Alex King
A growing grassroots movement is supporting the Calais refugees
A swarm of solidarity — The lack of government humanitarian support and incendiary media coverage has prompted ordinary people to go to Calais and help out any way they know how.
Written by: Alex King
Street artists to battle it out in Leake Street Tunnel
The Battle of Waterloo — The cans are drawn. London’s finest graffiti writers go head-to-head for a cash prize on Saturday August 22.
Written by: Alex King
Space Explorer are building a four-dimensional public art project
Tripping through space and time — Using smartphone technology and untapped outdoor locations, Space Explorer will turn Hackney’s streets into an immersive storytelling journey.
Written by: Alex King
Skateboarding and wanderlust in the Scottish countryside
Escape to the wild — New film series Ahead aims to fuse skateboarding, travel and discovery like you’ve never seen before.
Written by: Alex King
Provocative animator Signe Baumane’s quest for sanity
Latvia’s Angela Carter of animation — After tackling sex, pregnancy and violence with an outspoken honesty, Signe Baumane explores her own family’s history of mental illness in Rocks in my Pockets.
Written by: Alex King
Five postcapitalist projects that offer a blueprint for a new world
Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future — Paul Mason’s provocative new book offers a terminal diagnosis of the current order and argues the building blocks for a postcapitalist future are all around us.
Written by: Alex King
10 of the very best surfing short films
Stoke - in five minutes or less — Entries are now open for London Surf / Film Festival’s Shorties strand. We picked out 10 of our favourites from previous editions of the festival.
Written by: Alex King
Moody short Maximize shows LA like you’ve never seen before
Alienation and obsolescence on Super 8 — Gardens & Villa announce their new LP Music For Dogs with an arresting mini-doc that asks if we’ve lost our soul to the machines.
Written by: Alex King
One year after Mike Brown: where are we now?
Stemming the tide of violence — Since Mike Brown’s death America has witnessed the biggest movement for civil rights in a generation, but how much has it achieved? We spoke to race and policing expert Joe Feagin to find out more.
Written by: Alex King
All the knowledge you need to throw DIY gigs
Don’t worry if it all goes wrong — Rob St. John and Bartholomew Owl teamed up to create Don't Make a Scene zine, the indispensable guide to doing DIY shows right.
Written by: Alex King