Issue 28 Raw – Sublime

Making Lemonade

John Grant — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:32:05 +0000

It is starting to sink in. The housing market, or retail spending, or affordable commodities … these may never return. A cushy retirement may never come. The Western economies may never recover.

The post Making Lemonade appeared first on Sublime.

The Fur’s Flying

Frances Corner — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:54:39 +0000

Why are fur sales rising? The case against fur was made so strongly in the 1980s that many people in the fashion industry wondered if it could ever make a comeback, particularly as technology was producing faux fur that no longer looked cheap and nasty but could easily be mistaken for the ‘real thing’. Yet this realism itself could be part of the reason for fur’s quiet reacceptance.

The post The Fur’s Flying appeared first on Sublime.

Rise Of The Radical

Jeremy Leggett — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:45:14 +0000

Those who propose alternative ways forward for society often find that if their ideas deviate more than a few degrees from ‘business as usual’, they are dismissed as radical. If the ideas involve u-turns, then they are dubbed dangerous. But I believe that many supposedly radical ideas currently under public debate are coming close to being inescapable outcomes. Let me illustrate my argument with alternatives being proposed first to oil dependency, second to the current banking system and third, to economic growth.

The post Rise Of The Radical appeared first on Sublime.

Life In The Bike Lane

Wayne Hemingway — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:14:35 +0000

Phil Goodwin, Professor of Transport Policy at the University of the West of England, has written in Local Transport Today that that fewer young people are learning to drive. Between 1992 and 2007, the number of 17- to 20-year-olds who held licences fell from 48% to 38%, and for 21- to 29-year-olds, the number...

The post Life In The Bike Lane appeared first on Sublime.

Model Behaviour

laurasan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:05:31 +0000

Lonneke Engel is a genuine supermodel. For almost two decades the impressively versatile Dutch beauty has worked with the world’s leading photographers and designers. She’s represented everyone from Covergirl to Ralph Lauren and Chanel, since walking hand in hand with Kate Moss in her first fashion show aged 14. Then in 2008 she became a...

The post Model Behaviour appeared first on Sublime.

The Filter Bubble

laurasan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:14:00 +0000

Facebook, Google et al are engaged with monitoring our online activities to second-guess our consumer desires. Through the passing-on of information about us to companies, we are spied on, packaged up and sold down river to advertisers and marketing companies while we unknowingly click away. Eli Paliser lays bare the implications of this process, skilfully unpacking how...

The post The Filter Bubble appeared first on Sublime.

Twelve Minutes of Love

laurasan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:04:00 +0000

Twelve Minutes of Love takes us by the hand into the very depths of a sensual, relational world where the atmosphere, the sounds and the touch involved in tango captivate us. No escapist leisure pursuit, this: by exposing the darkness within, tango takes the dancer to a place where the true, primitive drama of life...

The post Twelve Minutes of Love appeared first on Sublime.

Everything is Broken

Laura Santamaria — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Her focus is the authority’s alarming response to the cataclysmic cyclone that struck the delta region in 2008, killing between 150,000 and half a million people (depending on which estimate you believe). Burma’s regime refused international help in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, and broadly denied the extent of the disaster, resulting in many...

The post Everything is Broken appeared first on Sublime.

The Fairest Of Them All

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:54:14 +0000

For a man as famously private as Bob Dylan, a remarkable number of Bob Dylan sightings have been recorded in Britain alone. There’s the time, for instance, when Bob turned up to view a house in Muswell Hill and was treated to a cuppa by the absent occupant’s mother. Then there’s the story – borne...

The post The Fairest Of Them All appeared first on Sublime.

An African Election

laurasan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:50:04 +0000

Ghana, the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence in 1957 after only one previously peaceful transfer of power, went to the polls. Meanwhile, the world looked on at what was effectively a political barometer for democratic stability in Africa. Merz, with two camera teams, spent three months following the main contenders. Nana Afuko-Addo was a...

The post An African Election appeared first on Sublime.