Music and Life – Alan Watts

Music and Life – Alan Watts

Mr Doob's digital doodling

Mr Doob’s interactive visual experiments

You can judge a print by its cover

It’s a Penguin book but not as we know it…

The best festive films ever?

Are these the best festive films ever?

Keep calm and poster on

Has the ubiquitous ‘Keep Calm’ poster had its day?

Pete's Top Tunes

Pete Martin gives us his Top Ten tunes

Recommended Scottish Albums

Here’s the complete list of Scottish rock ‘n’ pop albums as recommended by men and women of taste and judgement. (The Top 30 – as judged by most frequently mentioned – can be found here.) Big thanks to all contributors. If you’re ever in the mood to buy music, and can’t quite decide what to [...]

The Best Scottish Album in the World – Ever

Alright pop-pickers…  Here’s the big Top 30 – dah, dah, dah-dah-dah– dah-dah. We’ve put them in alphabetic order because after Deacon Blue’s Raintown, Love & Money’s Strange Kind of Love, Hipsway’s self-titled Hipsway, and James Grant’s My Thrawn Glory, the field’s pretty even and, frankly, trying to rank them is a bit silly in the [...]

Can you think of a better album made by a Scottish artist?

We think James Grant’s new album is ‘nae bad’. But maybe you know there’s a better album made by a Scottish artist? Leave a reply below, stating your own favourite Scottish album of all time (and a reason if you have one). The best 5 replies will win a limited edition Strange Flowers t-shirt.* If [...]

Martin Munoz

Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz create sculptural scenes of isolation, despair and dark humor and mix them up with all the enchantment of a snow globe. Here’s a sprinkling of their work.