'Head Case'
If we didn't feel weird typing it, we'd say Head Case will blow your mind. So we won't say that. We'll just tell you that it's an incredible exhibition put together by Skye Luckins of Buro North, and it's designed to raise awareness of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
The show includes art, design, illustration and photography by 30 creatives from around Australia, including Jamie Daddo (an awesome dude who used to come into the ThreeThousand staff cafe in South Melbourne all the time and apart from that has to put up with being related to Andrew and Lachlan).
Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad
Lonely Planet writers have set the precedent for fictional travel writing - who needs to visit a country when the chick you're dating has been there? (His travel guide was probably way better than the usual fact-bogged ones anyway.)
In a natural extension of this logic, nine artists including Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray, Tai Snaith and Amber Wallis come together for Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad, putting a creative spin on what travel means to them.
The Forty Thieves, Gorker Gallery launch
Must be killer to be an illustrator because everyone would always be inviting you to be in a group show. "Hey I'm putting on a group show, yo. Can you send me, like a drawing, it will be number 39."
WHY CANNOT THE ILLUSTRATORS HAVE THEIR OWN SHOWS? It's not like a zoo where the wombats are a bit boring, sitting in a hollow log all day, so they throw in some red-bum monkeys next door and a jazz orchestra near the kiosk.
Subterraneans - Will Sweeney
London-based illustrative genius Will Sweeney rose to prominence in the art world through his graphics work for revered UK streetwear label Silas. Along with cohorts James Jarvis, Ben Sansbury and Lizzie Finn, Sweeney helped propagate more of an institution than a clothing label, culminating in the book Where is Silas?.
2007 Festival of Jewish Cinema
Male models, fish hooks in the face, endless self-examination and Dixieland jazz. All too often, we rely on film for most of our cultural reference points. And if, like me, your exposure to Jewish culture has been through the fine work of Woody Allen and Ben Stiller, it's possible we are not receiving a very well-rounded picture.
Short & Sweet script entries
This isn't really a LOOK so much as a DO because script submissions for this short play competition gotta be in by July 31. It's not often that ThreeThousand suggests you create things yourself, we're more about telling you to go and see things other people have created, and drink their vino while you're there.
Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945
She cut herself, and he liked it. The great Spaniard Pablo Picasso is renown for his bright cubist masterpieces, but from 1935-1945 his world was steeped in the dark romance of a figure called Dora Maar.
A photographer, revered beauty and self-mutilator, Maar was Picasso’s lover in pre-war Paris.
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