Edward Cole, creator of Cole’s Funny Picture Book, was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and idealist, he took it upon himself...
Sailor accessories
19th Apr 06
Popeye has always been a popular sailor man with great tatts, but the guy just couldn’t accessorise. Luckily, you don’t have to chug a can...
Freeway (1996)
7th Feb 07
Before Hollywood romances and biopics made her respectable, Reece Witherspoon was Vanessa: a violent, white-trash Little Red Riding Hood who prays that...
Order of Melbourne
15th Mar 06
At the Order of Melbourne dark oak hues, sixties chandeliers, leather couches and a wall of fine wine accessible only by a library ladder makes us suspect...
Genki Happy Springtime Caravan
29th Aug 07
Spit out your tobacco. Take a shower. This springtime Genki invite you to do away with trailer trash.
The Springtime Happy Caravan will be far from...
Gills Diner
8th Jan 08
A five-dollar Jaegerbomb at Click Click is all well and good (Ed: well, sometimes) but one day, you discover the joys of wine and cheese. When this happens...
The View-Master® 65th Anniversary re-release
21st Apr 05
Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...
A Fifty Gallon Drum of Savage Customs Fresh Flesh and Random Pop
15th Aug 07
Melbourne’s artist-run label Brothersister Records has issued an astonishing new pop compilation. Like its complicated and beautiful sleeve art–...
The Outsider, by James Cameron
29th Aug 07
Gentlemen, start your engines. Or, in case you don't drive a '68 Lancia, shine your shoes, chalk your pool cue and thank your lucky stars that James Cameron...
Journal - Sunday breakfast
21st Nov 07
Things you can do on a Sunday morning in Melbourne:
1) Hang out on Flinders Street Station steps wearing black eyeliner, four layers of black clothing...
Simple Economics
7th Sep 05
There are some things you want to keep for yourself, to hide like a miser and protect from the ugly reaches of outside world. Fortunately ThreeThousand...
The Skin Project
30th May 07
The Skin Project, by Brooklyn artist Shelley Jackson, is a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word at a time, on the skin of volunteers.
Jackson...
’The Unquiet World’
7th Jun 06
Generally, ThreeThousand doesn’t like to dabble in politics. We are both too stupid and too good-looking to genuinely care. Fortunately, not everyone...
Bird Flu
21st Feb 07
"BIG on the underground" "What's the point of knocking me down?"
M.I.A's new single starts with a vehement call to her critics...
Prophyla-p-tics laptop sleeves
21st Feb 07
Do you have a rebel laptop? A cute little MacBook or PC that looks so sharp it refuses to wear a case in fear of hurting its good looks? Well, here’s...
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now
19th Sep 07
How many times does your mother have to tell you? Don't leave things until the last minute. Remember that time you failed VCE? Got audited by the ATO?...
Smoking
27th Jun 07
The end of an era is nigh. Smokers – be you heavy, social, dietary, one-a-day-by-yourself-on-the-balcony or only-while-drinking – be aware:...
Loop
2nd Jun 05
Loop is one of the few inner city bars that has managed to maintain its chic for more than a few months. A beautifully crafted angular bar and great lighting...
PRVDR
16th May 07
Nestled in the heart of the newly re-upped Manchester Lane sits the hottest new joint to open in Meltown: Provider. With its high ceilings and oak accents...
Chip Chop!
22nd Feb 06
There are few things worse than a humourless old bag. But there are few things better than a hilarious new one. So naturally ThreeThousand was thrilled...