Good reads

OP PAD MET SOPHY GRAY – EERSTE VROULIKE ARGITEK IN SA
LifestyleTydens ’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…

’N KYKIE NA KLEUR DEUR ’N CHINESE LENS
Lifestyle, TravelMy “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,…

LIGHTS & LANTERNS FESTIVAL
Events & EntertainmentIf 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…

HOLIDAY FUN WITH DIY TIE-DYE!
LifestyleTie-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…

GEEN WYN VIR ’N WEEK NIE
LifestyleMy 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…

GET CREATIVE!
LifestyleIf 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…

THE ART OF WRITING
LifestyleAfter 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…

SCULPTING THE HUMAN BODY … WITH BICYCLE CHAINS!
LifestyleSouth 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,…

GOOD PHOTOS OF THE MOON
Lifestyle, Nature & NurtureWhen 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…

AGRICULTURE – HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN AROUND?
Lifestyle, Nature & NurtureRecently 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…

BRIDGES … A MEANS OF CONNECTING
Lifestyle, TravelBridges … 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.…

GRAFFITI OR MURAL ART?
Lifestyle, TravelThe 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…

MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES, SINGULAR BEAUTY
Lifestyle, TravelStripes, 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,…

OUR SHOES WILL LEAD US
Lifestyle, TravelWhat 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…

LIGHTS & LANTERNS FESTIVAL
Events & EntertainmentThousands 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…

PARADYS (KLOOF) THROUGH THE EYES OF DYLAN LEWIS
Lifestyle, Nature & Nurture, TravelOverwhelming. Awesome. World class. These are all words that describe South African sculptor Dylan Lewis’s sculpture garden on Mulberry Farm in Paradyskloof (a very apt name, that!), Stellenbosch. The artist started the garden himself way…

FOTO FOCUS: GREAT TIPS FOR CELL PHONE PICS
LifestyleUSE GRIDLINES TO BALANCE YOUR SHOT Turn on the camera’s gridlines to superimpose a series of lines on the screen of your smartphone’s camera that are based on the “rule of thirds” – a composition principle that says an image should…

SPOOKLOOP IN GRENDELTYD
Events & EntertainmentMosselbaai se strate skep tans die perfekte agtergrond vir opportunistiese spooksoekers wat wil terugstap na die beginjare van dié Suid-Kaapse dorp. Dis einde Junie, midwinter-ysig en gekontroleerde staptoere word tydens Fase 3 van die inperkingstyd…

A DIFFERENT FACE OF PICASSO
Lifestyle, TravelI have been fortunate, during the course of our travels, to have seen many different exhibitions of Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. During a fairly recent trip to Berlin (before we’d even…

FOTO FOCUS – PICTURE EDITING
LifestyleMost of the photos we take can be improved in some way, no matter how skillful the photographer.
Computer programs and cellphone photo editing apps vary from very basic free editors to advanced programs like Photoshop or ON1 with both mobile…

