In September 2011, controversy surrounded Jermaine Jackson. A misquoted portion of his memoir had sparked outrage. A planned tribute concert in Cardiff had …
In 1920 two chaps called Charles Sheeler (an artist/photographer from Philly) and Paul Strand (a filmaker from New York) made this film, which apparently took inspiration from Walt Whitman’s lifelong work The Leaves of Grass. The track comes from The Cinematic Orchestra …
Fortnight Journal is a fantastic project that’s picked up steam this year and looks set to keep impressing with its array of talented contributors. Taking precocious ‘millennial generation’ individuals and showcasing their work and funneling them through 14 different discipline areas, Fortnight is a verifiable attempt to skip the top-down patronage of specialist hierarchy and invest instead in provocative, cross-germinated ideas from the first generation to not know what life is like without internet: ‘as social media helps topple autocracies around the world, our millennial contributors collaborate across borders. Only on Fortnight will a young Venetian video artist be set aside a young Vietnamese-American …
As a good friend of mine once said: ‘the hills are alive with the sound of basslines’.
With no clearer example than this year’s 84th Academy Awards to demonstrate the old guards’ resistance to reflecting the choices of all viewers, millions watched as the Oscars gave a cosmetic nod to – but ultimately ignored – the enormous success of the so-called young adult (YA) franchises. In the same year that the Oscars lost its old partner Kodak, …
Buzzfeed recently featured some rather disappointing facts relating to music sales. We felt inspired to showcase some more gossip-worthy tattle, so here goes. The histories of Rock and Dance, at your fingertips. …
