Talent isn’t something to be taken for granted. It’s amazing what can be uncovered about someone or even oneself, once you accept you’re under construction and still making progress. Combined with personality and character it stays with you, as long as you hold on to it. Not to sound arrogant, […]

I never realised how true and significant a statement: ‘Ignorance is bliss’ can be. As part of the hip-hop community, we prepare ourselves for ignorance at its core. It irritates hip-hop listeners, or at least find it amusing, whilst it’s a rapper’s strongest weapon. Unfortunately, people often associate hip-hop with […]

I recently undertook a Creative Writing Workshop with CoolTan Arts, as part of some training we are undertaking for an up-and-coming newspaper release called The Dickens News. It will be sold within the Southwark Newspaper at the end of November. It is to be in the style of the famous Dickens Pickwick papers and we are […]

In its wider weaning, elements of naïve art may be traced all the way back to prehistoric cave paintings. Elements of a style that is defined by painters who never went through formal academic education and display childlike “innocence” in their work can be found in a five-year-old’s drawing on […]

It’s no secret. Fan fiction is out there by the bucket load, for every film or television programme imaginable. Whether it be gay or straight, fantasy or soap opera there is something out there for pretty much everything and it ultimately serves as a creative gateway for what you don’t […]