Thursday, January 28, 2010
See more of the Looking in to the Past project here
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Death, damnation, spiritual hallucination, temptation, false freedom, torment; Jacques Audiard’s latest film, Un Prophete, is a classic prison movie. And like all good prison movies it is Faustian tragedy, just without belts.
Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that tragedy must arouse ‘fear and pity’ in the audience as we watch men ‘who are above the common [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Also known as, why I shouldn’t be allowed to write for Valentine’s Day issues. Or, yes I know this is just a rip off of Glenda Slagg, thanks.
Like cheese in a can, ‘Shake It’ bacon salt, woefully weak beer and Sketchers shoes, dating is one of those American concepts that just doesn’t seem to translate [...]
They’re slippers. Knitted slippers. With pom poms. It’s been a rock n’ roll January.
Nell Frizzell
“I like your shoes”
“Thanks, they’re Patrick Coxes.”
“Oh, you borrowed them? Small feet for a bloke.”
I paraphrase Spaced of course. The best sitcom Britain ever produced, and one of the best when-fashion-and-feminism-meet-total-failure scenes ever written.
But as Gary Bradshaw would no doubt ask… was Daisy so stupid? Is the line between label and label really so obvious? [...]
This morning, London is like a shared towel in a student bathroom – grey, damp and smelly.
Nell Frizzell
Another inspired illustration by the enormously talented Narcsville and a quick Valentine’s Day article for Leeds Guide
As a fat and lustful teenager I came to the somewhat misguided decision that the best way to attract boys was to wear their clothes. Not in the sexy ‘boyfriend blazer’ sense, or in the smug ‘I’m wearing the [...]
It’s not often that I feel the swell of Nationalism in my bosom. It’s rarer still that that happens because of a news story about the Royal Family.
But this week, while I sat in the bath reading old copies of the water-damaged Guardian I came across this little article and it made me proud:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/17/prince-william-new-zealand-visit
Prince William [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Yeah. That’s me. Feeding carrots to some cows in the snow. (It was a while ago, aka during The Sabbatical)
Nell Frizzell
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A very fun collaboration with my tremendously talented friend Becky for Vice.
If I see one more Japanese student selling pictures of kittens on the vomit-slicked pavement of Brick Lane, then I am going to start pulling the heads off cats and using them as footballs.
There is nothing that makes me want to boil a budgie [...]