Nicholas Kirkwood

The nanotechnological dream of photosynthesizing computers appears within reach when listening to Lucky Dragons. While the Macs employed by the LA duo...

George Orwell speculated our paper-less society in Nineteen Eighty Four, "The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures."...

Watches, like handbags, are the kind of accessories for which people will go to strange lengths to secure. But why wallow on a year-long waiting list...

Got a score to settle with your Nan? Need to deodorise your car? Why not get a bottle of Hotel Slut? Etat Libre D'Orange perfumes are either cashed-up...

This extraordinary book takes you into the 117 miles of man-made tunnels and disused quarries underneath the streets of Paris. Created over 400 years...

If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's...

One man had a vision, and that vision was that the good people of Melbourne would abandon their consumerist label-whoring and embrace good old fashioned...

Polyester Records has secured real estate in Fitzroy long enough for it to be as familiar as family. We all know the drill. You walk in, chat to the store...

The founders of Tank, Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer, began the magazine because the one that they wanted to read didn’t exist. A mixture...

We have all been dropped by the devil at some stage in our lives, but very few at the tender age of six. Given the title for their show by a late night...

So your iPod is full and every time you download new music you have to go through and delete a bunch of stuff that you downloaded last month and haven’t...

Harmony Korine: he did the screenplay for Kids, he used to do Chole Sevigny (until he started doing too many drugs), he's done Letterman, and...

Working as a doctor, the stethoscope around your neck earns you a certain amount of respect. Even as I accidentally wander into a family bereavement room...

When did ‘romance’ turn into ‘romantic comedy’? Barring some tight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences...

The Runners Four is the new album from enigmatic San Franciscan band Deerhoof. It is their first straight-up, look-you-in-the-eye guitar rock album...

Just when you thought you would never own a t-shirt with River Phoenix smokin' a rollie on it, THINK AGAIN. It's the Alphaville sale (on everything...

In an age of million dollar film clips and Kanye mouthing off at the MTV awards, it's not uncommon to feel that the art of capturing the meaning of music...

The mid-fifties were great for drive-in cinemas, beat poets and swing dancing. But the victims of the Cold War and Soviet Union vs America space-race...

Having been released in Sept 2004 this album might not be gracing the grubby pages of the local street press but things move quickly in the media world...

There was a man selling Strawberry Pig for $10 a pop on Bourke Street and he may or may not be Nicholas Eldridge himself. He had a sign that said "The...