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Marianne Schwankhart recently spent a hot summer’s day in Moscow after summitting Elbrus in Russia and paragliding off it! You’ll see a beautiful selection of pictures from Moscow in tomorrow’s The Times on the Ten in 10 page.
With Pierre Carter and Peter Friedmann she is climbing to the summits of the highest mountains of each of the seven continents and paragliding from their summits. Terrifying idea ta me, but exhilarating to most. Read about their adventures here.
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Sarah Calburn designed Paul Smith’s shop in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. It’s a wonderful pink box perched on a typical Parkhurst house.
In LA the idea seems to have been taken further (not by Calburn). The shop, pictured above, is the pink box.
PS: Actually I am wrong here – Calburn’s building is a reference to the LA shop.
A few weeks ago Shanthini Naidoo wrote a story about abandoned babies looking to understand this phenomenon. She spoke to Marihet Infantino, manager of the child and family unit of Johannesburg Child Welfare who explained that “It is difficult not to point fingers, but we have to distance ourselves from judgment and look at the circumstances. What is happening in that person’s head?” She continued saying that many women – particularly young women with postpartum depression, a lack of support or acceptance and, of course, poverty- simply can’t cope with the thought of having a child. Read More…
I asked Ed Suter to explain how he got to take this photo of two marvelous, strong and fit-looking swimming regulars. This is what he said:
“The story behind the photo is that I had set up some lights and was photographing people who used the Sea Point pool. The guy in the photograph volunteered to be photographed. While he was posing for me, the lady entered the frame and gave him a hug. They were regular users of the pool and knew each other from early morning swims. At first I was annoyed that she had wandered into my picture and then realised it made a memorable image and got this one shot. A pure spontaneous moment but lit with artificial light. You don’t get many of those.”
The photo will be on exhibit from July 29 at The Image Says it All exhibition, at the Exposure Gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town
Aniston is launching a new perfume today at London’s Harrods – called Jennifer Aniston. There was a last minute name change from ‘Lolavie’ to just ‘Jennifer Anison’. This site said that the promo pictures were taken in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which has become her favourite holiday spot. I took the picture from Huffington Post.
Today We Escape by Eugenie Marais
Want to leave here and go somewhere else? This ethereal image – the glass-etched agapanthus beyond which cars drive along a rural road – is gentle and lovely. Just looking at it, makes me feel better – although that trip would go down well.
The work will be on exhibit at the Bamboo Centre in from Saturday 11 September 2010.
For more information visit www.bamboo-online.co.za
The Daily Show’s John Oliver not surprisingly found one on a world cup trip to SA. The meeting is revealed in one what must be of the best TV I’ve ever seen. (Far better than THE engagement video I’ve just watched).
WTF was Dan Roodt thinking – besides racist thoughts. Oliver was delighted with these pearls – “That’s a fine burgundy compared to the watery sh*t we get back home” he told Roodt.
Roodt didn’t get it all. Didn’t he watch Candid Camera when he was small and ignorant?
Watch it here - it’s quite brilliant.
It’s cringeworthy But they are making “it right”. The mum, Sarah Palin apparently learnt about this sweet news on the front cover of US Weekly which broke the news on Wednesday.
In a statement she said of the engagement, “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”
Watch the couple in love:
Here are some extracts from international stories about SA and the world cup:
Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times:
“South Africa’s World Cup was a four-week people’s festival — which saw the normally insular car-addicted middle classes abandoning their vehicles, walking, taking buses and trains, celebrating in the streets at night or visiting Soweto township for the first time in their lives.
Since Nelson Mandela’s Rainbow Nation dream began to fade with the rise of corruption and persistent inequality, South Africa has become a navel-gazing, insecure nation.” Read More…
