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THE ARCHITECTURAL JELLY BANQUET
Alon Kramer
We went to The Architectural Jelly Banquet - an event created by former property PR agent Sam Bompas and architectural student Harry Parr to celebrate miniature buildings crafted...more
THE STRANGE LIVES OF THE SHADOWS
Karim Khan
Last week we covered the Foto8 awards at the Host Gallery. We were so impressed with Slovakian-born Andrej Balco's photographic entries that we decided to contact him for...more
ALISON CARMICHAEL HOPE POSTER ARTIST
James Read
Alison Carmichael is our current poster artist for the Hope issue. Although you might not have heard her name, I can almost guarantee you will be familiar with her work...more
THE MYSPACE STOP
Karim Khan
What happens if the DJ line ups at this years’ summer festivals just aren’t cutting it? Who you gonna call? Well, you may have noticed an unassuming bus...more
CHINA'S BLOODY LOVE AFFAIR...
Carmen Fishwick
Last week the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Standing Committee, being held in Geneva, met up to decide whether to allow China to...more
ALTERNATIVE VILLAGE FETE
Sonita Dowd
Just the other day the Watch This Space plot on the South Bank was transformed into an Alternative Village Fete as part of a three month festival of...more
MAPEI
Seun
Who would have thought Hip Hop's 2008 saviour would be a girl? Who would have thought she'd be from Stockholm? Whoever did was totally, totally on...more
HOW TO... RUN YOUR CAR OFF CHIP FAT
Heydon Prowse
"AAAAH! The ice caps are melting! We're all fucked," I hear you say. Well you're probably right, but instead of despairing, or (worse yet) vesting any hope in...more
PRETTY FLOATING ISLANDS TO HOUSE REFUGEES?
Karim Khan
Sea–levels continue to rise as the Great Eight countries continue to faff about at summit meetings and get nowhere on cutting CO2 emissions. But there is hope -...more
CHILD'S PLAY - THE ART OF AMI TALLMAN
Karim Khan
When I first got sent Ami’s work, I thought ‘what the fuck is this? Is she like, eight years old?’ That’s just how cute she is. She draws...more
SRI LANKA - SUN, SEA AND SEX TOURISM
Heydon Prowse
Donate now to ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) and help them stop child sex tourism...more
WYNDHAM LEWIS
James Read
Wyndham Lewis - luminary novelist and influential modernist painter, or antisemetic Hitler-supporting blackshirt? We're just being facetious, of course. Despite once referring to Adolf as a "man of...more
PRIX PICTET PHOTO PRIZE
James Read
Water is the most basic element necessary for life. Without it we have no hope. The Prix Pictet photographic competitions has set h2o as the theme for their...more
WETDOG
Seun
Hai kids! Today we’re talking to East London Punkstresses WetDog (not to be confused with Wet Dog who are an entirely different band). The band have...more
WILD STALLIONS
Seun
So there we are at a gig, supping on a few beers and rocking out when suddenly through the PA we are informed that a band...more
PROD
Seun
Prod is the latest and newest signing to up and coming IDM label Pollinate Recordings. In London to promote his debut album The Artwork...more
LUCIAN FREUDS BIG SUE
DPTV
Sue Tilley rocketed from her position as an official at the DHSS to a figure recognised worldwide after she modelled for Lucian Freud's painting Benefits Supervisor Resting in 1994. The...more
MUGISON
Seun
Interviewing a band a day isn’t easy. It can be cool, it can be infuriating, it can seem like a thankless, never-ending task, but ultimately it...more
LIAM FINN
Seun
Liam Finn is our new favorite NZ'er (sorry So So Modern). Liam is a multi-instrumental-mentalist currently touring everywhere in the universe in preperation for the European...more
SUPERGRASS
Seun
Those of you that are old enough to remember the 90's will remember the splash Supergrass made when they first burst onto the Britpop...more
FALSE HOPE
Richard Parker
Why do we do it to ourselves? In our desperation for signs that everything isn't completely fucked, we're constantly investing feverent hope in a plethora of patently hopeless...more