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5th Apr 07

Release: Live
To Cure: A predictable playlist

There’s a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote 'In Praise of Slow’. Listening to it is bound to have even the most speed-addicted wanting to get in touch with their ‘inner tortoise’.

The talk was given as part of the TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) conference held annually in California.

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Pearl Tea

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Note to Self

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The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

22nd Aug 07

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Madura Green Tea

25th Nov 08

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Christopher's Cakes

26th Sep 07

Ignore the cold hearted hag serving behind the counter; the delicacies in this lovely cake shop are worth the trauma. The trauma of satisfying your sweet...

Mongol

18th Jun 08

Picture the screenwriters: they're brainstorming up the new Genghis Khan biopic and need some way to make the infamous 13th century Mongolian conqueror...

VICE Guide to Travel

18th Apr 07

According to Ernie Dingo and the Northern Territory tourism board, ‘You’ll never never know, if you never never go”. It’s catchy...

Bateaux Jouets, Toy Boats From Paris 1850 - 1950

12th Sep 08

The last time I was at the Maritime Museum I was four years old and had a vegemite sandwich stolen out of my Power Ranger backpack.

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Snapshots by Allen Robbe-Grillet

7th Nov 07

Think of a manuscript cut into pieces, thrown in the air and put back together in a random order, and that is a Robbe-Grillet story.

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Official Festival Selections

23rd Jul 08

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The 12th Japanese Film Festival, 2009

27th Nov 08

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Broken Beauty

25th Jul 07

Ugly is beautiful. You know it. I know it. Betty knows it. And, as it turns out, a local photographer called Ben Ong knows it too.

Something of...

Little Brother SS 06/07

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Like I give a frock

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Demo Issue #1

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Consolador de dos Caras

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No Certain Night Or Morning

18th Sep 06

Not all dance music should make you dance. In fact at its best, dance music should probably reduce its listeners to a mild mannered sway or a transcendental...

Recycled

24th Oct 07

The term "mom and pop shop" gets thrown around a lot. But how often do you rock-up to a shop actually owned by a ‘mom' and a ‘pop'?

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Kill Communication

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The end of the world is now. War, famine, pestilence and dysentery reign. Who will save us from a pathetic death on a cold, lonely dunny can? There is...

Coogi

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