New music from Melbourne band Polo Club
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Polo Club is my band. We’re from Melbourne. We were originally a two piece, but we have expanded to a four piece over the past 18 months.
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Gone Bush: a new art series by Beck Wheeler
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My latest body of work is me going with the flow, taking all the things I love and squishing them together on slabs of wood. Gone Bush is a series of work I have been working on for about six months.
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Melbourne-based photographer Morganna Magee
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If you’re sick of your friends taking pictures with their phones, slapping an Instagram filter on it, and thinking they’re Annie Leibovitz, then you should check out the work of Morganna Magee.
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Conceptual photography by Scott Newett
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Scott Newett is a Melbourne-based conceptual photographer. He shoots random images that may seem weird at first but then leaves a lasting perception of beauty.
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Sonido: a South American cafe in Melbourne
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In Melbourne, in a little corner on the ever-hip Gertrude Street, you can eat and feel so good at Sonido, with South American tunes that will blow your mind. That is, if you can fit into one of the small baby chairs outside.
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Illustrations by Melbourne’s Jen Von Klitzing
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Jen Von Klitzing has always been compelled to create beauty. Even as a child with only a pencil in her hand, she had the ability to converge her imagination and reality and transform it into art. Von Klitzing recently took part in a group exhibition at the Strange Wolf gallery in Melbourne.
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Collage art by Melbourne-based Kareem Rizk
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I first fell in love with Kareem Rizk’s work at Retrospect Gallery in Byron Bay a few years back. He is a Melbourne-based collage artist, illustrator and designer who works in both the digital medium and the more traditional collage mediums of acrylic, oil pastel, pencil, solvent transfers and acrylic transfers.
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Birds and animal art by Melbourne’s Laura McKellar
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Many illustrators and photographers have dabbled in the fusion of animal heads and human body parts, but Laura McKellar, a Melbourne-based illustrator, does it with a beauty and wit that makes her a standout. Her commitment to illustration seems effortless as she takes on a range of commissioned and personal projects, each revealing her distinctive style. Her hybrid birds and animals bypass the cutesy and appear in their new forms, as if a spell had been cast upon them.
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For You and Me: a new song by The Fearless Vampire Killers
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When it came to making the clip for the first single off our debut LP, we wanted it to be something that was iconically Melbourne. We love the city we live in and the music that it produces. So we decided to head off around Fitzroy and Richmond, have a laugh with some friends, and [...]
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Melbourne songwriter Matt Keneally: aka Canary
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Canary is my favourite Melbourne band. Every time I see them live, I walk away with a feeling of sheer elation. Every time I listen to them on record, I wonder why I didn’t come up with that chord progression or melody. Or why didn’t I think of that lyric? Canary is the moniker for [...]
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West Space: Melbourne’s artist-run non-profit organization
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West Space is an artist-run non-profit organisation that has been running in Melbourne since 1993. Their current space is one of the largest galleries in the Melbourne CBD and plays host to an ever-revolving list of local and international artists. West Space is currently exhibiting a bunch of amazing video artists, as well as Eugenia Lim’s Hikikomori Project, where she explores the Japanese phenomenon of Hikikomori or shut-in syndrome by living in a bedroom style installation and only connecting with the outside world via the internet and social networking.
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Humorous ‘hipster music’ by The Bedroom Philosopher
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The Bedroom Philosopher first came into the public eye in Australia via his first radio hit, I’m So Postmodern (watch video below) and his follow up LP, Songs from the 86 Tram.
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Melbourne artist Michael Cain
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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.
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Sneak peek at the 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour
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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.
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Download the new EP from Melbourne’s Left Feels Right
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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.
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