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×Petrus Gerhardus van Wyk
Gerhard van Wyk is in the business of providing professional joy through visually stimulating designs. He is adept at creating characters that can communicate a thousand wisdoms and ideas in one glance, usually by incorporating a variety of complex styles of facial hair (mainly because he longs after a beard of his own). In addition, he enjoys riding his bicycle around the inner city of Pretoria while thinking about dogs and how to avoid life-threatening situations involving South African public transport.
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A family is sitting at a roadside table, happily eating hamburgers, outside a bar that is situated next to the highway en route to the ocean. Suddenly, this serene setting is interrupted by a great roaring thunder, sounding like a thousand baboons running in wooden shoes across the tin roofs of a shantytown. As the noise dies down, a character emerges from the dust cloud caused by an iron beast of a motorcycle. He ignores the agitated family completely, choosing to focus on preferred liquid prospects. The bar grows quiet when the biker enters, his handlebar moustaches swaying around like two red squirrel tails hypnotising an enthralled audience. With deep-set, wrinkled, Husky-dog eyes he surveys the shortest route to a much-desired refreshment at the counter. He then smiles, exposing a crooked palisade of brownish-yellow stained teeth, thereafter making his way to the nervously waiting barman with a graceful, leather-clad stride, reminiscent of an oily black mamba with booted legs. As he orders his drink, the Teutonic mullet emerging from under his cowhide bandana rustles in the breeze. By this description, you will now probably have formed in your mind a pretty clear image of what the motorcycling rogue looks like. Forget it. Erase it. Destroy it. Gerhard van Wyk can do better.
Storytelling/ Visual Narrative
As a young boy, Gerhard van Wyk was found running around with a pack of wild dogs in the savage eastern suburbs of Pretoria. When the humans took him, the oldest and wisest of the dogs barked: "My pup, remember who you are!" Then they ran off yelping, chasing a bus. Although the experience of being separated from his original family scarred him deeply, Gerhard survived and grew up listening to fantastical tales told by middle-aged men during Friday afternoon business braais. Here his love for stories and narrative developed and became a passion, culminating in the expression of these tales through visual means. Yet he never forgot the wizened hound's words, and even to this day he can be found in public parks, giving back to the canine community by expertly spinning yarns and sharing quips about his past, always surrounded by an intensely captivated audience; either listening or licking his ears and face.
Visual Conceptualization
Gerhard is in possession of a device that enables the user to convert ideas directly from the mind onto a piece of paper, making it clear and understandable for all to see, thereby eliminating any uncertainty or ambiguity. The device is connected to a person's brain by electrodes that are stuck to both of the temples. An electrical pulse is then generated, entering the user's brain through one of the electrodes, causing a wave of brain activity, which in turn leads to thousands of impulses being stimulated and encouraged to flow through the brain's central nervous system, continually jumping synapses inside all of the brain matter so that not even the tiniest particular of the idea formed in the mind can be missed, after which the neurological current enters the electrode connected to the other temple, and is printed onto a piece of paper by a sophisticated printing device. The idea is now visually tangible and should be served with mint jelly.
Characterisation
A family is sitting at a roadside table, happily eating hamburgers, outside a bar that is situated next to the highway en route to the ocean. Suddenly, this serene setting is interrupted by a great roaring thunder, sounding like a thousand baboons running in wooden shoes across the tin roofs of a shantytown. As the noise dies down, a character emerges from the dust cloud caused by an iron beast of a motorcycle. He ignores the agitated family completely, choosing to focus on preferred liquid prospects. The bar grows quiet when the biker enters, his handlebar moustaches swaying around like two red squirrel tails hypnotising an enthralled audience. With deep-set, wrinkled, Husky-dog eyes he surveys the shortest route to a much-desired refreshment at the counter. He then smiles, exposing a crooked palisade of brownish-yellow stained teeth, thereafter making his way to the nervously waiting barman with a graceful, leather-clad stride, reminiscent of an oily black mamba with booted legs. As he orders his drink, the Teutonic mullet emerging from under his cowhide bandana rustles in the breeze. By this description, you will now probably have formed in your mind a pretty clear image of what the motorcycling rogue looks like. Forget it. Erase it. Destroy it. Gerhard van Wyk can do better.
Storytelling/ Visual Narrative
As a young boy, Gerhard van Wyk was found running around with a pack of wild dogs in the savage eastern suburbs of Pretoria. When the humans took him, the oldest and wisest of the dogs barked: "My pup, remember who you are!" Then they ran off yelping, chasing a bus. Although the experience of being separated from his original family scarred him deeply, Gerhard survived and grew up listening to fantastical tales told by middle-aged men during Friday afternoon business braais. Here his love for stories and narrative developed and became a passion, culminating in the expression of these tales through visual means. Yet he never forgot the wizened hound's words, and even to this day he can be found in public parks, giving back to the canine community by expertly spinning yarns and sharing quips about his past, always surrounded by an intensely captivated audience; either listening or licking his ears and face.
Visual Conceptualization
Gerhard is in possession of a device that enables the user to convert ideas directly from the mind onto a piece of paper, making it clear and understandable for all to see, thereby eliminating any uncertainty or ambiguity. The device is connected to a person's brain by electrodes that are stuck to both of the temples. An electrical pulse is then generated, entering the user's brain through one of the electrodes, causing a wave of brain activity, which in turn leads to thousands of impulses being stimulated and encouraged to flow through the brain's central nervous system, continually jumping synapses inside all of the brain matter so that not even the tiniest particular of the idea formed in the mind can be missed, after which the neurological current enters the electrode connected to the other temple, and is printed onto a piece of paper by a sophisticated printing device. The idea is now visually tangible and should be served with mint jelly.
