‘Choice’ in video games: Crude plot device or meaningful storytelling?
A couple of years ago, amid the traditional end of year ‘silly season’ in the game release schedule, something strange happened to me. I’ll explain all later on in the article, but it was one of those...
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Turner Prize 2010: There’s Always Next Year
Tate Britain (Credit: jimmyharris - Flickr) Each year I pay a visit to the Turner Prize at Tate Britain to experience the sheer exhilaration of blinding rage. Okay, perhaps I’m exaggerating for...
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Review: Black Swan
(Photo Credit - m4tik @ Flickr) Natalie Portman puts in an outstanding performance as Nina Sayers; a fragile, sexually repressed ballet dancer who, in her search for perfection, sees the lines between...
View ArticleMedia Ownership – Should We Be Worried?
It’s not a rhetorical question, I’m asking you to think about it for a moment. Today saw the announcement which many news-junkies on the left have been dreading. News Corporation will be shortly be...
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Richard Phillips: Most Wanted
White Cube Hoxton Square 28. January – 05. March 2011 Richard Phillips’ Most Wanted is an identity parade of some of the most popular young faces in America today. Phillips has taken found imagery of...
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Why I Will Never ‘Love That Advert’
Whilst out driving last week a familiar event occurred, one which most of us experience several times each day. On the rear shelf of the car in front sat a nodding dog. My brain raided its memory banks...
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Film Review: Idiocracy
Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge (King Of The Hill, Office Space) depicts a world in which evolution no longer values human intelligence and where brands and corporations have come to dominate...
View ArticleFree Software: Socialism for Computing
[This article originally appeared on the New Left Project website.] As I’ve delved deeper into politics I’ve been struck by just how many activists on the left who might otherwise self-identify as...
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My BP Winner: Nathan Ford
BP Portrait Award 2011 16. June – 18. September 2011 As a practising portrait artist myself I make sure to visit the BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery (London) every year. I go seeking...
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Film Review: Collapse
Collapse is one of the most riveting films I have ever watched. The entire documentary consists solely of an interview with Michael Ruppert, an ex-police officer turned investigative journalist and...
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