The Mouse and the Mask

It could be tempting to compare American superstar artist Barbara Kruger with pop superstar Madonna - both have been continually producing hits for...

Dead girls are great motivational tools. Cinema has a proud traditionof heroic men happily fetishising female corpses to justify their two hours of angst...

Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...

Every fashion designer is familiar with, and more often than not inspired by, Little Edie Beale’s incredible outfits or as she would say “revolutionary...

I once said the word 'letterpress' in a roomful of designers and I won't be making that mistake again, not without a poncho. Blubbering, sweating, the...

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...

It used to be a truck rental garage, now it’s a bakery. Actually it’s a commercial bakery, but it’s also a café. But don’t...

There must be something powerful in the air around Windsor, even stronger than the scent of scorched skin wafting out of Tantrum solarium. For the past...

Australian based music taste-makers, Modular, don’t seem to be content with just spotting and nurturing talent anymore. Over the past few months...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography...

A few years ago, Hamburg-based artist Thomas Baldischwyler became understandably intrigued by the memorably titled record Shit is harder than penis...

Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine...

Melbourne’s mX newspaper is more popular than gouging out your eyes with a fork. However, if they handed out free forks at train stations we...

Dead pets and hand jobs might seem like the obvious choice for exploring the themes of trust and relationships, but that's exactly the framework for the...

Why does everyone love Pixar? Exhibit A: when Pixar became aware of footage showing someone who cried every time the hero of their latest film simply...

How many times does your mother have to tell you? Don't leave things until the last minute. Remember that time you failed VCE? Got audited by the ATO?...

For some, end-of-year Christmas parties begin with complimentary sandwiches and shandies. These parties usually result in a wild game of spin the bottle...

Over the obsession surrounding sneakers, Swedish duo Alexis and Anna of Gram have designed a range that are less in your face and more on your foot.

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A picture is worth a thousand words. The recommended industry rate for freelance writers is $799 for 1000 words or less and 80c per word thereafter. Rolling...