As reported a few weeks ago in the magazine Spin, American musician Julian Casablancas has recently filed a patent of a new folding electric bicycle. The Strokes frontman had already talked about his project about a year ago in an interview for Rolling Stone magazine: It’s kind of breaking my heart with how long it’s taking, but
It seemed a joke, the same old hoax invented when big events take place, like Pope Francis’ recent journey to the US. Yet, during his “tour” in the United States, by surprise, there came the official announcement of Pope Francis’ debut album entitled “Wake Up!”, scheduled for release on November 13 and distributed by Believe Digital under
Redemption Song, one of Bob Marley’s most famous songs, has been performed by Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and Beyoncé, punctuated by images and words of Nelson Mandela, he who brought South Africa out of Apartheid: “Poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
A clearing located in the forest of Võru, in Estonia, has been turned into a place where to listen to the sounds of nature, relax and contemplate. Thanks to the support of the local community, a group of scholars of the Estonian Academy of Arts have built and installed three gigantic wooden megaphones. These cone-shaped structures
“Roger Waters. The Wall”, a film-event on the live tour of Pink Floyd’s monumental album, which was presented last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be released on 29th September in cinemas across the world. 36 years after its release, “The Wall” is still considered a masterpiece in the history of rock with over
Could a seemingly innocuous object like a bicycle contribute to triggering a revolution? This is the question that the website of the documentary Voglio una ruota (I want a wheel) is asking itself, because the invention of bicycles, besides facilitating the right to mobility, encouraged women’s emancipation between the nineteenth and twentieth century. Voglio una ruota is
Chile is a country whose traditions and cultural identities are commended through the works of skilled artisans that hand down their own working techniques from one generation to another. Chilean design encloses this, being still far from well-known brands and industrial factories. The designer Pablo Ocqueteau has realised handmade clay speakers that combine ancestral ceramic techniques with
October 9th marks what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday. To commemorate the Beatle and her life partner who was murdered in 1980, artist and activist Yoko Ono is trying to realise the world’s largest human peace sign. The challenge of “Imagine Peace” is not at all easy: on 6th October in Central Park,
Since 2009 Karen Aplin is a researcher in the Physics division at Oxford University. Before getting to manage the teaching laboratories of this renowned English university, Karen obtained a doctorate degree in atmospheric physics at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, but also a diploma in music performance from Trinity College, London. Metheorology
Music gives hope, music as a universal language. Music has the power of bringing very different cultures together and, in some cases, could be a learning tool. That’s what Matt Westerberg msh have thought. He is a volunteer of the Peace Corps organisation who teaches English in a small village of Tigrai, in Northern Ethiopia through Perl
