February, 2016

Monthly Mix 001 - Aaron Jerome

The team at Graphite is pleased to announce our new series of exclusive DJ mixes, recorded and published each month for your listening pleasure. These mixes will showcase the music of up-and-coming producers and underground labels from around the globe, curated and compiled for you by our talented friends in the DJ…

Top 10 Films of 2015

With the Oscar’s coming up tomorrow, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what has been another wonderful year of film. Every year I make a personal top 10 list that always differs from the Academies selections – as well as yours, I’m sure. Film is art, and making any…

Dear Hillary

  I don’t hate you. I actually quite like you. You’re impressive, strong, pragmatic, successful, calm. You were a poised First Lady, a collaborative Senator, and a confident Secretary of State. If it is even possible to make this statement, you might be overqualified for the Presidency. Yet I find…

“Water Has Wings” by : Sassan Benham Bakhtiar

A natural element, always taken for granted. A vital element for all that is alive, always forsaken. Fundamental to life and all living things, the human race with its level of knowledge and intellect has the responsibility of taking care of this natural wonder. As a modern civilization, we have…

Uppers, Ravers, and Researchers

  Nowadays, if you are caught distributing any Schedule 1 drugs in the United States at first offence, you would face a sentence of a minimum of 10 years; that exceeds the mandatory minimum for using or carrying a firearm in a violent crime, committing identity theft, or selling child…

What Makes a Great Photograph?

. “Great pictures just stop time.” -Susan Welchman, National Geographic Senior Editor .   The Path to Photography . If you begin learning about photography, you will hear certain phrases over and over again. “Great photos create a connection with the viewer.” “A good picture makes the viewer feel…

TRUMP, SANDERS AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE OUTSIDER

Nearly a year into one of the most unpredictable election seasons in the history of American politics, the race for the White House is finally picking up steam. Time is running out for voters in both parties to choose between the political “outsider” and the Washington machine that has dictated the…

How to Reason with Food Fanaticism

Contemporary North America is as health-obsessed as a society could be imagined to be. But it would also be odd to think of a society where there is more disagreement and uncertainty about what constitutes healthy eating. Government guidelines, magazine articles, celebrity-promoted fad diets, professional, self-titled doctors and and nutritionists…