The Layders-Smiling with the Sun

Serengti in the house...

Last Jam this Sunday

This is the last session... the banger... the finale... What ever you want to call it, but its going to be bigger than the rest. This session is all about giving back the love that we got for the whole year. the line up is compromised by what we deem to be the finds of the year 2010 to have graced our stage.

On the decks Big Daddy Mdoo makes a welcome back to give us some beautiful laid back nu jazz/downtempo beats that most peop...le don't know him for. Trevor the Japanese is a DJ that is steadily making a name for himself in the alternative scene and will be gracing our decks. he comes under huge recommendation from the JunkOnMe crew.

Motlatsi is a leader and a true artist that is making a name for himself through his talent. Most people have seen him act yet don't know that he can sing and move a crowd. That is not a act at all. he will coming with a full band to the session to give us his take on soul music with underlying African rhythms.

Serengeti is a all three female band hailing from the icy shores of Sweden. They will be giving us their take on Reggae/dancehall. They will be providing a sound that we have missed at the session since the lose of our brother Stan.

Live Act
Motlatsi
Serengeti

DJ Line up
Omi
Wireless_G
Trevor the Japanese
Big Daddy Mdoo

Cover Charge
R20 without thesis gear
R15 with Thesis gear

Free entrance till 4pm

Alcohol and food will be sold inside.
Security will be tight.

E-thesis & Dissertation Bibliography

Digital Scholarship have released version 5 of their E-thesis and Dissertation Bibliography.

'This selective bibliography includes articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual resources that are useful in understanding e-theses and dissertations.'

Digital Scholarship have also collated bibliographies relating to:

Institutional Repositories
Digital Curation and Preservation
Open Access Journals
Scholarly Electronic Publishing

khronos!

FIT-SENIOR YEAR: dissapointing.
I think we deserve more time for development and research... as I am supposed to be working on my SENIOR THESIS.

Something that should represent who I am as a designer (thus far) and the things that I believe in, the message I want to convey (perhaps could be called an artist's statement) and that reflects the knowledge acquired in the past years.

however, we are rushed and asked to make a "HOLLIDAY" collection in 2 weeks, rendered, flats, ecc... who can do research and development in such short time and then call their collection " a well thought" one...
please... we dont need anymore shallow design.

sorry for the venting, but someone needs to do it. I i need to excuse myself for the following:

my holliday /knitwear collection- another silly excercise. I really ran by it... no thoughts- just DO!

Whiskey Festival give ticket give away

Over the past few weeks, ancient Mayans have been appearing in nightclubs, on streets, on beaches and in shopping malls all over the country. Mayan sightings have been reported as far afield as Maponya Mall in Soweto to Durban Beach and Long Street in Cape Town, leaving countless hundreds of people asking “What’s with all the Mayans?“ After weeks of speculation, it was revealed that the Mayans were invited to the country by J&B as part of the J&B Start A Party Under The Mayan Sun competition – visit the J&B South Africa Facebook page to find out more.

The Mayans have been checking out the party starting spirit in South Africa, and will be making their way to the FNB Whiskey Live Festival before heading back to Mexico so visit the J&B stand and say farewell!

Not for Sale to Persons Under the Age of 18. Drink Responsibly.

capillaris

CAPILLARIS...
inspired (mainly) by Lyndi Sales's "heart" piece... part of her "IN TRANSIT" collection, which I discovered two years ago during my first trip to PARIS at the galerie Maria Lund!

mood

yarnscolor page


now.. these are some pages i created for my primavision class, where we work with the KALEIDO/LECTRA software to create prints/knit fabrics:

New York-isms

Dear all;

I just wanted to excuse myself for not having posted in a while. LIFE back in the big apple is different than I remembered and MUCH different than what I got used to when living in THE OLD WORLD... its been crazy and hectic, and stolen all of my "being a human" time... so
all I can do is promise you a post soon...

i miss having a life!
enjoy yours as much as you can- its a treasure

House With No Wings Party...!

House Catz are going in conjunction with TSJS for a gig on Saturday happening at the Steak house 010 in Mofolo, Soweto. The gig starts at 16h00.

The line up for this gig reads as follows

Omi
Wireless_g
Thabo "house catz" & Bilal
Linda
Bobo
Deep Cat
Brian Blaq

R20 at the gate. Ladies free before 20h00 The Security will be tight, booze will be sold inside and the music will be deep and soulful like your people love it.

Sunday its on...

TSJS Presents: Music At Last Crew & Stone Band. half day Tours to SOWETO

Despite being one of the most talked about Township on the planet, Soweto remains a far-flung, never to be visited mystery to many Westerners. So, Ahead of its triumphant closer Party! Thesis social jam session: Grand finale 2010, we thought we'd shed a little light on The Township. Here we present our Guide with Music At Last Crew & Stone Band :half day Tou...rs to Soweto, taking in some of the major hot spots.

What? Where Who? When? Yep that's right, another one; a full on Music Tour party with some of the finest DJ talent currently riding the Culture waves @ Soweto's finest location.This time

we party with DJ Romz Deluxe,Symatics,Temba,Tha Muzik and Captain Schti.(Music At Last Crew)

''We are really looking forward to this tour!'' says Romz Deluxe. ''We have been in the studio non-stop since the start of the year and have plenty of new mixes and productions to road test with

Live Act
The Stone Band

DJ's
Music @ Last crew

Price
R20 without thesis gear
R15 with thesis gear

Venue: Thesis Concept Store

Thesis X Music @ Last

So it going down this Sunday... We got a little visual flier letting you know whats up.

OA Week Competition winner: Misha Jepson, Glyndŵr University

We are pleased to announce Misha from Glyndŵr University as our OA Competition winner!!

Misha’s engagement story described the use of advocacy to both gain the attention of an institution’s senior management team and to effectively put across the benefits of a repository to an institution. The story showed the importance of the ‘Elevator Pitch’ advocacy technique in grabbing opportunities where you can to get your case heard. It also showed how aligning the use of the repository with the institution’s strategic aims can embed the system within an institution’s structure.

A copy of Misha's winning story is available here.

RAE data available for download: JISC MERIT project

A new resource which may be of interest to those who are looking to use their institutions’ RAE data to populate their repository and/ or other publication management systems.

The JISC MERIT project has just launched its RAE submissions database which contains data on every UK institutions’ RAE submission.

The database offers faceted searching on the citation data held by: institution; Unit of Assessment; output type; author. The results of any combination of these searches can then be exported and saved to Excel files.

From what I can see the database only holds citation data. It does not seem to offer full-text, links out and/or DOI look ups.