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Can Virtual Reality Benefit Your Long Term Relationship?

For the past few years, conversations around virtual reality changing our lives have been growing more and more prominent. Although some people take an optimistic stance, most have been skeptical—or at least undecided in judgment. In particular, this skepticism seems to focus on how VR can influence our relationships and intimacy: now that apps like Tindr and Grindr have made the way we date more…

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GIRLS ARE AWESOME: MEET NOVELTIES FROM LA

Scrolling through various social medias on a lazy weekend, I found myself hypnotised by two women and their unique brand of enchanting electro pop. Kelly and Sophie make up the emerging LA-based duo, Novelties, and the track is their debut single “Intro From The Other Side.” Seemingly woven out of synths and a touch of dark magic, “Intro From The Other Side” gives us a glance into what promises…

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HOW A LINGERIE BRAND EXPLOITS YOUNG WOMEN

As a self proclaimed “sometimes blogger” with a mediocre following, once in a while I receive baffling mails from brands regarding “collaborations.” Amongst actual collaboration emails (you take a little and give a little, win win) there are these gems which entail a brand coming to me with a campaign concept and hashtag, suggesting that I buy their product, photograph and write an article or…

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Spicy Peanut Chicken Burgers

Spicy Peanut Chicken Burger

Long long time no post, I know, but crazy things have been happening! Now that the chaos is finally settling I can pick up the old blog again, dust it off and get back to it! So, to summarise the last month or so, I am now engaged to the love of my life, I have ended my nearly three year run at VICE Denmark, and I am moving to LA in August by myself with a completely unknown future. My fiancé…

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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

Festival season is upon us and though I’m honestly not built for festival life (I love beds and real bathrooms) I can’t help but feel a little excited when I come up on a ticket for free. I might feel sad if I paid to pee against a wall amongst a panel of my peers, but if it’s free, it’s an adventure! So when I unexpectedly got a ticket to Roskilde Festival this summer, I jumped at the chance,…

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BEACH PSYCH MEETS NORDIC MOODY IN THIS NEW VIDEO BY THE NEW INVESTORS When you hear a music video described with the words “some dudes rocking out by the water”, you probably picture some grotesque, late-90s pop punk abortion that should be archived in MTV history never to be regurgitated.

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POLAND

Easter is one of those holidays whose religious roots are now so far removed from the reality of the celebration that it’s almost impossible to connect the dots between the two any more. We commemorate the fact that Jesus was resurrected three days after his crucifixion by hiding chocolate eggs that were supposedly placed there by bunnies? I don’t know, but I don’t bother asking too many…

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MY CRUEL GORO - "LOST E"

MY CRUEL GORO - "LOST E" #newmusic #neopunk #musicblog

In our world of 18-minute-atmospheric-noise-remixes-of-Adele and carefully curated cactus-and-carpet Instagram profiles, what we really need right now is unapologetic chaos. Thankfully, Icelandic-Italian trio My Cruel Goro are here, and they’ve served up 2 hot minutes of buzzing neo-punk, lyrically nonsensical verses, and retro madness in their new video for “Lost E.” The single is a little amuse…

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This is why I work on Watcher, a new safety app for girls.

One average weekend when I was 17 and solely interested in booze and boys, I headed to a Santa Cruz beach house with a group of girls, excited for a few days free from parental supervision. One of the girls had a friend who was over 21, so we gave her money to buy us a big bottle of rum and started the weekend off by throwing back a few shots and dancing to 90s RnB. After a couple of hours and…

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Hurry up and Chill Out with Ufornia's "Impatience"

Ufornia are back with a new single, “Impatience”, following their acclaimed EP “Fall Into the Real”. The feeling of impatience is the arch nemesis to “dude don’t harsh my vibe” advocates everywhere, but it affects even the best of us. It’s that feeling of complete anxiety crawling up your spine telling you that you have to grow up now, you have to fall in love now and you have to get the best job…

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Welcome to Miami

In celebration of my hard-earned Bachelor’s degree my boyfriend and I flew to Miami to meet with my mom, brother, and grandma for a week of tropical paradise. While I have been travelling a sickening amount the last year (yes, even I realize how annoying it is ;) ), this is the first family vacation I’ve had with my mom, brother, and grandmother in almost 4 years, and it was much overdo! I had…

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The Graduate

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Five years ago on my daily hour long commute from work to school, I pulled my overheated Honda Accord over to the nearest gas station, called my dad, and quit everything. I calmly told him, as I had many times before, that I was not going to work anymore, I didn’t want to pay for my studies anymore, and if he could kindly fund my existence until I figured my life out that would be grrrrrreeeaaat.…

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January Bowls

January Superfood Bowls

It’s mid January and despite the enormous pressure to better yourself in every way imaginable, you’ve probably been sustaining yourself the past two weeks on a diet of pure butter and instant noodles. Or maybe you’re a better person with more self control than me, I don’t know – probably not though. We’re all awful, forever. One of my resolutions this year is to cut down my consumption of animal…

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Madrid for Two

Mad About Madrid

The most dangerous thing I’ve ever done to my bank account is sign up for RyanAir’s newsletter. I sat leisurely scrolling through my e-mail one Monday morning in early December when I should have been getting ready for work – a morning issue I have often. I expected to go through the usual junk mail and then scramble off to work, but then I stumbled on the RyanAir holiday offers mail. Within a…

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New Year's Eve in Madrid

Well tomorrow is Monday January 4th – the day our New Year resolutions actually begin, as everyone knows that you can’t start a “new you” on a Friday or Saturday. As for my New Year resolutions, they’re pretty much all the usual suspects; eat better, be nicer, work harder, read more, and party less. I give myself about two weeks until I finally take my final Bachelor exam and head off to Miami to…

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Salmon Mint Ceviche Wraps

I consider myself an open minded person and I love trying new foods, but there never goes too many days before I need to get my fix of a dish with this lime-garlic-chili flavour profile. Christmas in Denmark especially is a difficult time as it’s a month full of pork and pickled herring which, though delicious, just don’t sing to my heart the way the tangy spiciness of the Asian palette does. As…

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Danish Christmas

Merry Christmas! After finally handing in my bachelor thesis last Friday I have been more excited for the upcoming holidays than I have been in a long time. While Christmas at home in California obviously has the irreplaceable element of my mom’s crazy fun Mexican family and tamales – Danish Christmas has it’s own distinct charm and traditions that I’ve grown to love. This month has been a…

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