Posts Tagged "pop culture"

The (Beauty) Queen and the Cross

Posted by Gill on Jun 3, 2010 in Blog | 1 comment

Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May) is a month long Catholic festival held in the Philippines in honour of the Virgin Mary, unsurprisingly during the month of May. It culminates in colourful processions called Santacruzan that are held all over the country, from the smallest villages to the largest shopping malls – processions that display an intriguing mix of the traditional, the...

Pop Politics

A different breed of election

Posted by Gill on May 6, 2010 in Blog | 2 comments

So the UK wakes (after a long night of swing-o-meter fun) to face the reality of a hung parliament with a Conservative majority. Change has been promised by all of the candidates throughout their election campaigns, but there will be much skepticism as to what can be accomplished in the face of this result, whatever the intentions of those in charge. In the Philippines meanwhile, voters face a...

This Too Shall Pass

The Digital Economy Bill and the Button Makers Guild

Posted by Gill on Apr 10, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

At the bottom of this post is OK Go’s awesome Rube Goldberg Machine video for their single “This Too Shall Pass”. I’m able to embed it in my blog and share it with any readers because OK Go recently left their former record company EMI in order to self-produce under their own label, Paracadute. EMI don’t allow embedding of videos that feature the music of the artists they...

The Reunion Dilemma

Life mirrors "High School Musical"

Posted by Gill on Mar 19, 2010 in Blog | 6 comments

If you’ve ever watched a teen movie in the last twenty years, you’ll know the drill. There are the popular kids, and there are the geek kids. That’s the way high school works. The geek kids have bad haircuts, worse glasses and shapeless, unattractive clothes. They like books more than people, maths more than snogging, and none of the popular kids would ever dream of...