Inherent in the planning and execution of any wedding are various design elements – from the look of the invitations to the plan for the seating arrangement, from the flowers to, perhaps most importantly, the bride’s dress. But when you’re dealing with nuptials of a royal nature, another important design consideration is the line...
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I jumped on a bandwagon recently – by which I mean I bought myself a vintage Polaroid 1000 land camera. It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that Polaroid has undergone something of a renaissance recently. The instant photography company, which formed in 1937, was a worldwide best-seller in its 60s and 70s heyday, but...
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It is acknowledged that Australian Aboriginal culture is heavily spiritual and symbolic, but a growing body of evidence suggests that the indigenous belief system represents a deep knowledge of the sky and the motion of the bodies within it. This knowledge was used not just as components in ceremonial events and stories, but for...
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Who would have thought fruit was so hardy? Certainly not me when I decided to undertake a time lapse experiment, documenting the decomposition of a pair of apples. I set up my plate of apples and my tripod in March 2010, and while I didn’t have a time-frame in mind, I did not expect...
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Jonathan Safran Foer is an author whose creativity extends beyond the stringing together of words. The man behind ‘Everything Is Illuminated’ had an idea for a tome that was more abstract than the typical novel – a sculptural object and a story cut into and out of an existing text. In a process he...
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London indie foursome Stricken City announced recently that they were bowing out, with the swansong album ‘Losing Colour’. The band has issued a video to accompany the title single, and frankly, we think it’s quite special. The song itself is… okay. But the video – telling the tale of daily mundanity through the repeated...
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Last year saw a musical Christmas miracle in the form of an organic, grass-roots movement that toppled the multi-million-pound star-making machine of X Factor with an anti-establishment anthem that declared “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”. For four consecutive years Simon Cowell’s progeny had taken the coveted Christmas number one slot....
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When 23-year-old art graduate Robert King decided he wanted to become a front-line war photographer, he admits that he was naive. “I had ideals to be a messenger of the world,” he says, “to spread a message of human suffering.” But upon arriving in war-torn Sarajevo in 1993, the reality of his ideal, and...
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England and France declared war on Germany on September 3rd, 1939. My uncle John was 19-years-old, a Spitfire pilot in 74 Squadron, stationed at Hornchurch, on the eastern outskirts of London. John saw his first real action on September 6th, when he was scrambled at 7am to intercept an approaching enemy formation. Within moments,...
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Picture by Amy Freeborn
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