ThreeThousand

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Wednesday 25th Oct – 1st Nov

Bagging on America is an easy option, so in the lead up to one of most the ridiculous and wonderful festivals ever created, ThreeThousand would instead like to say thanks. Halloween gives us the chance to dress up, to do strange things to pumpkins, to vandalise, to binge on candy, to give kids candy and to generally contribute to the nations obesity problem.

So in the spirit of Halloween, Issue 078 would like to give you some cultural candy in the form of Stephen Haley’s mesh installations and landscapes, the new Australian CREATIVE magazine website, Honkytonks’ The Last Dance compilation (complete with prize) and as always, the bitter sweet taste of COOL and FOOL.

ThreeThousand 078 – trick or treat

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Also, our interview with photographer Darren Sylvester is up at NowNow Interviews.

Cover photo by Drew. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au

Podwars
Creepy filmclips
New music
Draw Play
Subjectivity
The Lousy Livin Company
Fitzu Society

Tell us what's cool cool@threethousand.com.au

Bitch slapping
Creeps
Fergie
Premature ejaculation
Art-o-meter
Liver failures
Fits

Tell us what's fool fool@threethousand.com.au

This small exhibition in South Yarra is only on for a few more days, but is a compelling enough concept to make the journey. Stephen Haley's Mesh is a series of virtual landscapes, and just how they are produced is half the art; a complex series of computer manipulations that abstract the idea of a photograph to the absolute degree; they are everything but photos. A wire-framed model, or mesh, takes on the prime position in Haley's work, resulting in some fantastically bizarre results.

There's a compelling noir element to these cityscapes and murmuring worlds; eschewing the cold brutality of a good deal of computer generated art and opting for those old familiar feelings; isolation against the world, beauty with a capital B, and paranoia. The sensations invited by a simple wire-frame grid are mesmerising (as anybody navigating the grid of the CBD drunk can attest) and Haley's images and installations force the intellectual to cave in to more physical responses.

What:
Stephen Haley - Mesh: Paintings, Virtual Photographs & Projected Spaces

When:
Everyday 12-5pm until this Sunday

Where:
Nellie Castan Gallery, L1 12 River Street, South Yarra

How much:
Free

Contact:
03 9804 7366

Image:
synchromesh
lightjet photographic print, 2006

Koobniks sound like a playground disease, but if you have a white iBook or MacBook you’ll know that even Martha Stewart couldn’t keep the front panel clean. The throw-rug of the Mac world, Koobniks don’t scrub your computer but they do effectively mask grubby fingerprints.

Currently there’s six graphic prints available and at US$25 including postage - we may be overpaying but at least people won’t know that we sweat when we type.

What:
Koobniks

Where:
Online

How much:
US$25 including postage

Coming into summer, a good pair of sunglasses are a precious commodity. At the pool they can be the difference between being mistaken for a pornstar or a librarian. If you are anything like us you will probably go through about three pairs over the next few months, neglecting them more than a child at Crown Casino.

At Dillon Optical in the city you can get amazing frames including Wayfarer copies (stronger than the originals) for between $50-$80 dollars. This shop is a goldmine for people wanting something a little bit different, or at the very least, the ability to pick and choose between frames and lenses. Dillon’s may not look like much but the owner Barry made his first lens when he was seven years old so he knows a whole lot more than the part-time kid at Sunglasses Hut.

What:
Dillon Optical

Where:
28 Block Place, Melbourne (above Basement Discs)

How much:
Frames from $50, lenses from $25

Contact:
9654 7717

‘Creativity’. It’s rare as hen’s teeth and yet was winner of the ‘Most Over-used Word Award 2005/06’. It’s the sort of stuff that makes money out of ideas. There is no shortage of glossy mags that document this ‘creativity’. Unfortunately, most of them are effusive pieces of crap.

Australian CREATIVE magazine is far from rubbish however, and if you’re working and lurking around in the muddy waters of graphic design, media or marketing you’re likely to consider it to be the vanguard of industry related press. The new CREATIVE website has just been launched and it is flashier than Eddie Maguire’s smile.

The gallery section showcases a well-balanced selection of the best visual communication in the land and some of the features/interviews sections perform that remarkable feat of explaining creativity as a process, rather than just a way to make money.

What:
Australian CREATIVE

Where:
Subscribe online

How much:
$38.50 - 12 months, $69.30 - 24 months

As most people know, Honkytonks is nearing its end. Feeling like some sort of mini-apocalypse, tributes are being made to honour the most iconic bar in Melbourne. Savehonkytonks.com fights an unwinnable battle, people continue to drink like there’s no tomorrow and resident DJs Mike Callander and Aram Chapers have released a compilation entitled The Last Dance.

More consistent than a taxi on Flinders Lane, The Last Dance is an electronic ode to the music that has made Honkytonks the sin bin of choice year after year. It also doesn’t have a bouncer out the front telling you that you can’t get in.

To celebrate the release of The Last Dance, Honkytonks are offering two lucky people that chance to win tickets to their New Year’s Eve bash valued at $100 each. To be in the running email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘A Disco Stole My Baby’.

What:
Honkytonks – The Last Dance

Who:
Mixed by Mike Callander & Aram Chapers

On:
Stomp

While the film’s tag ‘The place where everyone comes together’ sounds like the call of a bad teen romper, John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus goes further than the accompanying shot of hot kids in chesty bonds suggests.

Way further.

Reputed for containing real sex on screen (without porno classification), the film’s score definitely reads R-rated. There’s sex therapist Sophia (who fakes it with her husband), Severin the orgasm-challenged dominatrix/prostitute/artist and gay couple James and Jamie (who have an open sexual relationship). Sex meets music, art and politics in a Brooklyn loft called ‘Shortbus’, where all characters converge, sexual charge climaxes and deeper personas are revealed.

Worth seeing for the incredible shots of New York and wicked soundtrack alone - Mitchell has achieved the unachievable; crafting a film that combines explicit sex with interesting characters. It could just be the perfect date movie. Don’t take your mum.

We have 25 double passes to give away, just email shortbus@threethousand.com.au with your address (which will not be used for any other purpose) to get lucky.

What:
Shortbus

Where:
Cinema Nova, Kino Dendy, Village Jam Factory

When:
In cinemas November 9. Or to win a double pass to the preview screening see below…

Watch the trailer:
here

Most of us have entertained the idea of creating our own action figure since we could sit up long enough to watch Transformers.

Well finally the time has come to put ourselves in plastic.

Two photographs, a design brief and three weeks are all it takes for your image to become immortalised in any shape and scene at Trendy Trade. While the shop primarily stocks a jumble of computer and camera parts, they also do a side-trade in personalised figures. Clooney’s geared up for the cup in this little number, and there’s also a disarming replica of Rob Lowe in a kimono.

Even though your face will never rival He-Man, it’s comforting to know that you can still wear plastic underpants on the outside.

What:
Trendy Trade

Where:
Shop 3&4, Port Phillip Arcade, 228-236 Flinders St, Melbourne

When:
Mon-Fri 11.30-6.30, Sat 11.30-5.30

How much:
From $99

Contact:
03 96500090

What:
Phoenix Foundation with Ned Collette

When:
Thurs Oct 26, 9.30pm

Where:
The Northcote Social Club, 301 High St, Northcote

How much:
$15 + b/f from the NSC Box Office or 9486 1677

Description:
They traded metal for space pop and have gone gold in NZ - genius. Phoenix Foundation have left the Land Of The White Cloud to tour Australia on the wings of new album Pegasus. With Ned Collette.

What:
The Juan Maclean (DJ set) + Tim Sweeney

When:
Fri Oct 27

Where:
Brown Alley, cnr King and Lonsdale St, Melbourne

How much:
$22 + b/f

Description:
Robotic-sounding human The Juan Maclean headlines Modular Monthly alongside Tim Sweeney from Beats In Space. They are supported by an array of local talent such as Plug In City, The Temper Trap, Cut Copy DJs, DJ Belgium, Andee Frost, Aram Chapers and of course the Modular DJs. We have 2 double passes to giveaway. To be in the running to win one, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject heading ‘My Macleans Are Showing’. (And yes, we are struggling for original subject headings).

What:
The Scare

When:
Fri Oct 27, 8pm

Where:
Ding Dong Lounge, L1 Market Lane, Melbourne

How much:
$10 + b/f from Moshtix

Description:
It seems to be a growing trend for Australian bands to disappear overseas, carve a name for themselves and then fly back in a hyper blaze. The Scare are the latest, and they’ve returned to ‘Cry Junkie’ in time for Halloween with Dances With Voices, Dardanelles and Tic Toc Tokyo.

What:
To All The People We Love

When:
Sat Oct 28, 9pm

Where:
Backstage @ the Portland Hotel, cnr Russell and Lt. Collins St, Melbourne

How much:
$10

Description:
The only thing scarier than the costumes that will be worn at TATPWL is the prospect of staying at home on the couch. So bite a blood capsule dammit and come down to watch The Emergency, Fabulous Diamonds, Damn Arms DJs, GapTooth DJs, Bromance and Vinyl Richie. The Horror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What:
Snowman

When:
Sun Oct 29, 7.30pm

Where:
The East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon St, East Brunswick

How much:
$10 + b/f online or 93889794

Description:
Perth’s Snowman launch their new album on the back of their first single ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. With support from a Mariachi horn and a mysterious special guest.

During his 10-year run with the Knicks, legend has it that Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier wouldn’t step on court without checking himself in the mirror, patting down his ‘burns’ and lacing his Pumas. A style-icon off the court, Clyde hooked up with Puma in the early 1970’s and his custom-tailored Puma Clydes have been jazzing up feet ever since. This year the Clydes are re-launched in conjunction with a travelling exhibition of Frazier-related images, music and personal style pieces. Stopping for four days from November 2 at the Puma Concept Store on Chapel, we have a PUMA pack valued at $270 to give away, including a not-for-sale Legend01: Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier book signed by the man himself.

This week’s question:
Which of the following scored 100 points in a basketball game?

a)	Wilt Chamberlain
b)	Walter Matthou
c)	Walt Disney
d)	Walt Whitlam

To be in the running send your answer to win@threethousand.com.au

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.

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