“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone.” Almost sixty years later, it’s still as captivating, atmospheric, and unmistakable as it ever was….
When it comes to YouTube vloggers, few are as entertaining and underrated as Thomas Arnold. A Dublin based Vlogger and Freelance Videographer, Arnold has amassed a YouTube following of just under six thousand at the time of writing. Combining an impressive knack for editing and videography along with a confident and fun personality, Arnold’s vlogs…
Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: It’s 8:38 on a Monday morning, and having completed your final driving lesson on the previous Friday morning, you’re embarking (despite your mother’s best wishes) on your very first independently driven journey to college. With your driving test only a matter of weeks away, the days of extortionately…
This week, I sat down with South Dublin-based social media influencer Bianca Bourgeois. Cascading onto the lifestyle/beauty scene in early 2016, Bourgeois’ seemingly instantaneous rise to fame and swift garnering of a 400k following on YouTube (980k on Instagram) seems to be a commendable feat. Destined to prove that her success has been a product…
I listened to a lot of rap music as a kid – I feel like a lot of us do. There’s just something about the emotional voltage produced by passionately spit lyrics that makes an overactive pre-pubescent brain light up. Naturally, since my personal odyssey into the vastness of rap music began before the conception…
I recently went to a gig up in Limerick with a few of my friends. The headliner was a guy called Patrick Topping, a tech-house DJ who I had naturally become familiarised with through his presence on almost every user-created Soundcloud playlist in the Republic of Ireland. The gig was set for early in the…
Instagram. Everybody’s on it. You, Me, Celebrities, Kid, Mams, Dads, Teachers, Dentists, Politicians and Priests (the cool ones, anyway). Everyone. All fending for ourselves on this huge, weird acreage of cyberspace. Hundreds of millions of lives captured and shared, all existing alongside one another, separated only by a few taps and scrolls on a screen….
A lot of you may have noticed the seismic cultural explosion created by the clothing brand “Supreme” in the last couple of years. Considering the ridiculous wealth and popularity the brand has garnered of late (the Supreme company is estimated to be worth $1 billion dollars as of 2017), it is hard to believe that…
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Don’t worry, you haven’t lost your mind (yet), the headline of this article says exactly what you think it says. There is a 1950’s film about a six foot tall imaginary rabbit and it will (almost certainly) change your life – but we’ll get to that in a just a minute. So, I sometimes watch…