Brain - Melbourne Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Melbourne, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
The new Sunshine & Grease
Local doyen of all things obscure Pat O'Brien is the brains (and body) behind Sunshine & Grease - always ready with a tidbit of information about your favourite artist, the skinny on the best shows and the inside word on releases you didn't know you needed.
Originally housed in the CBD's Bus Gallery, this treasure chest of new and second-hand records, books and films has found an all together more fitting home in Clifton Hill.
Deal Extreme
Most Christmas presents are useless to their receivers. So why not save your relatives brain strain and direct them to Deal Extreme (DX for short). Like StrawberryNet for gadget geeks, DX is jam-packed with super cheap, potentially useless gizmos. And they ship free to any address! That's right, super cheap gizmos, with little to no use, shipped free to any address.
ESS. Laboratory
So far there are two laboratories on Gertrude Street. First, the crystal meth lab behind the highest grossing public phone box in Melbourne, and Japanese-born fashion heavyweight, the ESS. Lab.
Owners and sheriffs of the label Hoshika Oshimi and Tatsuyoshi Kawabata have created one of the most compelling and interesting spaces around, as well as a pretty engaging line of clothing for those chasing something beautiful.
NowNow invites you to the Box Office Book Stall
In high school I told the careers counsellor that I wanted to become a physiotherapist and I studied biology, chemistry and maths with a language thrown in to boost my ENTER score. If he could see me now: trying to import a product for which there is practically no market. Sourcing artist books, zines, journals and magazines while wrestling wildly with Excel spreadsheets and exchange rates.
The Narrows Bookshelf (an album review)
Code: Selfish is a 1992 LP by British rock band The Fall which entered the chart at number 21. 'Code: Shelfish' is what you should say if you wish to peruse the new bookshelf at The Narrows. It is characterised by its harsher design in relation to the previous year's display, and draws influence from architecture and typography.
Co-op Store
Adelaide has copped its fair share of flack over, well, forever. BUT! The 'City of Churches' isn't all parishioners and stale wafer.
Co-op Store founders Andy Irwin, Josh Akmens, Aaron Byrne and Jamie Bennett weren't even altar boys. This is shocking gossip around town, but it meant they had time to start Value King, a gallery/store that housed Nieves, hamburgereyes and PowerShovel.
YouWorkForThem
Font nerds. Ya can't live with ‘em - but where would we be without ‘em?
As much as it pains me to admit, those geeks will inherit the earth. Or at least the world-wide web from whose teet I suckle. And at the risk of fanning the flames of geekdom, let me introduce you to YouWorkForThem.
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