Sound of the Underground
You can fill your hard drives up with pirated music in an instant with downloading software these days. This slugs a huge financial blow…
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Home-Free – The Modern Nomad
What is home? For many people, it’s the place they grew up. The country they come from, coupled with the language they speak. For…
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Worship the Wild – Nature’s Mythos
Can you imagine treating a tree not like something that has been placed in nature for you to take, but like something that has…
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Who Can We Be? Both Sides of the Lens
Diana Patient has followed her dream of becoming a successful photographer–but was only willing to do so on her own terms. She reveals how…
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La Mula – Song of a Drug Mule
Cocaine. White. Potent. Expensive. Cut a line on the plate. Roll the note and snort. Before it hits, take a moment to think. You’re…
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Camille 2000
Radley Metzger’s Camille 2000 (1969) is a classic of 1960s sexploitation cinema. The genre declined rapidly in the ‘70s with the rise of hardcore…
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THE PROBLEM WITH PORN : AN EMPIRICAL OR METAPHYSICAL QUESTION?
Many of us have a long history of looking at pornography, a history that traces back to the pre-web era. At the same time,…
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The Great Programmer Within
Modern society continues the age-old tradition of searching for answers. What is considered and not considered truth advances and recedes like the waves on…
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Life on the Road
A second life, a life within your life, is not uncommon in modern society. Whether it is a secret online identity or a membership…
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A Gypsy’s Tale
People see completely fucked-up people on benches and associate that with an alternative lifestyle. Ember was a gypsy child living closer to the earth…
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Contraception – A Re-Revolution?
The female contraceptive pill was, historically speaking, a huge step forward in the emancipation of women, allowing for more concerted family planning and thus…
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Say Yes – Paid Sex
What does it feel like to get paid for sex? On the one hand, people get paid for different kinds of services, and sex…
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The Friction Between Fact and Fiction
2012 saw the release of Dutch author Maan Leo’s successful debut novel Ik ben Maan (I Am Maan), in which she exposes a semi-autobiographical…
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The Art of Being Lovable
Finding a partner and starting a love relationship doesn’t come easily to everybody, and some are in desperate need of help. Manuel Picón González…
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Nowhere
“L.A. is like… nowhere. Everybody who lives here is lost.” Much like many of the characters in Gregg Araki’s 1997 cult film Nowhere. These…
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How to See What is Not There
Our perceptual experiences are shaped by what we encounter in the world. If we want to visually experience the heights of Mount Fuji, for…
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The Art of Being Alone
As our lives are spread thinner and thinner, are we losing a sense of what truly matters? Is the lack of real physical interaction…
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Exempt – Carried Away
His music fills the space so fully, you feel like you’re gazing upon some far-flung steppes in a far-off land. His vibes produce groundswells,…
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Life on the Line
Jordan Tybon is a passionate highliner and a co-founder of Somewhereelseland, a project that seeks to inspire people to do the impossible. He talks…
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On Harvey Moon
Harvey Moon was only six years old when his parents asked him that age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow…
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