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NewsItalian Designers Creatively Hack IKEA Furniture Into Beautiful Objects
Just throw out the assembly manual and go nuts.
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{"id":172405,"type":"arts-entertainment","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Viewers Gross’d Out By New Grill’d Ad","description":"\u003Cp\u003EResponsible meat eating, or just icky?\u003C\/p\u003E","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/grilld-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/grilld.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/auckland\/arts-entertainment\/film-tv\/viewers-grossd-out-by-new-grilld-ad","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/auckland\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/grilld.jpg","width":689,"height":400,"alt":""}]} -
NewsUbiquitous Sriracha Sauce Now Has Its Own Documentary Film
Your favourite condiment is now a movie star.
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NewsRaise the Stakes in Your Pretentious Convos with New Metagame
A game that asks the eternal question, 'Which feels like first love: Pride and Prejudice or Hungry Hungry Hippos?'
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NewsYourfork Wants to Let You Order Home-Cooked Food from Your Neighbours
Hooking up the home cooks and the take-out fiends.
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NewsArtist Presents 99 Lifelike Animals in Scenes You’re Unlikely to See in Nature
Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Australia is a cross between The Lion King and Noah's Ark.
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NewsStreet Art Blurred with Real Life in Charming Photos
A playful, whimsical photo series that blends art with reality.
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{"id":148033,"type":"arts-entertainment","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Last Hayao Miyazaki Film to Be Released in 2014","description":"\u003Cp\u003EThere's good news, and there's bad news.\u003C\/p\u003E","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kaze-tachinu-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kaze-tachinu.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/auckland\/arts-entertainment\/film-tv\/last-hayao-miyazaki-film-to-be-released-in-2014","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/auckland\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kaze-tachinu.jpg","width":1150,"height":700,"alt":""}]} -
NewsThe Unexpected Poetry of Google Autocomplete
Autocomplete results are often unintentionally hilarious and weirdly sad - but are they also art?
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NewsThe National to Return Down Under in February
The National return to our shores come February 2014.
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NewsAvocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention
An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.
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NewsSydney Businessmen Successfully Crowdfund Booze Startup
Mr Black takes two of Sydney's favourite vices and combines them in one delicious, stylishly packaged drink.
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News$9 Cardboard Bike Could Be ‘Game Changing’
Now the inventor has launched an Indiegogo campaign to bring it to people around the world.
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