What is crowdfunding? you may wonder, so let me explain. If someone or an organization of some type (it can be a loosly defined group or a corporation) has an idea, but not the money to see it come to fruition, they can go to the global masses to finance their plan. For example, charities [...]
Film | Finance | Global | Independent | International | Music | Musician | Political | SocialDigital cameras have changed photography within the preceding 10 or 15 years. Never before has it been simpler and easier for children to take pleasure in a new hobby or document their own lives by using a visual log. Digital cameras have lead to digital photographs, which are really straightforward to share and in addition [...]
Advice | Children | Film | Photography | TipsFOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century. A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the [...]
Artist | BBC | Concert | Events | Festival | Film | Modern | Music | Musician | Performance | Punk | Songwriter | War | WriterThe Private view of the ‘Alien Nation’ exhibition at the ICA on the 16th of November was interesting… It was an exhibition about ‘Alien Art’ a direct homage to the 50-60′s early 70′s Alien movies which mostly reflected the anti-communist, xenophobic & anti-nuclear fears of the time. Few masterpieces came out of that strand but [...]
Artist | Comics | Exhibition | Film | Movie | PaintingSnakes on a Plane is an action/horror film to be released on August 18, 2006. by New Line Cinema. Written by David D’Alessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film finished filming principal photography in September of 2005 including five days of additional re-shooting to raise [...]
Cinema | Director | Film | Hollywood | Horror | Lover | Magic | Movie | Performance | Photography | PoetryIt’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose. The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco [...]
Architecture | Art | Cinema | Designer | Director | East London | Film | History | Movie | PerformanceLoin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure [...]
Cinema | Director | Elusive | Events | Film | Horror | Inspiration | Modern | Movie | Political | Radical | Social | Theatre | WarI wasn’t privy to the preview of the film ‘Shoot the Messenger’ to a floor full of ‘community leaders’, leading lights, notables and other luminaries… However, what I have to say was that some organizations like Ligali, who I want to stress, usually do a good job, were quick to do the intellectual jump stating [...]
BBC | Drama | Film | TelevisionCast: Tobey Mcguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, Topher Grace as Venom, Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Conners, Adrian Lester as a Research Scientist, Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey, Theresa Russell as Mrs. [...]
Director | Film | Hollywood | MovieRukhsana Yasmin reviews Tony Gatlifs tale of two lovers on a journey to discover the land of their fathers. Exils or Exiles tells the spirited, energetic and heartfelt story of Naima (Lubna Azabal) and her lover Zano (Romain Duris) on their journey to the land of their fathers, Algeria. Lost in the perils of immigration, [...]
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