Sometimes, tiny things in life will bring oddly satisfaction.
Author: microgasms
A Handheld Printer You Don’t Need But You Definitely Want
Another oddly satisfying moment when you are holding this world’s first fully mobile inkjet printer!
Japanese One-Stroke Dragon Artist – Keisuke Teshima
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…
The fashion of Twin Peaks: why David Lynch’s TV show is back in style
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…
Eating meat implies power in House of Cards – and the real White House
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…
Arthur: Legend of the Sword – a film obsessed with effect rather than substance
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…
Alien: Covenant falls short of the original Alien’s trailblazing feminism
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.…
How World War I changed the weather for good
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…
Edward Hopper: the artist who evoked urban loneliness and disappointment with beautiful clarity
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…
The insidious class divide in music teaching
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…