Seemingly bored of life on the farm, Blur‘s Alex James has turned to filmmaking with a new short film. Shot while the band were in LA for Coachella earlier this year, A Slice of Life sees James on writing, directing and music duties for a film made to help …
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Tags: A Slive of Life, Alex James, BLUR, Coachella, Virgin Media Shorts 2013
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9 May marks the grand opening of Kitchen Party, a trendy new culinary outlet bringing you all the best in dining, wining, and creative entertainment. ‘Restaurant’ isn’t quite the right word to describe Kitchen Party. It’s a splendid amalgamation of some of London’s best and most innovative names in …
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Tags: Blanch and Shock, Clerkenwell, Extreme Garnishing, Kitchen Party, news, Rack and Ruin, Robin Collective
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Defected is the leading brand in house music and events. If you’re interested in music and festivals, you’ve heard of them. Remember how back in March there was all that hubbub about Defected’s global re-branding? Well, that’s still underway. The most exciting new development is the relaunch of the Defected …
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Tags: Defected, news, relaunch, Trevor Jackson, We Are Defected, website
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Have you ever noticed how there are specialists in every field? People who have honed down a very focused set of skills, hammered out a niche for themselves, and set up shop? Have you ever noticed someone who is an expert in everything at once? Maybe not quite, but the …
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Tags: bompas & parr, festival, IncrEdibles, kew gardens, news, Palm House, Tutti Frutti
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Kicking off this weekend from 26-28 April, the Tate Modern his hosting an exciting free festival of art, music, and fashion. Targeted at the broad age range of fifteen to twenty-five year olds, the Hyperlink festival at the Tanks features a wide variety of events and activities including performances and …
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Tags: Akala, Angel, art, fashion, festival, free food, George the Poet, Hyperlink, lady leshurr, music, rankin, Sway, Tanks, Tate Modern
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Camden Town is, in many ways, London’s capital for artistic variety, equal parts center for expression and cesspool of debauchery. Actually, that’s really the ideal combination for most artists. Cob Studios and Gallery on Royal College Street in Camden was launched in February 2011. Though less than two and a …
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Tags: art, art exhibition, Camden, Cob Gallery, Cob Studios, I Bought This for the Cover, Leanne Petersen, magazine, news, Royal College Street, Tumblr
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Between now and May 16, Lazarides Rathbone will be exhibiting a collection of paintings by some of the most exciting contemporary artists today. The selection, carefully chosen by gallery owner Steve Lazarides, is a diverse assortment that brings together both established and emerging artists, hanging them side-by-side in equal magnanimity. …
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Tags: Antimatter, Bill Dunlap, Black Paintings, BORF, Bret Amory, Crucifixion, damien hirst, exhibition, Frank Laws, Katrin Fredriks, Lazarides Rathbone, Miaz Brother, Painting, Robbery 1, Rothko's Modern Life, Sandow Birk, Steve Lazarides, The Depratives of War, waiting
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Here at Notion, we love a good movie, so the announcement of the Cannes line up was all kinds of exciting. In celebration of this, here’s a cut out and keep (or whatever the online equivalent is… print and keep?) guide to the biggest films competing for the top prize, …
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Tags: 2013, 24 City, A Touch of Sin, Abdellatif Kechiche, Alex van Warmerdam, Alexander Payne, Amat Escalante, Arnaud des Pallieres, Arnaud Desplechin, art house, Asghar Farhadi, Awards, bangkok, Behind the Candelabra, Borgman, Bruce Dern, Cannes Film Festival, Carey Mulligan, Debbie Reynolds, Drive, Ethan Coen, film, Film Festival, Francois Ozon, Grigris, Heli, Hirozaku Koreeda, I Wish, Inside Llewyn Davis, James Gray, Jeremy Renner, Jeune et jolie, Jia Zhangke, Jimmy P, Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Coen, La Vie d'Adele, Like Father Like Son, Lineup, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Marine Vacth, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Michael Kohlhaas, Nebraska, news, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Oscar Isaac, palme d'or, Paolo Sorrentino, Roman Polanski, Ryan Gosling, Sex Lies and Videotape, Side Effects, Steven Soderberg, Steven Spielberg, Straw Shield, Takeshi Miike, The Coen Brother, The Great Beauty, The Immigrant, The Past, Un Chateau en Italie, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Venus in Fur, Will Forte, Young and Pretty
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Short film competitions are pretty cool at the best of times, giving aspiring filmmakers a platform upon which to show off their work to people who are not only interested, but also people who can help kick start a career.
Virgin Media Shorts is one such festival, only there’s one …
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Tags: BFI, festival, Film Festival, Nikon, Shane Meadows, short film, this is england, Virgin, Virgin Media Shorts
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Fancy being part of a global rebranding campaign for Defected, the top global house music and events brand?
Notion is working with Defected to help find a cross-section of interesting faces for its rebranding and 2013 marketing campaign. The campaign creator is acclaimed graphic designer, Trevor Jackson who has …
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Tags: album cover, casting, Defected, Defected in the House, marketing campaign, models, Nick Griffiths, photoshoot, Trevor Jackson
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