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Leo D.The night a scratched 45 RPM record taught me more than any algorithm
I was closing up the shop and turning off the lights when something caught my eye at the very bottom of the dollar bin. A 7-inch single wedged between other re…
Why the Last Arcade Cabinet in an Adelaide Shopping Centre Matters More Than Emulators
On a Saturday afternoon, the cabinet stands at the end of the corridor next to the food court on the second floor of Arndale Shopping Centre. Plastic casing sl…
Amara ObiActor Direction and AI Prompting, Seen Side by Side on a Lagos Stage
During last week's rehearsal, while reworking the lighting cues for the act two transition scene, I had my laptop open, writing a prompt for an AI image genera…
Kaia ThompsonThree Unknown RPGs I Discovered Between QA Shifts
The time after work, lying on the couch with my laptop open, is the best part of my day. During the day, I bash into the same wall hundreds of times chasing bu…
Mistakes I Made Collecting Vinyl in Cebu, and Learning to Listen First
The moment I picked up a dust-covered LP from a corner of some general store near Carbon Market is still vivid. I liked the cover art, the price was 150 pesos,…
SF Character Design Starting from Flaws: How I Create Characters in Procreate
Last week, I had a character I'd been working on. A medical technician on a space station — initially drawn in a clean uniform with a tidy posture. It took scr…
An Honest Review from Busan's Last Projectionist Under 25
Last night, once again, I was fiddling with a film splice in front of the splicer when I got a paper-thin cut on my fingertip. Alone in a screening room no one…
Clemency ColeWhy Experimental Theatre Does Gothic Horror Better Than Film
Last month, I saw an experimental play at an underground venue near the Bristol Old Vic. I was sitting on a folding chair barely worthy of being called a seat,…
Mistakes I Made Starting a Board Game Night in Sydney, and How I Saved It
Three board game boxes spread open on the living room table, the rulebooks alone enough to fill a novel if you combined them. Five friends sat around the table…
David NguyenDouble Indemnity vs. The Maltese Falcon: Poisons and Deception Through a Pharmacist's Eyes
After spending a day behind the pharmacy counter, I want to clear my head at night. Strangely, though, I always end up putting on a film noir. Stories where so…
Isabella SantosThe actual state of my desk while translating
Around eleven this morning, I stopped in front of a single sentence. It was twelve words long in the Portuguese original. One verb had no exact English equival…
Maya SharmaA Week Spent Behind the Projection Booth: Screening Experimental Shorts in Ottawa
On Monday evening, listening to the cooling fan of the 35mm projector inside the booth, I pictured how the week would unfold. When I told the theatre manager I…
The Sound Design of Film Noir: Why Does No One Pay Attention?
Last night, in my Cologne flat, I put on headphones and rewatched Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. The screen was just my laptop's small monitor, but in my ear…
Stop Saying the Original Was Better: A Defense of Imperfect Adaptations
Last week, I was sipping an Americano at my usual cafe in downtown Seattle, scrolling through my phone, when I saw that comment again. "The original was so muc…
Elara SchmidtMaking a Prop Aging Kit from Berlin Flea Market Finds
On Saturday morning, I bought three rusty butter knives for one euro at the Mauerpark flea market. The person next to me shot me a look that said, "Why would y…
Aryan SharmaDelhi's single-screen cinemas need a new role, not just nostalgia
Last month, while scouting locations on the Old Delhi side, I passed by an old single-screen theatre. The letters on the sign were half peeled off, and dust ha…
Questions you were too afraid to ask when starting a book club in Lagos
Last month, a woman came into the shop, lingered around the fiction section for a while, and then walked up to the counter. "I'd like to start a book club," sh…
What Roald Dahl Knows That Adult Novelists Don't
Every time I come home from book club, I feel the same thing. Like I've been chewing hard but swallowed nothing. Last month our group read a literary novel tha…
