Friday night snaps: 2 Years Later (YoursTruly)
- Fave Long Street spot 🙂
- There was a crackling and vibrant atmosphere, as all kinds of interesting people streamed through
- My favourite board of the evening. Sadly I didn’t get the artist’s name
- Some of the other cool boards
Long Street’s super popular lunch-time hotspot, YoursTruly, decided to keep its doors ajar a little while longer on Friday night for an extraordinarily colourful and fun skateboard art exhibition.
Going by the name of 2 Years Later the event saw more than 20 of the Mother City’s designers put their medium of choice to test on… you guessed it… skateboard decks.
Although each of the quaint artworks left me gaping for at least a second or two, there were a few that left me rooted to the spot for a little bit longer.
One of these was the amazing little city carefully cut from skateboard grip and erected on the wooden board (third picture from the top). The other two favourites got in there on cute merits (5th picture from the top). Sadly I forgot to check the artists names!! Bad journalist! I know…
Anyway, the whole atmosphere was electric as throngs of Cape Town’s young creatives moved in and out of the pint-sized little coffee shop – glasses of red wine/bottles of beer and delectable snacks in hand (all ma-freaking-hala!)…
I had a fantastic time… and feel proud of the fact that we ended the evening donating no less than TWO plants to Daniel and his crew… But that’s a story for another day…
9 Comments
Imar
Awesome! Finally we are part of the cool-arty-alt-crowd 🙂
Nadia
YESSSSSS! Hahahaha! Maybe soon we will make it onto Paul Ward’s pics as well!
tanee
nadia! i love this place! im putting it on my to-do-list for when i get back!!
Nadia
Yes! It’s awesome! You will love it – best sandwiches and coffee and very chilled vibe…
Zahra
Hey. Do you mind if I use a few of your pictures on my blog? I will credit you fully.
Zahra
PS. The artist of your favourite board is Monica Meintjies or something.
Nadia
Hi Zahra! Thanks for checking out my blog… Sent you a mail as well. Of course you can use some of my pics, that would be pretty cool actually 🙂
Oh and thanks for the artist’s name! Can check out some of her other work now too…
Lisel
all i can say, is that you certainly sojourn in a seemingly magic world popularly known as the city bowl of cape town! inspiring. provocative. rewarding. fulfilling. surreal. timeless. trendy. and you capture it – in words! let them take flight
Tamara
Hey did anyone notice the real life hommie in picture 2? Nadia? Imar?