This week, the MIUC is excited to present a series of legends of totally “out there” improv. The Charles Ives Singers have a rich heritage of pushing the boundaries of sound and performance (both collectively and individually, in visual art and music) in Melbourne for over 30 years. With ties to the legendary People With Chairs up Their Noses and the “Clifton Hill” scene, this group of visual artists have been astounding and confounding audiences with their unique blend of dada-improv and abstract avant sound. And, 3 pillars of the avant scene in Melbourne, Young, O’Hagen and Fryer promise a ...
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You may remember that at the Nuffnang Christmas party I met Akisa, the brains behind a cool beauty website called BeautySwatch. I liked her idea so much (a huge colour library containing swatches for thousands of lipsticks) I thought you might be interested to hear more about Akisa and her work with BeautySwatch. Hi Akisa, can you tell me a little bit about your background? I’m a corporate rat by day and BeautySwatch editor by night – I have no affiliations with the beauty industry but do have a love for beauty products and the way they make you feel when you transform ...
The first thing we did with my family, of course, was go in hunt of some noodles to share. We wanted to go to Idea Fine Foods for their excellent combination of CNY and noodles but, alas, they have closed! Warm and hungry and slightly grumpy, we turned around and went to the Thai restaurant across the road, Sawasdee. Up the stairs we found the mezzanine busy, but were quickly seated even without a reservation. Our waiter claimed that there was no fish sauce or shrimp paste in the vegetarian curry, so we took him at his word and ordered ...
Simon TaylorStick AroundSaturday 13th of Februaryrunning till March 6thY3K205 Young streetFitzroy 3056y3kgallery.blogspot.comOPEN THURS-SAT 12-6PM
Dylan StathamDie GesundenSaturday 13th of Februaryrunning till March 6thY3K205 Young streetFitzroy 3056y3kgallery.blogspot.comOPEN THURS-SAT 12-6PM
before I went to HK. I seem to not be able to remember it. Well, not too well. That and I am hungover after being awake for more than two days, unable to sleep on a plane and being generally…well…drunk. I love Singapore Airlines. Moreso, I love Melbourne tap water, after being the boiling queen, it seems like a revelation to not squint and taste someone else’s metallic pee when sucking liquid straight from the sink. My brain is telling me that this was lunch at St Jude’s and I eated courtesy of them, so I guess, I can’t really say anything else other than ...
Sighted in Fitzroy, on the Night Cat bar, on the 21st of November 2009. See my last post for more information.
mattt studio & shop is a working space within a retail space located in Gertrude Street Fitzroy. We have a wall space and a window space with great visibility available for exhibitions and/or installations. We are open to any suggestions for use of the space. We also have an upstairs space soon available for pop-up shops or exhibitions. Photos, Measurements and Terms coming soon!
This painted on the side of the Night Cat with artists from Everfresh Studio. Artist include Phibs, Sync, Reka, Rone, Meggs, Prism, Wondalust, Makatron and Tooth.More information can be found at this page on the Everfresh Studio site.
Main Gallery:'Drift' Landscape Works on Paper by Artist Ellen Jaye BensonDriving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressureDrift is a mixed-media phantasmic wonderment often using man-made engineering structures such as lighthouses, roads and powerlines set in immense landscapes as a metaphor for humankinds romantic and precarious desire to understand, harness, shape & control nature.Projector Gallery: 'Drowning Boy' an Animation by Artist Paul ComptonDrawn and Animated by Paul ComptonMusic by Stephen ParkerA vignette in which a boy drowns inside an antique picture frame.Come have a wine with us to celebrate the opening of 'Drift' in the Main Gallery and 'Drowning Boy' in the ...
Oh Boy! Last Saturday was Pancake Day in the shop.....and what fun we had!My lovely sisters Tori and Lorna, and friend Amy came over to help out and there were pancakes galore!We wore aprons! Yay......this photo is very posed, because I did not do any of the cooking of the pancakes....I whipped up the batter, but left the fine art of making them to my lil' sis.She is a whiz on the crepe machine! (and she also has a fantastic food blog...go have a read!)We had the classic lemon & sugar and maple syrup toppings, but we also got ...
Hmm, well my colours have gone a bit all over the place… a bit of a cross process aesthetic here but I’ll just go with that. Here they are, Chris and Ryan:
Tue 23 February 2010 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm City West Water (in partnership with Yarra City Council and Cultivating Community) invites you to come along to a free 2-hour Water Wise Vegie Patch & Gardening Workshop. Discover practical ways to keep your vegies thriving even during 3a water restrictions. Guest speaker, Helen Tuton soil scientist, garden writer [...]
A lazy Sunday afternoon drinking some beer at Labour in Vain and listening to Austin Flood.
Well it’s been a wee bit longer than the three weeks I promised. Life got busy – very, very busy… I’ve been feeling terribly guilty about not adding all the photos from the Blackbird Markets, it’s honestly been on my list every week this year. A whole day off work helps rather a lot, and so here we go. I’ll start off this round of posting with the charming David:
The old Ace Billiards factory on Charles Street, now apartments. Not sure if it was always a Billiard Table factory or not. Anyone know?
It's kind of weird to review Grumpy's. All we've posted thus far is a quick write-up of a lunch that I had there many moons ago. In the meantime we've spent probably 15 wednesday nights there as part of the infamous Dyslexic Brians trivia ensemble, veering between glorious gold and shameful, shameful bronze (or worse!). Mostly we eat stuff that shares well: nachos (pretty good), chips (up and down) and pizza (#6 with the jalapenos is the best). Grumpy's does this kind of junky vego pub food pretty well and, while we initially made various attempts ...
This week, two duos exploring the intersection of abstracted sounds inspired by musique conctrete and the avant classical tradition and the fluidity and angularity of contemporary noise-based improv. James Rushford and Joe Talia have been lauded around town as one of the most exciting collaborations of recent times. Utilising viola, percussive objects and electronic processing, this duo has achieved a unique group-sound complimented by sublime interaction. Lazy is the longstanding duo featuring Melbourne improv luminaries, David Brown and Sean Baxter. For many years, this duo has been an outlet for both performers to explore the more extreme and severe possibilities ...
I was planning to see the 10.15am session of Clint Eastwood's Invictus at the Kino today, but being unable to tear myself away from the forums at Gallifrey Base, I left the house too late to make it to the cinema in time. Instead I went on a gentle walk through East Melbourne and back home to Fitzroy, where I have plenty of work to be doing, so I don't feel too bad about missing the film. Hopefully I'll catch a session later today at the Nova instead. We'll see.It's not a film I'm desperate to see, mind you - ...
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 ...
Independent with a sustainable focus, Melbourne fashion label Green Eyed Monster is celebrating its first year of creating beautiful clothing for women who care about the environment. Designer Anne Ryan’s simple, silhouette designs printed on super soft 100% certified organic cotton fabrics using eco friendly dyes have attracted the eye and support of boutiques keen to stock Australian independent designers. Her current range of whimsical bird designs are made using predominantly Australian made certified organic cotton, accredited Oeko Tex 100 Eco dyes for colour fastness and printed using water based inks. Anne said, “Encouraging people to think about the cotton before ...
This work first appeared in Fitzroy as a paste-up but it and its companion have also been created as paintings. I like both versions. 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.
Hello little redcap, hello Agaric, hello Kookaburra. The fairy tree seems to have had a fresh coat of paint. That's me with the mega-bow in my hair and my trusty elf side-kick.
Hmm, sorry about that brief break in transmission. Let's pile a load of stuff into this one, shall we?If you missed AC/DC playing at Airline Stadium in Melbourne last week, then this tribute show at the Old Bar may be some small (very small) compensation: I understand one of the Oldie's owners is celebrating his beard's 21st birthday, or something of that nature, on Friday night, too. Whatever- he's a guy who has been known to drink gin & Red Bull at times, so, y'know, approach with caution.Then remember to set the alarm early-ish so you can get a good ...
