Author Archives: tom

Southbank Centre celebrates the Festival of Britain

By tom | Published: 10/05/2011

The English language is a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up wonder and the great leveller we all have in common.

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Finger Licking Good

By tom | Published: 24/01/2011

The human race has recently discovered what its thumbs are for. Texters and mobile emailers are becoming indigenously thumbidextrous; the nimblest communicating complex messages with the fluency of speech.

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Trust Me I’m A Doctor

By tom | Published: 03/12/2010

Trust Me I’m A Doctor is a 26 second video made for the Helen Bamber Foundation to raise awareness of doctors and psychiatrists involved in torture.

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Then we take Berlin…

By tom | Published: 03/11/2010

The delicate dynamics of East and West no longer hold the city in aggravated tension. The no-go-zones and wastelands of divided Berlin are now crammed with generic curtain wall architecture, and gentrification of the old east has blurred all the distinctions I remember.

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Journey: final day

By tom | Published: 22/10/2010

Over the past week we’ve heard hundreds of heartbreaking stories of people doing unspeakable things to people.

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Journey: day four

By tom | Published: 19/10/2010

They don’t mind the electronically self-fucking bed, neither do they mind the condom curtain, they don’t even mind the explicit auto-porno-pose-brothel-Polaroids, but they are having a problem with the smell in THE BEDROOM

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Journey: day three

By tom | Published: 17/10/2010

Most prosecutions have to rely on victims’ statements, and barristers for the accused love to destroy vulnerable people in the dock.

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Journey: day two

By tom | Published: 15/10/2010

This final stage of the JOURNEY experience explores the faceless rhetoric governments and border agencies use to slag-off and dehumanise trafficked women. Many of the bureaucratic cultures that judge trafficked women are steeped in prejudice and prefer to think that women are playing at being prostitutes to get asylum.

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Journey: day one

By tom | Published: 14/10/2010

We are told that awareness of trafficking is good in Holland, but many people don’t know that it is happening on their doorstep. We find this all over the world and JOURNEY becomes the missing link between the perception and the reality.

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Unfinished conclusions

By tom | Published: 26/07/2010

What is this obsession with finishing things? Does life really become more manageable with beginnings, middles and ends, or is ‘finished’ just a comfort zone? The point at which any act concludes is purely subjective. We are in a perpetual state of unfinished everything.

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