Sam White roguetech.substack.com What is pixel art? Well, it’s art made from pixels. Pretty simple. Except most digital images are made from pixels, so we should add that pixel art tends to mean retro 8-bit or 16-bit looking compositions. Think ’80s and ’90s console graphics, repurposed simply
Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon
Old folk have been grumbling about ‘young people these days’ at least since Socrates allegedly groused that the youth of Athens “have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise”. No doubt, there were misery-gutses on the African savannah who warned
Ben McCann University of Adelaide In November 1942, a romantic drama directed by a Hungarian immigrant and starring an ex-naval officer and an obscure Swedish actress was released. The film began shooting without a finished script. Many at Warner Brothers Studios thought the film would quickly disappear into obscurity. It
Peter Doyle London South Bank University Professor, London South Bank University; PhD geology; geology, military geoscience and military history research background; Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Heritage Group; British Commission on Military History member; author of 41 books (military history, geoscience) and numerous papers on geology, military geology,
Andrea Wright Senior Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Development Edge Hill University “Cult” is often indiscriminately applied to film and television. In Cult Movies (1981), film critic Danny Peary argued that it should be reserved for “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by
Catherine Strong RMIT University Catherine has a PhD in Sociology from the Australian National University. Her thesis looked at grunge music and collective memory, and has since been published as Grunge: Music and Memory with Ashgate (2011). Olivia Newton-John was a versatile artist with an appeal that spanned generations, and
Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com Warning Long read: 3317 words I’m a nostalgic sort of person, so once in a while I get the inkling to look up an old acquaintance with whom I’ve lost touch, to see what’s happened in the intervening years. “I wonder
Cherish Watton University of Cambridge Cherish is a PhD candidate in Modern British History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She studies the history of scrapbooks in Britain during the 20th century, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. She also produces The Scrapbook History Podcast. In 1953, Margaret, an 11-year-old pupil in Huntingdonshire,
David Deacon (74) isn’t sure how long he’s been cobbling shoes for, but thinks perhaps 22 years. He says he “knew nothing about shoes” when he started, but trained on the job. “I think I provide a good service.” He says he tried retirement once, but it didn’
Well, the family have returned to New Zealand and will shortly be updating me with their considered views on the two countries. Their visit caused me to reminisce about the past and current events led me to recall my time working in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv. I have spent time
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“She may be young but she only likes old things, and modern music it ain’t to her taste”— Death Cab for Cutie, “Monday Morning” — Death Cab for Cutie, “Monday Morning” In record-collecting circles, we often joke about what we call “Ebay Prices”: people on Ebay who’ve vaguely heard
Some time ago, I was browsing through an antique shop when, to my delight, I chanced upon an old bakelite radio. This is almost exactly the same as the one my family used to have! I told the proprietor. “What colour was it?” she asked. When I told her it
Under the austere leadership of the Church of Scotland, and a purely literal reading of the Bible, Christmas was ‘banned’ and remained so for hundreds of years in the presbyteries of the Northern British Isles, only officially rejoining the collective sanctioned celebrations in the mid-Twentieth Century. Blaming the once-supreme Catholic
