MARS ATTACKS! An interview with the spaced out & muli-talented IIndman.
Firstly who is IIndman and who is MARS? @IIndMan #MuthaF*ckinIIndMan is Phenyo Kgaffe, born in Mafikeng South Africa, but please call me Tlhap II’nd Man, in short Tlhap. Well MARS is a media company that focuses on releasing the unrecognized creativity in South Africa through different aspects of mixed media. II’nd Man (2nd Man) is an alter ego that expresses my beastly creativity in a Media Abase Race in Space (MARS)!!! I bet you didn’t notice that (laughs). The name MARS and its abbreviation is self-explanatory when you look at my work.
The love for photography started when I came to own one of those old school film cameras and I started editing using Microsoft Publisher as well as Microsoft Paint, but as soon as I found Photoshop in 2009 I went to another muthaf*ckin level and everyday became a learning experience of my own. I don’t believe in being taught art but learning on your own, this is the thing that really brings my interest to Graphic Designing as I can create anything I put my mind to.
Do you find it hard juggling between these You are a graphic designer, a photographer and skills? you produce and write music. What attracted I really don’t find it hard to juggle through these skills. I’m you to these forms of expression? I’m an introvert, the only way I can express myself is through art. I draw, produce, sing, design and take pictures. With music it was when I saw my aunt Genevieve Kgafe on TV singing with Lekgoa back in 2000, I was like “WHAT?? I want to do that shit!!” I had already started making records on a tape recorder at like 10 but besides that AKILI BLAQ (MM3rd) is the dude who nurtured my music talent as I grew up as a musician and producer with a great influence by Erykah Badu and recently Flying Lotus x Captain Murphy.
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gifted in any type of art, whether it’s producing, singing, graphic design, painting, drawing and crafting.
Which one do you prefer most? (laughs), I really haven’t thought about that, but I guess Graphic design because I have a job almost everyday which just increases my experience but music will always have my heart.