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Brother LB6770PRW Project Runway Sewing-and-Embroidery Machine

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HIGHLIGHTS ON OUR PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS:
Red Location Museum, in collaboration with it's partner, the World Culture Museum is presenting the NoNameFever-uGawulayo; Exhibition at Red Location Museum from 14 December 2007 to the end of November 2008.

It is alarming to note that according to latest UNAID figures (19 November 2007) that of the 33.2 million people who are currently globally living with HIV, a staggering 18.8 million come from South Africa!

Since 1981, an estimated number of 24 million people died from the disease in South Africa. This means that our nation has gone through tremendous suffering - as almost every South African is affected in some way by the disease. 71 % of deaths between the age of 15 and 49, is caused by HIV.

Many of us fondly remember people like Nkosi Johnson, the child activist who lived with HIV - and who through his passion and motivational speeches - managed to break down stigmas and misconceptions against people living with the disease. There are scores of many unmentioned and precious people who are now no longer with us.

Have you noticed how many children still fall pregnant, despite the availability of condoms and the HIV campaigns? Certainly, now is the time for us to be alerted and to stand together, like the times when we were mobilised against Apartheid, and combat this disease through our morals, attitudes and involvement...

There are various Red Location Museum programmes which will be focussing on HIV during the next year:
- The live transmission of the 46664 concert at Red Location Museum on 1 December 2007, from 7:00pm
- The Hope Worldwide SA Debate scheduled with the Youth at Red Location Museum on 6 December from 12:00pm
- A contemporary Art Exhibition of local Nelson Mandela Bay artists - where their souls deeply reflect and ponder on HIV/AIDS. This exhibition opens on 12 December and will run until 30 January 2008
- A Streetart event where the public is invited to join in and through pastels creations on Olof Palme Street speak out about HIV/AIDS on 13 December 2007 from 10:00am
- The main event, NoNameFever -uGawulayo Exhibition, which opens on 14 December and will run until the end of November 2008
- A Fashion Show on HIV which will take place at the Museum on 16 December from 2:00pm
- A Poetry and Rapping session on 17 December 2007 from 2:00pm

Small selection of quick photos from a Fashion show in April, these designs are from Temna Fialka, awesome as usual! The show went over really well and I had a really great time with everyone there.

I just wanted to share these photos, not because they're overly interesting, but because they took about 1 minute to set up and take! It was sort of an experiment on my part, for many reasons (tight spaces, tight on time and the fact that the venue opened the back area to regular guests on us...) we were having some trouble getting our studio gear to have the look we really wanted from the shots. It could have easily been achieved if there was a bit more time, but there just wasn't, and to make matters worse it was basically a gong show at that point. So run and gun! I asked Mario if he had is iPad handy so we could see how it looked, high ISOs, but it looked neat. So we grabbed a few models quickly and used the iPad to light them up as our main light. The rest is just ambient. Of course if there was time to have control over lighting, and control over everything else, we could have come away with some really spectacular stuff.

For what we had, and how we had to work it, I was pretty happy with the (really) quick results we got. Literally... a minute each from the time the camera came out, to the time it went away again. Woo! Haha. Let's hope we have more time on the next go around!


Lighting
iPad as key light. Done. ;)


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