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Posted by: The Blackmail
We just got sent some pretty impressive install shots of the Points Of View which opened at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne last week featuring work by Brendan Huntley, Andrew Long, Dan Moynihan, Conor O’Brien, Riley Payne and Jake Walker. The exhibition is on until June 26, be sure to check it out.
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Posted by: The Blackmail
Contributors and friends alike, Joseph Allen Shea, David Ladd, Stephanie Anderson, We Buy Your Kids and Mark Drew celebrate the opening of There’s Always a Last Time For Everything at China Heights in Surry Hills this Friday night. This will be a good one!
There’s Always a Last Time For Everything
Opening Friday May 21, 6 – 9pm
China Heights
Foster St. Surry Hills
Text: Douglas Lance Gibson Images: Christopher Day
It’s easy to pigeonhole someone. Well, actually, it’s harder not to pigeonhole someone. As a method of organisation, it does have its place. Some order does need to be established but an accurate representation of the individual is often hard to summarise. Mikey Young’s latest project, Brain Children, stands in stark contrast to his ouput as a member of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and the Ooga Boogas. Add to that his role in synth-punk outfit, Total Control, and you’re beginning to see the difficulty in applying a tag that faithfully represents who Mikey is.
There’s more though. On top of producing his own music, Mikey’s an in demand producer, record label owner and with Flip Out Festival in its second year, he’s also a festival organiser. Doug Gibson spoke with the man himself, after he’d finished up yet another day of recording. Continue reading…
Posted by: The Blackmail
This week’s Cheeky Freak is all about staying safe. Watch and learn.
Now that even people with guns aren’t safe thanks to your new found knowledge, get out tonight and check on Garry Trinh and his show Just Heaps Surprised To Be Alive opening tonight in Sydney. China Heights, Level 3, 16-28 Foster St Surry Hills.
For those down Melbourne way get down and see Misha Hollenbach’s Forewards over the weekend at Utopian Slumps, 33 Guildford Ln. Or check out the many artistic delights on offer at the Next Wave Festival.
Text: Alice Cavanagh Images: Vanishing Elephant
It’s just shy of two years since they started, but it would be fair to say that the boys behind Sydney based menswear label Vanishing Elephant, have assisted with the much needed return to gentlemanly style that has infiltrated today’s fashion. Their signature aesthetic is one of classic tailoring and simple styling, creating a refreshing alternative to the distressed denim and fluoro colour blocks that have been rocked by every Tom, Dick and Harry for far too long. And for Felix Chan, Arran Russell and Huw Bennet this is only the beginning. Continue reading…
Posted by: Billy Bride
The other-worldly titian glow emanating from within the HIENZ tin has long enchanted me. Since the early days of infantile naivety Baked Beans have sustained the development of our race, and could certainly be credited as a cornerstone of modern civilisation. Their enigmatic orangutan hue is mirrored in the appearances of many a creative genius, in fact this very month Style.com published a tribute to the iconoclastic collective of Bean-haired beauties, such as Karen Elson, Cyndi Lauper and Florence Welch. Further to this, varying shades of brassy-tomato have recently commandeered the beauty spotlight, and yet Bean-inspired hues seldom receive any affirmation in our contemporary wardrobes.
Long overdue is the recognition for these little copper wonders, and yet sadly this season the majority of unremarkable designers fell into a trend of Camel-craziness (ala Chloe, Celine, Stella McCartney) where plums and lilacs also abound, yawn! However, there are the few visionary members of the fringe fashion community who dare to push the earthly spectrum further, delving into the once-taboo colour with a deftness of touch that shows true ingenuity. Kudos to Charlotte Ronson for her bold button-down dress that heated up the Winter runways, honorable mention to Alexa Chung’s ‘Madewell’ debut which featured a series of vintage inspired Ochre pieces, but most enormously, mega thumbs up to the recent Ksubi RAFW finale where a flaming ‘Has Beans’ ensemble struck a chord, perfectly encapsulating the ironically circular (or kidney shaped) nature of invention, and re-invention.
Check back each Thursday for more on the fashion world from Billy Bride
Posted by: The Blackmail
Tomorrow in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries presents Points Of View, an exhibition curated by Olivia Radonich featuring important young artists Brendan Huntley, Andrew Long, Dan Moynihan, Conor O’Brien, Riley Payne and Jake Walker.
Points Of View
May 13 – 26 June 2010
Tolarno Galleries
Level 4, 104 Exhibition St, Melbourne
Text: Vissukamma Ratsaphong Images: Daniel Boyd
I first met Daniel Boyd at the Canberra School of Art around 2002, I was in the photomedia department, he was in painting. We somehow got talking at one of the gallery openings at school and he mentioned he’d just moved down from Cairns. The week prior to us meeting he’d gone to an NBL game in Canberra and had won the opportunity to take a shot from the courts halfway line. Now, seeing that Dan was actually a rather talented point guard (who had played for the Cairns Taipans), he was able to nail the challenge, and win himself a pallet of beer. It was from this pallet that our friendship began.
Fast forward to 2005 and Dan has started his now infamous Captain Cook series, one where he reworks historical portraits from another perspective, showing Captain James Cook and King George III as pirates with eyepatches and birds on their shoulders, instead of the explorers and leaders that their original portraits would have had us believe. A map of Australia shown pre-colonisation, the land broken up as regions in relations to Aboriginal tribes, as opposed to colonised states, and the words “Treasure Island” are painted on top, Boyd exhibiting a dark humour in relation to colonisation and Imperialism. Continue reading…
Posted by: CC Bakes
I have a sugar high and a salt overload, and I crave both. The sweet and salty is everywhere in America. Everything seems to have an abundance of one or the other or both added. Bread is sweet, licorice is salty, nuts are covered in sugar, cornbread (which is sugary like cake to me) is served on the side of southern fried chicken, cupcakes have bacon in them (a recent experiment at a market stall).
However, in the trails of sampling new things in new places, here is something of the sweet/salty mix that has come out on top – Buckwheat olive shortbread for $1.50 from Saltie.
A deceptively plain-a thin blue-grey square, studded with chunks of Kalamata and the happy medium of something, with a salty olive spike. This napkin staining buttery crumble of a shortbread is made with earthy buckwheat and embedded with crunchy brown sugar crystals.
Note: Inspired by the delicious shortbread and a piece called ‘Ships Biscuit’ from from the recent issue of Edible Brooklyn.
Another delicious taste of what comes every Tuesday from CC Bakes.
Want to ask CC a question? ccbakes@theblackmail.com.au
Posted by: The Blackmail
This Friday our old mate Garry Trinh blesses Sydney with Just Heaps Surprised To Be Alive, an exhibition of new photography at the new, old China Heights. If the flyer image and title are anything to go buy (which I am pretty sure they are), this show will be amazing!
Just Heaps Surprised To Be Alive
Opening Friday May 14, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition runs Friday May 14 – 19
China Heights
Level 3, 16-28 Foster St. Surry Hills
