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This Winter’s Handiest Bike Accessory
Irene Posch invents a handy Early Night Biking Glove, sure to raise visibility to any urban bike rider cycling around this winter.
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Ten YouTube Channels You Should be Watching
Instead of wasting your time searching through homemade videos, check out this list of ten channels actually worth watching.
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Artist Creates Large-Scale Sand Art
California artist Andreas Amador covers his local beaches in beautifully organic sand carvings.
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The String Orchestra of Brooklyn Embraces Nontraditional Performance
This Brooklyn orchestra produces site-specific musical experiments and collaborations with other New York area musicians.
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The Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco
The Creators Project provides techie-minded artists with the means and exposure to commune and create.
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The Seven Best TED Talks So Far This Year
With a new TED Talk posted every weekday, there is certainly no shortage of brilliance shared on the TED site.
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Spotify Music-Streaming Service to Arrive in Australia
Tap into a huge music library, containing millions of tracks, and share them easily with Spotify.
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Bloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution
A disused mental institution in Massachusetts becomes public art as it's filled with 28,000 flowers.
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The Color Run Leaves Participants Paint Splattered
Touring throughout 18 US cities, The Color Run offers runners a unique and colourful 5k race.
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Win a Double Pass to see A Dangerous Method
Dark and seductively unsettling, A Dangerous Method will take you into recesses of the psyche that you may not have been ready to face.
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New Daft Punk Album to be Released in June
The rumours are true. Daft Punk has teamed up with Nile Rodgers for their upcoming album, said to be released in June this year.
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The Kook: A Short Film Taking Home Big Awards
A short film made on a small budget that's taking the US independent film festivals by storm (and walking away with all the awards too).
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Homeless People Used as WiFi Hotspots at SXSW
BHH Labs introduces Homeless Hotspots, a controversial homeless employment initiative, at Austin's SXSW Festival.
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Theatres To Usher In Live Tweeting
The last bastion of the phone-free two hours, the theatre, might be about to crumble.
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Vivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced
Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.
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Berndaut Smilde Conjures Clouds Indoors
In a seemingly magical act, Smilde produces and photographs his indoor clouds to explore the concept of transition and physical presence in his latest collection.
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Makoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality
Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.
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The World’s 11 Most Colourful Cities
Many charming little towns throughout the world have put this idea into practice, painting their buildings in bold and bright colours.
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A Bookmark Which Follows Your Reading
For the inner bookworm in all of us, French designer and inventor Oscar Lhermitte has come up with a way to make torn, dog-eared pages a thing of the past.
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The Ten Best Boutique Cinemas in Sydney
Our pick of the best places screening the best films in atmospheric theatres with excellent beer and fancy ice cream.
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Win a Double Pass to see Headhunters
Headhunters tells the story of Roger Brown, a charming villain whose life is turned upside down through greed.
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New York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art
The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.
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Match The Perfect Alcoholic Beverage To Your Music
Drinkify makes sure you'll never drink alone again.
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Kony 2012 Campaign Goes Viral
Kony 2012 is a viral campaign spearheaded by the humanitarian group Invisible Children to raise awareness about atrocities in Uganda.
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Jon Rafman’s ‘The Nine Eyes of Google Street View’ Photo Project
Canadian artist Jon Rafman has presented viewers with a collection of the most bizzare, quirky and often disturbing images that are captured on Google's Street View.
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Concrete Playground Meets Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy deserves some serious credit. Trying to forge a career as a professional comedian is pretty tough at the best of times, let alone when your brother is none other than Eddie Murphy.
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Moss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.
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Indie India: Aspiring Musicians Outsource Film Clips to the Subcontinent
With music videos becoming ever more complex and expensive, entrepreneurs in India are providing aspiring musicians with film clips at a reduced cost.
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Win a Double Pass to see the Academy Award-Winning ‘A Separation’
Critics have praised the film for its fast pace, weaving complexity and bravery for commenting on themes which have been kept hidden to much of the Western world.
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Radiohead Announce Tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2012
This will be Radiohead's first Australian tour in eight years, and the band's first to New Zealand since 1998.
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Gorillaz team up with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Andre 3000 from Outkast
Converse bring together three artists on the creation of one song.
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Concrete Playground Meets Photographer Dean Sewell
Dean recently sat down with Concrete Playground to talk about the Lonely Station, photography and the usefulness of good rope skills.
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Win a Double Pass to see Like Crazy
Enter to win tickets to see the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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Win a Double Pass to Playground Weekender 2012
A four-day extravaganza in arguably the most gorgeous festival location near Sydney, Del Rio's Riverside Resort on the Hawkesbury.
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Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011
They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.
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What Music Looks Like as an Object
German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'
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Win a Double Pass to see The Grey
John Ottoway (Liam Neeson) is forced to lead a group of roughneck men in their fight for survival when the men come under attack by a pack of vicous, aggressive wolves.
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Hotel Offers Champagne Baths for Valentine’s Day
In what resembles a scene from a high-end gangster rap video, guests at London's Cadogan Hotel will be able to bathe in 122 hand-poured bottles of Dom Pérignon.
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Michael Cera Takes the Stage at the Sydney Opera House
Theatrical masterpiece 'This Is Our Youth' will undergo another celebrity makeover when the play hits the Sydney Opera House this March.
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Gallery /// Concrete Playground at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012
Concrete Playground heads along to check out St. Jerome's Laneway Festival in Sydney.
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The Best Ads From Super Bowl 2012
It's usually the off field antics and advertising that captures the imaginations of those outside of the 50 US states.
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Wes Anderson From Above
All of the auteur's beautifully crafted overhead shots compiled into one stylish montage.