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Happy 75th Birthday to the Fender Telecaster: the guitar that stars in hit songs by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Blur and more
There’s be few guitarists who haven’t heard of the Fender Telecaster – in fact it’s a guitar that is probably on most rockers’ wish lists.
Created in 1950 but first introduced on the commercial market in 1951, this year marks the Fender Telecaster’s 75th anniversary. In celebration, Fender are releasing a series of ‘tribute’ designs in new colours including the American Ultra II Telecaster and the Classic Cabronita Telecaster, available now at au.fender.com.
The Classic Cabronita Telecaster in new red.
The Telecaster was the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, designed by its namesake Leo Fender. Originally called the Broadcaster, it quickly evolved into the Telecaster and became a cornerstone of modern music. I has a simple, rugged design but the sounds it makes are as indelible as the artists and bands’ names themselves.
Many legendary musicians have embraced the Telecaster, including Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Page, and Graham Coxon. Indeed, the Telecaster’s versatility has seen it span genres as broad as rock and country to jazz and punk.
There’s a bright, cutting tone to the Telecaster, as a result of its dual single-coil pickups and bolt-on neck construction. This clarity allows it to slice through a song mix effortlessly, making it a favourite for both rhythm and lead playing across decades of music history.
Iconic songs that feature the Fender Telecaster include Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up,” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.” Known for its versatile “twang,” it was used on The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions and on the song “Killing In The Name” by Rage Against The Machine.
Other classics on which you’ll hear its twangy strings are The Police’s “Message in a Bottle”, Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line”, Pink Floyd’s “Off the Wall”, Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”, Blur’s “Song 2”, and PJ Harvey’s “Missed”.
So, happy birthday to a guitar that has seen more studio sessions, live music gigs, and chart hits than most. And lived to tell the story.
Dedication to Dedication: Another great live tribute to the music of David Bowie
Why fast fashion practices need to seriously be looked at by our governments
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7 Genius Travel Hacks That Will Save You Time And Money
Packing for and planning a holiday can be one of the most exciting, and also one of the most stressful, times in your life. There are numerous things that you need to think about, and so many things to plan for, that you can often get to the airport thinking you’re all set, only to remember something you’ve forgotten, so you smack your head with your palm and think ‘oh no”. Perhaps it’s because you’ve forgotten to book travel insurance or neglected to get a neighbour to collect your mail, or maybe it’s something less vital but still important (like forgetting to pack socks!). No matter what it is, the bottom line is this: You need to be prepared for your holiday. If you’re not prepared you risk arriving at your serviced apartment in Melbourne or your Airbnb in Malaysia and thinking – damn – I don’t have my pyjamas! Let’s take a look at some of these genius travel hacks in the hopes that it helps you to save time and money the next time you travel.
Hack One – Make a great list
If you travel a lot for work, or if you’re always popping away on short jaunts and mini-breaks, you should make a list that’s comprehensive and covers every kind of season and weather type, and then keep it close. You can store it in your phone or laminate it and keep it in your room (if you’re more analogue) and then ensure that whatever is on that list goes into your bag – no questions asked!Hack Two – Shop around for the best deals and bargains online
You would probably by now have heard of the online booking site Skyscanner and realised how incredible it is for finding cheap and awesome flights. You should use booking methods like this for your airfare and also shop around and compare flights as it’ll often give you the best deal possible. You’ll find that a bit of persistence really pays off here.Hack Three – Keep a digital copy of your passport
This is a very easy one and can save you big time – all you need to do is keep a copy of your passport as a picture on your phone or computer (or even in the cloud, a la Google Drive) and then if anything does go wrong, which I’m sure it won’t – you have a copy of your passport on hand to refer to.Hack Four – Be flexible with your travel arrangements
If you don’t mind getting bumped on a flight, it can mean that you might be upgraded to a higher class of fare on your next flight as a thank you from the airline. Be sure to make this clear on your check in!Hack Five – Pack snacks
There is probably nothing worse than being caught on a long layover and realising that you don’t have any snacks available to feast on in between your transfit periods. Be smart on this one and be sure to stash a bag of nuts or chocolates in your bag to enjoy.Hack Six – Pack an extra charge pod
There are few things worse than a crying baby on your flight – but running out of power on your iPhone and not having any music to drown said baby out is probably right up there with terrible things that can happen. Make sure you avoid this problem by packing plenty of charge via an extra pod on your next trip.Hack Seven – Maximise your friendships
If you have mates in foreign cities, then you need to be drawing down on those friendships hard in order to save as much money as possible! If you can sleep on a couch instead of spending money on a hotel then that’s money you can spend on wine and food! Bonus!I hope that these short tips on saving time and money on your next trip have proven helpful and that you manage to be a thrifty traveler.
Eada Hudes
If the microwave is smelling a bit stale from foods previously heated up, cut a lemon and put pieces in a bowl of water, or just leave the halfs in the middle of the plate after a few squeezes of lemon onto it, then zap for a minute and a half. Et voila! Your microwave looks cleaner, smells better.
Never Was a Cornflake Girl: a classic Cream interview with Tori Amos, new album out May 1st
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Appreciating the classic portraiture style of Spanish photographer Joan Tous
Barcelona-based photographer Joan Tous is a master in the art of fashion photography. In fact, he graduated from the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in the early 2000s and soon after followed up with a masters degree in cinematography. You can see a certain rusticity in his work that leans more towards classicism than the pictures you rush-scroll through on Instagram today.
Classicism infiltrates Tous’ fashion work, where tones are muted and the models themselves appear as though they might have stepped out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
For a taste of stylish things to come from this talented lensman, in a world of topsy-turvy weather changes, here’s a story with a nice transeasonal touch.
Photography: Joan Tous
Styling: Raquel Gibanel
Retouching: La Capsula Retouch
Makeup and hair: Marta Prats
Model: Andrea Antón
Jacket and pants by TSYRK World. Tank top by wtaps Tokyo. Boots, vintage.
Dress by TSYRK World.
Dress by TSYRK World. Socks, United Arrows. Sandals, Vintage.
Sweater by United Arrows. Shorts by APC.
Dress by TSYRK World.
Leather Jacket, vintage. Collar by Sara Divita Ibiza.
Leather Jacket, vintage. Collar by Sara Divita Ibiza. Bikini by La Perla. Sandals by Closed.
Never Was a Cornflake Girl: a classic Cream interview with Tori Amos, new album out May 1st
Why fast fashion practices need to seriously be looked at by our governments
Planning Homes That Last: Principles Behind Thoughtful Residential Design
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Jude Law fronts ad campaign for a major legal firm dealing in Ai issues while using mostly Ai software and digitally accumulated data… Confused yet?
Swedish tech company Legora has made a confident entrance into the global Ai scene with a major campaign that features actor Jude Law.
The concept cleverly plays on both Law’s name and persona and tie-ins with the noun ‘law’ itself. Built around the tagline “Law just got more attractive,” the adverts lean into wit, star power, and a subtle reimagining of how legal services can be perceived in a modern, tech-driven world – namely less reliant on dusty rows and rows of client information packed in cobwebbed boxes, and more along the lines of Ai-driven and digitally accumulated information.
Already live across prominent billboards in New York, London, and throughout Scandinavia, the campaign pairs striking visuals with a series of short films. In these, Law steps into a stylised version of a legal role, delivering dense legalese (that’s convoluted legal jargon to you) with his trademark charm and composure.
The effect is deliberately playful, reframing the traditionally rigid image of legal expertise into something more accessible, even charismatic.
Directed by Saturday Night Live veteran Rhys Thomas, the ads carry a light comedic tone without undermining the intelligence of the subject matter. Also working on the project is cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, whose polished, cinematic style elevates the visuals beyond standard commercial fare.
At its core, the campaign is about repositioning. Rather than presenting itself as purely functional or technical, the company embraces storytelling and personality. As for all the serious legal stuff… well, we can leave that up to Ai, really, is the main gist. Or what we got from it, anyway.
The result is a campaign that not only captures attention but also suggests that even the most traditional industries can benefit from a fresh perspective – if not a frightening bot-driven one… in fact, at times it looks like Jude Law himself has been doctored somewhat by them bots…
Michael Mastess & Lisa Andrews
The Weeknd confirmed to present at Crunchyroll’s 10th Anime Awards in May
The Weeknd confirmed to present at Crunchyroll’s 10th Anime Awards in May
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Why Madonna is worthy of being the first star to have a bronze statue of her likeness standing on Hollywood Boulevard
This photograph is pertinent in so many ways. Every element of it looks as if it were positioned / posited / mis-en-scened to the Nth degree – as though Ryan Murphy himself had directed and post-produced it. It’s what Hollywood should look like today. Clear-skyed. Glossy. Its vintage sign not faded, just weathered enough to look classic-fabulous. The main attraction 45 degrees south-west of it, Madonna possessing possibly the most famous face in pop culture history.
Madonna has sung for film many a time – won an Oscar for one of them. She hanky-pankied her way up the music ladder but found the film industry’s climb was splintered with more sordidity and caveats than even she could cope with. She just wanted to be up on that big screen and display some good old-fashioned glamour and fun. But even this aspiring actress wouldn’t s#ck certain d1ck to get where the likes of Marilyn and Mae got. Although she did borrow lots from the big dress-up box of Studios Conglomerated, injecting classic Tinseltown looks into her music videos and album covers.
She’s been in some pretty good movies (Evita, Desperately Seeking Susan) and some very bad ones (Body of Evidence, Shanghai Surprise) and a couple of flicks that ought never have even made it outside of the editing suite (Who’s That Girl, and the very early A Certain Sacrifice in which she had an egg fried on her stomach). But you’ll see none of these in those 1001-Movies-You-Must-See-Before-You-Die tomes.
The palm trees on either side of the above picture are perfectly aligned, like backup dancers in one of the icon’s videos, but here she is the main attraction, just left off centre, holding big red scissors and having the final cut – a music industry martinet but the movie industry’s she-looks-good-but-can-she-act? excuse to avoid auditions altogether and just assume she couldn’t give as good as Garbo, Detriech or even Brando. She could, if there were strong enough a director.
Madonna might never have had an all-access pass to the big Hollywood after-party (and who would want one now that the film city’s reputation has a certain tarnish?). She may not be celebrated for her celluloid contributions, or dollied up on promotional posters plastered along the Boulevard, but she does wear the pants when it comes to being in control of her image and reputation. Sometimes that image is made a mockery of on newer media like TikTok and Facetagram (by her own hand, mostly) but when you look at the bigger picture, Madonna is one of the only stars whose name you could mention anywhere in the world – from Tokyo to Tanzania to Toowoomba, Woop Woop and beyond – and the person being vox-popped would be able to immediately picture the star.
So yes, the woman is worthy of being the first pop icon to have a bronze statue erected in honour of her contributions to modern entertainment. Though the crowd gathered around her looks as artificially inseminated as some of the support players in her latter-day music clips, the fact remains that the real audience is still here, still watching her every move, still criticising her any fault (them’s the breaks when you’re this big a star), the fans still waiting with baited breath for the next big record release.
While many a performer has sung about Hollywood with high praise and a touch of cautionary warning – as if making it there were the pinnacle of success but with conditions (from The Kinks’ Celluloid Heroes to Lady Gaga’s The Fame), Madonna ripped the city to shreds in her irony-laden pop-dance track that took its very title from the sign that stands behind her. To her, Hollywood has meant failed (or lack of) auditions, disappointing reviews, horrible talk around town, and dismal dollars at the box office when you compare takings of her total commercial and arthouse oeuvre with the insane amount of bums on seats just one Marvel movie might score.
The fact that this star hasn’t even featured in a film since 2002’s romantic comedy Swept Away, directed by her then-husband Guy Ritchie, and that she barely even bothers to look at scripts today – yet is standing tall in bronze in the middle of acting city – speaks volumes about her popularity and pop cultural prowess. She may blink too much in certain scenes of a film where the actor is required to just stand there and look shocked or in awe at her leading man. She may be too bossy for directors to be able to control onset or off. But when it comes to calling “cut” on her star power and global ubiquity, she’ll be the one making that director’s statement, honey.
In the company of muses and gods: an interview with rock poet Patti Smith from the Cream archives
The Touchless Tan: no sun, no creams, no stress and yet perfect tanning results
Elevating Your Projects: The Essential Guide to Sound Effects in Creative Media
Time to hang up the mask? Why ‘Scream 7’ didn’t really need to made
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Which cars from our favourite movies would be worth the most if sold today?
While The Fast & The Furious franchise practically promotes illegal street racing as an artform, it proves that fast cars get movie-goers truly revved up.
But which automobiles on film and television screens would be worth the most if allowed on real roads today?
Auto insurance company Uswitch.com collaborated with CashForCars.com to calculate the cost of popular fictional vehicles in cinema and TV… and he results ought to spin you out.
If sold in real life, Inspector Gadget’s ‘Gadgetmobile’ would be the most expensive car: the robotic vehicle’s estimated value being around $25,075,000.
Inspired by the 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible, the Gadgetmobile itself is valued at just $75,000, but it is the hidden features – such as jet engines, bumper claws, glue rockets, and the ability to change shape – that see its worth rocket up to $25million.
In second place is Stark Industries’ Acura 2012 ‘Super Car’ as featured in Marvel’s The Avengers. With high-tech features such as palm-scan ID steering, this Palladium-powered vehicle would be worth an estimated $9,198,000 if sold in real life.
Another superhero car races into third place: the Batmobile – or more specifically the one driven by Christian Bale in The Dark Knight.The vehicle would cost an estimated $9,000,000 if allowed on the streets of Gotham City Manhattan or Tokyo today.
Lagging behind, The DeLorean in Back to the Future only just skids into the top ten. While it is perhaps one of the most iconic cars in cinematic history, this time-travelling machine is valued at a surprisingly low $55,500 in real life. And that’s including its vital component – the Flux Capacitor (worth a dismal $450, thanks to obsolescence).
Also in the Top 10 are James Bond’s Aston Martin in ‘Thunderball’ (3 million), the Flying Ford Anglia in ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ (1.5 million), and the Gigahorse in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (just 100k).
But wait, there’s more! Two cool animated autos also fit into the rich cars list. That little hot rod Lightning McQueen from Cars zips in at number 7 (worth just 5k in cartoon dollars short of a million), and the fabulous six-wheeled FAB1 in Thunderbirds (top of story) slides in at number 8 (a quarter of a million, thank you, Parker).
Seriously, your Uber driver’s car is worth more than some of these beasts.
Bethany Surridge & Antonino Tati
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