Not sure how I hadn’t seen this before, but it’s certainly something worth preserving on here for posterity and revisitation.
This, according to the Youtube authorship anyway, is Jean-Jacques Wallis, and he’s jumping off the Lions Head (remember when my wife did that?) and paragliding down to Clifton beach.
Fast and hard and low.
Ever so low.
Blimey. Bit toight approaching the beach there. Squeaky bum time.
Colour me impressed by his bravery and skill. And yes, at some point, this sort of thing usually all ends in tears, but for the moment, let’s come along and enjoy the good times while we can.
I’m ever so slightly behind the curve on this one. I blame the Sun lighting my solar eleventh house. Uranus is rising.
Whatever.
Behold the return of Brendon Wainwright with his latest offering, I Am Cape Town 3.
This following hot… well… lukewarm,m anyway on the heels of I Am Cape Town and I Am Cape Town 2. And what he lacks in imaginative titling skills, he certainly makes up for in his photographic ability.
And yes, you’ll probably already have noticed that this one is in glorious 4K. And if you’re fortunate enough to have a 4K TV *waves*, it’s going to look pretty amazing in the corner of your living room.
The music – always an important part of these things is – by Ludovico Einaudi wannabe Stefan Kruger.
Much mirth and merriment on SA Twitter yesterday as the UK basked in a “heatwave”, getting up to (in some cases) the low to mid 30s Celsius.
I’m sharing this one example, not for any other reason other than because I particularly enjoyed it:
Amateurs indeed.
But, as your lovable local “Soutie“, can I just make the case for the other side too?
Because when you Saffas are all:
OMG! It’s so cold. I’m FREEZING! #hypothermia
throughout the winter months, while it’s a balmy 15ºC… well… how do you think I’m looking at you?
It’s almost – almost – as if the climatic conditions in the UK and SA are generally quite different, thus giving the local populaces disparate reference ranges for their understanding of “normal” weather and temperatures.
Here are those photos from the aquarium. I’m calling this one “Fish As Art”, because it reminds me of people looking at paintings (or rather one big painting) on the wall of an art gallery.
And I like it. But the favourite of the bunch has to be Yoshi the flying turtle with the winter sunlight dappling across her shell.
I have previously described the hitting of the Music Button here, but with being away from school, it’s been a while since it has been struck. But as was noted yesterday, school restarted this morning.
I was unprepared. Not for school, but rather when the voice piped up from the back:
I haven’t said this for a few weeks, but… HIT THE MUSIC BUTTON!
Still, I hit it as instructed, but when I did, it was playing dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s 2013 offering Repent Replenish Repeat. Look, I love it, but it’s far too dark and much too naughty for a 7:30am trip to school with an 8-year-old. Hence some quick fiddling with the iPod in order to find something more appropriate for the journey between campusses… campii… the two different school sites.
It would be rude not to share, so step forward the alphabetically-convenient Daft Punk. And their Random Access Memories was what took me on a musical odyssey through the traffic. Thus here’s Instant Crush, featuring the unlikely-monikered Julian Casablancas.
I’d forgotten just how good this album was. It was a hot contender for the 6000 miles… Album of the Year, alongside such greats as Depeche Mode, Ludovico Einaudi, The D.O.T., the Pet Shop Boys and, ironically, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip. Regular readers will know that no-one ever wins these things, but you get some decent (IMHO) recommendations to make your musical life better.
I hope it’s done that for you. Have a great Monday, even if the traffic is FUBAR and you have to be up at 6am tomorrow.
