The Best Music of 2012
2012 - the year of the Olympics, the apocalypse, the year that saw a song in Korean become the most watched video on YouTube and a British X Factor runner-up become the biggest band since the Beatles. Here are my personal highlights of 2012...
Why Modern Art Is Actually Quite Important
I was pretty amazed by these photos taken from atop the Shard - which at the current state of completion is the tallest skyscraper in Europe. The stunning snaps are thanks to a plucky group of ‘urban explorers’ who (mostly) made it past security to...
100 Amazing Diagrams That Changed The World
Diagrams, and particularly ‘infographics’ feel like an inherently modern phenomenon. Something that only people whose time is no longer consumed with avoiding plagues, scurvy and constant warring have the luxury of creating. But as 100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave...
Freakonomics: The Movie
I only read this book recently (my first iPad book!) and I’m now on the recently released sequel ‘Superfreakonomics’. The widely worshipped tomes are a very interesting look at how human desire ultimately shapes how we as a society behave.
Look forward to the film...
Featured Photography on Unsplash This Month | December
Photos I uploaded to Unsplash this month.
The Odds That You Exist Are Zero [Infographic]
Ali Binazir calculated the probability that you came about. And finds it is mind-meltingly slim!
Abbey Road with Alan Parsons
This weekend I went along to Abbey Road in London, the world’s most famous recording studio, to attend an extraordinary talk by Alan Parsons.
Playlist: Best Music of 2010
2010 has been another great year for new music, with fresh and original acts taking centre stage whilst many of our established heroes take a year out releasing albums forgettable or not at all. My fave tracks of the year are:
Warpaint - Undertow
This year...
10 Years Of The Beatles’ Styles
Illustrator Maxim Dalton has just released a limited run of 500 prints of this cool poster showing how the biggest selling band of all time evolved sartorially through the 1960’s in a fifteen-step change from all black Pierre Cardin suits to the confused, messy...