What does disability feel like? Project Aspie promotes inclusion
With 4 years experience in working with adults with Asperger’s syndrome, I became immediately interested in Birmingham based Project Aspie. A volunteer invited me to their…
How the studio session went: a shared passion for photography
Recently, I had my first studio photo shoot with my friend, photographer Gareth Reed. Gareth is working on his MA final project and focuses on portrait…
VLOGGING: How I started vlogging about Romania for English speakers
Simon’s Cat, Maxim Bady and, more recently, Langfocus – these are some of the YouTube channels I follow. The first two provide pure fun, while…
“The Greatest Showman” loses to the intensity of “Moulin Rouge”
The Greatest Showman promised entertainment and it delivered exactly that. A change for Hugh Jackman after the heavy, dark Logan, it excited me to see…
“SISTER OF WAR” POETRY: encounters
In the intro for my newly-launched vlog, I mentioned my poetry book “Sister of war”, published in 2012 in Romania. There is a story to this, as…
MapMyCV: a coding team as diverse as it gets
The School of Code presented their first Bootcamp recruits mid-January, with a Demo Day to show off their projects. Out of the five teams, MapMyCV…
Transcendence or why AI ends badly
With a movie like Transcendence, I struggle to write a review free of spoilers. All the action and situations wrap around the core idea and…
My childhood in communist Romania (part I)
I wanted to write my memories of growing up in communist Romania for quite a while now. Since I have been living in the UK,…
SATURDAY REVIEW Tim Burton enchants with gifts of beauty and peculiarity
The Florence and The Machine video from “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” illustrates the movie better than the trailer does. It captures the feeling…
INTERVIEWS: UK authors and artists showcase at Birmingham Comic Art Show
About 60 comics sellers, artists and writers displayed their work at Birmingham Comic Art Show last weekend. Brighton based author Kevin Gunstone and Manchester illustrator James Chapman talked to Landinside about…