Is Psychedelia ‘The New Black’?

Is Psychedelia ‘The New Black’?
Strolling down Kensington High Street last week, for a brief moment I could have sworn I was in San Francisco, circa 1973. By Candida Balfour for The Evening Standard. The windows of American Apparel heaved with neon T-shirts and trippy prints, while Empire of the Sun’s heady synth came...
January 12th, 2010 | Arts | Read More

Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust

Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust
In Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Riddley enters ‘the woom of Cambry’, the epicentre of the nuclear blast that reduced England to a neolithic state over two thousand years earlier. Walking through the crypt of the devastated cathedral, he experiences a numinous revelation of the power that was...
January 3rd, 2010 | Arts | Read More

For The Love of Goddess

For The Love of Goddess
The inspiration for this poem was the realisation that Albert Hoffmann rediscovered LSD the same year the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and that ergot grows on rye barley, an ear of which was one of the ancient symbols for the Earth Goddess, Demeter, one of the principal matriarchs of the the ancient...
December 4th, 2009 | Arts | Read More

The Elephant Artist

The Elephant Artist
Pictures which were painted by elephants have gone on display at an Edinburgh gallery. Art graduate Victoria Khunapramot, 26, has brought the paintings from Thailand to the Dundas Gallery on Dundas Street. They include “self-portraits” by Paya, who is said to be the only elephant...
November 24th, 2009 | Arts | Read More

An Abdication of Human Response

An Abdication of Human Response
Adam Gyngell considers Waltz with Bashir and the role technology plays in the abdication of human response in times of war. Ari Folman asks his friend why, twenty years down the line, he is now having this surreal dream from the war in Lebanon. Why can’t he remember the occasion this vision so powerfully...
November 10th, 2009 | Arts | Read More

A Glimpse of Burning Man

A Glimpse of Burning Man
These are a couple of videos from Burning Man, made by a film maker I’ve jsut come into contact with, who coincidentally features my mother, Amanda Feilding, and various other friends in the videos. I thought these might just be a nice glimpse of what there is out there for us all to enjoy…
November 3rd, 2009 | Arts | Read More

Political Science

Political Science
I just though this was worth a listen. Randy Newman seems to hit a lot of the right notes when it comes to stereotyping and character assassinating the less-than-admirable section of the American people.
October 21st, 2009 | Arts | Read More

Eco Deep Article 1

Psychedelics could be a powerful tool…They provide treatment options for patients with terminal illnesses, and there are positive indications that they could be beneficial for conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorders, which are notoriously difficult to treat effectively....
August 7th, 2009 | Arts | Read More
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