New ideas so often come from the darnedest places, as Marcus Westbury notes in the latest Griffith Review. Cultures emerge from the spontaneous, temporary nature of human motivations, passions, interactions and enthusiasms. They often form in rebellion and opposition rather than by deliberation and design. They are unique and idiosyncratic. ...
As if that wasn't a headline waiting to happen. Western Sydney community arts manager Lena Nahlous hinted all was not as it seemed with the 2020 Summit creative strand when she appeared on Canvas last Sunday morning. Nick Pickard's article in today's Crikey makes it explicit, saying the Initial ...
It's true I guess. Sometimes I get half way through the day and realise all the clothes I'm wearing are from Incu and half the best jokes music I've heard came from Chris Wu at Popfrenzy. Designer Vince Frost, uber editor ...
Isn't there something odd about paying thirty dollars to learn about making zines?
Second in my series of recent but not so recent things that have inspired me is this one. I saw Le Ballon Rouge (the red balloon) at this year's Sydney French Film Festival. The charming children's film is more than 50 years old, and amazing.
I'm crossing my fingers very tightly I'll get however many boxes of Cyclics back from the printers before the launch on Thursday night. I'm quietly confident. Pretty post rock (Underlapper) and classic '90s electronic sounds (Robert Luke). Check. Glitchy/dusty techno/IDM (Aluf). Check. And new demos and ...
Having made it through the challenging first couple of years, the Australian publishers of Dazed & Confused magazine have apparently called it quits on the the UK title's local version. The website seems to have disappeared, though the Paper Tiger home page still brandishes old Dazed covers.
I'm playing records at the Tilbury hotel in Wooloomooloo (Nicholson St) tomorrow night. It's a Future Classic thing, Nathan McLay's playing from three until six, then I'm playing 'til 9pm. Free entry, etc. You should come.
I drove out to Auburn last night to a soundtrack of new songs from the Herd. First cut 'The King Is Dead' really resonates, with the refrain: "We danced like New Year's Eve". I may never forget wandering into the Bat & Ball, Surry Hills, to hear Underlapper playing as the ...
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