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Beguiling Fashion Film celebrates Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

Beguiling Fashion Film celebrates Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

This new film celebrates the upcoming Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin taking place from July 2nd to 5th and stars model of the moment, Sui He. The film is an elegant and striking piece of moving imagery that begins with piercing minimal piano to build a sense of tension. The main character played by Sui He [...]

June 19, 2013 | 0 Comments More
adidas BOOST add new colours for AW13

adidas BOOST add new colours for AW13

Bringing colour to your running, the adidas Energy BOOST adds new bold shades for Autumn Winter! Following on from their record breaking launch as the fastest selling debut footwear release, adidas have added new colours to their Energy BOOST range for Autumn Winter 2013.     The original Energy BOOST launched in February this year [...]

June 19, 2013 | 0 Comments More
head piece worn on dress by Hiroko Nakajima, earrings by Missouri

Shock and Awe!!! Surrealist inspired images by Adam Goodison

Taking inspiration from the greats of the Belle Epoque and beyond, surrealist disjointed images take on a fashion form in this fashion photography series by Adam Goodison styled by Grace Joel.   Recommended and for full credits view in full screen.   Remember Man Ray, Elsa Schaperelli, Lee Miller, the very essence of the fantastical avant [...]

June 15, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Footlocker’s Sneaker Exclusives for Summer

Footlocker’s Sneaker Exclusives for Summer

Summer is finally here and so it’s time to get out the sneakers and look forward to a long hot dusty summer – well we can hope anyway. And if you take a look down at your feet and have that sinking feeling as you see your big toes poking out it’s time to treat [...]

June 12, 2013 | 0 Comments More

Music

The Perfect American – Philip Glass’ imperfect new opera

The Perfect American – Philip Glass’ imperfect new opera

Like its central character, Walt Disney, Philip Glass’ new opera is flawed. Despite a good premise, an imaginative set that works around a strict ban on Disney imagery, and a solid-as-ever score from Glass, The Perfect American – on at the Coliseum in London until the 28th June – is a bit of a disappointment. [...]

June 17, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs Clarietta

Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs Clarietta

Following the release of their debut single ‘I Watch You’ last October, Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs have become one of the most highly anticipated new bands of the past few years. A label the new music press loves to throw at new artists, tainting many a band’s debut. A scary prospect for Charlie Boyer [...]

June 10, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Is Tropical album ‘I’m Leaving’ takes new direction

Is Tropical album ‘I’m Leaving’ takes new direction

Leaving behind their DIY electro-pop-rock roots of 2011’s ‘Native To’ for the finely tuned, shimmering productions of ‘I’m Leaving’, sees trio Is Tropical throw everything they have at a mainstream audience whilst trying to keep their underground aesthetics intact. ‘I’m Leaving’ opens with the distinct anthem guitar slinging and chiming tones of ‘Lovers Cave’ found [...]

June 6, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Nico Muhly & Friends in A Scream and an Outrage at the Barbican

Nico Muhly & Friends in A Scream and an Outrage at the Barbican

‘I wanna scream and shout…’ Composer, arranger, performer, social media maestro and cook Nico Muhly is a force of nature. Whilst David Lang’s claim that ‘He’s the missing link between all the kinds of the music in the world’ might be an exaggeration, he certainly has friends in exciting places. Muhly’s allies – including former [...]

June 4, 2013 | 0 Comments More

Art

Art in Japan – The Kansai Collections, National Museum of Art Osaka

Art in Japan – The Kansai Collections, National Museum of Art Osaka

Our regular arts writer Philomena Epps decided to check out some key art shows whilst on a  trip to Japan. Here’s the third of her reports on the The Kansai Collections at the The National Museum of Art, Osaka. The Kansai Collections show presents Western art from the 20th and 21st century from the collections [...]

June 17, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Art in Japan – ‘Could Art Change The World’ JR Exhibition, Tokyo

Art in Japan – ‘Could Art Change The World’ JR Exhibition, Tokyo

Our regular arts writer Philomena Epps decided to check out some key art shows whilst on a  trip to Japan. Here’s the second of her reports on the JR Exhibition – Could Art Change The World at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. This is the first international retrospective of the French artist JR’s work. The [...]

June 13, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Art in Japan – All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku

Art in Japan – All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku

Our regular arts writer Philomena Epps decided to check out some key art shows whilst on a  trip to Japan. Here’s the first of her reports on the All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku exhibition at the Mori Art Museum. All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama [...]

June 12, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Cacotopia Exhibition at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Cacotopia Exhibition at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

On the 23rd of May, the exhibition Cacotopia started at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. Inspired by the term “cacotopia” that Burgess introduced in a discussion of George Orwell’s fiction work Nineteen Eighty Four (1949), the curator Laura Mansfield has brought together materials from the foundation’s archive and contemporary artists’ works that relate [...]

June 3, 2013 | 0 Comments More

Film

Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series Gives Film Makers A Break – Winners Show at Tribeca

Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series Gives Film Makers A Break – Winners Show at Tribeca

Aspiring film makers need grit, determination, buckets of imagination but above all they need that one big first break. This is exactly what the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series: Film competition sets out to do. Backed by the much respected Tribeca Film Festival it allows film makers to get those creative juices flowing all based around [...]

June 12, 2013 | 0 Comments More
NOW TV launches World’s Smallest Film Festival for Vines

NOW TV launches World’s Smallest Film Festival for Vines

Sky’s on-demand service NOW TV is holding the world’s first ever Vine-based film awards – NOW TV Moviefest – and they are using a subheader that Thumbelina would be proud of – the World’s Smallest Film Festival. If you don’t know what a Vine is, you’re lagging behind the world. But here’s the lowdown. Vine [...]

June 3, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Bernie Film Review – a true darkly comic tale that’s stranger than fiction

Bernie Film Review – a true darkly comic tale that’s stranger than fiction

Director Richard Linklater and actor Jack Black team up for the first time since their blockbusting mega-hit School of Rock to bring us Bernie – a dark comedy based on perhaps the most absurd true events ever committed to film. In August 1997, police found the body of a Mrs Marjorie Nugent wrapped in a [...]

May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Sponsored Video – Four Short Films About Love – Cornetto Cupidity

Sponsored Video – Four Short Films About Love – Cornetto Cupidity

Cupidity is a new series of short films that explores the vast human emotion we call love. We’re all suckers for a great love story. Some of us might try and pretend otherwise but when we get hooked onto those characters’ stories we can’t help but will them on to that final meeting where their [...]

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Beauty

RiRi Woo – retro red lips from Rihanna & M∙A∙C with love

RiRi Woo – retro red lips from Rihanna & M∙A∙C with love

Rihanna and M∙A∙C launch RiRi Woo lipstick – a retro matte red that sells out in three hours! But here’s how to get yours. Global icon of the last couple of years without a doubt, Rihanna’s accessible yet street-wise, edgyness – in her music and style – give her the edge over her safer, blander contemporaries. [...]

June 4, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Strange Beauty – Darkly Surreal Beauty Shoot from Anna Ciupryk & Monika Kolodziej

Strange Beauty – Darkly Surreal Beauty Shoot from Anna Ciupryk & Monika Kolodziej

We love the atmosphere and dark humour in this imaginative and aptly named  beauty shoot from photographer  Anna Ciupryk and make up artist Monika Kolodziej. These characters inhabit a dark place but there’s a sense of mischief and fun in the execution giving each look a warped and surreal edge. photography by Anna Ciupryk www.anionam.com [...]

April 29, 2013 | 0 Comments More
What’s his Face? – Kiehl’s Facial Fuel for men

What’s his Face? – Kiehl’s Facial Fuel for men

We don’t blink at the idea of men taking care of their skin anymore. And with brands like Kiehls making sure there’s plenty of choice when it comes to products aimed squarely at the masculine side of the market, there is just no excuse for unkempt skin and hair. Facial Fuel is the name of [...]

April 19, 2013 | 0 Comments More
AERIN Shell Colour Collection – beach beauty for summer

AERIN Shell Colour Collection – beach beauty for summer

For the uninitiated, luxury beauty brand AERIN was launched by Estee Lauder’s grandaughter, Aerin Lauder, who is the brand’s Founder and Creative Director for autumn 2012. And now looking to the summer season, the brand launches its Shell Color collection – a subtle, relaxed collection with an ‘at ease on the beach’ feeling.     The Shell [...]

April 17, 2013 | 0 Comments More

Lifestyle

A Fairground in Chernobyl or a tour of North Korea? – An Alternative Holiday

A Fairground in Chernobyl or a tour of North Korea? – An Alternative Holiday

Touring radiation fallout zones or secretive communist states isn’t what most people would think of as a holiday. But Dylan Harris enjoys taking people out of their comfort zones. Dylan, nicknamed “Wolf” by friends, used his gonzo backpacking expertise to found Wigan-based tour company Lupine Travel in 2007.   He arranges tours to places that [...]

June 18, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Sponsored Video – V-Energy vows to rid the world of trolls

Sponsored Video – V-Energy vows to rid the world of trolls

There a lot of negativity in the world. You can see it on your TV set each night as the news delivers yet another grim story. And there’s no refuge online – not when there are online trolls running amok. You catch glimpses of them spreading misery and mischief as you try to surf the [...]

June 17, 2013 | 0 Comments More
The Last of Us – The end of the world is now a game

The Last of Us – The end of the world is now a game

I love those apocalyptic films where there are just a handful of people left in a decimated world. You survive on canned food taken from abandoned supermarkets and get to choose which house you want to stay in, the inhabitants long gone. So when I found out about a computer game based around a similar [...]

June 14, 2013 | 0 Comments More
Dom Pérignon release the sun soaked 2004 Blanc Vintage

Dom Pérignon release the sun soaked 2004 Blanc Vintage

Sponsored Video The little tiny bubbles that make up the sparkle in Champagne have helped define an era. Could there have been an era of bling without the wine that sets itself apart as the special one. And as we imagine Beyonce celebrating backstage after a huge sell out performance do we imagine anything other [...]

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Inamo Restaurant – Computer Waiters and Games – but what about the food?

Inamo Restaurant – Computer Waiters and Games – but what about the food?

Once upon a time, my social media feed was a delightful mix of cat photos, baby photos, and witty status updates. These were the halcyon days – the days before Facebook and the like became little more than a means to batter people over the head with smug updates about what you eat, where you [...]

June 5, 2013 | 0 Comments More
All Things Brighton Beautiful – Short Fiction by Robert Leeming

All Things Brighton Beautiful – Short Fiction by Robert Leeming

The latest piece of short fiction by Flux regular Robert Leeming. Have a peek at the video to get a nice flavour of the story to follow. 1. I was drinking a bottle of Sink the Bismarck in one of those bars where supping ale named after historical events and renowned political figures is the [...]

June 3, 2013 | 0 Comments More
The Cribs Get Dirty at the 100 Club

The Cribs Get Dirty at the 100 Club

Converse are well known for their association with the more adventurous side of contemporary guitar music. Get Dirty is their latest offering and aims to bring some of the most exciting music acts around to 11 of the most inspiring cities under the roof of a celebrated venue. The series is inspired by Converse’s saying [...]

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