Author: John

  • Local Hermanus Artist Claudie Lemoine

    Local Hermanus Artist Claudie Lemoine

    Like many thousands of other French people, my mom’s family and my dad responded to the National French Call during WW1 to help with the rebuilding of Morocco for the King of the day. After this period of hardship, I was born in Casablanca and followed my parents example in drawing and painting, which was…

  • 5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs A Blog

    5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs A Blog

    The main source of traffic to your business website comes from potential customers using search engines like Google. Your path to success lies in creating interesting and relevant content that will feature in those searches. Beyond just getting your name in front of clients, here are five key benefits that are just too good to…

  • Facebook – Let’s Just Kiss and Say Goodbye

    Facebook – Let’s Just Kiss and Say Goodbye

    Facebook and I have been separated since 2014. Today I’m making it permanent, Facebook and I are saying Goodbye for good. Over the past 10 days since the Cambridge Analytica scandal was first made public, Facebook has faced a market loss of about $75 billion. It is abundantly clear that the reason for Facebook’s predicament…

  • Solar Eclipse Supermoon and March Equinox

    Solar Eclipse Supermoon and March Equinox

    The solar eclipse comes in the middle of four Blood Moons which also coincides with the equinox. On top of all that, today’s new moon coincides with the supermoon.

  • Weyers Du Toit Local Artist

    Weyers Du Toit Local Artist

    Weyers du Toit grew up in the Western Cape town of Bredasdorp. In the early 1990s he was a student of Fine Arts at the Cape College, working in Oils under the guidance of Liesbeth Gunther. The artist paints from life in the spirit and style known as en plein air, after the French phrase…

  • Isabel le Roux South African Artist

    Isabel le Roux South African Artist

    Isabel le Roux was born in Rustenburg, a city situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in North West Province of South Africa. She began her career as an art teacher and has been painting professionally since 1974. Her dynamic style is both expressionistic and contemporary, employing the vibrant and bold use of…

  • Open Letter: Aussies Stop Killing The Great White Shark

    Open Letter: Aussies Stop Killing The Great White Shark

    Open Letter to the Honorable Premier of Western Australia, Mr. Colin Barnett Dear Mr. Premier, I’m writing to you about the Australian Shark Cull Policy, which targets various shark species, including the endangered great white. This policy was initiated late last year following a spate of fatal attacks in 2011. Despite widespread criticism in Australia,…

  • Wild Horses of the Bot River: New Kid On The Block

    Wild Horses of the Bot River: New Kid On The Block

    The Bot River Estuary lies on the Southern tip of Africa and is home to a magnificent herd of wild horses. It’s now low tide on the estuary with the river mouth in the background. These magnificent creatures are decended from cavalry stock released by the British administration after WWII. According to the Cape Nature…

  • R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918 — 2013)

    R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918 — 2013)

    South African icon Nelson Mandela passed away last night, on 5 Decemeber 2013. He is sadly missed and fondly remembered. “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” — Nelson Mandela God speed, Madiba. Related posts: Mandela: 15 Pearls of Wisdom

  • Raymond Loewy the Father of Industrial Design

    Raymond Loewy the Father of Industrial Design

    “There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of ‘modernism’. I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.” — Raymond Loewy Historians refer to Raymond Loewy as the designer of the modern world. He began his career drawing for Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair…