I AM SAM
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Anyone remember Sam Allerton? He is an artist and a muso. He graduated 
with the likes of Ed Young, Cameron Platter and Daniel Halter a few years ago. He has just been selected for the new season of Survivor on MNET.Just goes to show: If you can't survive the art world then maybe try something easier.
“Creative, impulsive and passionate,” Sam received a medal for bravery after saving a man from drowning. Resident in Hogsback, he's a sculptor and Men's Health Look winner for 2006.
What you should know about him:
Sam won the Men's Health Look in 2005 and also received a medal for bravery when he saved a man from drowning in the ocean. He has a baby girl.
Describes himself as:
Creative, impulsive and passionate.
Worst qualities:
His impulsiveness and artistic temperament.
What would you want to take to the island?
‘Pillow or sketch-book and pen.'
Why will you win Survivor?
“I have no idea if I will, everything might be turned on its head. If i did, it would be because I played my hardest, not because I played a deceitful game…”
Why did you enter Survivor?
‘I thought it was me - physical, outdoors, out in nature - you'd never be there, finances permitting, being a sculptor. How bitchy and conniving are the others going to be? I hope we have a good time - I'd rather be there two or three days and have a good time than be there 30 and it's horrible and uncomfortable.'
What did you think would make your entry unique?
‘They saw I was type A, physical, who wants to do this, and was up to the challenge. I'm also sporty, and winning the Men's Health Look of 2006 put me in the running.'
What would you do if someone took a romantic interest in you?
‘It would be hard. Like most males, you're so starved for attention - your wife could love you 110% but anyone shows you extra attention and you feel great. It's our downfall; it's our Achilles heel.'
What was the most difficult thing about accepting the challenge to be a Survivor?
‘After all the excitement and wonder and ego boost, it settles in quite quickly that you're putting yourself on the line.'
Good luck Sam!!!!
posted by Ed Young at 3:36 PM
14 Comments:
he seems very nice, a less ugly more intelligent version of Ed Young
also more talented and not a dutchman
he has to be more talented, he doesn't have the broederbond supporting him
Ed is an Afrikaner? What's his original family name, van der merwe?
koekemoer
nice tits
you correct anonymous (are you all the same person) the trubble wif this country is that the volk (rich ugly Ed to you above) haf stopped playing rukby and are all 'artists'/property developers. Hence deplorable state of art, golf-estates and springbokke.
Oh sam...sam sam the gorilla man. the man who ate the epple of temptation etc. etc. well.. ed once sung a love song (believe it for it is true) with Sam playing cello in the background!! They were in 3rd year. I have a recorded copy of it. Will sell to highest bidder...
Ed has the Broederbond backing him? I thought Andrew was a freemason. I guess that explains his dutchman surname.
Is that thing he is holding huge or what
Not knowing anything about Art Heat, it seems to me that you all have a thing about Ed Young. Why exactly does a posting about Sam turn into one about Ed? In fact why are there so many Ed comments on this site? Are you all obsessed? I guess thats small town envy for you, hey? Or the sign of an inward looking incenstuous Art World? There surely are so many more things to talk about?
Dont diss ed you fuckface... I vote Ed for surviver... all that shit that sam says about being physical etc etc. Ed would beat him in an arm wrestle any day! Good thing we can test it on Johan's upcoming public sculpture! Please can Art Heat start taking bets on this matchup!
Generally Cape Towns's public sculpture is about as uninteresting as arm-wrestling, so I guess they got it about right.
By the way , is it not almost the moment to start agitating for one of the two memorials to Jan Smuts to be put to other use? I vote for the Mitford Barberton piece at the top of Adderley Street . For a small expenditure it would effortlessly transform into a statue of Thabo Mbeki.
Of recent public work only Brett's Pimple Pole really cheers my walk-by.
Brett Kebble's Pimple Pole?
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