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The New Goodbye
The New Goodbye is an iPhone App by a friend of ours. The New Goodbye is a multi-arts app encompassing literature, photography, illustration and music with photography by Nicole Heiniger and illustrations by Johanna Basford. Try it
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BP Cares
If you’re a Twitter user you’ll be aware of the @BPGlobalPR feed, a series of satirical statements that have used humour blacker than crude oil to show that BP Cares. Or not. The feed now has over 100,000 followers, and has received major news coverage. It’s a textbook example of the power that Social Media gives [...]
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Kanye West’s Power Move
Kanye West’s new single ‘Power’ is the HOTNESS
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Masters of Architecture
The architecture of Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Santiago Calatrava by self taught Guatemalan Artist Edgartista
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M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop
What Maya wants is nearly impossible to achieve: she wants to balance outrageous political statements with a luxe lifestyle; to be supersuccessful yet remain controversial; for style to merge with substance. “If you want to be huge, you have to give up a lot,” Michelle Jubelirer, Maya’s longtime lawyer, told me. “Maya vacillates between wanting [...]
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Lomo
The Auckland Festival of Photography kicks off for the month of June. Click the link to see the full list of shows and events. One of the highlights may just be the Lomo World show, curated by World’s Francis Hooper. The show will feature a number of different photographers, including Anna Starr, an emerging contemporary [...]
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Total Life Forever
While Janelle Monae’s album below is shot through with a healthy dose of futurist robofunk, Total Life Forever, the superb new album from Foals, was actually inspired by the coming Singularity and specifically, Ray Kurzweil’s ideas about immortality. For that reason alone, we are crushing this album hard.
+ Foals are really good.
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The ArchAndroid
If we’re honest, we only discovered Janelle Monae a month or so ago when the video for ‘Tightrope’ began to slip into regular rotation on the music channels. We became instant fans. One viewing of ‘Tightrope’ makes it very clear that Janelle is a musical force of nature, and now the release of her new album [...]
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is on the reading list of most secondary school english classes and with very good reason. It’s a classic piece of literature with some fairly nasty things to say about the true nature of man, and just how thin the veneer of civilisation really is. This point is [...]
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Broken Puppet Boutique
Broken Puppet have some really quirky fashion pieces and a great web store
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NZ Indie Mix Tape #1
MusicHy.pe is a Wellington-based start up who offer a managed promotional platform for artists and labels. The idea is to try and make online artist promotions a better experience for fans, while being effective and profitable for labels and artists. As part of NZ Music Month they have just launched The NZ Indie Mix Tape [...]
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High Violet
High Violet is the brand new album by The National. It is the best indie-rock album of 2010
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Alien Vs. Pooh / Facehugger
Giant Hamburger illustrated this charming, funny & downright freaky tale of a parallel universe where Pooh mistakes an alien egg for a honey pot…
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30 Seconds / Clue #27
EMI are doing a kind of social media experiment / on-line treasure hunt to promote the 30 Seconds to Mars This Is War album & tour. The band play Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre Tuesday, 3rd of August. This is the treasure hunt – the grand-prize winner wins 2 tickets to the Auckland show + will meet Jared [...]
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Graphic Exchange
It was super nice to see PILOT issue #1 appear on uber popular French design blog Graphic Exchange along with some very tasty bits of graphic design by Tom Crabtree of Manual Creative. Tom designed the PILOT identity, great job Tom…
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One
Most people already know that Scrap Wall has a new shop. It’s called ONE, 504 K’Rd, next to Hailwood. The store stocks beautiful, simple things. I visited ONE for the first time today. It was a pleasure to see Scrap. He was very nattily attired as always, in head to toe black with a white [...]
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Mega Jumper
The Holmenkollen ski jump by JDS Architects has opened in Oslo, Norway.
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The World of 100
Super slick set of visuals by Toby Ng. If the World Were a Village of 100. Full set
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