September 2010
Verge
Stop frame photography
Stop-motion animation is one of the simplest, most fun animation techniques. Mix equal parts digital camera, computer, and imagination (you’ve got all three), and you’re on your way. You can use just about anything in your stop-motion animation, and thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is now super easy. Check...
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Temple Bags The iPad - Future Meets Retro Style
Just when you're drooling over the iPad but wondering how you'd carry the stylish li'l tablet and still make sure everyone knows you've got one of only iPads in Australia, enter stage left, Temple. Futurista meets sophisticate. The folks at Temple have delivered a splash of retro cool to carry the future cool. The Tom Brown Schoolboy style satc...
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Greener City Livin'
In our daily rambling through the web we stumbled across these pretty cool puppies. City living will provide the buzz, but for the smallest effort you can do a little bit for the CO2 conversion and hey if that's not calling enough, you'll might even like the green in the city and enjoy the floral smells. These cunning little designs are the perfect...
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Pictures and Words
Hiromi Tango
There are artists who are happy with a paint brush and dab of oil paint. Then there are artists who live in perspex boxes, tie themselves up with knitted rope, and fake their own death. Hiromi Tango’s work sits firmly in the latter group: it’s eclectic, it’s highly interactive, and it’s absolutely kick-you-in-the-guts overwh...
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Hand Written
The annoying thing with computers is that it’s nigh-on impossible to use them as on-the-go notepads: there’s no frantically scribbling down your latest brainwave when you have to wait five minutes for a boot-up. One thing the digital world is never going to get right – the trusty note taker. 1. Quill Fat Little Note Book ($3....
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Dubious Australia: A Spot of Bother
At the height of the Second World War, Brisbane, like most Australian cities, experienced a sudden influx of U.S servicemen as they prepared to take the fight back to the Japanese. However tensions quickly grew between the Australian soldiers and their U.S counterparts over the higher wages paid to the latter. These higher salaries allowed U.S serv...
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Chew
CD: Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Santa Clause isn’t real, old people smell funny and Hot Chip’s new album isn’t as good as the last one. In my non-certified and non-internationally recognized position as guy who thinks he knows things about music, it’s my opinion that this album will pass by without anyone even noticing it. The first three tracks are so...
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CD: A Mountain of One - Institute of Joy
If Kevin Spacey and the drug dealing kid from next door were looking for something else to smoke to other than Pink Floyd in American Beauty, A Mountain of One would have been a pretty good choice. But much like Pink Floyd, there’s a line where the music goes from a stoner’s delight, to just way too much like your Dad’s daggy CD...
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CD: Echo & The Bunnymen - The Fountain
Echo & The Bunnymen is a strange choice to headline Laneway. Theirs is not a recent reunion (like Pavement or The Pixies); they’ve been active since frontman Ian McCullough returned in 1997. Their 21st century claim to fame is to have ‘The Killing Moon’ adorn the opening sequences of cult film Donnie Darko, but then, it wasn&r...
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Politickin
Democracy Darling
If Tony Abbott’s going to have a real chance at being Prime Minister, he’s going to have to improve his image among women voters. But forget the expeditions to supermarkets, Abbott – here are our “sure-fire” suggestions for attracting the female vote. ...
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Democracy Darling - 2010 Predictions
With Parliament back this month, the non-stop political action-fest is about to kick off for another year. So what can we expect in 2010? We have a few bold political predictions. 1. Steve Fielding revealed to be grasshopper-like creature from space 2. Ro...
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Democracy Darling - Summer Hols
Over the summer, our top politicians have two full god-damn months off from Parliament. So what are they getting up to in lieu of running the country? We think we might know... 1. Kevin Rudd: Unleash a year's worth of pent up rage on the streets of downtown Tokyo ...
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The Week
STUFF - Friday 29 January
Another seven days races past me like a little kid that's stolen a handful of cookies and doesn't want me to catch him. Days full of stuff. Stuff that doesn't necessarily form a cohesive whole but let me list off the things that fill a week and see if I end up at some sort of... point? Stood and watched fluro-vested workers pack up the seating f...
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BACK - Friday 22 January
Wandering around somewhere I wasn't supposed to I got this picture. Seems like there are more and more places we aren't supposed to explore. Or is it that the signage and security have gotten more visible? All I know is that sometimes the bigger the warning the more more interesting ignoring it will be. I get told not to walk home through the pa...
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EAR - Thursday 21 January
Do you ever go through a period where you only want to listen to one song over and over and over again? You can't stop singing it in your head as you walk down the street? You need it in your headphones while you work just so you wont distract yourself by humming it? I don't know what it is but I can't stop whistling Ghosts Of War by Slayer. Of ...
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