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If you head down Abercrombie Lane, off George St (next to the cinemas) you may be in danger of being hit by a falling tetris block. Installation art by Gaffa Gallery artists and project team: Kelly Robson, Ella Barclay, Hugh Rutherford, Adrianne Tasker, Ben Backhouse. They write: There are grand implications of error here that [...]

Anyone with a thing for design should get themselve down to CarriageWorks this weekend for the Finders Keepers Markets. Running on Friday evening and Saturday day/night, the markets feature over 60 emerging designers and artist hawking their wares. There’s food, music and bar to keep you occupied as well. Don’t know where CarriageWorks is? Check [...]

Add this to the file of things I wish went on in Sydney but am too lazy to organise myself – an urban game of capture the flag using glowsticks for team colours. 1700 people took part in a 2 team game held in Toronto on the weekend. thats 850 person teams. Unreal! Go check [...]

Motion graphics is often considered somewhat the pinnacle of the modern commercial design. No other contemporary art form has quite such a universal appeal. Art lover, designer or not, as long as you have got eyes – it’s hard not to appreciate shiny, pretty, moving things. Our friends, The Start have launched their new studio [...]

The Reportage festival is currently running in Sydney. Tagged as ‘a celebration of photojournalism’ the festival showcases work by both local and international photographers and involves a a mix of exhibitions, documentary screenings and seminars. Reportage is a Sydney based photojournalism forum that has been running since 1999 with the aim ‘to inform, share and [...]

Came accross this in my favourite Sydney bookstore, Ariel, the other day. A pretty novel concept – combining two of our favourite things in the world: Art and Eating. The author put this book together over a great excuse for a trip around Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York. His road-trip rules [...]

I came across an awesome Diplo and Santogold mixtape thanks to Street Boners and TV Carnage. I think they’ve summed it up rather well: …it is FUCKING AMAZING. Dancehall to Dead Kennedys to Native American Pow Wows. Holy shit. It sounds like a bunch of Harlem drug dealers and a cute chick from Brooklyn broke [...]

The latest in the now global Interesting nights is being held in New York this weekend. The premise is simple – a range of speakers have 3-10 minutes to talk about a subject they are passionate about. The bite-size talks combined with actively encouraged audience participation makes for a rather entertaining experience. Previous events in [...]