Koko Nkoane is home, visiting --- Yay!

Now, I have to remember how to make her tea, she is particular about how it's made.

definatley, love.

Without a shadow of doubt, I am, because of her.

1ove

I think, I do enjoy this 'set' of photography --- something about it, forces me to go outside, setup kit, and shoot --- I like that.

1ove

But, then again, it's that thing called target market --- middle to upper 'class' --- pity coz in other countries where Vespas are sold, the market is lower-to-middle class.

ps. Stella Atoirs in Europe is known as 'wife beater'.

1ove

So, I think, I'm getting somewhere with this 'night light' thingy magic.

Alas, I'm only learning to push the proverbial envelope -- I have never understood how this metaphor came about.

*listening to "Yellow" - by Coldplay

1ove

Ever since my attempted muggin' --- I will confess --- my sense of security evaporated with it --- I am constantly looking around, recording everything I see

face, clothing, number plate, age, ethnic group, race, colours, shoes, time, number of people around me, buildings,,,,

I am at the same time, imagining constantly, the worst case scenario of every scene I'm in --- it's never good --- I'm not sure if I'll ever recover from this.

The only solution, is to run away (into a foreign land) --- but that is not option yet, should I have a child, it will be revaluated.

1ove

In the dying years of Brandy's career, I have developed a crush, ain't that a bitch.

1ove

1ove

still, planing to fix and get this beast off the bricks --- but fuel being where it is --- it is now a luxury item.

1ove

I did 10 mins of work today --- why am I unproductive when I need to be extremely productive.

ps: I can hear the garbage removal guys in the background --- only now, at 18h30 they collect the garbage --- I guess I'm not the only unproductive person.

Good evening.

1ove

Good morning.

1ove

Everytime I look at this photograph, I get a sense of guilt or is it fear --- I felt like I was a pevert a stalker --- and being that the subject's clothing represent religion, it just didn't feel right.

Ah well, its a good thing I am a photographer, ;-), I have creative license to peer and capture into anything, right?

1ove

If the negotiations on Tuesday go according to plan, I will be moving out of my mothers house to (hopefully) Greenside (it's the new black).

There is some gratifying feeling I get from being able to move out of my mothers house because of my own hard work/labour --- being able to sustain myself through my own sweat and blood.

a primal feeling I suppose.

1ove

As far back as I can remember, I've always found prime numbers fascinating

and three was my obsession.

1ove

My business relation with Studio83 --- is, well, non-existant -- we have agreed on something less tangible and in the words of Roberto DeNiro and those 30 seconds.

With that, I present you Studio83 --- redone (not to my liking, not happy with a whole lot of shit, but, I don't have the time to 'handle' it).

Good morning.

Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands in the air ... sometimes I feel like saying, lord I just don't care ... sometimes it seems the going its just too rough and things go wrong no matter what I do ... now and then I feel like life is just too much

Mara, go tla loka.

Madume, ka lepeng.

*i don't remember the name of the dude in the middle, my pseudo dj name was (drum, roll):

dj sykik

1ove

But, rest is good ja? Alcohol is wack! I did no work, all of Saturday, nursing a hangover is wack!

I won't drink, till the 75th Gamma is done, word to the gods!

1ove

we deserve it, dam it!

Hello!

1ove (nearly wrote l'vovo).

When I was at school (varsity) I was part of a group of people who met up on Thursdays during lunch to engage in formalised discourse about the 'state of affairs' of the world.

The coming together was aptly called, Nexus.

I loved that word ever since, and I do believe another Nexus is on the horizon.

1ove

Work, is taking its toll on my well being --- emotions are everywhere, temper is no longer controlled, sleep is random if at all, morality is questionable --- but, there is that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.

Projects are coming to a close, I will in longer than a week, have time to be Human, again.

1ove

I don't actually like this photograph, something about that diagonal line that is effing with my composition - it took 8 shots and 30 minutes of trying to compose to the point where all I got was this.

Good evening.

Finally a site that meets at least one objective from the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

I am truly happy to be part of something like that.

A collegue, in post-presentation chillout said this about love:

Hey girl, if I told you last year that I love you and I haven't told you that every day, do not worry, I will let you know when my feelings change, for now, assume they haven't.

I can agree with that, in fact, I think I might have said the exact same thing to a girl, sometime (can't put a number to it, that would be begging from trouble) ago.

Good afternoon --- SeTswana is a beautiful language especially when everybody around you speaks it.

1ove

I'm testing this new 'longer' photograph format --- I wonder what your thoughts are.

Good evening.

Okay, I did not have an apt title to go with this photograph, that's the word that came to mind.

I've been thinking I need to elevate my game --- business game that is (not the other game that I'm bench warmer by design and finaly by choice).

I think 2LMN (the parent company of all this madness) needs to have what most would call a blog --- I'm still pondering on what name to give it.

I think, maybe this time, I'll be willing to share that R+D that comes after the name.

ps: spell checker don't want to work.

1ove

once you have said what you want to say, you that open to listening.

it's a beautiful feeling.  I have said all I want to say about 'Xenophobia' -- I can let rest and just listen.

I was getting pissed that our Presodento called on the Army to handle this, but I was made to understand why the army has to be there.  Nothing better than getting to understand something, to learn.

Good morning.

1ove

So, in short:

I believe this 'movement' is a canard, an illusion of those priviledged with skills, education, food, clothes, shelter and a platform to be heard.

I mean, what the fuck do we know 'bout: being unskilled, uneducated, unheard, poor and living below the poverty line? - this is something I do not pretend to understand and I will not.

Agree, disagree, it matters not -- such is the beauty of our constitution. I hate being put in a group I did not chose to be in, in the first place.

1ove, MOVE/ment.

The problem with an audience, having one that is, is that words are crafted differently, the choice of words changes, the point moves from being an idea, but an argument, to win.

I can't do that anymore, my photography, the photography I enjoy, is well, not shared, coz well, there is an audience to present to, and my photography, is my photography.

So, lets enjoy this moment, where I will share with you, my photography, but I refuse to present it to you.

Are you with me? But then again, it matters not if you are or not.

Wonders if this is a monologue, wonders, he does.

1ove MOVE/ing.

It's been 3 days since this computer got compromised --- have not been able to do anything --- okay I could have but I like things to work as I planned them.

To the long-dead lines-laced week.

ps: I have nothing on Xenophobia, don't ask me again about it.

1ove 

We had our first Coffee Room, yesterday, like this photograph, its time has come, it's been a long time coming.

Definition of it:

Coffee Room allows for in-depth discussions on creative and aesthetic discourses within the Creative Industries; with the aim of creative knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary exchange.

Beautiful, now we push forward.

1ove

I like Lebo Mashile --- if ever one was to ever 'name drop' -- it will be her.  I think, her work is pure, no gimmick (ja sure at some point that show got wierd) --- but moving pictures might have jittered and got static, but her words remain still, pure.

She inspires me everytime I spend a few party-people-drunken-5-minute sessions.

I hope, one day she will engage us at the next Coffee+Room (details on Friday).

1ove, MOVE/meant