Obrigado

A NEW DECADE HAS DAWNED - AND WE’VE DECIDED TO CELEBRATE IT WITH A SELECTION OF DELICIOUS PIN-UPS. TIME TO DIVE INTO DREAMBOATS.

Happy holidays

2009. Done, and ever so slightly done in. Feeling it too? In need of a bit of a pick me up? Or how about a pin up? The power of the poster has long been employed to escape the grind. Take your pick, from the Pope to Patricia Lewis, Vin Diesel to a growling GT40, we can all use a bit of inspiration – whether you carry yours around in your pocket, adorn your walls or desktop, or even if you’re a bit of a purist and stick to to the inside of your locker door. We’ve gone traditionalist, snapping a few pics and putting together a calendar (complete with holes and holidays) to help you through 2010. Pick up a copy at vida or Look & Listen – enjoy.
– Georgia

In the latest issue

Behind the scenes: the pin ups issue
Strike a pose

Fading paper pin-ups are a thing of the past, writes Chris Roper, replaced by and endless parade of wallpapers and desktops. Should we mourn them, or embrace their digital successors? Frame it.
Well formed function

Can great design improve your life? Take a look at the savvy styling and gorgeous lines of our top 10 product design pin-ups and you’ll see why we think it does.

Careful not to drool

Pos(t)ers

At Rocking the Daisies, the hills of Darling were alive with more than just the sound of music - these are a few of our favourites.
Doe, Ray and Mia
Musical icons

We tangle with Shakira’s she-wolf, flirt with Farryl’s fruit bat, and lose ourselves in the Parlotone’s Stardust Galaxies.
This ‘aint no sheet music
Calendar pin-ups

We’ve rounded up some boys and girls to punctuate your year (and your walls) with some poster-look sparkle.
Ogling permitted
Year book: class of generation y

Congratulations, celebrations, conflagrations, exhumations, and impending franchise cancellations – it’s the graduating class of generation Y!

Flip through the yearbook
Hollywood hotties

We’ve been decorating our walls with pictures since the long, boring winters of the last ice age, but the classic pin-up only dates back to the birth of Hollywood.

Gentlemen prefer hotties
Ready, steady, draw (win coffee, cash and fame)

Want to paint (draw, paste, render – whatever takes your fancy) yourself famous? Enter our illustration competition – the best entry gets into the next edition of the mag, and we put the rest onto the magical interweb.
Click here to enter (and check out the competition).

And win some more...

Star crossed
Figure out who’s who in our pin-up zoo and you could win R500 of coffee credit.
It’s poster quality
Coffee for clips (or pics)

Express yourself. Send us your wild and wonderful photos or videos and (if we publish them) we’ll give you lots of fabulous free vida coffee. Or just take a look at what other people have sent in. Simple.
Expressions for espresso.
We’re giving away five cases of Barista pinotage from Val de Vie Wines.

Enjoy the bouquet.
Win one of 15 Pairs of green and gold Havaianas slip slops. Support our team and your feet with these butter-soft rubber sandals.

Slip into these slops
Win a package from Webtickets that includes a go Cape Town tour, a Kirstenbosch concert and the Wacky Wine Weekend.

Ohhh - look at that view.
The Nixon Nomadic headphones: with 40mm dynamic driver, ball-and-socket design, memory foam cushions and over-the-ear design, this headgear is ahead of the pack.

Listen here.
Win on of 10 x R250 Old Khaki gift vouchers. Who says giving is its own reward? We reckon it’s pretty OK to receive too.

Mmm…comfy
When comfort meets fashion, it’s a beautiful thing. Levi’s Dunk sneakers are built on advanced Comfort Line technology for maximum durability. We’ve got 10 pairs of the 501 of footwear to give away.

Slam dunk
Win R15 000 worth of gaming gear from EA, including a Sports Active Wii Consol and 19 games (Wii, PS3, Xbox, DC and PC).

Ready, set, go!
Hey Mr DJ, think you’ve got what it takes to be king of the decks? We’ve got a DJ Hero deck and game to give away.

Wiki, wiki.
Win a pair of Ray-Ban sun glasses. Hey Top Gun – we’ve got three pairs of these classic Aviators to pass on courtesy of Sunglass Hut.

Looking cool.

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Events

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Hit Me with Music 2010

Hosted by:	Hit me with Music 2010
When:	February 6th from 9pm
Where:	Main Street Life, 282 fox street Johannesburg

Stuff we like

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Celebrity Vinyl: Just because you are famous it does not mean you can sing. And if you do sing, then we will all laugh at you. A lot. Put down the mic.
Going big with bento Check out the ways devoted Japanese parents try to get their little treasures to eat a healthy packed lunch. Nom, nom, nom.
Fantastic Mr Fox: Wes ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ Anderson’s stop-motion version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story is the animated film event of the year.
Two of our favourite things: coffee and red wine. Fancy a smooth red wine redolent with coffee overtures and chocolate aromas? Raise your glasses.
Get loaded. Download the free AMMO (Accessible Mobile Money) application onto your WAP-enabled cellphone, load money onto your account and whip out your cellphone for instant cred.
Get Halo 3: ODST for you and three friends and you can launch grenades at each other all at the same time. Say halo.
Get hip to free wi-fi. Did you know you can get free internet access at any vida store? All you need is a vida loyalty card. Get connected.
Get doodling today. Joint Night of 1000 Drawings in your city and let your creative talents flow for a good cause. Get arty.
MINI turns 50.To celebrate the iconic car’s 50th anniversary in October, MINI unveiled the Coupe Concept. Presents all round! Happy birthday.
Get rid of your jeans for good. Donate your old denims to charity and Levi’s will say obrigado with a gift voucher to put toward a new pair. Instant karma.
Books: Alessandro Boffa’s minor classic is ‘a whirlwind of ironic fables: a series of hilarious metamorphoses like nothing else you’ve read before.’
Rock your world. Guitar Hero 5 will have you shucking two-bit cover versions in disreputable local dives or headlining the Moon. Sex, drugs and rock’n'roll, all in the safety of your own lounge.