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Summer fashion 2012 will be in glorious techno colour As hyper-real digital printing techniques spread to major fashion houses, British women have stop resisting rainbow palettes It is as reliable as the appearance of the first crocuses: every spring, fashion embraces colour. This year, however, colour will be different. The couture shows on the runways of Paris last month have made it clear that consumers are being invited to face up to a riot of ... www.guardian.co.uk
International Women’s Week events lined up WOMEN have “pulled out all the stops” to stage a record 78 events in York to mark International Women’s Week during the city’s 800th anniversary year. www.yorkpress.co.uk
Olympics shoot for green medal Will London 2012 fulfil its ‘greenest Olympics’ pledge? www.bbc.co.uk
Invisibility cloak gives sound performance Acoustic device provides best cloaking yet physicsworld.com
View from the Tent Embassy: reality v news reports The most striking factor of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests was the stark difference between reports of the events and the reality, writes Tracker editor Amy McQuire. Read more on the blog... www.crikey.com.au
The 10 Shorts You Must See at Sundance This Year Sundance Film Festival programmers maintain there is no one thing that defines a “Sundance short.” Official selections don’t need to be world premieres, can already be online, range from very short to very long and can cover any and every subject. What matters, of course, is the shorts represent original filmmaking voices. Picked from 7,675 submissions by a team of eight programmers, the 64 ... www.indiewire.com
In Search Of London’s Execution Sites A reminder of Execution Dock, behind The Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping. The Southbank Centre’s Festival of Death starts later this month. Not to be outdone in the morbid department, we thought we’d put together a guide to London’s many execution sites. The Tower and Tower Hill Little known fact: very few people have lost their heads inside the Tower complex. Public executions took place on ... londonist.com
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