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Wednesday 22nd – 29th March
In a small city such as Melbourne, cultural angst is common. New York, Paris, London and Tokyo all glitter like a creative Las Vegas with promises of riches and free martinis. The grass also looks greener in the smaller cultural hubs such as Berlin, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Montreal and Antwerp.
Yet in Melbourne, as Autumn gets into full swing
and the leaves turn brown like pappadams, both environmentally
and culturally, our grass is only going to get greener.
Issue 047 attempts to ease any angst by showcasing local things with global ‘cool’. We continue to feature the best from Next Wave with Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Streetfight 2006 and New!Shop. We feature a play on Yoko Ono and an ingenious book that will help you if you do, for whatever reason, decide to leave for foreign pastures.
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ThreeThousand Issue 047 – seek and you shall find.
PS. nownow.com.au is back up and better than ever. Don’t be shy.
Cover photo taken by tin&ed. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble. Case in point, Dieter Graf Verlag’s Point It, a collection of universally recognised images that talk for you.
These pictures say a thousand words that many of us can’t so that next time you want to find the local youth hostel/train station/nudist beach just whip out the passport-sized picture bible from your knapsack, and make like ET (i.e. point) to the relevant picture. There’ll be no confusing daiquiris for dacks, and no muddling toilets and telephones.
Worth it for the kitsch photography and butcher diagrams alone, Point It is more vital to your travels than a tetanus booster and will save you from looking like a Kathmandu-clad, tongue-tied dweeb when you’re globetrotting. |
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What:
Point It picture dictionary
Where:
Metropolis, Level 3, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St
How much:
$10.95 |
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Apparently there’s a seven second window in which customers can be convinced to buy something that they don’t really want. And given that this article will probably take you about 20 seconds to read, we’d better get cracking.
This week, ThreeThousand wants to give your hip pockets a rest and invite you shop for free at new!shop, a hybrid art installation running throughout the Next Wave festival.
new!shop is part performance, part new media event, part supermarket sweep, all with the hi-jinks potential of a midnight munchies run to Safeway.
spat&loogie, the creative duo behind new!shop, know that the sounds, lights and smells of supermarkets are designed to boost profits. They’ve set up a hyper-real space stocked with bizarre make-believe products that upon being scanned trigger short, provocative films specific to the products.
Shoppers can also have their ‘consumer fortunes’ read by virtual check-out chicks – it’s part horoscope, part marketing profile, and unique to the products selected (perhaps buy your All-Bran, prunes and Metamucil another time).
new!shop. It’s like The Twlight Zone meets Tuckerbag. |
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What:
new!shop by spat&loogie
Where:
Arts House @ Meat Market – 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When:
March 22 – April 1 (no show March 27), any time between 5 – 8pm
Contact:
Next Wave
Email spat&loogie |
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Who’s afraid of big bad Yoko? She broke up the Beatles, just imagine what she could do to you!
Her name alone inspires everything from wild anger to
raging jealousy to a more passive morbid curiosity. If
you believe what you read, Yoko Ono not only killed John
Lennon, but also murdered a movement in the process leaving
us with a string of bizarre artistic endeavours along
the way.
Part of the Next Wave Festival, ‘Y.’ is performer Ming-Zhu Hii’s interpretation of this traditionally unpopular icon. With a background in theatre, film and television, Ming’s 50-minute abstract performance explores the bizarre, sometimes annoying, always relentless figure of Ono.
Inspired by Yoko as separate from the ‘Yoko and
John’ moniker, the collaborative installation of
minimalist light, sound, and performance studies the Hera
of modern rock in all her confronting glory.
Y. probably won’t convert a Yoko-phobe, but it will shed a different light on the enthralling myth surrounding this avant-garde artist, public pest and history’s most notorious band-aid. |
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What:
Y.
Where:
Arts House @ Meat Market 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When:
23-26 March and 28 March – 2 April
8pm
How much:
$10 - $15
Contact:
1300 727 432
Buy online |
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Laurent’s Mirage cake looks a little bit toxic.
It’s fluoro green. It’s foamy and swirly,
with slime, a lone blueberry and gold-leaf chocolate spike
on top, with dangerously decadent hot-pink goodness inside.
But our mothers always told us to eat our greens, so the
Mirage should be no exception.
Imagine chilled, tart, raspberry mousse encased in a sweet,
moist citrus sponge shell. One splayd-full and your tastebuds
will be dancing to the sweet and sour flavour melody.
Available from all Laurent stores, it comes in several
different sizes, for one person to ten. Yet, what could
be better than your own, private green-out? Cheaper than
absinthe, less whiffy than leaf, and tastier than brussels
sprouts – think green, think Mirage. |
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What:
Mirage Cake
Where:
Laurent Boulangerie 2/306 Little Collins St, Melbourne
When:
Mon - Sat 8-6, Sun 9-6
How much:
$6.95 eat-in, $5.95 take-away |
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What:
Down We Go Together
When:
March 22 – 28
Mon – Thurs, Sat: 11am - 6pm, Fri 11am - 7pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Where:
Alphaville Gallery, L1, 262 Brunswick St Fitzroy
How much:
Free |
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Description:
The first ever exhibition at the Alphaville Gallery, Vice and enjoi present a twisted tongue-in-cheek show revolving round the San Jose skate scene. Features new skateboard art, paintings and photography by Jerry Hsu, Jason Adams, Louie Barletta and others. |
What:
Favela Rock 3: Passeio ou Dado
When:
Thursday March 23, 9pm
Where:
LOOP, 23 Meyers Place Melbourne
How much:
Free entry |
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Description:
Purveyors of fine parties, Opulent, return for a night of crunk and other sh*t-hot junk (baile, baltimore and indie tunes) at Loop. There’ll be an ACT/ACP competition, and the likes of Woody McDonald, SJX, Levins and Team Opulent DJs to keep you entertained. Rumour has it even Kanye West might even come down to pimp it up. |
What:
Gerling with the Midnight Juggernauts
When:
Friday March 24, 9.30pm
Where:
Northcote Social Club
How much:
$18 + b/f, $22 at the door
Contact the NSC Box Office on 9486 1677 or buy online |
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Description:
Following their barely released album ‘4’, electro-pop boys Gerling whip the Social Club into shape with the ‘dirty organ’ Juggernauts.
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What:
Modular Monthly featuring Headman
When:
Friday 24th March
Where:
Honky Tonks
How much:
$20 |
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Description:
Headman AKA Manhead AKA head of Relish Records AKA all round music head blows shonky bonks to bits and pieces at the Modular Monthly party. Supported by DJ Belgium, Aram Chapers, Andee Frost, Jason Evans, Modular DJs, plus Dirty Talk DJs in the boudoirs. Tickets at Central Station. Or win some here. |
What:
Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Streetfight
When:
Until April 1
Where:
Bus Gallery, 117 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Inspired by retro computer gaming and Japanese animation, this is probably the only 10-minute zombie film set to prog-rock. Created by Paul Robertson, Pirate Baby and his army of undead minions fight two ‘totally awesome dudes’ and their special crazy attacks. |
What:
slowjams on sundays
When:
Sunday March 26, 5pm
Where:
Yelza, 243-245 Gertrude St Fitzroy
How much:
Free! |
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Description:
A new Sunday music set to cap off the weekend. Regular DJs: Belgium and Darling (Tim Cut Copy), are joined by guest DJ Damage (Benny; Riot in Belgium). Chill out with beer, food and techno till Midnight. |
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ThreeThousand is a weekly snapshot of Melbourne's subculture, fired by email into the loving arms of people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. It is compiled by an amorphous gaggle of writers, stylists, designers, photographers, sub-cultural attaches and a large troupe of monkeys who enjoy working for peanuts.
Without editorial independence ThreeThousand has nothing. All editorial you read is featured because it's worth it – not because it's paid for.
Advertising Partnerships:
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Editorial Submissions:
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Publisher
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Editor
Chris Barton
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Deputy Editor
Kath Loftus
kath@threethousand.com.au
Design Monkeys
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Contributing Monkeys
Charlotte McInnes
Nigel Carboon
Reuben Ruiter
Tom Hyde
Will Larnach-Jones
Max Olijnyk
Ana Cecilia
Toby Temper Temper
Jade Barclay
Joanna Weekes
Blingrid
Pollyanna
Jeanne Tan
Annie Fox
Dan Honey
Richard Hack
Lewis Mulvey
Richard Janko
Tom Jackson
Nick Sweeney
Lauren Katsikitis
Reuben Acciano
Lucy Morieson
Nadia Saccardo
Dana Nikanpour
Ad Image Credits
1. Brian Gothong Tan from A psychoanalytical neo-feminist film from Instant
Asia! 2004–05 (detail).© Brian Gothong Tan
2. Ah Xian China China – Bust 71 2002 (detail). © Ah Xian
3. Jemima Wyman from Catastrophe theory: Earthquake Girl and other stories
2005 (detail). © Jemima Wyman, courtesy of Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
4. Yinka Shonibare from Un ballo in maschera
(A masked ball) 2004 (detail). © Yinka Shonibare,
courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York
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