Haywired from francoissmit.com http://francoissmit.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:22:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://francoissmit.com/images/M_images/HaywireRss.jpg http://francoissmit.com Haywired from francoissmit.com http://francoissmit.com/this-weeks-illustration-in-the-sunday-independent.html Is Big Brother watching you?Yes, but these days he’s called Google – and the company is storing too much information for comfortSisterhood? Forget it. Catfights over handbags and tears in the toilets. When this producer launched a women-only TV company, she thought she’d kissed conflict goodbye. Samantha Brick reportsWithout robbery and its spiralling effects, South Africa’s alarming crime rate would be measurably lower, writes Todd R ClearToday’s young people have no attachment to history - or Malema, writes Jovial Rantao The political landscape in South Africa is changing – and it is doing so fast. Like a rolling stone gathering... News - Latest Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:05:46 +0100 http://francoissmit.com/latest/how-to-become-a-conceptual-artist.html 1. Abandon any existing ideas about art and style (they’re crap anyway!).2. Dress in very expensive and exclusive casual gear (no popular teen brands and no obvious labeling). Predominantly black dress code always works well. Adding one or two small touches of red or orange can add to the effect. You want to look like a designer anarchist. Hair styling is crucial. For males, Mod-romantic or else a very short precision cut works well (No. 2 cutter). Get 3G and become “Blue Tooth” enabled, preferably on Blueberry, and/or use Apple Mac wireless (minimum 180GB).... News - Latest Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:55:24 +0100 http://francoissmit.com/serendipity-the-art-of-finding-what-we-are-not-looking-for-9.html Serendipity is such a perfect word for what it defines that it may have been serendipity itself that inspired Horace Walpole to coin it. The word comes from the original name for Sri Lanka, Serendip, the setting for the Three Princes of Serendip, a fable of three nobles who make discoveries by accident. Through their sagacity they deduce, for instance, by the kind of abductive reasoning used by Sherlock Holmes, that the road that they have been travelling on, because the grass has been grazed on one side only, must have been shared by a mule blind in one... HaywireSection - Haywire Articles Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:29:04 +0100