HERE YOU GO!

Well, it's finally here. Go HERE to download the latest and last issue of FLURO Magazine. Due to economic bullshit we haven't been able to print this issue so online the only way you can get it. Spread it wide and far! The FLURO crew is heading off on worldly adventures this year so we are splitting for the meantime. We have had a blast bringing the magazine to you all for the last few years and will miss it for sure. A huge thanks to everyone who helped out and put up with us while we hammered it out. Also to all the advertisers, we could not have done it without you.

Cheers

Also if you would like to get your hands on physical copies of back issues we have limited numbers available for 5 bucks a piece with free postage. Just send us an email with which ones you'd like and we'll sort it out. contact@fluromag.com

Large Paint Supply

I still remain in a flabbergasted state after last years Muto, the wall animation by Blu.

In a collaboration with David Ellis he has slopped down paint to produce yet another mind blowing animation project for this years FAME festival. Run your beady little eyes over these:

All quiet on the Western front...

Heres why we've been all hushed up for so damn long. FLURO 10 is coming. We promise. If you have been finding it hard to cope without your latest issue why not head HERE for some brilliant life advice from someone well in the know. We'll be with ya'll shortly.

I want these please:

You can buy them for me here

FFFOUND

These are all images from my favourite site where I go to find beautiful/provocative/inspiring images. Its called FFFOUND!

'Art' or 'advertising'

Yes this probably is the best ad in the world.

BRAND NEW MATH

Woohoo! We love BNM, and lucky for us - they're coming to Welly again.

Yes boy and girls, as part of their 'August Excursion' they're playing in Chch tonight, at Mighty in Welly tomo - and back up to Auckland again.

Hang on, doesn't that qualify as a full NZ tour???

This is what happened to the crowd last time they played: I'm not quiet sure what that was a about...

It looks pretty amazing!

Tomo with Tiddabades and DJ Shorty K - it's gonna be a sweet night

xoxo

The googlization of everything

Perhaps contradictory to the last post, I'm putting it out there: The age of 'tangible texts' is certainly up in question. What with online journals, videos, novels, forums, emails, photo albums, diaries ( read: blog entries) the list goes on and on... you get my drift?

So when you die, what will become if this 'intangible' YOU?

I stumbled across this site yesterday http://googlization.com/ and I think it's hilarious for making comment on this cultural shift...

Because if you can't be googled - do you really even exist?

Bringing back mystery and romance to books...

Aww bless.

It's Wellington library week and the staff must having been working into over time to implement the loveliest idea.

Lots of books have been wrapped in brown paper with a short plot description, allowing you to get out a mystery book, take a gamble and perhaps discover a new author.

Choosing a book has never been so much fun, it takes me back to the days of lucky dip at school galas.

This one says:
Two famous Paris couturiers lived a magical life in the sixties, but then the excesses of the seventies and eighties cast a shadow over their lives.


Oooh, I wonder what it is.

HILARIOUS ANIMALS COME IN THREES

A few vids 'doing the rounds' at the moment that are somewhat related. Aww yeah.

so awkward

BRAINS THIS WED

Cool poster eh?

Oh how times have changed:

TONIGHT! SCRATCH 22, TOURETTES AND TOMMY ILL

Scratch 22 and Tourettes are in Welly ( having battled with their fear of flying) to perform at Mighty Mighty - Tonight! Along with Tommy Ill, you'd have to be stupid to miss this.

There's even 3 posters circulating for the event. WOAH! LOL>

Absolutely chuffed with his loaf

"I almost don't want to eat it...just look at it. *Pat Pat*
But I am going to eat it"

Winter warm fuzzies

If winter is getting a bit to much and you need something extra special to lift you day check out the lovely toys on offer at www.badanimals.co.nz
My friend Amy has been toiling away the winter months making sweet things for little and big kids alike. Each is handmade, born in Wellington and uniquely one of a kind.
Not only are they ridiculously adorable they are incredibly afforable.
I want the Yeti!

New World Metro embraces the diversification of marriage

That's right folks. You saw it here first. Click on the image for more detail. New World Metro now provides

-straight bride and groom
-lesbian bride and bride - matching tux
-gay groom and groom- again matching tux
-dancing bride and groom
-mini dancing bride and groom
-lone bride - ouch
-ethnic bride and groom - sari included
-funky gay groom and groom - zany tie and balding provided

For all your wedding needs, New World metro is the place...unless you are an ethnic gay couple. Hideous background cake included.

Looking to the week ahead

MUM is coming to Wellington for the second time this Sat! With a reputation for being epic/awesome/amazing/incredible- you better be there.

With Bang Bang Eche, Over the Atlantic, Tommy Ill, DJ's and more...It's gonna be real sweet me thinks

IGNORANCE IS BLISS

After days of being stuck inside, curled up next to the heater and constantly sipping on hot tea - I've decided enough is enough. My fantasies of warm weather, soaking up the sun and jumping in the sea - are driving me crazy
Sadly however my 'solution' is not to buy a ticket to Fiji

I've decided that my next day off will be spent at the closest swimming/gym establishment near to me

There I intend on spending THE WHOLE DAY jumping from the sauna to the spa, to the sunbed, to the pool - and to do this over and over and over again. Mostly the sun bedding part. (I know right? How tacky.)

But if I can't get the real thing, maybe I'll fake it

Because I am in SERIOUS need of summer, and some Vitamin D!

There are some issues I struggle to comprehend.  No matter how many people I ask, articles I read, or bulletins I watch, I'm consistently left confused and asking- why? Zimbabwe and just exactly what kind of leader President Mugabe is ( or has become) is one of these. 

For my entire life Mugabe's face has been popping up at 6 o'clock, and stories of injustice, starvation, accounts of heroism, bloodshed and hate ( not to mention the 'D' word) have filled my head with all kinds of conclusions. 

So I decided to rent out this FABULOUS DOCUMENTARY which I recommend you all go and see. ( I've only seen it at the Library so far, but it may be lurking in stores.) It provides a first hand account of those still willing to speak out and traces a short, but very complex history of Mugabe's reign. 

At 85, and after 25 ( or so) years in power, it's high time he steps down, but as the film makes all to clear, for as long as he can - Mugabe will rule. I'm still a bit hazy, but a few of my H,W,W,W and W's have been answered.

Because of the immense danger journalists or anyone daring to speak out will face, those who appeared on the film were forced either to go into exile - or be punished by Mugabe's supporters. 

Shocking, disturbing, heart wrenching ( the list goes on) I implore anyone with an interest to go rent this DVD.