The most exciting part of the Vic Market is easily the deli section. Before starting your weekly shop you have the opportunity to make a nuisance out...
Antenna UK 04
21st Feb 07
The desperation of watching music videos on Rage at 3am can be an intensely private experience. Waiting for one more good song before you go to bed...
Louise Weaver, no small wonder
14th Sep 05
The relationship between art and craft is in many ways similar to that of rock and pop. They are similar, competitive yet distinct, and one is clearly...
In a world where people rarely say what they mean or mean what they say, it’s vital we have a document such as Don Watson’s Weasel Words...
Empty Mag
13th Jul 05
Those prolific Design is Kinky kids are at it again, doing their bit to bring good talent into the limelight. Empty Mag is a really well balanced...
When Ghosts Take Over
10th Aug 05
Although Napoleon Bonaparte's Frenchmen didn't survive the winter, Melbourne's Dead Frenchmen are taking it by the balls of the brass monkey. Their new...
Hulger P*Phone
2nd Nov 05
Why is newer necessarily better? Sure, there's a place for faster, smaller, thinner, more effective - but there's also a place (often closer to our heart)...
Lonelygirl15 in conversation – presented by Portable Film Festival
31st Oct 07
So many people felt betrayed. Good people. People who had spent weeks - months even - sitting at their computers staring at a sixteen year-old, not...
Mood Patterns
27th Jun 07
Here's a hit of sunshine to spark up your day like a doobie. Mood Patterns is the debut full length from Belles Will Ring, the Blue Mountains' answer...
Short
26th Mar 08
Along with sucking on Lego and counting down the Rocket Clock, defacing a humble colouring book was once a 4-year-old rite passage. A rite that seems...
d.v.d at Aphids Reel Music Festival
25th Jun 08
Comprised of two human drummers and a visual artist, d.v.d piece together live animations triggered by the musicians' drumming. They push music/gaming...
The Dead Girl
14th Jun 07
Dead girls are great motivational tools. Cinema has a proud traditionof heroic men happily fetishising female corpses to justify their two hours of angst...
Variable Speeds – Mark McCarthy
29th Nov 06
Even though it’s been seriously abused over the years (Turner anyone?), Variable Speeds by Melbourne-based artist Mark McCarthy proves that...
Making Space: artist run initiatives in Victoria
26th Apr 07
There's a lot to take in where this Making Space event is concerned, so it's lucky that someone's published a book to go with it.
The first thing to...
Fake Jeans from Talking About The Abstraction
30th May 07
In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny...
Bastille Day activities
14th Jul 08
Pour café / petite dejeuner: While we French purists have been turning our noses up at Vue de Monde (it's Vue du Monde, Monsieur Bennett), its...
Alphaville new store
13th Dec 07
Q: Why did Alphaville cross the road? A: To make room the few dozen Jean-Luc Godard heads.
Particular television programs have forecasted the development...
Kids Stay Free
26th Apr 06
All good things must come to an end. Fortunately for you there’s still time to taste-test the delectable ‘Kids Stay Free’ exhibition...
Waterloo To Anywhere
28th Jun 06
Waterloo has long been used as a metaphor for a final reckoning, a settling of old scores. Though in the case of Carl Barat’s new band Dirty Pretty...