Animation, Charlie Kaufman once helpfully observed, “is a series of static images creating the illusion of movement.” If he's that incisive about his own work, what would he make of yours? SMPLE Film Fest is moving faster than expected, and it’s left us a little animated. Okay, more than a little. A fair bit. Fuel for our playful side, like we’re taking cues from Steamboat Willie whistling at t...

Note: contains spoilers for web series Local58I hate opening with statistics – unless of course, they’re jaw-dropping. In its first month, a recent found footage video called The Backrooms hit a staggering 15M views after its upload to YouTube. That’s a reach of roughly half a million hits every day. And let’s bear in mind, this isn’t the latest drop from Ariana Grande, or MrBeast putting main...

According to Fitzgerald, there are no second acts in American lives. That’s probably true, unless you’re bigger than America. Kanye’s career has gone through so many ducks, pivots and sensational conclusions, we can’t help but look on as the next step could be the last, as rapt as we were almost 20 years ago. The first half of my quest to understand the man through his music brought us to 2010...

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.

When a snake eats itself, it also cries for popcorn. The latest Spiderman outing, No Way Home, is meta even for Marvel. Marvellous?

With a rating of 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, “The Cat in the Hat” was released in 2004, based on the book of the same title by Dr Seuss. The original storyline is that a six-foot-tall anthropomorphic cat visits eight-year-old Sally and her brother during a period of wet-day boredom, and in the process of entertaining them completely wrecks their house. The siblings are dismayed, but everything is fi...

The ‘Ode’, one of the most popular poetic verses, has its origins in Ancient Greece. The generic term ‘ode’ is derived from the Greek word ‘oide’ which referred to any poem that was to be formed into a song and sung in public. M.H Abrams defines the ode as “A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.” The steady rhythmi...

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         Seen above is humankind's closest attempt to mirroring divinity.  The imitating subject is Ellen O’Neal, a pioneer in her element yet a ragdoll to gravity—wings spanning absolutes, directing her body toe-first into the unknown. She may as well be teetering on the ledge of a cliff.   Motionless around rolling desert hills, her eyes remain fixated beyond the blurry abyss in search of he...

It is about the Turkish custom of the heart of a person and there is a spot a black spot at birth from in the womb where our soul our essence starts and where the purest of love resides it will stay with you and is there to the end when you die in that very spot Suveyda.

At the forbidden, thinning gate,Where Time and timelessnessMeet to beguile the Imagination,At a time when naive order Had been undone And there were teenage marvels Of sex to be had, I thought I saw him:First a vortex, colour-sparking, Conscious, vibrations And patterns spilling From the sill of dawn, Form and energy weavingTo forge a vivid tapestry,Robed in lavender and sun rites,A thought-fo...

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.

That’s the curious pull of Shiloh Dynasty – we can’t square her in our heads because she is a somebody and a nobody all at once...

After Magdalene, her opus on feminine strength, life proved to be more unforgiving than ever.

Rarely has ‘slay queen 🔥’ become a caption for a country, but Barbados earns it. Cut ties with the British monarchy & crowned Rihanna a national hero

There is something about a man who carries around a prosthetic of his own head at a gala while dripping in Gucci. It’s not just me, is it?

This is the story of how I listened to this six-hour work in one sitting, and came closer to existential dread than I think I will ever want to. Ever.

Who doesn’t love a healthy dose of female rage? It’s a real palette-cleanser.

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

Tumblr page Heavenly Wings & Heart reveals that one spouse tapped into their past lives and discovered they had two children with Hermes centuries ago

In Tyler, The Creator's sixth and probably most emblematic album, we are invited to hit the gas. We move forward in space, but backwards in time.

We are talking about an online auction that is notable because the highest bidder would walk away not only with a piece of physical art in digitised form, but also the ability to destroy the original physical piece.

Today, a novel isn’t held back by visual demands (in other words, penny pinching), but much less earthly limitations of the work itself.

People have long been aware of the spectre that is data collection. For years, our habits, thoughts and interests have been recorded and regurgitated back to us through increasingly targeted content and ads. It has begun to seem normal. Algorithms that target consumer interests are everywhere - but have we finally reached the tipping point? Jokes about Google’s targeted ads - and their hilari...

Lights magnify conflict,Our deepest inhibitions,Promising insightAnd temporary respite From the tedious hours -Nature watching itself,Naturalism and artificeMimicking reality To create its own occasion,An escape from obscurityTo which the actors will return,(It's part of the deal they make With their minor god of drama). Those players learn their lines by roteTo make them sound reactive,Channe...

There is no natural light in the Hayward Gallery. The artworks are illuminated in a soft, artificial glow, similar to the flat light of dusk. Gallery visitors creep around in the crepuscular gloom and I watch their shadows flit across the weave of Louise Bourgeois’ fabric children. These creations are curious and malformed. They invariably slouch or hang - anything but stand up straight - as...

Note: contains spoilers for web series Local58I hate opening with statistics – unless of course, they’re jaw-dropping. In its first month, a recent found footage video called The Backrooms hit a staggering 15M views after its upload to YouTube. That’s a reach of roughly half a million hits every day. And let’s bear in mind, this isn’t the latest drop from Ariana Grande, or MrBeast putting main...