The other day I was dismayed to find that one of my favourite websites, Hypediss was no longer around. Fortunately, it has evolved into something that has the potential to be much greater.
Unlike is a cultural guide to Berlin and hopefully in the future other major cities around the world. It features a local knowledge to the coolest places in Berlin, information which is invaluable to the cultural traveller and which can’t be found in regular guides.
Remeber cassette tapes? If you’re a child of the 70’s or 80’s then you definitely will, children of the 90’s perhaps not so much. Anyway, Tapedeck.org has a great collection of images of old cassette tapes and you can even sort by brand, playing time and quality (I always liked BASF tapes myself).
In the same vein as Hel Looks and Oslo Stil, Stil in Berlin gives us an insight into the current street fashion trends in the German capital.
This is amazing, just amazing. Check out this brilliant stop motion animation painted on the streets on Buenos Aires by street artist BLU.
Rosa Loves is a clothing company with a conscience. Based on the vision that people should be more supportive of and involved with the community around them, they sell beautifully designed T-Shirts and use the proceeds to support a variety of causes. Each shirt tells an individual story relating to the cause it supports. Wonderful.
Secret Cinema is exactly as the name describes, secret, invite only cinema screenings shown in and around London. It’s free for anyone to sign up and once you do you will receive information via email of upcoming screenings. What makes this so special though is the locations, anywhere from derelict theatres to five-star hotel car parks.
The World as Flat Land provides a brilliantly insightful glimpse into the statistics of world happiness, censorship, immigration and more. It’s presented in an extremely clear yet novel way, by stacking countries with similar views on top of each other.
The ever brilliant hitotoki is expanding again. For those who haven’t heard of hitotoki before (we’ve covered them here, here and here), it’s a wonderful site full of irreverant travel tales from outsiders looking in to the cultures of Japan, America and Great Britain, focusing on big cities. Some of the stories are funny, others heartwarming and some sad but all give the reader a certain unique flavour of the city and it’s culture. This time they are heading into DC, Paris and Shanghai.
Wow, while we were napping over here it seems that Candy have produced not one but two new issues. Dubbed the difficult second volume, it’s packed full of cutting edge art, fashion, design and photography. Head on over to candycollective to pick up your (free) copy now.
TwoThousand, in a similar vein to Le Cool magazine is another brilliant city guide, this time for Sydney-siders. Claiming to be a sub-cultural guide to Sydney, you’ll be sure to find the most interesting art/fashion/music goings on in the city.
