The language of Japanese colour combinations
Colour really is a totally confusing and wonderful thing when you start to try to isolate what it really is and what it does to your experience of the world. […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
The Parisian couple preserving the ancient art of hand blown glass
The two master glassblowers that Sébastien learnt from both died years ago. There’s no one else that works with the same philosophy and traditional techniques. Valentina is the co-founder of […]
Tulip Mania & Bloemen, a private view
So I’ve heard that at one time in Amsterdam, a tulip bulb was the same price as a house. The trading of exotic tulip bulbs in the Netherlands is the […]
Of all the galleries in Paris
I’ll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist. A young English debutant who fled her nouveau riche family to pursue art and a love […]
Hackney Wick Clothes Switch
Vintage fashion contest or amiable exchange? My tips for a successful clothes switch. Stories Behind Things February, Hackney Wick A converted brewery in Hackney Wick sprinkled in bright Sunday morning sunlight. A Gottwood style […]
Home Blindness
Taking the time to be inspired and set resolve. I’ve spent three months writing, re-writing, re-re-writing, going backwards as I chip away editing various blog drafts. Thinning my once animated […]
Posies in Protest
In the aftermath of the magnificent Women’s March, I interviewed two women running their own quiet protest. Bread and Roses is a new social enterprise, teaching refugee women in London the art of […]
Time Consciousness
In my final term at Bristol University, I collected a range of academic ideas from final year students, to be published in Helicon Magazine’s weekly Features column. The idea was to […]
The Paradox of Fiction
Archived from my time at Helicon Magazine, I’m posting one academic project, explained in 200 words, every day this week. Charlie Protheroe (Philosophy BA) reveals why being terrified of a horror film is […]
The Reggae Roots of St Paul’s, Bristol
In my final term at Bristol University, I gathered a range of new academic ideas to be published in Helicon Magazine’s weekly Features column. Every day this week I’ve been sharing my […]
Botswana’s Diamond Trail
For Helicon Magazine I created a column to show off Bristol final year student’s innovative research. Today’s tease is by James Hunt (Politics and Economics BSc). He digs into Botswana’s diamond mines to analyse […]
Why do we fear?
For Helicon Magazine I put together a mini collection of creative research from Bristol University students and I’ve decided to share the most thought-provoking articles on ThinkingHatt this week. Read how Theo Parker (Geography BSc) challenges the […]
Commodity Fetishism
From breakfast to diamonds; time consciousness to reggae. To add to my collection of Bristol’s best digested dissertations, Amelia Butler (Geography BSc) explains why she followed the journey of the apple- from the […]
Predictive Personality Traits
In my final term at Bristol University, I scouted out a range of new academic ideas to be published in Helicon Magazine’s weekly Features column [2MINUTE tease]. Every day this week I’ll […]
No Sweatshops, No Photoshop
An interview with Sarah Beckett, co-founder of Birdsong London. The ethical clothing company with principles of transparency, enterprise and social change. Birdsong sources clothing and accessories from womens’ organisations and charities. […]
The artist with an appetite for colour
An interview with Margrethe Odgaard. Imagine a rural Scandinavian farmhouse with a dreaming, dark-haired girl lazing in long grass. Without a TV in the house and far from popular culture, her […]
How to make a temporary floral tattoo that looks real.
Here’s my guide to making a real pressed flower tattoo- inspired by ‘oh comely’ magazine. What you’ll need: STAGE 1: drying and pressing the flowers: (1 week) selection of flowers scissors […]
Investigating the ‘vintage look’
I launched an Epigram survey for one week to discover what motivates Bristol students to wear second hand and vintage clothing. It revealed that most Bristol students buy their second […]
Colour in a ‘techno-scientific world’
Between March and October, 2015, Christina Mackie’s nine-metre-high silk nets hung in Tate Britain’s Duveen Gallery. The pastel, soft fabric trickled down into pools of dense, crystallised dye, whilst a […]
Weekend Guide- Edinburgh
Planning trip to Edinburgh during the winter months? I visited in late January and here’s my list of havens for a blustery weekend in the city. PLACES EDINBURGH CASTLE EH1 2NG £16.50, open 9.30am-5pm ARTHUR’S […]
