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Exclusive – New app WaterBear is the Netflix of social change

What happens when NGOs, storytellers, and tech experts unite to take control of our ecological narrative? One of the biggest hurdles that storytellers face today is the disconnect many of us have between problems ‘here’ and problems ‘far away’. We often feel untouched by global issues like climate change when their effects are, for many of us, geographically removed. Even if we do manage to transcend the numbing effect created...

By London, UK
Exclusive – Inside the mind of Gen Z director Jason Joyride

Exclusive – Inside the mind of Gen Z director Jason Joyride

Jason Joyride, up-and-coming director and creative talent for Rico Nasty, talks Gen Z’s responsibility for social change, and reinventing musicals for the hip-hop age. When you first watch Rico Nasty’s music video for ‘Popstar’, a trap and punk-infused banger that dropped in early April, it’s hard not to be drawn in by the explosive colour, jittery doodles, and electric backdrops. The video is the brainchild of Jason Joyride, a...

By Bristol, UK
Exclusive – Meet Ketnipz, the Instagram sensation spreading positivity and mental wellness

Exclusive – Meet Ketnipz, the Instagram sensation spreading positivity and mental wellness

At the age of just 21, Harry Hambley has already become an internet sensation through spreading positivity and mental wellness one doodle at a time. An afternoon Zoom call with Harry Hambley (aka Ketnipz) had me rifling through old school planners to see if my brainless scribbles had any kind of value or potential. In the least surprising revelation of 2020, they did not. From personal experience of the comprehensive schooling...

By London, UK