Archive for the ‘profiles’ Category
“Life’s too short to be mediocre”
Written for and published in Altitude Magazine
Reg Lascaris was a chubby child who liked white mice. He is now President of the Africa, Middle East, Mediterranean and Eastern European region of the TBWA global advertising group and creative agency, and the founding partner of TBWA Hunt Lascaris, South Africa. “And I’m less chubby”, he laughs. Read the rest of this entry »
Des and Dawn: A Fairy Tale
Written for and published in Indwe Magazine, March 2007
They were performing together in the back row of the chorus of a production of the Vagabond King at Wits University. “Dawn was a barefoot flower child, in painting smocks with hair down to her waist”, Des remembers, “and Des looked like a Viking and sang folks songs, and had a captivating smile”, adds Dawn. Thus began one of South Africa’s most enduring personal and professional partnerships. Des and Dawn Lindberg are entering their fifth decade together, in an industry known for its personal and professional break-ups. Read the rest of this entry »
Learning Life
“A teacher in Ireland once told me school is not life, life is school,” Brigid begins. With the amount of living she has done I can only conclude that Brigid Deffense must be here to teach the university something. I arrive at her ‘student’ accommodation to the sound of Gilbert and Sullivan, a warm fire and a tri-lingual parrot called Ernie who politely tells me to piss off, while the cat settles on my lap. Brigid disappears into the kitchen while I make myself at home chuckling over a book of Celtic Erotic Art. The pages are empty, and it fulfils its coverpage promise that in Ireland, ‘less is more’. Read the rest of this entry »
Who Is Don Maclennan
Don Maclennan makes me cry. He also farts, burps and shits, or so he assures me. For some reason this makes me want to cry more than ever, but I’m also smiling because listening to this man is like listening to the taste of something you can only smell. How do you write about Don Maclennan? You don’t. You write a bit about what he says or how he looks. His career speaks for itself. And when someone has such a history with words, how do you use yours to try and describe him? Read the rest of this entry »
