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Index: CULTURE Artilce by will challis:
Iron Sky - There are Nazis on the moon... page 4/5 Article by Dan:
The Crying Game page 6
Article by Michael Flynn:
You are a racist! page 7
ART Article by Amy8000:
Toby Paterson Interview page 8
Photos posted by toaster
Brass and Bone page 9
Photos by dasdesign:
Usable by Gabriele Corni page 10/11
FILM Review by thedooleyreview:
Four Lions page 12
Review by Rick Swift:
Ink
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FASHION Article by GLOWINGDOLL:
Black models used a backdrop for Daria page 14
Photos by AliceBastin:
LCF Graduate Collection by Alice Bastin page 15
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Rotting Apples page 16
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Now that the enquiry has finally reached its conclusions the next step is the matter of prosecution, with some advocating that those soldiers who took part in Bloody Sunday should stand trial. This will be difficult; despite Saville’s findings providing enough evidence for a criminal conviction will be difficult after 38 long years. And many of those who were themselves convicted of similar crimes have since been granted amnesty and released under the terms of the Good Friday agreement. That some of those people now hold public office in government institutions in Northern Ireland is testament to just how thorny this scenario could be.
Article by Keith Ruffles / UK Average Rating: 3.8
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Bloody Sunday and the Saville Report After twelve long years and at an estimated cost of £195 million the findings of the Saville report - the most expensive enquiry in British legal history - into the events of Londonderry’s Bloody Sunday has found that all 14 people killed or mortally wounded by the British army on 30th January 1972 were innocent victims. The report was severely critical of the actions of the Parachute Regiment and found that not only had no warning been issued but that they fired on unarmed civilians - some fleeing, some tending to the wounded - without provocation. Prime Minister David Cameron has declared the killings to be “unjustified and unjustifiable”, an unprecedented apology from the leader of a British government and a recognition that on that day the British army acted shamefully. Any fears that Saville would repeat the so-called ‘whitewash’ of the Widgery Tribunal - which largely exhonerated the actions of the army - have been truly laid to rest.
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There is also the issue of just why Bloody Sunday, of all the events in The Troubles, has been afforded so much attention to the exclusion of virtually all the other atrocities that took place. True, Bloody Sunday had a galvanising effect on militant Irish Republicanism and has long taken on mythical proportions in the movement’s ideology. It’s also true that - thanks to Saville - it can be said with certainty that fourteen innocents lost their lives. But other episodes in Northern Ireland’s recent past were certainly just as horrific and with a greater loss of life. Prioritising Bloody Sunday over all these other events these could look even to the casual viewer as displaying a political bias. And then there is the curious question of why those in the militant IRA - who killed more people in the course of the Troubles than the army, RUC, loyalist paramilitaries and even other Republican terror groups put together - should hold their sworn enemies to a higher moral standard than they would themselves. Bombs planted in public places were just as indiscriminate in those they killed as the army was on that cold day in 1972 and yet there is no similar condemnation nor such a large campaign to find the truth. And more soldiers were killed in that conflict than those killed in turn by the army. No wonder there are fears that Saville could inflame resentment among Northern Ireland’s population. But whatever the political machinations that surround the release of this report there is a chance at least for the families of those 14 to sleep easy safe in the knowledge that their quest for justice and for an explanation is finally at an end. That, at the very least, is something to be thankful for.
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Iron Sky a communtiy film project from Finland. - The story is absolutely brilliant - In a nutshell: In 1945 the Nazis fled to the hide on the dark side of the Moon. In 2018 they will come back to invade earth once more! The film is based on a communtiy project. Their creators encourage people from all around the world to get in on this and help create this movie. You can even buy your own shares from 1000 - 5000 pounds. Now this all sounds like a blockbuster in the making. Iron Sky is a scifi movie that takes place in the year 2018, when the Nazis, who fled the Earth to the dark side of the Moon in 1945, return to claim the Earth. The film is Finnish-German co-production with a budget of 6.5 million euros. It’s directed by Timo Vuorensola and produced by Tero Kaukomaa (Blind Spot Pictures), Samuli Torssonen (Energia), Oliver Damian (27 Films), Cathy & Mark Overett (New Holland Pictures), and San Fu Maltha (New Holland Pictures). The cast includes Julia Dietze (1½ Ritter), Götz Otto (Schindler’s List, The Downfall). Tilo Prückner (The Neverending Story, Die Fälscher) and Udo Kier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark), and the screenplay is written by the acclaimed sci-fi writer Johanna Sinisalo (Nebula Award nominee 2009, Finlandia 2000) and Michael Kalesniko (Private Parts). The film will be released in 2011 and distributed by Stealth Media Group. The Story of Iron Sky Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right.Now it’s 2018, the Nazi invasion is on its way and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom.
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Article by Dan / London Average Rating: 4,0
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The Crying Game I’m a man. Can’t you tell what I am? The Bee Gees wrote that once. Wise words, don’t you think? But they also wrote: Whether you’re a brother, or whether you’re a mother, you’re staying alive, staying alive. So it’s probably best not to take them too literally at their lyrics. It might take you down some very strange paths. Disco paths. But I am indeed a man, and that is indeed what I am. I am a sea of calm in an ocean of insanity. I am cool, I am ice. I am collected. I laugh in the face of danger and I tickle the toes of fear. When everything is falling around you, I am the one person you will come to because I am strong, butch, and manly. Yes I am. Now watch me wrestle this bear.... Now the above is what I have going round in my mind on a continuous loop. Every man does, even if it is not entirely true. It’s our man mantra. But every Superman has his nemesis. And mine is E.T. Not the little fella himself, but the movie. E.T. is my kryptonite. E.T. is my ultimate test of manliness and I fail it every time. I can’t be anywhere in the vicinity of that film without blubbing like a five year old who has just been told that Santa Claus has just murdered the Tooth Fairy and then run off with all your birthday presents. It started from an early age, sitting down to watch it at the age of eight with my parents, and has followed me all throughout my adult life. And I have tried; I truly have, to beat this affliction. They say the best thing to do is confront your fears, and I have tried to confront E.T. head on. But he always beats me. The little pointy fingered bastard. I remember one time it was on the BBC at Christmas. I was on my own downstairs, my housemate being asleep upstairs at the time, when the TV announcer said that the afternoon film would be Spielberg’s classic. “This is it.” I thought, “This is the moment I finally become a man. I’m going to do this!” So I sat down and made myself comfortable, mentally psyching myself up for the ordeal ahead. I thought about doing some press-ups, or some kick ass ninja moves before it began, just to prove how
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manly I actually was, but truth be told, I was feeling a little delicate that day so just settled down with some HobNobs. Then that familiar John Williams score started, and I once more lost myself in the magical world of Elliott and his best friend. And I was strong. I was firm. I didn’t wobble at his repeated cries to “Phone home.” I was like a rock through the scene in the classroom when Elliott kisses his classmate because he was linked to what E.T. was watching on TV. I even stayed resolute at the moment the wee man dies and Elliott’s heartbreaking cries of “Don’t leave me!” filled my living room (That’s where I normally fold like a book). “I’m actually going to do this,” I thought to myself, “Today is the day when I finally become a man!” I immediately grabbed the Argos catalogue to see if they sold chainsaws so I could build something manly with my shirt off. And then it got to the point when the little shit finally says goodbye before he is due to go home. Be. Good. My bottom lip started to wobble, my eyes became misty. And then the floodwaters broke. Niagara falls. It was at that point my housemate decided to wake up and come downstairs. “Oh, you OK mate?” he asked me, concern in his voice. “He’s gone home, “I cried, pointing at the screen. “E.T’s gone home!” My housemate moved out soon after that. But it’s not just E.T. that mounts a serious assault on my manliness. I am like this with any film with an emotional bit in it. I just can’t help myself. American Beauty- Wept like a baby. Titanic- I had to be helped from the cinema. “Jack can’t be dead! They were so good together!” All the 12 year old girls just there for Mr DiCaprio were made of sterner stuff than me. I could see pity in their eyes. Armageddon- Normally any film where Bruce Willis dies is a massive bonus. In this one, yes, I got a bit teary. And I normally hate Areosmith? Watership Down- Bright eyes, burning like fire……. The list is never-ending. And now I have to watch myself for potentially embarrassing moments with my friends, or more importantly, my other half. If I know there could be a possibility that I could start crying at a film we plan to watch, I try to get out of actually watching it. But this doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes I could be watching something that I know nothing about, and all of a sudden an emotional bit comes up and I have to feign having hayfever (in winter), when all I want to be screaming out is, “Yes! Yes I am an emotional man! The characters mother has just died, her brother has www.theblogpaper.co.uk
an incurable skin disease, and her cat has just run away. How do you expect me to react? Don’t hate me for feeling!” and then hide weeping under a cushion like the massive girly man that I am. Quite recently, my girlfriend and I were flying back from Florida. One of the in-flight movies was Marley and Me. Immediately alarm bells were ringing in my head. “Oh, that Marley and Me is showing. You wanted to see that, didn’t you?” she asked me. “Meh?” I said, with a shrug. “I’d much rather see…” I replied, flicking through the movie channels “…Sex Drive. There, Sex Drive. That looks good.” “Sex Drive? When have you ever liked films like that?” “All the time!” I protested, “Wahey, tits!” trying to do a passable impression of somebody who would like that sort of film. So we both settled down to watch our movies. Mine was obviously complete donkey shit and made me actively search round for the nearest laminated emergency exit pamphlets so I could roll them up and insert them into my own eyeballs. But I kept glancing over at Kate’s, trying to gauge her mood. Having read the book, I fully knew what to expect with Marley and Me. I saw that the end of her film was near as Kate’s shoulders were going and she turned and looked at me with tears streaming down her face and said “Don’t you dare laugh at me!” “There, there.” I said, putting a comforting arm round her, “It’s only a film. You shouldn’t let silly things like that bother you.” Knowing full well that if it had been me watching it, I would have been banging on the airplane door in hysterical floods of tears, begging the pilot to turn the plane around so I could go back to America and pet every dog in the land and tell it that I loved it. So, I cry at films. Big deal. Doesn’t mean anything. I bet if you stuck Clint Eastwood down in front of WALL-E, even he would get a bit misty eyed at the bit where the tiny robot is waiting in the rain for E.V.E to wake up? Actually, Clint would probably get his shotgun and shoot the TV, then threaten to give me a metal enema with it unless I stopped being a “Pussy assed faggot.” But that’s Clint for you. The man’s just too emotional.
culture Article by Michael Flynn / London Average Rating: 4,5
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I Remember When The Sun Only Reached 6 Million Idiots
You are a racist! I am so tired of people telling me they are not racist when they clearly are. You have probably heard someone start a sentence with ‘I am not racist but…’ which is then usually followed by a racist comment. ‘I am not racist but I am sick of Polish people stealing our jobs.’ or ‘I am not racist but Muslims should only speak English when out of their homes.’ I hear these comments all the time and I just wanted to tell you, if you happen to be one of these people, then you are a racist. Britain is a country built on immigration. From the early Roman invaders through the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes and Norwegians. In 1066 came the Normans to add to our country, followed by the first Jews, Lombards, folk from Huguenots and the Palatines. After the second world war came a whole host of races from all over the world that have broadened and expanded our culture and history, making the UK a much more interesting place to live. It makes me crazy how people seem to think that Europeans coming to the UK are stealing jobs from the British, when their numbers are offset by British people going to Europe to work. It makes me feel ashamed when people speak of our country turning into a Muslim state because demographics show Muslim families have more children, when research clearly shows that as other cultures integrate into ours their breeding rates fall in line with the average. In fact I wish people would just shut-up about immigration and I wish the government would stop playing on peoples fears by creating unworkable caps on immigration and fanning the flames of hysteria over Europe just to stay popular. We are a nation of immigrants and as such we should be more accepting of people coming to live here. In truth we should be thankful for them continuing to add to the wonderful melting pot that is the UK.
Article by postcardsfromengland / London Average Rating: 4,0
twitter.com/barryhogan Hello my children. I’ve just spent a delightfully painful weekend, conversing with various racists and patriots on a 450,000 strong Facebook group called ‘...It’s funny how our flag offends you but our benefits don’t!!!...’ I wont bore you with the details, but it was a group protesting the banning of England Flags and shirts during the World Cup this summer, which stemmed from a story in The Sun, about something completely different, that they had spun into another ‘Muslims Are Offended At British Culture, And We Just Roll Over And Take It’ rant. Have a Google, and you’ll see how it all started. Now, I must admit, I do seek these groups, as it both fascinates and horrifes me, how gullible some people are, and how 1950s their underlying bigotry. And I do like to engage them in a bit of constructive banter. Constructive on my part, anyway. But something struck me this weekend, that was new to me. If you are on a group like this, and you say something like, ‘Stop reading The Sun!’, the reply you always get is, ‘I dont read The Sun’, or even more frequently, ‘I dont read newspapers’. An answer which in itself is most likely one word too long... I hadnt thought about it before, but being on this Facebook group has really highlighted it. Most of the people on there DON’T read The Sun. Or the Mail, or The Express. So they dont even have the advantage of reading the stories in their entirety, in some sort of context. They dont have the option of reading the article, chuckling to themselves, and thinking ‘what a load of old rot.’
No, instead we have a relatively new phenomenon of someone taking the germ of a story, which originally contained opinion stated as fact, hearsay and supposition tarted up to achieve maximum fear-mongering potency; and rewriting it as a status on their Facebook profile. Or worse still, creating a Public Group about it, which makes its way virally around the web in a matter of seconds, all context lost, all ability to check the facts discarded. Pretty soon, something which originally had very tenuous links to the actual truth, is being paraded around by the misinformed as absolute gospel. A series of Chinese Whispers, that culminates in people screaming ‘ITS ARE COUNTRIE, IF U DONT LIKE IT U NO WERE 2 GO!!’ at an imagined aggressor, not really caring if there’s a reply or not. Spend just a few minutes perusing the wall on a group like that, and it becomes clear that what the general public lack in originality, they make up for in vitriol and sheer numbers. Is it something to be concerned about? I dont think so. The silent majority throughout history has always proven to be the one with the more sensible beliefs, and a more tolerant, understanding of their fellow man. No, what we are seeing in cases like these, is just a mass outpouring of frustration and anger, by a populace that has been too long misled and lied to by the people they trust to bring them the news, and their non-reading, but equally irate friends. Despite the vast amout of Union Flag Profile Pictures and assorted St George-crossery on display, groups like ...”It’s funny how our flag offends....”, do not represent England as a whole. This is just a floatilla of Empty Vessels, Caps-Locking their way to making the most noise.
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Toby Paterson Interview
Interview by amy.8000 / UK Average Rating: 4
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The work you are showing at Pavement gallery marks a departure from your typical practise of painting and sculpture. It’s kind of funny for me because I don’t tend to make projected work of any kind. The film and the book [which is made up of images used in the film] is a mode of presenting that seemed to chime in with Pavement gallery. It plays on this initial familiarity and then an oddness that is revealed the more you digest these images. It’s nice for me because there’s a certain lightness of touch, which is not always the case with my work; quite often I feel like I’m bludgeoning people visually! Whereas the film is slightly more reticent, it’s there to be noticed if someone is open to noticing it. The sequencing of the images is such that someone who passes it everyday is unlikely to see the same image, unless they stop and watch the whole 15 minutes. How did you source these images? The terminology is kind of hard to talk about but it has developed into a process of navigating, looking and absorbing in a visual way. I guess I’ve been working in this way, consciously, for probably seven or eight years now where I go somewhere with the express purpose to have my own dérivé, my own wander around a city in an aimless but focused way! The first time I did this in a really concerted way was back in 2003; it was towards an exhibition I had at the CCA here in Glasgow, ‘New Façade’. I went to Silesia in Poland, there’s a steel town called Chorzow that has this incredible Park of Culture
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and Recreation. The construction for the park started in the same year as the Festival of Britain, so there’s this parallel vision, a sort of pastoral, optimistic post-war vision from two totally different socialist governments. The difference being that the festival of Britain, I believe, didn’t even last for a year before Churchill got in. Whereas in Poland, it developed and is still there, though some bits are semi-derelict and run-down. A curator named Adam Szymczyk [then curator at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, now Director of the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland] told me about it and then this other guy at Foksal, Andrzej Przywara, he had grown up there, and they were both raving about this place, that’s certainly the most I’ve been influenced by other people. My interests are pretty much postwar architecture, that’s the thread that runs through this body of work, the post-Kruschev era, the softening of the Socialist Realist way of building cities and a kind of recognition of an international modernism. So with the knowledge that that exists, I’m quite happy to go to places and root it out. You see, you can’t go to the library and find a guide to post-war architecture in Bulgaria and if you can, I haven’t found it! I’m not going to see the iconic things; I’m going to see the stuff that has fallen through the gap. It was quite different in Moscow, I did go there and have a bit of a programme that I set myself. I had to go and see the Melnikovs [Soviet architect Constantin Melnikov] but that fitted in with the general wandering. A mixture of being aware what is there and extreme toddling! And it never fails to show up something, there is never a point where it fails, or I go back to the hotel after walking for 12 hours and think ‘Well, that was disappointing’, it just doesn’t happen, I think because I’m open to being surprised. I suffer from www.theblogpaper.co.uk
the pressure when I’m at home to make different things, pressure to be in the studio for the different kinds of projects that I’m working on so this process is a weird space outside of that, the chance to take 5 days to go out and walk around a city. It’s something I’ve done in one form or another for some time but in recent years has been formalised. It is absolutely my most favourite thing to do in the whole world. It’s just so rewarding. That mindset means that I don’t ever get bored anywhere, I could be in St. Petersburg or Middlesborough, there’s always something to get me going. It’s all about looking and getting into a certain state mentally and not be too prescriptive about what you do. Which cities are represented by the images in the film? Sofia, Bulgaria; Moscow, Russia; Dresden, Germany, former GDR territory; Prague, Krakow and Nowa Huta in Poland. There are maybe 15,000 images from two years worth of travelling, so it was a really savage editing but what is odd is I’ve used these images as source material in a number of different ways. Every time I go though this editing process I end up with a different emphasis or nuance, whether it’s selecting for collage work, or for development into paintings or even for presentation of photographs. It’s so rich, even though the last trip was one and half years ago now, I’m still coming to terms with what I saw and what I gathered in a purely visual sense it was so overwhelming! Do you prefer to visit these places in a certain season? Because it feels like these buildings should permanently sit in a grey surrounding.No, I haven’t got a preferred time; my trips are dictated by other schedules. My trip to Silesia, that I mentioned, was in January. It actually wasn’t as cold as it should have been but it was still pretty gruelling! And then I was in Moscow in August and it was really quite hot and very different from Moscow in the
art winter! It’s what your mental image is of Moscow and I think that was what was quite nice about going there in high summer because it wasn’t that 1980’s picture of winter bread queues, instead it was quite vibrant. If you are wanting that stereotypical eastern European experience it is quite nice to be there when it’s quite grey and grim. As long as it’s not raining, I’m happy! Why did you choose Manchester to show your new work, ‘Ever Growing, Never Old, Looped’? I was asked! This work was made pretty much for this context, adapted from the book work. It was interesting because I recently had a show at the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, a sort of retrospective. I dug out my old work, including the only other film I’ve ever made, a super-8 film. It got me thinking about that way of working and made me feel a lot more confident about stepping up and doing something of this style in a space like Pavement. I have a notion of the space being a route into town almost and I tend to make work that can be experienced whilst the viewer is moving through space rather than from a single fixed view. It just seemed like a nice fit unless the viewer made a concerted effort to stop and look, it’s just introducing a flash of an image. It makes the work analogous with the experience of making it. Even if they don’t stop and only see two images, it’s akin to my modes of operating on these wanderings, I ended up spending an hour and a half at the stairwell in the TASS building in Moscow, hanging out and taking photographs yet at other spaces I’ll barely stop, snap a photograph and move on. You have been appointed lead artist on the extension to the Docklands Light Railway for the London Olympics in 2012, how is the project going? Well, it’s quite hard to describe, there will be a lot of glass balustrading on the stations. From researching the area and looking at maps and plans, I’ve drawn up a series of motifs that will run through this glazing as a unifying system and hopefully act as a sort of framing device for the environment, in that it exerts a sort of filter layer visually. There’s no 3-D space to work with, so it’s virtually slotting layers into these stations because it’s a very controlled environment. The second stage that we’re working on now is a set of 3 aluminium relief works that will run along the retaining walls along the tracks at Canning Town on the South end of the line and one at Stratford International, which is at the North end of the Olympic site. These will be really large scale, around 60-70 metre long reliefs. It’s highly developed but we’re just hoping for the money to be in place, so it’s slightly nerve-wracking! It’s been really enjoyable and fascinating to get to know that area of London. It’s an area that’s been kind of steam-rollered by the Industrial Revolution, by the Luftwaffe and now, arguably, by the Olympics, I just hope it works out and is not too alienating for the populations there. That said, I really like the DLR and I’m a strong supporter of public transport so I hope it all happens and I get to do my wee bit in the middle of it.
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Brass and Bone Jessica Joslin was born in 1971 in Boston, MA and grew up collecting flies of the windowstill to look at under her microscope. Ever since, she has been enchanted with collecting a magpie’s array of remnants from the natural world. The collection gradually grew to include obsolete bits of antique mechanical mechanisms hardware and other oddball artifacts. In 1992, she began building the first beasts of this menagerie, using objects sent in a care package from her father, the same pieces that she’d collected as a child. In the rare moments that she is not building creatures for her ever-expanding menagerie, Jessica works as a commercial model maker, building prototypes of toys…. Alternately working as a model maker, carpenter, machinist mold-maker and sculptor. She lives in a mad workshop, hidden away in Chicago with her husband, Jared.
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Usable by Gabriele Corni
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www.lelecorni.com “The dolls are reflections of our own needs”. - Gabriele Corni Lifeless bodies which at the same time are alive. Usable. Dolls with a precise function – to entirely satisfy their owner in everything. One can select their doll, dress/un-dress her, as they wish. Choose the hair colour, eyes, characteristics and physical features. Every type of woman exists, all you desires can be fulfilled. Gabriele Corni presents us with the reality of a display of luxurious products. Perfect. Desirable. Silent, discreet and beautiful Geishas. Waiting to be chosen, to be used. Ready. On completing his artistic studies, Gabriele developed the technique of oil painting at Norma Mascellani’s art studio where he also developed the skill of composite balance. Gabriele then went on to experiment with the tri-dimensional, using metallic materials and he began collaborating with the sculptor Silvia Zagni. He then began orientating himself towards photography which led him into the world of bi-dimensional. In doing this and thanks to the various available post production methods, like digital painting, Gabriele Corni once again returned to his primary subject, that of pictorial expression, which can be accentuated by plasticity.Gabriele collaborated with the post production expert Giulio G. Pedaci, developing his skills in digital alteration. Gabriele is currently working as professional advertising photographer in Bologna. (www.lelecorni.com) After participating in various collective exhibitions, Gabriele is now holding his first ever solo exhibition in the “Oltre Dimore” gallery, with his project “usable”.
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film Four Lions starts by following a small, hapless Al Qaeda cell of four men in northern England who are in the early stages of planning a terrorist attack. It is a hilarious forty-five minutes watching their ineptitude. The gags come quick and fast and it is extremely funny, notwithstanding the serious, sensitive back-drop. Outside the cinema my longtime colleague and friend Bobby Chomples noted his surprise that a film could be so concentrated in its funniness. Then, roughly in the middle of the film, there is a sea-change: the film’s tone starts to invert, signalled by the bit where the charmingly foolish Hassan has an accident with a sheep. From here things get progressively more serious and progressively less funny until the cell’s deadly plan intensifies and explodes in the cataclysmic final act. In this no-man’s land, where comedy is swapped for tragedy, many of the cinema’s audience hadn’t seemed to notice the change and continued to laugh hysterically at incidents that were slapstickfunny but also impossibly sad. No one was laughing by the time the credits began to roll, however. The quality of acting is superb and backs up the script perfectly. Leading the charge is Riz Ahmed who plays Omar, boss of the cell. He is a tortured soul, fully knowing that he is surrounded by incompetent fools - his intense performance captures this very well. Ahmed will surely become a star after this turn. The two clowns, Waj and Hassan (played by Kayvan Novak and Arsher Ali respectively) are suitably thick without being cartoonish. Barry, the only clear psychopath in this band of would-be suicide bombers, is brilliantly acted by Nigel Lindsay. His piece-to-camera claiming the bombing of a mosque is comedy gold.
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Four Lions is a bloody good film. On its release in England last month, small outbursts of debate raged as to whether a film should make fun of terrorism and the War on Terror. “How can anyone make light of the horror that is suicide bombing?” asked people. From what I’d heard and seen previous to entering the cinema, I was foolishly thinking that 1.5 hours of light-hearted terror-themed farce were to follow. Light-hearted farce there was, but Four Lions also cuts deeper than that. Indeed, it cut so close to the (funny) bone that, in the film’s middle period, I was genuinely confused as to whether I should be laughing or crying as the film moved graciously from warm farce to cold satire. Actually, nothing less should have been expected from writer and first-time-film-director Chris Morris, a comedy genius whose back-catalogue includes Nathan Barley, The Day Today and Brass Eye. As with most of his output, surreal and/ or mirthful humour is layered thinly over a strong cynical message on the state of modern life. Over the years not much has escaped the Morris satiregun, with paedophilia, drugs, The News and the rise of the new-media idiot all having taken a pounding. On reflection, nothing has defined the last ten years more than the War on Terror, so it seems a logical target for Morris’ first foray onto the big screen. www.theblogpaper.co.uk
So it’s a bloody good film. But should the film make fun of terrorism? Definitely not, yet it doesn’t really do that - it makes fun of a group of witless imbeciles and satirises the terrific times in which we live. Tragedies like the London bombings of July 2005 must cause unspeakable sadness to those directly affected and should never be taken lightly. However, terrorism on the whole can, and should, be put into perspective; it seems the response of countries like the United States of America and Britain (USAB) is highly irrational compared to the relatively low mortality rate from terrorism over the last ten years. Relatively low compared to things like the conflict in Darfur, that is. Terrorists have been used to justify two infamous invasions. They have been used by deplorable White House hawks as an excuse to detain humans indefinitely - with torture, without trial. They have invoked, in some, an unwarranted demonisation of the Islamic faith. They have stirred up a hatred for ‘the West’. They have terrified the world. And in that respect, they have won the War on Terror. So if I’m lucky enough to have grandchildren, and one of these little Doolites asks scary Grandpa Colin what it was like to live through the War on Terror, I will talk about a man called Chris Morris and I will point them in the direction of Four Lions and I will tell them that it was laughable. Four Lions – five stars at the beginning, zero stars at the end.
film – late at night, when those “bad thoughts” creep in our heads. Ink answers the question, where do these thoughts come from?
Article by Rick Swift / USA Average Rating: 4.0
www.iratefilms.com Swift shot: Dark, blinding fairytale with a cerebral edge that will get you thinking outside the pine box. Interesting story, a throwback to the classic fairytales of old, and a reminder that darkness circles usall. While a complex, and some may find confusing exposition, real film nerds should eat this up and ask for more. I am sure elements of Ink will be spilled into some big screen films shortly. This isn’t a horror film per-say, but it is horrific.
Ink Remember when you were a kid and you were still afraid of the dark? Remember not being so cynical, clinical and dissecting of all things creative? Yea, me neither! But, let’s say you still sleep with a nightlight on – of course now you do it to lure the bastard monsters that used to torment you in your dreams. You figure, hell, I am an adult now, I could tangle with some stupid monster that gets snared into my little trap. Well, you’d be wrong. But, what Ink does is explore those things we can’t see – only feel
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A great theological figure I dabble in following likes to say “thoughts are things” and Ink makes this clear in a very real way. On the surface you will think you are watching an adult version of the Child Soul Stealer from Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye – but, you’d be wrong. Still, this story will suck you in if you have ever wondered why some nights you have wonderful dreams and some nights you wish you had never closed your eyes. Not all scary dreams have to be about monsters rending the flesh from your bones – to some people just seeing an overdue mortgage notice is enough to send terror into the heart. Ink is a complex, and sometimes over-done exploration of a parent’s love for their child and their own shortcomings conflicting with that emotion. With colorful characters strewn into the mix on the Other Side – some aiding and some hindering the bond. You will have to decide for yourself what Ink is really about, but while some parts are confusing and slow, and some of the acting is sub-par, I just couldn’t stop watching this one. I had a hypothesis about Ink and enjoyed watching my hypothesis unfold – will you get the dark secret of Ink right away or will it take you a few stories?
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Black Models Used as a Backdrop for Daria Article by GLOWINGDOLL / London Average Rating: 2,9
www.glowingdoll.blogspot.com/ About a week ago I was meeting some friends for brunch. I was early so I went into a convenience store and to my surprise they carried Interview Magazine. I was so excited that I bought a copy without hesitation. As I waited for my friends I flicked through it casually and when I saw the Daria photo shoot I can honestly tell you that my first reaction was shock then total repulsion. Honestly how do these black models feel about being used as a backdrop for a white model? Maybe I’m biased because Daria went to my high school (one year above me) but I also feel totally embarrassed. Canadian models are fashion ambassadors for Canada and with that in mind they should represent the positive aspects of the fashion industry. Don’t think this is racist? Then why are the black models dressed like homeless people (pardon me if those rags are in fact designer rags but they are rags nonetheless), and why does the set look like some hollywoodized ghetto nightmare? When I delved into the deeper intellectual implications of this imagery all that I could think was that Daria was meant to represent some sort of victim and the black models behind her, sexual predators. This imagery is heavily reminiscent of nineteenth century ideas about blacks being inherently criminal and sexually deviant. It’s not something that I expect to see anywhere in 2010, especially not in a much loved fashion magazine. I’m even reminded of William Hogarth’s Gin Lane, especially by this image with the beer bottle (note the similar draping of bodies). Even without Daria posed on top I would still question these images based on the combination of other elements like the aforementioned beer bottle, the burnt-out car and the sweaty, raggedy models. There seems to be this notion that art can’t be racist and that fashion can’t be racist either, as if the two were so ethereal and pure that they were incapable of reflecting the darker elements of humanity. On what level are these images not racist? I used to think that Daria’s cellulite cream ads for Lancome were in poor taste but after seeing this photoshoot I am left wondering, what won’t she do for her career? Would she pose with dead infants, Crack addicts or the homeless if someone told her that it was art? Maybe she’s just in it for the money but then hasn’t she made oodles by now? No doubt people reading this will think that I’m impulsive, overly sensitive, perhaps even just stupid. However, an opinion is just an expression of ones feelings or beliefs and art is subjective after all. So is this art? Yes, but I don’t have to like it or agree with the message that it conveys.
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If it was a black model in front of a troupe of white models, with the black model dressed in a certain way, and the white models dressed in some stereotypically ‘white’ way, would you consider that ‘racist’? As a former photographer, I can only say that the artist is just using contrast, and in this shoot is doing it via ethnicity, rather than just fabrics and backdrops. “On what level are these images not racist?”: Racism is descrimination against people/prejudging them, because of their colour or ethnic background. This is not racism. This is an artist, working to a brief.If it was a Snow White theme, we wouldnt object to them casting a fair skinned brunette, and seven people of diminutive stature, now would we?
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To postcardsfromengland: ‘She was the one who looked at a group of African-American males, and assumed they were ‘sexual predators’. That in itself is a sign of deep-seated prejudice’ I did not assume any such thing. I clearly state above that I am referring to 19th century attitudes and how I believe they are represented in the pictures. Once again these are 19th century attitudes that I am talking about NOT my own. I thought that came across quite clearly in the article.
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comment by parthenia
i just received my copy of interview today. the layout in question depicts the ennui of an urban post apocalyptic underground scene. as i stated earlier, it’s a tired device and unfortunately, the fashions are just as tired. i have to say that, after looking at the images, i’m not completely convinced of any inherent racist under/overtones. it’s just boring. blame karl templer, who styled the shoot. the only subliminal message here is: i have no imagination, please see this as edgy and hip.
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Photography: Sean Michael Creative Direction: Rob Phillips Model: Lottie Hayes @ Select Hair and Makeup: James Pegg
LCF Graduate Collection Alice Bastin Article by AliceBastin / London Average Rating: 4,5
www.alicebastin.com Mixing the form and structure of menswear with a soft feminine uidity, the collection offers a luxurious twist on classic, timeless pieces. Congolese tribes, worn out-hand me down family heirlooms and Voodoo inspired the eclectic mix of layering, versatility and comprehensive styling. My goal is to continually challenge the aesthetics, relevance and direction of my work. Execution, attention to detail and presentation throughout the whole design process are very important to me as is my aim to work for continual improvement and development. (Sponsored by Saga Furs)
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technology Article by Serial Media Blogger / London Average Rating: 3,8
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Rotting Apples Apple - computer genius, music maestro, communication artist and now publication facilitator. Apple is all these things, and more. The once struggling company has taken its time and effort to build not only a successful brand but also a variety of products made for the IT generation. What makes apple so popular is its ability to innovate but still have a reliability and stability to it’s products. That’s not all, they create a buzz around their products and an education on how to use them, as they innovate the basic functions that were outrageous to begin with become normal. With the launch of the iPad and the fact it’s sold two million of them, I turned myself to the less innovative products. The ones that have been starting to rot with time. The World Wide Developers conference may be the place for these rotting apples to get a new lease of life. Apple’s chance to update the lines and innovate products to mass appeal or to let them rot away. So what are these products and what are my predictions: iPhone - It’s a year since the iPhone had any hardware upgrade and recent leaks show that an all new 4th generation iPhone should be on it’s way. There may be a few surprises but my betting is we wont see 4G technology or secure meemory card technology to enable apps to take advantage of existing products such as Visa’s Pay Wave or London tube’s Oyster card for at least another year. iTunes - With the recent release of iBooks on the iPad and promises it will join the iPhone in the summer, that can only means iTunes will get access to this little bookstore and the ability to read books on your computer. Also there are talks of iTunes getting streaming capability, but this is apple they will have some other surprises and upgrades, my money is on Genius and Home Sharing. Apple TV- Known as Apple’s hobby this year is the make or break for the device that could be so much but delivers so little. So betting is Apple will be showcasing some updated hardware and hopefully a fully fledged software upgrade that takes the things they do so well in their other products. So I expect to see video streaming, video/audio app integration anda new improved Home Sharing. iLife - The media application suite that ships with Mac’s hasn’t been updated since iLife’09 so maybe there will be an announcement of a 2011 version with some new feature. Faces and Places improvements no doubt top of the list but maybe some app versions for the iPad and iPhone. I would love to see garage bands Artists lessons as an app or an ability to edit podcasts on the move. iWorks - Again not updated since the iWork’09 but since then
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iWorks.com has been updating slowly, the iPad version has been released. So surely the Mac version will get some updates to improve stability betweenthese and some new features itself. I think iWorks. com may come out of beta or some major changes will appear. Mobile me - This hasn’t had a major upgrade since it’s launch but it has had a number of major tweaks and recently a new version of mail in Beta. My bet is a few more announcements on mobile me, especially if there is a new iPhone and iTunes finally brings its streaming capabilities. Maybe we shall see more integration of iTunes and iWorks.com. ARD 4 - Apple Remote Desktop hasn’t had a good update in years, some may ask what the big deal. Well the answer is simple, Business. Business needs to keep updating their computers and help IT control from a distance, ARD allows this to happen and more on Apple computers. What I’m predicting are some major changes and some surprising ones. First up is Boot Camp support, apple have no control over rebooting a boot camped machine or even installing Boot Camped images over a network and with more and more companies going for this set up, there is a cry for this control. iPhone & iPad support, with the OS4 bringing a raft of business enterprise features, why cant we see these being distributed and controlled from ARD. I myself would like to see the Find my iPhone feature from Mobile Me brought to ARD. Publication software - This is more a prediction than any hard evidence but all the same there is a gap in the market and Apple could fill it. When the iPad launched the publishing world, particularly print said it could save its industry. Now it’s still early day but it does have that potential and you can see those trying to make it work, but that’s where it stops. Apple needs to bring a Pro App software for print publications. I think apple will be looking at something revolutionary that will receive news stories or assignments, integrate with Final Cut Serve to bring video, audio and pictures to attach to stories. Give them the ability to write stories and create ePub magazines/papers and publish to the web with just a few clicks. It wouldn’t surprise me if we saw iAd integration in the output and that there was an iPad app for the journalists to send stories in. I also think Apple would create this so that lots of social media could be taken advantage of and that news hubs could be created so local newspapers could supply national newspapers or UK and US editions of magazines could share stories and articles. I think I’ll wait and see what Steve Jobs says in his speech at the World Wide Developers Conference on June 9th. www.theblogpaper.co.uk
Article by The6thMyth / London Average Rating: 3,8
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Location-Based Fourplay I moved back to the ‘shire from London several years ago and believe me the cleaner air and having a proper garden were all welcome changes. London is still a special place for me though and I miss the whole exploring aspect of it. Indeed, I’m proud to know where some of the best/ quietest places to play pool for only 50p a game are located and I know where you can get the best club sandwich this side of the Atlantic for under £3. Yeah… I am a bit stingy and I’d like to keep the whereabouts of these places classified for as long as possible. Finding your own little havens in London takes time and is something that should be treasured. This is one of the obvious reasons why I don’t understand the appeal of location-based social networking services like Foursquare. This service/game awards points to Users for “checking-in” (i.e. updating their current location) with the app from their GPS enabled phones. Users can share information and tips about where they are and what they’re doing to earn more points, and there’s even the chance to become a virtual Mayor of a given location by checking-in there more than anyone else over a given period. Contain your excitement because the fun and games don’t stop there… virtual Badges are unlocked to those who complete all sorts of “special tasks”. In New York for example you can unlock the “Far Far Away Badge” for traveling past 59th Street, I wonder if there will be a Badge for traveling all the way to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line? Now, privacy/stalker concerns aside, Foursquare’s Users are generating a lot of valuable buzz about areas and venues. In this respect it compares to more established review services such as Lonely Planet and Yelp. There are of course other popular location-based social networking services out there such as Gowalla, Loopt, BuddyCloud, Rummble, and Google Latitude. But it seems that Foursquare is leading the way in popularity and media coverage despite having only started out early last year. London actually became the first European city to rollout the service in October and by January of this year Foursquare became available worldwide – you
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Himatic Article by riggsy / London Average Rating: 4.0
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can now check-in anywhere. Barely a year old and close to 750,000 Users, plenty of comparisons are drawn with Twitter’s early rise to success. Things really are moving along quickly and businesses are already being encouraged to tap into its potential. For example, If you’re crowned Mayor of Debenhams on Oxford Street then you’re entitled to…wait for it… a free cup of coffee whenever you visit. Foursquare is also encouraging developers to use its API to build innovative applications to interact with its platform. There’s already an application under development called Fourtap which will allow you to automatically check-in to Foursquare using only your Oyster Card. Clearly, if Foursquare continues in popularity it will become a great tool for monitoring consumer behaviour and for targeting ads both online and in the real world. Yahoo has recently been rumoured to take an interest in acquiring the service for 100 million dollars. Now, I’m up for just about anything that advances geolocation technology, these are exciting times – who doesn’t appreciate the usefulness of an interactive map and who isn’t excited about the possibilities of augmented reality applications and 4G phones? What will no doubt concern me however is the amount spam that Foursquare and other gamey locationbased social networks can and will spew out once/if their User base grows significantly per metro area. I’m not just referring to the pesky location updates we’re starting to see via our Twitter and Facebook streams. No, I’m referring more to the concerns of fake, bias and or malicious User-based venue reviews that we’ll inevitably stumble across in one way or another. Yelp, the popular American social networking review site, has been under constant scrutiny over some its reviews and is now facing the prospect of a class action law suit over unfair business practices. I’m only speculating but I could imagine Foursquare landing itself into similar types of trouble in the near future as well. The gaming and loyalty aspects of the service could arguably increase its prospects of malpractice and foul-play. Similar to Twitter and Facebook, we’ll no doubt question the authenticity of a User and or a Venue’s social economics. Competition will be fierce on all fronts, this I ponder will all amount to an awful lot of online and real-world spam and this is what concerns me. If things get out of control perhaps a counter-culture will emerge and with any luck we’ll see No-Foursquare zones pop up across the globe. All in all, I just can’t help but think Foursquare would be a better service if it was somehow confined to just a local level. It seems more suited to a college campus, festival or conference. The service can only be as good as the network you use it with.
Andrea Petrachi a.k.a. Himatic creates his robotic sculptures from things that people simply throw away.His work is based on the assembly of ordinary objects, broken electronics,recycled materials and old toys.
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Red Dead Redemption - Is It All Hype? Article by samuel_legassick / London Average Rating: 4,0
www.thewildbore.blogspot.com A loose sequel to PS2’s “Red Dead Revolver”, this game follows the same ‘spaghetti western’ concept that it’s predecessor laid out. Except this time, they’ve blown it wide open. If you haven’t already heard of this, it’s an open sandbox game (which means you can go anywhere at any time and do anything) that takes place in the Wild West of 1911. You play John who was left for dead by his old gang and has been asked by the government to hunt down his old compadres. What you immediately notice about this game is the incredible graphics. Rolling landscapes, wildlife, the weather, the cities and the bustling people look incredible. You are literally stepping into a fully interactive Western. Not only that, but the acting, the straightforward plot (unlike GTA’s often confusing storyline) and pretty much everything about this game is near perfect. But that’s the problem, it’s NEAR perfect. A lot of review sites have been going crazy over this game calling it one of the greatest games ever, and I’d agree if it wasn’t for some niggling bits. Seeing as most of the people reading this review would perhaps have already read about or bought this game, then let me go through the bad points first, because I’m sorry to say that even though it lives up to the hype, I do have some issues with it. Firstly, the horse riding. It works much in the same way as Shadow Of The Colossus, tapping the button to go faster, but yet because of your horse’s stamina, you can’t do it for too long. Which is fine except, there’s a lot of it. At first you’ll love taking in the scenery and travelling about (the world here is HUGE)but after a while you just want to get from A to B, which is lucky that they have stagecoaches (taxis) or you could use your ‘campsite’, but I felt it relied somewhat on you wanting to spend the next ten minutes or so just riding around. Which at first is amazing, but after 20 or so hours, you just want to get things going. Also when you are shooting and riding, your horse will slow down or stop or end up going somewhere else, I felt they should have left it so your horse keeps going onwards if you’re aiming instead of leaving you pushing buttons and trying to aim and fire at the same time.
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Also I found many a glitch, at some points having to re-load a previous save because I couldn’t do anything the glitch was so bad. This is understandable for a game as complex as this, but still, it shouldn’t happen. I also had a problem with some of the side games, firstly the bounty hunter which I got stuck into straight away but couldn’t figure out how to take them alive, that was until further down the line I found out that you get given a lassoo. But then, unless you have a blood fetish, it’s so easy to take the bounties alive that it becomes a chore. In fact, that’s an overall issue I had with the whole game. It’s almost way too easy. The covering system helps, but along with your auto-lock-on and Dead Eye which slows down time - you’re pretty much sorted from the off. I rarely died in a gun battle but annoyingly would perhaps die by chasing a bounty, and then getting mauled by an animal to death which is SO annoying I can’t tell you. Especially since half the time you can’t even hear them! Many people have also dubbed this GTA in the West, which essentially is what it is, but there’s a lot GTA offers that Red Dead doesn’t. Firstly, this might sound strange but, I can’t sleep with prostitutes. Why not?! If I beat someone up or kill them, I’m almost automatically hunted down, very different from GTA. But then, I chose the way of the light, and it is possible to go the evil way, though I’d say this time round the good way is probably more interesting than the evil. I don’t think I’ll quite go the way of the outlaw because you get rated in Fame and Honour and since you work on getting it up, you don’t wanna bring it back down, so it feels like you choose either one way or the other from the off, which I found irritating. Sometimes I wanna go bad, but unless I want to make a seperate save, this isn’t going to happen. Another annoying aspect is the Master Shooter/Hunter/Survivalist etc. where you have to kill, collect, and ... pick flowers. This is fine but you have to do it in a certain order and you might have killed a whole bunch of animals, skinned them etc., but none of it counts because you didn’t kill those 2 rabbits to get you up to Level 3 first. So when I was left after doing the main game missions to do these extra bits, I had to keep travelling around and re-doing things I’d already done at some point. Couldn’t they have them listed out separately like in other games? Not have it all in an order? www.theblogpaper.co.uk
There was also the case of the weapons. I had so many weapons, I couldn’t begin tell you. To be frank, it was more than what was needed; although it is better to have them than to not, they could have made them slightly more different perhaps because one rifle seemed as good as the next. Then there’s the money side. At the beginning money is hard to come by, as is always the case, but soon enough you’re rolling in it. I never had an issue with money during the game and this is for the following reasons: if you kill and skin enough animals, you can make a huge amount, especially with animals like bears and horses. If you’re any good at poker at all, you can clear up (the poker game is fantastic) but the five finger knife thing you can really make some money at. After winning against a couple of people you can make a $100 bet, which is a lot in the game, and the button sequence is the same. So if I ever needed money, I’d just do that - it’s too easy. The Liar’s Dice and Blackjack aren’t quite so guaranteed but good fun nonetheless. Also, once you think you’ve finished the game, you start doing more mundane things like herding cattle etc. until a final battle. But it all shattered the dream for me, I wanted John to kind of waltz in and waltz out, that he was from somewhere else in the big wild west when actually, sorry if this might ruin it for you, he lives just down the road. I didn’t want to actually see his family or his farm or anything like that. Then once all that’s done and you’ve finished the main game, you’re left to do all the stuff you wanted to do except something’s different ... hmm ... I won’t ruin it for you, but I would have preferred to do it all before completing the game. You’ll see what I mean ... There’s a bit of variety in the game, but not as much as I’d prefer. Whether it’s breaking horses, nightwatch duty, the confusing arm wrestling game, or duelling with other gunslingers there’s enough to keep you busy but just falls short of the amount that GTA has. But then this is the main problem, it’s not GTA and I just feel as open as this game is, they could have made it even bigger. Not in size, but in scope. The world in there is so incredibly thought out and well-made that it stuns people into submission but, in fact, this game is ever-so-slightly flawed and I feel, though this is an amazing game, I think Rockstar will come out with a new Red Dead that will truly advance on this game at some point in the future. The multiplayer aspect of this looks incredible too. Whether riding in your posse or doing certain missions, you’ll be hard pressed to get bored. There has even been talk of downloadable co-op content on the horizon and for that I cannot wait. Overall, all the side quests, plots and shootouts are great and feel like they have come right out of a true spaghetti western. The graphics incredible, the gameplay smooth and everything about it makes other sandbox games feel like dirt on your shoe. It is an incredible game and will probably be the best you’ll play this year. I initially played this game thinking nothing could ever beat it, but after the 22 hours of gameplay I’ve already invested into it, I can see room for improvement and that’s why it can’t get 10/10. However, it’s a game that you’ll always find yourself coming back to and anyone who has ever loved Western films, whether you’re into games or not, should pick up and play this game. You’ll be hooked whoever you might be, I guarantee it mister.
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Manchester Street and Experimental Photography
Photos by peterrea / UK Average Rating: 4.3
www.peterrea.com In my ďŹ nal, studying Illustration with Animation at Manchester Met University, I was encouraged to pursue photography rather than simply using it as method of collecting research images. I regularly walked the street of Manchester and built up a large body of work, documenting the hidden streets and viewpoints of the city. I also experimented with using the camera to create graphic photo collages for commercial use.
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Reflectius
Average Rating: 3.7
www.artlebedev.com Reflectius is the latest creation of creative factory Art Lebedev BRIEF: Use a single laser beam to display digital numbers. Reflectius features sixty rotating mirrors that successively reflect a single laser beam at precise angles to draw numbers. The body of the clock has a complex triangulated surface that reminds of the complicated trajectory the beam of light travels in no time. Sadly there is no release date for this product. - It will remain a concept - a rather good one....
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