ISIS Eye 2013
The first thing I saw when I woke up in 2013. Welcome to ISIS Eye 2013!
The Strange Life of Mavungu
In one of Oxford’s darker museum cabinets, a wooden figure is frozen in an eternal gasp. Its oversized eyes are painted a pallid white, widening as if trapped in a moment of grotesque revelation. An arm is raised in wrath, and its torso, like an eruption of shrapnel, is violently studded with nail
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
In the film Limitless, Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie discovers a little transparent pill, NZT-48, which equips him with super-human intelligence and transforms his life. In Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, Edith assuages the plagues and pains of old age by illicit prescription of A
Why Big is Small in Pakistan
The Fakir Khana Museum, a ‘hevaley’ housing a vast collection of eclectic artefacts assembled over six generations, is stifling in Lahore’s August heat. Unfazed by the rivulets of sweat coursing down his face, its owl-eyed curator is about to present one of his most precious treasures. “How
Doctor Who in Shenzhen, China
A class of primary school students watch Doctor Who in Shenzhen, China. A day after taking this photo, I entered a class to chants of "B!B!C!B!B!C!". A year after taking this photo, China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television reportedly 'banned' depictions of Time Travel in film and
Catweazle
Matt Sage, troubadour, founder and compere of Catweazle explains why, in his words, this “magical cave from some far away epoch” has been such a success, and why it is so valuable in the city.
The Mind’s a Stage: Cinema’s journey into our heads
Neuroscientists at Berkeley, University of California, last year posted a video on YouTube, revealing the results of years of research. The video documented experiments in which they had scanned the brain activity of various subjects engaged in watching short films. They then endeavoured to translat