Somewhere

Somewhere is a new film by Sofia Coppola (director of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides) starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. The photography looks great, check out the trailer.

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Andrew Lewicki – Updates

Andrew Lewicki, whose gold plated skateboard rail we featured way back in ’08 has been busy. He’s updated his site with new works including this great Oreo manhole cover.

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CitID

The CitID projects calls on creatives to honour their city by submitting a visual representation of the city which is closest to their heart. So far all the continents have been covered, however your help is needed to illustrate every major city in the world.

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Japanese Manhole Covers

If you ever find yourself in Japan, you should definitely partake in a spot of drainspotting! This Flickr pool has a fantastic collection of these beautiful artworks from different Japanese districts, the level of detail is amazing.

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Favela Painting

Favela Painting is an amazing project by two dutch artists Haas&Hahn to revitalise the Favelas of Brazil. It’s great to see an initiative that can bring such an enormous change to what can be dangerous and violent places. (via It’s Nice That)

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PlusMoins

French art collective PlusMoins are a group of Musicians, designers, photographers, video artists and programmers who collaborate to create improvised experiences using technology.

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The Mixtape Club

“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and… oh, there are loads of rules.”

Creating a great mixtape is definitely an artform. The Mixtape Club presents 10 people, 10 tracks and 10 album covers. Go discover some new tunes.

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Every day the same dream

Every day the same dream is an existential game which explores alienation and the monotony of today’s business culture. Created by indie game revolutionaries La Molleindustria the game’s protagonist demonstrates a bleak view of an unfulfilling work life.

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Ghostly International

A new kind of record label, Ghostly International prefer to be called a multi-platform cultural curator. Combining visual art, music, technology and more, Ghostly really are the future of the music industry.

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Secret Wars Australia

Secret Wars has finally made it across the atlantic and onto Australian shores! The first semi-final was an epic battle between Jon Doe and Crèon, with Jon Doe edging out the competition after a split decision. The second semi-final is on July 1st at Name this bar, so if you’re in Sydney, I recommend checking it out.

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