Posts tagged with Melbourne
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 
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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
May 17, 2011 | New Music | by Contributions |
For many years a prolific writer and co-publisher of lo-fi Australian street magazine, Lucky, mattyb began putting music to his words in January 2010 under the name Water Music. Read more
Who doesn’t like the candidness and vintage look of a polaroid? Polaroid Stars is a fun new Tumblr full of polaroidized celebritiy photos: some images flattering, some not so flattering, just like a proper polaroid ought to be. Read more
According to B.R. Meyers over at The Atlantic, there is a scourge of foodies looming over America. Foodies are bad because they fly to Vietnam for pho. All of them do, which is evil. But even if they stopped doing that, Meyers would still be mad because he hates that people enjoy food at all. Anthony Bourdain is the devil for encouraging people to love cooking, Michael Pollan is evil for making the elitist claim that fast food is bad for us. 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
We love sex in art. No, not in a smutty Benny Hill kinda way, but rather the way in which Australian-based website Sex In Art takes a healthy peek at all things arty and well … sexual. There’s some beautiful illustration work up there and some evocative photography. Heck, I’m getting a little hot under the collar just writing about it. While most of the work they feature is work friendly, some of it isn’t. Still, it’s worth more than a casual glance, like this painting by Chinese artist, Guan Zeju.
Man, I remember shaking my tail to Come on Eileen many moons ago — when rat-tails were a right of passage and Molly Ringwald held both the lock and the key to my tiny pitter pattering heart. Back then it was all ice-skating and fairy floss; skateboards and trading cards. It was bags of chips by the rusty school fence and sunburnt faces on crackling summer days. Read more
Australian-born creative, Marc Newson, is considered to be one of the most influential designers of the past few decades. Having originally studied jewellery and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts, ‘he started experimenting with furniture design as a student and, after graduating in 1984, was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council, and staged an exhibition — featuring the Lockheed Lounge — at the Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney’. Read more
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Muve is an alliance of two artists: Mike, an illustrator from Washington DC, and Ryan, a photographer from New York. Their ideas and designs evolved into Muve, a clothing company dedicated to voicing creative freedom with respect to sub-cultures of the past, present, and future. Read more
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