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Considering photographer Dusk has had no formal training in photography, it goes to show how far passion and talent can take you. After receiving a Lomo coloursplash camera as a Christmas present, she’s now working as a Hong Kong-based studio portrait photographer. She made the jump to photography after leaving her two year job in fashion design. It was a risk that paid off. Her work is dynamic and the composition is brilliant.

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Screamin Jay Hawkins

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The Antlers’ Hospice

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James Joyce

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Supermundane

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The Nobody Was Thirsty project is a collaboration between Ivan Kane’s Café W as charity — water — and Australia’s own denim label, Nobody. The campaign aims to sell a signature, not-for-profit T-shirt, with all donations helping to fund the world’s water crisis. The sale of one T-shirt alone can provide two people in Africa with clean drinking water for twenty years, something the majority of us take for granted.


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Just a few days ago, Benjamin Verdoncke climbed out of the human-sized nest he’d been residing in for the past seven days. The Belgian artist took six weeks to build the nest, which hung fifty metres high against a skyscraper in Rotterdam. Read more

I received a Kobe Beefcake t-shirt today and I’m already in meat-lover’s heaven. Who’d have thought all those funky shapes are actually cuts of meat? This new label from Kobe Japan is an insider’s (and meat-lover’s) treasure.


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On my best days I feel just like a great white shark. Not all-conquering and indestructible — though I have my moments — but rather that if I ever stop moving, if I take a moment to correct myself in the full glare of the light, I’ll probably sink. Read more

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London-based DJ, Kelpe, has just recorded a diverse electro mix for the Allez Allez blog, which you can download, turn up to eleven, and nod yo’ head to. It’s just the tonic for an early afternoon kickstart.

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Cardboard shoes

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Creative advertising packaging

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Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes

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