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COMEDY

GADGETS

FOOD

Gaming

MUSIC

TRAVEL

WUWO Magazine Contributors WUWO Media Editor in Chief Steven Godwin

Welcome Thanks for picking up another issue of WUWO and welcome to the year of the snake. In keeping with the lizard theme, this edition is full of content to appease the your reptilian complex including dirt bikes, real life Robin Hoods and an interview with the greatest and craziest dub artist of all time, Lee Scratch Perry.

Jack Courtez Editor in Chief

08 W hat Useless Crap Will We Leave for Our Grand Children?

Stamps, cigarette cards and coins are a thing of the past. What will future generations think of our broken I-pods and drunken Facebook photos?

14 Pleb talk with Tom Rosenthal

om talks about ITV2’s new comedy series, Danny Dyer’s penis T and Bulgaria.

18 Interview with Rick Heinrichs

Rick is a film artist with an impressive track record including Fargo, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow. WUWO speaks to Rick regarding Frankenweenie, Tim Burton and set design.

20 Mind The Cord

The history of games console controllers.

28 Interview with Lee “Scratch” Perry

The king of dub shares his thoughts in relation to the queen, the devil and Bob Marley.

38 Nitro Circus: Jolene Van Vugt

Copy Editor Ralph Jones Head of Design Nita Saroglou Design Assistants Andrew Brown Michael David Hayton

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Content Editor Jack Courtez

Jolene talks punk rock, broken bones and Motocross .

Regulars 06 Gadgets

26 Art Explorer

12 Aisling Bea

28 Music

16 WUWO Likes

30 Retronaut

20 Gameplay

32 Food

23 Gimmicks

36 Travel

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Hand-picked, intriguing happenings, venues, clubs, shops and more from across London and beyond.

Prêt-à-Portea Afternoon Tea

A Crime of Fashion

Afternoon tea comes in many quirky shapes and sizes around London, and the fashionista’s favourite is served at The Berkeley London hotel in Knightsbridge. With a thoroughly trend menu that mirrors the colours and designs of the current season’s catwalk, the Prêt-àPortea afternoon tea is the perfect reprise in a day of retail therapy. The stylish savours include an Yves Saint Laurent “Cabas Chyc” green cake handbag and some Manolo Blahnik "Neurotica" pink polka dot cake pumps.

A Door in a Wall are the masters of adventure, running events that have players running here, there and everywhere solving clues and interrogating strange characters. On the 16th and 17th March teams of 3-6 people are invited to solve the mystery of the death of a celebrated fashion designer within the Boxpark pop-up area in Shoreditch. Lasting around four hours, there are two sessions a day available for the latest instalment of A Door in a Wall’s incredibly popular and fiendishly fun games.

The Berkeley, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge 1pm-5.30pm From £35 www.the-berkeley.co.uk

Boxpark, Shoreditch 16th & 17th March £15 in advance www.wegottickets.com

Doodlebar, Battersea

Beach House

True to its name Doodlebar in Battersea is one of the best places in London to go for a little squiggle, primarily because its walls are chalkboards. The décor is a constantly changing entity, sketched by guests, and it’s a firm favourite with pretty much anyone who visits. They host regular events, including workshops and comedy nights.

To top it all, there’s a killer cocktail menu, as well as tasty beers, ales and ciders on tap and bottled, and just outside is a burger van serving up the mother of all that is delicious in fast food.

Beach House bring their ethereal sound to the as part of a string of dates around the world. The Baltimore duo truly came into their own with their most recent album, Bloom and their 2012 UK appearances blew audiences away. Expect to be stunned by the embracing power of the band’s indie dream pop.

Their 2013 World tour features 26 dates, taking them from South Korea to the Coachella festival in California.

Doodlebar, 33 Parkgate rd, London, SW11 4NP www.thedoodlebar.com

Boxpark, Shoreditch 16th & 17th March £15 in advance www.wegottickets.com

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Egg-Q-Ber Eggs are one of the most recognizable shapes in the world. While practical for raising chicks, throwing at houses and determining who is the best at carrying weird objects on a spoon the fastest, they are frustratingly hard to transport and prevent from sliding around a plate when softboiled.

Enter the Egg-Q-Ber, this weird box transforms your soft-boiled eggs into near-perfect cubes. We have no idea how or why this works but when the stakes are as high as gapless egg sandwiches, we’re prepared to turn a blind eye to this sorcery.

By Jack Courtez

Razorpit Teneo

www.prezzybox.com £4.95

When it comes to facial hair your options are wet shave, dry shave or caveman. The popular choice is wet.

Eventually Gillette will release the Mach #1000, with enough blades to shave an orang-utan in a single stroke, but the cost will be phenomenal. The Razorpit Teneo combats the cost of replacement blades by “sharpening” (cleaning) your old ones.

Compatible with all wet razors, it promises a smoother shave and a 90% reduction in shaving costs. www.monsterstuff.co.uk £19.79

Zip Earphones ARGGHH! That is the sound I make in my head every morning as I try to untangle my keys from my earphones. While Zip Earphones don’t completely solve my struggle, it does reduce it considerably.

By allowing the headphones to be zipped up, there is less wire to tangle and less chance of the wire inside breaking. Most importantly, the cable length is a generous 1.3 metres and it comes with variable silicon plug sizes to ensure a snug fit.

The sound quality is good for the price and they come in a range of colours to suite most tastes. www.geniegadgets.com/zip-earphones.html £12.95

World’s Largest Coffee Cup Ever wondered how it feels to have the resting heart rate of a humming bird or bladder of a small child?

This giant coffee cup could be the answer. Combining the capacity of a barrel with the portability of, well, a barrel, this may help your mind get that few seconds of zen in the morning before you succumb to the world’s first caffeine induced aneurysm.

Don’t be discouraged by the hefty weight of over 4.5 kg, after a few litres of coffee, your new superstrength will allow you to lift cars, houses and even those fat twins on motorbikes from the Guinness book of World Records. (This is not true, please do not kill yourself)'. www.firebox.com £29.99

The Bar10der The Swiss army is hired to protect the pope who has quite a liking for red wine but not cocktails. This explains why a Swiss army knife isn’t the best tool for making a Margarita.

However, if they were hired to guard Hugh Hefner, the Swiss Army Knife would look a lot more like the Bar10der.

Just like a regular pen knife, the construction is sturdy and nobody knows the point of certain attachments. www.firebox.com £29.99

Fridge Locker Anybody who’s shared a fridge knows the frustration of having their food nabbed from by a hungry and unscrupulous flatmate.

“It’s only a cheese triangle” or “I’ll buy you another one tomorrow” they say, but deep down they know they’ve broken the sacred rule. Never come between a person and their food.

You could try labelling your cheese, talking it through or any number of rational actions, but for the more passive aggressive among, you there is the fridge locker.

It is essentially a plastic cage with a combination lock to guard against food theft. www.lazyboneuk.com £19.99

Titanic And Iceberg Ice Cube Tray You may have heard of a storm in a teacup, but what about an Iceberg in a tumbler?

This Titanic shaped mould allows you to play out your fantasies of being painted in the nude

by Leonardo Dicaprio while enjoying a drink and a ship “on the rocks”.

Unfortunately the thin parts of the ship melt quickly leaving you with a sausage shaped lump in your drink.

Originally designed to produce tiny Jack figurines, apparently they had trouble floating. www.play.com £2.90

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What useless crap will we leave for our grandkids?

By Stevie Martin

A TANGLED BALL OF VARIOUS CHARGERS Large black Dell ones entwined with their white iPod counterparts to create a yin/yang dance of pointless, obsolete power supplies. Nokia, Samsung, Alcatel and Blackberry, never to be separated (because nobody can be bothered).

Unless you're still wearing them. Yes, I'm talking to you. The Carling Weekend 2009 doesn't impress me.

Not wearing plastic bands from ten years ago in order to improve your hipster sensibilities does.

Furbys With a tendency to come back from the dead in eyerolling, battery-surging horror, most of us had one and, hey, they're just as impressive as a medal from world war two. This is heavily sarcastic.

Surely nobody's going to throw theres away, right? Oh. A box full of cards Not the charming cigarette cards dug out by your grandparents, but a myriad of plastic debit cards (around 50 of each considering the amount of times the same card got reissued), membership cards, oyster cards, loyalty cards, store cards, ID cards. Not as boring as you may think; think of the array of bad quality, embarrassing photos.

Oh, these are from when Facebook collapsed in on itself without warning and you desperately tried to print all your photos out to prevent them being lost forever, but it didn't work. Then someone set up a rescue program, and you got them back.

From that time your first i-Pod broke and you shoved it in a drawer to marvel at later, to when you went through the Shuffle, the Mini, the Nano, the iPhone, the iPhone 4, the iPhone 5, the iPad, the iPad mini, the iPad minipod, the iPadphonepod 65, the iHouse and finally the iPerson. A marvel.

Festival wrist bands

...that nobody will be able to play, nor will they have any vinyl-esque retro appeal. Let's face it, even cassettes were better than the scratched pile of crap that was the compact disc.

A rack of unrecognisable, mouldy pieces of paper

The entire evolution of Apple

Accrued from people who aren't sure what to get you for your birthday between the ages of 18 and 21 and stolen from a variety of strangers outside clubs (respectively). Smoking and alcohol will probably be illegal in the future. Your children's children are going to be fascinated you enjoyed killing yourselves with these weird devices.

CDs

Pogs

Ahh‌ Cigarette cards, match books, coin collections, postcards and medals from the war.

One of the many great things about having grandparents is those boxes full of old stuff they occasionally get out of the attic. From ration cards to patterned doilies (this may just be my grandma), there's something magical about seeing items preserved at museum standard right above where you've been eating dinner. But what will we, when we're in our elderly years, pass on to our grandchildren? What terrible, useless crap will we inflict on wide-eyed sprogs in decades to come? No ration cards, that's for sure.

Shot glasses and lighters

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A hard drive

A pile of weird books you never actually read "You have books?" Your grandchild says, wide-eyed: "show me the books!" Filled with pride at finally being able to connect with him, you creak upstairs to the attic and excitedly hunt for any one of your wide collection of classic novels. You did English lit. You had loads of them. So why is the only one you can find 50 Shades of Grey? You didn't even read it!

Containing every photographic memory (including Facebook-see above) from 1995-2020 when it became obsolete and you realised you would never be able to access the files again because: a) the cable broke and b) Curry's went into administration and nobody else could make that particular cable.

Old teenage diaries Full of stuff so awkward you immediately set them on fire with the aforementioned lighters: Obviously.

Posters Will include Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Che Guavara, Jack Daniels or some form of FTW (Free The Weed) posters, hilarious Keep Calm And Carry On parody, naff "controversial" slogans (i.e. Dip me in honey and feed me to the lesbians).

An implant Hey, who knows what you'll get done over the next thirty years?

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Truth is a beautiful thing, yet when surrounded by yammering football fanatics, screaming, “I’d rather lick broken glass!” may not enhance the situation. Worry not my footie-indifferent public; here are five simple lessons that will ease those uncomfortable soccer moments.

Don’t make the mistake of calling it soccer; I did that on purpose to teach you a lesson. Americans call it Soccer and it makes some fans instantly nose bleed out of stress.

Disagreeing is great, football fans love a struggle and you can end the conversation before it gets too technical by saying “I’ve heard enough of this nonsense I’m getting a drink.” Never get into a stats war because some fans will go Good will Hunting on your ass.

Buy a few rounds over the average, this will endear them to you and cause their pleased intoxicated subconscious to turn a blind eye to your occasional blunders and misinformation. If you’re on a night out then just give them a Twix.

Do not support the team they support, as they will expect knowledge that you simply couldn’t give a monkeys about. Go for a random team that is low in the leagues like Leyton Orient or Accrington Stanley. I’ve never met any of those fans, so I assume they hide in huts and only come out during match days.

The most important thing here is remembering that you know diddlysquat about football. You may start to get too comfortable, cocky even, as they fall into your well-tailored web of lies. Conversation is a flowering organic beast that will flow to any corner if coaxed expertly, so try and turn it away from football when you can.

Nanotech talk with Professor Grey

By Matthew Cook

Nano technology is not just the mini golf of science; it’s the interplay and engineering of tiny particles giving way to mind-boggling results in everything from medicine to warfare. It’s so small that even Tom Cruise, crouching down with his reading glasses couldn’t focus on it. Speaking with Professor Clare Grey of Cambridge University about Nano tech batteries, we discover just how hard Tom would have to squint to see it.

Most of us rely on gadgets like phones, the internet and electric spaghetti forks. With an increasing population and a growing love of electronics, how can we power this circus of stuff? It seems that Nano technology has given a few mystical answers to this cause, well maybe not mystical.

I don’t think it’s right to say there are mystical things happening on a nano scale. They still behave within the realms of physics and

chemistry; it’s not like black magic.”

The professor goes on to explain misunderstandings of nano technology, “Nano batteries have made it into Wikipedia so Wikipedia believes it’s a proper term even though it’s not. They are batteries using nanotechnology; a nano battery would be a molecularsized battery. It’s just me being a pedantic scientist that’s all.”

Technology has always been met with fear and perhaps rightly so. From Orwell to that really bad Doom film with The Rock in, media has predicted how science might play a part in our dystopian future. With an impressive technological track record for disaster such as the Manhattan Project and Windows Millennium Edition, the nano research in surveillance, “soldier enhancements”, and nanopollution have been met with concern.

However, the development of nanophysics is a reminder that technology is not innately good or bad, only the applications are moral or immoral.

For instance, while concerns about nano pollution have been raised, nano-filtration systems offer a

much more effective means of purifying gases and liquids. Professor Grey sees nanoscience as a radical development for both society and scientific theory, “You know we have hypotheses about what happens at a smaller scale, and it’s interesting when it’s not what we think they are.”

For a scientific layman such as myself, it’s a confusing and exciting science that offers enhancement in differing areas of technology. The social fear, I believe, comes from what the same old source: that which we don’t understand.

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In 2002, following a hugely successful stint as James Bond and other generic suave Englishmen, Pierce Brosnan took on the role of a struggling Irish father, in the film Evelyn.

Did we mind that the Irish actor with the where-in-Ireland-is-he-from accent was wrong for the part of Desmond Doyle; the 1950’s working-class man? No! “Dee man wuz juss tryin’ te care fur his childerin”. It didn’t have to be right! He was PIERCE bloody BROSNAN! Then, in 2008, something terrible happened; Pierce sang in the film interpretation of Mamma Mia. He’d bitten off more than he could chew. He became an international joke. The party was over. The bubble was Pierced.

The above is a metaphor and exact timeline for the fall of the Irish economy but, like Pierce, we’re dusting ourselves off and have come back to what we do best; getting people together and having a laugh.

The Gathering 2013 is an initiative by the Irish government designed to bring hundreds of thousands of “Irish” people back “home”.

At its peak, we never had a population of more than 8 million. For hundreds of years we maintained that no one was having sex at all, just the odd time, in an emergency. Yet somehow Ireland now has an international Diaspora of over 100 million people.

And we want you to all come back. Don’t stay and steal our jobs, just come back again and again and again for holidays. We will stick our ringletted children in the streets dancing, you will have the best time of your life and then we can pay off our loans.

There are “gatherings” for everything; people with the surname O’Reilly, people who like photography and hummus. My friend Stephen even sent in a “gathering application” for Cans on the Canal, where some dudes gather and drink cans by Dublin canal.

It was refused but you could probably still go for a can with him.

If you live in LONDON, there are loads of events lined up for Irish Christmas (St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday March 17th). Why not swing by the Comedy Tent in Trafalgar Square. The likes of myself, Maeve Higgins, Jarlath Regan, Fred Cooke and Barry Murphy will be attempting to tell jokes in a giant noisy tent.

Quick tips for people unfortunate enough not to be Irish.

THINGS WE NO LONGER PUT UP WITH: “Top of the Mornin’ To Ya” A man, who happened to be Irish, said this ONCE, but he accidentally said it into a microphone in front of seventy five million people and the idea caught on. We do not say it. If we want you to have a good morning, we say, “Have a good morning”.

Silly Paddy 45% of people between the age of 25 and 34 in Ireland have a 3rd level qualification, placing Ireland 8th in the World for university education attainment. Some people have so many degrees, they use them to wipe their arse and print off their boarding passes. You may not be able to get a job with one, but you can go find another country to call stupid.

Bunch of Farmers We are all builders and architects now. There is literally nothing left to build, because we have built it all. Irish babies now play indoors with Lego rather than outside in the fields. Randomly however, Ireland is the 5th biggest exporter of bananas.

Seriously. Fyffes own 7% of the worldwide banana market share.

THINGS WE STILL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH BECAUSE THEY ARE TRUE: Potatoes Some babies are born addicted to heroin. Irish babies grow teeth faster so they can get their molars into a chip.

Lads ‘Lads’ is a term used to speak to a group of people, both male and female. “Here, lads!” is the Irish for “Excuse me, people!”

The lads ‘THE Lads’ are a group of Irish men winning in their chosen activity; rugby, dancing, drinking, getting together, football, looking well. They are craic thoroughbreds and move as a pack. A girl who is called “one of the lads” is a legend of a woman. A girl who calls herself “just one of the lads” hates other women and is trying to bag herself one of the lads under the guise of pretending to be one of the lads.

Drinking We would deal with it as a problem, but we’re too busy peer pressuring everyone else into having another one. We even horsed a pint into local lad Barack Obama at about 1 O’clock in the day when he was here… working…. on an official US government visit.

THINGS WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN BRILLIANT AT AND NOW ONLY DO FOR MONEY: Horses, Dogs, Fighting, Storytelling.

HOW TO GET AND KEEP AN IRISH FRIEND: Name someone you know who is Irish so we can play our favourite game “Irish Guess Who”; where we try to work out if we know your other Irish friend.

Do not get involved in a round if you are not going to get one back.

Stay in touch with a regularity and tone that in any other country would look like flirting.

HOW TO GET AN IRISH BOY:

Tea If I went into a house with no tea bags, I’d assume that I was about to get murdered.

The craic (Spelled C-R-A-I-C and pronounced “crack”. If it’s spelled C-R-A-C-K, you are about to be dealt drugs.

Walk away). Craic is like the French word “Baguette”.

It is not directly translatable. You could say “Oh it’s a sort of long French bread roll.” but it’s not really.

‘The Craic’ is the great time, the laugh.

You can have the craic, you can be the craic, it can be good craic, you can ask what the craic is, but you can NEVER, EVER beat the craic.

Put up with the genuinely, horrifically insulting things that he will say to you in an effort to win your heart.

HOW TO GET AN IRISH GIRL: Mention how sad you thought the famine was.

Buy her chips.

Buy her friend chips.

Don’t ask why her hands are paler than her arms.

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An Interview with Tom Rosenthal

By Steven Godwin

Tom is known as a comedian, common sofa squatter on Soccer AM and as Jonny in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner. However his new role swaps the Caesar salad for Caesar salutes as plebeians in Ancient Rome.

Speaking to WUWO, Tom discussed the size of Danny Dyer’s penis, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Bulgaria.

Tell us about Plebs.

Plebs is a new sitcom on ITV2 about three young lads who move to the big city. The big city just happens to be Ancient Rome and then they’re just trying to settle in. Because it’s Rome the morals and etiquette they live by are totally different; they go to orgies, gladiators and see a decapitation. Every episode opens with a shot that could be from modern times, in one they are looking at porn, but then it is revealed to be on a vase.

Every episode’s like that, stuff that could happen now but because it’s happening in Ancient Rome there’s a whole new dimension to it. There are girls, they go to parties and it’s pretty much what you expect from a modern sitcom (with togas).

How long was the filming process?

It took about seven weeks in Bulgaria. It was a bit different to England. It was a genuinely lifechanging experience and formed the main lump of my Edinburgh show, which I’m trying to put together now.

It’s not a great place, when you first get there you’re like ‘wow this is very different, everything’s falling down and everyone seems very sad.’ But by the time I left I honestly considered myself a bit of a Bulgarian In a western traveller, ‘ooh I’ve found myself’ way.

The way they live every day is just so different to us it makes you realise a lot about the way we live. They’re not very expressive, so you can never really judge their emotional reaction to anything. Whereas we, you realise, are so overly expressive. It’s made me realise that you can be over polite and sometimes it’s a little offensive and insincere.

So, do you reckon you’re primarily an actor or a comedian?

On forms I never know what to put. If I put performer it sounds like an odd sexual boast. I would rather say I’ve committed a minor crime than say I’m a comedian because people immediately hate comedians, they’re

like ‘oh you think you’re funny do you?’

Until you’ve proved you’re funny it’s just bad. To say you’re an actor is better, but if you’re not working at that point people are like ‘you’re an actor, are you?

What Starbucks do you work at?’ I’d rather just not say what my job is until people talk to me for a few minutes. I like acting and I like comedy and it’s a privilege to be able to do both. What should I say? I know: a writer! That would work, writers can sit in a café for ages, just thinking, and no one expects too much from them.

Do you have three cool facts about Plebs?

I got naked with Danny Dyer. There’s a scene where me and Danny Dyer are both naked apart from a towel.

He beat me in terms of size – he’s packing a Dyer.

I tore my something ligaments about nine months ago and I’d had surgery about two or three months before filming. There’s a lot of muscle atrophy in my right leg so I kept looking at the photos from filming, as my left leg looks much bigger than my right leg, and it looks quite funny.

The set is completely falling apart, it looks good but it was made in the nineties, so there’s holes in everything. You’ll see paper mache filling in holes everywhere, it’s all falling down, and in the stadium there’s loads of bits of fibreglass sticking out. After filming we all left with these bits of fibre glass in our legs and everyone thought we’d got lice.

What’s next?

I’m writing an Edinburgh show right now, so I’m going to be gigging and going to Edinburgh in August, talking about my Bulgaria experience. I’m going to be in the Pleasance, Beneath, at 8:15. I’m not sure that’s completely confirmed yet but it’s exciting.

Do you recommend any current comedians?

I went to go and see Trevor Noah recently, and he was brilliant, he’s a South African comedian

who is brilliant and polished, technically he’s really impressive.

I saw James Acaster at Edinburgh and it’s one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, it inspired me, really, to work harder and create something great. His show is called Prompt and I really recommend anyone to go and see it.

Good Apps?

Space Team is a really funny app. You need 2-4 players, but essentially you get ridiculous commands and your friend has to put the command in and it’s really hilarious and fun.

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Can an app give your life meaning?

No. Can an app make awkward waiting moments less awkward?

Of course they can.

Cannes award winner ChanWook’s first English language block buster Stocker, with Nicole Kidman sporting her ‘I’m freaked out’ face.

Like Game of Thrones, Revolution tortured fans with a hibernating hiatus.

Who is the most important person in your life? If its not yourself then you're lying.

The twitter consortium burst onto the scene with a solution to these time filling moments, Video sharing app, Vine! Don't let Twitter’s overlording hand in this fool you, 'Vine' is a cheeky creation in its own right. Do you have six seconds to spare? Sure you do. With this app you can immortalise those previously long forgotten snippets.

This thriller switched leading actors more than the Magic Roundabout, finally settling on Mai Wasikwoska, Matthew Goode and Aussie Nicole. India Stoker’s (Wasikwoska) dad’s funeral is crashed by an estranged Uncle (Goode) and a bunny boiling infatuation ensues.

It is time to strap yourself to your favourite chair, buy some Cheetos and extra fizzy cherryade while you fill every available moment with the new Gears of War: Judgement.

Having concluded the series Microsoft studios clenched its iron grip on this cash cow by releasing a much anticipated prequel.

The Washington rumour mill was sent into a crazed buzz recently as first lady Michelle Obama launched her new twitter page. I say crazed buzz, but I mean more of a slight interest.

Just like Instagram, Vine works by instantly uploading the footage of your insane six second antics.

A stylish direction and a seasoned line-up gives us hope for a great day out at the cinema. Not one for the toddlers though, maybe Monsters Inc. 2 would be a safer bet.

Actual Advice Mallard Actual advice mallard is a meme with a message, and there are actually some real gems of advice to be picked up from this very sincere duck. A firm favourite is ‘If you ever get a flat tyre, take a picture of it on your phone…

For future reference you can text that picture to people as a great excuse.’ For the more wild, Malicious Advice Mallard is also around.

Last September, J. J. Arbrams technology break down apocalypse Revolution spread across America like the tea party on crack, evoking emotions of ‘Christ if I couldn’t play Angry B on my toilet I’d just die!’

If you’re hoping for stylish and weep inducing acting then you may have to turn to your beloved indie French film collection.

If a big budget Xena Warrior Princess type adventure tickles you then get up to speed and enjoy.

Gizoogle.net Gizoogle translated your text into the language of Snoop Dogg lingo, but it disappeared some time in 2011 and the domain was bought by ‘some lame-ass dating company’. Gizoogle has been resurrected by some long-time fans, which is a relief because it’s a pretty cool platform.

If you locked the Gears of War fanbase in the same room as the Halo traditionalists supply them with a series of semi-automatic weapons, I’d image the result be relatively even and a new gaming show to rival ‘Games master’.

With sleek multi-player features, an intriguing storyline and villainous protagonists Damon Baird and Augustus Cole shaking things up, fans lay in wait to judge this judgement.

What if you could visit an exhibition with you as the central theme? The new website 'Museum of Me' promotes a more funky turn on this idea. By processing your facebook Information, it pieces together your life on social media in a virtual gallery.

It can be disconcerting gazing at a parade of the past few years and at the same time enlightening.

With its popularity soaring since its launch, this trend will make artists and/or freaks of us all.

Cognifit.com Cognifit is a free brain training website that’s lots of fun.

You start with an assessment of your cognitive abilities, strengths and weaknesses, and then continue on a brain training programme that’s specially personalised to you.

Twitter

Twitter offers up some track worthy tidbits from time to time, like Mr T, Keith Chegwin and of course the Ghost of Michael Jackson. The first lady of the united states however could potentially give rise to some interesting gaffs and whoopsmoments.

Now Michelle has some media streetsmarts through living in the White House for four years but even the hardened politician can lapse in the world of the tweets.

Can the first lady of the USA keep her consistency, or will she cause a blunder for her husband to clear up, I shall be laying in wait.

Cabin Porn Freecabinporn.com As winter finally begins to abate a little, and warmth and sunlight start to seem more than a fantasy, so come dreams of whiling away longer days. This is where cabin porn comes in – a treasure trove of beautiful little hideouts from the very traditional to ultra-modern.

Rick Heinrichs

By Sarah Bradley

Rick Heinrichs is a talented film artist, who creates stunning, inventive and intricate realities.

He has worked alongside Tim Burton on Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, winning an Academy Award for the latter. He also worked on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and on the Coen Brothers’ Fargo and The Big Lebowski. In Frankenweenie, Rick returns to work with Burton again, bringing the live action short they worked on in 1984 into the present day.

Tim and I first met when we were doing Cal Arts, which was supported by the Disney family; they were trying to reinvigorate the studios with a programme for young character animators. When we were at the studio we started working on studio projects together and discovered what we were doing was unusual, exciting and experimental. That’s how Frankenweenie evolved.

We worked on the live action Frankenweenie in 1984, it was live action and there were a lot of physical aspects and challenges to doing a full sized live action film. It was the first time I had had the opportunity to do produce exterior sets and it is something I love. A lot of that comes from my interest in model making as the skills in miniature set are mostly the same as in a stop-motion animated film.

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That was enormously important learning ground for us. Tim developed into a prominent director. I developed my career in the art department for both live action and animated films, so I’ve quite happily been immersed in the design world for the last thirty years. I trace this back to my time spent developing projects with Tim. We don’t always work together; we work with other people as well. It’s a very healthy way of being.

It’s a lot of fun to be able to have a second look at Frankenweenie and do it in a way that expands, develops and makes it what it really ought to be: a love story between a boy and his dog. The personality of Sparky (the dog) developed to the point where he is really the star of the show.

We started fresh with the environment of New Holland based on this new take that Tim Burton and the writer John August had come up with. We realised it was a version of Burbank where Tim had grown up in mid-twentieth century American suburbia. One of the things Americans do is pull ideas either from Europe or fantasy and turn it into a community. In the case of New Holland, we imagined an American city based on Dutch design, if you’re familiar with Burbank it’s interesting because the domestic architecture has a lot of fantasy elements, there’s old world influences in the way the roofs line up.

If you’re familiar with Tim’s films, Edward Scissorhands particularly, usually you’ll note that there’s some kind of a hill in the neighbourhood which figures narratively in the film.

If you imagine a young Tim Burton, growing up in Burbank, all the films he would watch and the surreal nature of the place, it’s not too hard to see he loves to playfully juxtapose seemingly opposite elements like the gothic theme with suburbia.

One of the challenges was knowing the laboratory was very important to hitting that note from the original Frankenstein but how do you put a gothic laboratory into a ranch style house?

We had to push the architectural aspects of the ranch style house, so that there was enough room to shoot with the rhythm of the original film but with all of these props and the look from our period. I think a lot of the enjoyment of the film is seeing those things put together like that.

If you think about the original Frankenstein there are the significant moments that have to be a part of it.

Most important is the reanimation scene to begin with. The second and possibly more important in terms of narrative is how does the relationship between the so-called monster and the creator evolve?

And then how does the public react to the discovery of this potentially dangerous aberration within their midst?

The significant parts from the original are still there, the fear through either ignorance or superstition of science and what it can bring, both the good and bad, is dealt with. Our version has been brought up to date in a way that feels like it could’ve been taken from the present.

Mind The Cord

By Nader Khouri

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No gamer is ready to jump their heads into blocks in order to smash out the sweet mushrooms contained within, without a trusty control pad sidekick.

Here at WUWO we love digging up our roots so here is a hats-off to some of those memorable control pads. Lest we forget.

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In the beginning God created a black, monolithic wrist destroyer with one button. This iconic classic is the primordial ooze from which all joysticks and thumbsticks evolved. It gave gamers a functional tool and allowed games to be played with more urgency than a keyboard.

Plus with a foolproof, one button, one stick design, even weird cousin Joe could knuckle down and join in the fun.

This game pad took everything that was so good about the NES controller and doubled it, which is an old fashioned recipe for awesome. The multicoloured X A B Y buttons allowed for more a more diverse gaming experience and the addition of shoulder buttons R and L made games that a bit more immersive, allowing you to scroll the screen left and right. Nintendo even sanded down those pesky rectangular edges!

The original NES controller is a formidable chunk of rectangular grey plastic with a B and an A button, Start and Select and a D-pad. It is functional, light and fits easily in your hands. This meant you could play for longer in comparison to the Atari joystick. Only flaw? Beware of sharp edges.

Jaguar was a short lived console with a complex controller, home to a staggering 19 buttons not including the D-pad. It was scrapped by Atari in 1996 due to lack of public interest.

The original DualShock was released in 1998 adding two thumbsticks and vibration to the original controller design.

This, coupled with the consoles top end 3D graphics meant gamers could move effectively in all 3 dimensions. A revolutionary idea and provided far less clumsier experience than when using the N64 controller.

The people in charge at Nintendo went insane for a while. Probably a poison gas leak. Which lead to someone pitching: “OK so what I have in mind is, well it’s got three prongs like Poseidon’s trident.

The prong in the middle has a joystick sticking out, picture this: ten buttons. Ten. That slot at the back next to the Z-trigger is space for the Rumble Pak. Sold separately. It makes the thing vibrate. The Soccer moms will love it!” Nintendo released a special glove in order to prevent blisters due to the design of the controller.

Playstation 2 uses the DualShock2 which is essentially the same controller. Slightly more responsive, slightly better vibration.

This behemoth of a control pad used it's girth to house the Dreamcast's VMU, (visual memry unit) a memory card which had a screen, d-pad and gaming buttons. The controller would have been much less cumbersome otherwise. It utilised the standard XABY button layout on the right and a single thumbstick on the left.

It remains a fan favourite due to it being surprisingly ergonomic and responsive.a The original XBOX controller, known as ‘The Duke’ for its heft, was ranked the 2nd worst controller of all time by IGN and won the Guinness world record for largest control pad in 2008. A smaller, better version was released shortly after.

The DualShock3. This wireless, rechargeable version has vibration and SIxAxis controls built in. SixAxis gave the controller a motion option allowing users to tilt the pad, translating into movement on-screen.

The poisonous gas leak at Nintendo HQ rears its h a l l u c i n o ge n i c head again causing designers to go insane and rip apart a box of old Nintendo controllers looking for the true meaning of gaming. What they discovered would chill many veteran gamers to the core. No, not Wii sports. Wii remote: An amalgamation of the trigger from the Gamecube and a NES controller turned length ways. Wii nunchuk: the middle of an N64 controller plugged into the Wii remote by two feet of cable. The unforeseen issues arising from the intended flailing of this motion based controller was smashed HDTVs and the annihilation of any masculinity ever felt by anyone seen using it.

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March is another exciting month for gamers, with big releases across all platforms, read below for WUWO's top three titles.

SIMCITY The newest instalment of the veteran PC series is so amazing that it is responsible for the blinding of 37 Mexican school children who were exposed to it by accident in mid-January (Note: This sentence is a lie).

True to its namez, SimCity allows you to built a fully working, modern metropolis right down to it’s waste management system. It is a game about endless choices, expanding your population and profits, pushing for that utopian dream or that dystopian dinge, all achieved by the games easy to use, city tuning mechanics. The game looks gorgeous to boot and scrolling the mouse wheel in and out sends the camera swooping from a mile above, right to street level. SimCity is a glorious venture and a commendable use of your next 16 weekends.

Released March 8th, PC

Tomb Raider This release has seen Lara given everything a next gen title needs to float. Her game play mechanics are now akin to the uncharted series, so expect her gunplay and cover skills to have been hacked up a notch. The reboot is intense and cinematic yet remains an unmistakable addition to the Lara Croft chronicle. What makes this game stand apart from its predecessors however is the multiplayer, the four on four hunt and survival onslaught online. If you enjoyed Max Payne 3’s online 3rd person affair, add in cross bows, traps and lots of ledges and the new Tomb Raider will not disappoint. It has both fast paced single player taction and enough online death match to keep you honing your skills. Watch out for the dogs. There are always dogs.

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Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo is the mayor of Marinaleda, a small town near Seville. He’s been mayor for 33 years and is a bearded, die-hard communist who has reached his limit, watching his people struggle to survive with Spain’s harsh austerity measures.

His response has been to organise ‘raids’ on supermarkets, where locals have loaded up shopping trolleys of essential food items and then walked out without paying, to go and donate the food to local soup kitchens.

"Robin" A professional gambler in Las Vegas, who goes by the aptly chosen title ‘Robin’ has decided to make it his new mission in life to spread the wealth around by using his blackjack skills to help out those in need.

‘Robin’ has taken the Kegler family (Megan, Kurt and their toddler, who has a brain tumour) to Las Vegas, where he put them up in luxury lodgings, all the while he gambled until he had enough to pay for all of their medical expenses.

Christopher Allnut A drunk man in Winchester, UK, walked into a bank and announced to the staff, ‘Good morning, I’m here to rob you to today.’ He held up the cashiers and left the bank with £1,600.

He threw some of the money on the ground of the high street, then walked into the pub next door, threw the money in the air and declared, ‘I have just robbed a bank and the drinks are on me!’ He was arrested shortly afterwards.

Lego City Undercover

Released March 28th, Nintento Wii U

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Everyone knows Robin Hood fictionally stole from the rich and gave to the poor through daring stunts and an extensive repertoire of feathered hats but such crusades are not just limited to folk lore.

Released March 5th, PS3, X360, PC

This open world sandbox and Grand theft auto homage sees a fully realised lego world jam packed with the adventures and vehicle heists that are synonymous with the sandbox genre. Lego is an obvious choice when it comes to smashing cars and boats through walls and, if the demo's and trailers are anything to go by, this is the perfect world destroyer to get your thumbs around before GTA 5 comes out in April. The Lego world the designers have created, coupled with Protagonist Chase McCain’s well written wit (Definitely not subliminal in-game marketing for oven chips) provides enough humour and destruction for any adult wanting to recreating a youthful riot around the lego city of their childhood dreams. A Wii U must-have, without a doubt.

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Vassilis Paleokostas This man is the closest you can get to being Robin Hood without donning green tights and living in a forest. He steals from/ransoms the rich and gives the cash to the poor. He has escaped from Greece’s highest security jail twice, both timesby helicopter.

This is just a tiny excerpt from his life of ethical crime, read the full story on the next page.

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By Ralph Jones

Vassilis Paleokostas Modern day Greece is famous for baklava, kebabs and corruption. Their economy is failing, their poor are only getting poorer and one by one, more of those disenfranchised people are turning to crime. The drug trade is expanding daily and the Greek mafia get stronger every day.

Then came Vassilis Paleokostas, the Greek Robin Hood. Vassilis is known for robbing banks, kidnapping wealthy and powerful individuals and then ransoming them back for huge stacks of cash. Then he takes all that cash and gives most of it to the impoverished farmers and families, suffering in small towns and villages. That alone makes him awesome but there is still so much more to tell of his story.

First of all, you should know that just like any good Robin Hood, the people he has held for ransom have reported that he was kind, polite and did not in any way abuse them. So, he’s a gentleman too but wait…

Every good Robin Hood should be caught at least once, just so he can escape on horseback with arrows flying over his shoulders. Vassilis is so much better than that.

When he was arrested and imprisoned in a maximum-security prison for his many crimes, a rather odd thing happened one day. A helicopter flew into the prison recreational yard and landed right in the middle of it. This doesn’t exactly happen every day, so the guards starting shining their shoes and checking their postures because they assumed it must be someone very important and official. It wasn’t, it was his accomplices with a stolen helicopter. Vassilis climbed on board and off they flew in a hail of gunfire.

There is even a short, low quality video on Youtube that shows the chopper flying away and the sound of gunshots in the background.

After that they landed, switched to the motorcycles they had waiting and disappeared.

What did he do with his newfound freedom? Exactly what he was doing before, pretty much the very same day.

Some time later he was caught again and put in prison once more but guess how he escaped this time?

It was a helicopter again… you have to imagine he had trouble getting into the thing with such enormous balls. This time a woman leant out the side with an automatic rifle while throwing down a rope ladder for Vassilis and his crazy Albanian sidekick. In the fire-fight that ensued, as they flew off, the only injury that anyone sustained was one prison officer who accidentally shot himself.

This towering badass, who actually looks more like an IT technician, is still at large and awesome.

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Left: Eclectic Using line art to express emotion.

Below: Pushin Something Comic page from Brodie’s Law.

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David Bircham David Bircham has worked extensively in the media industry since 1993.

After studying at Central St Martins David went on to work for 2000AD, one of the world’s leading comic book publishing companies, and for over 10 years illustrated a variety of comic books for 2000AD, Wizards of the Coast, Code Masters and Channel 4 tackling characters such Judge Dredd, Sinister Dexter and Slaine. In 2002 he created the independent comic book series Brodie’s Law for which Forbidden Planet commented:

"Brodie’s Law is, without doubt one of the most groundbreaking comic book series to come out of the UK in the last 10 years".

David describes his work as a restless fascination with life and its chosen subject material, ‘If I can grab the audience and make them see into my soul, then let the entertainment begin’.

David sells his work each Saturday and Sunday at Covent Garden’s, Jubilee Market, London - or can be purchased online at www.birchamsart.com.

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Right: Space Monkey A parody of human existence.

Left: Elena An image created with manual airbrush.

Below Left: Purple glass Using the fluidity to create an image.

Below: End game Front cover of Issue No. 6 Brodie’s Law.

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By Jack Courtez

He is a driving innovator of reggae and dub, a producer of Bob Marley and the Wailers and has worked with The Clash, Beastie Boys and Mad Professor. At the age of 76, he is still going strong with over 80 albums under his belt.

Prior interviews had warned me that he was eccentric at best and crazy at worst, speaking in random and rhyming sentences with a rambling and often religious sentiment. I scheduled to speak to Lee during his vacation in Jamaica ahead of his UK and US tour starting in February.

At 2am GMT (9PM in Kingston) I dialled the number and was greeted by his wife, Mireille Perry. Echoing voices in the background, the whir of fans and a 4696 mile call delay added to what became a bizarre and jarring conversation across the atlantic with the most respected man in dub.

You’ve averaged over two albums per year, for the past forty four years, how do you stay so passionate and motivated about your work?

(Laughs). I didn’t know I was in the music business that long, how many years is it?

Forty four years Is it? Oh right, sure. What can I do for you now? So you want an interview?

Why did you choose to return to the Jazz Café in London? Is it a good venue?

Well, London it be a great help for me, and my upmovement was from England and they was buying my records. Then the English people go crazy for my records.

How has the Dub genre evolved and changed since 1969?

It changes and regenerates. The younger generation have a wider understanding of the words and then there aren’t many particularly people who know the meaning of the words. My mission is teaching, preaching righteousness, holiness, Godliness. Ay? How did it feel to receive the Jamaican Order of Distinction last August?

The order of distinction mean I am not with the devil, I am not caught up. Or you know the devil, I am his cup.

I hold the teacher in a higher standard, the children they love me more cos they love the devil’s cup.

(Laughs)

We have a Pope Benediction. Do you know the queen? Is she there? Your queen is an old something, the queen of England she not wanted any more. Then we would have no more stupid queenie. We could have queen. Pretty queen perfect queen.

Who was your favourite artist to talk with?

I wish I had had my chance to get to the top. And then anyone you want you have no problem. So I have come on a mission to make people happy…. You know my wife? Madame? Madame? Madame?

Where are your favourite places in London?

My hotel room. When I go to my hotel everything very good. Everything is clean, my wife don’t like dirt and doesn’t like anything dirty, but we love dirt and we love everything that is dirty. If you love my dirty music you will be happy forever.

If you love my dirty music you will be happy forever.

If you skank to my dirty music, you’ll be skanking for ever.

What can people who see you live expect?

My music from Jesus Christ the almighty God... My music is not reggae any more, it is in Jesus Christ, bumba rasclot is my music’s new name.

I give reggae to Marley, I gave all the takings to Marley.

Have you heard the antichrist?

Many of my people are antichrists but I am not the antichrist. When I said my music Jesus Christ he shot me. My music not reggae any more, my music Jesus Christ pussy bomba rasclot.

Bomba is a word and pussy is known. pussy clot, pussy clot, pussy clot.There is no bad words. Because I’m a bad man the universe she be unkind.

How is your music going to make the world a better place?

Reggae have too much competition, Reggae take too much I make it one culture, Reggae it looks like a vulture, picking dead flesh I live music, and I love tour. I come to dig up life and dig down sin.

HAHAHAHAHA

Do you know the devil?

Not by name.Pope Benedict is the devil.

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WUWO’s Menu Culinary Gone Crazy

Cocktail of the Month

St.Eadman – Belgian Style Dark Ale Flying Dog (US) 10%

The Dreaded Durian

Champagne Rhubarb Cocktail

We had reason to celebrate and more sense than to buy champagne. As wine is for dads, and beer’s our favourite drink, I sought out luxurious ale to toast with. The find came at Utobeer in Borough Market, a place rich in quality drink and with a name it took me two years to ‘get’. They have a particularly good stock of American and Belgian beers, and this beer has the best of both worlds. It’s sweet and rich and thick with spice and booze.

Flying Dog is a microbrewery of distinction and quality association. Any beer with Ralph Steadman artwork will always put itself ahead of the rest. This bottle is branded with a self-portrait of the twisted illustrator and he should be flattered to adorn this brew. A dark, slippery affair at a formidable 10%, there’s a real edge of alcohol aggression; a pleasant burn and a sign of something worth celebrating.

The durian is known in Asia as the ‘king of fruits’ and is famed the world over for varying reasons.

It grows to around a foot long, is heavy and contains a large amount of flesh.

The fruit has an overpowering aroma, which can apparently be detected from half a mile away. To get an idea of its unsavoury fragrance, imagine the fumes of a neglected toilet combined with a dash of sweetness.

These pungent attributes cause it to be officially banned from many public places in South-east Asia, including hospitals and train stations.

Durian are tough, sinister-looking fruits. Covered in an armour of spikes, set on a thick skin, and emitting an odour to nauseate, it’s pretty surprising that people ever felt compelled to try them in the first place and equally astonishing that they turned out to be likeable.

With March bringing the nation some hope of warmth so too come fresh Springtime flavours and pretty blossoms to enjoy them under. March is when forced Rhubarb is at its best, and though this rhubarb cocktail needs a fair amount of preparation it is definitely worth the effort.

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Serves 6-8

Ingredients: 750g forced rhubarb in 5cm sections 150g caster sugar Zest and juice of 1 orange 200ml gin Chilled sparkling wine Growing on trees throughout South-east Asia, they are native to Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, and possibly the Philippines, although there is some debate over this.

Durian is unique among other fruit on the basis that it contains B-complex vitamins, which you would usually get from meat.

There are 30 known species of durian fruit, of which nine have been identified as producing edible fruit. This nosey snack has been known to the western world for around 600 years.

Sir David Attenborough once described the smell as “an open sewer with just a dash of coal gas”, yet the eating experience as, “a slimy caramel cream.”

How to Make It: 1. Put the rhubarb in a pan with the sugar, orange zest and juice and a little water. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes until the rhubarb is very soft.

2. Strain the syrup through a sieve into a jug, pressing the rhubarb to get all the juice. Allow to cool.

3. Pour a little rhubarb syrup and gin into each glass and top with sparkling wine.

Medieval Eating

Stuffed Piglet Recipe

If you’d lived in the Middle Ages you might have eaten anything from white bread to Baked Mallard to Stuffed Piglet, if you could afford it. The poorest people mostly ate a lot of barley in many forms and definitely wouldn’t have eaten white bread, which was considered only suitable for the very rich. Fresh fruit and vegetables were seen as dangerous and would only have been eaten by the poor.

You may wish to substitute the whole piglet with an 8lb portion of pork loin. Tie it closed with string, or use a netting of fat if you can get one from the butcher.

Because of the crusades and other influences from abroad, eating habits began to reflect aspirational mannerisms whereby the rich ate very small portions, and food was highly spiced and presented elegantly.

Salt was considered a delicacy and was held in an ornate salt cellars kept close to the richest people.

A strange habit of wishing the food to appear alive was common in presentation and prepared meat or poultry would be decorated with fur or feathers.

It was believed that eating the brains of a cat would lead a person to lose their senses, whilst the meat of a hedgehog was considered good for lepers.

Ingredients: 1 whole piglet 4 eggs 8 slices bread, ground 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 tsp. ginger 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper pinch saffron

To prepare:

1. Pass eggs through a strainer, discarding any "stringy bits". Add ground bread and raisins. In a small bowl, mix spices well.

2. Add the spices to the eggs and bread, and mix well.

3. Stuff piglet and bake at 350°F until the meat reaches an internal temperature of 160°F. Recipe modernised by www.medievalcookery.com/recipes

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If you want your gifts this Easter to be a little more sweet and special, and all right yes a little twee, then why not have a go at these hand painted eggs, with little messages inside. wuwomagazine.com

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Tea Cup Bird Feeder

Poke a hole in each end of your egg using a pin or a needle. On the top of the egg (the pointier end) make a small hole, and make the hole on the opposite end around twice the size. Move the pin around inside in order to break up the yolk.

Transform a tea cup into a nature reserve (sort of) in a matter of minutes with a bit of handy DIY, then hang it outside your window and while away the hours watching dainty little birds enjoy your pretty bird feeder.

Over a sink or a bowl blow through the top hole so that the insides of the egg comes out.

Pour your glass of water gently over the bottom end of the egg, then blow through the top so that all the water and any excess egg comes out.

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You will need: Tea cup and saucer Crazy Strength Glue (such as E6000 glue) 3 large jewellery bails 42 inches of sturdy chain S / 8 Hook or Keyring loop.

Pliers Sandpaper Bird seed

Method: Glue your three jewellery bails evenly spaced to the underside of your saucer. Sand the bottom of your tea cup to be smooth.

Allow the egg to dry (this will take 2-3 days at room temperature) or heat in the oven at 150°C for ten minutes.

When your egg is dry position it on the skewer and paint in the design you want.

Whilst you wait for the paint to dry get started on your message. Cut a slip of paper to be about 1 cm tall and however wide you want (keeping in mind the size of the hole in your egg) and write your message (for eggsample: “I think you’re eggselent”) When the paint is dry role your message up into a tiny little scroll and push through the hole.

COMPETITION

Place tea cup upside down and apply a thick layer of glue, then press saucer down onto it. Allow glue to dry for 24 hours.

Cut chain into three lengths of 12 inches and one length of 6 inches.

Using your pliers carefully open the end of the three foot long chains, and attach to the end of the shorter piece of chain, closing securely.

Open up your hook with your pliers and attach to the top of the shorter chain, or attach your keyring loop.

When tea cup glue has dried attach your chains to the jewellery bails.

Hang in your chosen place and fill with bird seed, you can put water in the cup and seed on the saucer, or whatever you like.

Win tickets to Hipsville 10th, 11th, 12th of May WUWO have teamed up with Hipsville sixties garage weekender 2013 to offer 2 readers the chance to experience a festival with a difference. It takes place at Bisley Pavillion, Bisley Camp, Queens Road, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NY There’s ’60s exotica party at the Hipsville tiki bar, a long list of international DJs spinning the tunes, along with a cast of go-go girls throughout the weekend plus a vintage market, movie screenings and record stalls.

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In Bruges

By Lauren Hughes

I mentioned to a friend I was off to Bruges. Confused, she replied, 'Why on earth would you want to go there?' I recalled Colin Farrell as Ray in In Bruges describing the city as a 'shit hole'. He was also reluctant to be enchanted by the cobbled streets and old-world charm of Belgium’s fairest city.

I, on the other hand, had been desperate to visit ever since seeing those shots of winding canals and Medieval towers (well, maybe the copious amounts of beer and chocolate helped). The place looked full of character, a world away from the high-rise flats and constant stream of traffic I had become accustomed to.

For those who want to experience the nightlife of Bruges, Cafe Du Vuurmolen is a good place to start.

Expect a friendly crowd who want to dance into the early hours. After befriending the barman, it was shots all round in a toast to the weekend, safe in the knowledge that the next day would comprise of wandering around art galleries and chocolate shopping.

So, like Ray, had I missed the bright lights of London?

Not really. The blocks of flats and take-aways of Clapham North would be a stark contrast to the fairytale streets of Bruges.

While Ray, a rookie hit man sent to the peaceful city to stay out of trouble, may find Bruges intolerably dull, looking around the impressive market I found myself firmly in camp Ken (Ray's travelling companion with an unflappable affection for the place).

You know those films where they use a few scenic shots and the rest is filmed in some LA warehouse?

In Bruges isn't one of them. Wandering around the tiny city I recognised nearly every turning.

With misty streets, evil crooks and even a token dwarf, the film had led me to believe that I was entering some kind of Medieval Disneyland for grown ups. And I wasn't disappointed. Sipping Brugse Zot along the canal I half expected Rapunzel to sleepily wander onto the balcony of one of the many turrets.

With the Groeninge Museum, Salvator Dalí exhibition and the recently opened Historium, all beneath the impressive Belfort tower, Bruges offers plenty of cultural excursions. I found myself retracing the characters' footsteps, pausing at Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgement. This painting, which had recently arrived back to the Groeninge Museum from a stint in Lille, was the only one in the gallery to capture Ray's interest, it's chaotic depiction of a judgement day providing a world of haunting imagery.

Clambering up the 366 steps of the Belfort is another must-do in Bruges, and it is certainly worth the effort. It is at the top of the bell tower looking down over the city that you really appreciate what a peaceful place Bruges is. The melodic beat of horses' hooves the only prominent sound.

In Bruges Ken states you can 'strike a balance between culture and fun.’ And now that we had had our fill of culture, we wanted some fun. With Colin on the brain, I somehow found myself in the city's only Irish bar, Druid's Cellar, asking what happens in Bruges after hours.

'There is no closing time in Belgium,' my friendly barmaid Clara laughed. 'Here we party until nine, sometimes ten in the morning.' I discovered the city isn't quite as sleepy as I had initially thought…

Plied with industrial-strength lager, we headed in the direction of the Eiermarkt, or as Clara translated, the Egg Market. True to Clara's word, the square was filled with energetic clubbers, its bars pounding out an somewhat eclectic mix of 90s Europop and dubstep. Belgians really love their beer, but also their sambuca, vodka and tequila. Be warned though, in Belgium the drinking age for beer and wine is 16, so be prepared to party with teenagers.

In addition to a stinking hangover, I returned to London with a suitcase full of exotic beers, postcards and enough chocolate to pull a Willy Wonka and drown a fat German kid.

Boozing in Bruges

When in Belgium drink beer, lots of it.

't Klein Ventie - Braamberstaat 1 This friendly local bar overlooks one of the most picturesque canals in the city.

2be bar - Wollestraat 53 Take a walk past Bruges' beer wall to 2be bar, offering beers from all over the world and a large terrace.

Cafe Craeneburg - Markt 16 A drink in Bruges' main square is obligatory, and the best bar to do it in has to be the cosy Cafe Craeneburg. Experience a taste of Old Flanders, with wooden benches and mullion windows.

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WUWO ISSUE No11 38

Nitro Circus:

Interview with Jolene Van Vugt

By Jack Courtez

Jolene has an impressive track record and several world records to boot, she was the first woman to land a back-flip on a dirt bike and is part of the MTV action sports show Nitro Circus. After two seasons and a 3D film, Nitro Circus is live and touring. WUWO caught up with Jolene Van Vugt to talk punk rock, broken bones and Batman.

What was your inspiration to get into Motorcross?

My father really, he’s been racing Motorcross since I was a little girl so I was at the race track every weekend with him and my older brother was racing and then one day I asked if I could do it.

When I first started I was just one of those kids that loved riding but not practicing. Then my dad said to me “you know Motocross is intense and you can get badly injured so either buckle down and take it seriously or I’m selling your bike.” I didn’t like the idea of him selling my bike and so it went on from there.

and travelling together and it’s been an amazing feeling to attain such a goal. We’ve always wanted to do a feature film from the beginning, who doesn’t? and so the day that we actually started filming it was a proud moment for everyone.

You were the first woman to do a back flip on a dirt bike and you hold multiple world records but what’s your proudest achievement?

Well the back flip is definitely one of my biggest and proudest moments but getting to jump into the Grand Canyon with Travis was pretty awesome.

We jumped into the middle of the Grand Canyon, jumped off the bikes and pulled our parachutes. I’d never been to the Grand Canyon before, so to see it in that way was pretty awesome.

Do you think women are under represented in action sports? Why? That’s a difficult question. It’s still a man’s world and it’s hard for women to get out there and get the representation. You’ve got to work twice as hard.

How was it performing Catwoman’s stunts on the Dark Knight?

That was probably one of the coolest experiences I’ve had outside of Nitro Circus and Motocross. It was a dream come true for me. When they rang they asked if I thought I could ride the Pod. I said if you give me the opportunity I guarantee I’ll do it.

Nitro Circus started in the early 2000s as a DVD series, then you got a mini series, then to MTV and now to a 3D film. How does it feel to have come that far?

We’re very excited and very proud of the way that Nitro Circus has grown over the years. Getting to be a part of that from the beginning has been really cool. We’ve become a really tight group, working

You broke your arm just before the second series?

I had a full reconstruction on my shoulder because I bust it pretty bad. It sucked to have to sit on the sidelines. None of us like injuries in Nitro Circus and it’s not because we’re injured or the pain it’s because of the time you have to sit out.

Some of the members of Puddle of Mudd helped out with the soundtrack for Nitro Circus. What do you listen to personally?

I sort of listen to anything and everything I’m pretty open but my favourite? I love punk rock. I tried to go to a Social Distortion concert a few weeks ago but the morning of the concert they postponed it to when I was leaving California.

What do you think filming in 3D adds to a film like Nitro Circus?

I was never really sold on 3D actually prior to us using it but Nitro Circus has a lot of elements that are perfect for 3D. Motorcycles, dirt flying, things flying, people flying, so it’s cool we were able to tap into using 3D for what it was meant for.

...you know Motocross is intense and you can get badly injured so either buckle down and take it seriously or I’m selling your bike.”