The Sharmanator

Here is some more flesh. And my serious side…

What? You haven’t bought your copy yet? Get your lazy ass off to the Engen garage at your lunch break. You won’t be disappointed. You’ll get at least a half a lazy. Guaranteed.

Mwah

Ya, look, working in digital ain’t always glamourous – sometimes you have to fly down to Yo Mamma City on the red-eye flight and escort 6 *dancers around town – most of whom have shaken a tail feather or two for the Bulls, IPL, or a ludicrously wealthy Saudi sheik.

With just under a week to go until you find out whether or not you have made it to the #5GumExperience and exactly two weeks until Two Door Cinema Club tears it up in an undisclosed location in Joziwood, we wanted to spread some TDCC love through the streets and offices of CT…

*This was shot off the guyPhone so the dancers appear to be oversized midgets at times, but keep an eye out for the stills for their true beauty – sorry ladies!

Best you shake your tail feather over to the 5 Gum SA fanpage over here, lest you miss out on arguably the best gig of the year. JHB – March 2 ; CPT – March 3.

Head for the hills, nekkid. It’s weekend time my pretties!

Fortunately Retroviral has been growing nicely and keeping my unborn children fed. As a result, we have been on the hunt for some tuh-lent!

We’ve received the usual stuff – PDFs, PPTs, headshots of individuals who are currently working at funeral parlours, but then this lil gem found its way to me…

Diagramatic representation of a 'gem'

The above is part of a greater whole. A site that has been created to demonstrate why she wants to work with us and her thoughts on convincing us to #WeWantKirsty, too.

Read the full site here. We are interviewing Kirsty on Friday, not only because she has an awesome surname (changed legally, in order to position her favourably in the minds of management), but because of the lengths that she has gone to to rally the twittersphere behind her cause. Check out the #WeWantKirsty tweets for more of the buzz she’s created.

It’s shit like this that excites me to go to work in the morning.

#WhyWeDoDigital

We’ve seen some special parodies of Rebecca Black, especially with Braai Day here. Now, in time for Valentine’s Day, another group of South African artistes – The Rooftop Team – enters the fray with Naai Day.

I like. Sexy time! Enjoy your weekend pumpkins

Thanks Lawson!

This is the official teaser of Alexander Wang’s Spring 2012 collection, starring Yo-Landi and Ninja

Hang out with your Alexander Wang out, is what I always say.

Jozifest is next week, so to get you loose and in the mood, there’s a lil pre party going down tonight-ah!

But, that’s not all, I’m giving you the chance to win tickets to tonight’s gig. Tweet me @mikesharman your best pic of #Jozi and three of you will win double tickets (2) to Town Hall this very evening. And. GO!

Not in the sexual kinda way. We all know Ellen is a rainbow flag waving lezzer, and proud of it. I’m even more proud of her because she gets to touch Portia de Rossi, inappropriately – highest five!

Anyhoo, a few months ago, Ellen flew 8 year old Sophia Grace across the pond to her studios after discovering her gangsta rap magic and Nicki Minaj, Super Bass impersonations of awesomeness on YouTube. Sophia was introduced to Nicki, and proceeded to lose her tweenage mind.You will die of ‘awwww’ when you watch the below.

Local musicians, Lonehill Estate, have used Sophia Grace as their muse to create some magic that will surely catch Ellen’s Jap eye. Although hairy-chested, grown men in pink tutus, is more likely to get the guys added to a paedo registry than the Ellen guestlist, I’m hoping Ellen Degeneres Google Alerts herself and stumbles upon these crah-crah, fun dudes, who don’t need a pale blonde with a bad  bowl fringe, eating human hearts to increase viewership of their YouTube channel

Good times. Look out for the boychays in next month’s Marie Claire Naked Issue. It’s gonna be like seeing 3 babies’ arms holding an apple, each. I warned you

Oh my shattered nerves. VW makes an ad with dogs barking the Imperial Death March, while dressed as Star Wars characters

Geeks around the world climax, simultaneously

Sure, I’m getting ahead of myself here, and without sounding like a douche – we had an incredible year in 2011. Retroviral has managed to do some EpicFierce things online before even turning 2. I feel like a proud father. Jay-Z made a song about Blue Ivy, we made a video about our baby.

We put every inch of our guts into the work we did for our clients and below is why we do what we do, why I have been incredibly scarce socially over the past 18 months, and #WhyWeDoDigital

Big up to Fausto Becatti from Picture Tree for being our director on this one

Welcome back gang,

As you can see, we’ve shaken things up a bit here. Shit got real last year and the juggernaut of awesomeness will continue to roll through 2012 until the four horsemen of the Mayan apocalypse rapture us all. I’ll be back online officially from next week, but in the meantime, below is some sock-rocking Chili-ness to motivate those of you keeping the economy afloat. (Thanks Nash)

#ROWYCO

Always remember: ‘Life is short. Play Naked!’