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Straight from the magazine Mecca, Colophon 2007, We Love Magazines is the product of intense obsession. Refreshingly thorough and beautiful to touch, this is a resource that’ll be on your shelf until Suroosh Alvi moves to Connecticut. Or The New Yorker runs a funny cartoon. Or some such.
Created by the hard-working oracles of magazine culture, Andrew Losowsky of le cool and Jeremy Leslie of magCulture, WLM pays homage to cult magazines of yesteryear, while saluting a host of ultra-new titles. It answers every question you might have about design, advertising and distribution without reading like a textbook. Major profiles include Frame, Shift! Coupe, Yummy and the stunningly auto-chic Carl’s Cars. But the utility doesn’t stop there, with over 1,100 international magazines archived in a neat directory taking up almost half of the 392 pages.
WLM is more than a book. It’s a mag freak’s bible. If you have anything to do with publishing, or merely harbour an unhealthy obsession with quarterlies, then starve yourself for a week and get a copy. It’s definitely worth more to you than the price tag.
By Tait Ischia |
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What:
We Love Magazines
Where:
Metropolis, L3 Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne. Or online here.
How much:
$95 |
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By track two of Blonde Redhead’s new digital shoegaze record, 23, you’ve imperceptibly fallen in love with reverb kitten Kazu Makino’s supernatural voice. She’s effortlessly torn you away from everything, sounding flirty and deathly, and saying creepy Twin Peaks stuff like ‘I won’t come disguised again,’ and ‘Lightning strikes you when you’re moving’. Around her, identical twin bandmates (true story) Simone and Amadeo Pace swirl minor guitar pools, drive the drums and drench everything in delay and Mr Sandman’s dust.
The whole affair is pleasingly less baroque and more hypno-pop than their last effort, Misery is a Butterfly, except perhaps on centrepieces ‘Sw’ and ‘Spring and By Summer’, where Misery’s ghost appears briefly to play Cure-like walls of weep-synth, strobing drums and synthetic horns. 23 sounds less like Blonde Redhead titular songwriters DNA, and more like REM – the dreamy eye-thing, not the band – and is still genius. Viva the perpetual dream motion jams.
By Mark Gomes
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What:
23
Who:
Blonde Redhead
On:
4AD / Remote Control
Myspace:
here
Related links:
Remix Blonde Redhead |
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Both the design and the purpose of NowNow’s freshly launched gallery is based upon simplicity. Its white space and careful curatorship (by Thomas Jeppe and Tristan Ceddia of The Serps) provides a platform for both local and international photographers.
Not a site to rush through, NowNow Gallery has launched with 11 photographers and will be updating fortnightly with artists similarly dedicated to offering fresh perspectives. As it grows it will become kaleidoscopic but, through its functionality, will never be too overwhelming – allowing you to always find those images you love.
By Chris Barton |
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What:
NowNow Gallery - quiet please
Where:
Online
Contact:
editor@nownow.com.au
Image by:
Charles Prince
Exhibiting artists:
Andrew Long, Ben Barretto, Briony Ridley, Ben Sullivan, Christopher Day, Charles Prince, Louis Porter, Oliver Palmer, Rohan Hutchinson, Tim Hillier, Thomas Jeppe |
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There are people in this world who hoard anything from the colourfully absurd to the handy gadget. There comes a point in these people’s lives when their living room is brimming with 76 teacups, 48 lamps and 8 too many clocks on one wall. Do they pack all of their collectables into a box and plod down to their local Salvos? Or do they open their own business?
Case Study: Cath and Harvey let their accumulated kitsch homewares spill out of their living room and into a little store in Westgarth, naming it after their favourite song, ‘Know Your Product’, by ‘70s punk band The Saints. During their late trading hours, the duo sort their items into clusters of colour, just like dividing the pink Smarties from the blue ones.
Give yourself a good few hours to trawl this store. It may be small, but one lap of the shop won't be enough to examine every blue, green, pink and orange tea set. Then there are Polaroid cameras, Casio watches and the staple-less stapler to amuse you. You read correctly, a stapler WITHOUT staples. Ingenious.
By Isabel Dunstan
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What:
Know Your Product
Where:
63 High Street, Westgarth 3070
When:
Noon-ish until after 8
Contact:
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According to Ernie Dingo and the Northern Territory tourism board, ‘You’ll never never know, if you never never go'. It’s catchy. We’ll probably go there because of it and come home content. However, there are some places on this planet less alluring than a tropical park, places we are happy to never never go to, but would still like to know more about.
The guys from VICE have done the dusty and sometimes dangerous legwork for us, in the first installment of the VICE Guide to Travel. From mutated-animal tracking in Chernobyl to buying a dirty bomb in Bulgaria, different VICE crews investigate issues in an attempt to prove their hypotheses that despite our western comfort ‘most of the world is hell’ and ‘basically, humans are fucked’.
We were skeptical at first about kids from VICE reporting on serious issues. This was overturned by the fact that we trust our TV channels even less. VICE don’t claim to delve deep into serious issues; they do, however, present obscure global destinations in accessible short docos. And the stories are damn interesting, skimming the surface of issues we’ve pushed out of our consciousness.
VICE Guide To Travel – it’s better than Contiki.
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What:
VICE Guide to Travel
Where:
Polyester, Central Station or here
Watch the Trailer:
here |
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There was an exhibition. It is still on actually but David Shrigley did not come. He left us all in the lurch. He was torn apart by a beast with four arms and no hair. No, he was distracted by an advertisement for denim trousers and a 24m length of extension cable. (A poem in honour of the absent Shrigley.)
There is no use attempting to explain the work of this Glasgow artist – maker of drawings, sculptures, photographs, films, poems and spoken-word albums. You just have to go to the exhibition. If you would like to know something about what you are going to see, there are two main works. One is The Poster Project – the 292 results of Shrigley’s online offer to design people’s posters for free. The other is a film co-directed by Shrigley, entitled Who I Am And What I Want. This is his first major solo exhibition in Australia.
The good people at Kings ARI describe his humour as ‘slightly warped’. Others use different adjectives. When Paul Davis visited Melbourne recently he went into Metropolis, thinking that Shrigley would be visiting the following week, and left a note on the back of a Shrigley postard: ‘David, this is ridiculous’.
By Penny Modra |
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What:
The Poster Project & Who I Am And What I Want by David Shrigley
Where:
Kings ARI, L1, 171 King St, Melbourne
When:
Wed-Fri 3pm-6pm, Sat 12-6pm, until May 12
How much:
Free
Contact:
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What:
Favela Rock 12
When:
Tues Apr 24, 10pm
Where:
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin St, Melbourne
How much:
$6 on the door
Flyer:
here
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Whether lauded, or derided, these e-grade legends ain’t letting nothing get in the way of a bumper Anzac Eve Favela Rock. DJs CWD, Mafia, Young Steezy, Ooh-ee, Mugen and Andee Van Damage (straight from V Festival dates in Sydney and Brisbane), plus giveaways of Lil Jon’s ‘Act A Fool’ 12-inch. It will be the B-more, hyphy and baile you’ve come to rely on from Opulent in a bumper edition.
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What:
Festival of German Films
When:
Thurs Apr 19 – Sun Apr 29
Where:
Palace Cinema Como, cnr Toorak Rd and Chapel St, Sth Yarra. Palace Brighton Bay, 294 Bay St, Brighton.
How much:
Full $16, Concession $13.50 from the box office or online here |
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Extend your knowledge of German culture past the Bratwurst at the HoffbrauHaus. This year’s Festival of German Films is screening 21 new features, including Hannah Herzsprung’s multi award winner Four Minutes and music doco Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback which follows
five American G.I.s who stayed in Berlin after World War II to form wild ‘60s rock band The Monks. Hassellhoff eat your heart out. |
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What:
Bit By Bats album launch
When:
Fri Apr 20, 8.30pm
Where:
The East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon St, East Brunswick
How much:
$10+b/f from The East Brunswick Club
9388 9794
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Description:
After two EPs and years of incessant touring, Bit By Bats are launching their anticipated debut album Go! Go! Go! (and its awesome cover art) in Melbourne this Friday. Supported by Dance With Voices, Dead Frenchmen, The Fancy Boys.
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What:
‘Missing’ opening
When:
Fri Apr 20, 6-8pm
Where:
The Narrows, 2/141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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Description:
The Narrows presents new work by Hamish Carr. Combining text and portraiture, it’s about our collective memory (or otherwise) of people who have gone missing. Derived from missing persons files, it’s a CSI approach that draws out the differences between a ‘missing person’ and a ‘person missed’. And there will be drinking. |
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Semi Tough
When:
Tues Apr 24, 9pm
Where:
Loop, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
How much:
$5 on the door
Flyer:
here
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Description:
The second Semi Tough on Anzac Day eve has a line-up of heavy lifters including Gaptooth (quite muscly), Yona (muscly in some lights), Bromance (actually very muscly), Sweat Midler (doesn’t care for the gym but looks good anyway) and Night Moves (doesn’t matter if he’s muscly or not because it’s dark).
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