Concrete Playground

There comes a time when each of us wants an upgrade: to take a grown-up step away from flat-packed, ready-made living and start turning that ‘Dream House’ Pinterest collection into a reality.Beachside hut, slick city unit or terrace house in the leafy ‘burbs – whatever your style, Concrete Playground has...

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Spotify, the digital music service that allows you to instantly discover, play and share over 16 million music tracks on demand, has arrived on Australian shores. Available locally from today, Spotify allows music-lovers to enjoy music whenever and wherever they like.Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon developed the program in Sweden...

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Setting our minds alight for another year, Vivid Ideas is the integral third part of the Vivid Sydney ethos. Dedicated to connecting industry with emerging talent and global leaders in over 100 events, the 18-day program will see events focused on discussion and creative collaboration. This year sees exiting keynote...

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The Museum of Contemporary Art’s first ARTBAR - a night of drinks, DJs, performance art, karaoke and much more - kicks off at 7pm this Friday, May 25, and Concrete Playground has tickets to giveaway.Tickling your late night gallery fancy, Friday’s ARTBAR will include Sydney-based photographer and video artist Justene Williams,...

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Sydney residents will be donning their gardening gloves and taking to the streets in an attempt to vivify the city’s increasingly banal footpaths.The City of Sydney has instigated a new gardening initiative, designed to increase the flora next to our city's streets, and thereby protecting local habitats, improving air quality...

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The Australia-wide Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is the only cultural event devoted exclusively to exploring humanitarian issues through creative media. The not-for-profit event will be showing at the Chauvel Cinema in from May 29 to June 1, and Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away for...

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Architects across the world are adopting the idea of exhibitionism in their design of some very ‘open’ houses. Not leaving much to the imagination, people who live in these see-through structures obviously aren’t shy about exposing their true selves.Ranging from a three level, blue-tainted glass box set in snowy Milan,...

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In an attempt to bring back to our vocabulary some long-forgotten words, a blog called The Dead Words is using thematically appropriate typography to breathe new life into them.Curator of the project, Karen To, is attempting animate lost words which have slipped from our tongues, bringing them back into everyday...

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Some bands are born from skill, passion and a garage strewn with beer cans, but others are born from the shrewd minds of television producers (or at least a combination of the two).Flight of the Conchords might be the one of the biggest players in guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk...

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In Mexico, muralists are rewarded with prominence in government buildings and sinking institutes of the arts. Here, we give them furtive street corners, the trendier offices and pride of place in our cafes. Illustrator and artist, Brad Robson, has had a turn a lot of these locations and is looking...

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Contrary to the habits of mother nature, fashion comes into bloom in autumn and winter. The colder weather has us indulging in the comforts of cosy knits, multiple layers and luxurious fabrics. Along with the change in season there's a change in attitude too - instead of throwing on the...

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The world is an incredible and enigmatic place that holds many secrets and wonders that we humans sometimes struggle to explain. There are places that many of us would find difficult to even dream about or conjure up in our imaginations, yet they actually exist. Ranging from popular tourist destinations to...

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