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Heh - this is totally my favourite bit of the viral internet marketing explosion. When some marketer tries to harness the internet to push their product or whatever to "the kidz", and "the kidz" go 'this is bollocks' and ruthlessly take the piss. So here, right, Mentos decide they're going to procure an intern and sit him in front of a webcam and let people interact with him all summer on chat etc. But instead people just get on there and abuse him - and Mentos - all week for being from Kentucky and thus, by extension, probably a God-fearing, creation theory believing racist lynch-mobber. Ah, freedom of speech. Don't you just love it?

The editors of American Heritage dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know. Making the list were words like ‘irony’, which English teachers spent a week teaching us about, while others are just literally ridiculous- what word means “pyramidal Sumerian temple”. Anyone?
Test yourself here

Kicking off the year with a monster
bang Amber B appeared in the 'My2007' group exhibition at Colette
in Paris, followed by a successful
solo exhibition in her home town of the
Gold Coast Australia, before departing for Brooklyn for a solo show at the Arm Gallery in NYC.







Now she is home again and sewing away the winter blues to entertain
her home crowd with a double exhibition in Sydney and Melbourne.
Entitled 'The Dark and Sunny Side of
the Hill' it explores the concept of dualism with a whole new range of amber's hand sewn, one off creatures.
Sydney  27th of July or 10th of August in Melbourne.

Auckland does not have a reputation as a city with the most happening nightlife -
especially living up to this reputation on Thursday night during the winter months, not the most frivolous night out unless you're up for a dungeon hip-hop night at Code bar. Thankfully for those who attended the new season launch of the STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB 'Youth Runs Wild' collection - this was far from the case. With champagne served in jam-jars, fabulous people and clothes to look at, and toxic vodka on tap- this was a great night to kick off winter and kick out summer.

Ever thought to yourself "Gee whizz, I sure do like life-drawing but gosh-darnit, I want models with more sass!" Well, Dr Sketchy in New York has heard your prayers. Founded in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple, Dr Sketchy combines life
drawing with burlesque to create a riotous affair of feathers, charcoal, sequins and paper.
Now a 40-city strong art community you can join in the fun in Sydney, the Gold Coast and Melbourne with some of Australia¹s top burlesque ladies, including Belladonnas de Lux, the Town Bikes, Kira Hula-la, Amelia and Gypsy Wood and Man¹s Ruin.
 
<Tulsa from Belladonnas de Lux, Dr Sketchy's Sydney
Photographer: Michael Kery

Wow, this might just be the lamest advert I've ever seen. Is it a spoof? It has to be a spoof. The mis-spelling of fashion (fashioin – like, eh, heroin?); the look on the girl on the right’s face; even the idea that, like, fashion’s so edgy and we’re all soooo addicted to it and – ooh! Drugs! We’re so haemorrhage-edge here at Sisely! Even in 1993 (circa heroin chic) this wouldn’t have been cool. And even if it is a spoof, it’s not funny. Sisely, get to the back of the class, you wieners.

In the summer, NYC converts into a mystical blue-skied Valhalla, overflowing with brown-bagged beer, shirtless men, fluttering females, free concerts and the sexy smell of grass mixing with sweat.  All is blissful except one flaw: the ubiquitous old, rotund chap in a too tight Speedo in the park. After taking this picture, I told him to check out the boxer section of www.freshpair.com to find new, preferably more conservative ones.