Celebrating the 20th anniversary of OK Computer (a favourite here at Lapsus) and Radiohead’s announcement of OKNOTOK, we’ve decided to compile a list of our top 10 favourite Radiohead songs. Write-ups are by our two resident journalists: Julian and Billy. There is no order, except perhaps for our mutual number one. And just for you, … Continue reading
THE BLACKEST SHADE OF BLACK EVER is known as Vantablack, and British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor has been given the exclusive artistic licence to use it. “It’s so black you almost can’t see it,” Kapoor told BBC Radio 4. “Imagine a space that’s so dark that as you walk in you lose all sense of where you are, … Continue reading
THE FBI is offering up to $25,000 ($32,400 AUD) for any information on the seven Andy Warhol paintings stolen from a Missouri art museum last week. The iconic Campbell’s Soup Can paintings, part of a set of 10, worth $500,000 in total, were taken from the Springfield Art Museum during a break-in, in the early … Continue reading
THE MARTIAN HAS HIT CINEMAS, bosomed by director Ridley Scott and Matt Damon as the man on Mars—it’s made some splashes. The film enjoyed the juicy publicity that came with NASA’s recent announcement of liquid water on the surface of Mars. Exciting stuff. Days earlier NASA dangled this “major discovery” as a big secret, so … Continue reading
— Billy Wright HUMANS ALLURED by the dreams of an android. Or at least, by the visions of image-recognition software with an artificial neurology. They’ve been shared rampant across the internet, you may have noticed: photographs of once people now becoloured with a psychedelic rash, their eyebrows shorn but with new eyes sprouting from the … Continue reading
“As Homer Jay Simpson sits on the hood of his car, watching the stars swipe across the night sky, deserted by his mother once more –pensive, despondent, and discarded – you begin to wonder if there’s more to this beer-swelling, boneheaded buffoon than first suspected.” Continue reading
“For those not schooled on Homer Simpson, he has difficulty thinking, planning, organising, problem solving, and has a lot of trouble controlling his emotions and behaviour.” Continue reading
“[Surrealistic] art offers access to reassurance on a different level of understanding.” Continue reading
“The Babadook itself could be seen as a Freudian-like representation –an embodiment of the grief that haunts Amelia and Samuel…” Continue reading
(Feature image: Still of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in NBC’s Seinfeld) By Billy Wright It seems the whole universe truly is against George Costanza. Jerry, Elaine, his Mother and that girl who saw him in the Henry VIII costume have each tried to coax George into psychiatric treatment, yet he resists. But resistance is futile, transcendentally, when psychiatric … Continue reading
