Muso

So once again I take on a [late] blog without inspiration. Thankfully he wonderful past week came to the rescue!!

Firstly I will be giving a bit of blogspace for an artist introduced to me in the past week. Her name is...
EMILIANA TORRINI!
And what a stunning artist. I cannot begin to describe how much I enjoy her music. She is Icelandic of origin with music verging on poppy, but still very smooth! Hope you enjoy these two songs.




Next is a song that has recently been brought very close to my heart by a far away friend of mine. A loverly band with a crazy sound, especially in this song! I hope you enjoy as much as I did :)


Finally I would like to use this space to rant about my favourite parts of the closing ceremony of the olympics. Obviously the appearance of One Direction and Ed Sheeran were great, but something else appealed to me even more. I nearly died During Annie Lennox's appearance on stage. The amazing costumes of this scene along with the power of the song was amazing. Truly and utterly loved it! Amazement :)

(Oh yeah, secretly cheered the Spice Girls on...)

That is all. :)
Peace

Olympics

Seems like I'm a sucker for jumping on the bandwagon :) Just like everyone else, I'm gunna blog about the Olympics today.

(Guys, unless you're gay, or can appreciate some body, you might wanna avoid this one)

Firstly, i would like to say well done to the South African rowing team, for winning their gold medal. Really proud of you guys :)

Sizwe Ndlovu, John Smith, James Thompson and Matthew Brittian

 The next part of the blog is dedicated to the hottest guys I have seen on the Olympics this year (YES MOST OF THEM ARE SOUTH AFRICAN or swimmers! They are the most fun to look at!)

Chad le Clos (swimmer) from team SA

Ryan Lochte (swimmer) from team USA

Cameron van den Burgh (swimmer) (KE NAKO means the time is now) from team SA

Tom Daley (diver) from Team GB

Austin Smith (hockey) from team SA

Ryan Lochte

Cameron van den Burgh

Austin Smith

Tom Daley

Chad le Clos

Martin Reader (Volley ball) team Canada)

Martin Reader

If you can think of any other that are valid for consideration for the honour of appearing in this blog, please drop me a comment so I can evaluate them and (if they are worthy) stick em up here :).

Finally just a bit of fun with Tom Daley and team GB :)


Peace!!!!

Phwl Designs: Concepts

Okay, so i'm a day late. shoot me (please don't!!! i have so much more to do in life).
For today's Phwl designs I thought I'd do something a little different. Recently a teacher approached me about designing outfits for our school play. Unfortunately she doesn't like the direction my concepts took and decided to go with another look. What this does however mean is that these designs can now be thrown up here :)

These concepts are based on humans alluding to their animal characters, focusing more on the personalities than the basic animalistic characteristics of the characters. Hope you enjoy. :)

The first design is a concept for a tortoise. She is dressed as a camper, with a huge camping/backpacking bag on her back, literally carrying her house around with her. The camo of the pants refers to the natural colours of a tortoise but also to the blending ability of the tortoise. The only animalistic aspect is the scale effect on her lids and lips.

The next concept is Magdel, the mother meerkat. I worked a lot with a concept of a stay home mom in Africa. She has the headscarf to keep her hair back. Her sleeves are rolled up as if she was washing a bundle of, well, washing. She's barefoot and fretsome. The obvious animalistic characteristics are her nose, whiskers and the tail.

Thanks to Theunisia van der Merwe for the shading!

The final concept in this collection is the concept for the twins. They're meerkats too. Basically worked with a schoolgirl outfit, trying to convey the simple and naive natures of these two characters. Again the animalistic characteristics are a tail and whiskers. Simple way to differentiate the twins are their bows.

The concepts pretty much speak for themselves (no literally, the notes already say everything that needs to be said...). So I'm not gonna babble further and point out obvious little details to you.

Hope you enjoyed something a little different this week!

Peace :)

Phwl