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From Antonia and Desmond: 

We’ve been looking to buy a cabin for years, but never found one that felt right: close-ish to Cape Town (our home base), super private and located in nature, etc. In early 2017 we found and bought this almost three hectare property close to the beautiful Bain’s Kloof Pass in the Western Cape of South Africa. The pass (25 kilometers) was built in 1849, it was seen as the gateway between Cape Town and the north. We decided to build our tiny dream cabin: thirty square meters of living space (plus a loft bedroom of twelve square meters) and a sixty square meter deck. Our wooden structure cabin is located high on a mountain slope in a nature reserve. It can only be reached by foot or a 4x4 vehicle. We just finished the cabin in time for the national Corona-lockdown we are experiencing in South Africa (extended until 30 April 2020). The best part of this cabin is that it is so isolated, set in Fynbos (natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa) and yet only 1.5 hours drive from Cape Town. Here you can find rock paintings, spot Klipspringers (a small buck with Mountain goat type claws), baboons, Cape Cobras, Dassies, Leopard’s, and many birds, to mention a few. Also, a wide range of flora endemic to this area can be found. In the valley we have a lovely river spot for refreshing swims. 

The Stump Cabin in the Pacific North West

Fuco Ueda’s “Odd-Eye” at Thinkspace Gallery.

Opening this Saturday, December 10th, 2016 at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California is the highly anticipated solo show, “Odd-Eye,” by artist Fuco Ueda.

Ueda’s work exists in a dream-space, where the lonely subjects interact with apparitions and surreal elements painted in a glowing incandescent reverie.  Symbols of death and loss are focal points within each painting, used to reinforce the idea that we do not inhabit the same plain of existence as these ghostly creatures.  Thankfully Ueda is able to reach this dimension where these images lurk and bring them back down to us, like treasures from some long lost land.

Jean Art

UK-based artist Ian Berry uses denim as his medium of choice, everything you see in his work is denim, nothing else, no paint, nor bleach. Berry reshape the material with scissors and adhere layers atop one another with glue. Using blue, black, and gray jeans, he manipulates the assembly of various shades to capture brilliant contrasts of light. He’s able to mimic remarkably lifelike visions of shadows and depth within his textured “paintings.” 

Nick Steinberg’s Fog Waves

In the words of the artist ​ Nick Steinberg:

For the last 8 years I’ve been shooting in the San Francisco area I have been absolutely obsessed with the fog. Night and day it’s what I live for and what defines my photographic style. I check the cams, satellites, and other forecasts to always be able to just get up and go. We even have a small group of about 20 of us known as, “Fogaholics” where we keep each other updated all the time as soon as we see it roll in.

Recently in my studies of the area I have discovered something amazing! During the summer months, when the fog is created from high amounts of inland heat, it gets too high to shoot in the bay area (including the Golden Gate Bridge) as it is usually above 1,000′ and the bridge sits at 746′. In addition, since it is coming from the Pacific ocean, the coastline is pretty much unshootable. So the only option is to hit up the high vantage points, one of the best being Mt. Tamalpais, which sits at 2,572′. Mt. Tam allows you to get, “above it all” and is literally heaven on earth as you feel on top of the world or almost on an airplane looking down on clouds. What I discovered from hundreds of trips up there is, when the fog rolls through and is at the perfect height and density, it will create wave-like movements as it contours the land. This is where I coined the term “Fog Waves” as it literally looks like waves that resemble the ocean.

I found that when playing around and experimenting with different shutter speeds in my camera it would either freeze the movement or accentuate the flow and make it more buttery and smooth. This is all done “In camera” and not photoshopped. I do this by putting on dark filters known as ND or Neutral Density filters that trick the camera into thinking it’s night time forcing a longer shutter speed. Doing this is how I am able to get these smooth effects and sometimes I shoot up to 2 minutes depending on the flow. Too long and it can turn to mush and too short will be too textured. Shooting fog is a study and takes a lot of patience, preparation, and knowledge of the area to catch it as it is very elusive. In the end though, the chase is always worth it and the views on Mt. Tamalpais are literally something out of a dream!

More info on Nick Steinberg : Instagram | nicholassteinbergphotography.com | Facebook

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