Henriette Botha and Churche teamed up at the beginning of August to design eight bespoke pieces of jewelry. Henriette wanted to celebrate women’s month with a #womenofmzansi photo portrait series that celebrated women of Mzansi, strong women with great stories that she felt needed to be shared and admired.
Whhhooo I’m so excited to share Boogieman by Desmond and The Tutus which is their latest music video and song off their album Enjoy Yourself. This dark and humorously creepy video is one that is very close to my heart because I got to co-art direct it with my dear friend and partner in Churche, Adi Koen. This was such an awesome experience, we got to build the props and put together some of the masks and costumes that are in the video.
So many talented people worked on this project Shane co-directed it with the super talented Greg Rom from Gentlemen Films, Joel Janse Van Vuuren and Anmari Honiball made all the awesome once-off costumes and Devin Toselli was the DOP. I’m so proud of you guys and high-5 to the Jameson INDIE Channel for choosing the best music video concept and for help making this project happen, you guys rule!
The video references the budget horror films of Nollywood and traditional West African garb and the idea centers around Desmond and the Tutus getting kidnapped by the some of the coolest monsters you’ll ever see. I won’t say any more, watch the vide below and if you’re keen to see some behind the scene shots I took on the day, just keep scrolling.
Go Desmond go! Continue Reading…
A while back Churche was asked by local label Gypsey Rose to shoot their look book for them and seeing as Adi and I love creating and shooting stuff just as much as we love eating Super C’s and Nik-Naks (we LOVE eating Super C’s and Nik-Naks), we jumped at the opportunity and photographed an array of clothing that is very different to the stuff that we have shot in the past.
Gypsey Rose makes very girly, pretty clothing that is loose fitting and super comfortable to wear, it’s made up of loads of patterns and so we wanted to shoot in an environment that was beautiful, by stark enough so that the clothing would stand out. We also wanted to create a couple of bold headpieces for our model to wear, to add a bit of fanciness to the shoot. These headpieces scratched the living daylights out of our hands whilst we were making them, but I they were worth it.
Adi and I are so excited for our first Exhibition by Churche called Bite Me. It starts at Wolves tomorrow night and will be running until the end of the month. We wanted to create pieces that were fun and added a bit of humour to a room. There are 12 artworks to choose from and they are all A2 digital prints going for R490 a pop, available from Wolves or directly from me. If you’re keen to buy one just drop me an email (angie@luckypony.co.za) and I’ll make a plan to send it to you via the post.
You may have seen half the collection already in a previous post, but here they all are again.
Ps: No food was harmed or wasted during this shoot and all the Twinkies found a safe home in my stomach afterwards.
So it’s almost time for jersey and jackets and no more open toe shoes. Yip, Winter she is a coming and I for one couldn’t be happier, I love the cold and I love getting all bundled up. I just wish that our Winters were greyer, I don’t like it when the sun is shining and the skies are crystal blue, but then it’s freezing outside! It literally makes me feel sad hehe. I’d prefer it if it was dark and gloomy to match the temperature.
Anyway, over the weekend I picked up some new things for Miss James and then I let her run around outside while I took some snaps of her. So without further a due here is Nina James wearing clothes from Cotton On and possibly one of the best pairs of shoes I have ever seen from a local label called Butter Pudding.
If you haven’t heard the sweet voice of Josh Kempen, then you need to change that as soon as possible. This young man is a talented songwriter and musician and an all round nice guy who we got the opportunity to shoot a couple of weeks back.
Churche together with Josh and his absolutely beautiful girlfriend Bella Pinto spent an afternoon together taking photos, eating apples and just shooting the breeze. This is the second band shoot that Adi and I have done under our Churche label, you can check out the first one here if you’d like.
We really like how these photos came out, hope you like them too. I have included the whole shoot below as well as one of Josh’s music videos because I seriously think that everyone needs to become a fan asap.
Happy Monday!