The Pilkington Project: An idiot abroad or just honest?

For most people, watching travel shows fosters the desire for one to expand beyond visible horizons, to pack up and to ship themselves abroad to see what the world has to offer. More enticingly, an all expenses paid trip to see the…

Egotistical. Depressed. Self-Loathing. Supremacists. The Avengers

Not all superheroes require capes.

First of all, I have a confession. Four weeks ago, the only superhero film I had watched from the last decade was Batman: The Return of the Dark Knight…

We are the Digital Generation

After watching the news religiously lately it appears that New Media has created a distinct shift in the way people communicate and interact with each other in their daily lives. I would like to touch on the notion however that while there are a number of positive…

The Simpsons: Wisdom Within

‘If cartoons were meant for adults, they’d put them on in prime time,’ as someone precocious, yellow (and mildly annoying) once astutely observed. In quoting young intellectual and black sheep of her family, Lisa, we are again met with that Simpson-esque tongue-in-cheek nod to…

Funding from the Masses

IDEA (noun)

1. A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action, a concept or mental impression, an opinion or belief
2. The aim or purpose
3. A concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience…

Advertising Today — The effects on young women

Advertising today, from magazines to billboards it seems it has come to define the meaning of perfection and beauty. It has come to dictate the lives of many young teenage girls, telling them what to wear, eat, dress and weigh. I wish to explore…

Reasonable rebellion

School is like a prison
We can’t leave,

School is like an island
We are all trapped,

School is like a pie
It is good at first until you reach the crust,

The Phenomenon that is, the Zombie

It seems that everywhere you look these days there is something new to do with zombies. From games, walks, TV shows and movies there is an influx of zombie related media for the enthusiast, but where did this phenomenon come from and is a zombie apocalypse even…

Feline Phenomena

Take a look at the picture above. No, take another look; give it a long hard stare. What are you feeling? If you’re feeling somewhat nonplussed and greet my question with a shrug of the shoulders, then perhaps you have been desensitised to the feline phenomena that is sweeping cyberspace. In case…

Surprise! Society is Racist.

Literary critics have a theory whereby when an author completes their novel they have a personal view of what it means, but as the reader interprets their words they bring to the text their own experiences and background to interpret the story. Sometimes, this is why we…