Richard Scott : 3rd July 2022

Tuesday I popped into my shop in Woodstock and YEAH Angelique was back. She has a small back/rib injury, so she wasn’t to active. However, it was good to have her back and celebrated with coffee and DONUTS from Buns in the Biscuit Mill. We had a competition to see which one was the best, plain Cinnamon, Apricot Jam, Custard, Caramel or Nutella. We all rooted for a different one funny enough. Mine was the famous Apricot Jam as that’s how I remember them. Have you ever tried to eat a Apricot Jam donut without licking your lips? Not possible.

Angelique, Chad and I, staff meeting.

Anyway, with Angelique back the orders started flooding in, from prints to Cappuccino cups. I spent a good part of the day with Chad. I asked him to generate a report/story on Crypto currencies and NFT’s. We called our report Satoshi Nakamoto after the so-called founder of Crypto and Blockchain. Now I am one step closer to understanding it all. Wednesday was studio day and I got some proper art done on the Road Sign Series that I will be launching soon at Hout Bay Gallery. I also got a few Mandy prints done.

Here’s a long story for you:

Carl Smyth whatsapp’d me on Wednesday with a picture of Sasha Martinengo wearing a hand Painted Rose Gold Ana Richard Scott t-shirt. I forgot I actually did that for Sasha.

You won’t believe it but Sasha and I go back to 1997. There was a new company out called iafrica and you could buy this modem thing and connect to a thing called the internet and get messages and talk to people on chat groups.

So, I went and bought one of the black ba-dind-scccccccccrrrrrrr-dong-ba-dum-ba-dum sounding like this as it connected to the iafrica server via your telephone line.

A few months in I discovered that you could also view images and information about companies and see there contact information etc.

I found a site called www.sabc.co.za. It was very basic, but you could click on the radio stations like 5FM and I did.  I also clicked on the morning DJ Tony Blewit and his face and small description appeared.

In the coming weeks I had taught myself HTML and learnt how to make animated gifs. All of this in 1997.

It was also those days when cellphones had first come out and I had one of those BRICK Motorolla phones with the interchangeable aerials. I remember emailing Tony Blewitt and offered to make him his own web page. A few days later, I got a call from the man himself and I actually dropped the BRICK phone when he called. I couldn’t believe it.

Anyway within the space of 2 more weeks I had registered a URL www.online.co.za (no longer exists, I sold it on) and designed my own website and I was in business. I designed Tony Blewitt’s website and called him with his own URL: www.online.co.za/tonyblewitt. He couldn’t believe it and the next morning I heard him announce it on the radio.

Weeks later, Kevin Savage called me up and said he wanted the same. Then Sasha Marteningo, then the radio station KFM website and the Goodhope FM and and and.

Over the next few years all the radio stations took the websites inhouse and the DJ’s had to use the radio station URL not mine. Anyway, I ended up focusing on Sasha Martinengo and Mark Gillman and became good friends with them  both. I still chat to Sasha and Mark in the UK. I no longer do their websites as I was approached my Telkom’s Internet service provided Intekom and offered a job as long as I brought the DJ’s and radio stations with me. Mark Gillman actually went to the job interview with me. LOL.

 

Sasha Martinengo with a one off Richard Scott Rose Gold T-shirt

I finished off Wednesday with a few print orders.

My Red Cape Town Mandy and My Blue Mandy prints

Thursday, I popped into the shop again and caught up with Chad and Angelique. Chad was giving me the Bitcoin to the Dollar every 5 minutes as it went below $20 000. It was fun to see him so excited. After Joanne finished work, she took me to the WOK BAR off Kloof Street for lunch. There was load shedding, again, so we opted for the sushi. They make the best Sushi, according to me. We ordered the Wok Bomb it was incredibly delicious, if you like prawns. Joanne still swears by Willoughby’s in the Waterfront.

The Love of my life doing the love of my life stuff with me

Friday, Joanne worked from home and I got stuck into the studio again. I made us some Boerewors and Green Bean Bredie, if that’s a thing?

Richard Scott style fried bread for the bredie

After supper we went to go see Angelina dancing at the Artscape. It was really awesome to see her dancing amongst the best and at the Artscape of all places. We bumped into David who runs the show at Artscape. David and I got to know each other very well when I exhibited my Desmond Tutu Series of Art there in 2019.

Screen Grab off my phone of Angelina do a small solo piece within the dance

David giving us VIP treatment

Saturday felt like a Sunday because Joanne was at home. It was a proper rainy winter’s day and Joanne cooked us some YUM pea soup and I started to prepare this blog. I also printed some more prints that are off to Johannesburg on Tuesday.

If you dont live in South Africa you will not know that we have whats called LOADSHEDDING and it goes up in stages. Basically the power goes out 3 times a day for 2-4 hrs. Yes that’s about 6hrs a day on average. It came about from the doings of one man bringing the country to its knees for the sake of his own greed. Well South Africa is a beautiful country and we will rise up again. So we cook and get by like cavemen by the fire.

Well in Sunday Lunch time and the chicen has been de-boned and the bones back on the fire in the same pot to make my famous Chicken Stock.

After lunch were off to support Angelina at her stall selling her Rings and Blings jewelry at the Sunningdale market. Then cards on the couch and nice bottle of red wine by the fire.

Till next week.

Richard