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PRIMAVERA SOUND 2006
For all the people who love music and have the luck to live in Barcelona, June is the start of the crazy movement between festivals and concerts. With all the big offers that the city provides, there is no doubt th...
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MARTIN CREED “I LIKE THINGS”
The first work of "I Like Things" can be seen without even entering the exhibition: a big neon light reading "Everything is Going to Be Alright" (Work No.560) is hanged on the facade of the monumental Palazzo dell'Are...
HAPPENING
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
I wanna go somewhere! holiday! traveling! But no money no time no one to go with. If you feel like it, you should definitely go to this exhibition. "Around the World in Eighty Days" same name popular novel was writt...
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DORKBOT SAN FRANCISCO
The name make sense after looking at the tag line - "people doing strange things with electricity ". Dorks are usually perceived as strange, and bots, well they do things with electricity. Dorkbot is much like it ...
HAPPENING
BUFFMONSTER “THE TURBO LOVER”
Anyone walking the streets of Los Angeles with an open eye for street art might have had a strange deja vu experience at the Kidrobot store in Santa Monica on April 20th. The funny looking bubble like creatures you wo...
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MERMAID PARADE 2006
A rainy Saturday afternoon on June 24th and I'm on my way to Coney Island way down on the Southern most tip of Brooklyn, NY to catch the 2006 Mermaid Parade. The parade takes place every year and celebrates the offici...
PLACE
FREITAG
In 1993 the brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag founded FREITAG. Legend has it that they were inspired by the heavy traffic that hummed through Zurich in front of their shared flat, in transit from Hamburg in Germany t...
HAPPENING
IN YOU EXHIBITION
In the evening on 25th of May, while the sun was sinking in Manhattan over East river and a comfortable wind blew, an exhibition "In You", was started at gallery Riviera in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The weather foreca...
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TOKYO LIVEPAINT SHOWCASE “HUOVA”
At the end of Golden Week on May 6th, a live-painting event called "HUOVA" was held in Gallery Conceal in Shibuya. The Chinese word for "torch", HUOVA is a show for those who compete for the title as "the fastest" pai...
PEOPLE
DIMA KOMISSAROV
If someone says the word "design", Russia doesn't usually come to mind. Dima Komissarov is here to change that. Having drawn since a young age he eventually gravitated to the world of design and has been immersed in ...
PEOPLE
REALA
This month's SHIFT cover "Dead web triptych and counter" was designed by REALA, a design team since 1998 based in Stockholm and London. Not only designing, but they are also marked as eminent filmmakers producing lo...
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DESIGNMAI 2006
It's a little known fact that Berlin is designated as "City of Design" by the UNESCO. The Creative Cities Network of UNESCO awards a city for each of the following seven categories - literature, cinema, music, folk a...
