http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=a0ab3ee0-2aaf-46dd-88f0-eef24764c173 The music scene - LIV recommends Ceza and Duman, two of the city’s best live acts Ceza is a one-man hip-hop army responsible for introducing rap music to Turkey. Combining fast machine gun vocals over Arabesque melodies, he’s been described as the “Turkish Eminem” by those who want to pigeonhole him. But to the youth of Turkey he’s much more than that. In a country that’s still getting used to ... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=0a07ef4c-7ad4-42f8-a8ab-9062ae17184c Oliver Keller has done stunts for 24, CSI, Spiderman – and now the Volvo C30. You’ve done this stunt video in the Volvo C30 – what was all that about? I always wanted to do a cool picture with a Volvo, so I said, “I want to jump one of your cars pretty high and pretty far,” and they said, “Well, what do you think’s gonna happen to it?” I said, “Well, the car’s gonna be totalled,” and they said... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=3cb3fbcb-5e88-4303-ae37-74c4f9b69955 On the roadNot many people think of New Zealand as having a desert, but that’s what they call this central area south of Lake Taupo. It actually receives more rainwater per annum than Wellington, but its surface is porous and can’t hold the water (unlike Lake Taupo, the biggest freshwater lake in the southern hemisphere). And unlike Taupo, which is a fun holidaymaker’s paradise, here you are ente... Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=173dc756-c146-4768-a790-b307be851129 When Karl Eirik Haug, a Norwegian journalist, decided to launch an English-language car magazine about people, he found he had a lot of explaining to do…"Carl’s Cars is a magazine about people.” That’s the mantra of this quirky, beautiful and idiosyncratic quarterly produced in Oslo, in English, for a global readership. “We try to present cars with a human touch,” says editor-in-chief Karl E... Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=07b7abf3-3e6e-468a-bdec-5fefdd6ed1f2 There's much more than snow and ice in the wild Scandinavian lands above the Arctic Circle. For four brief, snow-drenched months, the Ice Hotel is the coolest place to stay on earth. Born each December in the tiny Arctic village of Jukkasjärvi, and dying, or at least melting, at the end of April, it forges 80 strangely silent rooms and suites out of 3,000 tonnes of ice from the frozen river Torne... Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=11f0e175-6e4e-4fbf-a526-bb0c9450f11c Mattias Klum’s expedition across seven continents to the far reaches of the natural world was in the spirit of the man it commemorates, Swedish ‘father of natural sciences’ Carl Linnaeus.“The Linnaeus Expedition was the idea of the filmmaker, Folke Rydén, and I,” says Swedish wildlife photographer Mattias Klum, after a year circumnavigating the planet. “And the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences a... Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=4bf51d98-fadc-4f28-a77a-3234672b034e Ivy Singh-Lim’s organic food is giving the wealthy citizens of Singapore something to sink their teeth into. “The young have a duty to question and to make things better. Happy pigs become bacon and sausages; unhappy men do something about the world.” No one can accuse Ivy Singh-Lim of following the herd, porcine or otherwise. She is an Indian-Singaporean socialite and former Netball Association ... Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=307cf975-3cee-4feb-ba45-565e17b70981 From tinkering with his own glasses at home, Dr Joshua Silver invented Adspecs, which he hopes will help improve the vision of impoverished people worldwide.OK, so they’re not the most fashionable eyewear, but these are special specs. “You can change the focus of these adaptive glasses by twisting knobs on either side, which varies the levels of a liquid inside the lenses,” explains their invent... Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=09f29f80-025f-475e-95ca-fb814dc3a16f Considering an extension on your house? Here’s one example, Swedish style… Dutch architects Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser bought the original hut in Sweden’s Glaskogen nature reserve in 2000. But according to local bylaws the property could not be expanded more than 320 square feet, nor come within 15 feet of the property line. So they set out to, in Lammers’ words, “get around the rules”. ... Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ae/top/community/liv/pages/default.aspx?itemid=d4d025bf-bb90-4195-8017-cbfaae22723d It seems that quickie wedding services are no longer limited to Las Vegas. In 2006, 555 couples were married by the VIP Service at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, an increase of 13 per cent compared to the previous year and a record amount since the wedding service was initiated over 20 years ago. Couples who use the “all-inclusive” VIP Service are treated as royalty: staff take care of bags, ticket... Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:00:00