Greentown at Newtown SC
Newtown SC has branched into horticulture. Long the home of an impressive pot plant collection, Newtown has opened a tiny shop within their café called Greentown, selling potted succulents.
Let's get one thing clear: succulents aren't the same thing as cactuses. Cactuses are a subset of the succulent family, in a Venn-diagram type arrangement.
Harry Allen Roller Stop
The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all this in check is the bookstop (also known as the ‘book end'), a variable specimen available in many homemade forms: a brick, globe, old boot, mug.
3D Notepad
RB: Can we write a 3D review within a 2D template?
NS: We aren't writing in 3D. We're just reviewing the 3D experience, in 2D... hmm.
RB: But will people be able to get a feel for the experience? I mean, reading this now, everyone is probably going "ho hum". But if they were wearing the glasses and I was writing this on a 3D drawing pad, they would be like "HOLY CRAP.
Official Festival Selections
Dragging one's ass out of bed might be necessary for the film festival, even if you do it Schembri-style in a pair of trackies and a matching snarl. But there is another option (not for you, Schembri, you've made your bed so, um, you know).
Our friends at Siren Visual released a little guide outlining their particularly bizarre and awesome porn-meets-samurai-meets-nerd catalogue.
The Meat Eaters merchandise
Me: Trevor Flinn plays the drums in his fictional punk band, The Meat Eaters - the highs and lows of their career are charted in the exhibition The Puma, The Stranger & The Mountain at Platform
You: Why are you telling me this?
Me: Well you're in the GOODS section - I'm trying to pique your interest in official Meat Eater merch - band t-shirts and fold-it-yourself sets of sheep skulls, Meat Eaters tour buses and half bricks - available at Sticky until stocks run out.
Philosopher Finger Puppets
ThreeThousand’s Fun and Craft 101:
Step 1 - Build your diorama
Think about going for a run and buy a pair of sneakers. Put your Nikes to the side and cut out the base of the shoe box leaving a ½ inch lip around the frame.
Step 2 - Perform your puppet show
Pop a couple of philosopher finger puppets on.
Kooky Spooks
Kids (and adults) no longer need to fear the creatures in their cupboards because Kooky Spooks make your scariest nightmares your cutest companions.
23 year-old Kooky Spooks creator Fleur Harris has a background in fine arts, interior design and pattern making both in Australia and Europe and has given life to her plush imaginings through blood, sweat and fears.
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