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The Unexpected Poetry of Google Autocomplete

Autocomplete results are often unintentionally hilarious and weirdly sad - but are they also art?

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Farewell office, farewell pants being necessary and hello soundtracked weekend.

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Boozing Now Acceptable at Breakfast Thanks to Spreadable Beer

An Italian duo have done their bit to make the world a better place, engineering a chocolate-flavoured beer spread.

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Luxury Hotels in Weird and Wonderful Places Around the World

Here are 10 of Smith’s most interesting places to pass a night, picked just for Concrete Playground.

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Win with Fortune Avenue

Good fortune awaits you

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Artist Joins Forces with Four-Year-Old Daughter to Create Whimsical Portraits

Hollywood slug people brought to you by an artist and her genius four-year-old

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Bass in ya face Mangawhai

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Wiz Khalifa Added to Rhythm and Vines Line Up

The latest unveiling of artists may well be enough to whet your festival palete

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Win Tickets to Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song

Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away to Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song, which opens in cinemas on September 12 2013

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Win One of Five $20 Vouchers to Spend at Pie Face

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Oil Paint Engineered Out of Toxic Waste

An engineer and an artist transform toxic waste into oil paints and wondrous works of art.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Five delicious servings of ear candy weighing kilograms of fun with zero calories.

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Tiki Taane at the La Casa Artist Residency

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The Ten Best Karaoke Spots in Auckland

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Win One of Four Andy Warhol x Perrier Water 12 Packs

As part of its 150th anniversary this year, Perrier has released limited edition bottles inspired by pop artist Andy Warhol.

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Harlem’s A$AP Rocky Headlines La De Da 2013

US rapper A$AP Rocky will be a world away from the streets of Harlem to ring in the New Year this December.

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Smales Farmers Market

Wed, 9 Oct, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore

Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.

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3D Print Your Own Art Masterpiece Forgery

Here is a story to both perturb and titillate the sensitive art-lovers among us.

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Kickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand

Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.

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The National to Return Down Under in February

The National return to our shores come February 2014.

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Win Tickets to What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew is a lovely little film which gives you a sense of what it might look, feel and sound like to be that little girl.

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Avocado 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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The Top Five Tracks to Hear this Weekend

Some music for the best two days of the week.

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Unlikely Objects from the Bizarre Imagination of an Italian Artist

Unlikely objects invite the doublest of double-takes.

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Nike Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Just Do It

Nike have come out with their latest campaign "Possibilities" to celebrate 25 years of just doing it.

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The Discerning Lego-Builder Now Has Minimalist, All-White Bricks

Lego launches a versatile set for would-be architects.

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Socks Infused with Coffee Cure Smelly Feet

For feet so sweet you can wear the same pair of socks for days.

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Win Tickets to Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin.

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World’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney

1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.

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Scale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily

The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.

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Eccentric Doctor’s Manmade Mountain Outlawed in Beijing

Beijing architect Zhang Biqing's illegal mountain is forced to crumble.

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Jafflechutes Will Deliver Your Jaffle via Parachute

It's raining jafflechutes, hallelujah.

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New Venue and New Line-up Announced for Rhythm and Alps

Rhythm and Vines' sister festival Rhythm and Alps has announced its first artist line-up for the 2013 event.

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Free Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing

Stand still for three minutes and you'll be rewarded with a cold one.

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Sydney 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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Concrete Playground meets David Wenham

Best known for his role as Faramir in Lord of the Rings, and voted as Australia's Sexiest Man Alive, Concrete Playground talks to to one of Australia's best creative exports.

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First FBI-Curated Art Show Puts Forgeries on Display

Warhol, Chagall, de Kooning, Gauguin, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir - what a bunch of big fat fakes.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Pack your party pants and these five songs because it's time for the weekend dance.

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Uncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection

The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.

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The Ultimate Book of Book Art

A picture repaints a thousand words anew.

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Concrete Playground meets Auckland Art Fair Director Jennifer Buckley

Concrete Playground catches up with Auckland Art Fair director Jennifer Buckley for the low down on New Zealand's one and only art fair.

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