findingthemojo no 218

Hi there - not to be missed this weekend

• the 2013 Design Indaba Expo at The CTICC, starting tomorrow, Friday 1 March - always something clever and exciting to see, so do go and support your local designers

• feeling brave and ready for some fun?  Head to the Grand Parade on Saturday 2 March for the inaugural Holi One Festival.   "Inspired by the original Holi Festival in India, Colour Festivals have travelled around the world to Germany, the USA and Singapore – and now HOLI ONE launches in South Africa for the first time" - looks like a great line-up of musicians and DJs

image:  holione.com

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 217

Hello again -slight Autumn nip in the air, one of the nicest times of the year in The Cape

• get out there and enjoy this wonderful city on two wheels before the Winter weather sets in.  Try www.bikeandsaddle.com and join a tour:  meet some new people and discover something you did not know about CT and get those legs moving!

image: notesofinspiration.com

• prefer running? join one of the running tours in Town.  https://twitter.com/WeRunCapeTown or https://twitter.com/RunCapeTown - might be the same group??  Just get out of that office!

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 216

Morning -interesting items from The Telegraph

• South Africa features in the top ten list of countries where those travelling with pounds will get more for their money, right now - not surprising! especially eating out

image: africanbluesky.com

 

• believe it or not, understanding the weather,  is one of the top ten most popular courses for those over 60 - amazing but why?

image: Adam Gasson

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 215

Hello

 from The Times Cartoons of the Week, Feb 16 - 22

• incredible work from a German photographer Michael Wolf, born in Germany and raised in The States, Canada and Europe.  Wolf is best known for his project on Hong Kong's city skyscraper tower-blocks: Architecture of Destiny, where he eliminates "the sky and horizon line to flatten each image and turn these façades into seemingly never-ending abstractions"

image: Michael Wolf, a91 from Architecture of Destiny

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 214

Morning

Thought these weekend words appropriate

image:  news.bbc.co.uk

• " In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face" - Steve Biko quoted in The Argus

image: magnetmagazine.com

 

• "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people" - Carl Jung quoted in The Australian

Cheers and have a wonderful weekend
jp

findingthemojo no 213

Greetings


While the weather gods continue to smile on us, get with the outdoorsy activities this weekend

• arrange to meet your friends at The Constantia Craft Beer Project, happening this coming Saturday and Sunday at the Constantia False Bay Rugby Grounds - should be fun!

image: cricketweb.net

• sticking with the fresh air theme, why not go and support our cricketers at Newlands on Sunday when the Cobras take on the Dolphins in Ram Slam Domestic T20 Challenge match, starting at 4pm

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 212

Hello

only in Britain

image: The Telegraph

• would they hold an annual 'garden-shed-of-the-year' competition, have a look at some of the wonderful and quirky submissions for 2013 - fabulous hideaways!

image: independent.co.uk

• could a rather pale, blousy yet amazingly gifted writer like Hilary Mantel make some catty 'mischevious' remarks about Kate Middleton - what was she thinking?

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 211

Hello

• did you notice today's Google Doodle, honouring Nicolaus Copernicus a scientist and mathematician during the Renaissance era on his 540th birthday, "responsible for giving the world the heliocentric theory, which gives us the present model of the Solar System with the sun at the centre"

loved this one from The Times, Cartoons of the Week Feb 2 - 8

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 210

Morning - ways with words

image: 123rf.com

• loved this reminder by Mignon Fogarty of Five Stupid Grammar Myths (and Why You Should Follow Them at Work) taken from The Daily Muse

image:  blog.timesunion.com

• texting v writing - Tina Barsequian writes about a fresh approach, (maybe?) from Jeff Gabrill, a writing professor at Michigan State University:  "We are in the midst of massive changes in our writing lives,” he said. “Digital writing matters, and our challenge in education is to figure out how it matters in order to ensure that we can be useful to those interested in leveraging it.”

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 209

image:  esquire.com

Greetings - memorable words

• "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare" - Bobby Knight, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle

  

image:  fixquotes.com

• "To succeed in the world it is not sufficient to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered" - Voltaire, quoted on Forbes.com

cheers and have a lovely weekend

jp

findingthemojo no 208

Welcome to your weekend

• working backwards and warming up for the 2013 Design Indaba, the DIFilm Fest starts this Sunday at a roof-top cinema in Canterbury St, CT and continues till 3 March.  Go to www.designindaba.com for the full progamme and a short description of all the movies etc

•  the second staging of the annual CT Electronic Music Festival (workshops etc are on at the moment) hits the high notes this weekend at Breakwater Parking Garage at the V&A Waterfront, starting Friday @ 3pm.  Full programme of events and all details are on www.ctemf.com

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 207

Hi there

Discovering CT

• the Bay Harbour Market in Hout Bay which is open on Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays is definitely a place to take your out-of-town visitors.  Lovely busy vibe and delicious organic eats and drinks from champers and fresh oysters to draft beer and bursting bunny-chows with some interesting/different crafty stalls to browse through too

• if you have not had a chance to visit the newly revamped Newspaper House, next to Greenmarket Square, do get to the Food Lovers Market for breakfast/lunch/a snack and coffee - wow, what a space! (and the loos are spotless, too) love their lights!

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 206

Morning

Some incredible 'animal' photos are doing the rounds at the moment - love the care, intelligence and the humour in these photographer's pics from The Telegraph - also love the 'worried' cat

•  "A golden tabby tiger called Sapphire relaxes at Olmense Zoo in Antwerp, Belgium. Just 30 of these rare animals are known to exist on the planet, with none left in the wild." - beautiful!

image: Alida Jorissen / Barcroft Media

• " In a bid to make an escape from a bird cage, a 10-strong army of ants link up to turn themselves into a ladder. The insects climbed on top of each other to form a tower to try and reach the top of the cage. Indonesian photographer Fahmi Bhs captured the antics near his home in Jakarta." - flippin amazing!

image: Fahmi Bhs/HotSpot Media

•  "Telegraph reader Marie Weitzel writes: I took this picture in Northern Canada. This is Felix the cat, who is a little bit of a character. Over the last couple of weeks, which was a cold spell, he watched the birds eating from the window. This week the weather warmed up and he decided to put his evil genius to work. He climbs up and just patiently sits and lazily waits for the birds - his lunch - to come to him." - does Felix think he is camouflaged or what? Gingers!

image: Marie Weitzel

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 205

Hello

in 2012, Travelodge guests left behind 20,000 books in their hotel rooms - of these, 7,000 were 50 Shades of Gray

EL James image: telegraph.co.uk

in 2013, Lagos has become the first African city to get it's own version of Monopoly.  On the board, Banana Island (home to Nigeria's super rich) replaces Mayfair and one of the 'Chance' cards reads: "for attempting to bribe a law enforcement agent, pay a fine"

image: skyscapercity.com

thanks to The Week for highlighting the above
cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 204

Morning - some words for your weekend

image: qotd.org

• "In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves" - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, quoted in The Sun

image: toptenz.net

• "True friends stab you in the front" - Oscar Wilde, quoted in The New Yorker

cheers and enjoy the break
jp

findingthemojo no 203

Hello - how's your weekend looking?

If you don't have tickets to see the Sugar Man - Rodriguez @ Grand West or can't face driving out to Darling for The 2013 Darling Music Festival (amoungst other activities on in CT this weekend), suggest you get out there anyway and go for a long walk

• on a beach

Noordhoek Beach:  capetravelinformation.com

• and/or, on the mountain

enjoy and cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 202

Hello again - signs of the time........

image: nationalgeographicstock.com

• a third of the world's population is now online and the highest number of internet users reside in Iceland - with 102,928 sq km and a population of 3 persons per sq km, not really surprising?

image: kingscourttrust

 

• digital wills are catching on fast:  "for a fee, a 'digital executor' will amoungst other tasks "tidy up social networking profiles and delete porn accounts after death".....  Interestingly, as the sale of ebooks starts overtaking the sale of the printed versions, this is an aspect of "digital life that cannot be legally transferred after death" - those setting up their cyber wills should note that "digital music and ebook collections, which are licensed for individual use cannot be bequeathed"

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 201

picture:  Pal Hermansen, Norway 2012

Hello and have a look at these marvellous photos

• on our doorstep - don't forget to visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 exhibition which is on until 5 March 2013, at The Iziko Museum (next to the Planetarium) in Town.  Featuring "100 of the world’s most amazing wildlife photographs taken by 77 world-class photographers".  There are several awards in different categories, and two of these highly regarded categories are the "Gerald Durrell Award for endangered species and the Wildlife Photojournalist Award, which were both won by South Africans this year"

• some wonderful photographs to view online - it's the shortlist of finalists for the Sony World Photography Awards 2013 - interesting mix, take a look! 

picture: Fausto Podavini, Italy 2012

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 200

Greetings

Recently finished two good reads

image:  telegraph.co.uk

• Perfect Lives by Polly Samson - a series of short stories all linked in some way but each one, a revealing perspective on an individual's personal experience.  Great sensitive writing

image: bookoxygen.com

• The Dinner by Herman Koch (translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) - a compulsive, easy, yet uncomfortable read.  Found it disturbing/unsettling - not funny at all!

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 199

Morning

Loved these

• "If, on Monday morning you wake up dreading going to work - by Friday you should have done something about it!" - Timothy Ian Bradbury, quoted in Talk of The Town,SA

image: boston.com

• "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable" - JK Galbraith, quoted in The Financial Times

cheers and have a fabulous weekend
jp