February 2010
Verge
Clockwork Love
From Dutch design studio Tjep, Clockwork Love is a killer jewellery collection that's been recently exhibited in Amsterdam. Based on the broad themes of fragility, passion, uncertainty and desire, the pendants would distract any attention from whatever it is you're actually wearing. Tjep via Mocoloco.
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Go | See | Do
Go | See | Do ist back! After a couple of months off, we're here to keep you and yours up to date with everything that's worth knowing in old Adelaide town. In our stunning new format, we're going to be condensing the entire week into one handy post, making it easier for you to have just one destination every week. Kind of like that Final Destinati...
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Push Pin Portraits
Eric Daigh's portraits (each made entirely out of about 25,000 push pins) aren't just impressive because they took a lot of time to make - they're knock out awesome works of art, too. What's more, they're also pretty large, at over a meter tall each. And what's more, I bet there is never a scrap piece of paper left unpinned in Daigh's house. Eri...
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Pictures and Words
New Places, New City
OWEN LINDSAY takes a look at the progress of Renew Adelaide – a project set to revive the stagnant areas of town It started, like a lot of ambitious ideas, during a boozy conversation. Ianto Ware was chatting with Marcus Westbury at an interstate arts fair when the topic of Renew Newcastle came up. In a nutshell, Renew Newcastle is an on...
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Apparently, There's This
Urban myths in Adelaide... now there’s an eye-catching opener. Within your two decades or more of being a South Australian inhabitant, you’ve surely heard some stories down the grapevine while indulging in a carafe on Rundle Street or from the people sitting in front of you on the bus. So which of the bits of gossip are true, and wh...
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All Washed Up
One of the more important sections of the Australian Constitution is section 119 (The Protection of States from Invasion and Violence), which states: The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic violence. Seems a fairly sensible passage at first ...
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Chew
CD | Massive Attack | HELIGOLAND
Bluelines, Protection, Mezzanine; such amazing albums to play whilst you and your partner are gettin’ jiggy wit it. Good news, you now have a fourth album to add to your Massive Attack fornication-rotation.The bad news? Babies born in September end up with rainy birthdays, so maybe buy this one in a few months. Heligoland is hot as f-bomb. I&...
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FILM | Daybreakers
At the risk of losing Merge’s thirteen to fourteen year old female demographic, vampires are not real. If they were, they’d be evil looking, heartless, subhuman murderous arseholes. You could argue that their immortality permits them centuries of experience to gain maturity and knowledge beyond anything our human vessels ever could, alo...
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CD | Mumford and Sons | SIGH NO MORE
Mumford and Sons are a difficult band to define. Floating somewhere between English folk-rock and British blue-grass, the band’s debut album Sigh No More has a unique flavour that has kept it at the top of my media player’s ‘most played’ list for months. You’ll no doubt have heard the album’s first single ‘...
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Politickin
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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Democracy Darling - Hockey x Climate Change
While talk around climate change continues to fill the political arena, we here at Merge got to thinking: who's the one man with the power to personally fight global warming RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW? Why, Joseph Hockey, of course! Here are nine ways the chubby funster can lend a generous helping hand. ...
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The Week
Post Australia Day Trauma - Wed Jan 27
No one else I know seemed to have any problems removing the Australia Day temporary tattoo's from their bodies. My theory is that the sunscreen I applied over the few on my face (yes, it was a very attractive look) somehow messed with the chemical composition of the adhesive. Even after I managed to scrub the blue,red and white flags and the gr...
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Snap - Friday January 22
This is one pic that won't be making it onto Grandma's wall. This fool was snapped by a speed camera over in the USA, speeding while standing up with his head out through the sun roof. By the looks of it, either he's about 8'6" tall, or the death trap he calls a car is 4'3".
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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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