2024-02-22 15:16
Simba and I sat beneath the acacia tree, me with an icey beer in hand, a vanilla-flavoured Steri Stumpie in his. Behind us was pitched our permanent tent. Before us, the grill-ready grey, la… Read More
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2024-01-07 10:57
Me and my bud Bones studied under the wonderful, exciting, yet demandingly tough tutelage of Peter Rich. It was his zany lectures on the Master Architects and their buildings, and stor… Read More
2023-08-07 11:25
That year's birthday, my best friend's folks were taking us to Gold Reef City for a day of tangible fun, excitement, fear and flurry. There the scents and smells of sweet candy floss, sticky… Read More
2023-05-17 19:39
Having sat watching a late night flik, my wife and I punctured the envelope of the mall into the dark, tar-heavy, covered parking lot.Before us stood Arthur C Clarke's HAL 9000 reincarnate… Read More
2023-01-10 11:25
Dan and Lee spent a weekend in the bush. It was an hour's drive from their home. Leaving behind concrete, tarnished tar, speeding selfish taxis, abusive Ubers, and city smog they were greete… Read More
2022-12-07 18:08
While I was a freshman in highschool, sat behind a wooden flip top desk in English class, we were tasked to write an essay on whatever we desired, however it needed to be 'person… Read More
2022-04-10 13:39
Talya was the apple of my eye. Not only was she strawberry-sundae delicious, she was the hottest girl of our school in her age group and probably of every age group in the school. She… Read More
2022-03-02 19:10
Back then when summer days were spread thick across the loaf of life, Wednesday's smell of freshly mowed cricket fields, the ripe scent of fresh cut orange quarters and syrupy lecol ju… Read More
2022-01-16 13:32
Zip, tear, tighten, press, push, squeeze. Undies past your knobbly hairy knees, socks over toes, pants past your bones. Belt buckled, zipper up, button-down shirt thrown over your back… Read More
2021-11-05 12:05
I recall as a fresh primary school leaver visiting King David High School on a Sunday, Mr Wolf got up to the lectern and began speaking glowingly of Latin. He told us that should… Read More
2021-10-24 14:23
Way back when, when my long grey socks touched my knees and my stiff grey shorts had a seam down the front, my straight-jacket like black Bata shoes were tougher than the skin on Willie Nels… Read More
2021-06-28 19:22
The first time i ever saw a credit card being used for an alternative purpose other than paying for Woollies veggies was one late Tuesday eve while sucking hard on a Black Label brown… Read More
2021-04-12 18:47
It’s August and the city sweats, poring from the street’s manholes. The sun’s rays cut swathes down the deep corridors of Manhatten. The trees burst with green foliage. Sho… Read More
2021-04-05 14:40
Me and Sherman run cos we were born to run.Post lockdown regs, having maintained strength doing leg presses under the weight of the leadwood table, and chopping trees, we were chiselled like… Read More
2019-12-30 13:18
We lived in an area called Birnam in a street called Sunnyside Road. Birnam ain’t what it used to be having been obliterated by new age neighbourhoods and hideous car showr… Read More
2019-01-01 11:05
Scratching days off of my calendar from February, I’d finally put the last scrawl through August. It was hike time.Bundled tight as a pack mule, and trained hard as a mountain goat, I… Read More
2018-10-14 10:28
On arrival on the last day of December, the hillside retreat burst at the seams as a vein-ey overly ripe grenadilla. I thought, ‘grief this must be a bankie of tree-hugging hippies rea… Read More
2018-09-16 11:10
I’ve never forgotten what Chris Leung said to me one day in 2006 in YRM’s office in Kings Cross in London. “be aware dan, that the architecture of Italy, of Rome will … Read More
2018-05-22 17:34
It was special to leave city smog behind and head into the spearmint fresh mountains. The telling traverse towards the mountainous north was in itself an eye opener. Snaking up to altitude… Read More
2018-04-30 19:08
Leaving behind the tourist riddled Golden Triangle, I caught a jet plane for Amritsar.Amritsar is a siiick city, it so happens to be a Sikh city too. Amritsar punched a few divisions above i… Read More
2018-03-11 13:38
Journeying between cities was an exhaustive process. The needle on the speedometer constantly flips through the half round 50 60 70, back down 50 60 70 an hour, as we negotiate ebbing and fl… Read More
2018-03-11 13:29
Arriving in the city of Jaipur, the dusk of the day enhances the branded neon signs of Western aspirational labels and brings the onset of stop -start after-work traffic. The little-bit-bigg… Read More
2018-02-04 15:27
the guide books told me that Agra is a public porta-loo that’s just entertained 50 000 drunken debauched rubgy supporters after a bachanalian binge. It was indeed that. But I like… Read More
2018-01-21 16:07
Travelling to India was far off of my radar. It wasn’t even on my radar. The thought of travelling to the 3rd World just didn’t have the trigger to ignite my happiness.The slickn… Read More
2018-01-21 14:41
This is a clichéd example of triumph over adversity. It just is that. You may want to read on, or you may wish to walk out.It was going to be a struggle.I’d come in injured and… Read More
2017-09-25 12:02
The year 1996. The Matric Dance.The mid nineties weren’t all Oasis, Manchester United and strolls along Muizenberg beach. A face once bursting with pusy zits that only two doses… Read More
2017-03-29 11:12
There was this girl I once loved. Jessica was her name. She was a real peach you know. She was so hot she could turn you to blister and though id met her, I felt it most difficult to make fi… Read More
2017-03-28 11:07
An Ennio Morricone-composed soundtrack would have been far more fitting an interlude to my medical experience. When the doc said I’d need an MRI, that seemed a bit more than having an… Read More
2016-09-11 13:50
I tell them all ‘I’m off’, for nature calls. I slowly run a small distance from the camp site kicking dust as I speed, trampling twigs along the way. The crack of the dry b… Read More
2016-07-05 14:54
A 7:30pm dash to Pietermaritzburg from Umhlanga on Saturday eve at the back of an Uber. 3 of us sausaged in, buckled up, looping up and down the rolling hills of the jaunt between the… Read More
2016-06-06 11:02
The winter cold is upon us. As I breathe a sigh of relief that the heat has dissipated, my warm breath on an icy pane, fogs it. Clearing away the dirt, I peer outwards, looking at my life fr… Read More
2016-04-27 13:12
Waking up on a Tuesday morn i was worn out like a faded pair of under pants. Limp and thread bare, I wasn’t getting up. So I banked the late afternoon to get my mileage scribbled into… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
a man's tongue on a bus shelter pole would be difficult to remove because of the icey cold conditions here in New York city. the cold, as it frosts itself through the cavernous avenues… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Manhatten, a doughie batter, poured gushingly on a heated waffle maker, the gridded imprint, thats Manhattena regular organised rectilinear base on which creative energetic chaos bursts… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Run Like a DeerBe Strong like a Lion.Having missed the flight because COSATU felt it necessary to turn the country further into a jelly state, and having been forced into ‘standb… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I don’t use words like ‘lol’, or ‘lolo’ or’ fomo’. I don’t ‘LFMAO’ nor do I ‘Yolo’. I do though Moma and I can p… Read More
2016-01-04 09:00
People are not a peppermint but rather a wonderment. Out there, there are many flavours. Good hearted givers and ruthless takers. There are takers and givers and those too that just ar… Read More
2015-12-02 16:13
Alon is an award winning photographer. He earned himself an international Picture of the Year award for his depiction of the Marikana Mine Massacre in 2012. He is the Chief photographer for… Read More
2015-11-29 17:45
Ben Gurion Airport is a beautiful edifice, it’s cool by its sandstone coloured palette and the fountain court bubbles and drips soothing the soul. To walk freely around the spend-heavy… Read More
2015-06-24 12:03
I was a bit of a loner way back in 95-96. Most often, I stayed home on Saturday nights. But one night, I felt the need to get out there. So I dialled Rose’s taxi, and within 45 minutes… Read More
2015-05-28 14:25
The two things I love about a wedding: the salmon board while photographers document a day, and the washing machine spin-cycle of the horas that’ll leave you in a sweat. the rest is fo… Read More
2015-05-19 14:42
The king of ice-cream, Paul Ballen. I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream. Like the arrival of The Beetles at the Met, the ice cream frenzy is extra-planetary.Of dad… Read More
2015-04-23 14:42
In a series of Interviews i did, the Russian Bear Hunter next caricatured Jonathan Liebesman, Holywood Director. You might recognise his most recent flik, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.I call… Read More
2015-04-22 08:14
A while back I was taxi’ed through the grottiest areas of Lagos, Nigeria. Our client was researching beauty parlours in this more-24-hour-city-than-New York City. We hopped puddles of… Read More
2015-04-08 10:57
This is a story not about the Russian Bear Hunter, but a girl baking it good.While on my Wednesday run, in the dark of the morning, trying to keep up with my sibling, I heaved out that I&rsq&hell…Read More
2014-11-20 18:34
In Israel, fridges explode with wedding themed magnets, mullet hairdos are seen as high culture. Cut, stone-washed jeans are the epitome of power, tinted hair is bourgeois and ‘gangdam… Read More
2014-10-06 19:10
This isn’t a journey slapping the streets of New York sniffing out sneakers, nor is it a journey trudging through Finnish snow to get a glimpse of the feted architect Alvar Aalto&rsquo&hell…Read More
2014-10-01 19:23
Comrades 2014For six months you give everything you got. You give your heart, your iron structure, your soul and your will. You compromise on the late nights, you limit the liquids, and you… Read More
2014-10-01 19:11
There are sweet wonders in this world of machinery. There are reliable machines. There are machines, simple, efficient, and steady. There are those that are built to last, those built rugged… Read More
2014-04-20 08:07
AfricanxThis was no bullsh*t facebook photo of you and your mates slotting a tequila at a party stiffer than a cadaver telling the world how rad your life is. This was no cheap selfie of you… Read More
2013-01-15 09:47
The year 2012 brought me to the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it brought me the chance to see the last rock band i’d ever wanted to see still performing, it brought me a rapid To… Read More
2012-11-23 11:50
The JPO. I love the orchestra, i love the strings and the woods, i love the flautists and the double bass. I love each instrument. I love the idea that a pained callous is a resultant sound… Read More
2012-10-25 15:02
F*ck a sunday night movie on Mnet. F*ck popcorn and watered-down coke at the cinema. F*ck thin base pizza served at red-checkered tables and Eros Ramzotti pulverising our ears.I wana live in… Read More
2012-10-23 10:57
the pin stripes of the yankees, the verticles, and then the high risers, the Empire State and her glittering bejewelled lover the Chrysler. oh she dropped one, the diamond stud, the Apple St… Read More
2012-10-17 14:07
chicago illinois.After a 20 hour train ride having crossed america, seated next to a styleless college kid from Boston, i landed ragged as a soppy rat in Chicago Illinois.chicago is a p… Read More
2012-10-17 14:07
so what was supposed to be a sombre adventure turned out to be book ended by biig sightings.while cruising through the west village en route to see the 911 memorial, there as hulking as a ha… Read More
2012-10-17 14:06
hopping and skipping through the streets of DUMBO, Brooklyn, hair flailing in the wind, camera in hand, whistling as a Von Trappian in the hills of Austria, i was as happy as a dai… Read More
2012-08-03 13:25
so i think of myself as a rockin’ roll star that shnarfs heaps of blow, has loads of unprotected sex and can play air guitar like a raging mick jagger, but stick me in leather chaps, a… Read More
2012-07-12 18:31
you run it cos it’s embedded in your memory like ones personalityyou run it cos it’s historyyou run it, cos it’s your everest,you run it cos a nation's conscious says you c… Read More
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