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Wednesday September 26th - October 2nd
“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche” is a quote mis-attributed to Marie Antoinette.
We know it was mis-attributed because, according to her stylist, after that she said “Laissez-les porter des chaussures de bazarette, laissez les fourmis
nager en leur biere, laissez-les observer les films qui sont alles
directement a DVD, laissez-les lire des magazines avec les pages mates, laissez-les acheter les produits faux de concepteur dans P?kin, laissez-les vomir leurs oeufs de chocolat.”
(Let them wear convenience store shoes, let ants swim in their beer, let them watch movies that went straight to DVD, let them read magazines with matte pages, let them purchase fake designer products in Beijing, let them spew up their chocolate eggs.)
ThreeThousand Issue 124 - qu'ils mangent de la brioche
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Images from Trimapee Autumn–Winter 2008 launch at St Paul’s Cathedral Chapter House |
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David Shrigley has made a new book.
There is no way to explain
this book
other than to write down various things
that are in it.*
I have sampled the voice
of Charles Manson
and I have used it to make
a dance record.
The record is good and
I am very proud of it.
Spiders hanging from your eyes.
You have very low standards.
Your look is befitting a
beggar.
You are not allowed in the
restaurant.
You must eat in the bar area.
I am going to draw a picture.
I want you to look at it
and then copy it.
Then I want you to show it
to that idiot over there
and make him copy it.
And then we’ll make a
recording of us beating him up.
And we’ll make a CD
and we’ll use what he
drew for the cover.
Quoted by Penny Modra
*Note: It is better with the pictures |
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What:
Ants Have Sex in Your Beer, by David Shrigley
Where:
Metropolis Books, Lvl 3, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:Just came in
How much:$29.95 Contact:9663 2015 |
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A couple of years back, ‘folktronica’ was the genre of the moment for many music journos, and no review of UK act Tunng and their debut album Mother’s Daughters & Other Songs was complete without it. Now on to their third album, the core duo of Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay have evolved into a fully functioning six piece band. Good Arrows is the act’s first album recorded with their collective input.
The result, naturally, is a fuller sound as a variety of instruments from the harp to the hammer dulcimer (think the busker outside Myer Bourke Street – you know the one) make an appearance. Though often these instruments navigate from the back seat, as the thick vocal arrangements drive the songs and define Tunng’s sound – far more so than the occasional electronic pulse, hum or glitch. Though ever-subtle, these tones still give those who need it an excuse to wack that “tronica” tag on if they are looking for an easy way to end or open their review.
By Matt Hurst
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What:
Good Arrows
Who:
Tunng
Where:Inertia store. Record shops.
On: Pod / Inertia Win:We have 2 copies of the album to give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘it’s folktastic!’ |
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With a faux D&G logo designed by Josh Petherick and James Deutsher, this show looks like something you might find next to the Louis Vuitton on Silk Street, Beijing.
Presented by James Deutsher and Christopher L.G. Hill, it’s about how things jostle for space, get ripped off, get used by other people, form new meanings and connections in the process, and about the daily encroachments on our physical and mental spaces.
This last idea is highlighted by the use of multiple videos and monitors playing curated video work simultaneously. Artists involved include A Constructed World, Bianca Hester, Daniel DuBurn and Christopher L.G. Hill (collaboratively), Hao Guo, James Deutsher and Hao Guo (collaboratively), Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie, Nick Selenitsch, and Saskia Schult and Christopher L.G. Hill (collaboratively).
Christopher and James’s sculptural work includes monochromed packaging boxes, deformed currency symbols and re-assembled blue-tooth devices. Make sure you pick up a copy of their SD&C publication. It includes contributions from everyone involved in the curated section of the show with a forward by Liv Barrett and a sticker described as awesome. For $5 you wouldn’t get it cheaper in China.
By Penny Modra
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What:
Sub-Devide & Concrete
Where:
Joint Hassles, 2a Mitchell St, Northcote (just behind the TAB on High St)
When:
Launching Fri Sept 28, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until Oct 13, Thurs-Sat 12-5pm
How much:
Exhibition free
SD&C book $5
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Shops will open. Dressing room doors will open. And when you weaken at the knees over a piece featured in the “must-have” pages of your glossy, your wallet will no doubt open, too. This week in SHOP we invite you to open the humbly matte pages of a new magazine.
She’s not like Vogue who, bloated with 727 pages of advertising, flaunts her next-season flocked Chloes. And she doesn’t belong in the company of cash-raking glossies nattering over one another, “Oh, but sweetie. I copied and pasted my article on faux-fox from the press release first!”
Cue the fanfare as a Melbourne-born “intriguing and multi-faceted lady of mystery” plants her bare feet to grab fashion phenomena by the balls. A Cloth-Covered Button reaches into her pocket to pull out a handful of self-proclaimed outliers of hipster-dom. She then opens her tattered swag of gutsy wordsmiths, like Paulina Olszanka who cleverly traces the political and sartorial significance of the Keffiyeh. And Footpath Zeiteigest-ess who takes more than just a snap shot at street pic reportage.
With a chutzpah and smarts, A Cloth-Covered Button exists as a loose thread in the heavy tapestry of fashion magazines.
By Isabel Dunstan
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What:
A Cloth-Covered Button
Where:
Magnation, 88 Elizabeth St, Melbourne
When:
Launched last week
How much:
$7
Contact:
here
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Did you think that Amelie was good, but too girly? Or wish It’s A Wonderful Life starred a supermodel? Were you curious about arthouse classic Wings Of Desire but always – and understandably – fell asleep fifteen minutes in? Meet Luc Besson’s Angel-A.
Besson has said that he'll no longer be working as a director, and rewatching masterpieces like Leon and The Fifth Element
highlights what a shame that is. Technically, his final film was the kid’s adventure Arthur And The Invisibles, but it’s not worthy of his strange talents, so we’re going to ignore it. (Plus over-rendered CGI makes us feel kinda queasy.)
That makes Angel-A Besson’s straight-to-DVD swansong, and while it’s not equal to his best, it is a barely 80-minute summation of his work: male fantasy, more-Hollywood-than-Hollywood spectacle, and a sincere, romantic (and, yes, very French) belief that love can save the world.
Luckless loser Andre is contemplating suicide, but finds redemption in the appearance of Angela. Paris has never been filmed so lovingly as it is through Besson’s black-and-white sheen, and Angela is so impossibly statuesque, so perfectly cheekboned, she could be superimposed from another filmic reality altogether.
By Martyn Pedler
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What:
Angela-A (2005)
Where:Madman “Director’s Suite” DVD
When:Currently available for rental only (until January, when things will be looking up)
Watch the trailer:
here Win:We have five copies to give away, thanks to Madman. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Angela would beat Amelie at hand-to-hand combat’ |
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Count on New Balance to come out of left field with the release of these two hot new 574 packs. Inspired by the ultra-hip Japanese convenience stores 7 Eleven, Family Mart and am pm, these babies couldn’t have dropped at a better time with the hype of The Simpsons Kwik-E Mart saturation.
Pick up 52 with the Las Vegas pack… if you know how to roll ‘em and know when to fold ‘em, then these are the kicks for you. Whether you like to roll your dice or deal your cards, the Vegas pack will always make you a winner at the casino of life! Available at our good friends PRVDR.
By Mafia
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What:
New Balance Classics
Where: PRVDR, 11 Manchester Lane, Melbourne Hype DC
When:Out September (ie: now) How much:RRP $160 Contact:PRVDR 9654 4055 |
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Were you one of those kids who took over the treasure hunt? Who found all the Easter eggs before your brothers? Who ate them in front of their faces and then spewed them up while they cried big, hungry tears for Mummy? Us too. And it’s our time to shine once more. This Saturday, the citywide / worldwide hunt that is Snap-Shot-City returns. And its treasure is more creative than crusty chocolate bunnies, or bilbys (for the patriots among us). This event aims to horde on film thousands of extraordinary sites around the world as they happen simultaneously. Instead of baskets, you need cameras. Got them? Then follow these five steps: 1. Get a team of friends together 2. Name your team BigJugz, AlleyRats, iHaveACamera or some such 3. Register here 4. On Saturday at 2pm, meet these said friends at Workshop to pick up your list of 20 interpretive photo categories (from the specific, like ‘red shoes’, to the tempting, like ‘one too many’) 5. Run around the city, snap stuff that suits the categories, then upload the photos before 8pm 6. Pull some triple coat Tim Tams out of your pocket and eat them in front of your friends then spew on them. Some things need not change. By Nadia Saccardo |
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What:
Snap-Shot-City
Where:
Everywhere in the world
Melbourne event begins at Workshop, Lvl 1, 413 Elizabeth St, (corner A’Beckett St)
When:
Sat Sept 29, 2pm
Online team registration closes this Friday at midnight
How much:
Free, register here
Contact:info@snap-shot-city.com |
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Great cupcakes in history:
1. Cupcakes eaten by Parisians during bread shortage thanks to intervention of Marie-Antoinette
2. The Great Cupcake by Bhavesh Shah (addressing issues of crime and time travel)
3. ‘Camp Cupcake’ (minimum-security women’s prison in Alderston, West Virginia, where Martha Stewart served final five months of sentence for federal conviction).
4. The 'Safe Cupcake Amendment' (measure passed by the State of Texas, creating a cupcake loophole in nutrition policy for government schools*)
5. Little Cupcakes (new store on Degraves Street, opened three days ago by hot cupcake chefs Nikki and James, serves fine Genovese coffee, cupcake flavours include: mint, pistachio, creamy coconut, banana, chocolate and ‘red velvet’.)
By Penny Modra
* Note: the loophole allows for varying district policies on school snacks, including cupcakes, so long as these do not conflict with the policies of the Texas or US Departments of Agriculture.
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What:
Little Cupcakes
Where:
Shop 7, Degraves St, Melbourne When:
Mon-Fri 8am-6pm; Sat 11am-4p; Sun soon
How much:
Standard $3.50, mini $2.50, standard with coffee $5.50, bulk deals (mmmm... bulk)
Contact:
9077 0413 |
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What:
Digital Fringe launch party
Where:
Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT! Wed, Sept 26, 7pm How much:
free |
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Description:
Before heading home to your world of bits, observe an open laptop-jam from the Outpost collective. And before developing varicose veins from sitting at your screens, get dancing to tunes from Mr Nicely (with a name like that, even if he didn’t play enough Prince, you couldn’t get nasty). Digital Fringe launches tonight at the digital arts bar, Horse Bazaar.
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What:
Albert’s Basement fundraiser
Where:
The Afterdark, 565 High St, Northcote
When:
Sat Sept 29, 2pm
How much:
$5 or more if you’re feeling generous
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Description:
Albert’s Basement have spoiled us for long enough by throwing parties where awesome bands (you wouldn’t catch at a worn out indie club night) play and debauchery ensues. It’s time for us to give a little bit back, so uh, they can make us a compilation vinyl. It’s always a two way street with these guys. On Saturday afternoon, Rainbow Brite, It’s So F**king Great to be Alive (best band name ever) Team Yes! and Human Six Billion provide entertainment while you sit back and piff gold coins at their feet.
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What:
The Smallgoods Down on the Farm album launch with Sly Hats and Pikelet
Where:
East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon St, Brunswick East
When:
Fri Sept 28, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$10 BF here
$12 on the door
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Description:
The Smallgoods may be launching their third full-length release, but they have not forgotten their roots. In fact they’re re-potting them. Down on the Farm is harmony-laden pop, fertilised with psychedelia. Sly Hats and Pikelet will be rounding up the sheep, getting out to close the gate, cleaning their gumboots – all that farm stuff.
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What:
Paris Wells and band, ‘Grace Baby’ single launch
Where:
Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel St
When:
Sat Sept 29, doors 9pm
How much:
$10 on the door
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Description:
Paris Wells has a new band and it is real beef. Being the dirty new sound of Melbourne soul is tough gig but someone hot got to do it and that person is Paris. Check out the band and Paris’s single ‘Grace Baby’, off her forthcoming EP at Revolver this Saturday. Support by DJ Prequel and DJ TOM TOM.
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What:
Tim Hecker (Can.), Jason Kahn / Tim Caitlin and Steinbruchel (Switz.)
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2 Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Sun Sept 30, doors 7.30pm
How much:
$15 BF from Metropolis, Polyester Books, Missing Link and The Corner box office
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Description:
The first Australian show for Canadian-based musician and sound artist Tim Hecker brings together a (what is the collective noun? How bout…) maxiumum arousal of sound artists. The New York Times describes his work as “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow-moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole”. Read: he is the David Lynch of sound art. Jason Kahn, Tim Caitlin and Ralph Steinbr?chel bring their various electronic, acoustic and graphic design talents to the Toff as well.
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What:
Thread Bare opening
Where:
Per Square Metre gallery, 191-193 Johnston St, Collingwood
When:
Launch Tues Oct 2, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until Sun Oct 7
How much:
free |
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Description:
The opening of a solo show by Sian Pascale. It is a wild mix of fashion Illustration, knitted sculpture, embroidery exploring the female form and, of course, hunted animals.
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 Pretty much, the only cool thing about backpackers is all the badges they collect on their travels, which they can then display, ‘80s style, on their backpacks like Punky Brewster. Thankfully, Chip Chop have created ‘Le Touriste’ – a bag that will give others the impression that you are well-travelled while saving you the trauma of actually hanging out with backpackers in low-quality dwellings where toast is the only food group.
Le Touriste has inspired Chip Chop’s entire new range, which includes Oui Oui canvas totes and the already-famous Ciao Sexy Pizza tee. Each backpack is hand-decorated with custom-designed badges, big enough to hold heaps of stuff and, most importantly, limited edition. So virtually the only people who might rival your look are actual backpackers and Punky Brewster - both of whom your friends don’t know. We have one Le Touriste, worth a respectable $229, to give away. To enter, just answer the following question:
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This week’s question:
Both backpackers and Punky Brewster:
a) are separated from their parents b) remain unfamiliar with formal dining etiquette c) are destined to go bra-shopping at some stage d) have real names you can’t pronounce
To be in the running send your answer and postal address to win@threethousand.com.au, winners will be notified by email.
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