Posts tagged with Australia
December 7, 2011 | New Eco | by Agnes Samour |
Be original this Christmas and forget about the usual chocolate box/book/perfume. From $25 per month, you could support the Australian Koala Foundation by adopting a cuddly marsupial as a gift. How about Rocky or Serenity, or maybe Rose? They are all so cute that it’s impossible to choose only one.
November 8, 2011 | New Art | 
by Contributions |
The Sketchbook Project collects thousands of artists’ sketchbooks from across the globe and exhibits them in cities all over the world. The crew just posted a sneak peek at some of the finished sketchbooks that have just arrived at Project HQ in Brooklyn.
October 18, 2011 | New Illustration | by Contributions |
All Oz Cards stamps a new twist on time-honoured entertainment, poking fun at the Australian culture with every deal. Photographer and designer Celeste Brignac brings her talent for detail to the game after years of in-depth research at watering holes across this dry continent. Get your mates together, pull up a few eskies and distract the competition with the iconic Aussie lingo. Read more
July 20, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
This is the story of a beautiful painting: The Rising by Australian artist Emma Walker. A stop-motion film clip and a love letter to Thom Yorke? Wonderful.
July 5, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
Ducked and Covered is a must-see: the Survival Guide to the Post Apocalypse is an instructional public information film designed to assist Australians after a nuclear war. Produced by the Australian Board of Civil Defence during the early 1980s, this dusty film was found within a university film archive.
June 30, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Check out the awesome work of Australian artist Matthew Quick. His latest series, Introduced species, is very cool stuff indeed. Read more
May 12, 2011 | New Events | by Contributions |
Registrations for the 2011 Music Video Mash-Up registrations are now open. This is an annual competition that pairs up-and-coming musicians and directors across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Bands and filmmakers are paired randomly over the June long weekend to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes, including the winning band and filmmaker being flown to the Video Hits set to be interviewed on air.
October 25, 2010 | New Events | by Lost At E Minor |
Our friend Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle founder (a movement that Lost At E Minor co-founder Zac is a board member of) and man of boundless creative energy, has been selected as part of The Crunch, a Victorian-based project to nurture new social enterprises, for his efforts toward the establishment of Renew Australia. The Crunch offers one of nine organisations the chance to put in a bid for a share of a million dollars in seed funding. Read more
October 23, 2010 | New Trends | 
by Andy |
Trading nightlife between countries. What a neat idea to switch music, parties, food, places, drinks, people and the inner workings of far-flung cultures for a night and just see what happens. We’re into it, so we figured that a good way to support would be to discover what nightlife means to some of our favourite Aussie creatives. Read more
September 23, 2010 | New Music | by Andy |
We asked Jai Pyne of indie-rock band The Paper Scissors what Aussie nightlife means to him. ‘A night out in Sydney for me is probably not the most thrilling experience compared to others. I could lie and tell you about how much I love Ching a Lings, or Shadey Pines. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad there are some nice bars in Sydney now. But the truth is that I lay pretty low. For me, the best nights happen when food is involved. I think that’s one of the things that keeps me sane and keeps me in touch with Sydney. I often doubt the city and my reasons for living in it, but when I go out and eat, it reminds me of the reasons why I stay and why I begrudgingly love Sydney.’ Read more
September 17, 2010 | New Photography | by Andy |
We asked Hobogestapo photographer Pat Stevenson what Australian nightlife means to him: ‘I believe the main characteristic that makes Sydney and Australia stand out from the rest of the world is how tightly knit our community is, everyone knows everyone. This may sound like a bad thing, but it actually makes things great. I find in Sydney we are like one big family, everyone is on good terms with each other and for the most part it’s a very positive, supporting group of very talented musicians and creatives pushing each other to achieve something truly unique’. Read more
September 17, 2010 | New Events | by Andy |
The Nightlife Exchange Project involves 14 countries around the world filling crates with the best of their local nightlife and exchanging their country’s crate with another. It kicked off in Australia with artist and China Heights curator Ed Woodley giving the Aussie crate a good lick of paint at Sydney’s Darling Harbour [pictured], and the crate will be making it’s way around the country before enjoying a send off party in October. Read more
July 7, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
Australian illustrator Eamo has a new exhibition running at The Gorker Gallery in Melbourne featuring, among other works, this limited edition print — Shrimp — ten per cent of the sales of which will go towards the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. [See more Australian art and culture at The Colour]
May 6, 2010 | New Products | by The Urban Grocer |
Vintage tram and bus destination rolls are the new must-haves for any design-savvy hipster living in Australia. Dating back to the early 1900s, these simple yet domestic icons represent a time when print was in. Happily, it still is: this time, on tea towels thanks to Bus Roll Tea Towels. Read more
April 23, 2010 | New Fashion | by Andy |
During a recent visit to Australia, I picked up one of these Das Monk tees. I figured I’d bring a little piece of Down Under-style back to America with me. They’re a sweet fit and run just a touch longer than a few other brands I’ve worn, so they pair well with fitted jeans. save yourself an airfare and grab one from our online store.
Xinjian Lu is a Professor of Visual Communication at South Korea’s Yeungnam University. But he is also a gifted artist in his own right, as evidenced by these elaborately shaped and vibrantly coloured works from his Love series. Read more
This is a really strong shoe, and lasts a long, long time. My dad says that you should replace your shoes every eight months, but I haven’t replaced these in a year and a half. I like running at night. It’s the only time New York City feels empty. There’s only Chinese men fishing in the East River and a few couples making out.
The Deal sisters have dropped off the indie-rock radar of late, but this clip of them covering Hank Williams’ I Can’t Help It reminds us why we all loved them so much back in the day. Incidentally, the Breeders are set to release their new album, Mountain Battles, in April.
Mexican architecture firm Senosiain Arquitectos recently designed a shell-shaped dwelling for a Mexico City couple. The owners are already living in their new abode with their two very happy children. The structure is maintenance-free and earthquake proof, and is full of soothing greenery and smooth, rounded surfaces. Read more
Whenever I begin to take life too seriously, I head over to Indexed for a little humor treat. Never have math, formulas and graphs been so clever and witty. The creator of the site started it as a way to make fun of some things, sense of others. Somehow her little formula worked. She is now listed in TIME Magazine’s Top Blogs of 2008. And now Jessica Hagy is a published author. Enjoy exploring the inner-workings of her mind. It is simply delightful.
Fate is the record, Dr. Dog were destined to make a timeless yet contemporary distillation of the band’s open-armed, big-hearted sound. Inventive, magnificently realized, and absolutely irresistible, the Park The Van Records release sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity all presented through their slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook.
Wow, these rings by Yasushi Jona, intriguingly designed and rusted and corroded to look as if they were found on the sea floor, are really gorgeous. Read more
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Francoise Nielly’s Yellow series
Parisian visual artist Francoise Nielly brings technicolour to the forefront in her latest series, Yellow. Featuring thick impasto palette knife strokes and trippy neon hues, Nielly captures the vulnerable expressions of her muses to a tee. Read more
Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork
Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
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
Fourth is King make limited edition unisex t-shirts, printed on 50 percent polyester and 50 percent cotton construction, with custom embroidered tag on the left sleeve. Read more
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