Merge Merge Is... How Would YOU Change ADL? We’re talking to the City Council soon about their upcoming Youth Policy and Action Plan for Adelaide, and they&rsquo... Read More	Verge Howdyadoothat? Radio Spectacular!!! Phebe and Harry started electro-pop outfit Radio Spectacular!!! as a joke band – and three years later, they’ve been featured in a nationw... Read More	Pictures and Words Generation What? PETER DREW | Photos HARMONYNICHOLAS Asks if the Internet is our generation’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Every generation has its iconic move... Read More
Chew CD | Marilyn Manson | THE HIGH END OF LOW I ill-advisedly put this CD on late at night whilst alone in the Merge office. I expected there would be some kind of Satanic invocation included at t... Read More	Politickin Dubious Adelaide | The Masonic Code In the early 1800s, a committee of enlightened free-thinkers was formed to name the streets of the fledgling city of Adelaide. Consisting almost entir... Read More	Merge Galleries Create, Collaborate, Share, Consume.Upload your visual, and written creativity, art andphotography, and view others work here.Visit the gallery. Read More

Mr. Cartoon sneakers Legendary tatto artist / street culture icon Mr. Cartoon has added this super juicy Mr. Cartoon x Livestrong x Nike Sportswear “Greatest Hits” Air Force 1 to his catalogue of sneaker collaborations. It is essentially the same as the Mr. Cartoon x Nike Air Force 1 Hyperstrike from 2005, but in a much poppier colourway (to compliment the ... Read More

Top 10 Women Perfect By Design Can all the beautiful people from all around the world please come together and make babies, and then canyour babies grow up and then make more babies with people from somewhere else in the world? This is how I picture 'God' designing the most gorgeous looking women: a melting pot of all the sexiness in the world, poured out into one curvacious mou... Read More

Must. Have. Plastic. Boots. As if Melissa didn't have their silicon-moulded finger on the pulse already...these boots are OMG faaaaabulous and I desire to splash in puddles with them ALLWINTERLONG. Seriously. Can you really say no to scented plastic heels? Can you? I make no secret of my unbashamed love for Melissa. Every style in the range is comfortable, vegan-friendly, mad... Read More

Back To The Hindley NATALIE OLIVERI | Art MATT STUCKEYSuggests how we can start improving the future of Hindley St right now.It’s a Friday night, around 6. I step off Rundle Mall onto King William and head towards Hindley Street. Stepping onto the opposite footpath, I am immediately hit by the aroma of coffee and fast food. I continue to walk and the smell slowl... Read More

800 Miles From Anywhere Important JOSHUA FANNING Discovers an artist who works in New York, L.A. and Tokyo all without leaving home Sitting in a sun-drenched lounge room, I squint as the sun momentarily bursts through the clouds. My host sets down a coffee in front of me and slides a thick-spined art book under my mug while muttering an apology about not having any coasters. The... Read More

Get a Job! OWEN LINDSAY | Art DAN MONCEAUX Talks with four people who might be responsible with how the rest of your life goes. Okay: So you could be in trouble. That sounds dramatic – but it’s tough to put a good spin on things when the global economy is haemorrhaging faster than a haemophiliac in a Tarantino movie. We’re still a massi... Read More

CD | Hilltop Hoods | STATE OF THE ART John Engelhardt keeps on keeping on. In his latest contribution to his Hilltop Hoods anthology we see the artist maintain the same style but quite dramatically shift the method and execution. In State of the Art we see the artist explore his penchant for computer illustration and the result is incredible. The explosion of all things that presumably... Read More

FILM | Quiet Chaos There is almost nothing to this film. The plot is almost non-existent and the sub-plot is merely a reference point. Thankfully, it was made in Europe. There are no Disney-esque style orchestras blaring every five minutes, or giant robot spiders appearing in the final act. Instead you will be treated to some remarkable acting, and solicitous directi... Read More

FILM | My Year Without Sex I’ve never been nervous writing a review before. Do I seem nervous? Don’t let my crafty text fool you, I’m definitely nervous. This may well be the best film I will see all year. I need to articulate my excitement in a clear and concise 180 word format, which will convince dedicated Merge readers to get their sweet asses to the ci... Read More

Dubious Adelaide | High and Dry On the 12th of February this year, our beloved River Torrens was drained, reducing our only metropolitan river to a stagnant bog. International guests were greeted with a rubbish and car infested mud-apocalypse, and a stench that one passerby aptly described as 'rotting flesh marinated in hobo vomit'. It was revealed a malfunction caused the res... Read More

Dubious Adelaide | Whale of a Time At the turn of the 19th Century, the fledgling colony of South Australia began to embrace a pastime that would soon become Australia’s first primary industry, and serve as the foundation of our State’s economy. That past time of course, was whaling. South Australia was blessed with a population of whales that were ostensibly design... Read More

Dubious Adelaide | Willie Failure When considering the more dubious aspects of King William Street, one’s mind usually turns straight towards the traffic-congesting tram extension. However the street that runs through the heart of Adelaide should perhaps be more notoriously known for the shortcomings of the eponymous King William IV. Through his short reign, King William (Wil... Read More