Baracktoberfest

WE'RE SUPPORTING

Fresh Flowers is a collection of 32 flowers. It’s a different newspaper; it’s a way of having flowers on your table everyday. 1. Choose a flower. 2. Place it as the cover. 3. Make a roll with all pages together. 4. Put it in a vase. 5. And, of course, don’t water it! 32 Flowers. 29×37 cm. Everyday a different one. Read more

WE'RE THINKING

io9 just posted a pretty amusing and true list of actors that make even the worst sci-fi and fantasy films worth watching.

History is the story of the winners, and western dominated culture recounts few triumphs from the east. Mongol is an effort to correct this balance, and the eastern influence is evident in much more than just the storyline. It is more like a fairy tale or legend handed down through generations, than based on fact, with mythical elements playing a major part, and the character’s motivations remaining simple. Read more

WE'RE TRAVELLING TO

On the roof of Bangkok’s Banyan Tree Hotel is a dining experience like no other. The Vertigo Bar sits sixty one floors up, and serves delicious gourmet meals and cocktails. These are expensive by Thai standards, but cheap enough for shoestring travellers to indulge in now and then (a cocktail costs around AUD$12). I’ve spent hour after hour in the bar, drinking and smoking and taking in the amazing view. Most nights at Vertigo end the same, with fast-moving storm clouds rolling in without fail at about eleven pm. While wait staff scurry to move tables, and drunken diners navigate the steep stairs down to the safety of the hotel, the more hardy can sit and watch the clouds race closer and closer towards the building, soaking in both the atmosphere and the rainwater until the lightning gets too close for comfort.

WE'RE READING

The demise of our beloved print medium is a harsh reality that a lot of independent magazines have been dealing with for the past five years at least. So we all frequent a ton of different sites that we like and one in particular that’s really given itself a pick-me-up online, for the better good of longevity and legacy, is Planet magazine. Read more

WE'RE LISTENING TO

TheStar69 track So What Is The News is the very personification of great pop. In fact, it takes bits and pieces of the best music the The Cult, Hall & Oates and The Steve Miller Band ever recorded and messes it up with a well-honed, Scottish sense of mischief. We like.

WE'RE WEARING

Art jeweler and continuing education teacher at Rhode Island School of Design Islay Taylor made these awesome brass knuckles bejeweled with acrylic nails.