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Earlier this year I was asked to assist some students in their final projects at Lausanne art school in Switzerland. One of the students, Gilles had already been involved in the running a magazine for a couple of year...
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Earlier this year I was asked to assist some students in their final projects at Lausanne art school in Switzerland. One of the students, Gilles had already been involved in the running a magazine for a couple of year...
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I don't know if you're a sucker for obscure, slightly up it's arse experimentation in structural / compositional form and language, but I am and I really like this site. When I first saw it was off the back of a ...
THINGS
The Guest List is a magazine / audio CD / CD-ROM based in London and focused on clubs, fashion, film, books and art. Chucky, the editor talked about the project which is now in its third year. I asked her about...
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When I used to read in school history books about religious wars spanning centuries, I could never understand how anyone could care about anything enough to want to get that hurt. Since the last great wars we haven't ...
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Considering I see Underworld more often than I see my Mum, I know precious little about them other than the obvious.A year off after their seminal success with Born Slippy and Second Toughestin the Infants, they are o...
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The world style and gossip press seem obsessed with the stars and starlets of fashion and beauty, looking to them for examples and answers of how to live, how to dress and how to act. Problem is; stars are human and t...
HAPPENING
It has been observed that as the world reaches the end of a century, culture, expecting a new order from the following century, goes beserk. This is no more evident than in the tendency towards opulence and decadence,...
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A British Academy for Film and Television (UK Oscars) representative came over to see us today to talk about their intention to include new media titles in next years awards. Commercial new media awards have larg...
PLACE
In the constant search for new club concepts, developers have approached the London underground with a view to turn disused stations into nightclubs. Safety issues seem to be preventing progress which is a shame becau...
THINGS
Cashmere is incredibly in, as is leather. Prize purchases this month are the transparent Nike socks which make the little tick look like a tattoo on your ankle. Another nice thing I saw was a YakPak bag in the sh...
PLACE
I came across an article this week in Time magazine underlining the heavily stated fact that London is the centre of an exciting creative buzz at present. Unfortunately the very fact that this information appears in t...
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Myra painting by Marcus Harvey, 1995 The Royal Academy of Art opened a somewhat controversial exhibition in a self conscious bid to buy back the vitality it never had. Marcus Harvey's, "Myra," has created the bi...