After quite a few years of meandering, flailing, senselessly ambling, patience-shredding, friend-losing, opportunity-shunning, self-doubt-crippled dilettantism… I have decided to get some focus. Normally I’d chuck a self-deprecating joke in here about my own hopeless inability to crack on with the job, ha ha, ever the hapless goon. But not this time. I might cross-pollinate my [...]
Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman – photo by Spin Magazine, heart graffiti by Queenie And the award for Most Predictable And Yet Still Rather Heartwarming News Story Of The Week goes to: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman’s engagement announcement. According to the bandwidth fairies, the picture below is the MOST requested one on this site. [...]
To celebrate the forthcoming Making a Creative Living series here on Postculturist, here’s a brand spanking new themed Spotify playlist for you. We are really spoiling you, yes. As ever, just click the image below to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. Because you’re worth it. And if you can’t wait long enough [...]
Some of you may have noticed that Postculturist has been carrying ads for some time. Well, they’ve gone. Apart from Amazon. It was always trial and error, but here are the main issues: The ads are ugly and spoil the place. It’s not just the corporate-ness, although that’s a bit horrid. It’s the colonisation of [...]
What’s the difference between a photographer and someone who takes snapshots? How do you know when your work is art and when it’s not? Is there a difference? And say you’ve got a talent like photography… what do you do with it? In this fragmented digital age, where money’s too tight to mention, can you [...]
The last issue of Plan B – June 2009 Today we present one sad thought and one happy thought. In that order. Here’s the sad one. It’s the end of an era for music fans. Well, the sort of music fans who read the eclectic, hyperbolic and occasionally life-altering Plan B magazine. ‘Real music fans’, [...]
Last week, the proprietors of Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright crime. The site is a popular and well-used free repository of links to copyright-ignoring media torrents. The debate has turned cartwheels ever since, in the mainstream media and in blogs. Was a custodial sentence really warranted? Should the entertainment industry [...]
