Posts tagged with Melbourne
May 6, 2008 | Photography | by Zolton |
The candid work Melbourne-based photographer, Louis Porter, is like a window into another time and place, the subtle portraits presenting little snippets of someone else’s beautiful and convoluted world. Read more
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April 29, 2008 | Illustration | by Zolton |
I love the sense of imperfect realism about the illustrations of Melbourne-based artist Nom Kinnearking.
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April 11, 2008 | Music | by Stuart McPhee |
Every artist has a selling point, from Pete Doherty (smackhead) to 50 Cent (bullet-proof) and even Train (blandness). What separates them from the William Hung’s of this world is that their shtick does not outweigh their abilities as artists. Read more
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March 31, 2008 | Music | by Kate Suters |
It was late afternoon in Sydney on a rare sunny summer’s day when I pressed play on Cut Copy’s latest album, In Ghost Colours, and immediately felt like I was in the midst of an awesome chilled out holiday. Read more
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March 27, 2008 | Music | by Zolton |
Melbourne’s Cut Copy is the hottest electro act out of Australia right now. We spoke to Mitchell Scott from the group to get the lowdown on their musical highground. Long live the 80s huh! Where would we be without fluro colours, synths and poppy chorus hooks. Any oft-neglected trend from that decade you think should be brought back in? ‘Polystyrene packaging, smoking on planes, slap bracelets, wearing just one glove, Ghostbusters’. Read more
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March 26, 2008 | Events | by Casper Johansson |
In 2006, the Australian-based company Portable Content launched the Portable Film Festival website, a user generated video site that distributes video to users through portable video platforms including iPods, mobile phones and laptops. Read more
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March 20, 2008 | Events | by Casper Johansson |
Melbourne-based street artist Reka has a solo exhibition on the weekend March 29-30th at Sydney’s China Heights Gallery. Reka’s ‘work can be seen lurking in alleyways and hiding in train tunnels. Tall Oaks is an exhibition of abstracted fantasy illustration using symbolism and pop icons to convey messages about mans’ interaction and relationship with nature. There is a hand made element to this show with the use of natural materials including found objects, wood and hand stretched canvas as mediums for the artwork’. Read more
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March 14, 2008 | Music | by Monique Rothstein |
Princess One Point Five is the brainchild of Melbourne based singer-songwriter Sarah-Jane Wentzki, in collaboration with partner Richard Andrew. With Wentzki’s gloriously fragile and emotionally charged vocals, not dissimilar to the Blaskos or New Buffalos of the Australian songstress circle, P1.5 (as she is affectionately known) creates a unique hybrid of achingly poetic underground avant-pop, gently sprinkled with the post-modern indie aesthetic. Read more
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March 13, 2008 | Events | by Zolton |
Melbourne-based artist Beck Wheeler is in the middle of an exhibition at St Kilda’s Uber Gallery which runs until March 30th. The show, called Hey, Hey, Which Way? is ‘a labyrinth journey into the afterlife. Based on a board game she used to play with her siblings, Wheeler has entwined fables, the polemic, beliefs, the oddly beautiful and lucid realities of the departed. If dreams were an ocean, then she has paddled across it and collected all the messages in bottles that have drifted between the living and the dead’. Sounds like fun! We caught up with her to get the lowdown on what to expect: Sounds like you’ve been in some deep thinking space lately? ‘I like working with dark subject matter, but producing playful imagery. The mystery of what happens after you die, is one of the mysteries that someone has yet to prove. We know the earth is round, we know butter won’t cure a burn, that smoking is bad for you, that e=mc2 … but what happens to us after we die? I asked a bunch of people I knew what they reckon happened, and then started making drawings and paintings from the ideas and stories they told me’. Read more
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March 6, 2008 | Fashion | by Stacey Howard |
Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more
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March 4, 2008 | Video | by Stacey Howard |
I’m really excited about the Melbourne band Plug-in City. They remind me of Belle & Sebastian, The Kooks and Cut Copy all in one. What more can us New Yorkers ask for on such a cold afternoon? [see also Cut Copy’s design studio]
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February 26, 2008 | Photography | by Zolton |
Says Melbourne-based photographer Morganna Magee on her latest series: ‘Tyler is a 5 year-old who had cancer in both of his eyes and now has glass eyes. He is the happiest little kid ever, and he and his family have managed to live a fairly normal life since he lost his last eye late 2006. I’ve been taking shots of him for a while, trying to get a full series showing what his daily life is like’. She’ll be having a show later in the year to raise some money for the guide dogs. Read more
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February 22, 2008 | Events | by Zolton |
Melbourne-based documentary and music photographer Leah Robertson has an exhibition of her work running at Prahran’s MP Gallery until March 9th. We got the scoop on the inspirations behind her shots: What’s been the most memorable gig you’ve attended in recent times? ‘Sufjan, Arcade Fire, Bjork and Rufus have all just played consecutively in Melbourne. It’s been one hell of an incredible, horn-heavy experience. Sufjan and Rufus’ respective wings and stilettos were lovely. My favourite local bands, The Drones, My Disco, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and Baseball, are always great live, always memorable’. Read more
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George Lois is the god of good ideas, or at least one of them. When I am stuck on ideas, I pray to George the God, or look through his works in hope of doing something one hundredth as good as his work. Read more
We spoke with Patience, lead singer of Australian band The Grates, about the new album the group are in the process of writing. Read more
Dear Miss Helena, one time host of children’s show Romper Room, you have a lot to answer for. Yes, squeaky clean Miss Helena of wholesome blouse and values, I have not forgotten those childhood years spent patiently glued to the television waiting for you to call out my name through the magic ‘looking glass’ — that portal to ‘good’ children everywhere. Read more
A project of my producer and drummer, Tucker Martine, Mount Analog’s soundscapes are gorgeous, melty mixes of organic and processed sounds. Martine brings the best musicians together to create strange and beautiful music.
This awesome promo video for the Lost At E Minor site was created by our friends over at New York-based design studio, Lifelongfriendshipsociety. Read more
Cheap Monday are arguably one of the biggest revolutions in denim since Levi’s. They’re pretty much the uniform second skin for the music totin’, cons scuffin’ youth of today. Read more
Maverick artist come architect, Michael Jantzen, has created this fantastic experiment as a design study for a modular prefabricated eco-friendly house. Read more
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Travis Louie’s paintings are inspired by 19th-century portrait photographs. Instead of people, however, his subjects are goofy-looking monsters. Read more
New York and Connecticut based Brio54 have just added this design to their range of prefab houses. Read more
Italian illustrator and designer Massimiliano creates vivid, dynamic and richly textured work. We caught up with him recently and asked him what had been keeping him busy of late. Read more
His name echoes those of colonels and soldiers who fought in the American civil war. But far from that, William Fitzsimmons is actually an obscure songwriter from Jackson, Illinois. Read more
Cellist Ben Sollee is like Andrew Bird with a little more soul, or Arthur Russell with a bit more bounce. Read more
For the rest of this week, we have eight copies of the Anton Corbijn directed DVD, Control — the story of UK band, Joy Division — to give away to randomly selected new Australian-based Lost At E Minor subscribers. Read more
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