Wye River General Store
Yesterday I was doing 400 km/h around the Great Ocean Road in my Bugatti Veyron, listening to Gorgoroth, when I came upon the small town of Wye River. "This looks nice," I remarked to my passenger who just happened to be an American thespian of some repute. "Yeah, it does", said he.
Allnut Boat Hire
To fish on our beautiful bay in winter, you need sea legs, cast iron guts, and a stiff, nautical beard (that covers your entire body). Thankfully though, spring has arrived so all you need now is a couple of mates, a box of barbecue shapes and a healthy sense of man-whimsy. Oh, and a vessel of some kind.
The GO Show
In 1984 in Tasmania me and Philip Hawley went on a Uniting Church Mystery Bus Tour. We were both 12 and, on that infamous Murray's coach, the only humans under 65. The tour was shit: after stopping off at a vets and the bone-numbingly boring Ulverstone Maritime Museum we ended up at a yarn market.
MIAF this year has a bus tour too, called The GO Show, and, like my emotionally abusive tour of '84, it promises much: ‘The GO Show is a bus tour(.
Dingy Arcade
True Story: When Space Invaders was first launched back in 1978 it created a nationwide shortage of pennies in Japan. People were dropping some much change into the arcade machines that the 100 Yen coin all but disappeared from circulation.
Thirty years later, things aren't so rosy for the arcade industry.
Ping Pong at Sports Club
There's crappy plastic chairs, and some partially deflated green balloons. Are you enthralled yet? You should be, because the walls at Sports Club may be an unappetizing mustard colour but they are lined with super awesome table tennis tables, and if there's one thing we've invested our time in here at ThreeThousand, it's table tennis.
The Arthur Russell Paradise Express
Here at ThreeThousand, we've believed it for a while: disco is the new nu rave. But, as Malcolm Gladwell has said (between trips to the money-counting machine), every trend needs a tipping point. And mark our words, for disco in Melbourne the tipping point will be Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell.
MAX GRR!
A Melbourne-shot adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are has been postponed to be ‘lightened up' but artists have meanwhile banded together to fix Sendak enthusiasts with the wild. MAX GRR! is brought to the Melbourne International Design Festival by an architect, a choreographer and a dancer.
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