Alex King
How do you make great activist art?
Art not agitprop — Artist Katy Bauer explains the key to successful activist art is not to rant, shock or alienate but break through to people who don’t agree with you.
Written by: Alex King
Best reactions to allegations UK PM David Cameron ‘had sex with a dead pig’
The unfolding #PigGate saga — A new biography alleges the British Prime Minister put his penis inside a dead pig’s mouth while at university. Here are the internet’s most hilarious reactions.
Written by: Alex King
Jay Nelson transforms trucks, boats and bikes into incredible wanderlust vehicles
Build your own adventure — He makes wild contraptions out of wood that are the stuff of surfing lore. But for artist Jay Nelson, adventures only really kick off when things begin to go wrong.
Written by: Alex King
Jimbo Philips on art, skateboarding and his father Jim’s legacy
Son of the Screaming Hand — Check out this video profile of Jimbo Philips, one of the twenty artists and photographers involved in transatlantic skate art initiative the LB Project.
Written by: Alex King
World’s first artificial waves surf comp kicks off in Wales
Out of the ocean, into the wave garden — International pros go head-to-head on man-made waves at Surf Snowdonia in Red Bull Unleashed 2015.
Written by: Alex King
Tamas Dezso reveals Eastern Europe’s forgotten people
Decay on the fringes — Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso documents life in the ignored villages and post-industrial towns of Hungary and Romania.
Written by: Alex King
Five things we learned from Yanis Varoufakis in London
Fighting talk from Greece’s anti-austerity rock star — Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis learned about austerity the hard way. Now he has some disruptive advice for Jeremy Corbyn and progressives across Europe.
Written by: Alex King
Adventure campers to inspire you to hit the open road
The Vanlife playlist — Catching up with our favourite and most inspiring vanlifers, including artist Jay Nelson, photographer Foster Huntington, surfer Rob Machado and filmmaker Cyrus Sutton.
Written by: Alex King
Drug lords and the vigilantes fighting them; the true story of organised crime in Mexico
Meth, bullets and borders — Cartel Land profiles two vigilante movements who took up arms against drug cartels on opposite sides of the US-Mexico border, and asks what would you do in their shoes?
Written by: Alex King
Why did Lina Hashim secretly photograph Muslim couples having sex?
Transgressions in the dark — Iraqi-Danish photographer Lina Hashim’s provocative Unlawful Meetings series explores secret sexual encounters which overstep Islam's boundaries.
Written by: Alex King