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Monday 18 March, 2013
Once upon a time in Gotham
As a comic book reader, I’ve seen many reinterpretations of the Caped Crusader and Gotham’s rogues and heroes, but this one truly blew me away. Taking Batman far away from familiar territory, artist Giovanni Costa re-imagines him and his friends and foes in a Western spaghetti styled setting. Think Clint Eastwood’s nameless gun-slinging, justice-dealing drifter, only [...]
Thursday 14 March, 2013
Flickering Lights, a Joseph Gordon-Levitt film
Over the past few years we’ve come to admire and love Joseph Gordon-Levitt for all his amazing work. From the awkward cancer patient in 50/50 and the brilliant tactician in Inception, to the hopeless romantic in 500 Days of Summer and the superhero-in-the-making in The Dark Knight Rises, Joe outshines in every way. No surprise [...]
Tuesday 05 March, 2013
What’s your scene?
It’s hard to keep track of trends these days what with each scene spawning its own breed of subcultural aesthetics and attire. As the hipster and steampunk tribes battle post-rock crews, emo fans and cybergoths for dominance, your senses are the first casualties. Fortunately, Rob Dobi and his awesome site Your Scene Sucks help classify [...]
Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Sound City – Film Review
In 2012 when Foo Fighters picked up a Grammy for Best Rock Performance, frontman Dave Grohl said, “The human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about [...]
Thursday 29 November, 2012
World’s first music video made using Instagram
There is something romantic about stop-motion films. Something very primal that takes film-making back to its photography roots. I think its simplicity is what find I particularly charming. After yesterday’s stop-motion feature, The Dark Knightfall, our fascination for this format was begging to be taken to another level. And that’s when we came across this. [...]
Thursday 22 November, 2012
Splaterrific paintings
There is something incredible in the way a liquid splatters across a surface, that says so much about it. Even Dexter would tell you that every splatter tells a story. Chinese street artist Chen Yingjie, aka Hua Tunan’s splatters take this to the level of a completely new art form. Living in the coastal city [...]
Wednesday 21 November, 2012
Nude blurs
We’ve all seen long-exposure photography, but this one beats everything I’ve seen hands down. Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama shoots nude dancers in motion to create a series of abstract flesh-colored shapes, simply titled ‘Nude’. Oh, and when I told you about these being long-exposure photographs earlier, I lied. Each photograph is a composite image created [...]
Monday 29 October, 2012
Canned heroes
Every day as creativity permeates deeper into our lives, art gets harder to define. Take Japanese artist Makaon for instance, who uses old cans to build superheroes and pop-culture icons, giving new life to these pieces of metal. Using a process similar to origami, Makaon bends, twists, and flattens layers of aluminum to create complex [...]
Tuesday 16 October, 2012
The boundaries of Life and Death
“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” These words might hold grave meaning in Edgar Allan Poe’s short horror story ‘The Premature Burial’. But in Saskia Kretzschmann’s film it transcends the loop of life, death and time. [...]
Friday 05 October, 2012
Adele sings the 007 Skyfall theme song
Today marks 50 years since ‘Dr. No’, the first James Bond film was released. 5 decades and 22 films since 5th October 1962, Agent 007 has changed avatars and ignited the imaginations of so many screenwriters and audiences around the world. It is then most fitting that the theme song to Bond’s upcoming film, ‘Skyfall’ [...]
