Archive – Page 146

A picture of a sea lampre courtesy of MSU

Puke-Perfumed Lampreys Looking for Love

09/10/2013

Sea lampreys and silver lampreys were drawn upstream by the smell of bile salts. Only the sea lampreys, though, swam in looking for love...

A picture of a microphone by freedigitalphotos.net/Jeroen van Oostrom

The Beat Instrumental

09/10/2013

Without sung text the listener was invited to create an entire narrative based on only the title and the music itself. You had to do a little (imaginative) work. ...

A picture of tangled ropes, nets, beach debris. By Sean Keenan

Einstein Was Better Connected than You

08/10/2013

A tangled web. Einstein had more extensive connections between certain parts of his cerebral hemispheres than most....

London Film Festival : Teenage

08/10/2013

The teenager is a creature whose needs and wants are the same, no matter the era...

Anna Calvi : One Breath

07/10/2013

As with all material on this sublime record, Calvi thrashes her inspirations into unique statements....

Hanging Offence : Vitrine, Bermondsey Street

07/10/2013

There is nothing better than entering an artist’s studio and just knowing that by collaborating with this person something amazing can be created...

Oceano : Incisions

06/10/2013

The first thing that is immediately noticeable about Incisions is the sound design. From the first discordant riff and throat-wrenching roar of opening track ‘Eternal Wasteland’, it’s proven a...

A picture of Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons

06/10/2013

Puss Johnson cut a dated dash in red boots, tight leopard print attire, high lacquered hair and leopard face paint. You know, like you have at kids parties....

Video: Wildhearts and Napalm Death in Mutation

05/10/2013

Video: Mutation, the collective helmed by Ginger Wildheart, is streaming “Relentless Confliction,” from the band’s forthcoming debut Error 500 (released via Ipecac, Oct. 28)...

A picture of a table set for two by Sean Keenan

Instagram Puts You Off Your Food

05/10/2013

If you're on Instagram all day looking at all of the salads your friends post, you're probably not going to enjoy your next salad...

The Criminalisation of Unemployed People

05/10/2013

As Osborne announces compulsory community work, are the long-term unemployed being treated as criminals?...

Seamus Heaney Tribute : London Irish Centre

04/10/2013

The Irish community in London gathers to celebrate the life and work of the great man....

Pierre Deutschmann : Betroit

04/10/2013

It would have been all too easy to attempt this kind of fusion cynically or unimaginatively, but Berliner Pierre Deutschmann manouevres around these traps with great skill....

A picture of weathered wood by Sean Keenan

Avoid Bad Luck with Science

03/10/2013

Our findings suggest that not all actions to undo a jinx are equally effective...

Photo from There Has Possibly Been an Incident

There Has Possibly Been An Incident [Theatre]

03/10/2013

It's slightly pretentious. And it will frustrate you. But mostly with how close to brilliant it gets....

Anne Pigalle Presents Madame Sex

02/10/2013

Anne Pigalle, the last Chanteuse, returns to old Soho with a series of live performances....

Street Studio Woodstock © Alexia Webster

Art of Peace : Artraker Award Winners

02/10/2013

In conflict, art and creativity can counter some of the media’s shortcomings in communicating the horrors of war and oppression, and remind us of the need to turn our attention, instead, to peace....

A picture from GV Art Generation exhibition

Generation : GV Art

01/10/2013

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

The People on the Bus

01/10/2013

She didn't want to talk to anyone, in case they tried to sell her into slavery. I assured her that if she wanted to speak to me, that I would get the best price I could...

NHS Gagging Order Fight Intensifies

30/09/2013

An incredible 8,222 38 Degrees members, from all across the UK, have donated to help turn up the heat on key MPs about the gagging law. The campaigners are near their target but they need your help....

Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

30/09/2013

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

Pleading in the Blood : Ron Athey [Book Review]

30/09/2013

Seventeen extensive essays from underworld luminaries of art and music attempt to nail Ron Athey’s ethos and individual practice...

Animals Feel the Rhythm of the Ocean

29/09/2013

Animals living in marine environments keep to their schedules with the aid of multiple independent—and, in at least some cases, interacting—internal clocks....

A picture of We Banjo 3 by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : We Banjo 3

29/09/2013

When he sang, “We all need more banjos in this world,” everyone in the tent was united in their agreement. ...

A picture of multicoloured lightsby Sean Keenan

Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

28/09/2013

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

What’s Behind The Mask?

28/09/2013

Trebuchet's debate about banning full-face veils rears its partially obscured head again...

A picture of guitars by Carl Byron Batson

Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

27/09/2013

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...

Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil

27/09/2013

Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear....