From now on..

after revamping my actual site I will be doing all my blogging from there. So if you are keen to follow my exploits please go to my site and follow the blog there: F8photos

woodstock shoot

had a shoot in woodstock today. this is the results
Designer Karen Hoffman
Models: Rex and Gillian

Bit of trouble

had a rather long and difficult shoot the other day but i think it turned out ok in the end. so a bit of trouble but totally worth it.

and some more

More photos

i have been a bit slack in putting in photos on but here are some.






i have been a bit slack in putting in photos on but here are some.

Back in the Groove

Its the end of the year again and I am taking photos again of the final ranges for some of my students
These images were taken at Strand Beach. Model was Sunandie, Designer was Christelle and Stylist was Theresa.

staff at the academy

in the last week or two i have been taking photos of the staff of the school as styled by some of the students. needless to say some of it came out really great.
here is some of the highlights.
the first image is of mandy, my co-founder of Catalyst and Glue. the second is of theresa, then alana (all 5 of the people happen to be alana) then Asia en lastly Martin and Gideon.

Funniest Video of the Year

This has to be one of the funniest videos i have seen all year. Everybody hates the WWE (except Paul) so here is a funny clip about what happens when a wrestler wants to use a chair on an opponent and asks the crowd to give him one. Sometimes you just get so much more than expected.

via videosift.com

Anna Wintour visits Craigmore Farm

you guessed it, anna wintour visited the farm this last weekend and we a chance to take two photos of her. note the trademark pout in the one photo! Apologies for the quality of image as we used a cellphone to take the photos.

Firefly fans unite

Once again for all those firefly fans out there here is a very nice little summary of why the show is awesome, as if we need reminding. Read the article HERE


Also if you are not already a fan of Friday Night Lights here is a few reasons to become one:

the new website

so after a bit of sweat and tears i have finally got the new website up and running.
you can check it out here: Catalyst & Glue

check it out there.

Isabel Random photos

i have not been on the blog in a while but i have been working very hard on my other site. here are a few photos of isabel though so that you can stay up to date. she is now crawling like a little dynamo and pulling herself up against furniture. she is also starting to cruise once she is standing up, meaning she walks along the furniture while holding on to it. i might put a bit of a video on later in the week.

Tarien's Great Depression

Did a shoot for one of our ex-students named Tarien the other day. She is one of the best designers to come out of our school and is currently working with Sonwabile to design a townshop/school range for the SA fashion week.
This range was done for a fashion show on saturday. The venue for the shoot was, believe it or not, our farm. The fashion show is in Mithcells plain on saturday... I havent decided yet if i am to go. The clothing is inspired by 1920's depression.

Neo-Icons: Amy Winehouse

For a recent shoot the stylists recreated the whole Amy Winehouse thing. the theme of the shoot was Neo-Icons and they chose her. So all the photos had to resemble some of her photos, be it paparazzi of actual shoots. Quite a challenge but we managed in the end. The following images are not finished yet though. We still need to add the tattoos to her skin, which is not as easy as you would think...

Big bottomed girls....

In the last week i have done two fashion shoots. This is the rough edits from the first one. The idea behind it was to use size 38-40 models for the shoot to get the whole Big Bottomed girls thing going... I havent been in a club recently but i can imagine that that song "Big Girls" by that funny little british/lebanese dweeb have all the fatties jumping on the dancefloor at the same time (poor dancefloor). I guess i have now also insulted a fair amount of people that read this blog. never mind. here is the rough edit of the images.

Riaan and Simone's Wedding

Click on the link below to go to the Album. This is just a rough version and the images are big enough to be printed in jumbo format if you save it and take it to your local printer. If you want something larger you have to email me and i will email a larger print to you.

Riaan and Simone's Wedding

Easter on the Farm

Joanne was on duty over the Easter Weekend so we spent a leisurely weekend at home, watching movies and relaxing by the pool. Here are a few photos. I also include a few photos from the previous weekend when we went to Betties for the weekend with the family Walsh.
The last few photos are just an explanation of what it entails to work on a poultry farm and was taken when we go for our nightly shed-check to close up/open up the sheds for the night to come. Isabel comes with in the best baby thing we didnt buy ( we inherited the little baby backpack from my sister.) Isabel loves the backpack like nothing else.
Hope everybody had a great easter.

Police Brutality in Stellenbosch Pubs

For those of you not really in touch with people in Stellenbosch I would like to give a brief update. Last saturday night to cops decided to do a bit of a drugs-sweep in the the Stellenbosch pubs after 12am. What followed was a nightmare of unwarranted police brutality. In the end they found only 150g of Dagga despite sweeping 3 pubs. What resulted was a number of students being knocked about and as you will be able to see on the footage, a gun being fired in a crowded pub where no-one was resisting. You will also see female students being searched by males and in one instance peppersprayed in the face even though she was sitting down, and then thrown across the floor. the cops are stupid enough to deny all of this though... they obviously dont know how to use a search engine.

Anyone that has any brains and knows Stellenbosch would have told you that they wouldn't find hard-drugs in the pubs. The stellenbosch students that do that tend to go to city to and get their rocks off. From the behavior of the cops, who apparently all thought they were Jack Bauer, they should maybe have checked the police vehicles for tik.
Rumour has it that one of Ruda Landman's son was apparently one of the guys who was knocked about, so expect a tell all doccie on Carte Blanche soon.

this is apparently not the first time it has happened though. AFter the last time the pub owners learned their lesson and installed CCTV cameras to document anything that might happen which found its way on Youtube pretty quickly. So have a look, and just a warning, although not graphic in content, it is definetely schocking and more the type of behavior that you would expect in places like Burma.
But the biggest question is here? Does it surprise anyone? Are you surprised that our police are made up mostly by a bunch of incompetent fools who all seem to choose to ignore the big crimes and go apeshit on the small things. Are you surprised that a decidedly white, DA-voting university's pubs was targeted? Are you surprised that they use unnecessary force when none would have been necessary? No, Keystone Cops my friends, Keystone Cops. What can you expect from idiots who cant seem to find 4th gear in their cars? anyway, enough of my rants. Enjoy the weekend!

Edit: A few people have taken me on about this and say that the students were stupid, they should have listened to the cops when they told them do what they said and lastly, the cops need to get a bit rough to get results sometimes.
The question i would like to ask these people is where do you draw the line? At a few students that might have a bit of dope on them? At a few people protesting in the street against something? At opposition parties who do not agree with the way you run the country? At another country who have a shiteload of oil that you could use but might just have some WMD's hidden somewhere.
The line is not something that should be moved whenever you feel it should suit you.

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The Olive Yard

I have recently come into contact with one of my old Navy mates, Jaco Stemmet. Jaco and I did basics together and he joined me on a few alcoholic excursions back in the day. After spending more time in the navy than is healthy, he now positions oil drills along the west African Coast. Being a fluent french speaking francophile does help him. His son, jamie was born exactly a month after Isabel.
Anyway, for those of you that do know him, here is his blog and you can read about him there. Also read it to get some information about Oil Drilling in Nigeria etc.

Two Videos

Two nee videos this week. taken with our video camera and reduced by iMovie on my iMac (see how i worked that in there?) they are about Isabel in her little pool and one featuring Christie and Derek doing a bit of a love tango (well sort of).