Dean Spanley will make the producers of Botox an absolute fortune; those who see it will have a crinkled brow throughout while trying to understand what the hell it is actually about…
An excellent form of compensation for newly-acquired wrinkles is watching the magic between the stellar cast. Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam and Bryan [...]
Sanne` Mestrom Things Fall Down, Sometimes We Look up
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reunited after 11 years, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio remind us why they made history together in Titanic…
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes’s latest film Revolutionary Road confronts and challenges our preconditioned sensibilities and notions of relationships, social status and personal dreams. It strips your ideals and beliefs to their core and makes you question your life’s [...]
More than just a beautiful face, Brad Pitt proves why he is still one of the biggest draw cards in Hollywood…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie that will warm the cockles of your heart as well as showcase Pitt’s versatility as an actor. Based on a short story of the same name [...]
This is ‘Australia’…
The intricacies involved in making a film, especially one as large scale and logistically demanding as Baz Luhrmann’s newest film ‘Australia’, are largely lost on most of us. As consumers we demand entertainment in its slick, finished form. The process of how it came to be may flicker across our consciousness momentarily but [...]
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CHRIS O DONNELL・NY ADORNED
Chris O Donnell, a tattoo artist with 15 years experience, is a leading light in the tattoo world renowned for Eastern religious iconography, old skool Americana, and a distinct talent for Japanese styles.
NY Adorned actually opened during the days of tattooing when what we consider now an [...]
“Bland…James Bland” should be the catch cry in the 22nd film in the Bond franchise. Like a salad without dressing there is nothing too tempting about Bond’s latest adventures…
With a lot of hype and out-of-this-world expectation Quantum of Solace arrived in cinemas with a bang but delivers with a limp. The latest Bond installment falls [...]
We are in the studio of artist Horimyo - a space in a set of innocuous apartment blocks in the middle of Saitama city, on the outskirts of the sprawling metropolis that is Tokyo. While the studio seems regular enough, it is evident that we are witnessing an esoteric ritual whereby the process is of as [...]
The Good Ink
In a city of over 19 million people, and being a global hub of the arts world, it’s a given that much of the world’s top tattoo talent would be concentrated in NY. Shops such as Last Rites, Flyrite, Invisible, Saved, Funcity, Fineline and Daredevil house some of the world’s top artists, often [...]
