ART BY ANYBODY, FOR ANYBODY
It’s 10am on a Saturday morning and a group of 25 people are waiting for tour guide David Stuart, a journalist and street art photographer, to start off the Shoreditch Street Art Tour. Comparing it to art galleries in London, this art experience may be described as an open-air version of a gallery where you can avoid listening to pretentious people. Instead you get to enjoy your cigarette, a cup of coffee and embrace the scruffiness of Shoreditch’s streets.
ROCK 'N' PEACE
A recent study has found that ‘extreme’ music genres - including heavy metal, punk and screamo - may actually help calm angry listeners.
UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER
What is the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the word ‘Disney’? Is it love, good overcoming evil, princesses and sing-a-longs?
Jeff Hong pictures The Little Mermaid’s Ariel, washed up on the beach, oil stained as a result of sea pollution. He imagines Dumbo at the hands of circus trainers, forcefully exploited. Frozen’s Elsa stranded on a fragment of frozen water, unable to stop the polar ice caps from melting.