You are invited: Need for Swede 2!

South Africa's only home-made movie event is back!

RSVP here!

After a highly successful debut night in August, Need For Swede returns to The Bioscope on Thursday the 27th of September. The event will be the second installment in a trilogy of nights designed to celebrate hand-crafted movie remakes in the spirit of Michel Gondry's “Be Kind Rewind” and we want you to get involved!

Create your own DIY remake! Use what you have, get your friends involved, craft your own piece of sweded magic and see it on the big screen

of Johannesburg's only independent cinema! It's fun! It's easy! It doesn't even need to be good!

For the second Need For Swede we will be screening all 4 of the first South African swedes, created for last month's event:

THE GOONIES
by Tess, Henco & Mark

CASTAWAY
by PJ Kotze and his magical Open Window students

SIGNS
by Lovechild

DISTRICT 9
by Cool your Jets

PLUS all new swedes created for NFS2!

PLUS PLUS PLUS bonus swedes from our American friends at Swede Fest!

(side note, all Need For Swede films will be sent over to Swede Fest to be screened at their events across the US. WOW!)

To get involved mail benrausch at gmail dot com

PRIZES!!!

Joburg super-blog, Another-Day, will be running a contest to find the most popular Need for Swede entry! After the third episode of NFS, all swedes will be posted to the blog where people can vote for their favourites!

Greenside's Odd Cafe is sponsoring a full dinner in their basement exhibition space for the winners!

Runners up will win prizes from a dream team of local DIY brands, including:

Vouchers from vintage fashion super-store Asseblief!

Exclusive NFS edition of vinyl stickers from decor wunderkids Mikado!

T-shirts from design monsters Doktrine!

Music & merch from local record labels KRNGY & SMACM!

Plus movie tickets from our home, The Bioscope!

Good Weekend: Skim Grot en die Deurskeinende Stede

Gauteng is on a roll with hooking Anja and I up with really good weekends. We don't do much on Friday night, but Saturday starts off with us heading through to Pretoria for Chinese with Maaike & Werner. Om nom nom, then head through to this month's instalment of the Doktrine's amazing Skim Grot.

We drink Kapowerade, buy lovely Mikado stickers for Seafox's case and I have the great pleasure of DJing through sunset over an awesome view of my hometown and the cool kids that have come to this very special event.

After my set we need to race through to Joburg for Kick out the Jams. before tha party starts, I need to give The KRNGY DJs a crash course in DJing. I'm pleasantly surprised to discover Jaco is joining Andreas and Martinique, meaning we're now lucky enough to have 3 of the 4 Sticky Antlers opening our garage rock party up. The kids play a totally awesome set; the boys each grab a CDJ while Martinique uses her laptop to trigger old movie samples between tracks.

It's just perfect. A totally swell crowd show up to rock out with us and by the time we head home at 4ish the night has surely earned the name "High Five".

It's a little tough dragging ourselves out of bed on Sunday, but we do. Head through to the burgeoning Maboneng district of the CBD. Last weekend we were here for the awesome Fete De La Musique, today it's Invisible Cities that has dragged us into the heart of Jozi.

It's totally awesome what Skeleton Crew are doing with these events. Throwing Sunday afternoon gigs, combining musical-polar-opposites, presenting people with something new and different and celebrating just how lucky we all are to live in a city like Johannesburg.

Bless you Skeleton Crew.

Blew.

Dynamo Jo Fo: Sponsored prizes.

Dynamo Jo Fo is going down tomorrow night! We've been collecting photos of the fantastic prizes our sponsors will be hooking the Dynamo family up with. I have to say, this is by miles the most absurdly massive, awesome collection of free stuff we've had to give out at one of our parties EVER!!! DIY fashion phenomenons Delight have hand made 50 of these zuber-rad ghosty plushy keyrings: Accessory royalty Hello Fox have graciously assembled 10 rings and ten sets of earrings for the girls. Asian pop specialist Ke Ai have given us 10 five inch Popbe bears. Pretorian awesomeness factory KRNGY are sponsoring a great collection of their handmade badges... ... plus the last remaining monster plush in their Slime-o-saurs series. And finally high-art plastic terrorist Mikado are sponsoring crap loads of their wonderful perspex accessories. This massive collection of prizes will be given out over the course of the night to the partY's best dressed boys and girls, so be sure to rock that cardboard! And if this collection of sponsored prizes weren't enough - check out what Jo Fo's label Best Before Records have sent us to give you too: How freaking cool?!

"Humans are dead" re-post 2

This is a re-post. A message originally sent to the confirmed guests for our 2009 Halloween party, giving people a little taste of the awesome stuff that would be on sale at the party...

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POW!

Thanks to everyone who's entered The Humans Are Dead binary competition – we've received some great entries so far! Remember, if you wanna win an awesome hamper full of stuff from all our sponsors & free entry to the party, visit http://snarkles.net/scripts/binary/binary.php and leave us a cool robot message on the event. The winner will be announced on Friday.

On the subject of our sponsors Mikado, Delight and KRNGY have uploaded photos of the incredible merch they'll have on sale at the parties:

Delight have hand crafted a ridiculously rad range of shirts for the event. Available on the night for R200 each, these shirts (as photographed here by Pretoria's own We Love Pictures) are really a landmark for PTA DIY fashion awesomeness...
Check Delight out right here!

Then Mikado have unveiled some of their perspex accessories that will be on sale this Saturday. You will want to own these:
Finally here's some of the kind of stuff you can expect from Pretoria's home for mutant-rockandroll-terror, THE KRNGY LOGO:
So with these 3 great retailers setting up at the party, plus the Hotbox's own "Steam Room" open, be sure to BRING SOME EXTRA CASH ALONG TO THE PARTY and take something awesome home with you!!!

Enjoy!

♥ Dynamo