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London's Future Laboratory has been casting pearls, nuggets and carats before swine under the ultimate preposition THE for four issues now; it's time for us all to catch up - the future awaits!
As a trend forecasting agency, it might seem strange that they would be giving away their insights so freely (indeed, downloadable as a PDF), but Future Lab seem more generous than those we would normally think of whom engage in trend forecasting, (jealously guarding their insights so Nike can come along and buy them for One Million Dollars).
The Book of Hard Words
Ever lost for words? Been desperate to communicate something but just can't seem to spit it out? Or just wanted to make the moves on someone who is smarter than you? Well here is your answer...
This genius tome is dedicated entirely to ridiculously tricky words that, when used correctly, are guaranteed to knock the socks of everyone.
My Colombian Death, Matthew Thompson
Lets get one thing straight. Matt Thompson has big cojones. Not because he travelled solo to Colombia and did everything the guidebook says you shouldn't and made it back. But because he left everything he knew and a few things he probably shouldn't have. Wife, newborn child, secure employment and the cosy comfort of Australian society are no match for Thompson's insatiable appetite to be thrown in with the sharks.
Pornocracy
Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan, you will know that her films portray a world that is more disquieting than reassuring, more intimate than objective and more corporeal than cerebral. You may call yourself a Breillat aficionado, but unless you speak French, you have probably never read her novels.
Official Festival Selections
Dragging one’s ass off the couch can be a painful necessity for cinema fans. IMAX ain’t IMAX on a 30 inch screen. Plus, at premiers you can get free cokes and your picture taken with Totty Goldsmith. Notwithstanding these intrusions, a proper tortured film-buff existence is better lived out in the lounge room.
The Big Bento Box Of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless' idea and the tome's premise. He's developed an entire philosophy around bizarre gadgets. There are 10 tenets of Chindogu; man-made objects that have broken free from the chains of usefulness.
The Monocle, World's Top 25 World's Most Livable Cities
You can never underestimate the stupidity of majority opinion - value judgements are far better. God knows we make a living out of them here at Right Angle. The Monocle Top 25 World's Most Livable Cities edition is unashamedly a value judgement, but not an ill-informed one. These are people who trawl the world, think critically about what makes life good, and the degree to which a city supports that ideal.
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