In 2007, after a few decades spent working in construction, Gary Nicholls decided to pursue his passion for photography and purchased his first professional camera. In 2012, a visit to Europe’s largest steampunk festival, The Asylum in Lincoln, UK, turned out to be the spark that lit the creative fireworks. It was there that Gary […]
x Read more xI remember my first yoga class. I was trying to lose some weight, and I had a history of quitting gyms. I was not – and still am not – one for typical fitness training, with non-stop jumping, drill sergeant type trainers and loud techno music. Still, I did not want to give up […]
x Read more xWe’ve all come across it, but most of the time we just walk by. Despite the fact that urban art has now broken into the mainstream, many still question it, dismissing it as vandalism, even as it becomes more and more elaborate and innovative. Urban art is out in the open for everyone to see, […]
x Read more xIoana Cristina Casapu is the Managing Director of Berlin Art Parasites. Journalist, creative director and fashion photographer. She began experimenting with Polaroid film in 2013. Her work was featured in Cake Magazine (UK), Confashion (PL), JUTE (US), Polaroid of the Day (ES), Feature Shoot, Cultartes and others. She is the co-owner of Retro Future media […]
x Read more xBeing a fan of the short story format almost feels like something shameful in an age when people no longer read short stories, and the word “book” is automatically assumed to refer to a novel. If, once upon a time, brevity was considered the soul of wit, now our novels have to have at least […]
x Read more xThe lives of writers are often as fascinating as their work. The movies we have selected here focus on people who couldn’t have been more different in terms of personality, social status and circumstances – from aristocrats to those living from day to day, from academics to political radicals, from those who achieved success during […]
x Read more xCyborgs – entities that are part organic and part machine – are a major theme in the science fiction genre, be it fiction or visual arts. However, when one thinks of artistic depictions of cyborgs, the first image that pops up is usually of a sexualized female cyborg with bolt-on breasts. Thus, the exploration of mental […]
x Read more xMuch has been written about the lives of artists – sometimes in quasi-mythical terms. It’s important to remember that, despite the pedestals we place them on, the talented, visionary people we read about in art history books were, first and foremost, people, not mythical beings. They struggled with depression and poverty, abuse and injustice, illness, […]
x Read more xMuch has been written about the lives of artists – sometimes in quasi-mythical terms. It’s important to remember that, despite the pedestals we place them on, the talented, visionary people we read about in art history books were, first and foremost, people, not mythical beings. They struggled with depression and poverty, abuse and injustice, illness, […]
x Read more xScience fiction played a large part in my upbringing. My parents let me watch “Star Trek: Next Generation,” which is one of the first TV series I remember watching, and read science fiction short stories. I later graduated to weirder stuff like “The [reimagined] Twilight Zone,” “The X Files” or “The [reimagined] Outer Limits,” […]
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Painting by Catrin Walz Stein
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