Today I got a sneak peek at the City of Sydney’s “Laneways By George! Hidden Networks” art programme, part of the larger “Art and About” arts festival that is officially launched this Thursday, October 1.
Laneways By George! sees eight artists transform some of the CBD’s narrowest, darkest alleys into outdoor interactive, creative spaces, each interpreting the ideas of art, architecture and the urban [...]
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A Sydney institution is in strife
How terribly sad it is that the very venue I mentioned in my last post about the early days of the band Wolfmother is now closed, indefinitely. If the Hopetoun Hotel’s doors were to remain so it would be a very sad day for Sydney’s, indeed Australia’s, musical community.
Some great Australian and international bands have graced her small but perfectly formed [...]
Before the world there was the Hoey
I wandered up to the Enmore Theatre last Saturday to shoot Wolfmother, which got me thinking about the first time I saw them.
Back in May 2004 I got a call from a friend asking if I wanted to check out another friend’s brother’s new band with the slightly odd moniker of Wolfmother, who were playing their first gig [...]
Prototype in the public domain
With Chantal Kirby and Susan Dimasi at the helm, Melbourne-based fashion label MATERIALBYPRODUCT have quietly gone about creating award-winning collections “designing appropriate fashion for our culture, our time and our place (globally)”.
The label’s philosophy is informed by sustainability as much as it is by traditional fashion design. In keeping with this down-to-earth “eco-couture” aesthetic, they, and i quote them directly, “continue [...]
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