by microgasms | Jul 27, 2017 | Video
Sometimes, tiny things in life will bring oddly satisfaction.
by microgasms | Jul 27, 2017 | Art & Culture, Design, Video
Another oddly satisfying moment when you are holding this world’s first fully mobile inkjet printer!
by microgasms | Jul 27, 2017 | Art, Art & Culture, Video
Japanese Artist Keisuke Teshima creates this stunning one-stroke dragon painting technique that is not only wowing many audiences, but also bringing satisfaction to your soul. Dragon is one of a holy creatures in most Asian countries. They believe that dragon...
by microgasms | May 22, 2017 | Art & Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, TV Shows
Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s iconic TV series, is returning to our screens after it went missing for almost three decades. First broadcast in 1990, the show became a cult classic and is celebrated by fans and TV scholars alike. One...
by microgasms | May 22, 2017 | Entertainment, TV Shows
Ellen Turner, Lund University and Birgitta Berglund, Lund University On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Netflix announced that the fifth season of House of Cards would air on May 30. This was no mistake. The similarities between Trump and House of Cards’...
by microgasms | May 22, 2017 | Entertainment, Movies
Marco Nievergelt, University of Warwick Cinematic adaptations of the King Arthur story have frequently assigned a central place to the love triangle between Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot – most famously in the saccharine Hollywood remake, First Knight (1995). Not so...
by microgasms | May 19, 2017 | Entertainment, Movies
Sadek Kessous, Newcastle University It was pitched as “Jaws in space”, but director Ridley Scott’s original Alien film, released in 1979, couldn’t have been more different to Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster. Unlike Jaws (1975), Alien didn’t indulge in attacks on female...
by microgasms | May 18, 2017 | Science
Barry Sheils, Durham University Culture has rarely tired of speaking about the weather. Pastoral poems detail the seasonal variations in weather ad nauseam, while the term “pathetic fallacy” is often taken to refer to a Romantic poet’s wilful translation of external...
by microgasms | May 18, 2017 | Art, Art & Culture
James Peacock, Keele University When Edward Hopper’s retrospective at Tate Modern in London closed in September 2004, more than 420,000 tickets had been sold. Up to that point, only the acclaimed duo of Matisse and Picasso had beat this record. It is now 50 years...
by microgasms | May 17, 2017 | Art & Culture, Music
Ian Pace, City, University of London A passionate debate is raging regarding musical education which threatens to unbalance the already critically privileged world of classical music. And, ironically, some of those who believe that music education should be made more...
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