Street Style

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Brown Council Runaway
Chalkhorse
94 Cooper St, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
5-21 February 2009
On at Chalkhorse this month is, what at first glance appear to be, two extremely dissimilar bodies of work. Brown Council’s Video installation Runaway, 2008, a videoed performance of women, running, but not getting anywhere, is reminiscent [...]

Now don’t get me wrong dear readers… j’adore fashion! I live it, breathe it, read it, watch it, buy way too much of it and evidently write about my beloved la mode. 
But to me fashion should be an individual expression. Sure, stylistas, ain’t nothing wrong with becoming inspired; recreating, reinventing and revisiting fashion is after [...]

While the debate about ‘street art’ versus ‘graffiti’ continues to rage on in modern society, some savvy street-art lovers with an entrepreneurial spirit have decided to promote certain artists rather than castigate. One such purveyor of fine street art is Jason Kinsella, co-director of Little Art Book (LAB). Soon to be launched in Australia, this [...]

NBA Franchise Catch-up
If you’re even a mildly-serious hoops fan, you’d surely agree with me that the golden era of the NBA was the 80s to early 90s. Close your eyes for a moment and it’s easy to drift back to a time when Spud Webb was winning dunk comps, Craig Ehlo was repeatedly made a [...]

There’s a classic philosophical thought experiment called the ‘brain in a vat’ theory which proposes that you’re really just a brain floating in a tank and are hooked up to a computer which simulates all your experiences. Therefore, it says, there’s no way of knowing conclusively whether you are actually yourself, with a brain inside [...]

Hey man, I just … I can’t function in the morning without my morning coffee. I really fuckin love the coffees they make at Single Origin man. Single Origin FTW!! I mean, that guy – he’s so crazy! But I reckon he’s good for business, right? Yeah, LOLz man! I dunno anyway … what? Yeah [...]

How many times can I use the term “nu-metal”?
In the way that T-Pain’s forays into autotune spawned a million flagrant abominations involving the software, is Weezy’s “Prom Queen” going to usher in a new era of nu-metal? I certainly hope not, my face has already bore ample expressions of disgust owing to the first wave [...]