . . . then we will be preserving a tapestry of identity. Go on to IndieGogo and support the projects that speak to you. Or better yet, tell us when your next project is!
Watch the film African Cypher, and support South African films like Pop, Lock 'n Roll to be made.
