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TENTSILE

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Personally, I really hate camping, I just can’t cope with the dirt and the discomfort. Hammocks, on the other hand, are a different story – so to give camping the comfort of a hammock, now that’s nothing short of a stroke of genius.

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WEDNESDAY MUSIC: SHABAZZ PALACES

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

We’ve mentioned it before, but since it’s all grey and rainy outside, more time for the inside, and what better moment to have a little peek into Shabazz Palaces latest and rather brilliant album Black Up – a certain someone’s favourite album of the year, and that’s saying something.

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NO ‘CUTS’ IN THE FILM

Thursday, November 24, 2011

The filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno is going to present his new film Continuously Habitable Zones, aka C.H.Z. His work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.
‘There are no ‘cuts’ in the film but only stretching and folding of the landscape. Because of [...]

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Keep on mowing on

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The grass is always greener on the bottom side. View the exhaustive mowing study by Greg Stimac here.
Via Moritz.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF MAMMALS

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Don’t we all wonder what others are doing when no one is looking? So did the The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, hence more to their point: what are animals doing when we’re not looking? To find out, they installed an impressive network of trap cameras that gathered more than 52,000 images of mammals [...]

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HÜTTENPALAST

Monday, August 22, 2011

Want to enjoy some camping-idyll in the middle of Berlin, also during the cold winter? Then the Hüttenpalast might be the perfect hotel for you – offering all the charms of outdoor camping – but inside!
Read the article by Tim Tolsdorff on Spiegel online (German / English) to learn more about these comfort sites under [...]

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To promeneur with the social guarantee

Sunday, August 7, 2011

If you happen to pass by Zurich these days consider a quick trip to the country side. Out on a farm just 30 minutes from the centre of Zurich the migros museum has set up dependance on a farm. Check it out!

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HEAD FOR THE COLD COUNTRY

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

For somebody from Hawaii like John Maus a winter landscape must seem like a refreshing paradise.

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SURF PIPE

Sunday, June 5, 2011

If it weren’t made out of cobble stone it would be busy with skaters by now… The CITÉ DE L’OCÉAN ET DU SURF Museum in Biarritz intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology. By Steven [...]

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Booze Haulage In Style

Sunday, May 29, 2011

It’s Sunday, and this is something that might come in handy for the next the next 15 Sundays or so. Enjoy the upcoming (2-day) heatwave.

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