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Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun at Coachella

The acclaimed artist delivers eco-awareness with Absolut at this year's art and music festival

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Only an artist who works with materials as ambitious and untamable as light, water and air temperature could embark upon a project to bring affordable light to those without it. In 2012, critically acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson developed “Little Sun,” and launched a campaign (developed with engineer Frederik Ottesen) to hopefully make solar-powered LED lamps available to the 1.6 billion people worldwide without access to …

Coachella 2012

The 17 bands most likely to play the mother of outdoor festivals next year

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by Matt Spangler A few weeks after Coachella some bands have loaded their gear into buses and are back on the road, while others head to studios to try and capture the energy of the festival for next year’s hit songs. I myself have been replaying performances to packed audiences by the likes of Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Chromeo and Afrojack (with Beatles legend Paul …