Kyle MacNeill

2 days ago | esquire.com | Kyle MacNeill

“Fighters, touch tips!” master of ceremonies Mickey Gallus booms over a loudspeaker. The clunky innuendo elicits a roar from the Saturday-night crowd inside Hammond Civic Center. Violence looms, and the prospect seems to thrill the throng of thousands. In the middle of an MMA-octagon-style ring called the cage, two men dressed as knights from the Middle Ages nobly oblige.

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Kyle MacNeill

After a 9.1-magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan in 2011, a phone box in a retiree's garden became a place for thousands to mourn, and speak to the dead. Then, it kickstarted a global phenomenon One day in 2010, Itaru Sasaki realised he might be able to speak to the dead. Sasaki had recently relocated to the Namiita Beach area of Otsuchi, a picturesque coastal town in northeast Japan overlooking the Bay of Yamada, famed for its vibrant azaleas and bountiful wildlife.

4 weeks ago | 10magazine.com | Kyle MacNeill

Griot Gabriel, real name Gabriel Oyediwura, has just dropped £150 on a custom championship belt. But it’s not for a boxing bout or a Royal Rumble, it’s for a poetry slam: a competition that sees wordsmiths spit verses in front of judges. Less WWE, more LRB. And so are the budgets. “I’m gonna let the winner take a photo with it, then take it back and use it for the next one,” he laughs.

1 month ago | theface.com | Kyle MacNeill

“Both [fashion and cake] have always been used for conspicuous consumption – ultra lavish, spectacular food displays have a long history” “It creates a sort of campfire effect as people are forced to gather and get involved around a giant dessert”

1 month ago | theface.com | Kyle MacNeill

Affordable studio space in cities is like gold dust. Unless you manage to wangle a jammy deal off a friend-of-a-friend – or you’re sitting on an unannounced pot of money – you usually accept a dent in your pay packet as par for the course. Often, for a very sketchy lock-up. Worse still, you end up on an endless waiting list. This is what makes Slam Jam and Vans’ new hybrid space, The Checkered Home, such a welcome proposition.