VINTAGE DESK IDEAS

COUNT DOWN

I made this for a friend of mine last year. She had just moved into her own apartment at the age of thirty, after moving around quite a lot. I stole the saying from a song...I don't remember which. Sometimes you meet someone and you know their heart is set in stone in a very specific place, and your home won't ever be theirs. 

LIFE ONLINE

Since moving back to Cape Town, I really miss having a good selection of furniture on offer. Living in Germany made me take weekend trips to IKEA for granted. As long as slow-walking couples, dreaming of imagined futures, and toddlers with tantrums could be avoided, life was good. I now also miss my weekend trips to flea markets or buying cheap second-hand furniture online.

Goodness me. Lifestyle products are expensive in Cape Town. I long for the sleek, clean lines of a Swedish-inspired design and I promise I won't laugh that it's mass-produced and a mere facsimile, at a shop whose brand pushes a fictitious Swedish lifestyle. 

Most of all - I miss online shopping. It's best summarised by a conversation with my brother:

TO RETURN

The Weary One 

By (the most awesome!) Pablo Neruda

The weary one, orphan 
of the masses, the self, 
the crushed one, the one made of concrete, 
the one without a country in crowded restaurants, 
he who wanted to go far away, always farther away, 
didn't know what to do there, whether he wanted 
or didn't want to leave or remain on the island, 
the hesitant one, the hybrid, entangled in himself, 
had no place here: the straight-angled stone, 
the infinite look of the granite prism, 
the circular solitude all banished him: 
he went somewhere else with his sorrows, 
he returned to the agony of his native land, 
to his indecisions, of winter and summer.

HAMBURG ALWAYS IN MY HEART

My friends and brother made me the most beautiful farewell video to the most beautiful Alt J song. Yes, can you tell I am slightly obsessed by this band?

FREAKSTOCK 2014 // NEULAND

Freakstock was like meeting a family you never knew existed. It was a refreshing experience.

WHAT ON EARTH IS FUSION JAZZ?

Mmm, yes.

You could have asked me the same thing a few months ago and you would've met a blank stare.

Luckily, my former housemate, a jazz trombonist himself, in Hamburg introduced me to some funky jazzy tunes. The genre aims to free jazz from its stuffy image of old men, cigars and gloomy underground bars. Fusion jazz is really, for everybody! Pioneering this movement is the band Snarky Puppy (check out my favourite song).

Check out my former housemate and his band, Cam Buma Project, here. I took some snaps at their last gigs. They are pretty cool.

MEMORY LANE

NICE ONE, NORINA!

My friend Norina has a most beautiful voice, heart and soul. I could listen to her playing the guitar forevermore. Here I recorded a little bit of her singing "Your love never fails" at Freakstock. 

COOL WORSHIP BAND

Just can't get enough of this worship band at the moment: øusia. Once you see a band performing live, it changes the entire experience when you listen to their music at home. You can picture them when you close your eyes...