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Daft Punk to release their new album at the Annual Wee Waa Show in Australia

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Thursday 11 April 2013

It’s been confirmed: Daft Punk will be debuting their new album Random Access Memories at the Annual Wee Waa Show in rural Australia. Normally, this festival hosts baby shows, dog jumps, and cross cut saw contests, but this year is different. The festival runs May 17-19, and the album will be released on the evening [...]

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Pictoplasma: a contemporary character festival in Berlin

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By Andy Martin in New Events on Thursday 11 April 2013

The world’s leading festival of contemporary character culture, Pictoplasma kicks off today for three days of inspiring talks, screenings and more. It all happens in Berlin and runs until April 13.

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SPONSORED: Madeon plays at Sony Xperia Z mobile handset launch

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Wednesday 3 April 2013

We’re massive fans of Sony Music artist, Madeon, and have been ever since we first saw (and heard) this video. So we were impressed when we discovered that Madeon recently partnered up with Sony to launch the new Sony Xperia Z mobile handset at an exclusive London party on March 19th.

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Moustache competitions at Pushkar ka Mela

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Tuesday 2 April 2013

At the annual five-day Pushkar ka Mela that takes place every November during the Kartik Purnima full moon in the holy town of Pushkar in Rajasthan, moustache competitions — where participants compete for the honour of having the longest moustache — rank among the top highlights next to camel and livestock trading. We thought this [...]

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Design Days Dubai

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Monday 25 March 2013

Design Days Dubai is the the first design fair in the Middle East, which occurred from March 18 though 21. This revolutionary event highlights and showcases cutting edge design and trends from all over the world. There are 29 participating galleries from 6 continents featured at Design Days Dubai, exhibiting a range of live installations, [...]

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Bass Coast: a rave in the Canadian wilderness

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By Philthkids in New Events on Wednesday 20 March 2013

Now nature is pretty decent on its own, but try spending three days in the Canadian Mountains alongside a glacier fed river surrounded by cutting edge music and thousands of stoked out party goers! Although still in its infancy, Bass Coast continues to get better every year and has officially become The Party among the [...]

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: David Bowie Is exhibition at London’s V&A Museum

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By Chloe Warner in New Events on Thursday 14 March 2013

If, like me, you are a huge fan of the high waisted master that is David Bowie, then you will be equally as excited about the cult exhibition at the V&A London. The exhibition, titled David Bowie Is, gives a unique opportunity to delve into a career spanning more than 40 years.

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Renegade Bass Party in the farmlands of France

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By Philthkids in New Events on Wednesday 13 March 2013

My trip to Paris brought me to some incredible realizations. One, Parisians are crazy. Two, they know how to throw illegal parties. This particular event was entitled Zen Guerrilla and it took place in some farmlands 45 minutes outside of Nantes. We arrived in the afternoon; the circus tent had been erected earlier that morning. [...]

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The Urban Grocer on IndieGoGo

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Saturday 9 March 2013

Food media is everywhere. But as the chatter grows, the ability to discover truly remarkable food finds and keep your finger-on-the-pulse of what’s trending in food is lost. Enter The Urban Grocer. The Urban Grocer is for the kids building monuments with jelly in London and launching boundary-pushing collectives in Sydney. It is for the [...]

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Exile: an installation by José Ángel Vincench

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Thursday 7 March 2013

José Ángel Vincench’s most recent installation was made up of five mobile homes each in the shape of letters spelling the word ‘exile’. Vincench’s piece is a commentary on the state of individuals who are displaced from their own country, and it was on show at the 11th Havana Biennale in Cuba from May until [...]

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Strikingly fluorescent thin-section photographs of meteorites

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Meteorites have taken on a relatively sinister hue lately, following the aftershock in Russia’s Chelyabinsk that injured hundreds of people and crippled mobile networks. Looking at Tom Phillips’ thin-section microscopic photographs of meteorites, though, alien debris just looks cool in a a benign sort of way. To craft the images, Philips skips Photoshop and color [...]

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Cookie monster holds cookie ransom, demands cookies for kids

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Friday 1 March 2013

In an amusing development in Germany earlier this month, the Leibniz cookie statue went missing from the corporate headquarters of Bahlsen, which manufactures Leibniz cookies in Hanover. An extortion letter was duly sent to local newspaper Der Spiegel next, with a demand for milk chocolate cookies to be donated to a children’s hospital, or risk [...]

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The Temps de Flors: an annual flower show in Girona, Spain

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Thursday 28 February 2013

Miquel del Pozo’s Temps de Flors in Girona, Spain, is a flower show held every year in the Barri Vell neighborhood. The beautiful flower exhibition transforms architecture and monuments in the city into works of art. This exhibition highlights the beauty and culture of this Catalonian city.

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Project Amelia: fundraising for young photographer diagnosed with breast cancer

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Wednesday 20 February 2013

New York-based freelance photographer Amelia Coffaro has recently been diagnosed with Stage III Inflammatory Breast Cancer. In response to this devastating news, Amelia’s friends and loved ones have started Project Amelia, a fundraising program to help pay for Amelia’s extensive medical treatments, given she doesn’t have health insurance. This selection of photographs is from Amelia’s [...]

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Over-enthusiastic Valentine’s Day store promotions that are somewhat psychotic

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Friday 15 February 2013

Hawking your wares in this day and age isn’t easy. Especially when a collective mush-fest like Valentine’s Day is happening, and everyone wants to catch everyone’s attention. Here’s how some retailers stay on top of their competition: be more psychotic.

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