Hello,

I suppose, explaining my absence has become a running thread huh. I am not doing very well, spiritually. Trying to find the counter balance to unhinged my soul.

*whatever that means, it feels to be the best explanation I got.

1ove, eludes.

Hello,

Has it occurred to you that our state of being is survived by hope?

Always hoping that what you put in now, today, yesterday will amount to something, something of value, something good.

A strange way to live, I think. But, what else is there?

1ove, dreams.

Hello,

It has been a long, long, long time — old age tends to force one to rethink, and rethink, and rethink and only do when it is justified in one's perspective of the world.

1ove, returns.

Hello,

At the speed that social media has made us live out our lives, it appears everything else is moving quite slow.

1ove, move/meant.

Ja, né.

I have been absent. I haven't shot anything I truly love, and thus there is nothing to share. But, hey, maybe I should go back into the archives and see what I may have forgotten or what new love rests there.

1ove, history.

Hello,

I had planned to post a 'graph every day of February, but alas, I have failed. We shall try again in March.

… in my defence, I am trying to learn a new technique or style of photography.

1ove, explores.

Hello,

I woke up happy, only to be upset by reality.

1ove, sucks.

Hello,

… a crib; a girl and black labels — that is all I need.

1ove, memoirs.

Hello,

… how are you?

1ove, weapons.

Hello,

… the most obsessed about letter, i.

1ove, self.

Hello,

I am trying to raise somewhere between 4 million to 10 million rands. I've never done it before, so I don't know what it feels like to fail or succed at raising that amount of capital. So,

… there is nothing to fear or anticipate.

1ove, ideas.

Hello,

… of a boy, aptly named: Kgosi.

1ove, life.

Hello,

a stranger I met.

1ove, moments.

Hello,

… an end is easier to visualise than the beginning."

1ove, procrastinates

Hello,

How are you?

1ove, CEO.

Hello,

I was sober at this party, at the new Zula in Cape Town. With that experience, I learnt one thing:

sobriety is over-rated.

1ove, drank.

Hello,

… today marks the 10th year I have been running this photo-journal. It is without a shadow of doubt the spark that ignited everything else I have done online.

I thank everyone who has visited and shared moments, thoughts, experiences in the last ten years.

*psst: I am willing to bet this is the oldest running personal site in South/Africa *throws-gauntlet*

To another 10 more years, I say.

Aluta, Continua.

Hello,

It has been a long time since I shifted pixels in here — I hope you all have had a beautiful start to the year.  I refuse to say what a year will be like until it is complete.

So, 2011 was:

… the worst year in my entire business life — not as inspiring as I would have hoped.

2012, I won't call it, but I know I have to bring to life sustainable ideas into being.

1ove, plans.

Hello,

… it is that festive season  — ke menate fela.

1ove, summer.

Hello,

… the end is near and so is the beginning.

1ove, 2012.

Hello,

… a time wasted in the company of friends is a time well spent.

1ove, extended.

Hello,

I used to have an obsession with the number three — I used to have a site called Mode03 (I don't even remember the URL).  3 is a perfect number.

God should have created Adam, Eve and Someone.

1ove, prime.

Hello,

… there is an inverse relationship between how much more I write in longform to how much I tweet.  It appears twitter has robbed me of the ability to write, to tell stories."

1ove, thoughts.

Hello,

Yes, my favourite track fo the year is "Two Cousins" by Slow Club, and I quote:

Hold on,
To where you're from.
It's where your heart goes,
When you're done.

1ove, music.

Hello,

They say, the past is one straight line and the future has infite branches (possibilities) but what they won't tell you is that:

… within those branches, you can only take one path, not three, not two, only one."

1ove, plots.

Hello,

… for each miserable day you wake up to, you are awake — there is a twisted beauty in that. You can only feel that misery, because, you are, sadly, still alive."

1ove, isms.

Hello,

As I finished writing a proposal for a new direction of YG&B, I then came across this words:

We are perhaps more “critically predisposed,” much bolder and intransigent in our criticism than our ancestors managed to be in their daily lives, but our critique, so to speak, is “toothless,” unable to affect the agenda set for our “life-political” choices." — Zygmunt Bauman / Sociology Professor

I do think, I have more of a reason to go forth with the idea of evolving YG&B — you know, truth be told:

… I generally built new ideas purely on the basis that nobody else is providing me with what I need and want.

1ove, thoughts.

Hello,

… through my own suspicions, I have concluded that conspiracy theorist are conspiring to make us accept the notion that, in fact, we are slaves to an intangible master."

1ove, little.

Hello,

… waiting for moms to return, so I make a decision.

1ove, a d a p t s.

Hello,

… dreams."

1ove, night.

Hello,

… maybe."

1ove, waits.

Hello,

… now."

1ove, waits.