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.
There’s something about this T-Shirt print that I really like. We definitely need more unbridled optimism in the world. Check this one and more out at Wire & Twine.
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.
A virus for macs?!? Luckily for you apple owners the Newton Virus won’t harm any files on the machine. Instead, at a random time the desktop will fall apart in a spectacular fashion. Developed by those fun loving pranksters at Troika who are also responsible for the magnificent Cloud scupture at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, the Newton Virus is sure to freak out anyone who has it installed. Now, where can I download a copy…
Chris O’Shea is a talented artist/designer who creates some amazing interactive work. Shown above is a piece called “echoChamber” which is a 3D navigable soundscape.
These designer gasmasks are insane! Designed by the multi-talented artist/designer Diddo Velema, they are, unfortunately not for sale. Instead they exist to make the statement that ‘We are at perpetual war with ourselves, which breeds perpetual fear. This causes an insatiable desire for consumption which we are afraid we may never satisfy.’ The masks are an attempt to acknowledge this fear and through acknowledgement we may breathe a little easier.
