So I got myself all dolled up Saturday afternoon to take photos of my new dress. I planned to head into the CBD earlier than my dinner companions - meet the little one's boyfriend night with my sisters and the boys - for drinkies with a friend.Two seconds after arranging to meet in the city at 5, the heavens opened and the motherUcking hail began. Thus began the next two hours of boyfriend, Krumm and me running from window to door to bed to bathroom to inspect the gobstopper sized hail stones... I've read reports of tennis ball size hail ...
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Looking for artist/designer to share large studio in these new art studios comprising of 6 separate spaces. Great light, great creatives. Location is Collingwood. $40 per week includes gas, electric, internet. Communal area, soon to be wet work area outside, and BBQ. Close to Smith Street so not great parking.
Detritus in a vacant lot on Smith St. Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
Open-plan creative space, CBD edge. Great working environment. Includes, balcony garden, casual meeting space, kitchen, internet, utilities, cleaning and outgoings. Separate buzzer, signage rights, phone lines and furnishing also available. To share with a small well established media company. Two spaces available, Approx 9 sq meters each. $150 per week each.
THIS WEEKEND THERE WILL BE 4 HUGE COPMUTER SWAPMEETS SATURDAY 13th March. *BALLARAT, Ballarat Secondary College (East Campus) Corner Melbourne rd & Fussell St. SUNDAY 14th March. *COLLINGWOOD Town Hall-140 Hoddle St, Collingwood *SPRINGVALE Town Hall - 397 Springvale Rd, Springvale *GEELONG, NEW VENUE- Geelong Clearance Centre, 42 Corio, Geelong. ALL MARKETS OPEN 9am-4pm FREE Testing done onsite of your Computer or parts!! FREE copy of TRADING-SPACE at the Door!!
Trippy Taco is a fun place to take friends visiting from interstate. Over the long weekend I met some visiting friends on Smith St and we brunched at Trippy Taco, sharing the breakfast tamales (declared the winning dish), taquitos and the fried tofu burrito (very delicious). Then we had a wander through the shops and enjoyed the hail storm… Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
A video about our weekly rebranding sessions, pressuring the Labor Party and the Brumby Government to get our of the pocket of the coal industry an start doing something real about the climate crisis - such as transitioning Victoria out of coal and to renewable energy.
I’ve been walking past a suggestion box in High St, Westgarth for a long time now, and was curious about who put it there. Thankfully, Off The Kerb have solved the mystery for me… The boxes were installed in various locations by Nick Ilton. His intent was to encourage people to stop and contemplate, and, judging by the brief lifespan of his previous public art pieces (anyone remember the square bicycle in the racks at the State Library?), he did not expect them to last very long. Suprisingly, the boxes are still in place, and Nick received many suggestions. These were ...
I am exhibiting in two group exhibitions during March. The first is at APW Gallery in long Island City, New York (yes the big apple) in the World of Imagination Vol 3. The work for this exhibition is different to my usual work in that I have experimented with paint. The second is a group exhibition at the Pine Street Creative Arts Centre (64 Pine Street, Chippendale NSW) titled “the artist and the sea”. The exhibition opens on the 10th March and closes on the 20th March.
I met this delightful creature off Johnston St yesterday. I have seen a few others in laneways around Lygon St, but have no idea who the artist is. Filed under: collingwood, love your work
Well, one way or another I was always going to be on the road this (long) weekend.For the first time ever, I'm booked in for Golden Plains:There's a long and involved story about two friends getting me drunk and suggesting this would be an ideal way to get over my general dislike of festivals. Whatever, the line up was enough to convince me.Who’s playing. This year’s lineup is brought to you by the letters “spirited”, “pirate” and “classic”.PAVEMENT, DINOSAUR JR, DIRTY PROJECTORS, THE BIG PINK, MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS, TAME IMPALA, SUPER WILD HORSES, OPTIMO, CALEXICO, MONOTONIX, GASLAMP KILLER, NASHVILLE PUSSY, JEFFREY ...
A saw this wire flower sculpture on the traffic light post on the south east corner of Smith St and Johnston St over the weekend. Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
Training Room for up to 60 people with removable wall for 2 smaller rooms. Boardroom with seating for up to 15 and central power supply for laptops. Private Executive Office with meeting table. Break Out Rooms for up to 8 people. Hot desks / office facilities with high speed broadband & printing. Also available: • Data projectors , screens, glass & electronic whiteboards • Lots of natural light • 2 outdoor balconies, one with tables & chairs • Well equipped kitchen facilities • Meals area with automatic fresh milk coffee machine • External catering • Close to transport (across from Amora Hotel) • 10 undercover parking spaces
This new studio is being renovated as we speak and ready to move into 2nd week of March. There will be 6 studios ranging from $80 - $120. Soon a new kitchen and lounge area will be installed with outside “wet work” area and BBQ. I really want a handful of practicing artists/designers that can bring inspiration and flavour to the space. Please email me if interested. On Vere Street close to Smith St - amazing light.
Gallery 1Foyer SpaceA PLACE TO BEEllequa MartinA place to be is an installation reflecting upon dislocation and dream states. It is an offering of an imagined environment for a space for thefuture or of one long since past.Ellequa Martin utilizes a range of media in her practice, including drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, installation, and ceramics.She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006 and has had solo shows at t.c.b., Westspace and Seventh Gallery in Melbourne and received a Melbourne City Council Young Artist Grant in 2007 for her exhibition Deep Cuts ...
Space ANEW WORK BYHolly and Rowan McNaughtSometimes, we are given trophies as a reward for an achievement. These are often ceremonially given over by notable people.At the Australian Open this year, the president of Kia Motors gave out the trophies.One example of a pilgrimage is going to the Monaco Grand Prix. You can watch the cars go past from a balcony overlooking the beach.It must be pretty nice.His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monte Carlo was given the 2004 FIA Gold Medal as recognition of an outstanding contribution to motor sport.For this exhibition, we will present new agglomerations of rewards ...
Space BA HIERARCHY OF LOSSPaul PhillipsonPhilipson’s work explores the poetics of photography and its ability to present description without place. His seemingly unrelated images, when placed together, expose a shared language. The result is an unsettling exploration through territories as diverse as the elegiac texture of his landscapes to the texture of skin itself.The currency of the sublime runs through every aspect of Philipson’s work. His upcoming exhibition shows a series of ethereal photographs which transport you from a frozen lake, to a misty tree-lined road, to a night owl caught in the flash of a light. The effect is ...
Project RoomWITH AND WITHOUT IDENTITYNatasha CarringtonWith and Without Identity is the finding of an ethnographic investigation into the construct of the criminal ‘other’.As an installation of stills and texts taken from filmed interviews it aims to magnify issues that surround the visual representation of prisoners.Culturally it is interested in the role images play the construction of myths and how aesthetics form the signposts by which criminals are identified and categorised. Because prisoners are under the care of the State, questions of agency and identity become associated with censorship and risk.This exhibition asks that we consider how one set of institutionalised ...
Gallery 2YOU'RE DOING IT WRONGSimon MacEwanA series of drawings on the themes of growth repetition and the futility of trying to draw abstract philosophical concepts. With a confusion of approaches including cartography, geometric and psychedelic abstraction and natural history illustration; Simon MacEwan explores collective behaviour, the yearning for utopia and the frequent gulf between one's intention and the end result.In You're doing it wrong one can see the dark side of the moon, drink the milk of paradise or catch the train from Piccadilly Circus to Grand Central station.
Gallery 3BADLANDS AND THE GENERAL JUNGLESylvia JeffriessBadlands and The General Jungle pulls an untidy heap of reoccurring symbols and characters into its schizophrenic landscape, narrated by the inner monologue of neurotic clichés. The works writhe internally through a candy coloured landscape, informed by and fabricated on a self-perpetuating mythological mess of symbolic language and characters.Sylvia Jeffriess’ works take the construction of character and it’s relationship to idiosyncratic language through the psychedelic meat mincer of the artists’ personal subconscious, pulsing out a pop infused inner slime of cartoon inspired fears, desires, repulsions and anxieties.Badlands ties together the strings of underground zap ...
Is an exhibition by Simon MacEwan. He was just in the Sunday Age for his jewels being ripped off by Topshop. This is not about jewels though, it's about new drawings. The tagline for the show goes 'Ill considered drawings, the like of which you've probably seen done better by others.' Cute - but it's doubtful. His drawings are pretty good, and really very considered.The hair bear bunch model the invitation. You're doing it wrong*. At C3. March 3. Come enjoy some sunny Autumn loveliness with a glass of cider on the grass.*Rather amusing coming from Simon, who has a ...
ABC Gallery : 127 Campbell Street Collingwood 4th March : AmeriKKKa “The Intruder” – Roger Corman 1961 Cormans’ only “serious” film and William Shatners’ screen debut gives a rare glimpse into the artistic heights that both could have continued on if this film hadn’t been a box office flop. Shatner is electrifying as a White Supremacist provocateur stirring a Pro-Segregationist Southern township into violence against a state enforced, integrated education system. A tense and ugly vision of mob psychology, as well as the demagogues who put it to effect.. What makes this film completely unique is the usage of an actual small ...
Fitzroy/Collingwood seems to be the hotbed of social enterprise businesses in Melbourne (see my review of restaurant Charcoal Lane), and in late 2009 another one opened around the corner from me – The Social Studio. The Social Studio is a non-profit fashion studio space staffed by approximately 20 young members of Melbourne’s refugee community and overseen by the lovely artist Grace McQuilten. I think the value and purpose of The Social Studio is best articulated on their website: The main barriers faced by newly arrived members of the community are unemployment, isolation and difficulties accessing education and training. The Social Studio addresses ...
After having a drink at The Fox with the crew at PBSfm, the second stop of the night was at The Gem, watched the band above while drinking a pot of draught (I'll have to check Beat to find out who they are). Then it was off to Yah Yahs to see Hugo Race and The True Spirit play.Managed to catch support Bad Orchestra(pictured above), but missed out on Celery. Very pleased to catch this band, plenty of guitar, taking you somewhere, with some great female vocals thrown in. Bad Orchestra is a band I would definitely see again and ...
