Illustration / Signs say go
There’s a stack of cool new stuff to look at. First up, a quick reminder about the limited edition Lost At E Minor t-shirts that are available for purchase via the Jeremyville website. We really appreciate your ongoing support of Lost At E Minor. Ok, I’ve come across a very original zine coming out of Melbourne called Hungry. The limited edition booklet is full of quirky handmade touches and is an inspiring read. Each issue will have a different theme and the featured illustrators interpret this theme as they wish. The idea is to have fun without the confines of a tight brief. You can buy it at the Hungry Zine website but we also have five copies to give away to random emailers with their address and their favourite hunger cure in the message. Aussie stencil artist, Numskull, is part of the Next Generation Stencil Festival which is on in Chippendale, Sydney until June 5. Check the Stencil Festival website for more details. There’s some nice work up on Emma Scott-Child’s website. She is the art director of Sydney-based fashion magazine, Summer Winter, amongst other things and specialises in ‘design, art direction and turf maintenance’. And who said multi-tasking was dead? All you folk into the whole MySpace thing should check out the blog of UK-based music writer, Gilly. He has some interesting observations on a variety of subjects. Oh, and this guy is one hell of a dancer! Must be made of rubber.
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Yves Klein Blue’s Silence Is Distance video premiere
Brisbane band, Yves Klein Blue, as energetic a mash-up of styles and textures as you’re ever going to find, have a new video out. And it’s good. Fun.
Celia Marais’ Field Excursion was originally started as a study for the website for electronic musician Amon Tobin. It consists of “nine portraits of strange creatures made out of pieces of meat and fish, and given the names of existing or imaginary bacterias”. Read more
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If ever there were an apt description of our time, it would be that we are the ‘mobile generation’, in every sense of the word. We are a people of movers, we are offered choice on so many levels. And, in this way, we are far removed — both in ideology and practice — from those generations before us, who were generally more static and certainly less transitory. Read more
The incendiary energy of Canadian quartet, Tokyo Police Club is electric. We caught up with keyboardist, Graham Wright. Read more
I’ve been a big fan of Michelle Vandermeer’s work since I came across her Mini Majellen zines at this year’s Sydney Writers Festival. Describing herself as a doer — as in one of those people who are always doing or making something — Michelle’s work, which includes book binding, illustration, jewelery making and her zines, stems from an internal creative springboard and a double degree in architecture and graphic design. Her work is smart and succinct. Read more
In my next life, I want to sing like Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Oh, and grow a lush beard, so I can play in their band. Better start cracking.
The young architect Junya Ishigami is pushing the boundaries of the weightless aesthetic stream of architecture. Here, for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, he has designed a glass and steel pavilion with a roof that floats on a sparse forest of thin steel columns or ‘flats’. Read more
A new idea has emerged in Norway that we think could be the precursor to things to come in the way our societies interact and develop. The general gradual demise of traditional gathering places such as town halls, community centers and churches has seemingly gone in hand with a generational shift and sharp increase in online virtual communities. However, humans still need to rub shoulders at some point to get things done, until, say, we perfect the sensitive hologram. Read more
The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and their mailbox filled with loads of material on fantastic shoes, art and design on shoes. The Shoe featured above is the Electric Light Shoe by Strawberry Frog.
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It beggars belief how such a good sound can go unnoticed for so long. British three-piece The Shortwave Set have been dilligently crafting some very fine songs since 2005, yet are only gradually making a name for themselves. Read more
The Howling Bells on their big Bell Hit
The first time I saw Howling Bells play was a blustery Sydney evening a few years back when I’d gotten the word from singer Juanita Stein’s brother — Ari — that an ‘event’ was going down and I was to do whatever it took to get in to see it. Tired and feeling unsociable, I scrubbed up nonetheless and made my way down a winding Oxford Street to a small club just before the red light district of Darlingurst. Read more
James Jean, a portrait of a young man as an artist
New York artist James Jean doesn’t need any introduction. But, just in case you haven’t seen his work yet, take a peek now. And forever be in awe. We caught up with him recently in his studio and asked him about the props for his daily inspiration: ‘Sometimes I’ll have my laptop setup next to my work station so that I can listen to audio books, the radio, or have videos playing in the background. But mostly inspiration comes from books and magazines’. Read more
Ok, so I’m speaking from first-hand perspective here because as I type on this warm morning, with the faintest slither of sun creeping its way through the privacy blinds in my living room, I’m wearing the very same shirt that the dude in this photo is wearing. Yup, the same damn one. Perhaps I’m not looking quite as groomed as he is, but hey, it’s a start. Australian fashion label Das Monk is my new favourite t-shirt label and this shirt is more comfortable to wear that a thousand pairs of Ozone socks. Das Monk? Yes it is.
Czech painter Victor Safonkin does some pretty impressive neo-classical/surrealist paintings that pay homage to all the masters while having a quirky style all their own. They are thankfully free of snarky pop-culture references and irony, which makes the images timeless and strikingly beautiful. Read more
Thanks to our friends at Universal Music, we have three Beck 7″ vinyl Chemtrails singles, off his new Modern Guilt album, to give away to randomly selected Australian subscribers. Read more
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Lost At E Minor: Music, illustration, art, photography - from Australia and beyond » Fear of heights said | 22 August, 2006
[...] Interview with young Melbourne artist, Eleanor Voterakis. ‘My drawings are quite stark and delicate - generally drawn with a 2B mechanical pencil [Pacer]. The drawn objects tend to be situated in a blank space, and I play around with form by leaving parts of objects unfinished or filled in as silhouettes. Something that has become a defining feature of my work is the image of the pile. Drawing piles of things appeals to me because there is something interesting about seeing an object in a group of other like objects — there are the formal elements of pattern and repetition, but I think there is also something poetic and maybe melancholy about these piles. I keep drawing piles as a way of finding out for myself what this poetic element is. I like Melbourne because it is not restricted by particular styles or trends, or defined by a narrow group of people. That makes it very dynamic, because I think creative people in Melbourne feel relatively free with the forms and styles they experiment with. There is a sense of fun. It’s inspiring for me because I believe creative people end up being truer to themselves and producing a higher quality of work if they are not continually trying to keep up’. [see also Jenny Mortsell] [...]