Shot this awhile ago, using a Phantom. Beautiful stuff by Adrian Lazarus
BROADWAY from Adrian Lazarus on Vimeo.
BROADWAY from Adrian Lazarus on Vimeo.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Budweiser Super Bowl 2014 Commercial
I'm not even a big beer fan, let alone American beer...
But sign me up for a life's supply of Budweiser after this commercial!
*tissues*
But sign me up for a life's supply of Budweiser after this commercial!
*tissues*
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Tuesday Tune: Sara Bareilles & Carole King, Beautiful/Brave
The Grammy Awards happened this past weekend (that's as close as I'll probably ever get to a Grammy moment, visiting the museum in LA). There were some really great performances (Taylor rocked, obvs) and awesome collaborations - today's Tuesday Tune being my favourite from the night.
Sara Bareilles song is beautiful and has been doing quite well, but as a mashup with the great Carole King and Beautiful it is magnificent. Enjoy xoxo
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Match.com Commercial - The Crop
This is me falling in love in the 70s...
Sometimes my job of pretend is great fun :) We shot this in Nov 2013 on a farm just outside of Cape Town in the town of Philadelphia. Don't worry I didn't ruin your carbs; it's actually a pig farm. Spent the day doing a lot of pretend falling, and the result is very cute.
Sometimes my job of pretend is great fun :) We shot this in Nov 2013 on a farm just outside of Cape Town in the town of Philadelphia. Don't worry I didn't ruin your carbs; it's actually a pig farm. Spent the day doing a lot of pretend falling, and the result is very cute.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Bree Street Love
Eat Out magazine is currently claiming Bree Street as Cape Town's hottest restaurant strip, and we're not denying it! But this CBD pathway is certainly not shy about the drinks either. Whether afterwork, or just has the night is getting started, this is the best way to kick off a great Cape Town razzle. We popped into La Parada and &Union last Friday for much merriment. If you see a gap in a table, pounce on it (La Parada has long, high communal tables) otherwise go sip on the sidewalk. Both places have great wine by the glass and are conveniently opposite each other.
Check out Eat Out's article here
Photo credit: Kensington Place, who also love dear Bree READ
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Oscar Nominations 2014
Here we go! The 2014 Academy Award Nominees are as follows:
Best Picture
- American Hustle
- Nebraska
- Captain Phillips
- Philomena
- Dallas Buyers Club
- 12 Years A Slave
- Gravity
- The Wolf Of Wall Street
- Her
Actor in a Leading Role
- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf Of Wall Street)
Actress in a Leading Role
- Amy Adams (American Hustle)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
- Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
- Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave)
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
- Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
- Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
- June Squibb (Nebraska)
- Lupito Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave)
Animated Feature Film
- The Croods
- Frozen
- Despicable Me 2
- The Wind Rises
- Ernest & Celestine
Directing
- David O. Russel (American Hustle)
- Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
- Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave)
- Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Music, Original Score
- John Williams (The Book Thief)
- Steven Price (Gravity)
- William Butler and Owen Pallet (Her)
- Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
- Thomas Newman (Saving Mr Banks)
For the complete list of nominees, go to the official Oscars' website
Best Picture
- American Hustle
- Nebraska
- Captain Phillips
- Philomena
- Dallas Buyers Club
- 12 Years A Slave
- Gravity
- The Wolf Of Wall Street
- Her
Actor in a Leading Role
- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf Of Wall Street)
Actress in a Leading Role
- Amy Adams (American Hustle)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
- Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
- Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave)
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
- Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
- Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
- June Squibb (Nebraska)
- Lupito Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave)
Animated Feature Film
- The Croods
- Frozen
- Despicable Me 2
- The Wind Rises
- Ernest & Celestine
Directing
- David O. Russel (American Hustle)
- Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
- Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave)
- Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Music, Original Score
- John Williams (The Book Thief)
- Steven Price (Gravity)
- William Butler and Owen Pallet (Her)
- Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
- Thomas Newman (Saving Mr Banks)
For the complete list of nominees, go to the official Oscars' website
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
Because sometimes you just need this sort of yummy, in your mouth, more than once.
1 3/4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup boiling water
Mix dry ingredients.
Shake together eggs, milk, oil and vanilla.
Add this to the dry ingredients.
Lastly add boiling water.
Pour into a greased baking tin.
Bake for 30min at 180 C.
FUDGE TOPPING
1/2 cup melted butter
60ml cocoa
90ml Ideal Milk (or milk)
500g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts (I'm not a fan, so I just leave em out)
Combine butter, cocoa and milk.
Bring to boil.
Add icing sugar, vanilla essence and (if you like) chopped nuts.
Cool.
Pour over hot cake.
Ta da!!! Pretend to be epic in the kitchen. Have with tea. Or champagne. Or secretly for breakfast the morning after.
1 3/4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup boiling water
Mix dry ingredients.
Shake together eggs, milk, oil and vanilla.
Add this to the dry ingredients.
Lastly add boiling water.
Pour into a greased baking tin.
Bake for 30min at 180 C.
FUDGE TOPPING
1/2 cup melted butter
60ml cocoa
90ml Ideal Milk (or milk)
500g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts (I'm not a fan, so I just leave em out)
Combine butter, cocoa and milk.
Bring to boil.
Add icing sugar, vanilla essence and (if you like) chopped nuts.
Cool.
Pour over hot cake.
Ta da!!! Pretend to be epic in the kitchen. Have with tea. Or champagne. Or secretly for breakfast the morning after.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Tuesday Tune: Lana Del Ray 'Young and Beautiful'
Just because this song itself is young and beautiful (ok a little old...).
Baz Luhrmann is on the top of my wishlist of directors to work with; I adore his theatrical, self-absorbed film-making style. His remake of The Great Gatsby was perfection in excess. And Lana Del Ray has the perfect combination of sadness and glamour to be on the soundtrack.
Baz Luhrmann is on the top of my wishlist of directors to work with; I adore his theatrical, self-absorbed film-making style. His remake of The Great Gatsby was perfection in excess. And Lana Del Ray has the perfect combination of sadness and glamour to be on the soundtrack.
I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now
Hot summer nights, mid-July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, the city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now
Channeling angels in the new age now
Hot summer days, rock and roll
The way you'd play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face, electric soul
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
Dear Lord, when I get to Heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes, tell me that you'll let him in
Father, tell me if you can.
Oh, that grace, oh, that body
Oh, that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful?
Monday, January 13, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
How To Drive in Cape Town CBD
Look now, I'm assuming here if you do drive in the CBD a lot you probably know these things, so this is one for the new people (but also not-new people who clearly haven't worked it all out).
1. Unless you have bred a sevens team and remain solely in the southern suburbs, do not buy a huge car. Huge cars are for lugging around said offspring, not for maneuvring around tiny one-way streets in-between taxis and buses and people who are trying very hard to get run over, nor for squeezing into minute parking spaces.
2. You need to know how to parallel park. Period. In Bold. Do not pass Go! if you can't. And do not even for a second complain that your vagina renders you incapable of such tasks, it.does.not. I'm a cheerleader and a model and I'm blonde, and I parallel park like I have my doctorate in it. So stop spewing your inherent sexism and be bold. Also, be nicer to your vajayjay.
3. If you're driving up Strand Street, always drive in the middle lane. Every time; it doesnt matter which way you're going to turn. The right lane will get backed up with people turning right before you want to and you will get sad. The left lane is really just a taxi lane; you can tell me it's legally not and that's fine, I will wave to you when you're stationary behind the taxi that just suddenly stopped for the fifth time in 100m.
4. If you're driving down Strand Str in the little bit between Adderely and Buitenkant, you're going to have to grow some balls. Be brazen people. (But again in the middle lane). Those taxi's will try push in, don't be a little daisy (they hardly ever shoot at people...).
5. Parking is R11/hr (but really R5.50/ 30min). Don't be mean to the parking attendant, (s)he is just doing a job. Have R5.50 in your wallet at all times. Tell them you're going to be half an hour. No one gets upset. If you're longer they'll inform you when you return. R5.50 is the minimum charge, you can't pay anything less so you have lost nothing. (But if you are going to be a lot longer than anticipated, try get back to your car after 5pm. The parking attendants leave at 5pm *wink*).
6. Do not be the asshole on hospital bend that stuck to the M3 side until the last moment before trying to get into the backed-up N2 lane. No one likes you. You render an entire lane of freeway useless. Douche.
7. My only gripe about Cape Town drivers, is that an awful lot of you never got shown where your indicator was when you learnt to drive. Or maybe it's because you got a new car and the windscreen wipers kept screeching up accidentally and you got over trying. Anyhoo, please let me know what you're doing using that funky little light of yours. Awesome.
In closing, a quick Bravo! to Cape Town drivers: because you let people in. How glad are we that those GPs have gone back up to the land of Road Rage and meanness? So glad. Love you Cape Town.
1. Unless you have bred a sevens team and remain solely in the southern suburbs, do not buy a huge car. Huge cars are for lugging around said offspring, not for maneuvring around tiny one-way streets in-between taxis and buses and people who are trying very hard to get run over, nor for squeezing into minute parking spaces.
2. You need to know how to parallel park. Period. In Bold. Do not pass Go! if you can't. And do not even for a second complain that your vagina renders you incapable of such tasks, it.does.not. I'm a cheerleader and a model and I'm blonde, and I parallel park like I have my doctorate in it. So stop spewing your inherent sexism and be bold. Also, be nicer to your vajayjay.
3. If you're driving up Strand Street, always drive in the middle lane. Every time; it doesnt matter which way you're going to turn. The right lane will get backed up with people turning right before you want to and you will get sad. The left lane is really just a taxi lane; you can tell me it's legally not and that's fine, I will wave to you when you're stationary behind the taxi that just suddenly stopped for the fifth time in 100m.
4. If you're driving down Strand Str in the little bit between Adderely and Buitenkant, you're going to have to grow some balls. Be brazen people. (But again in the middle lane). Those taxi's will try push in, don't be a little daisy (they hardly ever shoot at people...).
5. Parking is R11/hr (but really R5.50/ 30min). Don't be mean to the parking attendant, (s)he is just doing a job. Have R5.50 in your wallet at all times. Tell them you're going to be half an hour. No one gets upset. If you're longer they'll inform you when you return. R5.50 is the minimum charge, you can't pay anything less so you have lost nothing. (But if you are going to be a lot longer than anticipated, try get back to your car after 5pm. The parking attendants leave at 5pm *wink*).
6. Do not be the asshole on hospital bend that stuck to the M3 side until the last moment before trying to get into the backed-up N2 lane. No one likes you. You render an entire lane of freeway useless. Douche.
7. My only gripe about Cape Town drivers, is that an awful lot of you never got shown where your indicator was when you learnt to drive. Or maybe it's because you got a new car and the windscreen wipers kept screeching up accidentally and you got over trying. Anyhoo, please let me know what you're doing using that funky little light of yours. Awesome.
In closing, a quick Bravo! to Cape Town drivers: because you let people in. How glad are we that those GPs have gone back up to the land of Road Rage and meanness? So glad. Love you Cape Town.
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