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MUSIC OF COLOUR & MIND

Monday, September 3, 2012

A few years ago I was trying to explain to a restless companion why I was having trouble tearing myself away from an ocean view, the blues and greens rippling like persistent organ chords. ‘Do you know what synaesthesia is?’ I started, readying once again to out myself as a freak of nature, or worse. [...]

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS 2012

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
28 – 30 September, 2012
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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THE DESIGN FILES

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Every day I enjoy reading The Design Files.

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STORE OF THE MONTH: MAG NATION / AUCKLAND

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Sometimes we’re surprised where readers write to us from – really, you live in Siberia and have heard of mono.kultur? One of those pleasant moments was when magazine retailer Mag Nation sent us a little brochure they printed with their personal recommendations, with our issue on Chris Ware pretty much right at the beginning. Australia [...]

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PERIMETER BOOKS MICRO-LIBRARY

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Little King Café and Perimeter Books present their new collaborative project – the Perimeter Books Micro-Library (which opens tonight!). Each month, Perimeter Books will curate Little King’s in-house reading material with an evolving range of small press art books, zines and design publications. The Micro-Library will feature artists and small publishers from all corners of the globe, [...]

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LIGHTING THE SAILS

Saturday, June 2, 2012

The German design collective Urbanscreen specialize on site-specific large scale projections, as, erm, the iconic Sydney Opera House – their most current project which is still showing until June 11 as part of the Vivid Live Festival. The annoying thing with site-specific installations is, as recently mentioned, that you need to be on site to [...]

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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS TOUR

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Flight of the Conchords have recently announced their upcoming Australian tour dates. Could this be the beginnings of a series three?

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MEANWHILE, DOWN UNDER…

Friday, April 6, 2012

…Australia’s Independent Photography Festival is coming to the lovely shores of Melbourne, including the all new IPF Zine and Book Fair, where our humble selves will be presented among plenty of other tasty titles at the Motto booth. One day, and one day only. Yum.
IPF Book & Zine Fair
07 April 2012
10–16h
The Workers Club
51 – 55 [...]

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DESERT DRAG

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Cars! Fire! Salt! Ladies! (Actually, hold on, suspiciously few ladies…) And who could possibly argue with that? For years, photographer Simon Davidson has been documenting the Australian drag racing scene, which seems to be very alive and kicking indeed. (Oh, and thank you for pointing it out.)
Photography by Simon Davidson

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IT’S A SNAP

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

It feels kind of weird to post an advertising spot for a university here, but that’s because they don’t normally tend to look like this – just see for yourselves. (And thank you.)

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