This last week, the Scottish BPOC Writers Network hosted a talk on Performance and Resistance by Sumud Edinburgh, an organisation supporting a free Palestine. Sofia Nakou, a lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland and Dani… Read More »Performance and Resistance
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. This time, Distant Voices, Still Lives.… Read More »BFI 100: 82 – Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
In my most recent assignment for school, I was asked to design, photograph, and pitch a picture for a record cover design. Though I had the option of finding a client, I was behind schedule and wanted to avoid cooperation… Read More »Top 5 Record Covers
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. This time, the swinging sixties in… Read More »BFI 100: 83 – Darling (1965)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. Michael Caine and Julie Walters star… Read More »BFI 100: 84 – Educating Rita (1983)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. Today, some colliery music in the… Read More »BFI 100: 85 – Brassed Off (1996)
As Scotland hosts England at Hampden Park tonight to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the first International football match, I’ve unearthed an article I wrote for a short-lived periodical during the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. Rewritten for… Read More »Anyone But England (Redux)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. Today, vintage cars in the… Read More »BFI 100: 86 – Genevieve (1953)
Continuing my resurrected journey of watching each of the British Film Institute’s 100 best films of the 20th Century. Starting at 100 and working my way to Orson Welles’ The Third Man at number 1. This time, Ken Russell’s 1969… Read More »BFI 100: 87 – Women in Love (1969)
I first head Bob Dylan’s My Back Pages on the Byrds’ 1967 masterpiece Younger Than Yesterday. Roger McGuinn’s 12-string Rickenbacker chiming across the recording. While the version cut by the Byrds in the winter of 1966 will always be my… Read More »Top 5 Tour Films