Having recently relocated from London to Melbourne, Sarah Beetson is a dynamic and exciting young illustrator whose work ‘reflects herself in its energy and innovation. Among her current and frequent inspirations and obsessions are retro, trash and gay culture, vintage clothing, John Waters movies, Angela Carter, JT Leroy, The White Stripes and The Dresden Dolls, 1980s Pepsi logos, candy and fairgrounds. Her favourite place in the world is Coney Island, New York’. [see also Ben Frost]
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Melbourne-based illustrator Sarah Beetson has her second solo exhibition opening on June 6th, featuring Australia’s first Art Vending machine. Read more
French illustrator Miss Miza is currently working out of Barcelona where she creates works that play off the little things she collects — ’small treasures’ she keeps carefully and ‘blends harmoniously’. [see also the work of Melbourne-based artist Sarah Beetson]
Melbourne based illustrator Sarah Beetson is having her first solo exhibition at The McCulloch Gallery on Rankins Lane. The show, Bodies, opens on Friday July 13. Most of the work was included created in her Melbourne studio, with added influences from a trip she took to Hiroshima, Japan. [see also Sarah Beetson]
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Crimea X is the coming together of two offbeat, disparate characters, DJ Rocca (Ajello, Super Sonic Lovers, Maffia Sound System) and Jukka Reverberi from 90s Italian glam cult rockers, Giardini di Mirò, who have often have been compared with the sound of Mogwai, Arab Strap, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. We asked them about their favourite music and they started with The Smiths song, Ask [listen below] ‘I saw them playing live on Italian TV. It was during the 80s when I was extremely young, and I’ve never stopped listening to this song’. Read the rest of Crimea X’s Secret Playlist.
I love the curated selection of abandoned swimming pool photos on Feature Shoot today, featuring work by Carlo Van de Roer and Albert Jodar, amongst others.
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Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
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Zolton said | 23 September, 2006
agreed! her work is so vibrant and colourful. love it.
Dan said | 28 September, 2006
This is some filthy gorgeous stuff. LOVE IT!
caitlin said | 18 August, 2007
hey my name is caitlin beetson are you related to a arthur beetson or a dudley beetaon because i am dudley beetsons daughter and arthurs coiusin
Retro Fashion said | 13 October, 2007
All the old stuff I wore as a child is coming back. Kinda scary and makes you feel old, but it looks great most of the time.
carolyn walsh said | 11 February, 2008
really savage stuff, been following your work for ages, really inspiring stuff!:)respect!
Jackie Hallam said | 12 February, 2008
Hey Sarah like your work well always have then again i am biased lol shame about United yesterday not like when i took you
Sarah Beetson said | 12 February, 2008
Hi everybody,
Thanks so much for your comments! Caitlin, can you contact me thru facebook – maybe we are related?!
Hi Jackie! Hope you are well!
Sarah x
bethany said | 21 October, 2008
hey sarah im doing an art project on YOU its great i love your work xxx
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Some friends and I serendipitously stumbled across the work the artist Hiro Kurata the other night and we have been jointly obsessing over it since. Kurata’s work is torrid, moody and fragmented like a restless dream. Bursting with texture and patterns, it’s simply brilliant. As my friend Andrew Degraff accurately put it, ‘It’s like Savador Dali thrown through a plate glass window’. Indeed. Read more
The Danes are renowned for their considered and subtle design. However, in these times of change, they must feel they need something with this selection of a bridge building as the winner of a recent architectural competition in Denmark. The American architect Steven Holl designed this building with a pedestrian bridge that links two sides of the harbour in the distinctly low-rise Copenhagen. Read more
MyPetsQuare loves you, and you will love them too. Two Sydney girls with a desire to design and create form the basis of this label. Vicki Lee and Angelique May-Bennett play with the idea of individualism and the longing to stand out from the crowd. Read more
Harma Heikens makes disturbing, perverted mash-ups of children’s toys, dolls, and figurines — all life-sized for extra creepiness Read more
Activists from all walks of life — architects, artists, children, students, skaters, and more — are documented on the Tools for Actions website, aiming to show us how, whether deliberate or not, the tiniest or the biggest project driven by the quietest or loudest voice can trigger radical change in today’s urban centres. It’s an inspiring blog, particularly for those feeling disempowered. Read more
Films involving characters faced with an impossible choice never make easy viewing, an example being the Nick Cave Australian gem, The Proposition. A nightclub manager, played with understated power by Joaquin Phoenix, is the victim here, and you actually feel truly uncomfortable as his predicament unfolds. Set in the 1980s, We Own The Night shows a real nostalgia for that period — particularly in the costumes. Read more
It’s the final, sultry day of Barcelona’s experimental sound-fest, Sonar, and weary punters are gazing listlessly at an empty, smoke-filled stage. Before long, a vocalist, beatboxer and grand pianist stride on, and what follows is a startling and, at times, deeply melancholic cabaret-electronic hybrid, prompting jaws to drop and delighting the drowsy. Meet Khan of Finland: ‘I tell stories about my everyday life; they are songs about love, pain, party and spirituality. I would call it bionic blues’.
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Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
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Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes
Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
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Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
Inspired by the unique digital clock apps created by the designer, Sean Zoega, the i-toc watch is a colorful physical manifestation of digital ideas featuring bespoke two-disc Japan quartz movement. The outer gradient displays the minutes while the inner gradient shows the hours. The rings interact, creating an ever-changing pattern of design and colour. We have them for sale in our online store. Read more
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chapolito said | 23 September, 2006
I’m really diggin these illustrations. such great style, full of life and color. it’s more pop than i could ever ask for and i absolutely love it.