The television show X Factor appears as a saviour of unknown artists, who otherwise wouldn’t find their way into the stardom of show business. However, underneath the veil of glitter, the naivety disappears and a bottom line profit of a music industry appears. This was acknowledged indirectly by Simon Cowell himself, in an interview with Piers Morgan. Simon said he… Read more →
Video games are fun and exciting to play, but are often overlooked as an intellectual activity. Pong was one of the earliest video games released in 1972 by Atari, but since then the video game industry has grown enormously. According to the IBISWorld Industry report, the global video game market is set to expand from $58.7 billion in 2011 to $83.0… Read more →
Recently, BBC documentary maker Louis Theroux did a follow up to his now classic documentary Porn. The sequal is called Twilight of the Porn Stars, which shows how the internet has destroyed stable incomes of people within the porn industry. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oikCneLO1oU[/embedyt] The original documentary is available on Youtube. This is BBC, so it’s all in a good taste. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cmt6h6-LnQ[/embedyt] What… Read more →
The rap wars are usually known as the East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry in the 1990s between artists and fans of the East Coast rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy Records) and West Coast rapper 2Pac (Death Row Records), both of whom were murdered. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3skyye7TkYk[/embedyt] In 2013 a new rap war is escalating, now the mature rap industry… Read more →