Posts In Category Opinion
Smoke Stacks to Apple Macs – the Kinetica Art Fair
on February 9, 2010 by Jimmy in Art, Article, Opinion, Comments (0)
Zizek has summarised Marx as having said that the invention of steam engine has caused more social change than any revolution ever would. Marx himself doesn’t seem to have provided […]
Shitty, Shitty Copenhagen
on December 7, 2009 by admin in Opinion, Zeitgeist, Comments (4)
Irate columnist Chad Fanstor rips into hippies. Again.
My long, slow conversion to pop
on October 9, 2009 by admin in Music, Opinion, Comments (0)
What’s the point in pop? Well, quite a lot, actually. There’s more to music than being able to sneer at other people’s lack of knowledge or taste. This is the story of one man’s music journey from black and white to colour…
Manifesto for the under twenty fives
on September 10, 2009 by admin in Opinion, Comments (1)
Are we generation Y or generation Z? Rina B. thinks that anyone who came of age in the last decade is part of generation Zzz…
Turner Prize: Not my cup of tea
on October 26, 2008 by Jimmy in Art, Opinion, Comments (0)
Jimmy Tidey tells us why conceptual art is out of ideas. It’s boring — so boring nobody’s even bothered to mention it.
Addictive TV on the roof of the National Theatre
on September 3, 2008 by admin in Opinion, Video, Comments (0)
We review Addictive TV’s appearance on the roof of the National Theatre. It’s edgy, apparently, but only because of the audience.
The Price of Free
on July 30, 2008 by Jimmy in Opinion, Comments (0)
Jimmy Tidey wonders if there’s any such thing as a free lunch. Would you pay for services on the web? Probably not. But someone has to, somehow.
My Twentysomething Crisis…
on May 26, 2008 by admin in Opinion, Comments (2)
As I near the big two five, I’m beginning to have a mental meltdown. But twenty five, I hear you cry, is still “spring chicken territory” – well, I’m afraid you’ve been misinformed…
Modern Art is Hyper-Bollocks?
on May 14, 2008 by admin in Art, Opinion, Comments (1)
Modern art is rubbish. Or is it? Richard Allday takes a trip up North to Newcastle’s Baltic Gallery and is pleasantly surprised. Especially when a girl offers him a blowjob…
Living In The Data Cloud
on April 13, 2008 by Jimmy in Opinion, Zeitgeist, Comments (0)
A lot of data gets collected on the internet, and a lot of privacy issues are raised. But there are a lot of benign uses for user data – such as gathering information about the weather. What could be sinister about that?