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Exquisite Menace

Vulgar? Ostentatious? Indulgent? Symbols of all that's wrong with high end fashion? All of these things ring true of these, we think. And rarely do we celebrate such things. In fact, we refuse to. But in this case, we were coaxed into it by those two cunning serpents of design, Gucci and Louis Vuitton. Yes, we know, these gas masks are meaningless and vile, but we couldn't resist. We succumbed to the surface allure of fashion, to the novelty and extravagance of it all, to temptation itself.

We hang our heads in shame. We deserve expulsion. We have sinned.

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Categories Fashion Tags Fashion

By on 10/4/08

A Few Bad Apples

Alex Gibney’s father was a U.S. naval interrogator with experiences of Japanese prisoners during World War II. He and his fellow men learned that torture was an ineffective means of withdrawing information from enemy prisoners. Before his death, he begged his son to make a film about the U.S.’s use of torture on untried prisoners and, by definition, its disregard for the rules of democracy in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So Alex Gibney made that film, and this year, after his last project Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005, the film won Best Documentary at The Oscars.

Taxi To The Darkside is a film about the systematic attempts made by the Bush administration to sidestep the laws laid down in the Geneva Convention to safeguard against the maltreatment of war prisoners. At its most essential, it’s an exposé of their hypocrisy in the loosely defined war on terror.

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Categories Film Politics Tags Film

By on 9/4/08

What Is It?

Some people are really bad at table football. So bad, in fact, that they can barely muster enough power in their goalkeeper’s clearance to reach the opponent’s back line, let alone breach it. I know one such man. I came face to face with him not along ago and it was embarrassing to say the least. Mostly, though, people can play a bit. They partake once in a while and occasionally do something half decent on the pitch - a pass, say, or even a pass followed by a goal. There are also those who can play with their left hand only and still beat you hands down. They are few and far between, a rare breed indeed.

More rare, though, are those who love the game so dearly that they set out to design and build the most glorious ode to table football you could possibly imagine. That, dear friend, is what you see here.

Read more about it here.

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Categories Design Sport Fun Tags Design Football Sport

By on 9/4/08

Film Knights

LWLies and SUSO are proud to announce the first in our series of Film Knights, a new monthly event created to tell the tales and celebrate the stories of the courageous individuals, both sung and unsung, behind the best and the brave in cinema. In honour of imagination, creativity and determination in film, we kick things off with a screening of Taxi To The Darkside, preceded by a brief introduction from a representative from Reprieve, at 6.45pm on Tuesday April 8th at Curzon Soho.

And it’s free. All you need to pay is attention.

The event is guest-listed on a first come first served basis. RSVP to filmknights@littlewhitelies.co.uk

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Categories Film Tags Film

By on 4/4/08

The Rise (and Fall?) Of The Semi

I like them - they are a three-quarter beat to the half and full beats of commas and full stops. Prose has its own musicality, and the more notation the better. WILL SELF

Talk has been raging of late about a much neglected friend of ours: the semicolon. Should it, as some believe, remain a secret weapon in a writer’s armoury, or should it, as others have argued, be removed from our keyboards? Hmmmm...

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Categories Words Tags Words Writing

By on 4/4/08

We Were Robots

“Anyone who swims with the current will reach the big music steamship; whoever swims against the current will perhaps reach the source.” PAUL SCHNEIDER-ESLEBEN (Father to FLORIAN SCHNEIDER)

Florian Schneider, along with Ralf Hütter, was one of the founding members of Kraftwerk. If ever musicians swam against some kind of current, it was them. But so too did the other two long-standing members, Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos.

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Categories Music Tags Imagination Kraftwerk Music

By on 4/4/08

Bunnywood

What if you took a bunch of famous films, condensed them down into thirty seconds, and reenacted them with animated bunnies? Why, you’d get ANGRY ALIEN PRODUCTIONS.

Prepare to waste the rest of today. Favourites include The Exorcist, Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Jaws, March of the Penguins - all of them dammit.

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Categories Film Fun Tags Animation Film

By on 1/4/08