Category: art & culture
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Book review: Still Here Still Life
“With a glass of wine in hand, Still Here Still Life began” Still Here Still Life is a joyous food forward celebration of creativity and culinary delights. In a time of isolation, Zena Kay and Tess Smith-Roberts created SHSL and invited creatives to share an aesthetic feast for the eyes, using food as a catalyst…
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Colour and creativity: Odd Orange stationery
For all creatives a notebook is their greatest partner. A close confidant to fill with secrets, mistakes, and unfiltered thoughts. It is a place for contemplation, experimentation, and creation. In choosing the perfect notebook to house all this there much to consider: the size, paper, weight, and design. Luckily Odd Orange has acknowledged all this…
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Food for thought: Rhia Cook on indie food publishing, inclusivity in the kitchen, and community
In the storm of a pandemic many people turned to the kitchen for comfort. The same can be said of Rhia Cook, Editor and creator of Potluck, cheerleading a new cohort of food writers and lovers alike. Birthed in May of 2020, Potluck was a response to the media Rhia was consuming during the start…
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The Ever-Evolving Zella Day
With lyrics like “denim sky unbuttoned down the middle” and “can we go back to the world we had with a love so sweet it makes me sad”, American singer-songwriter Zella Day leaves an impressionable mark on new and long-time listeners. “I felt forever when I laid up on your chest in the August light.”…
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Lorde’s Solar Power is a joyous rebirth
Thursday morning (10/06/21), Twitter entered a moment of pure ecstatic hysteria and elation. The first single – Solar Power- from Lorde’s much anticipated upcoming album of the same name was briefly available on streaming services in select countries, followed by an eruption of online leaks. Reactions varied from jubilant celebration to appeals to delete the…
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The strange phenomena of Japan’s KitKats
In a lockdown that feels never-ending, with memories of precedented times fading with each passing day, I think we are all craving the chance to once again travel and experience something different to the routine everyday. While this certainly isn’t easy, all is not lost, as we can still fill the more recent gaps in…
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Artizine: zine kit review
Artizine is an online community space, led by Ioana in London. Through their Sunday zine club and zine making workshops, they make zine making accessible, fun, and welcoming to all. Just as it should be! Artizine currently makes and sells zine kits, which are conveniently posted to you. They include a range of materials, from…
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The digital rebirth of post-modern retrofuturism
Retrofuturism is the fantastical dream of our past. It refers to how people of bygone eras envisioned the future, and its distinctive aesthetic has breathed renewed life in fashion, furniture and, naturally, across social media. Here’s a very basic analogy of retrofuturism: In Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future II (1989), all the skater boys are armed with…
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Baby Done: balancing the sweet and sour of life
Hilarious, heartwarming and honest, Baby Done exceeds expectations of the parenthood/pregnancy comedy, which can often feel overdone and cliche. Executive producer Taika Waititi brings his classic wit and unique sentimentality, cementing it as a triumph in indie cinema. Clawing at her remaining youth, Zoe is keen to avoid becoming like all her surrounding friends; burdened…
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Reimagining tradition: Dolls (2002)
Ethereal cinematography, perfectly wistful, and heartbreaking story telling. Dolls takes the tender stories of traditional Japanese bunraku puppet theatre, and transforms them into something just as emotive for a modern audience. Director Takeshi Kitano preserves the theatrical, but translates the tales into visually stunning cinema, allowing a wider audience to appreciate the lore of Japan.…
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