Category: culture
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Terminus
Amazing short film from Trevor Cawood. Click here to view it. Via the excellent RubbishCorp (who has been particularly excellent of late)
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How We Met
Nice little film from Samsung for their G800 phone. More here Thanks to Luca
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Mind The Gap
Apparently it’s supposed to be about racism. Not sure I would’ve known that if I hadn’t read about it but I like it nonetheless. Yesterday I went to see ‘the crack’ in the Tate modern and up close it looks amazing. A giant fissure right across the floor of the great turbine hall. Made by…
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Drains of Canada
I love obscure things like this. Michael Cook is a writer, photographer and 'urban explorer'. Based in Toronto, he journeys into the subterranean civic infrastructure of Canada and posts maps and photographic work on his website 'The Vanishing Point'. Says Michael: "Despite the visions of futurists, the work of our planners and cement-layers thankfully remains…
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The Verve Exclusive
The NME has secured a world exclusive by creating the opportunity to download the first new material from The Verve in a decade. Says Richard Ashcroft: "We all decided that rather than meeting for a cup of coffee or a beer or whatever, we should meet in a studio where we can do what we…
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New Wave, Bossa Nova, David Hepworth and Frank Sinatra
Typical. No posts about music and then 3 come along at once. As well as the NME’s contribution to comms thinking below, here are another couple of music related nuggets combined in one edible portion. First up: Mix classic British post-punk new wave sounds with Brazilian inspired bossa nova and what do you get? A…
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Chuck Close
Heard an interview last night on Radio 4's Front Row with Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (self-portrait right). His story, and his work, are just amazing. He initally became known as a photorealist, painting works with such inconceivable attention to detail it is practically impossible to tell them apart from a photograph. In 1988…
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White Chalk
PJ Harvey is an artist like no other – she has a rare talent and is the very definition of ‘uncompromising’. Her new album, White Chalk, is released this week. It’s described on Amazon as "standing at the intersection between contemporary classical and Victorian American vaudeville" and "sounding like it was recorded a hundred years…
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Forbidden Lego
God I wish I’d had this as a kid. Instead of building crappy cars whose wheels fell off I could have been putting together a ‘high velocity automatic Lego plate dispenser’ or a ‘paper plane launcher’. Or howabout this medieval stylee catapult for seeing if your little sister’s Sylvanian family can fly: From two ex-Lego…
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No Contest
Marcus is a man of rare wit and intelligence but in The Smiths vs Boney M humdinger there really can only be one winner…especially when it comes to sleeve artwork. Vote for The Smiths here