Going to seed
Next month will see the close of another round of qualification for a major international football tournament, as the final participants for Euro 2012 are decided. Unfortunately (or fortunately if […]
Next month will see the close of another round of qualification for a major international football tournament, as the final participants for Euro 2012 are decided. Unfortunately (or fortunately if […]
The process of building a following on twitter has been of interest to me for some time. I had come to the conclusion that twitter consisted, rather strictly, of ordinary […]
It’s hardly a ‘blockbuster’ announcement that the films churned out of Hollywood often lack imagination both in terms of setting and plot, but what is of note is that this […]
During a 2008 episode of Screenwipe, Charlie Brooker lamented assumptions that are often made about ‘weird’ programming (‘The Magic Roundabout’ is a particular focus) being tracked back to drug usage. […]
1. With every team at the World Cup finals now having played their first match, one thing – or sound – has been ubiquitous throughout the tournament thus far: the […]
Recently, South Park aired their infamous episode, ‘201,’ in which they depict the prophet Muhammad. South Park has a real knack for satire of the unjust use of power, inequality, […]
Earlier this month, Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened an exhibition entitled “Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900.” On the whole, I tend not to agree with […]
It was fifteen days into the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art’s exhibition ‘multi-story‘ that the news arrived concerning Serguei Serykh, a resident of the city’s Red Road estate who was […]
It’s no secret that the advertising of many products aimed at a specifically male demographic make the pretty explicit suggestion that the purchase of said product will significantly increase the […]
In 1957 the cultural theorist Roland Barthes wrote an essay entitled ‘The World of Wrestling’. Using his progressive technique of semiotic analysis, he effectively outlined the conventions of contemporary professional wrestling […]