Category: Going Out

04. Assisted Serendipity

Assisted Serendipity

With the application Foursquare you can find your friends. You unlock your city and see the hotspots and the places to be. This app has spread across the planet like a wildfire. People find each other and look for new people to meet. Through the application old communities are seen through a new vision. What’s also happening is that a lot of new applications are popping up complementing what Foursquare and applications like it have revolutionized. Assisted Serendipity is such a app. Aimed at singles, or maybe all of us who from time to time have a single moment, it monitors where other single people using the app are located close to where you are and notifies you

08. Hanzhou Gets Creative In Charm Cafe

Hanzhou Gets Creative In Charm Cafe

Charm Café is a youth focused creative centre located in Zhongshan Bei Lu, the creative street of Hangzhou. They provide a platform for Chinese artists and designers to present and sell their artwork. They also regularly host offline activities to encourage creative thinking amongst Chinese youth. Some of their main activities include the monthly West Lake Idea Mart (DIY Mart) and the weekly Charm Café creativity class and exhibition. Every October and May respectively they also help organize China Hangzhou Cultural & Creative Industry Expo and China International Cartoon and Animation Festival.

15. Heart Attack Grill - Burgers to Die for

Heart Attack Grill - Burgers to Die for

The Heart Attack Grill, in Phoenix, Arizona, is the most outrageous, politically-incorrect burger joint on this planet – and proudly and deliciously so. There is…

14. Eurasian Student Top-25: Poomba festival in Korea

Eurasian Student Top-25: Poomba festival in Korea

By Jo Hyun Kyo, from Seoul Coolhunt: From April 16 to April 19 Poomba festival is held in Korea. The festival is named after Poomba, a Korean traditional beggar. Poomba was not just poor and homeless, he also criticized betrayers and corrupt officers in a very direct manner.  
At the festival nowadays people walk down the street dancing and singing with ridiculous clothes. By doing these performances they express common people’s sorrow, grief and regret. 
At this festival everyone can be a poomba! Dress ridiculously and make up like poomba, begging from person to person. 

17. Eurasian Student Top-25: Fabrico Infinito

Eurasian Student Top-25: Fabrico Infinito

By Ana Sofia Vaz Pinto de Jesus, from Lisboa Coolhunt ‘09: In the main centre of Lisbon – Chiado – there’s a new store were we can buy CD’s, DVD’s, house stuffs and accessories, having a zen tea, eating a biological or veggie meal, or even walk on the interior garden. A little paradise in one of the most traditional and full streets in Lisbon. Infinito Fabrico‘s slogan is based on the diversity: in nature nothing is equal, nothing repeats. One unique moment in an unique store.

The Flat

The Flat

From the Brussel Coolhunt: The flat is a lounge bar full of charm in Brussels city open from wednesday to saturday. 
The bar is composed by the different rooms of a traditional flat like bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen… In which you can have a drink with your colleagues or friends. 
Dj’s can also be found some evenings.  
Last but not least, some drinks are priced on the stock market according to the law of supply and demand. Prices of some drinks will change and sometimes you can assist to a market crash!

08. Pharsh: the Official Militia of the Silly Revolution

Pharsh: the Official Militia of the Silly Revolution

This unofficial Israeli group specializes in not taking anything too serious. Ever thriving on creativity, the group was formed a few years back, and has been…

15. The GreenHouse

The GreenHouse

Joost Bakker is without a doubt one of Melbourne’s most resourceful men, creating incredible industrial flower displays, furniture, installation art and other mind-blowing pieces from detritus he…

07. Top-10 Coolest Worldwide of 2008: ING-Cafe’s

Top-10 Coolest Worldwide of 2008: ING-Cafe’s

To make its brand known, the ING-bank decided to open café’s as a commercial space. The inside of the café is accentuated with a wide band of orange-colored rubber sheets,…

02. Carrotmob

Carrotmob

Carrot-mob is a Web 2.0-empowered, open community that promotes social responsibility in a simple, clever fun way. Initiated in California they invite company’s of all kinds – though the most…

06. Cinespia

Cinespia

Picture 2000 people, mostly in their 30s, seated outdoors listening to a DJ play an eclectic mix. Most are drinking beer or wine they carried in, and some have full-scale…

12. M1nt®

M1nt®

M1nt® is the first club in China Mainland, that is owned by 500 chosen shareholders who are at the same time elite members. Aside from this there will be room…

13. Surprise on demand

Surprise on demand

The Urbanspoon iPhone application let you shake your iPhone and gets a random restaurant recommendation for you in proximity of your location. Urbanspoon is iPhone’s free application that…

08. High rise urban escapes

High rise urban escapes

As Melbourne groans under the influx of over 1,000 new residents each week, the city residents are finding ingenious ways to utilise space in high-density residential areas. In 2007,

12. The better toilet experience

The better toilet experience

The government of New York is working on free public toilets for about 14 years and there still isn’t one. There is a place and a time for everything is…

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