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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 [...]

This is out second post in a short while about Chinatown – but we love it, and we have Anna from Morsels & Musings dishing it out. In Sydney, these three Haymarket hotspots don’t need anymore highlighting. Their already huge fan base is enough to bring you to tears when you’re starving and fighting for [...]

This is about two months old, and you have probably seen it. But we just discovered that someone finally uploaded the official video to youtube. So here it is, enjoy. The official video of the successful Sydney Flash Mob Freeze staged on June 24th 2008 by the sydneyflashmob.com crew, and inspired by Improv Everywhere. The [...]

Although a certain Sydney artist, claims to have invented what he calls ‘cuprocking‘ (that’s a little bit like saying you invented drawing by calling it ‘Penstroking’) – it’s basically a type of street art made by pushing plastic cups into a chain link fence. He might have coined the cute name, he’s DEFINITELY not the [...]

The long awaited and recently launched Timeout Sydney features Chinatown in this weeks issue. We equally love Sydney’s Chinatown, and we love how they refer to it as “Sydney’s only truly eastern suburb”. They really captured some great photos in 24hrs in Chinatown And who doesn’t think of food when they think of Chinatown? It’s [...]

I think I’m in love with this chair. I know it’s completely impractical but it would really nice, just as a feature piece in the living room. This is designed by Sydney local Lisa Jones. It appears from the Bio on her website she has studied in both the UK and Australia, and has exhibited [...]