Real Scenes.
Real Scenes: Bristol from Resident Advisor on Vimeo. This reminds me of those scene reports you used to get in DIY zines. Here Resident Advisor turns its attention to the brimming underground music scenes operating out of Bristol. Read More
SSH 15: Don’t Look Back In Ongar.
photo credit:Dr Groove SSH 15: Don’t Look Back In Ongar. The Superheroes find themselves even more Suburban when they are teleported to Planet Ongar, far far away from Groovetown studios where they normally transmit their broadcasts home. Here they meet up with their host Nora Bam who brings them on a chronological journey back to 80′s Dublin and tells us about being on Craggy Island. They conduct an interview with Bruce Lightyear,... Read More
Where Were You in Whenever?
The whole concept of crowd funding fascinates me. It’s an excellent means of getting some start up cash together for a project. Some of what has been seeded through these means, like the bittorrented sci fi series Pioneer One prove that it can work for rather large scale productions as well as more individual labours of love. Where Were You? looks like its going to unearth many of the subcultures and street styles that strutted their stuff... Read More
Finding Vivian Maier
Interesting one this. A bespectacled Chicago resident unearths a treasure trove of negatives while rooting around an antiques sale researching a book on the NW side of the city. The photos are the work of one Vivian Maier, an unheard of nanny with a hidden passion for photography on her days off. Read More Read More
When Street Art Becomes A Joke
In Exit Through The Gift Shop, Banksy’s directorial debut, we meet Mister Brainwash. A wonderfully confused tongue in cheek character creation that almost personifies the whoredom of street art in the commercial gallery world. In that film, we see how a self-made rag man, applies similar techniques to the world of stencils. On a mass scale ripping off the ideas of the movement and giving them several wee twists, but mainly that of a hefty... Read More
Eye Candy: Agencia Olhares
photo credit: moreno Ghetto Bazaar highlighted these on their facebook pages today. These shots from the Agencia Olhare’s Vincent Rosenblatts of participants in the Rio baile funk scene aren’t going to do a whole lot to appease your senses as the sun ceases to linger in the sky each evening. If these are you kind of thing, then Spannered’s Greg Scruggs hooks an excellent social history of the scene onto the Diplo Favella On... Read More
Eye Candy: London Futures.
photo credit: pondspider A bit of photoshop trickin’ about and some future pessimism combine for the London futures exhibition in London – a warning from the world of graphic manipulation about the impact of climate change. Okay, so some of the images do look like cheap story boarding for a return to Avatar – maybe a sequel based on the industrial years or something… Others such as the shanty town one above do provoke the... Read More
Vidiot: We.Music
It’s a bit of a tired and tested theme, what the whole internet ripping apart the distribution of music thing. What makes We.Music worth watching is its focus. Away from arguments over piracy, it looks at the impact the digital revolution has had on a varied group of producers and artists in Sao Paulo. You’ve got Baile Funk legend Dj Chernobyl , some hip hop MC’s and a bunch of indie waifs – but it wades clear of favella... Read More
No Tomorrow
photo credit: drosera88 Solar by Ian McEwan first published on drb.ie There are many issues that the turbulent passage of global warming through public discourse has revealed. From the deadlock at Copenhagen in December to the growing confidence of climate change scepticism, it has become clear that we suffer from an incapacity to rationally discuss and address long-term and system-wide problems. It might indeed not be an exaggeration to say... Read More
Review Of Diarmuid Ferriter’s Limiting Liberty
photo credit: (Carrie Sloan) In The Limits of Liberty, historian Diarmuid Ferriter has been given three one hour episodes to lay out the social history of the Irish Republic. It is, of course, too brief, but the first episode is encouraging for its dissection of the new-state’s failure to deliver on promises of equality. The first episode is shot through with indignation, as Ferriter centres his ire around the lip-service paid to the social... Read More
