Lewis’s Fifth Floor: A Department Story

Lewis’s fifth floor: a department story is a photography exhibition running at the National Museum Liverpool until 30th August, 2010.
It is the first solo exhibition by Liverpool photographer Stephen King and it reflects his visits to the ‘lost’ fifth floor of Liverpool’s iconic Lewis’s department store, which has been closed to the public since the [...]

Terry Fator: Singing Ventriloquist

Singing ventriloquist Terry Fator won the second season of America’s Got Talent and now headlines at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in a five-year $100m deal (with an option to renew on the same deal). But like most overnight successes, it took a while to find success – the 44 yr-old has been honing [...]

The Cove Team Takes on LA

Whilst waiting to collect their Oscar, it seems that Louie Psihoyos,  director of feature-length dolphin slasher documentary The Cove couldn’t help but indulge in a little more activisim, this time in a Santa Monica sushi bar call the Hump, which  was suspected of serving illegal whale meat. Louie and his team turned up for dinner [...]

What Makes an Oscar-Winning Documentary?

Nothing looks better on your CV than a Oscar or BAFTA-winning credit, but that’s an impossible dream, right? Not necessarily if you do a bit of canny trend-watching and forward planning to make sure you make a documentary with a subject that is guaranteed to catch the Academy’s eye. As the annual Oscars ceremony is here, now seems like a good time to explore previous winners to see what the trends are before you set out with your camera.
Click through to see this year’s nominations and the Oscar winners of the last twenty years.
(Photo by steepways CC BY-SA 2.0)

Design for Health

UK design firm Priestmangoode believe that healthcare could be improved by applying the same design principles to hospitals and clinics that are applied in the luxury travel trade and first class cabins in airplanes.
They have written a manifesto, which revolves around the following principles:

Healthcare doesn’t need to be in a hospital;
Buildings need to be planned [...]

Single Black Female

Karyn Langhorne Folan, author of Don’t Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women From Dating Out, suggests that single African American women need to start dating outside their race if they are to find a partner. Part of the problem is that ‘good’ black men i.e. those with college degrees [...]

The Boneyard Aircraft Cemetery

Beautiful photograph of an airplane cemetery can be seen courtesy of Google Earth in The Telegraph.  The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is in Tuscon, Arizona and its four square miles are populated with partially dismantled or decommissioned aircraft, which are sometimes recycled and sometimes restored and sold on. Read more.
Via @richpayne88

Pet Trackers

Sam Connelly and her golden retriever, Salsa, spend their days tracking down missing pets – dogs and cats – in Baltimore, USA. In the last year they’ve reunited 87 missing cats and dogs with their frantic owners. Although not every search leads to finding the missing animal, it can narrow down the search and lead [...]

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

Head on over to SXSW in March, 2010,  for the world premiere of the music doc Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields a ten-year labour for its directors Kerthy Fix and Gail O’Hara (and a much shorter – by about 9 years and 49 weeks – labour of love for TV Mole in [...]

Homes for Haiti

Flavorwire reports that architects are trying to help Haiti by designing new temporary homes  ranging from re-purposed shipping containers to lightweight Ikea-esque ‘pods’.  Andrés Duany, a Miami-based architect who developed the pretty Katrina Cottage in the aftermath of Hurriacane Katrina in New Orleans, as a dignified alternative to disaster trailers provided by FEMA. But are [...]