The History of Shuffling

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Documentary magazine The New British has put together a short feature called “Release” that explores shuffling in the London underground dance scene, beginning with its roots in the 1920s jazz dance, The Charleston. The program will premiere at London’s BASEMENT on 1 August 2014 and The New British’s Facebook page has all the details.

Getting Down with Internet Star Baddie Winkle

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This grandma is winning the internet. The online superstar Baddie Winkle—who hails from Hazard, Kentucky and has over 185,000 Instagram followers—has created quite the dynamic virtual persona. Born from spending time with her great-grand daughter, Baddie can be seen tossing up peace signs and rocking all forms of marijuana-friendly threads, and this interview with Paper Mag proves why she—at 86 years old—is a cross-generational online …

Replacing Inkblots with Plastic Bags

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The epitome of “open to interpretation,” Rorschach Tests have been used by psychoanalysts since the 1920s with arguable validity. Whatever their clinical efficacy, the inkblots have worked their way into pop culture and general knowledge over the years and it’s no secret why—analyzing the abstract shapes is addictive. Now artist Kyung-Woo Han’s latest project substitutes cheap plastic shopping bags for ink in his latest series …