TB Of The Sold Or Beyond Dystopian Consumption: Reconnecting History, Culture and Knowledge: Why We Need A New Way Of Writing Now

Featured Image: Sally Rooney’s Normal People published by Faber and Faber A dystopian culture games you and undermines you even before you’ve been born. A maiming that’s a bit like Kwashiokor, starvation you are born with. Above: The Famine sculpture in Dublin. File photograph: Frank Miller It’s all embracing: cradle to cradle, suffocating, crippling, like […]

RE: Worldbuilding – can sci-fi help build a better world?

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Science shows us how the world is built. Can science fiction help us build a better world? Follow @damiengwalter on Twitter The Blue Marble Astronaut Jack Schmitt released the shutter on the 70 millimeter Hasselblad camera at 5:39 AM on 7th December 1972. The Apollo 17 mission to the moon…

Coletivo Preto, Black Collective, a theater group composed of four black actors, is bringing a fresh perspective of black art to stages in Rio de Janeiro

Great Blog, keep up the fantastic work!

Nigeria: Known For Beautiful Fabric: Have A Look at The Wonderful Work Of Flo Awolaja…

The history of Nigerian art, culture and textiles become hidden in industrial trade wars between India and China: wars that have made it impossible for the Nigerian textile industry to grow and develop. Developing a local supply chain as well as supporting artists as cultural ambassadors for gorgeous textiles across the sectors and the world is […]

The Work of Artist Jeannie Clark: The Body Is A Pen And The Water Is Like Ink

Featured image and below: Swimming in The Mind experiments with collagraphs, lithography, sound and water . I first noticed the work of Jeannie Clark (this image, particularly) at the Lady Bay Arts Festival (19th 20th May). A poster of this image was on the door and above an ad for her work. I loved it straight […]

Why Art is Bringing It All Home For More People, More Of The Time

Since the referendum vote we’ve been in a kind of Brexit jigsaw land, as the brilliant British artist of Nigerian heritage, Flo Awolaja realises in her 2016 London exhibition: Making Stories, Telling Tales In a way, across Europe and the world, we’re all waiting for a society that is more representative, brings out more of the best […]

Great Clothes: 44 Abbey Road West Bridgford (And Beautiful Wedding Dresses, Samples…So Gorgeous)

I found a great shop in West Bridgford: Grace Couture. Above: a lovely summer top and two dresses for work or casual wear. Grace Couture is run by Cassie who’s a bridal specialist and also a really amazing independent retailer. Hence the lovely clothes as well as the wedding dresses. Abbey Road in West Bridgford […]

Clothes That Animate Us: Furnishings That Reflect More Than Just Our Aspirations In The World

Above a pair of trousers I think animate and energise your step. I can’t find them though. Answering questions for me is like chasing things I never expect to find. Like these trousers. They were in Shortlist Magazine on a website called fiftyplus…but when I searched they weren’t there. I did spend a bit of […]

When the Revolution Comes? Some Things: New Book by Panya Banjoko: The Importance of The Word: Or The Ground

On Friday 22nd June 2018, the aspirations of Juneteenth became a closer reality. Panya Banjoko pulled a blinder. At Neales Auction House 192-194 Mansfield Road NG1 3BH, not only did she speak her own words and launched a book but she gave a nudge and a nod to the things we’re all missing in everyday life: […]

The General Data Protection Act: An Opportunity For Democracy, News…And Beauty?

Above: data, manufacture and art project Aether Architectural Intelligence: Exploring Space as an Interactive Medium”, where researchers Refik Anadol, Raman Mustafa, Julietta Gil and Farzad Mirshafiei created an immersive interactive environment that combines robotic actuation, formal transformation and real time projection mapping controlled by a sensory input device. Refik Anadol has produced extraordinary imaginings of how it’s […]