Garry Trinh, 'Friends'
Garry Trinh’s photographs have these thick layers of all-inclusive, all-embracing humour. He’s truly an incredible artist with honestly entertaining... read more...
James Franco 'Palo Alto'
Whenever I think of James Franco, I think of that 30 Rock ‘Bubble’ episode where that guy from Mad Men thinks he’s really good at everything... read more...
Jay Howell, 'Punks Git Cut'
Check this. Did you catch the dude stabbing his eye out and the long hair with the ‘Shred Time’ shirt? Yeah, that’s a teaser for Punks... read more...
An Obscene Diary : The Visual World of Sam Steward
‘NSFW’ is brilliant – a blessing in our time-poor, information-heavy age. But we need more handy acronyms tailored to our info processing... read more...
Bruce Russell, 'Left-Handed Blows'
Bruce Russell is like, the granddaddy of new music. If you think the dings and tings you’re hearing in low-lit performance spaces are out of this... read more...
Dave Graney, '1001 Australian Nights'
We were all ready to run a review of Dave Graney’s book 1001 Australian Nights this week, but the copy didn’t arrive in the post on time. So... read more...
A Curious Catalogue
‘Necessary evil’ is too strong a term. Let’s just say skateboard product catalogues are something that every skate brand has to make... read more...
Dumbo Feather, issue #27
No-one’s denying it. Dumbo Feather Pass It On is a stupid name for a magazine. When you think about it though, everything is a stupid name for everything.... read more...
The Indie Cred Test
In the ’90s Georgia’s Chunklet magazine consistently killed with smart pisstakes on hipster culture and an alternative comedy focus (publisher... read more...
Mark Siebert, 'Poetry and Paydays'
Kids starting out at art school recognise from day one that they are signing up for a life of perpetual poverty and people ‘not understanding them’.... read more...
Dave Carnie, 'Boob'
My psychologist told me I am the first intellectual skateboarder he has encountered. He should get out of that weird office more often, because skaters... read more...
Condiment: Adventures in Food and Form, issue #2
The second edition of Condiment is concerned with the notion of questionable taste, encompassing not only food but also food. Through a series of studies... read more...
James Doohan, 'Mystery Meats'
There are many reasons people make art – to make money, to get famous, to create something long lasting and meaningful. Mystery Meats is a collection... read more...
Club Donny #6
Is it because of the internet? Seems like printed publications are responding to the new varied formats for and access to content with increasingly inventive... read more...
Hila Shachar and Amy Borrell, 'The Elements of In-Between'
Art inspired by other art is one of the most fulfilling kinds imaginable. Paintings that provoke music, poetry that informs film, photographs that motivate... read more...
Modern Architecture A-Z
It’s really cute the efforts you make and all, but let’s face it – I am the world’s greatest boyfriend. Exhibit A: after repeatedly... read more...
doingbird #15
Browsing through a new issue of doingbird is kind of like going around to a really cool friend’s place for dinner. For an entire week leading up... read more...
Martin Bell, 'The Fourth Dimension'
Oh, to be inside Martin Bell’s brain. Actually, scratch that – I’m holding a direct portal to it right now. From the Fourth Dimension... read more...
Andrew Earles, 'Hüsker Dü: Story Of The Noise Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock'
‘Excited’ doesn’t do justice to how I felt when this book arrived. ‘Puddle on the floor’ and ‘trepidation’ is more like... read more...
Andrew Kuo, 'What Me Worry'
His first book is a collection of paintings, diary entries and graphs about life, music and worrying. Check out his colour chart review Hurricane Chris’s... read more...
Fashion Projects
Holy crap, I just realised something – fashion magazines aren’t about fashion at all. They’re about models, the fashion tit, being weird... read more...
Connor O'Brien, 'Quiet City'
Everyone likes to philosophise about the ‘battle’ between print and online media. Ex-On Dit editor Connor O’Brien is having a bet each... read more...
Vijay Khurana, 'Streaming Live'
Vijay Khurana is a nice guy. Well, I’ve never met him, but he’s always sounded like the kind of guy who you could confidently take home to... read more...
Lele Saveri, 'Trillogia Della Morte'
As cataloguers of weird obsessions and unique fascinations, zines excel at making the personal poetic. Trilogy Of Death is the result of a lifelong interest... read more...