February 2, 2012 | New Events | by Scratch My Nose |
Acclaimed Thai artist Surasi Kusolwong’s latest art installation, Golden Ghost (The Future Belongs to Ghost), invites audience members into a vast field of industrial thread waste to search for three gold necklaces planted by the artist. The audience member who is fortunate enough to find it, can keep the treasure. The day I visited, there were quite a few excited children looking. The work is playful as visitors climb through tonnes and tonnes of thread waste, while serving as a metaphor for excess consumption at both the global and individual level.
February 2, 2012 | Video | 
by Scratch My Nose |
Five Production Company Logos in 3D sees Emile Zile standing around looking slightly bored in jeans and a hoodie in an empty space that could be an office-style set of ceiling fluoros. His own CGI studio. Incongruously, we hear a descending wall of sound mimicking perfectly the impressive zooms and sweeps of corporate and cinema company promos. Read more
February 2, 2012 | New Events | by Scratch My Nose |
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway, who is best known for his controversial and visually lavish films, was recently a guest of Santiago a Mil Arts Festival in Chile. As part of the program, Greenaway presented a 90 minute live cinema experience on four screens, which was a mix of magnificent visual and aural chaos. Read more
January 27, 2012 | Cool Travel | by Scratch My Nose |
At this unique privately owned museum in Los Angeles, one has to walk through a maze of corridors within the softly lit exhibits where you are introduced to an alternative history that you would not read in history books. Read more
December 17, 2011 | New Art | by Scratch My Nose |
Some of the most startling and original images seen on the streets of Santiago, Chile, are the anthropomorphic creatures of artist Basco Vazko. These surreal creatures seem to have lept out of the story of children’s books mixed and cut-up with medical textbook imagery. One of Basco’s strengths is how he uses the weathered walls not as an accidental background for his work but as integral part of the image. Read more
December 3, 2011 | New Events | by Scratch My Nose |
The Host was recently presented in Poland where strange robots danced and twirled around the large warehouse space. They have an unnerving presence, which is inhanced by a 1950s sci-fi soundtrack and automated lighting, including moments of darkness. Marynowsky, the Australian artist behind it all, purposely gives the robots an abstracted human form, which adds to the menacing atmosphere and the paranoia created by the robots.
November 11, 2011 | Video | by Scratch My Nose |
I could watch this imaginative and hallucinatory experimental short film 100 times. Rubber Johnny is the creation of UK film-maker Chris Cunningham. Johnny is a mutant child kept alive living a basement where he mumbles, squeeks and burps to communicate. Read more
November 10, 2011 | New Music | by Scratch My Nose |
What is in a band name that immediately gives us an impression? Air Supply. Could there be any name more odourless, invisible and blank? At least it suited them. Then there are bands who re-write the rules of spelling and grammar, such as HTRK (pronounced ‘Hate Rock’). Read more
October 4, 2011 | New Music | by Scratch My Nose |
The Chilean music scene is an undiscovered gem. How western music has infilterated the music consciousness is very strange. Just the the other day I heard The Smiths’ Girlfriend in a Coma while shopping in a supermarket, much to my amusement. There is also a quite vibrant underground scene. One of the highlights would be post rock outfit Animales Exóticos Desamparados, whose instrumental fusion is not to dissimilar to German band, Die Haut.
October 4, 2011 | New Art | by Scratch My Nose |
Street art is on every conceivable wall in Santiago. Throw-ups. Stencils. Tags. Stickers. Murals. It even competes with outdoor advertising. Chile Estyle: Historia del Street Art Chile is a documentary which interviews are diverse host of pioneers artists such as Cisco and Basco Vazko, while discussing the importance and legacy of the Romana Parra Brigades murals, which reflect the history of political and social events in Chile. Read more
October 4, 2011 | New Art | by Scratch My Nose |
Scratch My Nose’s text-based pole posters mirror those used by rock bands on the streets of Sydney. They work on the fringe, providing a social commentary on suburban street corners and competing with Jennifer Anniston and New Idea, Shane Warne’s new ‘FaceBook’ and whether or not Barak Obama is a ‘Twit(ter)’. Read more
October 1, 2011 | New Photography | by Scratch My Nose |
Damian Dillon’s digital and analogue images are characterized by his ‘destructive’ attitude towards the medium of photography. Read more
October 1, 2011 | New Film | by Scratch My Nose |
Welcome to the world of Dr. Frankenskippy. Swedish born, he traded in his ice skates for a surfboard when he migrated to Australia. Now living in the UK, his CV includes commercials for MTV, IMAX and video clips for Primal Scream. Inseparable Bonds is surreal television where the hyperative host interviews a couple merged mind and body as one abominable character before they get lost on Frankenskippy’s yellow brick road.
Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher magnifies the humble honey bee to thousands of times its normal size using a high-resolution scanning electron microscope for this series of stunningly surreal shots in her new book, Bee. Read more
The great thing about Twitter is that it reads as an unfiltered window into the real time thoughts of a generation who have no handle on the term discretion, as our friends at Oddee have proven with their list of the ‘12 Most Funny Tweets Ever‘. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Check out the behind the scenes of famous art pieces being hung, positioned and eased into place around the word. From the small to the ridiculously large, it’s amazing to see the work you love being shunted around the globe. Read more
Bay Area duo The Human Quena Orchestra sounds like a skyscraper falling in slow motion with their scraping, crashing, screeching drone pounded out of guitars, samplers, and circuit-bent electronics. Listen to their track Progress below.
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Here’s Jil, and Jack. I mean, Jackal. They were best friends. Jil loves Jackal, and Jackal? He is just an asshole. Jil always feeds jackal, but Jackal doesn’t care about Jil. He just thinks of Jil as his personal chef. Jil is kindhearted, but Jackal just loves to eat heart. Literally. [Free shipping in our online store] Read more
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Ryan Elisabeth Jewelry uses unique designs to inspire, tell stories, and empower. And the pieces are pretty badass. The As Time Goes By collection showcases intricate pocket watch collages, inspired by historically strong and pivotal women. The Light City series features eye-catching accessories, showing influences ranging from art to architecture. We’re pleased to highlight Ryan Elisabeth jewelry as a featured collection in the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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