Brazil Beat

With autumn now firmly upon us, I need to metaphorically feel the sun on my back. What better way to be transported to the land of the samba through the wonderful, compilations of Brazilian music put out my Soul Jazz records? The world’s finest label for quality re-issues has some fine compilations available for download …

Betrayal

It is perhaps fair to say before I begin that my experience of the theater has been mixed. I dutifully go along to see the most critically feted plays of the year, only to walk out wondering what exactly it is that I was missing Filmmaker Werner Herzog is a known theater hater who cites …

City Spaces

  Clarissa Bonet’s series City Spaces is in her own words ‘an ongoing photographic exploration of the photographic environment and (her) perceptions of it.’ For the series Bonet recreates observed scenes from city life transforming the physical space into a psychological one. The effect is quite moody and cinematic, almost Hitchcock-like in look and feel, …

Christopher Walken: Master Tailor

How cool are your clothes if they’re are made by a tailor who turns out to be Christopher Walken? Very cool indeed if these Danish ads for the Jack & Jones clothing company are anything to go by.  

Racing in the Rain

The battle between the austere asshole Niki Lauda and the decadent asshole James Hunt for supremacy in Formula 1 is the focus of Ron Howard’s new movie ‘Rush’ Understandably our sympathies are with neither as they are ‘assholes’ but on balance we would rather be James Hunt as he gets a mind-bending amount of tail …

Make mine a Skinny Latte with added telekinesis.

Over 38 million people have checked out this prank which involves coffee and spooky Carrie-like abilities from the protagonist.  

The Bronx Riviera

When St. Kitts born photographer Wayne Lawrence moved to New York in 2005, he began taking pictures on Orchard Beach in the Bronx. The result, nearly a decade later, is this series of beautiful and distinctive portraits that are a little reminiscent of Rineke Dijkstra’s images but with more edge.    

Irina Ionesco

French photographer Irina Ionesco’s work is often associated with the erotic In a way it reminds me a bit of Helmut Newton in that the women have a powerful darkness to their sexuality. They pose provocatively and in some pictures offer themselves but the blackness of their eyes and funeral flowers that often feature in …

American Places

The road trip is something of an American institution. From Kerouac in the forties to Robert Frank in the fifties and Stephen Shore in the seventies, artists have attempted to get to grips with this sprawling nation through long distance driving. Stephen Shore’s work is of particular interest because it seems to capture the DNA …

Stoned? Try Hot Pockets

Why eat a Hot Pocket? Because you’re really very, very high that’s why. For those who want to sing along here are the lyrics One, two, three to the heat Stop counting sheep, And move your feet to the beat I bet you’re wonderin’ “Who are you?” The baker who made new HOT POCKETS come …