Weird Occurrences and the End of the World

Last night I was merrily driving home from dance class when I saw an entire street lose power like they usually only do in disaster movies. First the traffic lights started flashing red, then the street lights closed their eyes one by one, a power box at the far end of the darkened street sent electricity flying through the air and then, finally, the traffic lights dimmed – like a flat line after a long surgery.

“This is quite strange,” I thought, feeling that I had just stumbled into a zombie apocalypse. I was expecting to see some flesh eating creature jump out from behind a building any time! Then the lights came back on and I drove further.

At 3am this morning, I was woken by the sound of thunder and rain outside my window. How is it that the biggest storm of the year comes to Johannesburg at the start of winter? I shrugged it off and fell asleep again, only to wake up with a dark grey “Independence Day” cloud hanging over my house at 6am. Trees were bent over in the wind like gymnasts at the Olympics and my nine year old brother was sitting at the window, his jaw on the floor. When I asked him what was wrong, he uttered a frightened: “I think it really is the end.”

Routinely, I turned the radio on and thought some music would wake me up, but I was greeted with the words: “a truck is stuck on Empire road and apparently, it’s on fire!”

I was definitely awake now. Two different thoughts crossed my mind in less than two seconds, of which the first was totally blank. My second thought? To draw inspiration from the 2012 movie, pack the essentials (including my gob smacked brother at the window) and run. Then it hit me: where to? I can’t fly to China, I don’t have a handy pilot on hand and I don’t think the Drakensberg mountain Range of Kwazulu-Natal is going to be very friendly this time of year. So I decided to get dressed, have breakfast and… go to work, school then ballet.

If the world does end today, I hope you have lived the way you wanted to and go out with a bang! I believe, however, you’ll be sitting in front of the television tonight, hot chocolate in hand and the world still at your feet (intact, that is.)

Hilarious Noel Fielding

To me, this guy was and still is "Richmond", the interesting goth who listens to "Cradle of Filth" and points in random directions while delivering Shakespeare-like monologues about his musings in the brilliant British sitcom, The IT Crowd. He's a comedian too and here he does the weirdest, yet strangely apt impression of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights (weird just by itself). His name? Noel Fielding! I hope this makes your day...

Watch the original first if you want to get an idea of his inspiration...

And here is the crazy Noel Fieding!

Happy Friday!!!

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

~Bill Watterson

The Soft Toy Car

Aah! To be 3 years old and already quite strange...

"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius." 

 ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Happy April Fools Day!

If you don't have any ideas, try these:

If your milk comes in a cardboard container, add a few drops of food coloring. It's harmless April Fool's joke but the results are pretty colorful.

This April Fool's practical joke is old but it still works. Superglue some coins to the sidewalk or any spot that has a lot of people walking around. Make sure it's an appropriate place, then watch people break fingernails to get the coins.

The top 10 jokes for April Fools 2011 thus far: HERE

Dramatic Kids: Little Director

"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
- Bill Vaughn

Dramatic Kids

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

~William Stafford

Christmas Humor

No reindeer were really harmed during the making of this one (mean, but funny):

True Friends are Crazy Too

True friends are the ones who don't think you are mad when you tell them you don't want to grow up.

They are the ones who pretend not to know you in the supermarket and then fake a fight with you in public.

True friends don't take you seriously, but know when to listen with a serious ear.

They carry you when you can't walk, they make jokes when you can't talk

and they will happily join you on your quest for Neverland!

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

1.       Accounting wasn’t designed as a dark age torture method

2.       Chicken teeth will become more valuable  than platinum

3.       I can jump into a pool without pinching my nose shut

4.       Robert Mugabe will give up his “power”

5.       I will buy crocks and wear them with socks

6.   Chihuahuas are pretty

A Passport is...

Silly Saturday

When babies can't take the pressure anymore! Hope your Saturday is more relaxed than his!

Bonjour! Buongiorno! Guten Tag! Hola!

or just Hello....

I have always seen the world a little differently than most people and I have always attempted to see the intrigue and the beauty in it. I do believe, however, that there is no light without dark, no happiness without despair and no beauty without destruction. That is why I document anything that can ultimately teach me a valuable lesson about these elements. I cannot live without creation - whether it be creating something new myself or admiring other creations. Humans are extraordinary when it comes to creating: we were built for it and that is why there is so much magic around us everywhere we go.

I grew up in a creative environment and was taught to appreciate everything imaginative. I know the value of stories - they not only serve to transport us into different realities, but they give us the opportunity to share pieces of ourselves and to make sure we leave at least a few memories of who we were behind. I want to tell some of these stories and I believe the best ways to do it is through photography, through art, through writing and through acting. These methods allow me to reach more than just minds.

I also find the world funny, goofy and sometimes just insane, so I try to capture as much of it as I can in different types of frames to ultimately tell the fables...