2010 – Sublime

Miral

laurasan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:10:08 +0000

Spanning the period from the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 to the talks of the Oslo Peace Agreement in 1994, the story begins when the narrator asserts, ‘I was born in 1973, but my story really begins in 1947.’ Confusingly, Miral (Freida Pinto of Slumdog Millionaire) doesn’t actually appear until a third...

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The Skin You’re In

Frances Corner — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

A recent trip to New York was revealing, not because of the shopping or the food, although these were as varied and wonderful as ever. This time, I was struck by the number of tattoos proudly worn by people from across the social strata. These tattoos were extensive, and showed a permanent commitment to ritual and adornment that clothes cannot and do not involve.

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Brother To Brother

laurasan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

From their studio in Belleville, Paris, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are building an extraordinary reputation as Europe’s most original design team. It is a collaboration based not only on their relationship as brothers, but also on their distinct personalities. In Objectified, Gary Hustwit’s acclaimed 2009 documentary on design, the duo described themselves as a fox...

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Last Days Of The Arctic

laurasan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Eschewing digital and working in black and white, chronicling some of the harshest environments on the planet, Ragnar ‘RAX’ Axelsson has long walked a singular path in the photographic world. 2004’s Faces of the North brought us to the unforgiving North Atlantic and exposed us to a diminishing way of life, a journey punctuated with...

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On The Right Track

laurasan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

For some time now, social scientists have been concerned about the increasing fragmentation of our world. The trend towards individualisation and the loosening of those ties which traditionally bound social groups, classes and communities – through such institutions as the family, the church, neighbourhoods, associations, trade unions and marriage – have meant that we no...

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Shaken Together

John Grant — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Exactly 255 years ago as I write, on All Saints Day in 1755 at 9.30 in the morning, an earthquake struck the city of Lisbon. It was the biggest ever recorded in Europe, measuring nine on the Richter Scale. A devout Catholic population was gathered in churches. Fourteen out of fifteen of these were destroyed.

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Soul Boy

laurasan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:56:46 +0000

Joe is tired with the monotony of life, until one day he meets Jane (Nichola Burley), a glamorous and totally- out-of-his-league local girl. Desperate to impress, Joe and his socially inept friend Russ (Alfie Allen) follow her to the new Wigan Casino to discover what appears to be a decrepit dance hall. Suddenly the scene is...

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The Good Life

Jen Marsden — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

We’ve ditched our underground travel systems and motorways, and I hop about from A to B in my individual zero-carbon transport pod. The West has the most powerful information system ever known, yet on an individual level, partly because I’m no spring chicken, I struggle with the latest-generation MIT Sixth Sense device that provides constant...

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The Gene Delusion

John Grant — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

My son asked me recently whether I believed in God. My reply was that I believe – I think – that there may be some sort of intelligence shaping the universe, including our little corner of it. And that some of the ideas and experiences we describe as religious may be inklings of that intelligence....

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Iris Van Herpen

Laura Santamaria — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Iris Van Herpen forms her collections around historic and abstract themes, and by experimenting with techniques more associated with product design than fashion, she has pioneered the use of rapid prototyping, a technology that allows a designer to design their creation onscreen and then ‘print’ it in 3D. Since graduating from ArtEZ Academy of Art...

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