Theft is a risk - 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.
Agatha Gothe-Snape's t-shirts
Welcome to the launch of my new art reviewing system. It's image based. If you text me, and say, "Penny, how's the show?!" I'll send you a picture back for a small fee of $32. Quite often, the picture will be this. And sometimes this or even this. But, on rare occasions, IT WILL BE THIS.
Moscot Originals
Moscot Eyewear has been trading out of Manhattan's Lower East Side since early last century. Painted on the walls of their dilapidated showroom is a frankly incredible list of customers including Woody Allen, Truman Capote and Johnny Depp.
Very soon they'll be able to add the name of every roll-cuffed, nut from Flinders Lane to Flemington to that wall because Moscot are now selling their classic frames range here in Australia.
ffiXXed SS10, Unseen Utopias
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project that recognises the need for sustainable creative practices, delving beyond pure aesthetic to create readymade fashion products that are a pragmatic response to living arrangements. Helmed by ex-pat Australians and Internetwork contributors Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, ffiXXed is created between studios in Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong, essentially maintaining a roaming headquarters responsive to global influences.
Make A Plate
As it's likely you experimented with melamine Make A Plates like me at age five. Take your mind back, way back. It went a little something like this: Take your circular paper sheet; consider the potential opus; doodle with the provided pens until you're pleased as spiked punch; enshrine your illustrated vision by baking it; realise you've forgotten your mum in your family portrait; eat off it for 10 years.
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.
The Treasury
The beautiful Emma Grace is hosting the second in her series of jewellery-making workshops at her studio this Tuesday. She invites you not to borrow a welding mask and grind stuff on a shrieking metal wheel, but instead to "rediscover the lost art of thriftiness; otherwise known as Nana-Technology.
PAM Holiday Season 2009 Collaboration Tees
Just as I was sitting down to tell you all about this awesome collaboration between designers PAM and artist Mark Borthwick, a dude broke into my house - or my back landing - whatever, it was scary. What did this piss-fucker steal? Nothing. Because I donned a Donkey Dove Tee and and frightened him off.
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