Black Sky Thinking
Essays, investigation and opinion on today’s cultural landscape
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Welcome To Rugby Club Land: Godfrey Bloom & Other Dangerous Buffoons
After UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom was recorded making racist comments about “bongo bongo land”, Joe Kennedy argues that he is just one example of a breed of right wing "trollitician" whose buffoonery disguises a dark, potent, English misanthropy
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Dr Who As Cosmic Clochard: Why We Don’t Need Another Topman Dr
With Matt Smith soon stepping down from his role as Dr Who, Robert Barry argues that after a run of actors who look like they've stepped right out of Topman, it's time to find a Time Lord more in tune with the series' darker origins
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Check His Track Records: We Determine The Best Running Music!
Check His Track Records: We Determine The Best Running Music!
****Contains Mild Spoilers Of The Film Six Day Run****
In a completely scientific experiment, JR Moores undertakes six runs in six days with a different soundtrack each day to work out which is the most advantageous for the pursuit of the jog...
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Savage Guardians: Why Bands Are Right About Cameras At Gigs
Jeremy Allen normally gets annoyed at people leaving notes telling him what to do. But in the case of Savages and Yeah Yeah Yeahs instructing their audiences not to wave their cameraphones around like bellends, he can get behind the cause... even if it is doomed
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Whose Vault Is It? Amoeba Music & The Ethics Of Reissuing Records
Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults project, digitising rare vinyl for download, seems like a brilliant idea on the surface. However, Laurie Tuffrey investigates the questions it raises about the legal and ethical issues around reissuing older music
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Digital Indigestion: Serving A Shoe Pie To Instagramming Food
Pavel Godfrey righteously slams the new decadents who Instagram their meals: "Unless you are a restaurant critic, the contents of your plate are as interesting as the contents of your chamber pot." Cheese photographing editors John and Luke hang their heads in shame
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GIFwave, Groundhog Day & Culture After The Apocalypse
The recent announcement that the OED had made "GIF" its word of the year prompts Ryan Diduck to consider the similarities of that tiny looping file format to culture in 2012, and why, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, being doomed to repeat ourselves might not be entirely a bad thing
