Good reads

LIGHT PAINTING USING THE NIGHT AS A CANVAS

Visual artist Hannu Huhtamo has been creating art with the dark night as his “canvas” and light as his “brush”. Using a technique known as light painting, the Finnish artist makes his works with a photographic technique based on long…
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‘TIS THE SEASON FOR CYCLING

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Freddie Mercury of the band Queen once sang: “I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like …” These aren’t the cleverest of Queen’s lyrics but the words really are apt…
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LIGHTS & LANTERNS

Vanjaar se Lights & Lantern-fees vind op 20 Desember 2021 oorkant die polisiekantoor In Langstraat, Groot-Brakrivier, plaas.  Soos altyd, is die fokus van die fees stille refleksie en om lig na buite uit te dra. Vanweë  die onsekerheid…
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TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE A CLOCK

Crafting can be decorative and functional at the same time! Here’s how to make your own little kitchen clock. You will need: A nice piece of MDF craft-wood, or plastic, wood, flat ceramic, or even a piece you’ve made from plaster…
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INSPIRASIE UIT THE POST!

By The Post is daar niks wat lekkerder is as om positiewe terugvoering te ontvang nie, maar as ons hoor dat iets in die koerant heel onverwags van ons lesers tot groter hoogtes geïnspireer het, is dit voorwaar die spreekwoordelike “kersie…
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OP PAD MET SOPHY GRAY – EERSTE VROULIKE ARGITEK IN SA

Tydens ’n onlangse wegbreek bevind ek myself in “St. John in the Wildernis”, ’n klipkerkie op Louvain-vakansieplaas in die Bo-Langkloof. En net daar word ek bewus van die formidabele Sophy Gray (1814-1871), een van die eerste vroue wat…
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’N KYKIE NA KLEUR DEUR ’N CHINESE LENS

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My “stiefpa” (by gebrek aan ’n beter woord) is onlangs oorlede. ’n Kreatiewe en vaardige man wat in 1972 vanaf Duitsland hier ter plaatse geland het. Hy het soveel uniekhede, kunsskatte en ’n magdom kuns-naslaanbronne saamgebring,…
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LIGHTS & LANTERNS FESTIVAL

If all goes well, the well-known Lights & Lanterns Festival will take place again in December 2021. Thousands of plastic bottles are needed in which all the candles will be placed for this event. Please donate all your clean, empty 2 litre…
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HOLIDAY FUN WITH DIY TIE-DYE!

Tie-dye your very own T-shirt, beach towel, hat, beach bag, mask or even fabric sneakers. You can buy complete Tie-dye kits – enquire at your nearest craft shop: Choose your design and dye colours. There are many inspirational design…
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GEEN WYN VIR ’N WEEK NIE

My pa het altyd gesê ’n mens praat nie oor politiek en godsdiens nie, maar hier gaan ons … Mitologie en religie bestaan al van die begin van tye af. Dit is ’n manier om die begin van die mensdom, die plek wat die mens in die heelal…
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GET CREATIVE!

If the cold weather, children’s holidays and lockdown have left you stuck at home looking for something interesting to do, why not upgrade something in your home to give it new life? It’s bound to cheer you up and leave you feeling mentally…
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THE ART OF WRITING

After a recent article on the development of agriculture in the ancient civilizations, someone asked me where I got all this information. “Do you Google it?” Since early childhood I liked words – in actual printed books – with pages…
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SCULPTING THE HUMAN BODY … WITH BICYCLE CHAINS!

South Korean artist Young-Deok Seo uses the unlikely material of bicycle chains as a way to craft realistic sculptures of the human body. For years, we’ve marveled over his figurative artwork, some of it life-sized and others larger than life,…
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GOOD PHOTOS OF THE MOON

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When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get a worthy photo, but unfortunately the moon is a really challenging subject to photograph. Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto…
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AGRICULTURE – HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN AROUND?

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Recently the Western Cape Minister of Agriculture visited the Mossel Bay District to meet with the Western Cape Women’s Agricultural Organization, whom he calls “the backbone of the agricultural sector”. With agriculture still very much…
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BRIDGES … A MEANS OF CONNECTING

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Bridges … a connector for people, traffic, neighbourhoods. They are often architecturally challenging, visually striking, or enshrouded by urban legend. (Sometimes they combine all three.) Take the Ponte Luís I in Porto, Portugal, for example.…
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GRAFFITI OR MURAL ART?

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The word graffiti has its origins in both Greek and Italian. Graphein is Greek for “scratch”, “carve” or “write” while graffiato in Italian means “scratched”. Although there have been different forms of graffiti (before it…
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MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES, SINGULAR BEAUTY

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Stripes, layers, stacked textures … these striking sculptures by different artists appear to use the same techniques but in fact they’re highly divergent. For one there’s Japanese-American artist Jun Kaneko’s six-foot-tall head sculpture,…
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OUR SHOES WILL LEAD US

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What COVID-19 has done to all of us, with no discrimination whatsoever since every single one of us is feeling it, no exceptions, is create a loss of any sense of direction. The virus has put us in a holding pattern, particularly with the second…
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LIGHTS & LANTERNS FESTIVAL

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. At the time of going to print, a new wave of COVID-19 swept across the Garden Route. As…
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