Emerging from ‘the fog’, [Hommes’ near-death experience 2010] ‘…Like Clockwork’ marks the long-awaited return of Queens of the Stone Age. But the wait was worth it. They came back with a shiny guest list! Not that they needed it. In the run up to the release, much was mentioned of […]

“Where is Edward Snowden?” That is the question on everybody’s mind. It is commonly believed he is in a small hotel room in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, very similar to the Tom Hanks film The Terminal, apart from the fact Snowden isn’t an Eastern European whose […]

Andy Murray ’s win over Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon men’s final ended what had been Britain’s 77-year drought in the competition. The actual game though, was a bit more straightforward than many had expected – or wished for, for that matter. Murray needed only 3 sets to defeat Djokovic, […]

To many, the African continent is a large elephant-ear shaped mass of political and social turmoil stickered with innumerable travel warnings and discouragements. All throughout historical and contemporary popular culture, Africa has been unjustly depicted as a place of dictators, cannibals, hyenas and starvation. Yet travelling through this vast continent […]

The following article was originally published exactly one year before Andy Murray’s Wimbledon victory. An interesting comparison to the Murray of previous years to the now British champion. In 1974 Timothy Gallwey finished writing a book called The Inner Game of Tennis. Both publisher and author had limited expectations. They […]

About the importance of being alive, good and not rewarded. There is a movie-related question the overstated American meritocracy tends to ignore: why most people in Hollywood would kill to get an Oscar, while a few have died over and over again, but without being rewarded? Leonardo DiCaprio was just […]

Made From Plastic has been around since 2009 and is still going strong. Originally launched as a lifestyle blog, its intentions were to provide a solid platform for young and aspiring talent from the world of music, art, fashion and literature to showcase their stuff, whilst advising readers of emerging […]

A few days ago Jezebel.com ran an article calling out pop starlet Miley Cyrus for cultural appropriation in her latest video “We Can’t Stop“. “We Can’t Stop” is Miley’s first single from her upcoming studio album and follows a string of collaborations and appearances carefully engineered to stress Miley’s new identity […]