Is Not Magazine issue #11
Is Not Magazine. A magazine. A poster. Known locally for insane parties and lauded internationally for original, prize-winning design: it confused the hell out of passers by. It fostered local artists and writers. Many a parent of Is Not contributors could proudly say "Well, at least my child has stopped burning hedges.
Canvas Magazine
Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion and profiles art practioners and well, beautiful things. Captured with brilliant photography from the likes of Martin Bleasdale.
The latest issue houses the wares of jewellery designer Paula Kyle Walden and an interview with Chris Do, the director of design studio Blind.
Evergreen Magazine issue 01
For those of you who missed Liv Barrett and James Deutsher's awe-inspiring turtle/tortoise/cat video at the VCA gallery as part of Next Wave's, Unsheltered Workshops group show a month back, rest assured, there is much more where that came from in Evergreen - a bi-annual contemporary art and culture journal they're publishing.
Air Guitar
Dave Hickey is the love child of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Giorgio Vasari, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and, still skimping on his alimony, Lenny Bruce. To wit, he is: promiscuously inclusive, as humanly warm as pee-pee on denim, smarter than a dagger, as serious as your life and funnier than a muthafucka.
Absence
(Think friendly Japanese expat bower bird bookmaker, stuffed in a capsule hotel.)
People-person Hiromi Tango has holed herself up into that little space no larger than a late model Ford Festiva at Platform (where the old guy with second-hand books lived and died) and is living out her art project Absence.
WON Magazine issue 02
If you’re reading WON Magazine, wash your hands before you touch your face, or you will end up with gridiron style under-eye war paint. Yes, WON is constructed of humble newsprint and is absolutely free (where you can get it), though its content is no hastily slapped-together assemblage of sensation like our daily rags.
Blanket Magazine's patchwork poster launch
Blanket Magazine has been publishing in the fine, time-honoured tradition of downloadable pdf since December 2006. It's less about writing than it is about visual stuff (art, design, photography). Actually, it's kind of like a giant, bimonthly, downloadable folio. (But hey, so's the newspaper, only journalists won't be getting a better paid job, ever.
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