Category: culture
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Wookieepedia
Yes, the subject of the largest Wiki on Wikia is Star Wars. I feel a strange disturbance in the force…
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Desperate Husbands
My name is Neil Perkin and I’m a Desperate Housewives fan. Yes I know. I should be watching Match of the Day or something. And I have to admit that I debated in my head for a while before deciding to post
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Tony Wilson
Every now and then we all have flashbulb memories – the kind of memory laid down in photographic detail during a personally significant event. Like most people, my own flashbulb memories mostly relate to shocking events of international importance. But there are
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Erm…
I should like to point out that I have never read/rated anything by Izaskun Arretxe. Nor am I particularly interested in primary school poetry from the West Midlands (doubtless good as it is). Although I was intrigued enough by the name to
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Art 2.0
This, I think, is a great use of Flickr. Tate Britain has launched an initiative to extend their How We Are photography project (a look at the ‘journey of British Photography’) into something called How We Are Now (a contemporary look at
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Learning to Love Uncertainty
We live in a world that loves certainty. We strive for it, value it, claim we have it when often we don’t. Some theorists used to believe that the foundations of fact and objectivity on which science appear to be based meant
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In the Woods
Short and charming animated film which uses rotoscoping – a technique in which an animator has traced over live-action film movement, frame by frame.
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Creativity and Self-Doubt
This is wonderful. Ira Glass, award winning American journalist and broadcaster talking about creativity. I love the bit where he’s ripping apart one of his early broadcasts… Via
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Cityscapes
There are perks to working near to the Tate Modern. It's currently featuring a wonderful exhibition called Global Cities, exploring the changing faces of ten dynamic cities (Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo) through
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Art on the roof
To highlight his new exhibition at the Hayward, Antony Gormley, the artist behind the Angel of the North and the hundreds of lifesize figures on Crosby beach (like those above) has positioned 31 lifesize, naked sculptures of himself on vantage points including