So equipped with an annoyingly messed up Fuji camera, destroyed after a night out to some notorious student halls in North London (wood green halls), I am trying to document my third and perhaps final year in the great city that is London. Having discovered how to create a gallery on WordPress (yay me!) here's [...]
Author: mkauser
Doctoral researcher looking into inter-connected lifeworlds and the continuation of inequalities. Those deep-seated, historical traumas and injustices that are woven more subtely here in the Imperial Metropole of the UK.
Bonfire Night!
Bonfire Night 2012 In search of a free fireworks show (being poor students who wanted something better than staying in and getting drunk) we contemplated everything from a night-time picnic on Hampstead Heath to just taking a plunge and setting some off in the back garden. However my good friend Tom pulled through and found [...]
Review: Born into Brothels; Calcutta’s Red Light Kids.
If you are ever stuck for inspiration, feeling low and generally think "Life isn't faiiir - Wahhh" (in the whingiest voice ever) then this documentary is for you. I mean we've all been there, right? You're feeling T-E-R-R-A-BAD.. and you know nothing is going to cheer you up. But my friends this is not the [...]
Review: Born into Brothels; Calcutta’s Red Light Kids.
If you are ever stuck for inspiration, feeling low and generally think "Life isn't faiiir - Wahhh" (in the whingiest voice ever) then this documentary is for you. I mean we've all been there, right? You're feeling T-E-R-R-A-BAD.. and you know nothing is going to cheer you up. But my friends this is not the [...]
Regent’s Canal
Staring off on the last bright day of Summer - In September 😛
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Frankenweenie – Is it worth 3D?
Like many other viewers I was skeptical of Frankenweenie. The already pervading sense of black, white and grey half-tones, told me this was hardly going to be an epic departure from the norm. The fact it was a full length reworking of an old short-film was also another indication. But I admit I was Pleasantly [...]
LIAF (London International Animation Festival); Barbican Gallery, London
Can Animation Ever be of Social, Cultural and Historical Importance? Sounds a bit like a dissertation, huh? As many of you who have clicked this are probably already BIG fans of animation there is one sentence that constantly recurs "Animation?What cartoons?? Aren't those for kids?" What if Animation was to be placed in a different [...]
Kick-Ass Two a M*****-F****** Dark Sequel
For those of you who have read the comic, Kick-Ass 2 was always a crazier darker and just plain sordid affair. A notorious gang-rape sequence, decapitation and the saddest animal cruelty depiction I have seen. And now we have a release date of the cinematic experience itself; Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall will be [...]
Titanic Mistake; Art and Seduction equals epic Fail.
A list of rules: How to seduce a girl.. like in the movies.. 1- Smile 2- Talk in a soft husky voice 3- BE CLEAR of YOUR INTENTIONS! (Especially when recreating a famous scene, say the one in Titantic where he draws her naked) Finally, UNIVERSAL RULE: 4- Never try it on with a colleague. [...]
Mariam Kauser 