Karl Smith
Black Sky Thinking
Derelicte: Ricki Hall, Fashion, Homelessness & The Language Of Privilege
In a Sunday Times Magazine interview this weekend model Ricki Hall told a journalist that he takes his fashion cues from children and the homeless. Karl Smith considers why it might actually not be okay to transfer the aesthetics of necessity and marginalisation to a position of extreme privilege
Black Sky Thinking
Derelicte: Ricki Hall, Fashion, Homelessness & The Language Of Privilege
In a Sunday Times Magazine interview this weekend model Ricki Hall told a journalist that he takes his fashion cues from children and the homeless. Karl Smith considers why it might actually not be okay to transfer the aesthetics of necessity and marginalisation to a position of extreme privilege
Books
Myth, Magic & Social Media: An Interview With Alejandro Jodorowsky
Karl Smith sits down and talks - via the very real and very practical magic of Skype - with Chilean filmmaker, artist and novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky about the social purpose of myth, the tyranny of capitalism and fossil fuel extraction, the art of twitter and his life-long mission to heal himself and the world
Books
Myth, Magic & Social Media: An Interview With Alejandro Jodorowsky
Karl Smith sits down and talks - via the very real and very practical magic of Skype - with Chilean filmmaker, artist and novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky about the social purpose of myth, the tyranny of capitalism and fossil fuel extraction, the art of twitter and his life-long mission to heal himself and the world
News
Broken Spines: Literary Links
Had Quasimodo lived his life in a dark, mirrorless sanctuary there's a good chance he'd have considered him self the Paul Newman of Notre-Dame. But, alas, it was not to be. In that spirit, we emerge once again this week, a self-assured Rock Hudson of literary criticism only to find ourselves surrounded by an internet of veritable Steve McQueens. (This is an extended metaphor about how other sites also do good work and the following are examples of that)
News
Broken Spines: Literary Links
Had Quasimodo lived his life in a dark, mirrorless sanctuary there's a good chance he'd have considered him self the Paul Newman of Notre-Dame. But, alas, it was not to be. In that spirit, we emerge once again this week, a self-assured Rock Hudson of literary criticism only to find ourselves surrounded by an internet of veritable Steve McQueens. (This is an extended metaphor about how other sites also do good work and the following are examples of that)
News
Broken Spines: Literary Links
Vanity is cool when you're beautiful and the mirror is reciprocative of your adulation, but there is a world outside (which also often contains windows and even puddles so as not to go too long without catching a glimpse of those architecturally-brutalist cheekbones) which contains other people. In summary: good articles were written recently by other people — here are some of them
News
Broken Spines: Literary Links
Vanity is cool when you're beautiful and the mirror is reciprocative of your adulation, but there is a world outside (which also often contains windows and even puddles so as not to go too long without catching a glimpse of those architecturally-brutalist cheekbones) which contains other people. In summary: good articles were written recently by other people — here are some of them
Books
Short Fiction: Binary Star By Sarah Gerard
Extracted from the novel Binary Star, published earlier this year by Two Dollar Radio, Sarah Gerard's prose, both haunted and haunting, possesses a celestial quality seemingly drawn from the beauty of fluttering, astronomical luminescence and the terror of what feels a near-immeasurable vastness. In Binary Star personal reality becomes the vacuum and the horror of the metaphysical numinous abject. (Photograph by Josh Wool)
Books
Short Fiction: Binary Star By Sarah Gerard
Extracted from the novel Binary Star, published earlier this year by Two Dollar Radio, Sarah Gerard's prose, both haunted and haunting, possesses a celestial quality seemingly drawn from the beauty of fluttering, astronomical luminescence and the terror of what feels a near-immeasurable vastness. In Binary Star personal reality becomes the vacuum and the horror of the metaphysical numinous abject. (Photograph by Josh Wool)
A Quietus Interview
Requiem For A Lost Industry: An Interview With Jóhann Jóhannsson
With his score for The Theory Of Everything recently nominated for a BAFTA, the Icelandic composer talks to Karl Smith about his approach to creating music for the screen and reflects on The Miners' Hymns, the film tracing the decline of the north-east's mining communities, following its tour of the country last year
A Quietus Interview
Requiem For A Lost Industry: An Interview With Jóhann Jóhannsson
With his score for The Theory Of Everything recently nominated for a BAFTA, the Icelandic composer talks to Karl Smith about his approach to creating music for the screen and reflects on The Miners' Hymns, the film tracing the decline of the north-east's mining communities, following its tour of the country last year
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Baker's Dozen
Strength In Strangeness: The Anchoress’ Favourite Albums
Ahead of a show this Saturday at London's Southbank Centre, Catherine Anne Davies takes us through the 13 albums that have defined her life and work as The Anchoress, from childhood memories soundtracked by The Carpenters and lifechanging encounters with the Manics and PJ Harvey as a teen, to newfound infatuations with SZA and The 1975,
Baker's Dozen
All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs
Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata
Black Sky Thinking
Cutting the Beef: Rappers unite as 50’s marketing ploy fails
As 50 Cent vainly attempts to flog another album on his label with a tired round of beefing, Adam Narkiewicz looks at how a new generation of rappers are re-introducing a spirit of community and collaboration to the genre.
