Dual Mirage – Identifying of the Mirage that Appears and Disappears in Urban Spaces

Dual Mirage – Identifying of the Mirage that Appears and Disappears in Urban Spaces

Dual Mirage is an independent publication in both Korean and English organised by Hyemin Son. It explores the identity of the Mirage that appears and disappears in urban spaces, with various participants: artists, architects, designers and theorists. Dual Mirage consists of three parts, and incorporates events spanning from Seoul to London, and in–between, that are [...]

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Who Can Use Crowdfunding to Get the Money They Need?

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 [...]

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Early Jazz Music

Several years ago, many people complained that pop music is one of the most familiar genres they can enjoy in their daily life. In this case, jazz music was not the common genre they can see it performed on the television very often. Jazz was brought or performed from pub to pub or even from [...]

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WHAT IF WE ARE GOD – Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century

WHAT IF WE ARE GOD – Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century

The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into [...]

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BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears [...]

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GEORGE GALLOWAY – Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

GEORGE GALLOWAY – Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

George Galloway: “I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember [...]

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PUBLIC ENEMY – What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?

PUBLIC ENEMY – What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?

Having recently released “Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits”, to document their immense and far-reaching legacy to the development of hip hop music, how did Public Enemy catalyse the transition of rap music from minority interest to establishment juggernaut? Public Enemy have released a ‘Best of’ compilation of their music [...]

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CITIZEN KEN – A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

CITIZEN KEN – A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L. Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly [...]

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LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

Loin 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 [...]

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FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

Friday May 19th Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival. ‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz – gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? – and Carmen Maura, [...]

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