Justin Hartman

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Posted on May 9, 2007 - by

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy

Zane Meas and Christo DavidsSo last night I did something I haven’t done in more than six years – I went to the theater. Zane Meas of 7de Laan and Twac fame stars in the lead role of a beautiful coming of age story set in the coloured community of Riverlea called Shirley, Goodness and Mercy.

The play is a touching and vibrant account of acclaimed South African writer, Chris van Wyk and is based on the book of the same name. The theatre version of Shirley, Goodness and Mercy has been adapted by director Janice Honeyman to capture Van Wyk’s love of storytelling and the wonder of a child’s inquisitive mind in stifling and oppressive circumstances.

I have certainly forgotten just how powerful theater can be and the play captured my imagination from almost the very first line. It’s wonderfully entertaining and Christo Davids, who plays the young Chris Van Wyk, was absolutely brilliant in his role. In fairness though each and every member of the cast were amazing and I take my hats off to their performances last night.

I think I may just have to do this more often.

 

Posted on March 29, 2007 - by

The Cleaners Revenge

So there’s this really cool clip I came across yesterday on the Twac website which I thought I have to share with you. It lacks a little plot and is a little silly but the technique is brilliant. The clip below was shot using still photos and more than 450 pics were taken to create this effect. The result – brilliant!

 

Posted on March 8, 2007 - by

Twac.co.za – my new baby

Most will now know that I was employed by Ja! Productions at the beginning of February this year. What people may not know is that Ja! is the company behind Twac.co.za. I was hoping to hold off a little on blogging about Twac as we’re still working through a list of changes/bugs/feature requests but my article today on SA Rocks takes a high-level look at the new video sharing websites and Twac is now one of them.

So what is Twac? Well let me tell you what we’re not. We are not a YouTube and we have no intention of becoming or even trying to compete with the giant. All we are interested in is to be a hub for quality South African content with a really strong emphasis on user generated content within schools. While there is little UGC at the moment under the video section I am told that from next week you should start to see some of this UGC from the school kids directly.

On the converse we have Twac Couches. These couches are short 2-3 minute comedy clips produced by our team of award winning professionals. If you like a bit of sophisticated humour Twac Couches is for you.

There are still a lot of additional things to come and be fixed and because we only launched last Wednesday I’m going to ask if you just be patient while we get the site running at optimal performace. If you want to you could even give me some feedback – good or bad! In the meantime enjoy our Competition clip which is embedded in this post.