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Ghost Gum jewellery
Hair is an anomaly, when you think about it. Grown on your head, it's a prized mane of beauty and health. But in your soup, it's on par with fingernails and band-aids - something foreign and gross.
That is, until local lass Jessyca Hutchens takes said hair from someone else's head (that is, not literally - via a supplier) and weaves it together with silk, leather and silver into ethereal neckpieces, earrings and tassels.
Kaditj Café
When it came time to throw a bush dance party, my housemates and I were faced with one very serious problem. We had the matching tracksuits, Rivers. Synthetic Akubra hat knock offs. Didgeridoo remix album. Even a bush band out the front of the house. But we couldn't find quandong jam for the damper, and everyone knows you can't have a bush dance party without quandong jam and damper.
Antenne Books
When trawling through the nets looking for sites to buy cool art magazines to strategically place on your coffee table, it's way too damn often that independent publishers' websites are arty to the point of obscurity - most of the time you can't tell what's inside any of those magazines until you get them.
Outre Gallery Perth Opening
Now that the bandages are slowly peeling off Northbridge's facelift and the swelling is going down after the punch of losing favourites like Harry Highpants and LaLaOrange, William St is starting to look pretty hot again. How hot? Well, there's a new cultural space, a Bird that's deffo learnt how to fly and a neato café not gladwrapped in commercial stink.
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Dog Rock
2nd Aug 09
I have a friend in Albany who owns a café. He told me one day a man came in with a selection of postcards to sell. The cards featured all the well-known...
Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present
21st Jan 10
I worked in a real quiet art gallery shop for about a year. The lack of customers left me plenty of time to do stuff, like dust invisible dust off glass...
Knog lights
8th Aug 10
Melbourne based bicycle gear company Knog have a light in their range called the Bullfrog. It's just one in a range that includes Beetles, Gekkos, Boomers...
Doc Cobbler
19th Sep 09
I don't know about you guys but whenever I get even the slightest whiff of some impending assignment, law exam, mildly-frustrating-thing-that-must-eventually-be-done...
Drop7
14th Jun 09
Sudoku is something old people do on the train. Tetris, while still a classic, has started to show its age and comes across quite clunky on the iPhone...
'Fad Cash', Insurgents
3rd Sep 10
Since starting out with some Circle Jerks and Bad Brains covers, a couple of demos and a seven inch, these Brisbane punks have been slurping on the 1.5...
Herschel Bags
22nd Jul 10
Let's not get into how non-functional tote bags are. Sure, they used to look cool with your Docs and corduroy pants but things have changed since CD...
Two Bucks ‘til Wednesday Spring Sale
23rd Sep 09
Vintage clothes make us look like Chloe Sevigny and all, but who has the time to trawl through countless opp shops for old gold? Sometimes I lie awake...
Rembrandt Restaurant
10th Dec 09
If you're anything like me, the thought of wrapping your mush around a hunk of bread dipped in lard doesn't exactly get the salivary juices flowing. Luckily...
Concerts, Adam Geczy
26th Jul 09
Kind of like making a brilliant painting for your blind friend, Adam Geczy dedicates a film of himself learning a left-handed piano sonata to friend...
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