Anthony Bourdain. Photo by Carter Sterling, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ . "If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, mov

Image of Harry Styles at concert by Wilnel José Verdú Guerrero via wikiCommons under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. We gather here today to discuss a serious matter: the Performative Man epidemic. Now, some of you will be painfully aware of what I am referring to, but some of you will be living in blissful ignorance. A performative man is a man (well, clearly) who dresses himself and engages in activities that align him with femininity, no

Supernatural’s  early seasons are a perfect example of when television still had that nostalgic sense of realism. Shot on 35 mm film with Panavision cameras and lenses, those first few years had a look that has become almost mythical. Grainy, dark and atmospheric, every frame felt heavy with mood. There was a gothic atmosphere, misty and dirty, with a sense of antiquity, almost of found footage. It carried that same tension and beauty you find in Lynch’s work, that sense of s

Planet or profit? The devastating consequences of the AI boom. It has become painfully apparent, AI has destroyed the world as we knew it. Now, as the dust settles we are watching the new world emerge; record job losses, climate damage, emerging studies showing the already detrimental effects on our brains- and even AI marriages (yes, people are really  marrying AI bots). But there's one issue being lost and obscured amongst the ruble: the AI drought. Whenever you prompt AI,

Sydney Sweenie at the 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' premiere on July 22, 2019. Photo by Glenn Francis, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . There is nothing new about selling denim through sex appeal. From Brooke Shields in the eighties to endless low rise campaigns in the 2000s, the blueprint is familiar: a woman, a camera, and the suggestion that buying a pair

Ask a teenager in Manila, a postgraduate in Manchester or a retiree in Marrakesh what they are using to learn right now and you might hear the same answer: ChatGPT. And probably, if you look in the mirror, you will find you are using it too. A tool that appeared without fanfare, no curriculum, no manifesto, just a blank box that would answer almost anything. In doing so it unsettled one of education’s oldest truths: knowledge has always been rationed by gatekeepers. In Britai