Objects - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
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.
Mathematical Quilts
The maths pleb may think maths is all about abacuses and number crunching and imaginary pie. The fact is, it's all this and so much more. Meet Elaine Krajenke Ellison. She's a retired high school teacher who also enjoys quilting.
Perhaps you don't think maths has much to do with quilts, but you don't have a BA in Mathematics from Michigan State, do you? Elaine's love of maths inspires the patterns.
Pendleton Blankets
"The round stones beneath the earth have spoken through the fire. Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike, and the speaking stones have lain a long time looking at the sun." Nobody - Dead Man (1995) dir. Jim Jarmusch
In this country, spirituality is as rare as peyote. We look all too often to utility, forgetting our own experience in the process.
Hula Hoops
Spring has sprung and there is one thing on everyone's mind: thrusting.
Now it's no good sweating and pumping violently back and forth like that. It may feel intuitive but its a rookie error. It's painful and awkward for all involved, and you get that weird look on your face. You want to plant your feet right, find a nice smooth pace and subtley curve your hips around.
Cat Rabbit's custom toys
Cat Rabbit makes the cutest toys this side of Hello Kitty sweatshop operated by actual kittens. *Meow*. Although she's best known for her owls, she also makes zombies, monsters and videogame-based plush figures. All of them are hand stitched, sewn and assembled in her Hobart studio.
Miss Cat Rabbit has held several exhibitions around the country and her stuff moves like heroin at an outer suburban train station, i.
Build a Moss Terrarium
For all its soft sponginess, moss is clearly a staunch battle demon in the botanical domain. It's genus is Bryophyta. That's right, BRO-FIGHTA. To copulate, it indulges in some seriously slimy spore-n. And anything that flourishes in a gutter (hello Tupac, hello Fiddy) wins life.
Creating your own Moss Thunderdome is really rather simple.
Shooting Target (70 x 45cm)
A friend of mine, who works at the Pentagon, was telling me how they don't use paper targets in their subterranean firing range anymore. They use human clones. Sounds pretty far fetched, doesn't it? Well, that's exactly what they want you to think. They want you to read this, roll your eyes, and go "Pfff.
Goodbye Waffle Maker
I keep complaining about having no money. But the truth is, since someone showed be how to use eBay last Friday I am actually a millionaire a few clicks away from liquidity. I could get an average of 50 cents for each of my two million possessions for sure. More on that later.
Megan Deal is one step ahead.
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