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Ooooo .... Bright Light.

"Follow the yellow brick road ... or maybe just the cool green light?"

This is NO CAN'T DO as witnessed by SUSO competition entrant James.  Here you have a bunch of mates making a party out of an idea to redirect a laser across town.  Rockin out to that massive Groove Armada sound and captured by that talented crew over at Future Shorts.

Highly creative and with the determined follow through.  We love it.  Keep em coming!

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Categories Culture Tags Art culture Design Endeavour suso

By Juan on 5/12/09

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The Big Bang

"So that's how it happened.  Really?"

Got 2 minutes to kill and looking for some answers?  This might help. 

But then of course it might not.  At the end of the day, so much is always left to our imagination.

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Categories Culture Tags General suso

By Juan on 15/8/09

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Estevan Oriol

Bouncer, tour manager, clothing designer, photographer and director. Oriol is a Hip Hop icon.

He began his career as an L.A bouncer in the late 80’s - anything to be amongst the culture he loved. Soon enough he sniffed out the likes of Cypress Hill, and eager as ever to expand his knowledge of the Hip Hop industry, he secured a job as the tour manager of House of Pain on their ’92 tour.

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Categories Culture Fashion Music Film Photography Tags hip hop Director

By Moscow on 12/3/09

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Lane Campaign

City cyclists across the world lack protection. Check out these innovative ideas for ad hoc bike lanes.

Conceived as part of the Power to the Pedal Competition, the Contrail - a name inspired by the condensation trail left by aircraft - gives cyclists the chance to re-write the city to their own specification. A series of chalk trails create a record of their travels and remind drivers that cyclists have just as much right to the road as they do.

The high tech version is just as exciting, although less of an artistic experiment and more focused on a genuine solution. By projecting a lane from under the bike seat via a set of lasers, the motorist can easily become aware of the cyclists and gauge how much room to give. Very clever.

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Categories Art Culture Design Sport Politics Graffiti Tags Cycling Graffiti

By Moscow on 5/3/09

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Culturally Capable Capital?

Liverpool’s Look of the City scheme asks if the city is in danger of losing its identity.

W / Daisy Bell

Liverpool is a controversial Capital of Culture in 2008. To the average southerner, the impression is of scallies, crime and industrial smoke. But there's a TATE now, of course, a brand new shopping centre, and an influx of new clubs and restaurants. So has the UK's cultural capital successfully concealed traditional stereotypes? Or should it seek to conceal them at all?

Edge Lane, one of the main routes into Liverpool, is host to the highest number of boarded up houses in the city. In the council's Look of the City scheme (an attempt to stop tourists being put off by local dereliction), the houses have been revamped in a simple, cheap yet innovative way. The boards covering the windows and doors have been brightly painted with images famously associated with Liverpool. John Lennons, Liver birds and odes to Everton or Liverpool FC have been painted in green, purple, blue and red, turning the city's most poverty stricken streets into the brightest in town. A bad situation has become a celebration of Merseyside pride.

Unfortunately, the Look of the City scheme on Edge Lane is temporary. With a new £350 million budget, the council is going ahead with the Edge Lane Project, an expansion of this three mile route into the city centre. The painted houses, each a witness to Liverpool's recent history, will be bulldozed down. So despite the short term improvement there, the long-term 'solution' is one of modernity, space and, most likely, boredom.

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Categories Culture Tags Liverpool Architecture

By Daisy on 2/12/08

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70,200 Samples In 33 Seconds

Johannes Kreidler’s amusing performance reveals the antiquated nature of the music industry’s model.

Who’s bored of talking about music in the digital age, about file sharing, copyright and prehistoric business models? Fed up of talking, Johannes Kreidler, musician and performance artist, did something about it instead.

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Categories Art Culture Music Tags Music Art Music Industry

By on 17/11/08

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Even Better To Share

The people have spoken, but will it stick?

The Gum Election is a guerilla art project that started in New York last month. The result? A lot less gum on city streets, a campaign that can be emailed around the world in seconds and some prescient people that spoke with there slobber and got there wish. Genius.

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Categories Culture Design Politics SUSO Tags Politics Election

By Moscow on 5/11/08

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Low And Slow

Turning the jalopy into an ethnic banner.

The Lowrider has a strong claim to be one of the most grossly misunderstood subcultural icons of Americana. Spawned on the boulevards of East L.A, these hydraulic ‘carruchas’ have been embedded in gangland culture by Hollywood and in turn the white middle-classes of the United States.

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Categories Culture Design Tags Design Cars

By Moscow on 21/10/08

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Skeletons And Closets

Opportunistic Favela-dwellers are relocating to central Sao Paolo.

Festival Emergences is an international festival dedicated to electronic cultures and emerging artistic forms. Based in Paris, it’s basically a mash-up of performing and visual arts, multimedia, design, architecture and electronic music. A presentation made by mOmentoMoNUMENTO at the annual event last week has got people talking. 

mOmentoMoNUMENTO is a joint project between Brazilian collective Coloco and the French experimental artists of Exyst (who we’ve written about before). In 2001, Coloco started researching a phenomenon known as ‘Skeleton Dwellings’. They observed, analysed and documented a group of people that were bucking a trend in Sao Paolo, Brazil. While most people were moving to the suburbs amidst economic unrest, war and the ups and downs of the housing market, a few opportunists seized their chance.

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Categories Culture Politics Tags Sao Paolo Architecture Cities

By Moscow on 7/10/08

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Bicycle

18 million bikes, 16.5 million people.

We love them, but not as much as the Dutch. It’s true: there are 18 million bikes in the Netherlands, but only 16.5 million people. If you’re over there this weekend, be sure to check out ‘Bicycle’, a 100-day event that comes to an end this Sunday at the Designhaus in Eindhoven.

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Categories Culture Tags Bicycle Sport

By Moscow on 3/10/08

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