August 20, 2011 | New Art | by Courtney Beck |
Take a journey into paradise with Marco Eychenne’s latest exhibition, Photo Crash. Rainbow colours abound and melt into each other, as the characters in his pieces transform into what only could be called the human version of birds of paradise. Read more
August 2, 2011 | New Film | 
by Courtney Beck |
Love horror films? Think you’ve seen them all? No, you haven’t! Keep your eyes peeled for the Australian film, The Killage, created by ArtSpear Entertainment. This low-budget independent horror film will have you in fits as it exposes every horror cliché’ ever made. Read more
June 28, 2011 | New Art | by Courtney Beck |
The detail involved in Miso’s work really needs to be seen to be believed. I saw some of her latest work which involves hand-cut and pin pricked images of animals and cityscapes, and literally sat in awe at the beauty and was totally perplexed at the time and patience it would have taken to create these pieces. Often using white on white, or black on white, it re-iterated to me that sometimes in a world full of colour, there is a still a place for just white. Read more
June 28, 2011 | New Art | by Courtney Beck |
I was lucky enough to catch self-taught Melbourne artist Ghost Patrol’s latest exhibition recently, and it was magical. Ghost Patrol’s work ranges form fine ink drawing, street art, and commissioned murals to soft sculpture. Read more
June 28, 2011 | New Products | by Courtney Beck |
Call yourself a romantic? Then you should definitely get your hands on a copy of Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant To See, collated by Bill Shapiro. Written only for a lovers eyes, inside this book you’ll find a collection of love notes scribbled on everything from napkins and postcards, to text messages, to ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ relationship-enders via email. Read more
June 16, 2011 | New Eco | by Courtney Beck |
The MINI Scooter-E can be charged directly from any household mains, thanks to a plug and 4.5 metres of spring-loaded retractable cable stored beneath the driver and passenger seat. Each full re-charge is expected to take around four hours, which means recharging your scooter as easy as recharging your phone. What a damn beautiful piece of machinery
March 19, 2011 | New Events | by Courtney Beck |
If I had a time capsule, I’d programme it to take me to all of Annie Leibovitz’s photo shoots from 1970 to now. Highlights for me would be Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Rolling Stone cover, the extremely personal last photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono (which were shot five hours before Lennon’s death in 1981), and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A album cover shoot. Read more
February 22, 2011 | New Food and Packaging | by Courtney Beck |
As an internet-lover, it’s almost an orgasmic moment when you find a website that really cuts through. Kind of like a chef’s knife through a premium piece of steak, it just has that ‘something’. Why am I giving this crazy analogy? Well, a friend of mine told me about a Kiwi burger joint called Murder Burger. Read more
February 18, 2011 | New Art | by Courtney Beck |
I was at a creative catch-up night when I met an American man with a small, rectangular suitcase. The size of the suitcase could have held an old Western hand-gun, or perhaps a flute? But it didn’t contain any of the above. It was a small art gallery. Read more
November 2, 2010 | New Products | by Courtney Beck |
If someone gave me a Zombie Cupcake, I can’t decide if I would be too scared to put it in my mouth, or if I’d want to put it in an air-tight glass jar and keep it. And now you have the opportunity to make that decision with Zilly Posen’s Zombie Cupcake book. Read more
November 2, 2010 | New Design | by Courtney Beck |
Do you love a bit of cheeky tiki? Well, if you’re a fan of Polynesian tiki-style, or perhaps you’d like to wake up feeling tropical every-day, then this is the website for you. If you don’t know what ‘Tiki’ is, according to myth it was the name given to the first man and to the Gods of Polynesian culture. Read more
October 22, 2010 | New Eco | by Courtney Beck |
Said to be the most popular stationary brand in France, everything made by Rhodia is a thing of beauty to me. I’m not sure if it’s the soft texture of their journal covers under my fingers, or just the well thought-out design of their meeting books. It might even be the distinctive orange used for all their products, which has been around since the 1920s as the standard hue for cardstock and has been kept to this day. Read more
October 22, 2010 | New Illustration | by Courtney Beck |
Stumbling upon great artists is like a mini holiday for the mind. And if you are in need of a hypnotic holiday away from the day-to-day, I would encourage you to sit with a cup of Rhubarb and Apple tea and stare at Erin Flannery’s work for as long as you need for your heart and mind to feel full again. Read more
October 7, 2010 | Cool Travel | by Courtney Beck |
Hotels these days are like works of art. Unlike the hotel experiences I had when I was a teenager — where everything in the hotel seemed beige — the hotel industry of today is a totally different world. Beige is dead, and the visionary company changing the landscape of this traditionally boring world is the Design Hotels group. Read more
September 25, 2010 | New Art | by Courtney Beck |
Remember those monsters that used to hide under your bed? Well, I met their mother! And no word of a lie, Disney’s been paying her to give you the creeps. She’s been right under our noses the whole time, drawing, painting and planting her evil monsters in the imaginations of people around the world. Amanda Visell’s art transports me to a place in my imagination where Captain Hook wouldn’t last two seconds because of the cannibals, and Peter Pan would have been eaten by a giant hippopotamus rather than an alligator. Read more
We love Wooden Toy, a quarterly Melbourne-based arts and culture magazine that is not only beautifully art directed but also casts a wide net for new creative talent to feature. Read more
I think I’m turning into a housewife because I really love this clip-on bin by Jay Kwak Design that makes it really easy to sweep crap off of a table.
I spent the formative first six years of my life in Wellington, New Zealand, a beautiful windswept city framed by a magnificent harbour in one direction and a stunning collection of green, rolling hills in the other. It was here, on a return visit many years later and deep amongst the clipped accents and ruddy faces of the weather-beaten locals, that I stumbled upon the vast catalogue of the then Dunedin based record label Flying Nun. And what a roster of acts they housed — The Chills, The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, and my favourite guitar-pop band, Straitjacket Fits. Read more
As I sit writing, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m breaking an unwritten code among travellers. How do you write about a destination that’s paradise because no one knows about it? You tell the right people. So before I change my mind, here goes. Take a boat about two hours off the south coast of Cambodia, and you’ll reach a tropical hideaway called Lazy Beach on the Island of Koh Rong Saloem. Run by two English guys who’ve redefined the meaning of chillin’, it’s turquoise waters and white sands are everything you’d expect. From beachfront bungalows with snorkelling right off the beach, to a restaurant that cooks up the local fishermen’s daily catch. This is one deserted island you won’t mind being stranded on.
Our friends over at Sex In Art recently posted the work of Japanese artist Aya Kato. Says Justin, the founder of the site: ‘I have this folder on my desktop titled Cool Shiat. It’s where I save all the inspirational images I find on the net. I’ve just finished filling it up with Aya Kato’s amazing images. Argh wow. Wow, wow, wow. I won’t say anymore. Just check her work out for yourself’. Read more
You know that band you’ve always wanted to form, the one with the little-girl-lost singer with the mischevious eyes and the propulsive beats that drive bass hooks so catchy you want to bottle them up and sell them to Sting? That’s right, that fictional band that lingers just that little deeper in your imagination every time you saunter down Bedford Avenue, surrounded by girls in neon tights and guys in ruffed up converse. You know the one? Well, guess what, you’re too late. It’s arrived. It’s French. And it’s so damn good.
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Méduse is a self-initiated project that I started while studying in London. I was printing a jellyfish inspired series of t-shirts and bags which I was selling or giving to friends. The concept has evolved a bit since then. I try to find time to launch two series’ a year, available only online.
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Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.
The return of the Brionvega rr226
Italian brand Brionvega has resurrected the classy Radiofonografio piece first created in 1965. The updated version is just like the original turntable/radio unit, but also has a CD/DVD player.
Here are a couple awesome pieces by Matt Leines that were recently on display in the Doubting Thomases exhibit at Nudashank gallery in Baltimore. Gives me ideas for Halloween. Read more
Get lost in a daydream or a craving for something sweet while gazing at these cool sculptures by Brooklyn-based WiNK WiNK PONY. Made using clay, tree bark, wood, and mossy moss.
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
In the Little Companions Rebelling Against the Magician t-shirt, label The Balletcats capture everything that we love about the holiday season: rebellion, flames, and striped pants. Nothing short of a classic family gathering! While everything that The Balletcats do is genius, this shirt has an extra bit of zip: it’s an exclusive for Lost At E Minor, and available to buy at our online store.
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