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Dawn of the Dumb

Helen Byrne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:19:50 +0000

Words: Simon Jablonski Brooker portraits: John Stewardson Charlie Brooker – celebrated Guardian columnist, creator of E4’s Dead Set and all-round misanthropic griper – chats about zombies, twats and sliding moral standards. [...]

Golden Graham

Helen Byrne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:16:35 +0000

Words: Martin Anderson Graham Linehan photography: Adam Mattison-Ward If the British studio sit-com is as dead as Victoria Wood suggested in 2005, no-one’s told Graham Linehan or the legions of fans awaiting the third series of award-winning geek comedy The IT Crowd. Declared in 2007 to be amongst the top 100 living geniuses, this Irish writer loves [...]

The American Dream

Helen Byrne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:16:22 +0000

Words: Nick Carson Photography: Anastasia Taylor-Lind Cult British comedy hails from a cloistered isle where subtlety, eccentricity and surrealism can thrive. US shows may surge across the Atlantic but only a select few wriggle back against the tide; established big-hitters like The Office and Little Britain that are checked in fully-formed before being re-packaged. A Brit writer [...]

Boyle in the Bag

Helen Byrne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:15:41 +0000

Words: Catherine Bray He’s among Britain’s greatest living directors, and he’s back in the city settings he loves for his latest film, charting an Indian slum kid’s progress up the ranks on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? We catch up with Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and now the film that could [...]

Sanna Charles

Helen Byrne — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:30:01 +0000

Sanna Charles has been a freelance documentary / portrait photographer for seven years. Her personal projects, based around music festivals and heavy metal, have been exhibited worldwide and published in a number of lifestyle and music magazines. Her clients, past and present, include Vice, Dazed & Confused, Plan B, ‘Sup, The Independent, NME and Levi’s [...]

Nick Lockey

Helen Byrne — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:28:36 +0000

Nick is a successful Development Producer with Maverick Television working across both broadcast and online media. Having spent six years developing original TV projects for UK and international broadcasters, Nick has now turned his attention towards multi-platform development, social media and web services for the broadcast sector. He also also lectures on cross-media development and [...]

Hamish Jordan

Helen Byrne — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:27:14 +0000

Hamish Jordan works as a freelance photographer. After photographing while travelling the world he sold the images for use in various brochures, books and websites. This was the beginning of what is now a very successful business. He specialises in advertising, fashion and editorial work using digital or film formats. www.hamishjordan.com

Ben Collins

Helen Byrne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:11:08 +0000

Professional photographer based in Edinburgh working all over the UK with lots of experience in the arts; film stills, theatre publicity, music photography, fine art documentation. Creative work with high professional standards, Ben is an Adobe Certified Expert and is represented by Redferns Music Picture Library. www.bencollins.co.uk ben@bencollins.co.uk

Plus International Design Festival 2008

Catherine Bray — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:00:40 +0000

Caroline Archer is a Partner in UKType (www.uktype.com) and blogs here about this year’s Plus International Design Festival exhibition, part-sponsored by media partner 4Talent. There’s not much to queue for on River Street, especially in November, but for four days last week cars were doubled parked, coaches arrived in convoy and expectant delegates lined the pavement [...]

4Talent Gigbeth stage round-up

Catherine Bray — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:17:01 +0000

Contributor Ian Ravenscroft blogs from the 4Talent stage at Gigbeth festival on the 8th November and would like to note he was not paid to say all the nice things he says here. _________________________________________________________ Exchanging indie haircut bands for an eclectic line-up of unknowns is a brave move for an up-and-coming festival. I went to find out [...]

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