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Wednesday 3rd – 10th May
In the wake of our one-year milestone, ThreeThousand (or at least some of it) is coming to you from the Gold Coast. As we try to relive the glory of our schoolies week and celebrate our first birthday with UDLs, STDs and other acronyms, we’re also reminded of all the reasons that we love Melbourne.
Our city might not have sun all year round, but what we do have is a Side-Project, chic umbrellas from Christine, McSweeney’s Issue 018 and other amazing things that won’t give you skin cancer.
ThreeThousand Issue 053 also introduces two new flavours to the weekly palette. STRAY, is synonymous with words like ‘random’, ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘too good to ignore’. It’s a mixed bag that encourages you to venture into unknown places, to explore nether regions and to scratch the beautiful and seedy underbelly of Melbourne. |
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STINK is ThreeThousand’s dark side - the Jeckyl to our Hyde. After a year of positivity (which created some harmful side-effects including sweaty palms), our psychologist recommended that we try something new. In STINK we are free to b*tch, moan, risk libel and generally vent about the things that we don’t agree with. It feels so right, it can’t be wrong.
ThreeThousand Issue 053 – older and wiser
Cover Image: Exhibition, Showroom by Tim Fleming. Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne until May 6th. flatlandandflagship.com.au
If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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Art galleries can be mysteriously sterile places. One minute they’re blank white-washed walls, and the are next brimming with aptly placed art that somehow materialised overnight, perfectly hung and labelled.
It’s not often you get to watch an art project unfold in front of your eyes, even rarer is the chance to see an exhibition that is constantly fresh, new and innovative.
Over the past two weeks the National Design Centre has locked up Melbourne-based Industrial Designer David McDonald in its studio, where he’s been constantly churning out a creative gold mine. Known for his functional interiors and wearable pieces, the evolving exhibition features sketches, experiments, prototypes and samples of products that David currently has in development.
The endeavour provides you with a chance to chart the creative process each step of the way, not just ogle a finished work. And on May 5, after fourteen days of intense construction - David will be splayed boggle-eyed on the floor – but you can step over him and fork out mini wads of cash for an original artistic piece. |
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What:
Side Project – Fresh from the Studio
Where:
NDC Showbox at The National Design Centre
When:
Everyday until May 5, closing drinks Friday May 5, 6pm.
How much:
Free, but you can buy the art
Contact:
The National Design Centre 9654 6335 |
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Who? Clor? Never heard of them. At least we hadn’t until about a week ago, and the long and short of it is that we still don’t know what to think. We’ve played it constantly in all sorts of places, we’ve looked at it through a magnifying glass, held it up to the light and used centrifugal force in the hope of distilling its essence. Still…nothing.
Their bio mentions Talking Heads, Devo, Eno and Roxy Music. Yeah sure, at times, but it also tends to sound like the start of Napoleon Dynamite or The Life Aquatic soundtrack, more filler than killer, more funny than on the money.
Certain parts of Clor’s eponymous debut are better than the whole, which is best described as inverted electro-pop, having all the right ingredients, just hopped-up and worn back to front like Kriss Kross. Sometimes experimental, sometimes just plain annoying, Clor’s album has some standout tracks like ‘Dangerzone’ and ‘Magic Touch’ but if consistency is what you’re after you won’t find it here. |
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What:
Clor
Who:
Clor
On:
EMI |
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If there is anything to be learnt from Michael Haneke’s film Hidden, it is, (in the words of Frank Warren), “we don’t keep secrets, they keep us”.
Georges’s (Daniel Auteuil) life is seemingly comfortable and secure. He hosts a high profile TV literary review show, has a posh mid-city Parisian apartment, not to mention a smart and stunning wife Anne (Juliet Binoche) and teenage son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But like heady novels, there’s some serious grit behind the covers of Georges’s manifesto, which is magnified when he begins to receive disturbing drawings, phone-calls and paper-wrapped videotapes of himself and his family.
Hidden is a stalker mystery/dark personal journey, where victims are villains and villains are victimised. It uncomfortably, yet successfully explores the damaging consequences of secrets kept, the cruelty of innocence and the abuse of privilege, highlighting the selfish quest of one man’s survival over another.
There are no easy answers or lolly-wrapped endings to be sought in Hidden’s closing chapters, just an eerie sense of foreboding that will stay with you well past the popcorn stand.
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What:
Hidden (Cache)
Where:
The Nova, Kino Dendy, Palace Brighton Bay, Como and Village Rivoli.
When:
In cinemas May 4
Watch the trailer:
Here |
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Many chain coffee stores claim to offer thousands of ways in which you can enjoy your caffeine. This would be fine, if they could do at least one of them well.
ThreeThousand believes that in the world of coffee, less is more, it’s about the flat white, the latte and at our most adventurous, the long macchiato. To other blockbuster coffee concoctions, ThreeThousand says “no”. No to cinnamon, no to caramel, no to any other herb, spice or flavour they can think of to ruin the taste of a coffee bean. So if any of you oversized-coffee swilling swine are out there reading this, please stop it before it’s too late and our city is covered by a rash of outlets full of bad furniture, merchandise and CDs of the week.
So as we head down to Starbucks to send off this email because our Internet is broken, remember this: Chain coffee is to caffeine what crack is to cocaine. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. |
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What:
Franchise coffee
Where:
There’s one on every block |
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What:
Fitzroy Shorts
When:
Wednesday May 3, 7pm for 8.30pm screening
Where:
The Spanish Club, 59 - 61 Johnston St, Fitzroy
How much:
$10 adult, $7 concession, tickets on the door. |
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Description:
Fitzroy Shorts returns to the first Wednesday of the month for the rest of 2006. This month features local animator and Nescafé Big Break winner Darcy Prendergast with his rock ‘n’ roll claymation Off The Rails, which premiered at the New York Independent Film Festival last April. There’ll also be door prizes to the value of $400 up for grabs, so get in early.
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What:
Tucker B's and Airport City Shuffle
When:
Saturday May 6, 9pm
Where:
Pony, 68 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
How much:
$6 on the door |
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Description:
The Tucker B’s play a joint show with Perth art-rockers Airport City Shuffle to celebrate their upcoming joint split 7" single release on nascent indie label Love Is My Velocity! With guests Rusty James and Three Month Sunset. |
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What:
Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
When:
Saturday May 6, 10.45pm
Where:
Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton
How much:
$10 online or FREE here
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Description:
Featuring a pre-film performance by Burlesque superstars Baby Take a Bow, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! is the tale of a new breed of superwoman. It follows the plight of three go-go girls: Varla, Rosie and Billie, who spend their days dancing the Watusi before the leers and jeers of a drooling all-male audience. Sick and tired of the lecherous trade, the masacara-drenched ladies decide to leave the confines of their cages on a murderous desert rampage.
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What:
AGIdeas
When:
Tuesday May 9-11
Where:
Hamer Hall @ The Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
How much:
$260 students, $450 professional or you can WIN some here |
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Description:
AGIdeas International Design Week is a week of inspirational and motivational insights featuring presentations from over 30 leading designers from Australia and the world over. In conjunction with the event, major sponsor Ripe Off The Press has produced a delicious AGIdeas conference book and are also giving you the chance to attend the conference. |
What:
FOG
When:
Recently opened
Where:
142 Greville St, Prahran
How much:
Asahi $7.50 |
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Description:
A new, huge Greville hang-out with outdoor area, private rooms and bar up-back. The site also boasts an awesome interior by architect David Goss for Wood Marsh:. Apparently it’s a lot like the Sanderson in London, but they’ve imported American chefs. |
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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:
ThreeThousand is funded in full by one advertising partner per issue. We warmly invite advertisers who see the benefit in speaking to Melbourne through a trusted and targeted medium to contact Francesco at frunch@rightanglepublishing.com
Editorial Submissions:
The editorial team at ThreeThousand may know a lot - but they don't know everything. Feel free to send information on events, venues or anything else to chris@threethousand.com.au
Feedback:
Heap praise, sling abuse, ramble inanely – if you have anything to say to us please send it directly to talk@threethousand.com.au
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ThreeThousand and TwoThousand are published by Right Angle Publishing.
Right Angle Publishing
Level 6, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
Melbourne, 3000
(03) 9662 1657 |
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Publisher
Barrie Barton
03 9662 1657
barrie@rightanglepublishing.com
Editor
Chris Barton
chris@threethousand.com.au
Deputy Editor
Nadia Saccardo
nadia@threethousand.com.au
Design Monkeys
tin&ed
www.tinanded.com.au
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
Dana Nikanpour
Kath Loftus
Jonah DeMallory |
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