http://www.theblackmail.com.au Thu, 17 May 2012 05:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/chug-chug-chug/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/chug-chug-chug/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 05:46:33 +0000 Dean Mathers http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2938 Frat House (1998) by Todd Phillips is a Sundance winning HBO documentary that never actually aired on the network because of controversy surrounding its creation.]]> Frat House (1998) by Todd Phillips is a Sundance winning HBO documentary that never actually aired on the network because of controversy surrounding its creation. Some participants claim to have been paid to re-enact various parts, while the films makers have always maintained it’s authenticity. At times it reminds of scenes from Gummo where you’re not sure who the actor is and who isn’t, nevertheless, this is a pretty awesome documentary that makes me wish I had actually gone to college so I could not hang out with these guys.











Phillips is a real life version of Entourage, after making this he went on to make a stack of massive Hollywood movies: Old school, The Hangover (1 & 2)… ]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/chug-chug-chug/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/puff-puff-pass/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/puff-puff-pass/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 10:24:19 +0000 Michael Kucyk http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2925 Tambora Radio.]]> I recorded a new live mix last week for ‘Puff Puff Pass’ on Tambora Radio, a bedroom broadcaster run by the Melbourne-Indonesian community (heavy party crowd!). The online station only transmits when shows are live, but the program’s host and new Australian resident Bayu Aditya has made the set available to stream/download here. The set starts heavy on the ambient tip, before spinning into astral floaters, Japanese groovers, heady psych 45s, lovers rock and common album cuts from The Doors and Charlie Dore. Dive into the golden archive of past Puff Puff Pass shows with Roman Wafers (Bamboo Musik), Francis Chang (Cutters Records), Richard Norris (Beyond the Wizard Sleeve/Time & Space Machine) and DJ Nozaki. Just don’t just sit there honking on it like a cigarette! Pass it on!

]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/puff-puff-pass/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/andie-tham-rockin-steady-at-tcb/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/andie-tham-rockin-steady-at-tcb/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 09:02:51 +0000 Laila Sakini http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2897 If you are in Melbourne, go down and check out Andie Tham’s solo ‘Rock Steady’ show at TCB Gallery in the CBD. The show is full of cool marble and stone look-a-like sculptures along with paper plants, faux real!



Opening: Wednesday 9th May – exhibition runs until Saturday 26th May
Gallery hours: 12pm-6pm
Location: TCB ArtInc
Level 1/12 Waratah Place, Melbourne VIC 3000
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Still Life
Opens Thursday May 17, 2012 at 6pm
Showing until May 24, 2012
Sun Studios
42 Maddox St, Alexandria
]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/still-life/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-abramovic-method/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-abramovic-method/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 18:22:46 +0000 Adriana Giuffrida http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2860 I must say I feel really naive to not have known who Marina Abramovic was before today.
I am lucky enough to be in Milan at the moment and saw The Abramovic Method at PAC.

Abramovic is a Serbian performance artist, who had a revolutionary show at MOMA in NYC in 2010 titled ‘The Artist Is Present’. The show went on for 3 x months, and each day Abramovic would sit at a table across from a gallery patron, and the duo would stare at each other for a period of time. Both Abramovic and the patron were being filmed during this process, and the emotion that is evident in both faces during this time is extraordinary.
HBO has since made a documentary on The Artist Is Present, see the trailer below.

At PAC you can see the filmed footage of this incredible work and also view a new piece, titled The Abramovic Method. This piece is made up on 3 x sections, in which 21 people can take part daily, after being given careful instructions from Abramovic herself on film.
Even as an observer looking at the work without the participants involvement, this is a beautiful piece of work that surprisingly leaves you with a great sense of serenity.

If you happen to be in Milan, I highly recommend checking out this show at PAC.

http://theabramovicmethod.it/it/
http://marinaabramovicmademecry.tumblr.com/

]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-abramovic-method/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-hot-spot/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-hot-spot/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 18:02:47 +0000 Tristan Ceddia http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2861 The Hot Spot is out of the bag!]]> My new book The Hot Spot is out of the bag!

Get it at Gang Atelier, or a gang of other places outlined over HERE with some more images and information.

I hope you like it.

Woo!
]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/the-hot-spot/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/canyons-when-i-see-you-again/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/canyons-when-i-see-you-again/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 04:17:38 +0000 Michael Kucyk http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2848 Canyons have just released the video for 'When I See You Again', my 2011/12 summer anthem, just in time for the Northern Hemisphere heat.]]>

Canyons have just released the video for ‘When I See You Again’, my 2011/12 summer anthem, just in time for the Northern Hemisphere heat. Directed by Fleur & Manu at Parisian production house Division whose previous work includes M83 – Midnight City, Sebastian Tellier – Roche and Tricky – Murder Weapon, the content was mainly sourced from this public call out…

“The video will be comprised of tonnes of different clips of memories and life moments over the ages. If you have any film footage – riding a bike, running on the beach, kissing, eating, getting married, being sick, flying, swimming, crying, you name it – we need it. Whatever it was shot on, videotape, Super 8, SLR, MINI-DV, it’s all good, in fact the weirder the better.”

The track itself features lead vocals from Sniff’n The Tears frontman Paul Roberts and hallucinogenic BVs from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.

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BRENDAN HUNTLEY
A Pleasure To Meet You

TOLARNO GALLERIES at ART HK 12

Hall 3, Stand 3X8

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Ironically summery new track from Sam Maguire (AKA Flash Forest), one that fits perfectly into whatever laid-back activity takes your fancy.

]]> http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/flash-forest/feed/ 0 http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/introducing-melissa-deerson/ http://www.theblackmail.com.au/2012/05/introducing-melissa-deerson/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 06:00:22 +0000 Melissa Loughnan http://www.theblackmail.com.au/?p=2780 Next Wave Festival‘s Emerging Writers Program. Melissa is a writer and artist who will be providing The Blackmail with a news feed on Next Wave events over the coming weeks, as well as other art, design, fashion and literature-related goodies in the months to come.

Melissa is currently showing in the Middle Gallery at Kings ARI until 27 May.

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