Ikosmos

Earlier this week I had a conversation with an American colleague about (amongst other things) the British way of holding your cutlery and the comedy value of the thing in my garden that I call a water butt . After we had stopped laughing we got into a discussion about the extent that your own cultural background and the way in which things are presented to you affects personal interpretation. I kept this in mind while I was listening to and watching the gears. The designer Stefan Sagmeiste

Warning: Below video is racist, highly offensive Whatever happened to being a citizen of the world? Why aren’t media outlets more conscious about their content in this age of mass information sharing? It is true that I have never been to Australia and probably don’t plan on going anytime soon. But it is totally disheartening for me to see privileged, and ostensibly educated, white men appropriating this feigned image of Blackness for comedic ends. Then there is this other problematic mome