Originally taken from journal notes penned well before I’d had a tour of the new Johannesburg. Despite being in a car for much of it, some of the views expressed here have softened, but it is the nature of this place that all views persist in some form or another. It’s taken me a few trips… [Read more…]
May 14, 2010
I’m back to work on my road album… a project I’d started mid-2007 and I reckon unlikely to be completed any time soon. The idea is to write and record with the friends I visit in the various countries they live in. Their influences and those of the people around us permeate the music, or… [Read more…]
May 6, 2010
The first Toy Satellite project since 2005, Sarawak Gone is a micro-docs series covering some of the native customary rights issues facing the last forest communities of Sarawak. The construction of dams, from water reservoirs to hydro electric monsters, insatiable logging and palm oil plantation is seeing the increasingly rapid depletion of the ancestral homelands of… [Read more…]
May 6, 2010
Thank goodness the rain has cleared! I’m staying at the foot of the Magaliesburg Mountains, older than Everest - commonly referred to as the cradle of humanity. This place is only a few kilometres from the site of the most recent discovery of the oldest humanoid remains! To sleep on a firm mattress in freshly lain cotton… [Read more…]
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May 31, 2010
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