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Rent Minds® Creative Juice is a culture anthology and art journal of thoughts, thinking and creativity from an African perspective without the influence of the west. It is a journal and platform that publishes and supports work by graphic designers, copywriters, writers, illustrators, photographers, graffiti artists, fine artists, poets, musicians, designers and visual artists We ask contributors to break boundaries and move beyond the ordinary redefining what is and what is not. It is about expressing views, exposing thoughts and penning writings that challenge the norms of what can and can’t be published. We really do publish what we like, in each of our serving leaving no single drop of our juice. Rent Minds® Creative Juice is raw, palatable, passion juice.TRANSCRIPT
ingredients: Poetry, illustrations, photography and more.
Creative Juice©
Premiere issue:Inside Our Minds
CULTURE ANTHOLOGY AND ART JOURNAL
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For the past 4our years, we have collaborated with so many talented and curious people. 4our years ago that's when the idea was sparked and Rent Minds® was born…where different skills of different creative and artistic talent are combined in developing work on a freelance/project basis: Paying and Non Paying Projects.
It has not been an easy journey but the process itself has been fulfilling. We have learned a lot. Grown creatively. Made bucket loads of mistakes. Paid for them. Lost relationships. Now we are evolving and redefining who we are. That's what we are doing with this publication.
Editorial Team
Project Curator Morrel Shilenge
Co Curators Dineo MakotanyaneJabu NdlovuKamogelo Masemola
ContributorsHenry Govo, Madonna Mmatli, Lawrence Gadisi, Pheladi Lekganyane
Published by
Ideas Republic Creative Boutique
Rent Minds®
email: [email protected] web: www.rentourminds.com
Submissions, Suggestions and Contributions are welcomed.
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Rent Minds Freelance Creative Collective Blog: http://rentedminds.blogspot.com
ContentsRent JuiceMinds Creative®
Features & Regulars
Thirst Quenching: Wise Words
Pen Your Thoughts:
Dancing To Voices: A Collection Of Poetry
Road Map
Painting Pictures
Comic Diary
Writings On The Wall: Showcase Of Work By A Graffiti Artist.
Free Your thoughts. Free Your Thinking
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HUMAN is BEING HUMAN
A GOOD LIFE
GOT TO THE FULLEST
STARTS ONLY WHENYOU STOP WANTING
A BETTER ONEAND START LIVING
THE ONEYOU HAVE
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DO NOTLAUGH WHEN EVER YOU GET THE CHANCE.
TOMORROWMIGHT NOT BE FUNNY
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Priest kissing a nun, a black
stallion mounting a white mare, Aa colourful mix of condoms
spread over a bright background, a
white infant suckling a black woman's
breast, the exposed pulsing hearts of
three different races shown during
surgery. The united colours of
Benetton's memorable infusion of
shocking images exposed the world's
differences. Shocking as they were
they hid a striking cord on South
Africa's reality back then. If you notice
these differences embrace them if you
hate them close your eyes.
Racial monogamy drove South Africa
into the dark where only white people
survived. The monogamous release of
potential held the country hostage to
d e v e l o p m e n t a n d s c a r e d
opportunities away.
Too many selfish white people and
too many poor depressed black
people. It's only a couple of years after
1994 the white supremacy its gone
and years into democracy people still
ask if so and so stepping into
parliament is a black or white South
African, when the question to beat the
weakest link should be if the individual
is proudly South African or an agent
for change.
Politics are run by white and black
headed political parties, homes are
filled by families with siblings of
different races, black person with a
white surname and love finds itself
across colourful borders. I ts
democracy!
White led political parties are
addressing problems in black
communities', problems that the black
headed ruling party ignore. Soon I will
pay tax, join other tax payers in making
sure that everyone in government is
well fed, drives a car and that the car
has fuel and all their expenses are
settled.
Black people are scared to take the
chance on white people and white
people still believe they could run
things. One more vote and things
could get worse or better.
page seven
Pen Your Thoughts
Today the battle might not be anything
racial but it has something to do with
the indispensible corruption of power
and its selfish sinister crimes. If a child
asks: will we go back to apartheid? No
we won't but we will go back to the way
we were, full of blame.
That is why some people still see
electricity as a luxury afforded only to
the rich. Some teenagers go into
adolescence raped; they come out get
sold for marriage by parents
overwhelmed by poverty. In the
Eastern Cape it's normal to do so.
Where are the prevention pills to stop
this production then selling of
daughters? The clinic is far away.
Dineo Makotanyane is a Writer, Poet,
Social and Human Rights Activist
If you still don't get it, here is the deal:
Local designers are showcasing in
i n te rnat iona l fash ion weeks ,
previously black women were nothing
today they are faces of big French,
American beauty houses and
superfast controversial athletes
stretch their muscles on global tracks.
The grass is truly greener on the other
side.
If anyone still asks if we have made
any progress probably does not live in
South Africa. Though there are people
who still live in the jar even if the lid is
open. The question after this is not if
there are enough white people in
Africa to drive it to development or if
zim hypothetically speaking has
enough whites or too many blacks to
even collaborate; the question is if
there are enough Africans to delegate
change.
we don't have the patience to pray sothings remain the way they are.
We don't have the energy for war and
page seven
Pen Your Thoughts
They are the blessed and cursed. The doers of good and evil.
Asking Malcolm X to redefine who Jesus is.
This is twisted but allow me ...
Smoking ganja to keep sane with the gods. They call it the
colony of god Jesus. This women.
Who call me a goddess for I chose to follow Jesus.
I am called the Old Testament.
For they are atheist calling God names the same god who
blesses then give Lucifer –the fallen angel a bow the same
dude who cursed .What kind of a religion is that? The religion
of woman-woman. But what could one do- I am just a poet.
Wanted to be a woman when I found a society of one
collecting their early and late menstruations just to give the
devil a drink. chasing after menopause so they could pierce
their bellies shrunk my intestines and closed all my wombs.
stopping all women inside me because the woman is just a
humour called to a joke.
This community of women are a clone but in the name of the
constitution I call them black ageing into corpses and unveiling
their own tombstone. Abuse has to die...
I don't appreciate God in his oxygenated appearances in my
most private hours. I still hate eve for what she did to
women.That is my religion for your information and In hell we
will all yell.
Who the hell are women!
For all that women do is wear make-up and face God and
expect him to recognize.
If women bear children then let me be not a child, if men put
hands on women then let me not be a man. If receiving is all
that woman do then let me be infertile. This are my religions
that could never write a bible. They just make me hate God
instead. Religions of abuse.
Sixteen Days Of Activism Against Woman and Child Abuse.
page eight
My ReligionBy Dineo Makotanyane
What do I do, when i don't know what to doDo I look back?
With regrets, broken dreams, broken heart, fond memoriesOr do I just walk on by
With a hope and believe that tomorrow will become a better day
Lessons is what I have leant And mistakes is what I made
I still believe and hope for better daysWhat den happens to those plans and promises we made?
You were mine to have And I was yours to take
Tears on my chinPondering on what ifs and what not
What do I do, when I don't know what to do?Time spent
Joy, laughter and happiness is all that I think ofIn our small world
Why den does it heart so much if it was not my faultDo I then look back with ideas of turning back the clock?Or do I perhaps soldier on with a hope better tomorrow
Lawrence Gadisi
WHAT DO I DO
. I write what I write
Not because I like to write
But it is a mere habit
As chickens run around a bit
When their heads are off.
I'm simple and corrupt too
But the man in me speaks
Through the power of pen
To wise men in authority
People endowed with some power
I rely not on gut reaction
But eye has seen, ear has heard
That absolute power corrupts.
As absolutely as it is absolute,
If not equally shared it hurts.
I hate no politician, meek or mean
I loathe no richman, unjust or just
I was called and came
To put in writing the actions
That so ruthlessly tore the world
Your distinct understanding I demand
Genuine poetry is a house most roomy,
Decide on it after thorough inspection.
You'll be on the verge of idiocy
When you are hasty to blame, sir.
No pointed reference is intended
I espouse no political causes.
If at all you suspect yourself
Then the poet is pointing at you.
Proper recipients conclude faster.
Should a boy blame waterfowl,
When he's found throwing stones,
Simply because they put out their legs
When their heads are underwater,
Which happens as natural as a blink?
I will speak till the cows came home
The truth is as a savoury bake meat
If you take offense I'm not sorry
For you had your choice and opinion
So you choose to take offense.
Peccavi - I have sinned
For I used euphemisms so mild
Because I am, by nature, soft handed
He who has ears to hear let him hear
Shalom, my dear, I now resign.
is an experimental writer and poet.
Originally from Zimbabwe,
now resides in Limpopo - South Africa.
Most of his poems and essays
dwell on the bearing of mankind.
Henry Govo POEMS/RAMBLINGS
Part 1
UNTITLED
I love and admire my mistress
Though she may be very deformed,
Ill-favoured, wrinkled and pimpled,
Pale, red, yellow, tanned or black,
Thin, lean, chitty face, cloudy face,
Crooked, dry, bald, goggle eyed,
Blear eyed or with staring eyes.
I admire my good mistress
Though she looks like a squished cat.
Heavy, dull, yellow about her eyes,
Squint eyed, sparrow mouthed; yes
Have a sharp fox nose, a red nose,
Great nose, Chinese nose so far,
Rotten teeth, black uneven teeth.
I still admire my good mistress
Though she be beetle browed,
Her breath sticks all over the room
Her nose drop winter and summer
Bearded as a witch and sharp chinned,
With a long crane's neck, filthy nails.
I will admire my good mistress
Though she's got a crooked back,
A tanned skin, she stoops, is lame,
Spleen footed, gouty legs, oh a cartoon, her ankles
Lang over her shoes,
Her feet stink, she breed lice,
I love and admire my mistress,
Though she be an oaf imperfect,
Her whole complexion savours,
A harsh voice, incondite gesture,
Vile Gail, a vast virago or ugly tit,
A slug, a truss, a long lean raw bone,
A skeletap, a sneaker as a goblin.
I love and love my good lover
Though she appears as a slut, a dowdy,
A scold, a nasty, rummy, filthy,
Dishonest, obscene, base, beggarly,
Rude, cruel, foolish, untaught, peevish,
Irus' daughter, Thersites' sister's look-a-like,
Grobian's scholar with a detestable mind.
Even though to your judgement sir,
My love looks like a mard in latern,
Whom you could not fancy for the world,
And would have spit in her face,
And blow your nose in her bossom,
You hate and laoth with all your might,
I love and admire her for all this!
Masquerading as one unfortunate
Habitual traveller – Miss Lus Wickedheart
With lengthy appalling lips
So planned were her errands
Having mastered the art of enticing
Lowly men of country quality
With vain talk of self promotion
Clinging to her back always
Was a colourful little racksack
Whose contents no one knew
So common a hiker on the highway,
Somebody misinterpreted the truth
To the mid-twenties maid
That bus crew men are right fibre.
Two brags she had in life
The first is knowing conductors names
And her kids born outside wedlock
A certain toughness she possessed
One indelible in those of her trade
Even though nothing good was forthcoming
The joy of the rides makes the difference
Uninterested in her own children
She was keenly interested in drivers
Scary men with filthy moustaches
Who, if we may credit rumour
Were carriers of the notorious lice.
That clings and sucks blood
Rendering one physically well spent
Were it not for the lure of diesel
She would not have gone six feet
So I affirm stoutly this day
Nature detests lifestyles of infidels
Deepest depression to the loved ones
Such species as wicked heart
Conclude o death here is thy sting!
The Fatal truth is visibleComradely speeches please That food, girls and whisky
Are in unquestionable abundanceOnly for a day's occasion
Will not stop you from reasoningWhy not the many other days.
Deceive the comrades who deceive Whose minds impervious to sense.
For their wisdom is folly Their trophy a bleeding economy
In dire straits as you all seeThus every strand of your head
Must rise up against them
The comrades elongated their yearsBelieving themselves as demi gods
And the people to be senileBut you are an erudite massYour daily hardships I know
Are an added impetus to cause?The impeding change to be real.
The worlds now in the moodOf expectancy and confidence
That you well known victimsWill stop respecting your executioner
Who sees nothing discordant?With the five digit inflation
Stinging and grave health delivery.
hen I launched Rent Minds , it was just an initiative project through which I could learn, collaborate, grow and work with friends, as well as people whose work I Wadmired. Since then it has grown through the incorporation of ideas and thoughts
from different people. Initially it didn't start with an immediate consensus. It just kept evolving in different shapes and forms.
With Rent Minds® , we learn by doing and taking risks; at times ending in not getting paid for our work. With it I've personally learned that talent is not enough without practice, focus, perseverance, character and initiative. You can be so talented yet so useless. I refer to Rent Minds as IT, because I view IT as a growing organism that keeps changing forms and shapes.
Rent Minds® is always evolving and redefining itself. Now we are: A Platform for self-initiated and commissioned work, creative independence and growth.
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BACKGROUND
Blog: http:// morrelhasideas.blogspot.com
How did it all start?
Describe your career path?
I studied media studies at Boston Media House, specialized in
strategic advertising….I did various subjects such as
journalism, public relations, marketing, radio production, film
and television production, creative advertising, brand
management, multimedia, copywriting, art direction,
computer studies etc.
I've worked with companies like Capricorn FM,
conceptualizing, writing and producing radio adverts, station
and competition promos, managing their website, social
media like facebook, twitter and taking photography of their
events. Before that I worked at a branding and design
agency….Prior to that a multimedia company. Earlier I
interned in various companies from a newspaper to a
marketing communications agency. By doing that it helped
me decide the direction that I wanted to take.
I wanted to be behind the scenes creating. I stumbled across
media and I had an aha moment. I felt it could give me a start
to what I wanted to do...it gave me a broad perspective and
background to various media related things. The rest i learned
by doing. Yes, there are other things such as
illustration…drawing…that are natural talent that I was born
with and developed when I was young. When i do work I try
and combine natural talent and skills that I learned. My whole
focus is on ideas instead of platforms. I'm idea centric hence I
can move from one platform to another. Once I understand
the principles' of how a platform works…I can be able to
create through it. I describe myself as a conceptual creative
who loves ideas.
Q&A
What does the job/work entail?
Job availability?
What do you need to do to get ready
for the industry?
What are you passionate about?
What inspires you?
What institutions can better prepare
you for the industry?
Coming up with ideas for various
things, creating ads, designing
websites, logos, you are not pigeon
hold in a box.
You can work anywhere you want to
work, work is available you need to
look for it. Especially in the
province….there is lack of skills in
those areas. Look for those
opportunities.
Research, find out
what you love doing….what is it that
you are passionate about….can you
do it every day and not get bored?
Start from there. Talk to people who
are doing it already. Get a mentor. If
you want to be a writer, start writing
short stories, if you want to be a
graphic designer….start drawing.
Keep it in a file. This will form part of
your entry requirements at varsity.
Especially for designers.
IDEAS…
The most important source of
inspiration is GOD. When you are
inspired. You are in spirit, in a realm of
possibilities. Other things just spark
ideas….from art to music
AAA School of
Advertising, Boston Media House,
Vega Brand Communications School,
City Varsity. if you can't afford these
institutions opt for public universities.
.
Types of careers in the creative
field/Industry?
What do you need to do to get into the
fields?
Skills, talents, personality:
The challenges within the field
The advantages within the industry
What should you study in tertiary to get
into the industry?
Journalist, Media Officer, Writer,
Media Buyer, Account Planner,
Graphic Designer, Copy Writer, Web
Developer, Photographer, Script
Writer, etc
A diploma or a degree
combined with inborn talent, passion
and hard work.
Creative,
Outgoing, off the wall. Abnormal.
Think different.
: it's not
8 to 5; sometimes you can work all
night. Until the job is done. It takes
passion to do that.
You can wear anything you
want….shor ts….not a fo rmal
environment but productive and
results driven.
Media Studies,
Marketing Communications, Visual
Communications, Copy Writing,
Graph ic Des ign , i l l us t ra t ion ,
Multimedia etc
:
Q&A
Village Similes
Village Similes is an ongoing photographic collection showcasing incidental details of village life.
Most of us grew up in villages or have links to villages. The project is about reminding people about the
simplicity of life. Hopefully when complete i will do a full scale solo exhibition
By Morrel Shilenge
PART 1, ,Blog: http:// morrelsees.blogspot.com
Challange Thinking. This is a campaign that mirrors……
society thinking…..questions society. it is a means to start a debate that moves people forward.
BLACKSONLYno whites allowed
TheQuestionInstitute ?Are we still living in a society such as this?
Where racial lines are still visible?
BLACKRACIST
Are we still living in a society such as this? Where we are still calling each other names?
TheQuestionInstitute ?
WHITEKAFFIR
Are we still living in a society such as this? Where we are still calling each other names?
TheQuestionInstitute ?
Madonna, a Mokopane - Limpopo South Africa based visual artist who specializes in graffiti, painting and other visual mediums.
The journey to recovery is a self-initiated project/campaign of all the things and work that I have done and still do. It's a project where I go back to where I started.
Sometimes in order to move forward, you need to look back to where you started in order for you to move forward and develop as an artist.
The collection of work spans just over a decade and serves as a visual reminder of the work that I have done.
Jabu Ndlovu....
PAST.PRESENT.FUTURE.
Blog: http://justplayingitnaturally.blogspot.com
What I say is this: let the spirit direct your lives and you will not satisfy the desiresof the human nature. What is opposed to what the spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants.
These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do. If the spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the law. What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy and indecent action, in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight, they become jealous, angry and ambitious.
They separate into parties and groups, they are envious, they get drunk, they have orgies and do other things as such. I warn you now as I have before, those who do these things will not possess the kingdom of God.
HUMAN NATURE
THESPIRITAND
But the spirit produces love. joy, peace, pa t i e nce , k i ndness , goodness , faithfulness, humanity and self control. There is no law against such things as these and those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and must not be jealous of one another.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you, (be honest anyway). What you spend years building, people may destroy it overnight, (build it anyway). If you find happiness, people may be jealous, (be happy anyway). The good you do today someone will often forget, (do good anyway).
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your Creator, it was never between you and them.
FEAR GODLOVE GODWITH ALL YOUR HEART.
Pheladi Lekganyane is a emerging writer......
whose topics/subjects
include spirituality amongst others.