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VOLUNTEER GENERATION - HEADLINE STORIES AND REVIEWS

PET SHOP BOYS - YES, REVIEWED
It could have been as late as 2001 with Miss Kitten, or maybe earlier in 1999, with Basement Jaxx, but somewhere around 2000, a subtle shift occurred in dance music tastes - not that it was ever a homogenous entity to begin with – certainly not at the time anyway.

THE REAL HEROES
It is always exciting to stumble over a new talent like Clint Strydom, but it is not often that such photographic prowess grows silently in the background, away from the media centres of the world… and then explodes with such a distinctly fresh approach.

THE WERDMULLER CENTRE - WHY DID IT REALLY FAIL?
ILZE WOLFF, submits a paper presented to the South African Journal for Art History conference 2009 - 'Extraordinary Arti-facts' - on the contextual reasons behind the failure of one of South Africa's most exemplary modernist buildings, Roeloff Uitenbogaardt's WERDMULLER CENTRE.

WERDMULLER CENTRE - BYPASS? AMPUTATION? MUMMIFICATION?
Earlier in the year, a group of 4th and 5th year architecture students at the University of Cape Town undertook an elective design studio with Don Albert to assess and make recommendations towards the adaptive reuse of the economically defunct Werdmuller Centre in Clairmont, Cape Town.

KIRKEBY ON THE BRINK
Per Kirkeby is renown as one of Denmark's leading living artists. No surprise then that the English simply don't get him. Kirkeby - born 1938 - has struggled with his painting, sculpture and poetry over the last four decades and although internationally acclaimed (elsewhere) he has never had a major exhibition in the United Kingdom until now - at the Tate Modern no less.

GLASTO GIG HIGHLIGHTS IN SOUNDBYTES
There was simply too much going on at the Glastonbury Festival to cover in huge depth, so here we have an very edited account of the highs, mids and lows of the standout gigs:.

PRODIGY IGNITE GLASTONBURY
The normal procedure for "the press" (journos and photographers like yours truly) to cover a show at Glastonbury is within the confines of the press pit, i.e. in front of the barricades yet just below the stage itself, to afford a clean and safe view. screeming fans beyond...

WALKMAN - 30 YEARS ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE
30 years ago the walkman - the portable tape casette player - was launched as the in thing for the disco-pop generation

FUTURISTS IN REVIEW - IT AINT WHAT IT USED TO BE
The TATE MODERN'S current show FUTURISM brings out a few big guns, but doesn't create enough energy to convince this reviewer that the self - proclaimed avant garde movement spearheaded by Italian poet Marinetti almost a century ago was up to the hype of his original (rather manic and misogynistic) manifestoes.

BON VER - WEAVE AND WOO
After a forty-minute soundcheck peppered with embarrassing "check one's and twos" that the crowd rightly took the piss out of, one would have forgiven the couple of thousand people for being even more offhand towards these scruffy American's when they finally took up their positions on the Park's rather intimate stage. Not so. These disciples had waited patiently, one comes to understand, because acoustic and electronic perfection is so central to Bon Iver's genre defying style.

THE CHIMURENGA LIBRARY - RECLASSIFIED
PY-TV emerges parched from one of the Chimurenga Sessions currently on at the Cape Town Central Library with a clutch of questions posed to the design and production coordinator, Cape Town based artist Douglas Gimberg.

NO ANGEL - IAN HENDERSON.
Cape Town based folk singer/songwriter Ian Henderson has released a new video to accompany the second single off SUPERGLUE, his latest studio album. PY-TV takes a good look and dials up the heat.

EDUCATE & ACTIVATE - HEADLINE STORIES AND REVIEWS

DONTCHA KNOW IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
The wife and I went to see Pieter Dirk-Uys' 'Elections and Erections' at the Elizabeth Sneddon theatre at the Univeristy of KZN last week, and what a great show it was. PDU had the audience in stitches; he had us wide-eyed and thoughful, he had us howling like banshees.

EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE TERRAIN
UCT Architecture Undergrad HOD Dr. NIC COETZER explores the pedagogy of the Bartlett School (at the University College London) as a way to open debate within the Architecture Department at the University of Cape Town on what constitutes good design education.

IF THE WORLD ENDS NOW..
Phaidon’s follow-up to the Atlas of World Architecture, the Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, came not a moment too soon, argues DON ALBERT, an architect who also features amongst its 800 pages.

A DREAM IS NOT A DREAM UNTIL IT IS DREAMT BY THE COMMUNITY
Your editor-in-chief visits the construction site of SA's Freedom Park Museum, commissioned through a consultative process advertised after an international competition did not yield a clear winner, and asks project architect DIETER BRANDT of OCA, "is it going to be any good?"

MASTERS OF THEIR UNIVERSE
RICHARD SMITH takes a journey through the 21st Century media and education landscape and emerges battle weary. It would appear that there are many dark forces trying to colonise your mind and the space it plays in! So when does the student become the Master?

GETTING EDUCATION RIGHT
BRUCE GOURLEY describes how education is too important to be left just to the educators and why we are all the stakeholders in the role education must play in South Africa

BUT WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH DESIGN?
VINCENT TRUTER explains the process and discoveries made through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural public space intervention spearheaded by Dutch Artist Fiona DeBell in a recent collaboration with the Vega Brand Communication School.

COME WITH ME TO THE DANCEFLOOR
News of a new Prodigy release always provokes a fresh outbreak of moonfaced anticipation from diehard fans of ‘Experience’ and ‘Jilted Generation’, who hold out for a return to the warped Korg synths and acid house stabs of those seminal albums.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO SUFFER FOOLS?
Ignorance may be bliss, but only for the ignorant. For the rest of us dealing with the unqualified, uninspired and plain incompetent makes performing to the professional standards to which we have been trained, a trial.

INFECTING THE CITY
Photography editor SHANNA JONES points her lens towards two of the performance pieces at the Spier Performing Arts Festival INFECTING THE CITY held in Cape Town in February. "EXILE" and "LIMBO" both deal with immigration, xenophobia, roots and the transient world we live in.

DESIGN INDABA EXPO FASHION
Well ahead of other media, PY-TV is able to feature some of the highlights of the collections presented at the DESIGN INDABA EXPO 2009, care of the intrepid skills of SHANNA JONES. CRAIG NATIVE, HIP HOP, CARDUCCI WOMAN, STIAAN LOUW, I LOVE LEROY and FUNDUDZI rocked the ramp!



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Editor-in-Chief

MARCOS NOVAK - TURBULENT TOPOLOGIES



"Convergence, divergence, transvergence: in the face of exponential change, transvergence is proposed as a tactic of corrective derailment of simple extrapolations into elsewhere, the territory of the allo~. Allo~, root of words such as else, alternative, alien, signifies the other of another kind. Therefore, a… Continue

Posted by Editor-in-Chief on November 2, 2009 at 2:30pm

Candice Harper

ROCKING THE DAISIES



Play hard; tread lightly - the delightfully refreshing mantra that was attached to Rocking the Daisies this year. With eco friendly invites, web tickets and recycling incentives I was thoroughly impressed at how well this idea actually worked.

Arriving just after eight on the Friday evening, we collected our tic… Continue

Posted by Candice Harper on October 28, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

hedmekanik

TWO MAGNIFICENT MEN AND THEIR NOISEMAKING MACHINES




Take two regular guys with a penchant for electronic music, throw them in a studio with a mountain of electronic gear (and a few bottles of sherry), and voila! they will produce an album. But it could take a while. Travis Lyle from PY-TV spoke to the rapidly-rising stars of the Durban electronica scene,… Continue

Posted by hedmekanik on October 22, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Kliktrak aka Richard Smith

SAE 'MILK MY MIND' CAMPAIGN



Creative media school, SAE Cape Town launches interactive online campaign - 'SAE Milk My Mind'

Boosting awareness for the creative industry at large, leading creative media school SAE Institute Cape Town will be partnering with South Africa's top creative minds in Animation, Audio Engineering and Film to launc… Continue

Posted by Kliktrak aka Richard Smith on October 22, 2009 at 1:21pm

Editor-in-Chief

The COMPENDIUM Vol.1 [PY-TV Issues 1-4]



Have you ever wondered what Pythagoras-tv would look like in print? Well, its here!

The first volume of The COMPENDIUM featuring the best of intelligent, popular content at Pythagoras-tv from issues 1 to 4, is available at the link below for download in Adobe Acrobat format. (.pdf). The file is about 20… Continue

Posted by Editor-in-Chief on October 22, 2009 at 7:30am — 7 Comments

Brian Mcfarlane

ROCKING THE GARDENS




Rocking the Gardens; with its lush green grass spotted with happy families and their picnic baskets took place at the historically tranquil Emmarentia Dam. With its picturesque views and a number of dams to jump into if you need a rest from the music or just to cool down; was a suiting venue for a truly envir… Continue

Posted by Brian Mcfarlane on October 20, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Natasha Samuel

POP BRITANNIA - A JOURNEY

Broadcast this evening and available for streaming and download.

BBC4 takes us through the history of synths, starting with the influence of the grand synth masters, Kraftwerk. Fabulous, fabulous history featuring the impact of Donna Summers hypnotic 'I Feel Love' and the early struggles of Human League, Joy Division and OMD to get into the mainstream.

Depeche Mode, New Order, Soft Cell, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Visage, Yazoo, Pet Shop Boys and Eurythmics feature along with the pioneering Mute Re… Continue

Posted by Natasha Samuel on October 16, 2009 at 11:30pm

Kliktrak aka Richard Smith

ELIZABETH GILBERT - NURTURING CREATIVITY

Repost from http://www.huddlemind.net/video/nurturing-creativity


Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" describes an alternative perspective on Creativity and Genius.


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Posted by Kliktrak aka Richard Smith on October 15, 2009 at 9:39am — 1 Comment

Kliktrak aka Richard Smith

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

Repost from Huddlemind.net :
http://www.huddlemind.net/video/rory-sutherland-life-lessons

Another brilliant video from a TED presentation.

Rory is Ogilvy UK Group Vice Chairman. Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.… Continue

Posted by Kliktrak aka Richard Smith on October 15, 2009 at 3:55pm

Gordon

TO B.I.M OR NOT TO B.I.M

Gordon Jubber writes on the growing use of B.I.M in the architecture industry. Drawing from over a decade of experience in 3D, design and lecturing, he attempts to provide architects with an alternative perspective on the use of software in the Architectural design office.


“What are you looking for in aContinue

Posted by Gordon on October 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

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PopTastic Tunes in 2009 3 Replies

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2009 Rock Songs - Who rocked?

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Editor-in-Chief

BEAUTY : A dangerous word? 2 Replies

Started by Editor-in-Chief in DESIGN. Last reply by Editor-in-Chief Nov 3.

Janet Botes

Digital and the death of negatives? >> 1 Reply

Started by Janet Botes in PHOTOGRAPHY. Last reply by Editor-in-Chief Nov 3.

Raffaella Delle Donne

chewing on the white pages 7 Replies

Started by Raffaella Delle Donne in DESIGN. Last reply by Janet Botes Nov 2.

Jane Warrington

DOWNGRADING OUR LIFE STYLES........ 11 Replies

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Bianca Baldi

WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART WORTH? 9 Replies

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Andreas Gerdes

Form follows function, the function of money 2 Replies

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Editor-in-Chief

WORLD ARCHITECTURE DAY? A good idea or not? 1 Reply

Started by Editor-in-Chief in ARCHITECTURE. Last reply by ARCHITECTURE EDITOR Oct 8.

Editor-in-Chief

TOP 5 ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS OF 2008 6 Replies

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3LHD architects: zamet centre


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo by: 3LHD architects

3LHD architects recently completed the massive zamet centre in rijeka, croatia. the centre has over 16,000
m2 of area, complete with a large sports hall, community offices, library and 13 retail and service spaces.
one third of the volume is cut into the ground to conserve space. the design of the facility was planned
around a concept of ribbon-like stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction. the stripes act as
a planning system in addition to providing an architectural element. the concept was inspired by a type of
rock local to the area, which influenced the stripes as well as the form and colour of the building.
the building is clad with custom designed ceramic tiles. the interior features lots of natural illumination and
a flexible space that can be modified for everything from large sporting events to concerts and conferences.

http://3lhd.com


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo by: domagoj blazevic


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo by: 3LHD architects


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo by: 3LHD architects


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo left: 3LHD architects right: domagoj blazevic


zamet centre by 3LHD architects
photo by: 3LHD architects






duncan wilson: cup communicator



the cup communicator is an imaginative digital reworking of the classic children’s toy of two tin cans
attached with a long piece of string. the device is activated by tugging the cord and talking is started by
squeezing the cup. the pair of cups work together and have the effect of a walkie-talkie. when one
person talks, the other person’s cup plays their voice and vice versa. the device is designed to recall
the children’s toy and its magic and playfulness. however wilson has explored its potential as a medium
of interaction enhanced through contemporary digital technology.

http://www.duncan-wilson.com







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