nothing in the rulebook
A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!
Category: Arts & Writing
Short stories, photography, art, videos
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An elephant is easily capable of killing a human…
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How can men get away from their “bulbous salutations” and descriptions of women as empty vassals for them to have sex with, and start writing sex that is actually good?
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Few writers consistently and exuded as much visionary force as beloved author Toni Morrison, who has died today at the age of 88. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. In her stunning Nobel prize acceptance speech (which…
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Lisa Marie Simmons offers her reflections on music, songwriting, touring, and creating new art
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A book illustrator’s work begins where the editors have left off…
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Sam Bellamy asks whether writers and artists must collectivise in order to compete against corporate power structures
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In 2014, I rid myself of all possessions that couldn’t fit in a backpack, and threw myself entirely on the mercy of this wondrous planet of ours. For the next four years, I trekked across Mongolian steppe-land, Egyptian sand dunes, Kenyan swamps, and the cobblestoned streets of innumerable ancient cities. In the spring of 2018,…
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The ride to Philadelphia would take approximately three and a half hours. Nina rented the car for two weeks, to be on the safe side. Her mother had a way of dragging these things out; the funeral wouldn’t last only a few days. “Seeing as you’re here,” her mother would say. “You might as well…
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Here’s the premise: a person (poet, artist, writer, musician) chooses a collaborator (another writer, poet, etc.). They share a poem with one another, and then each produces a visual ‘dub’ version/remix of their collaborator’s poem. Now, perhaps unsurprisingly, as a collective creative ourselves, Nothing in the Rulebook was immediately inspired by this idea, which is…
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Author, poet and photographer Matthew Smith writes about the art of the collection or series – and making smaller works of art into something greater than the sum of their parts. In an old TV interview, Hayao Miyazaki described dreaming up the part towards the end of Spirited Away, in which the train moves out…
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