Dave Ma has travelled to Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst peacetime nuclear disaster, and documented the place as it is now, and people who still live there. It’s a beautifully composed essay which celebrates the human spirit, shot by Ross McLennan on RED with his customary skill, and graded back in London by James [...]

Magisterial news journal TIME magazine has declared Kanye West’s Love Lockdown as their Best Song of 2008, describing it as “easily the most interesting pop experiment [of the] year.” And not before time – yes, it’s another we unfeasibly missed when it came out – here is the video directed by Kanye’s long-time creative director [...]

Talk about a hard act to follow. Doing a video for a cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop invites all kinds of comparisons with one of the iconic videos of forever. Perhaps not surprisingly Diamond Dogs’ Phil and Olly have steered well clear of animatronic foetuses (foeti?) for Newton Faulkner’s new version. They’ve created their own [...]