The Thousands » Sydney

The Art of Daniel Clowes : Modern Cartoonist

Dan Clowes makes comic books that are perfectly suited to pet obsession and bedroom consumption. He pours over his drawings with a perfectionism that rivals modern master Chris Ware. And his characters exhibit those most stinging moments of doubt, angst, neurosis, lust, passion, compassion, anger, inflexibility and hopeless romanticism - the thoughts you used to think were only indulged by your inner monologue.

Eastlakes Shopping Centre

In front of the Eastern European importers is a stand where the donut man makes his own tiny donuts and sells them in the same display case as toy trucks and 'dancing chickens'.

Youeni Foodstore

It’s a brazen move to open your 100% outdoor cafe on the coldest Sydney day since Spring (that was Monday). In another bold move, they’ve opened a muffin’s throw from their original Youeni Provides (on South Dowling), just around the corner in Hill Street. Luckily they’re cocksure because they’ve got the goods to back themselves. [...]

Up Tights

Penny Kokinelis is a 26-year-old from Sydney. She makes kaleidoscopic leggings (or, ok, ‘tights’ – WEIRD) for her label Up Tights. Penny does everything from design the graphics, to sew the garments, to budgeting and distribution. Feeling lazy yet? That’s ok, leggings are perfect for that.

Wade Marynowsky, ‘Universal Remote’

Wade Marynowsky’s Universal Remote seems to be postulated on a kind of postcolonial critique of a speculative appropriation of the recent past. There are beeping things, and shiny aluminium, and lights going on and off in unparsable code and white rooms, so we’re in some kind of 1970s retro-future? But instead of being extrapolations of technology that [...]

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Buffalo Girls

I’m fairly sure anyone with an adequately functioning moral compass would agree that paying eight year olds to beat the shit out of each other is wrong. However it’s a growing reality in Thailand, and something director Todd Kellstein spent more than three years documenting for Buffalo Girls . Screening as part of the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, the documentary follows the lives and fights of Stam and Pet, two of an estimated 30,000 child boxers currently working across the country.

Haven Amphitheatre

Poor Walter Burley Griffin. He won a competition to design the capital city of this country and all he got for it was a battle with bureaucracy, a legacy of national derision and roundabout jokes, and a Dick Diver lyric that draws a link between planned cities and Hitler. Despite this, he and wife Marion [...]

Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing

Los Angeles. Few cities in modern times are surrounded by so much mythology, and misinformation. One thing I love about Los Angeles is the sheer fruitcake-iness of the place. Religious cults, diet gurus, pet psychologists, auras and fads. Few other places are you so encouraged to indulge your every personal whim. A cultural artefact that perfectly embodies this is WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing.

Actress, ‘R.I.P’

As rough as the sound of a thousand ladies having their nails filed and as warped as DJ Screw on a sizzurp-fuelled bender, Actress’ R.I.P. is a study in harmonious contradiction. Daniel Cunningham has his musical roots firmly planted in the UK’s garage cum techno cum bass cum ‘future’ music scene. However, instead of banging out mindless ‘dance floor’ hits, this Londoner inverts ‘dance music’ into a concoction that is introverted, hypnotic, and textural.

OK-OK Autumn Winter 2012

OK-OK's Autumn Winter 2012 range is in store. Cotton rib, cotton geometry, spots (i.e. black spots on white, blue and gold), light woollen and chunky woollen tights!