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GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Melbourne and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Ricky Swallow tote bags
Melbourne is a funny place. It's either really hot or pissing down rain, a sandwich sets you back upwards of $12 and there are more pop-up shops than permanent ones. On the upside, there are loads of bike lanes, insanely good coffee and a major exhibition by Ricky Swallow at the freakin' National Gallery.
Rose's cards and the George Street art kid
Venture off your well-beaten home-coffee-home track in Fitzroy and surrounds and you could stumble across any number of industrious little people and their original art works for sale. And by little people, I mean really little, not just grown ups who didn't eat enough spinach.
Take Rose, for example.
Cosmic Wonder Lightsource 3
The other day I overheard a film director ask a sound guy to "make the light feel more repressed." At first I couldn't get my head around it. "Light doesn't have a sound," I thought, "light is for your eyes, silly!" But before I could turn around and tell said film director that she needed to go back to sense school and TAKE NOTES THIS TIME, I came across a copy of Cosmic Wonder Free Press and started to ponder the phenomenon a little more deeply.
Third Drawer Down Archive Sale
Art doesn't have to be all highbrow and expensive. That's the central philosophy behind Third Drawer Down. They believe that art can happen pretty much anywhere. It could be happening right now. Whoa! Is it happening right now? Weird...
Still, you get the idea. Art comes in all shapes, sizes and price ranges.
Viva La Craft! Chicks on Speed
For people who've been on speed since 1997, these chicks still look pretty good. You know what I think? They're not really on speed. Someone sold them a quarter of Wizz Fizz 12 years ago and they have been buying it up ever since because Germans don't really know what sherbet is. Anyway, looking good ladies.
SPAM Art Posters
Hey guy, my name is Harold Winston Esquire third, I represent Nigerian Texaco Oil. I have a good job and drive a car. Sadly, my employer was recently killed in a zombie suicide blood pact. Also, his family died in an unrelated accident that same day. What are the odds?
My former employer was a wealthy man and had a massive penis from all vitamin pills that he took.
Wax letter seals
There is nothing more regal or romantic than a wax sealed letter. Jane Austen tried countless times to come up with the literary equivalent, and despite coming close even she couldn't quite match it. They say wax seals are as old as writing itself, apparently they were used by the Pharaohs to keep correspondence top secret.
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