Theft is a risk - 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.
MANIAMANIA
Jodorowsky's films are primal twists wrapped around colour wrapped around your eye socket. And yet every time I watch Holy Mountain I fall asleep. The layered optical overload sends me dreaming.
MANIAMANIA's design outputs are of this ilk - wild, multifaceted and phantasmagorical. Their profusion of influences and first comprehensive jewellery collection 'Real Life Awaits Us', has a resemblance to Jodorowsky: Mesoamerican iconography, alchemy, geology, shamanism, magic.
R M Williams Boots
Reginald Murray Williams would surely be chuffed to see his bespoke riding boots taking to the streets. In our guest edited issue, Fenella Peacock (Ant!pod!um) introduced us to that special combination of ruggedness and femininity that can be achieved with frilly skirts and blundies. Well people took stock of Ant.
ffiXXed SS10, Unseen Utopias
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.
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.
Vintage Lover Online
‘Howling Hearts' is the latest addition to the ever growing Vintage Lover Empire. Sure, online vintage stores are a dime a dozen, but then there are those that do it justice...
Rather than throwing pieces of clothing up on eBay all higgledy-piggledy, crushed and strewn on a coat hanger, the talented Jaharn Giles, brains and beauty behind Vintage Lover Online shows how it's done.
Secret Identities
When even Carmen San Diego's been snapped, what chance have you got, lowly lay-superhero, to evade super-villains? Enter, Secret Identities. Everyone knows Gordon Ramsay, aka an archetypal ‘Cranky Head Chef', is amazing at blending butter - so blending in will be a breeze. And when you've got some heaps hot family jewels that crims can't help but covet, what better to cool off in than ‘Selfless Firefighter's' fireproof pants? The motto of this Secret Identity Program is: Strive to be boring.
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