Objects - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Perth and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Mathematical Quilts
The maths pleb may think maths is all about abacuses and number crunching and imaginary pie. The fact is, it's all this and so much more. Meet Elaine Krajenke Ellison. She's a retired high school teacher who also enjoys quilting.
Perhaps you don't think maths has much to do with quilts, but you don't have a BA in Mathematics from Michigan State, do you? Elaine's love of maths inspires the patterns.
Flat Pets
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'that's not a pet, that's a piece of cardboard'. And yes, it is true, but before you scoff too hard, let me tell you a little something about pets.
I had a real cat once. He was pretty good. Went by the name of Charles, had a lustrous black coat and a scratch that meant business.
Pendleton Blankets
"The round stones beneath the earth have spoken through the fire. Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike, and the speaking stones have lain a long time looking at the sun." Nobody - Dead Man (1995) dir. Jim Jarmusch
In this country, spirituality is as rare as peyote. We look all too often to utility, forgetting our own experience in the process.
Third Drawer Down Miranda July pillowcase set
If Miranda July were our real life friend, she'd be damn annoying ok? To be honest we're only saying that cause we're jealous. But humour us, imagine that you are her pal. A pal who does pal-type stuff like have dinner and shop together. However, instead of eating, Miranda uses the peas and corn to spell out a series of kooky poems on your kitchen table.
Devlin's Robusto Selection
Every stinkin' one of my heroes (well anti-heroes) has a penchant for stogies. There's Tony Montana, Eastwood's ‘The Man with No Name', Bunk from The Wire, Monica Lewinsky's vagina, Alfred Hitchcock, Mahatma Gandhi... ok not Gandhi, but if only he knew about the Devlin's Robusto Selection.
Rubber Band Ball
There is a breed of annoying people who collect rubber bands and make them into balls, that they squeeze in times of stress. Who are these people!? Well, I'll tell you. They are the kind of people who chain paper clips together and turn them into necklaces, that's who. The kind of people who have giant 5-colour stacks of Post-Its on their desks - more Post-Its than you could ever need in a lifetimes' worth of needing to remember things, even if you develop early onset Alzheimer's and need to Post-It the kettle as ‘kettle' and the cat as ‘don't eat'.
TMOD Scratchie Cards
Unlike this senior, the only thing I've ever won on a scratchie was $2. Nudging away the grey film with your buxom 20c coin, there was always an ironic thought that one might win the big gold by scratching this paper chart with a silver, followed by a moment of burning anticipation and then bam, you'd slam the thing down cos you lost.
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