Huck's Best of the Week
- Text by HUCK HQ
- Photography by Sugar Otter
Another week, another selection of the finest cuts from the Huck website. This week we’ve got two Huck.TV short films, one kicking off the Working Artisans’ Club for 2014 with Drummond & Hammett the Bristol-based cigar-box guitar makers, and the other shot with rising star Courtney Barnett at the Great Escape festival. We’re also excited to announce that Huck is partnering with the incredible photography blog If You Leave to support their new Showcase 2014 project.
The Working Artisans’ Club 2014: Drummond & Hammett
In the first of our short films for the Working Artisans’ Club 2014 we headed down to the UK’s South-West to catch up with Pat Hammett and Tom Drummond, who build handmade cigar-box guitars. The pair’s lovingly handcrafted instruments are perfect for hitting the moody tones of the Blues music they both adore.
Read the full article here.
Courtney Barnett – Making It DIY
Courtney Barnett is on the brink of world domination. We caught up with her at Brighton’s Great Escape festival to find out she’s done all the hard work from her Melbourne bedroom.
Read the full article here.
If You Leave Showcase 2014
Photo by Yung Cheng Lin
If You Leave has become a highly respected resource for the best in contemporary photography and Huck is stoked to be partnering with them to support their new project, the If You Leave Showcase 2014. The showcase is a global open submission photography competition that will be free for all entrants and funded by Kickstarter donations. Shortlisted entries will be published in a new bi-annual If You Leave magazine and put before a panel of judges that includes Huck, Dazed & Confused and It’s Nice That, to select the overall winners.
Read the full article or jump straight in and support the project on Kickstarter.
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Written by: Hannah Bentley
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Written by: Isaac Muk
New documentary revisits the radical history of UK free rave culture
Free Party: A Folk History — Directed by Aaron Trinder, it features first-hand stories from key crews including DiY, Spiral Tribe, Bedlam and Circus Warp, with public streaming available from May 30.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Rahim Fortune’s dreamlike vision of the Black American South
Reflections — In the Texas native’s debut solo show, he weaves familial history and documentary photography to challenge the region’s visual tropes.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Why Katy Perry’s space flight was one giant flop for mankind
Galactic girlbossing — In a widely-panned, 11-minute trip to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere, the ‘Women’s World’ singer joined an all-female space crew in an expensive vanity advert for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Newsletter columnist Emma Garland explains its apocalypse indicating signs.
Written by: Emma Garland
Katie Goh: “I want people to engage with the politics of oranges”
Foreign Fruit — In her new book, the Edinburgh-based writer traces her personal history through the citrus fruit’s global spread, from a village in China to Californian groves. Angela Hui caught up with her to find out more.
Written by: Katie Goh
