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Art
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South African Puppeteers Win Tony Award
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Tony Awards in America is like the Oscars or Grammys – but for theatre. It’s been an annual event for the last six decades and is pretty much the definitive voice in what’s cutting edge theatre-wise today. Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company was just named a special Tony award winner for this year! Pics of their work inside.
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CIA Reveals Invisible Ink Formulae
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Finally, the average layperson will be able to write and solve invisible ink messages. And not with those funny highlighters that did the rounds in the 90’s either. The CIA has no doubt allowed us all to become privy to this information because they have no need for invisible ink anymore. Data encryption has progressed somewhat.
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Buy An Entire Italian Village For $800 000
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The recession is serving up another good deal, friends. For about R5,4 million you can buy the historic village of Valle Piola in Italy. It’s surrounded by wild and mountainous terrain, and is set in the heart of one of the country’s biggest national parks, Gran Sasso.
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Students Honour Yuri Gagarin, Launch Guitar Rocket
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The headline says it all. Students from the Siberian State Aerospace University decided to mark and honour Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin’s first flight into space, which was 50 years ago today, by building a rocket out of a guitar. Coincidentally it resembles a Gibson Flying V.
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Online Digital Canvas Printing – Delivered To Your Door – Printwild.co.za
07 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
I’m going to jump straight into this because everyone I have told has begged me for the name of these guys – so there is no need to sugarcoat it – This shit sells itself. Their name is PrintWild.co.za and this is how their website works. It’s basically a joke. In a good way. It […]
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Nando’s Is Hiring
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Always picking up on the nation’s mood, the best in the business have been at it again. There isn’t really much need in beating around the bush with this one. The bushes, quite frankly, aren’t there to be beaten around any more. They have withered and dried.
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German Ad Campaign: ‘Sex Is No Accident.’
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
MTV Germany, which is a thing I didn’t know existed until just now, is trying to spread the word to the masses: there is no such thing as accidental sex, please wear condoms. To emphasize the point, they’ve put together a series of comics in which people accidentally have sex and don’t wear condoms.
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Robotic Clouds To Provide Shade During Qatar World Cup [VIDEO]
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not even designers of world class video games have thought of this one yet. I bet the Qatari engineers are hunched up and sniggering through their beards into their cupped, fist-shaped hands right now. Their World Cup is only in 2022, but these guys clearly have the money to blow to make magic. Very Bruce Almighty of them.
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Peta Holds Naked Shower Protest, Causes Car Accident
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I know we did this last week, but this is unfortunately the reality of the hour that one officially applies the Cape Town Friday Rule. It’s called habit, and there’s no better way to form a habit other than through repetition. Essentially you should now start embracing everything non work-like, so let’s celebrate with a naked shower protest.
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Man Opens Chicken Hotel, No Spice
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And that’s an unintentional pun in the headline too in case you were wondering. But, these really are the times that we live in. Now UK residents, Cornwall residents in particular, won’t have to worry about who will look after the chickens if one were to take a holiday or go on ones “gap yah.”
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Winnie The Pooh Street Art – Spotted In Hackney, London
24 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
One of the longest-standing 2oceansvibers out there, worldwarwon, has managed to get away with a colourful new installation in Hackney, London. If any of you dig this vibe, I suggest you watch the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop, a documentary created by and featuring one of the world’s most famous graffiti artists, Banksy. Click […]
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Quarrelling Begins To Boil Around Mandela Gun Dispute
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Described as a holy grail for South African historians, the gun Nelson Mandela buried almost 50 years ago is nowhere near being reunited with its original proprietor. The owner of the property where the gun is supposedly buried, originally part of Liliesleaf farm, is at loggerheads with museum officials representing the Liliesleaf Trust.
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Al Qaeda Launches Women’s Glossy Magazine
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Clearly not satisfied with the launch of their English magazine, Inspire, which first appeared about nine months ago, and included a feature called “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom”, al Qaeda’s media arm has followed up with a magazine for women, titled “Al-Shamikha”. Apparently the editorial team will be mixing beauty tips with lessons in jihad. No spice.
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Meet The Guy Who Has 82 Tattoos Of Julia Roberts
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not sure which is sadder. The fact that this guy has spent thousands of rands on getting Julia Roberts’ face inked onto his body, or the fact that he cites Erin Brockovich as his favourite film of all time. More loser pics inside.
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Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes, Hosted By Charlie Sheen [VIDEO]
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On this the official hour of the application of the Cape Town Friday Rule, we thought we would spoil you a little. Yes, he’s doing a cooking show because he’s winning television right now. And with lines like: “I killed this cow myself, winners stalk and kill their food without earthly weapons,” get ready for some winning recipes.
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The Half-Fro Mug Shot
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We love a good mug shot here over at 2oceansvibe. Paris Hilton’s array still being amongst our favourites, admittedly, but this dude is rolling with quite a mesmerising vibe. Half a ‘fro actually. We’re sure there’ll be a couple of guys on the inside having a good laugh at his expense.
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The Story Behind The “Bearded One”
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
If you, like me, weren’t able to get to a television for whatever reason this weekend, you may have tuned in and listened to the blokes on the couch on 2oceansvibe Radio and their alternative commentary. You may also have heard them speaking in awe about the cult-like properties of the “Bearded One”. Here is his story.
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$8 Million Dollar Diamond Stolen In 2008 Recovered, Man Arrested In Sandton
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This has Blood Diamond 2 written all over it. In fact I’m going to tweet DiCaprio about this just as soon as I finish writing this piece. Don’t you want to hear more of Danny Archer’s bru’s and boets too? Either way, this is a big diamond we are talking about.
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Professor Allows Actual Sex Demonstration In Lecture
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The professor did what? Yes, I also mumbled it back to myself in trepidation when I came across this little beauty. An actual sex demo, with a toy, was conducted for a class of psychology students at Northwestern University in Illinois in the States this week. Taking it to the next level prof, next level.
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Zuma’s R200 Million Renovations
01 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
With mainstream local media finding itself plenty to keep busy with over the last few days, a nice little presidential renovation story slipped past almost unnoticed. The top dog is obviously sprucing things up rather nicely at home because it’s costing close to R200 million.
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UCT Digital Photography Course – Get 10% Off With 2oceansvibe
28 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Yes, this is EXACTLY the course you need. You enjoy taking pics and you want to get better. You keep on telling people that you would like to improve, but just haven’t found the right course. Here it is, my friend – just look at the title – “University of Cape Town (UCT) Digital Photography […]
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Vote For BOS As The Most Beautiful Object In South Africa
24 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ladies and gentlemen, the Design Indaba is here! Once more, Cape Town’s streets are buzzing with a heap of local and imported design talent. You can practically smell the clutch pencil lead in the air. One great aspect of the Design Indaba is the opportunity for the greater public to vote for the Most Beautiful […]
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The Herman Miller Aeron Chair – Let’s Have That Chat
23 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I was doing my thing in London in the late 90’s – you know, hanging at the Met Bar, getting fussy about pin-stripe suits and enjoying the exchange rate (20 to 1 when I left, can you believe it!). But one thing stood out during my time in London, and that was the chairs my […]
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30 Lines From Literature That Might Seal The Deal This Valentine’s Day
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Monday is the 14th; a time where school children everywhere will be giving each other crappy cards and wax-like chocolate hearts. And men everywhere will be desperately trying to buy the most expensive, yet insincere, gifts possible.
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So Mona Lisa Was A Man?
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to a leading Italian art historian, the model used for the ‘Mona Lisa’ was in fact a man. Apparently, the man in question was da Vinci’s apprentice and possibly even his lover. What, da Vinci could have been a gay artist? How shocking.
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About That Billboard In Woodstock
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There’s this billboard in Albert Road, Woodstock that smacks of brilliance the first time you read it. It’s a pro bono piece done in bold, black letters and probably took the creators all of 10 minutes to produce. It looks authentic. Like some passer by grabbed a cokie and scribbled what’s on their mind. Turns out hipsters did it.
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Judge Ends Obama Artist Vs Press Trial
12 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A judge put his foot down and ended the trial between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist who painted 2008’s most famous image. The AP said the dead beat (their words) artist took their photograph and copied it with crayons and pens and things. He said are you crazy, it’s art. They said are you crazy, it looks exactly the same. I don’t think the judge had a choice.
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“We Can Do It” Model Passes Away
30 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The woman who inspired the Rosie The Riveter/”We Can Do It” WWII allied propaganda poster, Geraldine Doyle, has died at 86 years of age. After WWII, the poster became a feminist standard for independent womanhood. And girl mechanics.
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What’s This Google?
24 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Google’s logo mutations are mostly spot on. For Easter they gooi some bunnies. When there’s pumpkins and draculas you know it’s Halloween. Bobsleds, Winter Olympics. It’s not always pretty but most times it makes sense so what in the name of everything holy, clear and sacred do our friends over at Google mean by this one?
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Who is this Mona?
14 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s not clear how Dan Brown missed this but there’s a bunch of code hidden in Mona Lisa’s eyes. That reveals her true identity. Very clever that, Mr Da Vinci. Get us all hooked on her smile and hide all the good stuff in her eyes. Well played, sir. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got going on around the ears.
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