Pupils nearly always ask this question from their teachers: Just how long can it take to learn guitar? Well, there isn’t ‘one’ answer to this specific concern. Mastering guitar �±s really a process, it has no finish line. All of us are pupils all our lives. Even a teacher is a student of guitar. What’s [...]
Activity | Fashion | Guitar | Inspiration | Legends | Life | Music | Musician | News | Performer | Show | SocialWhat 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 | SocialTraditional economic models assume that people are self-interested in the narrow sense. If “homo economicus” – the stereotypical rational actor in these models – finds a wallet on the sidewalk, he keeps the cash inside. He doesn’t leave tips after dining in restaurants that he will never visit again. And he would never vote in [...]
Economics | Policy | Psychology | Social | Sociology | Stereotypical | TraditionalHaving 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 [...]
Artist | Drama | Hollywood | Music | Nature | Political | Radical | Rap | Social | War“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 [...]
Political | Social | Society | Television | War | WriterLoin 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 | WarRukhsana 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, [...]
Actor | Culture | Film | Lover | Movie | Music | Perils | Religion | SocialFriday 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, [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Cinema | Director | Drama | Events | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | Modern | Movie | Museum | Music | Performance | Political | Social | Theatre | WarJohn Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live. Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford [...]
Actor | Director | Editor | Film | Filmmaker | Gallery | Hollywood | Humanist | Iconic | Modern | Movie | Nature | Performance | Political | Psychology | Social | War | WriterAmbitious beyond its means, an international line up of some 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers wrestle with the theme of utopia in and around the birthplace of William Morris through exhibitions and installations. News From Nowhere: Visions Of Utopia promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. [...]
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