April/May issue
April/May issue
THAT FLAVA R E T T E L DITORS E
Sup Everybody, hope you have all been well and living! It gives me great pleasure to announce that with all the trials and tribulations, a month later we have made another issue. This only being our second issue, we overwhelmed by the constant love and positive feedback we receive from the masses about “That Flava Online�. In this issue we did not drift much from the 1st issue, but as we are in the journey of discovering in this months issue there will be a few more features added to the website. We also proud to say that the team is growing, from what started as a 3 man army would like to welcome more soldiers to the army, Neo Moretlwe who now heads our fashion spread, Sam Leburu for movie reviews, Khotso Tsaagane & Kgotso Themba who join our marketing and advertising team, a warm welcome to you all! Well what we have in-store for you in the issue is just a page away, let me not kill anymore more of your time, thanks for tuning in once again. Love Peace & Flava Obakeng Kunupi Editor Obakeng.kunupi@gmail.com
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CITY OF GOLD
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Gold Urban Art Festival
The aim of City Of Gold is to establish Johannesburg as a destination for graffiti and street artists from around the world”
“The individual events and mural projects will attempt to activate and enhance sites in the Johannesburg CBD” Grayscale Concepts is proud to present the 3rd annual “City Of Gold” Urban Art Festival in Johannesburg South Africa from 7th-13th April 2013. The aim of City Of Gold is to establish Johannesburg as a destination for graffiti and street artists from around the world and assist the development of the local graffiti/street art community. In addition to this the festival seeks to highlight the positive aspects of this art form as well as involving the general public to create a heightened awareness and appreciation for it. Various events will take place at
The individual elements that make up the week long festival include: -An exhibition -Large - scale mural projects -film - screenings -street art tours
different locations in the city of Joburg which will showcase the finest in both international and local artists. The individual events and mural projects will attempt to activate and enhance sites in the Johannesburg CBD that are often feared or forgotten by the city’s inhabitants
The International Fashion Sale (IFS) is a South African engineered business that seeks to enhance the fashion and textile industry in our country. Our unsigned designers programme, is a step towards enhancing our competitive advantage with international markets in the fashion industry. We hope to train and facilitate 50 young designers by exposing them to an estimated number of 25000 shoppers over a three day time frame. The IFS team will administer an application process allowing young designers from anywhere around the country to apply. Shortly after we will conduct telephonic interviews and controlled quality checks with applicants, to help us narrow down the numbers to 50. South Africa has thousands of students graduating from Fashion Design institutes each year and some who have not been availed the chance to study find means to teach themselves and gain the necessary expertise in order to pursue fashion design. The country may have a host of popular design names that could be said to be household parties such as you Clive Rundle’, Black Coffee, Suzaan Heyns, David Tlale and Gert Johan to name but a few. However we only have a handful of these designers collaborating with large chain stores to enhance their brands, thus retail chain stores facilitate mass market buying from very few of those popular local designers. As a result we are then left with thousands of unemployed youth with qualifications or talent that they cannot utilize, as platforms for growing their potential are unlimited. This year new management and strategy at the IFS looks to counter the state of unemployment. We have launched a programmed titled the “UNSIGNED DESIGNERS�. It is a platform within the IFS where young talented designers regardless of background and economic status will be given the opportunity to retail their items as the IFS from July 26th28th 2013 at no cost to the designers chosen. We are looking for fresh and vibrant designers who understand their brand and themselves, through programmes that foster retail and business management training we hope to impart skills that will help them control and manage their businesses fully post the IFS. Our top 50 is innovative, fashion forward, personal brand conscious, and creative, amongst other things they are the cream of the crop that will blow us away with unseen and unheard of garments. Feel you have the potential? Enter today!! Interested Applicants may send their contact details to nqobi@theifs.co.za . April/May issue
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Supremebeing™ was established in 1999 by a group of four friends in Cambridge UK, between them screen printers, artists, designers and
entrepreneurs. Born from a love of graphic design, art and streetwear, the belief was that with talent and hard work you could make a career from what you love. They had great designs; it was up to them to make it happen. The team began with tee and hoody prints that would become the foundation of the brand. It was here that the name Supremebeing™ first appeared; a strap line to a graphic which depicted one of the designers’ left hand missing part of a finger lost in a bizarre chip shop accident!
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“Supremebeing™ plans to become one of the leading streetwear brands in the world, expanding in to new territories and markets via key worldwide partners, whilst continuing to create new concepts, capsule ranges and ideas with the aim of stimulating both the team and the customers. The brand will continue to evolve, explore new talent and be consistently fresh, creative and relevant. In the future it aims to convey its brand identity and vision to the widest possible audience, with the goal to “hopefully inspire people in the same way that they have inspired us.”
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HOTTIE of the month
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ENTERTAINMENT
LoveSoweto
Keeping you exclusively entertained
A BRAND WITHOUT BOUNDRIES ‘LoveSoweto formed on November the 15th 2012, with a date in mind, we kicked off the events brand immediately, we had a mere 2 weeks to prepare and get the word out there for the event, this called for late nights and early morning, however LoveSoweto had started. The LoveSoweto group go a few years back, with 3 guys heading the pack, Bradley Thring, Thato Modisagae and Kyle Schofield, LoveSoweto is a family, it’s a brand that has no boundaries, like a blank canvas we allow all to come and paint, forming the platform for Soweto party people to enjoy all facets of the Soweto events industry, LoveSoweto continues to grow as a family, accepting every individual who walks through the doors at our events and all the individuals who know us as LoveSoweto
The Brand was created for Soweto to enjoy, as the trio we feel it’s our duty to continuously put the freshest parties together.
MAHOOTA’S 50TH Birthday Party AT TABOO
We must say Mahoota throws one of the best events in Mzantsi filled with the whose who of the entertainment industry. His 50th Birthday party a Taboo in Sandton was filled to its full capacity with attendance of most of Mzantsi Musicians , Actors and socialite and yes the was a lot of dancing “Cage Dancing”.
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MORE ABOUT
Loyiso Gola is a
South African comedian best known for for his roles on the television comedy talk shows Phat Joe Live, Pure Monate Show and Dinner with the President
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e is currently the host of the satirical new show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola, which airs on e.tv and DStv’s eNews channel, since 2010.Loyiso has been performing comedy since 2000 and has graced the stages of all the major festivals and events on the local comedy calendar.being invited to perform at the 2005 and 2006 instalments of the Cape Town International Comedy Festival, South Africa’s most prestigious comedy event, he became the youngest comic ever to perform at the internationally renowned festival.He was selected to perform in the “Best of the Festival” line up which included all the best acts at the festival, most of whom were internationally acclaimed acts.In addition 2006 saw him performing in Dubai, as well as New York where he was invited to perform. From humble beginnings performing with the Cape Comedy Collective on the Cape Town comedy circuit “while he was still at school”, he has evolved into performing all over the country as well as having been on television, radio and the big screen. The comedy fraternity was first made aware of his talents when he won the Sprite Soul Comedy competition and was the runner up in the professional category of the Freshest Five Comedy Competition upon his arrival in Johannesburg in 2003, at the age of 19.Since then, he has gone on to perform in events such as the Kingsize Comedy Jam, Comedy Blackout, Pure Monate Comedy Jam, Blacks Only Comedy Show, Sprite Soul Comedy Jam as well as many other comedy events all over the country.His physical comedy skills landed him roles on SABC3’s Comedy Showcase.However, his on-screen popularity grew when he became a writer and performer in two seasons of SABC1’s sketch comedy series the Pure Monate Show, which was nominated in nine categories at the inaugural South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs), in 2006.He also hosted the Metro FM Music Awards and a year later was one of the hosts of the prestigious South African Music Awards (SAMAs). In 2005 he also landed a cameo in a locally produced comedy feature film Bunny Chow, which made its theatrical release in 2007.In 2006 he guest starred on an episode of the SABC1 drama series Mtunzini. com, playing the role of a brilliant young comedian, Themba Nene, who drops dead on stage in an apparent murder. The episode was entitled “The Last Laugh” (Season 1, Episode 9).He was a nominee at the Stars of Mzansi Awards 2008 in the “Comedian of the Year” category.In September 2010 he began hosting the satirical news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola, on e.tv and the eNews channel.He was the third ever host of the Comedy Central series Comedy Central Presents... Live at Parker’s, in 2012.
He is one of South African best comedians who leaves no room for dull moments
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Meat The Veggies
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Name of Band: Meat the Veggies Type of Label: Independent Genre: Afro Kitchen Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Dub, Lounge, Deep House, Ambient, Electronica
left the band to persue their own musical interests. Who is Meat theA Veggies Meat the Veggies shaped their musical art form they call Afro Kitchen Jazz. In Late 2009 they released their first EP and soon after Ruby Gold left the band to persue her own musical interests leaving Tiko and Bongani on their Afro Kitchen Brief History Jazz wavelength. he Band was formed in October 2007 by The two musos are currently joined by new four friends(Tiko, Bongani, Ipeleng and member Tsholofelo Moremedi, a super vocalist/ Gopol- ang) who had been involved in music producer/songwriter and are busy cooking up a and performances way before meeting. Three new album/mixtape planned to be released in of the founding members came from a different 2013. Meat the Veggies have also been workband which mainly concentrated on an indig- ing on different projects one with Dudu Melenous sound while the other member focused lowdesiaq Sithole, a young energetic producer/ mainly on the electronic side of music as a Dj composer which they have a track featured on and producer. In 2008, a super vocalist; Ruby- Dj Sbu’s Sound Revival Vol 1 - Track 11: WanGold joined the band and then later in the year tolobela. The band also performs with various of 2008, two members (Ipeleng and Gopolang) house Dj’s and musicians on different projects.
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100 Movies to watch BEFORE YOU DIE
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KUNG FU HUSTLE
ell the movie ill be reviewing is titled “Kung Fu Hustle”. Most of us township boys have had a connection with Japanese martial arts movies, the reason I chose this movie is simple. First the traditional way in which old Japanese movies where shot is carried through this modern martial arts movie, second it might be modern but it still gives the viewer a sense of ancient cinematography. The director Stephen Chow is known for fusing humor and staying relevant with the digital art direction made popular in Holly Wood by movies like THE MATRIX. The beauty about this movie is that Stephen uses the same cast from his previous movie Shaolin Soccer. Its amongst the top 100 hundred movies to watch before you die.
Now Kung Fu Hustle has a typical gangster story line based in a small town where a gang have taken over the town and control everything including sheriff, the gang (X gang) is challenged by a small community on the outskirts of this town. Within this small community we find that there are great martial arts masters who have been in retirement for decades. The X GANG is defeated by these masters and have to recruit villains of the same strength if not better to destroy these masters and take over the town again. Just like any action movie, the action is superb and the Holly Wood graphics are also out of this world. If you are a fan of movies like, THE ONE, JUMPER, and any JET-LI movie this is movie you’d surely enjoy. Its movie that captures you from start to finish with all the action and comedy and beautiful story line. The only downfall for Holly Wood fans is that the movie is foreign so the language is Asian, but it’s a movie worth buying and having an original copy. As a film maker that wants to venture in martial arts movies this is a perfect movie to study. Out of 10 id give it an 8…
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Review by: Samuel Leb
SIZ Mr Blaka MUSIC VIDEO SHOOT
SIZ Mr Blaka: Drops his first official music video from the Album titled KE MADI, which dropped 2012 October. The song features F3 Dipapa and Jankie Makopa. Tshepo Bogatsu the Mawaza ENT president directed the music video, and the director of photography Sam Leburu.
las. The lighting technique and camera work had to take a viewer on a journey; hence the camera is always in motion. The colour grading is of a film like look to represent to dark world of Mafia dealings.
The track title is One Day and speaks about how a specific day in ones life is more fruitful than the next persons. The video premiered on Words from the director: the concept is a basic Channel O, Soweto TV, YO-TV and currently story of a victorious character within his own on you-tube. circle, it was influenced by Italian Mafia movies like Scar Face, The God Father and Good Fel-
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HOT SPOTS
WakaBerry (Forgiveness comes in the form of FroYo!)
I don’t know about the other male species, but this spot to me comes as the best solution to a lot of the problems we face as guys. Whether you in the dog box and you absolutely have no way out, or gunning to be that guy that wants to make his lady smile, WakaBerry is that place that will save us a lot of unnecessary drama and mood swings! ☺ This awesome interactive self- service frozen yoghurt bar was established in Durban a good two years ago (2011) by born and bred Durbanites , Ken, Michele and David, with the goal to make the Wakaberry experience one that will bring a smile to the mind, body and soul. What does it for us is the uniqueness and the authenticity of the place, with over 40 toppings to choose from and the weighted paying system you can choose how little or much you have. The experience, I think is exactly what the team at Wakaberry wanted it to be, you get captured by the liveliness of the place as soon as you walk in, being surrounded by colour has to be on of the best feelings. The entire place is just beautifully lit with colour, we no experts but that trip is definitely good for the brain and being! With that being said, WakaBerry has to go down as the hottest “hot spot” we have yet to review! From our side we would like to thank you for the extra ammo to us gents, we now have a very classy way of saying sorry.
Check out WakaBerry on these social networks, Facebook: Wakaberry Frozen yoghurt bar. Website: www.wakaberry.co.za
Making a difference
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House of Dawn Laundry & Concept Store
It is not a mystery that development in the townships is still lagging, very few people are opening stores and if they are it is usually a store that serves food or sells motor car spares. House of Dawn in the Kagiso Township has to be playing alone in its own league, when it comes to it’s competition.
The store is a laundry & concept store co- founded by Mogale City resident Brian Thipe A.K.A “Lavesta” , as he is know by many on the streets. House of Dawn (pty) LTD has been up and running over a decade now and has proven to be a strong force within the branding and arts field. Services : • T-shirt printing • Digital printing • Banners • Fashion • Arts Craft • Corporate Gifts • Events With a vision to supply and service the branding arts field with passion and commitment, they aim to develop and motivate their staff to service the industry with fairness. We spent a few hours at the store taking a few pictures for his feature, not that we not used to being “home” or anything but the store as a proud African person grounds and re-roots you, with beaded jewelry displayed around the shop old black & white photo’s of our fallen hero’s put up on the wall. To add on to that, the items sold in the shop are of local produced, either produced by Lavesta himself or by other local producers residing in the Kagiso Township. We know we all enjoy the mall scene and all they have to offer, but we should not forget our own people, who are still on the come up with the very little resources at hand and managing to deliver too dope quality in their products, so we urge you all to support the small and upcoming! BUY LOCAL!!
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The Life Of a Cr8ive
Up Close & Personal WITH
Tiko Ngobeni Disciplines : Illustration . Fine Art , Photograpghy Occupation : Creative Director at the “Green Orb” Favourite Qoute : “I am you are” Interests : Art , Life , Music , Love , Peace It was a Thursday afternoon, and we had a 3pm cover shoot scheduled with the brother Tiko Ngobeni at our studio’s. The homie graced us with his presence a couple of minutes later, not sure whether he was dressed appropriate for the shoot. ☺ We went back to regular program as the shoot progressed, as always it was it was a mission having to director someone that used to being behind and not infront of the camera. It was real awesome chilling with ‘TK’, here a few questions and answers we got from the brother.
“Art is all I know. I live by it, breath it, drink it, eat it, sleep with it and it is all I see.. I am it’s manifestation, a organism of art.” Tiko Ngobeni
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- How would you define you work? - Every artist has a story to tell, how A: it is living art, conceptual art, realism does yours begin and end? A: Honestly my story is to tell many visual and a little abstract infused with fantasy. aesthetic stories. I am here to simply create - The message conveyed in your paintart. I communicate many stories through my ings, do you think the concepts are easy art, stories of love, peace, identity and various for the viewer to grasp or one has to think other stories. Where it ends; â˜ş God knows. deeper to visualize it? - Paintings or any art form is sur- A: I use a lot of symbolism in my art. Our lives rounded by emotion, when working are filled with symbolism so I think some of on a piece at the time are there certain the art is easily grasped and some needs a emotions you go through or a certain little push. state you in? - And inspiration? Where do you draw A: yes I believe creativity comes at its that from? that in it’s And space. and own time space I am transported to a state of A: My main inspiration is Carbon. It is in all a visual medium of some sort; a visual living and dead matter, it is all around us. Afnarrator. In this state my work is driven rica, nature, reading and games also serve as by various emotions of sadness, love, an- great sources of inspiration that fuel my imger, excitement, happiness, disgust etc and agination. is combined with the purpose or meaning I wish to paint.
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- Still on the emotions, once the art piece is complete, what story and feel does it portray or rather what emotion would you like to inflict to the viewer. A: I believe the viewer/audience is open to interpretation. One piece of artwork could have many meanings to what the artist intended. With some artists the intention is for the viewer/audience to go through their personal experience with the artwork. I myself at times do not know the meaning of the artwork until I have finished the process of painting and then it reveals itself to me while viewing the finished artwork.
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What value do your creations - hold to you? A: I am my Art. My work is a source of livelihood they serve as a means of communication and expression.
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- Future plans with you work? Exhibitions etc? A: I plan to host Art exhibitions with fellow artists and to own a gallery in the future where I can also hold art classes and happenings.
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No Idea- A photographic street exhibition by Moeketsi Moticoe EyeSeeImages, a photography agency, will on Friday, 12 April open its first street exhibition in Maboneng Precinct, downtown Johannesburg. The exhibition, titled ‘No Idea’ is first of its kind in Maboneng Precinct and aims to bring art to the everyday man. Moeketsi Moticoe, founder of EyeSeeImages and exhibitor, talking about his exhibition commented, “I have belief that art should be accessible to everyone, and often it is viewed as an exclusive medium for certain type of people - and most often never experienced by its subjects. I wanted everyone to have access and be part of it - hoping this will inspire everyday people to start engaging with the arts.” Speaking of the concept ‘No Idea’, he says “This concept was inspired by the act of doing without knowing. People believe that in order to create a real or powerful piece of work, you must have a great idea to start off with. This work was created without any intentions, therefore not limiting the creative process and not prescribing what the end piece should be. There were no preconceived ideas of what the outcome would be, this way, I was able to let the work determine its end and not stifle its creativity,” Commenting on the uncommon venue for an exhibition, Moticoe added,
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“I chose to have this exhibition on the street as I wanted the work to be accessible to everyone. I wanted to remove the misconception that one can only see art in a Gallery or you had to be a certain type of person to enjoy art. Also, I wanted to give back to the people who formed part of my work – and have them see themselves and the role they play in making Johannesburg the vibrant city that it is.” The exhibition opens on Friday, 12 April 2013 at 18:00 to 20:00 at Maboneng Precinct, 286 Fox Street and it will run for a month.
For more information contact:
Moeketsi Moticoe Cell: 071 213 2387 Email: moeketsi@eyeseeimages.co.za
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I have been eagerly searching the online fashion pages for inspiration that will influence the next trend in the international and local market. I was particularly focusing on the merging of cultures that construct a completely new culture (trend). This merger of fashion cultures is described as ‘creolization’ and has been seen developing in South African families, post 1994 elections. People were now allowed to make decisions on a lifestyle that best suited them and their families. This is when the conception of freedom of creative expression in the fashion world in South Africa emerged. In a written journal of Raquel Romberg’s. 2002. Revisiting Creolization, states how ‘Creolization’ means more than just mixture, it involves the creation of new cultures through an unplanned takeover of anything indigenous and grasping on the stereotype of a region or culture. This is very understandable as creativity is a form of knowledge and being open minded. So creating a new a culture that is not planned but it is made from already existing cultures and accepted as a new culture. With a new age of well travelled individuals, parents and family members that live abroad, cyber addicts and an open access to media, we have become so accustomed to other cultures and consciously not recognising the decisions we are making are on an international level For a more familiar example we can look at South African languages such as, Tswana, Pedi and Sotho, which are similar, but, yet so different. These similarities can also be found with Afrikaans and its affiliation to the German and Dutch language. The similarities imply that once upon a time these different cultures were once one, but evolved away from each through the evolution of traditional customs. Creolization is an agile phenonmenon and the trends created through this concept will see an overall evolution of fashion and expression through the auto exotic gaze.
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