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SELJAK

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Seljak Brand makes recycled wool blankets using offcuts from the factory floor of Australia’s oldest mill in Tasmania. The blankets are 70% recycled Australian merino wool and a 30% blend of polyester and recycled alpaca, mohair and cotton – cosy enough for indoors and durable enough for outdoors. For every ten blankets sold, Seljak Brand donates [...]

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GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Today’s highlight: The Graphic Novel Day in Berlin!
For the 5th time, the internationales literaturfestival berlin (lib) presents the Graphic Novel Day at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele which will have national and international graphic novel and comic artists as its guests. The event which has been organized in cooperation with Tagesspiegel editor and comic specialist [...]

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LONG STREET COFFEE

Saturday, September 12, 2015

A café to help train asylum seekers? A no-brainer of an idea—here’s what it actually took to get it off the ground! ‘How to start a business for good – on a really tight budget‘. Go Long Street Coffee! (via Dumbo Feather)

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Deep Gold

Saturday, May 9, 2015

So much gold floating around the web these days: This Tumblr, this mix (23 mins into it!), this new set of emoticons, this “New Thing On The Wrist”, and last but not least, this wild flick called “Deep Gold”.

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Propelled

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Here’s why those Californian canvas shoes seemed so strangely appealing all these years, strangely appealing even to those who might have never touched Canadian maple in their sorry lives. Thanks, Greg Hunt.

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ART WATCHING

Saturday, March 21, 2015

After a long sleepy winter break Art lovers can finally start planning their full-on gallery opening tours. For this weekends waverers in Berlin the ultimate must-see show tonight is the group exhibition at Micky Schubert. The opening of  her new space in Berlin’s Tiergarten area starts with a performance of the Glasgow-based artist and the former [...]

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Searching for good news

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Sure, there are a lot of bad things happening out there but let’s focus on the positive – after winter always comes summer, Gus van Sant keeps on producing movies we are looking forward to, the second edition of the first recycled Fairphone is in work, the number of Ebola reinfections seems to finally go [...]

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