Mandy J Watson
Mandy is a freelance journalist and copy editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. She specialises in technology journalism, which includes monthly gadget and technology pages for Cosmo South Africa and Hip2B2.
In her spare time she used to go to the movies quite often but now that most people have forgotten how to make good films she has taken her disappointment elsewhere and now (semi) regularly goes to the theatre, where she can mentally analyse performances on the fly, complete with occasional running commentary in her head, and marvel at magnificent lighting design. Her favourite thing to do is dream, preferably while asleep, but daydreams will also suffice. Recently she has taken to checking things off The (life) List, not due to any sense of foreboding but rather because she has realised she's running out of time to do all the things she keeps daydreaming about...which may be a sense of foreboding after all.
City: Cape Town, South Africa
Email: mandyw at (this domain)
Areas Of Expertise: Film & TV, Technology
Web Site: Mandy J Watson | Digital Portfolio
It's a little out of date because a new site is on its way. At some point...
Blog: Cape Town > South Africa > Africa > Earth
Complete insanity and randomnity primarily focussed on Cape Town (and the deluge of bizarre experiences that I constantly seem to have in the city).
Flickr: Photos from Mandy J Watson
A portfolio, of sorts. I say that because many of my best photos are not there.
Twitter: Updates from Mandy J Watson
When blogging fails me while on the road I have resolved to impart randomnity here. (I refuse to say "tweet". I mean, seriously? No!)
YouTube: Videos from brainwavezwatman
Miscellaneous uploads for the blog and other things.
Zoopy: Photos and videos from watman
Photo-upload experiments and example shots taken with test gadgets (ie work), as well as video uploads for various sites.
Features
An Interview With Tim Richman, South African Co-Author Of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Kak?
Now that we're over this year's Valentine's euphoria (you know, the five of you that were actually experiencing it) and sugar highs from Easter chocolate, it's back to the business of cynicism. Although most of us at brainwavez.org are skilled practitioners of the art, we're not the only masters. Recently Two Dogs published
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Kak? The Whinger's Guide To South Africa From AA To JZ. We spoke to co-author Tim Richman about aspects of the South African experience that unite us all in a way that even Nelson Mandela couldn't.
Category: Books > Features |
Posted: 11 April 2008
Chicago - The Musical At Artscape In Cape Town, South Africa
Murder! Treachery! Deceit! Lies! Thrills! Although that's technically all in a day's work for some of South Africa's parliamentary ministers and their associates, in this case we're talking about
Chicago - The Musical, which has returned to Cape Town and is at Artscape until 13 April. You still have two weeks, so if you missed it in 2005 you have no excuse now.
Category: Culture > Theatre |
Posted: 28 March 2008
Skydive Cape Town
If the weather's good but you've run out of things to do in Cape Town (though hard to imagine, one presumes that could be possible) why not jump out a plane? Experience our attempt at defying gravity, strapped to the crotch of a complete stranger, at 9000 feet.
Category: Travel > South Africa > Western Cape > Activities |
Posted: 31 January 2008
An Interview With Kerry Rogers, South African Author Of Women's Bodies: A User's Manual
To acknowledge Valentine's Day we thought we'd skip all the boring mushy stuff and head straight for the sex, and what better way than with a manual designed to answer all your pressing questions? We recently sat down with Kerry Rogers, author of
Women's Bodies: A User's Manual, and asked pressing questions about her new-found career as a sex-manual writer.
Please note: the content in this article is not suitable for minors.
Category: Books |
Posted: 14 February 2007
Art Decko 2: A South African Exhibition Of Skateboard Decks
Take some blank skateboard decks, invite a few South African artists to create artworks out of them, repeat for the second year and you have the exhibition Art Decko 2, which has been touring the major centres in South Africa and is now in Durban until next Friday.
Category: Culture > Exhibitions |
Posted: 12 December 2006
Bodies...The Exhibition: An Exhibition At The Earls Court Exhibition Centre In London, England
One might consider paying GBP17.50 to have a close-up look at preserved cadavers slightly macabre (and expensive), especially while on vacation, but I did it anyway. You can, too, until the end of the month.
Category: Culture > Exhibitions |
Posted: 25 August 2006
Star Wars L'Expo: An Exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, France
If you're in Paris at the moment you owe it to yourself to visit the Star Wars exhibition being held at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in the 19e. Whether you're a fan of science, science fiction, or movie making, there is sure to be something in this exhibition for you.
Category: Culture > Exhibitions |
Posted: 22 August 2006
Missy Higgins Live At The Independent Armchair Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, 7 July 2006
Missy Higgins in Cape Town! Oh my! Here are most of the important adjectives from the article: enigmatic, quirky, odd, endearing, charming, powerful, and infectious. However, you should probably read what Mandy J Watson had to say for the context.
Category: Music > Features |
Posted: 12 July 2006
Picasso And Africa: An Exhibition At The Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
The Picasso And Africa exhibition has finally opened at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town after a highly successful six-week run in Johannesburg that drew over 56 000 visitors. Cape Town always has to wait for everything, but at least it was worth it, as Mandy J Watson discovered.
Category: Culture > Exhibitions |
Posted: 20 April 2006
DStv PVR Decoder
Fast forward, rewind, and replay all TV ever in real time. DStv finally debuts a gadget that the rest of the TV-watching world has had for years. Mandy J Watson was invited to the Cape Town launch extravaganza.
Category: Technology |
Posted: 11 November 2005
Reviews
Cappuccino Quest
Obz Café [entry page pending]
Caffè Nero (Oxford Street 1 Branch) [entry page pending]
Knights Table Rotisserie - Knights Kingdom, LEGOLAND Windsor [entry page pending]
CFEA (Centre For The Easily Amused)
Music To Note
CFEA Widget
pookie: Alive since mid 2006 (a miracle!):
Read more about Bunnyhero Labs Adopt A Pet.
(By the way it was a random name I picked because I suck at naming things. I was only much later that I became a huge (as opposed to minor (long story that primarily involves not being in New York))
Rent fan and then began to fear my ability to have my past miraculously reflect my future. Uh...nevermind. Just go read
the pet article.)
