Issue 14 Work in Progress – Sublime

Birds Eye View

laurasan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:18:15 +0000

La RabiaA forerunner of new Argentinian cinema, Albertina Carri presents a dark, powerful story of lust, rage and impossible innocence. With somewhat controversial content, La Rabia tells of the life of a mute girl and her adulterous mother in the Argentinian Pampas. With long held shots of the forbidding landscape and a daring, original use...

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Message In A Bottle

laurasan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

This April, defying all rationale, Rothschild will set sail from San Francisco, California in the hope of travelling 11,500 nautical miles across the world’s largest and arguably most unpredictable sea to its final destination – Sydney, Australia. The twist? The 60-ft catamaran dubbed the Plastiki is made entirely from plastic. A combination of PET and...

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Hidden Connections

laurasan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Klingberg’s work is made of things that surround us and take up our time and attention. Its basic raw materials are the logos from low-price store chains and mass-produced goods – those mysterious four-letter words that conjure up notions of our needs being met at budget prices: Aldi, IKEA, Spar, Lidl. Her pieces ask whether...

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Energy Payback

Jeremy Leggett — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Fixing our dangerously fragile energy infrastructure has to start with energy demandmanagement. Here we know enormous reservoirs of efficiency exist,pumped full of carbon to be saved, simply waiting to be mined. In the mining,we know that armies of jobs can be created. British Gas recently conducted aninstructive social experiment in which they encouraged 8 typical...

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Being There

Wayne Hemingway — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

We quickly became a team. When we didn’t have enough money to pay the rent, we emptied our wardrobes of Gerardine’s homemade clothes and my collection of second-hand clothes onto a table in Camden Market. We subsequently opened a stall in the sadly missed Kensington Market and our first brand, Red or Dead, was born.

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Reaching For The Stars

laurasan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

In September 2000, the heads of state of some 180 countries gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Like the rest of us, they saw the millennium as a watershed – an opportunity to leave behind the regrets and unfulfilled promises of the Enlightenment and forge new aspirations. They wanted to tap...

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