‘Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kid’ Thomas Cross examines how relational space is communicated through animation, and demonstrates how animation and geography share an understanding of space. Released in 1972, Elton John’s Rocket Man rose to no. 2 in the UK singles chart and went on to be certified Platinum in…
Category: Culture
A New Universe? Zuckerberg and Oculus. Words by Louise DiLorenzo.
Mark Zuckerberg has been innovating new spaces for the virtual world since his first few weeks at Harvard University, so it’s hardly surprising that he is the brains behind this new journey with Oculus; derived for the Latin word meaning ‘eye’, Oculus is a technology that specialises in virtual reality and was bought by Facebook…
Urban Photo Festival: An interview with Lauren Finch by Zoe Rasbash
It’s an exciting time for cultural and political geographers. Critical practices are becoming influential in geographical discourse, with academics like our own Alan Ingram stressing their increasing importance. Urban Photo Fest, now in its 9th year, is photo festival at this cross section of academia and art. This year in November, their ‘photo village’, with…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 