Identity Uncut: a selection of self portraits

Denim, it seems, isn’t just a material. It’s a social classifier, a status symbol, a sex invite, a controversy and sometimes, a stigma.

It’s...

Alex Vivian is a name appearing in so many cracks, crevasses and one-man acts; no one is finding it easy to keep up. He may have caught your attention...

Things you can do on a Sunday morning in Melbourne:

1) Hang out on Flinders Street Station steps wearing black eyeliner, four layers of black clothing...

Cynicism, when perfectly executed, can become strangely positive. Imbued with both honesty and relevance, this sort of cynicism is more about statement...

The Skin Project, by Brooklyn artist Shelley Jackson, is a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word at a time, on the skin of volunteers.

Jackson...

Its title sounds like a bad translation, but don’t judge into the nature – of Creatures and Wilderness by its cover, judge it for the...

This is beautiful music made by beautiful people. I don't mean this in a derogatory sense, this is music borne of the love between two people and it shines...

Fat 272 isn’t exactly new to the Melbourne retail game, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t as fresh as the day they sprung up on Chapel...

What follows is something of a fable from design lore. In late 2005, 30 photographers, illustrators and designers from several different countries got...

Tom DiCillo made one of the ‘90s most canonical indie films: the great low-budget movie about the ego-driven horrors of low-budget movie-making...

Children around the world would probably cry if Mickey Mouse ever used a one finger salute, but at the hands of New York artist Kostas Seremetis the...

The Cold War may be over but this doesn’t mean our world is free from nuclear threat. With Saddam allegedly hiding WMDs, and Uranium mines in our...

Apparently this laundrette is where all the hookers from St Kilda hang out in the evenings. It's not hard to see why. The furniture is comfortable, there...

Naked On The Vague are thrillingly deep in a woods all their own on Sad Sun - a new EP on rising Melbourne label, Sabbatical Records. No one in the...

White people like Farmers Markets, and if the Richmond version is anything to go by so do people of other races as well. Shopping there on Saturday...

Mixed Business is both a café and a convalescent home. You wander in feeling a bit fragile, even wary of spending a hungover Saturday morning in...

In similar fashion to that darling television series The Swan, Order & Progress has gone under the knife, dropped some weight (floors) and emerged...

We know year 8 history lessons were no fun without shoebox dioramas or discovering crap in fossilised rock. But those educated brain cells were probably...

It’s cool when you can buy a band’s EP at a gig – usually you can get a badge too or, in the case of Moscow Schoolboy, a pair of logo...

Always makes a future kind of phonic music exclusively composed of vocal sounds. Like Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, his spinning tracks seem to affect...