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Projectorbitions
No the record in our mind is not skipping.
Last issue or the one before we mentioned Projectorbitions. It was neat!
This is the "Open to the public" exhibition of the works and video footage that was created as a result of the Projectorbitions.
Artists include Store, Benzo, Fredrock, Tarnz, Nish, Orgen, Gary Seaman, Koven, Jules.
Things to expect: DJs, B-boys, Food, Drinks and one HUGE exhibition.
Sassy.
Where: 5000 Gallery, Waymouth St.
When: Friday July 24, 8pm.
Video: preview on youtube.
RIP The Gymnasium
We aren't about to stand at the funeral swaying back and forth slurring a speech about how our dearly departed wasn't so great in life, because, The Gymnasium was.
Maybe not enough people knew about it, or more people have vertigo than first thought and the narrow steep stairways threw a few off, or just maybe the hard slog of vintage entrepreneurship had run it's course.
We had a nice time with you Gymnasium, you were a reliable source for vintage goodies and always lovely to pop into.
RIP.
If they still have stock they are open until the final bell tolls at 5pm Saturday (Tomorrow!).
Where: Rundle St
When: Until Saturday 17th 5pm
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Bike drifting
A few decades ago, before the realisation that the environment was getting a bit f$ked up, kids would meet in the dark of night, drive their overpowered rear wheel drive road art machines in convoy into the foggy deserted hills and make drift.
That was then, this is now. Enter, bicycle drifting. Same $exy concept, but two less wheels.
Drift can also be spelled with three wheels, check these big kids with their freewheelin trikes!
Video: bike drifting / trike drifting
Powers of Katsu - a film about scale
You're in year 8 science class and the teacher pulls some funny looking eye glasses from the cupboard. They have long tubes and a couple of focus wheels and they look like something you're glad the doctor doesn't use on you.
An hour later you realise it's a microscope, and pretty much the coolest thing on the planet. Objects that are small become big, so very big that you can look at the freckles on a bee. Exciting!
Now take that joy, and apply it to a street artist, Katsu. Watch as he shows you his version of how small things become big.
Video: Powers of Katsu
ps_ just in case you're of the persuasion that tags are bad, have a quick look at this video too.. the evolution of graffiti, from a tag to a mural.
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Talking to Mistletone Records
Interview by our young friend Nick. Good job Nick!
Born out of the ideas and passions of two Melbourneans, emerging Australian label Mistletone has grown to represent the power of proactive and positive thinking in the music industry. Throwing a lifeline to listeners and artists alike, the duo give life to local up-and-comers whilst bringing the international sounds Dan Deacon, Beach House and Evangelicals to our shores and into our record shops. Co-founder Sophie Best talks about the label:
The birth?
”It's all because of Ariel Pink. Ash (Miles, Mistletone co-founder) and I were big fans of Ariel's and offered to bring him to Australia for a tour. We realised that no Australian label had ever released his records and decided we should do it ourselves. So that was the impetus for starting a label which was something we'd both daydreamed about for many years.”
Getting started?
“Ash had a friend who worked for a distributor so we approached them to distribute our label. We started with Ariel and once the word got out there, we got offered so much good music we couldn't refuse and the label grew from there. “
Where is the label going?
”We intend to keep releasing good music on the label and just letting it take its own direction. There is no grand plan, we just let things evolve how they want to evolve.”
Australian music industry?
”We try not to think too much about the industry or what the current climate may be. The music industry is as good or as crappy as you want it to be. There are some amazing people in Australia and all over the world who are facilitating great music, and there is a proliferation of incredible music coming out from the burgeoning creativity of the current climate. That's what is important to us.”
Review: 'Screens' by The Mint Chicks
(Valve)
'Screens' is out of this world, more out of this world sonically than anything the batty Chicks have done before but at the same time the poppiest of power-pop. Guitar led sounds give way to more electronically affected aural delights in synths, keys and possibly a harpsichord here and there. Imagine a re-enactment in the future of a sweet yet slightly twisted 1950's carnival somehow transplanted back to 2009. Where the instruments barely work but with a little futuristic tweaking they manage to emit a twisted version of their former selves.
Don't Sell Your Brain Out, Baby is irrepressibly infectious doo-wop bliss, 2010 is an imperialistic sci-fi adventure into outer space and Life Will Get Better Someday is the sound of a trapped heart smacking against the walls that confine it.
Excellent.
D.
ps_ get yourself hooked into a fast connection and check out their website.. trippy 4x video is awesome.
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