I came across a reference to the Pantechnicon building in a story I was reading the other day. My mind conjured up images of  the gigantic depository throbbing with activity all nestled up against the tall villas of Belgravia. Perhaps even a smokey, winter-red sky to frame it all. This is where the rich Victorians [...]

Picture this… It’s a grey Monday morning in November and my face is still sporting the last remnants of some bed scars. In the lift up to my office (somewhere between floor four and five), I looked at my feet and to my surprise there was an old discarded Olivetti box sitting amongst some fluff [...]

Sundays are good days for jams. If like me you had your bacon sandwich on Saturday morning and you want something a little less ‘meaty’ for your long, drawn-out sunday breakfast, then you might consider reaching for the jam. It goes without saying that it pays to not skimp on the quality either as disappointment [...]

Nothing is more satisfying than snubbing the gold-plated visage of Hollywood and occasionally cashing in your film morals to watch something along the lines of Astro Zombies – The movie equivalent of writing your name in your own shit… on your neighbours lawn. Hollywood drives us to watch these films as an antidote. It is, [...]

Every now and again I come back to the classic Manga films of my youth… Akira, Fist of the North Star, Metropolis, AD Tank Police, and the wonderful Ninja Scroll. The more I think about it, the more I realise what a significant effect they had on my mind and my perspective of science fiction. [...]

Since being a child, I have found bunkers to be frighteningly austere and at the same time inertly disarming. Most bunkers that freckle the costs and immediate hinterland of the UK are sad affairs that slide under the dunes and peep through the samphires. Balding in the salty offshore breeze. If you walk around the [...]

Salva Lopez’s photos are sharp, clean and somehow ethereal. There’s no silly ’tilt-shifting’, vintage blurring, faux Polaroid processing or anything like that here. The location says everything that there is to be said in his work.  But what I like the most about his pictures is that they seem to hang around on the screen [...]

For some time I have searched for a copy of the Pelican book of Grasses and have, until now, been unsuccessful. Unwrapping this charming little countryside companion from the padded envelope it came in, was as satisfying as getting into a bath that’s exactly the right temperature. It has sat unchallenged on my bookcase since [...]