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SURREALISM or, Fairy Tales Still Almost Blue

You’re probably most familiar with Surrealism as a visual art medium. The name Salvador Dalí comes to mind, as does his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory: clocks draped over trees, edges and indistinct objects.

Brock Scholte
July 12, 2023

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Taylor Swift is coming to Australia – So, what counts as a good concert experience?

Instagram accounts I follow reported their utter hatred for their five desktop Ticketek waiting screens, that seem to show no signs of refreshing. Two girls in the changeroom beside me discussed the dilemma of having to sell one of their tickets.

Matilda Lees
July 11, 2023

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unSEXpected: Drawing the Line Between Compromise and Settling

The realisation that you could, and maybe should, be getting more out of your relationship is bittersweet. On one hand, it’s comforting to know the kind of love you crave isn’t unreasonable, that it exists somewhere and could very well be yours in future.

Konstanz Muller Hering
June 30, 2023

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How Subtitles Are Changing the Way We Watch

If you opened up Netflix right now and played anything, chances are the subtitles are already on. If you scrolled through TikTok right now, you’ll notice that most videos have subtitles on as well. But why are they on in the first place? And why do we keep them on?