Mike Atkins
Contributing Writer
Michael Atkins - Clinton Cardozo
I've been writing music reviews for three years, while I was at university. I also got a master's degree while I was there, but mostly I wrote music reviews.
I also write for Renegade House (renegadehouse.co.nz), which is a web magazine that I started with some friends. It's a pop-culture, and arts magazine.
And a Facebook quiz once likened me to David Foster-Wallace.
Latest Articles
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On Anon-pop: The Songs You Know, But You Don't Know That You Know
It's everywhere, but it's invisible, it's the dark matter of pop-music. And it worms its way into your subconscious.
Sep 6, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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The Great Idiot-Proofing & why it's Best to be a Late-Adopter.
If we measure technology's progress by what the most technologically advanced gewgaw can do, then most of us will only be disappointed...
Aug 28, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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Thoughts on the Economics of Making a Living as an Artist
As the "art market" shifts fundamentally to place more emphasis on "market," artistic intentions become more and more important to your art career.
Aug 22, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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Gatsby's Burden, and Why Book Marketing is so Clumsy
Books are notoriously tough to market, and library shelves are getting uglier and uglier. Are these two parts of the same problem?
Aug 14, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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How Many Times do you Have to Listen to It to get It?
The only thing a new Mick Jagger single could cause you to question is how many chances you should give a piece of art.
Aug 7, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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Bird women in contemporary cinema: a comparative study.
Sometimes the forces that control pop-culture conspire in such a way that similarly themed films come out at the same time. Sometimes it's because of a deli
Jul 25, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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Plan Nine From Outer Space is the Mona Lisa's Smile.
On the charm and virtue of incompetence.
The love of B-movies suggests an obsession with incompetence, but why?
Feb 28, 2011
- Mike Atkins
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