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Darwin Cosico
Darwin is a Melbourne-based marketing and sales professional. He has a penchant for coffee, New York bagels, and zombies. His other interests include music, modern art, smart comedy and films.
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Collection of stories from Melbourne’s soup vans
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Soup Van: Stories over a polystyrene cup, edited by Keira Dickinson, a Melbourne-based publishing professional and a soup van volunteer, is the first creative collection of stories from Melbourne’s soup vans – the vibrant history and the incredible community that surrounds them. The book is incredibly inspiring, and I think it’s one of those rare [...]
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New illustrations by Iam Toxi
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Iam Toxi is a London-based illustrator/graphic designer whose work has caught my attention. I’m going to the UK for the first time at the end of this week, and seeing Toxi’s illustrations has ignited my passion for all things British.
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Life-sized sand sculpture of a Qantas aircraft in Sydney
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A life-sized aircraft made out of sand is currently being built in Sydney’s Circular Quay to celebrate Qantas’ flights to Gold Coast. The airline is flying to Gold Coast for the first time in four years. The sand sculpture incorporates the interior of the Qantas B737-800, complete with flight deck, six rows of seats, pilots [...]
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Somewhere in NYC: a video by Martin Rolland
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New York is a city oozing with culture, amazing architecture and has been dubbed America’s melting pot. This video by Martin Rolland, a Lyon-based director, has wonderfully showcased some of my favourite hotspots – Times Square, MoMA and Rockefeller Center. The clip shows why I love this city so much. The video was filmed in [...]
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Mother and Daughter: a photo series by Carra Sykes
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This series of photographs by Greensboro-based design professional Carra Sykes provides a glance into her close relationship with her mother. The inspiration came from her uncle as he is always joking with Carra’s mum and asking her if she is wearing Carra’s clothes.
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Turn yourself into a Zombie with The Walking Dead app
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As a fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead, I was excited to see an app where you can turn yourself into a photo-realistic Walker. If you’ve always wondered what you’d look like if you become a zombie, this app is for you. You can take or import a photo of yourself, edit your photo using [...]
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Andrey Blanco’s GoPro Hero3 shot tribute to Times Square
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This video was filmed and edited by the talented filmmaker Andrey Blanco. It was shot around Times Square on New Year’s Day with the GoPro Hero3 Black Edition. The nitty-gritty was done during the post-production process. I thought it really captured the soul of this Manhattan neighbourhood. The Naked and Famous’ Young Blood was used [...]
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Where The Truck app finds food trucks in Australia
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Food trucks are big in Melbourne. You’ll discover food from Latin America, such as Dos Diablos Mobile Cantina and Taco Truck, to Gumbo Kitchen, a food truck serving culinary delights from New Orleans. With so many options, it’s hard to keep up where they’re located every night. Where The Truck At was set-up last year [...]
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The World’s Biggest Waterslide to be built in New Zealand
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Jimi Hunt and Dan Drupsteen, founders of Live More Awesome, are preparing to build the world’s biggest waterslide near Helensville, west of Auckland. The aim of the event is to raise awareness about the problems associated with depression and to create initiatives that help people beat it without drugs. The event will be open for public to use on February 23 and 24.
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Django Django perform for La Blogothèque
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Mercury Prize nominees Django Django recently performed a stripped-down two-song session for French blog La Blogothèque. The 8-minute set includes Love’s Dart and Firewater. The video was produced by Chryde and Matthieu Buchsenschutz and was filmed in Lyon last month while on tour. Since the release of their self-titled debut album, the Scottish quartet has toured around [...]
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Callejera: photography by Kanno Filth
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Sometimes simple is better. I think it’s the reason why these photos have grabbed my attention. They were taken by Kanno Filth, a photographer from A Coruña, Spain. There’s not a lot of information about him, other than he prefer people to know his work rather than knowing about him. You can find more of his work here.
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Caricature Covers by Raul Arias
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Raul Arias is a talented illustrator and newspaper cartoonist from Madrid. One of his specialities is magazine cover illustration. It’s no surprise that La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish newspaper El Mundo, has commissioned him to design caricature covers for them several times.
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The Woodpile: new music video by Frightened Rabbit
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Here’s the clip for Frightened Rabbit’s The Woodpile, from their forthcoming album, Pedestrian Verse. The poignant clip follows the band’s mastermind Scott Hutchison as he wanders the streets of New York, only to discover a crime scene in a store. The video highlights some of the things that are wrong with our society today. Be sure to [...]
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The Beat: an Instagram and Google Street View mashup
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if Instagram had a love child with Google Street View? As ridiculous as that sounds, the guys from Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University, have recently completed a project called The Beat. It’s a website where you can see Instagram photos and what’s around them. It’s actually a pretty clever idea. They use Instagram photos users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google Street View location to help explore topics in a new way.
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Macy’s Day Parade: photography by Navid Baraty
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It’s a well-known fact that Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of America’s most anticipated events of the year, and there’s no better way to watch the parade than from above. Brooklyn-based photographer Navid Baraty took photographs of the recently concluded parade from 30 stories above 6th Avenue. This is definitely a cool way to get a different perspective of the parade.
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