findingthemojo no 311

Hi there - on a perfect day, Winter is often just the most marvellous time here in CT: crisp early mornings and evenings and heavenly middays.  Fewer tour buses on the roads, just lots of our favorite people - Capetonians, out and about, taking in the bliss.......

• grab some snacky things and head straight for your nearest beach, after work, to watch the sunset - have you noticed how it's setting later and later each day? - here comes Summer!

image: travelstart.co.za

• go for a brisk walk at lunchtime (instead of eating in the office, hunched over that laptop) and wherever you are, remember to look at The Mountain - the source of all our fabulous creative energy

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 310

Morning - recent scary stats, both food related, courtesy of The Week

• 'China produced 50 million tonnes of pork in 2012 - more than half the world's total.  In 1980, the average Chinese person ate 14kgs of meat a year; now they eat almost 60kgs.  The average Briton eats 85kgs' - The Guardian.  Interestingly, South Africans consume far less meat than their fellow American, Australian or European countrymen

image: flickriver.com

• 'The number of people being fed by charity food banks has risen 200% since April 2013' - The Trussell Trust/The Guardian

image: usa30.usatoday.com

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jp

findingthemojo no 309

Hello again - some wonderful artistic inspiration

image: 31 Days by Red Hong Yi

• in "31 Days of Food Creativity", Red Hong Yi, a Malaysian artist-architect created "pieces of art  with food on the same white plate, done everyday in March 2013"

image: Nomad Patterns by Livia Marin

• in her exhibition Nomad Patterns 2012, London based Chilean artist Livia Marin  used ceramic, resin and plaster to extend the pattern of various styles of crockery to create a melting effect

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jp

findingthemojo no 308

Hey! greetings! - enjoyed these


"If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly" - Simon Barnes in The Times

image:musingsofaspiritualtraveler.com

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little" - Edmund Burke, quoted in The Times

image: todayinah.co.uk

cheers and lovely weekend
jp

findingthemojo no 307

Hello - organise yourself while you wait for this very welcome weekend, here are two suggestions

•  "think Decorex meets Sexpo with great food and drinks, live entertainment and walking eye-candy" - that's what's on the cards for the first 2013 SA Pink Lifestyle Expo at the Sea Point Civic Centre.  Starts Friday 26 July - 28 July, from 12:00 - 21:00 - what fun!

• enjoy a laugh with Soli Philander who is appearing in The Passion Gap Comedy Show at Grand West's Roxy Revue Bar until 14 September.  Tickets are available from computicket

image:  GrandWest Events

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 306

Greetings from an icy but clear CT - it's that tough time when payday can't come soon enough, so

• take advantage of the last of the great Winter specials on offer (put together by Eat Out) at many of our local restaurants (Don Pedros is always great fun), or

• take a look at the fabulous list of "20 things to do for free in Cape Town", put together by Cape Town Magazine, bet you'll be pleasantly surprised (did you know about pechakucha?)

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 305

Morning - The Week highlighted the following stats, recently

image: www.flickriver.com

• "The UK is home to three times more millionaire bankers than all the other EU countries put together.  There are 2,436 bankers who live there and are paid more than Euro1 million per annum; by contrast, in Germany - the next on the list - there are 170, and in France 162", according to The European Banking Authority/The Times

image: guardian.co.uk

• "The average British man will have earned £1 million by the time he is 51.  Women have to wait until they are 72 before their accumulated income reaches that figure", according to the Daily Mail

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jp

findingthemojo no 304

Hi there - from The Telegraph's 'Animal Pictures of the Week' - these are adorable and priceless!

A rabbit is photographed grooming his floppy ears at Minsmere RSPB reserve in Suffolk, Britain Picture: Paul Sawer/FLPA / Rex Features

Doberman Azar with his owner Louise Powis. Azar was left feeling under par after swallowing three golf balls which almost killed him. Azar had owner Louise Powis stumped when he suddenly lost weight and became severely ill. Vets discovered the problem when a X-ray revealed the problem Picture: John Hipkiss/PDSA/PA

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jp

findingthemojo no 303

Hello - as we continue to celebrate Mandela's 95th birthday here in SA, two reminders from this wise man (for my family, in particular)

• “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

image: www.mirror.co.uk

• "We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?"

Geniet die naweek mense!
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jp

findingthemojo no 302

Morning - who said nothing happens in CT on a Winter weekend? 

• nip out to Audacia Wine Farm on the R44, next to the strawberry farm, between Somerset West and Stellenbosch for the fairly new Route44 Market, held every Saturday & Sunday from 9:00 - 3:30 (come rain or shine) and 'smaak it at this market'.  Supposed to be the best market at the moment, loads of activities for the kids while you eat, wine-taste and shop till you drop!

Jervis Pennington, Carlo Daniels, Moenier Adams, Waasief Piekaan and Nkosekhaya Mgoqi 

• be entertained in the best way and support local theatre: get to The Kalk Bay Theatre for A Town called Fokol Lutho on until10 August. This capella musical has had rave reviews from the Grahamstown Festival and locally

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 301

Greetings - some clever stuff on the art scene

• Jeremy Mayer creates the most amazing things from old typewriter bits and pieces, "no soldering, gluing or welding is used to hold the typewriter pieces together"

Jeremy Mayer's Swallow

• Chadwick and Spector's Museum Anatomy project looks amazing - "a collection of documentary photographs of works from museums around the world that have been recreated onto the human body", take a look!

Crying Woman after Picasso

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jp

findingthemojo no 300

Morning -something to think about.......

Walt Handelsman, copyright 2013 Tribune Media Services

• watching our words: here's an great article by Karen E Bender on Salon.com: What great writing can teach us about Trayvon Martin

image: cnn.com

 

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 299

Hi there - read about a couple of inspiring 77 year olds over the weekend

• "It's very therapeutic to get up and think: can I get this actor, does my third act work?"says Woody Allen, still churning out one film a year, playing his clarinet as part of a jazz ensemble every week - "all these solvable problems that are delightful puzzles", his version of "basket-weaving.  Read Charles McGrath's great article in The WSJ

image: Terry Richardson

• eat less, steer clear of the junk food and keep moving says Gary Player, who manages to do 1200 sit-ups everyday, in between all his other 'moves', like being interviewed by Morty Ain and posing nude for ESPN Magazine

image:  Peter Hapak for ESPN magazine

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 298

Hello again - loved these two

• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Anais Nin, quoted in The Times

image: mybalancedlife.me

• "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day" - physicist John A Wheeler, quoted in The Boston Globe

image: edsource.org

cheers, enjoy the break
jp

findingthemojo no 297

Hello with a warmer whacky weekend ahead, and CT being the dressing-up capital of SA, here are a couple of suggestions for your Saturday

 

•  dust off that 1920's garb, including "feather boas and fedoras" and join in the inaugural bash, in aid of Dare to Share - the Nothing but Trouble, White Collar Boxing Prohibition Party on at Side Show, Saturday 13 July from 6pm.  Tickets from www.quicket.co.za

• on a welcome return to CT  is The Rocky Horror Show, on at The Fugard until 24 August.  Get your groupies and gear together and do the time warp - always huge fun!

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 296

Hi there - getting organised, for those of us who leave everything till the last minute

• this year, actually decide what you are going to do on Mandela Day, Thursday 18 July and stick to it - come on, get involved, it's 67 mins.  Need some inspiration?  Here are some excellent suggestions

• further down the track, if music festivals grab you and you are happy using a bushveld rock fest shower (wet wipe) - get yourself and your mates sorted for this year's Oppikoppi Bewilderbeast Music Festival, taking place from 8 - 10 August, in die Limpopo sand, naby Northam......

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 295

Morning - two alarming news items regarding our planet

• "according to one of the most in-depth analyses of British wildlife in recent years, The State of Nature report found that 60% of plant and animal species had declined in the past 50 years - and that one in ten were now facing extinction", says The Times.  For instance "turtle doves have declined by 93% since 1970, largely owing to changing agricultural practices"

image:dailypainters.com

• the slopes of Mont Blanc have become totally overcrowded during the high season with between 30 and 50 tents being erected by hikers per night, all of whom are leaving behind their 'organic waste' - much to the dismay of the French authorities.  The Daily Telegraph reports that gendarmes have now been posted on the upper slopes to prevent the peak from becoming a "high-altitude latrine" by imposing fines on any illegal 'camping' 

image: savoie-mont-blanc.com

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 294

Hello - after total sporting overload in front of the telly, this past weekend.......

• help to curate the world's biggest art show - Art Everywhere - "help to choose the 50 British Masterpieces that will feature on tens of thousands of billboards across the UK this summer, turning the country into the world's largest art gallery", click before 10 July

Candy Striped Cotton Bathing Suit - Joy Gregory

• take a look at what French designer Anastassia Elias does with a toilet roll, clever, clever!

Pyramide by Anastassia Elias

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 293

Hello again and here we are, another two-day breather - more love and laughter time

image: dailytravelphotos.com

• "It's one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them" - Ralph Waldo, quoted on Forbes.com

image:  myfbm.com

 

• "Gardening, like love, is a funny thing and doesn't yield to analysis"  - H E Bates, quoted in The Times 

image: marchyourfeet.wordpress.com

cheers, enjoy!
jp

findingthemojo no 292

Morning - here are a couple of dancing ideas for the cold weekend ahead

• kick off your weekend at the Friday Night DJ and Dancing at HQ Restaurant in Heritage Square.  Pop in for the early cocktail groove or late supper moves - they make a mean steak.  (Check out their fab Monday 2 for 1 steak specials)

 

• organise your friends (surely it's someone's birthday?), grab that feather boa and get down to Madame Zingara's at The Waterfront on Saturday night for a fabulous evening of great fun, food and first class entertainment

 




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jp

findingthemojo no 291

Hi there - the months fly by and tomorrow (Thursday when you receive this mailer) is once again Open Thursday in CT, do make a point of taking a wander around the galleries, they are open till 9pm.  A couple of events you might want to plan ahead for though, include

image: fbf

• the 20th anniversary of the  2013 Franschhoek Bastille Day Festival which takes place on 13 July - has all the best food and wine of the region but also includes various trail runs and mountain bike races on the Saturday and Sunday - take a group of friends and stay over, much more fun!

image: TEDxCT

• the TEDxCape Town Amazing People Crazy Places event taking place at The Baxter on 20 July - as always, there's a very interesting bunch of speakers taking part - go and be inspired!

cheers
jp

findingthemojo no 289

Morning on this Monday, 1 July 2013 - well over half-way through this year with gorgeous emerald green being the panetone colour of the year and, it's also the year of the snake, interesting.........

A demonstrator wearing a contact lens with the Brazilian national flag is photographed close to the Maracana stadium in Brazil, image: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Green Water Snake, image: www.mpushini-fauna.com

cheers
jp