Following yesterday’s release of their annual Top 10 Photographs of the Year, TIME magazine has now also dropped a “2012: A Year of Deja Vu” gallery. In it, they have assembled a host of paired up images, each taken roughly a year apart, to reveal some uncanny similarities between them.
Did you know that 10% of all of the photographs made in the entire history of photography were taken last year? More than ever before, thanks in part to cell phone technology, the world is engaged with photography and communicating through pictures.
For five years now, Tropika’s been sending a handful of local celebrities and consumers to an island paradise to compete against each other for a million bucks. They call this the Tropika Island of Treasure and they’ve sent everyone from Joey Rasdien to Tracy McGregor to take part in challenges on white beaches and in […]
On the back (ha) of one of the most talked about trilogies in recent times, The Official Fifty Shades of Grey Sex Toy Range, approved (but not necessarily tested) by E L James herself is available in South Africa.
Well, I mean, we’ve been telling you this for ages. In a survey conducted during the first week of December 2012 by online research specialists Columinate, it was found that significantly more females stating that they will do all their shopping in physical stores and men being much more likely to do all their shopping […]
Mashable has put together its top five advertising trends of 2012. They say the trends are “mostly about the shifting ways that consumers experience content and how publishers hope to harness those experiences.” So pretty much the same as every other year. Here’s the list:
I was perusing the Engel & Volkers website, and I came across this killer property in Noordhoek. Compared to the Atlantic Seaboard you get a HELLUVA lot more bang for your buck on the other side of the lentil curtain. And I mean EVERYTHING! Please enjoy this beauty..
True Story: I ran into a friend’s mum as I walked out of Whitehouse a month ago. “What are you doing here?” we asked each other at the same time. She said a friend told her about it and she didn’t think anyone else knew. It seemed Tip 213 had gone public..
In a move that is bound to be labelled misogynistic by some, Axe has created an inflatable arm and chest that smells like the Axe fragrance. Called the morning-after pillow, it is designed for guys who aren’t too keen on cuddling with their lady friends the morning after a night spent together.
This is a stunning little spot. And when I say little, I mean 5 bedrooms. Those who know Plett will know that Beachy Head is where it’s at. Click through for more.
2oceansvibe News received 1,73 million unique readers between January 1 and 5 December 2012 – double the previous year for the same period. September to December alone yielded a readership of 547,000 unique readers.
It’s not just Google who are looking to have us all driving around in self-driving cars – Volvo is also gearing up for production and release of their own fleet of self-driving vehicles.
Mzoli Ngcawuzele, founder and owner of Gugulethu hospitality institution, Mzoli’s will be on The Bob Skinstad Show on 2oceansvibe Radio at 15h15 this afternoon. Mzoli and Bob will have a frank chat on entrepreneurship in Cape Town, and opportunities available to creative, energetic local business people. Don’t miss what is sure to be a fascinating […]
As it stands, there is a good chance that 1time Airline might be flying by Christmas. Not under that name, but it would still be better than nothing.
Shhhh! This video will self-destruct within zero-zero-seven seconds of viewing. One of our agents caught this top secret footage at this weekend’s South African release of Skyfall, the latest film in the Bond series.
BizCommunity reports that it has learnt from reliable sources that Media 24’s SA Sports Illustrated is to fold. SASI has served as the premier South African sports magazine for decades. The magazine’s profile on Media 24’s website reads as follows: Sports Illustrated is the most successful and enduring multi-sport magazine in South Africa’s publishing history. […]
One of 2oceansvibe’s favourite South Africans and former guest, Koos Bekker, conducted an interview with Summit TV and featured on BDlive. Click through to see what Koos has to say about newspapers, digital media, Naspers, their operations in China, and acquisitions.
Arguably the most disgraceful estate agent that has ever operated in South Africa, Wendy Machanik, has finally spoken publicly about her actions, and taken full responsibility for her public and humiliating downfall.
Forex trading is a way to earn money. Enough money to live the holiday, ergo, not work. What kind of things might you like to do in your free, moneyed leisure time? You could: Buy a motorsports team Challenge children to high stakes games of putt-putt on the Promenade Go for a lunchtime surf with other retired millionaires […]
The Supreme Court of Appeal has just stated that the South African government acted unlawfully when it delayed a decision on a visa application by the Dalai Lama. Do you remember the saga about the fact that the Dalai Lama couldn’t come to South Africa to celebrate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday in October […]
An eNCA newsreader, Andrew Barnes, was verbally abused at Virgin Active Green Point on Tuesday morning. This after a fellow gym member took offense after seeing Barnes and his boyfriend kiss each other.
You can make big cash from a property like this. Apart from the prestige of having your own wine farm, this chunk of earth sports 10 luxury suites, conference facilities, wedding venue etc. You’ll be rolling in it… Check out these killer pics..
Angus T. Jones, the actor who portrays Jake Harper on Two and a Half Men, has had a pretty crazy week. First he appeared in an online video, urging fellow Christians to not watch Two and a Half Men anymore because it is “filth”. Jones then backtracked the next day, saying he is sorry, and revealed that he will be appearing in the next season of the show, because “God kinda pushed me into it.”
As part of a highly successful campaign that launched in Cape Town’s City Bowl in July last year, Gugulethu has begun its own interactive, public campaign to unearth creative and significant new street and neighbourhood names for itself.
Global press agency AFP have released their selection of 2012’s best pictures. There are 99 in total, and together they capture every major news story of the year so far – from Mo Farah’s win at the Olympics, to police officers surrounding the bodies of the Marikana miners they shot just moments earlier.
Just as they did with that AXE for men commercial, the SABC has banned another TV ad, only drawing more attention to it in the first place. This time it’s a fish and chips ad, and wait ’til you hear the reasons they gave for the banning…
Yesterday we reported on Two and a Half Men actor, Angus. T. Jones, who, after converting to Christianity, told viewers to stop watching the show. He also went so far as to call Two and a Half Men “filth”.
If there is a multi-millionaire or A-lister out there who still hasn’t secured a home in Cape Town for the season, Camps Bay’s most famous mansion is still available for a minimum of two weeks over New Year. Click through to see what the price is..
Australia has decided that search results that Google publishes amount to content that the company “publishes”, and is therefore responsible for.
South Africa’s most, err, stared-at-with-a-raised-eyebrow celebrity Nonhle Thema co-stars in the latest Nando’s TV commercial; the chicken takes the leading role, of course.