So, you may know Derick Watts and The Sunday Blues from their songs ‘Braai Day‘ (a Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ parody) or their ‘Hipsters and Hashtags‘ song. They’re cool dudes. They asked my brother The Kiffness to produce their latest track ‘PayDay’. I was staying with my brother in Cape Town while they were doing some…
Hello. So I was recently nominated for ‘Best Music Video’ in the 20th South African Music Awards (SAMAs) for my animated music video for Goldfish’s song ‘One Million Views‘. Schweet. This is the third time I’ve been nominated, strangely enough (or perhaps not surprisingly) this time I really didn’t try to pander towards being nominated…
Time to join the millionaire’s club again! Discovered this morning that my second animated music video for Goldfish; ‘Fort Knox’ has clocked over 2 million views on YouTube. That’s great! Of all 6 of the Goldfish videos I’ve done, 4 have reached over 1 million views. ‘We Come Together’ is sitting at 3,7 million views….
I made a song using a short interview I made with some buddies before we played a jazzy gig at an exhibition opening a year or two ago. Thanks to Martin Wolfaardt, Waldemar Van Wyk, Sharon Rose and Mvelo Shandu for talking.
Last year I started a music video for my brother’s song (The Kiffness) called ‘Pushin’ On’. It was an experiment to see how super-low-res-blocky may look in animation. I’d done 8bit stuff before but have always wanted to go *really* low-res. I was moving onto another project and we decided to go with another idea,…
Hello. Some news from the breaking edge. I made a song by recording sounds from around my desk and outside with a portable stereo condenser mic, playing some live bass and sequencing them in Ableton Live: A concept for a pitch I found and never used: I recently got an iPad Mini Retina. I’ve been…
