Posts tagged with Melbourne
January 8, 2012 | New Art | by Lost At E Minor |
Michael Cain is an artist based in Melbourne. His quirky, abstracted characters are created with loose, fluid brushstrokes and a vivid colour palette that immerses you in their world and makes you smile. Read more
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 25, 2011 | New Music | 
by Contributions |
Melbourne band Left Feels Right play a smooth blend of post-rock soundscapes with a hint of dance thrown into the mix. Their second EP, which is a split release with post punk band The Analyte, can be downloaded for free at their Bandcamp.
October 5, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Kate McCarthy |
Wunderkammer is the commercial pusher for those who are afflicted with Morbid Curiosity. Which, I also believe, is a misnomer for being fascinated by history. If you like blogs such as Curious Expiditions, then you will stumble through the door in a stupor to empty your wallet at Wunderkammer.
September 28, 2011 | New Fashion | by Contributions |
The ‘boys’ of Melbourne become ‘gentlemen’ with a guiding kick in the right direction by Kings of Carnaby. After their acclaim at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, these nifty designers stay true to the city’s monotone culture but add a new touch of polished mod sophistication. Read more
August 6, 2011 | New Design | by Contributions |
We’re seeing a retaliation from young artists who find the environment and politics of galleries to be a juxtaposition to the meaning and target audience of their work. Creative agency, Buzz Products, has helped bring contemporary art into the everyday through a collaboration with emerging street artist Brad Morrison, aka Drab. The exterior of their Melbourne headquarters provided the perfect canvas for Australia’s largest paste-up. Read more
July 20, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Rena Littleson |
This sweet little project going on in Melbourne involves sleepovers. Cara Fox writes short stories about them and Douglas E Pope photographs them. The resulting collection will be exhibited later this year. Read more
July 15, 2011 | Cool Travel | by The Urban Grocer |
Enter into Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio near Melbourne and you’re entering into ‘a place where you can always expect the unexpected’. Or so say owners Ian Burch and Darren Purchese. And from the looks of things, they’re not lying. Here, science is fused with sweetness to create a multi-sensory experience where tastes and textures are explored and contemporary technologies meet baking traditions. Read more
July 7, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Rhonda Goodall-Kirk |
There is one shop in Melbourne that gives me butterflies as I am entering because I love it so much. That shop is St Lukes Colourmen Art Shop, which is situated in Fitzroy and offers you a wide range of beautiful, high quality art supplies. The store is owned and run by artists who are only to happy to answer your every question.
July 6, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions 
|
Johnny Two Tone Club is a collaborative project between some folks in Perth and Melbourne who like to do hand-pulled screen prints. International Walkman Day is the second installment in their ongoing Public Holiday Project series, which seeks to celebrate the anniversary of significant cultural events that don’t get the attention they deserve. Read more
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
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 24, 2011 | Cool Travel | by The Urban Grocer |
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to hang out in an old-school speakeasy, now you’ve got the chance to find out. Enter Bar Americano. Located in an alleyway off an alleyway in Melbourne, this tiny new space mashes up European culture with American prohibition era bars. Here, Italian aperitivo-inspired drinks meet American vintage cocktails all churned out by a solid team of imaginative barmen, artists, patissers, and chefs. Read more
June 9, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Tristan Rayner |
The Lost & Found hotel room is a bespoke, and most importantly, free space to stay in Melbourne for any one who is on their email list. The hotel room is now into its second year and has again been appointed with a range of all things Melbourne to house a unique studio apartment in the heart of Melbourne. Read more
May 18, 2011 | Cool Travel | by The Urban Grocer |
An hour’s drive from the bustle of Melbourne, the Yarra Valley Dairy sits in the rolling hills of Victoria’s premier wine region. The dairy, a fully functional farm, sells its very own line of cheeses made from the milk of the cows that you can see grazing in the pasture outside. Read more
Serena Verginelli, a graphic designer and silk printer from Rome, loves music and illustrative design. She has come up with a cool poster series that shows the names of her favourite bands. Read more
Check out Zoë Taylor’s latest ‘Sheer Delight’ illustrations that accompany Harriet Walkner’s In The Cut weekly column in Another Magazine. With references to Dolce and Gabana and Christopher Kane couture, Taylor’s hand reveals why sheer is the ultimate fashion paradox. Read more
In my next life, I want to sing like Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Oh, and grow a lush beard, so I can play in their band. Better start cracking.
Of all the weird places the world has to offer, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia has to be one of the coolest. Literally. At 3,700m above sea level, it’s the biggest and highest salt flat in the world, where after dark, temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees celsius. The best way to explore the salt flat is to hire a 4WD and driver from the Uyuni township. En route, you can even stay at a Salt Hotel, where everything is, quite literally, made from salt: the chairs, beds, tables and even the walls. There’s no heating and the beds aren’t exactly ‘plush’, but it’s worth every salty second. Read more
Chatroulette is a website that matches random strangers for webcam-based conversations. Our friends over at This Blog Rules have compiled an hilarious collection of Chat Roulette screen-shots capturing ‘some of the funny but awkward’ interactions that the site encourages. Read more
Whitest Boy Alive follow their own rules: no overdubs, no FX, and the music is always recorded live in one take. Fronted by Erlend Øye (of Kings Of Convenience notoriety), the Berlin collective produce a distinctive blend of minimalist melodies and pillowy grooves. And on the eleven tracks that constitute their new album, Rules, they convey one polite directive: please, move your body. We have their latest single, Island [listen below], available for free download in the Music Download section of the Lost At E Minor site [pssst, it's in the third column], along with new releases by Vic Chestnutt, Winter Gloves, and Cut Off Your Hands.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Diva Pittala is the designer of edgy and glamorous fashion label, Pleasure Principle. Silk tied in knots on the back of baggy dresses might be their trademark, but this spring’s collection goes much further. Read more
WE'RE POSTING / SOME OF THE BEST
Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight
New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more
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.
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.
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
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
If you have a Twitter feed that focuses on cool pop cultural things and you’d like to swap Tweets with Lost At E Minor and other like-minded Twitterers, drop us a note (with Tweet Swap in the title). We have a system in place and we’d like to have you in on it! [illustration by Brad Fitzpatrick]
FOLLOW US
DISCOVER MORE
SO...
SEARCH: Can't find what you're looking for? Do a search..
IS IT GOOD FOR YOU TOO?
We hope you're enjoying your time on Lost At E Minor, but it's not over yet. Got something to share? Tell us about it and we'll look to publish it. If you want to have your work featured on the site, we'd love to hear from you. Pssst, we also have an online store stocking some of the goodies we feature on the site.
If you're a media agency and want to use this platform to connect with our readership, then drop us a line and tell us about it. Oh yeah, and we do digital consulting for cool brands that want to reach the sort of demographic that visits this site.
