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Becoming an artisan cheesemaker was a choice, and a dream. It wasn’t a line of work bestowed upon me by being a part of a dairying family. In October of 2008, my girlfriend at the time convinced me (which admittedly wasn’t that difficult), that we should leave our office jobs in the Bay Area of...
British Fashion; born, bred and brought up British but our clothes tell a different story. The effect on British factories and cloth manufacturers is phenomenal; why do we as nationalists and members of the Queen’s land not want to see purely British clothes on catwalk and the high street. Over 90% of manufacturing and materials...
Lawnfest is a boutique, family-friendly festival which will be held in Sevenoaks, Kent on the 30th June 2012. You can tell it’s a bit special when you hear it features a farmers’ market and vintage afternoon teas. There’s also a food shed with an assortment of organic foods prepared by top international chef Nicole Walshaw. Amongst...
beauty is the rain falling on puddles making perfect circles at our feet timid is the mouse hiding in the kitchen whiskers twitching in the shadows soft is the dog sleeping on a cushion a patch of darkness on the bright cloth of day and happy are the children playing in...
With summer soon approaching, there is a plethora of trends to try your hand at. Amongst the usual suspects of nautical, pastels and romance, there are also the micro-trends. The small crazes that crop up soon to be labelled as a fad, or something we should have tried much sooner. For every peter pan collar,...
Ever since the Autumn, I’ve been seeing this man. It started on a really cold morning at 5.55am. He was waiting for the same tube as I; he got off at the same stop, changed tubes, and then got off again at the same stop as me. I would always see him every time I got...
Woman’s liberation and feminist movements have done a lot for woman’s rights, thus addressing the power imbalance between men and women. However there is at least one area, which in my opinion, still encapsulates the great power vacuum between men and women, and that is in the bedroom. What about the pill, contraception, the social...
After reading an article about George Clooney as an artist-activist, I should refer to The Monuments Men, the next film to be directed by him and released in 2013. The Monuments Men was a group of specialists who, during WW II, risked everything to save works of art from Nazi plunder. Robert M. Edsel has...
photo credit: Chokz Indonesia is a country a little off the beaten track, except of course the island of Bali. However this large and sprawling nation has many aspects and Java, the most populous island right next door to Bali, is really somewhere to explore. Coming from Bali it’s a short ferry ride to the...
Abdulnasser Gharem was one of the pioneers of what is recognized today as the contemporary art movement in Saudi Arabia. He was among the handful who, back in 2004, in a small hilly town called Abha, wrought up the vision that has slowly and irrevocably materialized in the Kingdom today as the dawn of a...
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism as Tool and Art in the Chinese Context[1] The invention of photography as the first possibility of the ‘fixation of shadows’ falls into the year 1839 and soon spread from Europe to the rest of the world. In China people were also engaged in photography, but – as in the rest...
After a Thousand and One Nights reading sleeping a couple leave the house Sparrows swarm the alley with their twitter up to the bus stop by the tree – swarmed by tweet in tweet On the cheek spot on a beauty spot the man lands a kiss To hide a show of...
Martha Haversham is an English artist and writer. She has just published an ebook entitled Haversham in your Head. What is your name? Martha Haversham Where do you live? Wivenhoe What is your website address? www.marthahaversham.com What is your latest book? Haversham in Your Head Where can we get it? Amazon How long have you...
Free Reel Romania is a non-profit project proposed by Free Reel Mobile Cinema, an initiative of Cinephilia Services Ltd. The project will carry out a series of free film screenings and filmmaking workshops in rural communities across Romania that have little or no access to cultural activities throughout June and July 2012. Romania is currently...
I am a dog A wet dog in the inclement night. I am a crow A black crow in the purple storm. I am a cat A grey cat invisible in the hungry shadows. Rate this post by clicking on the stars
The April edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session had a poet whose work captured, not just personal, but some of the far-reaching effects, on ordinary people, of the challenges that confront the nation, TUNJI AJIBADE writes. “I planned to read the poem, and I had thought that maybe it would make some in the audience cry.” That...
9 February – 27 May 2012 It’s rare to leave an exhibition feeling totally exhausted, but this one requires so much concentration that I was definitely exhilarated and exhausted! Lucian Freud went in and out of fashion but stayed true to his own vision as a realist painter, starting out in the 1960s when it was...
Sport in Art after History in Art, the second exhibition in the series which shows how artists see the issues that matter in people’s everyday lives. Sport performs a terrific therapeutic role, relieving us of layers of animal aggression. Mankind has hit on a great idea: how to fight and triumph, without causing any real...
Tempest And all the world is threatening. Thunderstorm. Black Clouds of imperfection Loom immanent. Imminent, like the Angel Of Death, himself. Killing, your foetal rhymes Dead, before they’re even born. Giovanna Lucarelli is a soon-to-be-graduate of an English Literature and American Studies degree from the University of Birmingham. She’s a culture vulture, writer, dreamer, foodie;...
It is wonderful to discover unique poetry projects that combine a variety of elements. During the course of my Masters research I came across several such books, including Cynthia Hogue’s book of interview poems on Hurricane Katrina When the Water Came, and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, both of which combine unusual poetry...
‘Almost’ all Aboard! (Scene opens on an airport check in [or economically friendly version of an airport] People are queued up to be checked before going onto to the plane) Airport worker: Could you come forward please? (checks man with metal detector, it beeps) Excuse me sir, but are you wearing any metal...
Don’t believe the hype By Catherine Sawers I was half-way through an endless telephone call when it dawned on me: ‘My God, she’s reading from the script!’ Is there some chat room they all belong to? Then she asked me: was I was comfortable forwarding calls, as well as answering calls and jotting...
Pay day came and went and it was the same old story; bills and expenses, accounts, budgets and the inevitable austerity forecast is enough to rain on anyone’s parade! Which is why when Converse announced a free, fashionable and funky party in conjunction with JD Sports – with the likes of Wiley, Skepta and...
The name Roger Corman is synonymous with the type of hack, horror sci-fi B movies one could only previously associate with William Castle. Corman has produced and directed over 450 movies and is still working today, manufacturing such demented but vibrant dross like Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader, Sharkoctopus and Camel Spiders. His current work...
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