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NewsUntappd App Combines Social Networking and Beer
The perfect excuse to drink more beer and check your iPhone.
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NewsMessage in a Bottle: The Unusual Social Network
Harold Hackett has been sending messages all over the world, but unlike most of us he hasn’t been using a phone or a computer.
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NewsSlavery Footprint: Calculating How Many Forced Labourers Work For You
Cue the bright-eyed, pigtailed offspring of ethical consumerism and social media, Slavery Footprint.
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NewsSemi-Fictional Audio Guides Narrate New York’s Museum Mile
A conceptual sound collective and the French join forces to take you for a merry and blissfully confusing journey down Manhattan's Museum Mile.
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NewsMicro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing
The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Exclusive Cloudy Bay Tasting for you and 3 Friends
To celebrate the release of their 2011 Sauvignon Blanc on October 1st, Cloudy Bay is bringing the first of the season together at an exclusive tasting event.
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NewsSubscribe to Win a $100 Bar Tab at 1885
We were thinking of adding in a clause that a percentage of this bar tab needs to be used on shouting the CP news team, but legal made it too complicated. So it is all yours, if you win*.
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NewsThe Ten Best Festivals in Sydney
Get ready to dance kids, because summer’s coming. Here is Concrete Playground's shortlist of Sydney’s best festival experiences.
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NewsNike Release Back to The Future Sneakers
Nike has released a near-exact replica of the shoes worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2.
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NewsHighlights of New Zealand Fashion Week
Fashion Week has been and gone. Here are some of the highlights that stood out.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win a VIP Malt Bar experience
This is a great way to meet new people, talk shop, exchange words, and who knows, cut a deal that will save the nation. You just never know.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Scallop Festival Tickets
One of the most popular excuses to head out of the Concrete Playground and up the Coromandel to enjoy some of New Zealand's finest Scallops, Wine and Food.
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NewsPost-it Note Wars Erupt in Paris
French corporate types are unleashing their creative sides in the French capital.
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NewsThe Web Wants to Know Your Secrets
As part of London's Ignite Festival, people are anonymously confessing their deepest, darkest secrets online.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Ringmaster Access to Carnival42
Carnival42 is here as your escape portal to a more magical place, assuring us if you ask for anything “all black” you’ll get a cocktail without milk.
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NewsThe First Photojournalist in Fukushima’s Power Plant
Photojournalist Kazuma Obara has taken some of the first pictures of the inside of the Fukushima Power Plant and the daily lives of the people who work there.
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NewsWin Double Passes to The Only Child and Mt Eden Dubstep
If you get nostalgic over New Kids on the Block and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, traded Garbage Pail Kids or owned a chatter ring, this one’s for you.
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NewsBanksy Takes On TV
While most people think of a concept before a title is given to the project, graffiti artist and satire king Banksy does the opposite.
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NewsThe London Riots: The Impact on Creative Communities
While London was engaged in a process of repeatedly kicking itself in the face, some of those hardest hit have been independent artists and small businesses.
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NewsTom Ballard to Miranda Devine: ‘What the F**k are You Talking About?’
Tom Ballard responds to columnist Miranda Devine's article connecting Senator Penny Wong's pregnancy to the London riots.
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NewsResponses to the London Riots
As London takes stocks of last week's riots, its people are quick to respond with a varied and unique online initiatives.
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NewsNZ Police Graffiti – If you can’t beat em, join em!
the work cleverly utilises street, online and PR which would offer a unique channel to promote the recruitment of new members for NZ Police. Well done NZ Police.
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NewsMove, Learn, Eat: Take in Eleven Countries in Three Minutes
Three shorts films by independent filmmaker Rick Mereki remind of the joys of travel.
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NewsInterview /// A Conversation with Mike Mills
Tom Melick meets him in a beige-smothered hotel room. He wears a suit, looks overworked and speaks with a casual generosity.
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NewsAuckland’s Top 5 Sunday Roosts
Concrete Playground has assembled the top five establishments that make a drink on any given Sunday so sweet.
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NewsKeep The Harry Potter Dream Alive With Quidditch
If you find life a little empty without Hogwarts perhaps you should give quidditch a try.
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NewsOne Day On Earth Brings the World’s Filmmakers Together
Filmmakers across the globe participated in the One Day On Earth project to capture the images and stories of 10/10/10.
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NewsUrban Explorers Shed Light on London’s Underground
An emerging sub culture of urban explorers is finding there is still much to be explored in our tired old towns
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NewsA Brief Gastronomic Guide to New Zealand’s South Island
Here are some of Concrete Playground's best gastronomic reasons to head across the ditch.
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News21 of the World’s Most Stunning Holiday Destinations
Some of the places that truly capture the imagination around the globe.
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NewsThe 15 Best Ads in the World in 2011
Watch the winning spots from this year's Cannes Advertising Festival.
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NewsBen and Jerry’s Schweddy Balls
Rumours are circulating that Ben and Jerry's are set to release a new flavour called Schweddy Balls.
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NewsGo the F*ck to Sleep with Samuel L. Jackson
After viral leaks of award-winning author Adam Mansbach's new children's book for parents created huge hype in recent weeks, the book was finally released today.
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NewsMerrell Wants You To Add Your Own Scenery
Help create the world's largest panoramic photo of the great outdoors.
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NewsOpen Source Classrooms Provide Ivy League Education for Free
Fancy a free Ivy League education? Open Culture will teach you everything you need to know.
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NewsA Seinfeld Art Exhibition: Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Fan art is a personal expression of obsession. How will it work as a Seinfeld exhibit?
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NewsNew York City Public Library Turns 100
To celebrate its centenary the New York City Public Library shows it's more than just books.
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NewsUnderwater Photography Provides New Perspective of Sydney
Photography Mark Tipple takes a look at surfing from a different angle.
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NewsSafeHouse is Rupert Murdoch’s Answer to WikiLeaks
News Corporation's online attempt at replicating the success of WikiLeaks seems flaky on several levels.
