Backspace
A fortnightly from Don't Be Content | Issue #15
Backspace is the key to looking back to look ahead with a new vision. Join us every fortnight as we curate ideas that inspired us from the fields of art, fashion, culture, design, and tech – anything and everything that fills you with wonder.
Artist Zak Korvin offers a look into the process of making a geometric crest of three birds in a mesmerizing timelapse. Drawing inspiration from Japanese mon, an emblem used to designate an individual or a family.
It turns out that watching people yell as loud as they’re able to is almost as cathartic for the viewer as it is for the screamer. The Cut recently filmed 100 folks as they shout, capturing an array of emotions as they let it all out.
In “The Diver,” Ukrainian artist and director Lulia Voitova captures the total collapse and exhaustion of a professional swimmer affected by a rigorous training schedule and the incessant noise of her coach’s whistle.
Winner of the SXSW Animated Short Audience Award, “Five Cents” by Aaron Hughes is a symbolic and witty criticism of capitalist society and how economic mechanisms like inflation impact the everyday cost of living.
Leap of Dance Academy located in Ajangbadi, Ojo, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, the ballet school garnered global attention, including the prestigious the American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet.