Running Amok with Atoms for Peace

Back in the early seventies rock stars bored with their bands would hang out with other rock stars from other bands and casually, over whatever drug cocktail they happened to be ingesting at the time, would suggest ‘they do something together’ The result was the supergroup. With the advent of punk a few short years …

Lights in Chicago

With so many amazing street photography images taken through the decades it’s hard to do something different with the genre. Satoki Nagata has come up with an arresting method in his series ‘Lights in Chicago’. He uses a remotely controlled, off-camera flash to backlight his subjects, transforming them into powerful ghost-like silhouettes. It’s almost as …

On the Road Illustrated

The original ‘On the Road’ manuscript was written on one continual scroll of paper. Illustrator Paul Rodgers has taken this fact and turned in his own scroll with an illustration for every page of Kerouac’s masterpiece. It feels appropriate somehow as you can see from this small sample

Run Free

    Just when you thought the Parkour trend had run its course along come the images of Tomasz Gudzowaty to prove otherwise.   His powerful black and white pictures of free runners in major cities across the world, from Hong Kong to New York, is influenced by cultural reference points as diverse as break …

What I Love

I’ve just been introduced to a very simple and engaging way to bring to life the problems of carbon pollution, courtesy of The Climate Reality Project site. Click on the image to check it out.

Body Beautiful

Like Switzerland, Christian Coigny’s black and white images of nudes and swimmers have a vibrant healthiness to them. Coigny lives on the shores of Lake Geneva which perhaps explains the aesthetic of his work. There’ a touch of the Peter Lindbergh about these images too, with a dash of Leni Riefenstahl thrown in for good …

Billy Lynn

For sometime now the people of my favorite bookstore ‘Three Lives’ in downtown New York have been pressing me to buy Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time walk home by Ben Fountain. Such was their vigor I half expected to find out they were relations of the author. After much resistance on my part I finally …

Sing Out Sister

Laura Mvula is a singer I’ve been hearing a lot about from my compatriots back in the UK but it isn’t until now that I’ve got round to listening to her debut album ‘Sing to the Moon’. It’s a strangely touching work which at times makes me feel almost sad and at other times lifts …

World Rhino Day

In case you didn’t know Rhinos have a day set aside for them. September the 22nd is World Rhino Day and in honor of this special day, me and a couple of friends have written and produced this video which is already being shared by some of the leading advocates for the species. Why bother …

Jazz for the Eyes

Apart from its occasional appearance on ‘Homeland’, jazz is a mainly forgotten art form. Yet along with country music and blues it represents a uniquely American musical gift to the world that should be remembered long after the American empire fades away. If that comes to pass every sax solo or piano riff should be …