Skyfall review
by Rachel Saunders Warning: contains mild spoilers Oft you come to a film with a weight of expectations from reviews, trailers, and friends, and often they never quite live up to those expectations. This is not one of those films. Skyfall lives up to the hype, the expectations, and history that comes with the Bond [...]
Born again atheist
by Rachel Saunders In the fallow years of my youth I was raised in a British evangelical free church full of warm and friendly people who cared about each other. In those formative years I learnt the value of love thy neighbour, of having an open palm to strangers, to not judge anyone for who [...]
Who, not the what
by Rachel Saunders In the heat of the moment they ask the question ‘what are you’, looking at you like you are the most exotic thing they have ever encountered. That look, to the answer you give, bursting with anticipated questions of the ‘what’, leads down a path of a multitude of answers which, while [...]
Faeries v Bugs
If you’re in York over the next few weeks, check out the really cool Lotte Inch Gallery at 5 Petergate, York for some bugtastic art pieces. If you love faeries, and you’ve always wondered ‘how did they make that?’ then this latest exhibition will have you piqued with curiosity.
Last FM
by Rachel Saunders For anyone who has searched in vain for a decent music station without ads which plays their style of music, Last FM is an utter god send. It is one of those websites that makes a slow day or evening all that more enjoyable, especially the ability to create your own radio station [...]
Those magnificent men
by Rachel Saunders As a photographer I love to do candid street/pub photography, and one of the joys of doing this is taking pictures of interesting men. There is something rather awesome about capturing the image of a chap who doesn’t expect himself to be photographed, it goes beyond mere shyness, is almost like they [...]
The looking glass
by Rachel Saunders Over the last year there have been several high profile examples of famous people coming out and transitioning, including Chaz Bono and Lana Warchowski, and each has had their own tale to tell of how they reached this point in their lives. Many more low key examples have been printed, usually with [...]
Wild Fire
By Rachel Saunders Some time in the lost moments in my brain I wonder all the elusive things which splutter and spark into life for the merest moment, and then put put back into oblivion from whence they came. I catch myself daydreaming the most fanciful ideas, pondering the great mysteries of a far future [...]
Of broken records and amazing dreams
by Rachel Saunders In the days between then and now, between the last breath and the next, here I stand waiting to let the world exhale. I stand the edge of broken records and those dreams that inspire and amaze, that edge of forever where anything is possible if you just reach out and touch [...]