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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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NewsReal Musical Instruments Crafted from Deadly Weapons
Who would have guessed a gun could sound so disarming?
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NewsSouthside Arts Festival Launches 2013 Programme
The city's annual dose of Maori and Pacific urban culture is back. Southside Arts Festival 2013 includes an impressive line up of more than 20 events encompassing theatre, music, dance, fashion, street and visual arts, and the written word. Both emerging and established Maori and Pacific artists will show us what they've got across the three weeks. These include Ladi-6, Oscar Kightley, Okareka Dance Company and Iva Lamkum.
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NewsWin $50 to Spend at Orleans Britomart
Get some soul in you with a $50 bar tab at Orleans at Fortune Avenue.
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NewsWin a Rooftop Lunch at Fort Street Union
Thanks to Tiger Beer's Fortune Avenue, you could win $100 to spend at the home of good times.
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NewsDevastating and Beautiful Animated Ad Will Turn You Off Factory Farming
An ad for a popular fast food chain that might just make you cry.
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NewsA Synesthete Maps the London Underground
Ever wondered what the names of stations taste like as they roll off the tongue?
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NewsHorror and Nostalgia Combine in Beautiful Doll Hospital Photographs
Can't sleep, doll will eat me.
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NewsWatch a Film Set Entirely on a Computer Screen on Your Computer Screen
Watch a movie about being online whilst online. META.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets artist Melissa Sharplin
Artist Melissa Sharplin talks about her inspiration behind her pop-realist portraits of beautiful women, working for charity and the importance of dreams.
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NewsMind-Bending Timelapse Shows a Whole Life in One Face
Imagine if you could see a full lifetime's ageing process happen before your very eyes. Well, you sort of can.
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NewsWin $50 Vouchers to Spend Online at FallenFront.co.nz
Fortune Avenue has some clothing vouchers to give away.
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NewsTake a Tour of Burning Man on the Back of a Drone
Perhaps it's true you can only understand the festival if you've been. But this gets you pretty close.
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NewsArcade Fire’s Mesmerising Smartphone-Interactive Video for ‘Reflektor’
A short film whose visuals you can affect, just so long as you have three basics of the modern tech era.
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NewsSh*t They Don’t Teach You in School
The concept is fairly self-explanatory and is both educational and entertaining.
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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 Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend
Farewell office, farewell pants being necessary and hello soundtracked weekend.
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NewsBoozing 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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NewsLuxury 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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NewsArtist 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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NewsWiz 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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NewsWin 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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NewsOil 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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NewsThe Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend
Five delicious servings of ear candy weighing kilograms of fun with zero calories.
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NewsTiki Taane at the La Casa Artist Residency
Take a intimate look into the songwriting process of well-respected New Zealand musician Tiki Taane.
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NewsThe Ten Best Karaoke Spots in Auckland
The best spots for belting out renditions of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'I Will Survive' in Auckland.
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NewsWin 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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NewsHarlem’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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News3D 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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NewsKickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand
Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.
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NewsThe National to Return Down Under in February
The National return to our shores come February 2014.
