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We’re
all very upbeat about the pending spring-clean of the
governmental abode - hopefully it'll be a bit more thorough
than the past few post-election cupboard-crams of seasonal sporting
equipment, guest manchester and ignored policy promises. Still,
this issue's less about their House, and more about getting
you out of yours. Group shows, collaborations, birthday parties
and Xmas shin-digs abound - and if you’re feeling a little left
behind, there’s still a bunch of things to get involved in.
Submissions are open for next year's self-portrait competition
at Somedays
Gallery, the
Record Store is calling out for street artists
to decorate their shopfront, and our favourite Hope
Street Markets have opened applications for the
Summer.
You’ll be seeing only one more Shape Thrown into your inbox
before we return in 2008 - stronger, bigger, better and even
(is it possible?) better-looking. So that’s another refreshing
change to get irrationally excited about. |
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Take-Away
Shows are a weekly vodcast produced by French blog Blogotheque,
directed by artist Vincent Moon. The idea is simple: “You meet a band.
You take them outside in the streets and ask them to play there, shoot
the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens.” It's when the bands
and filmmakers manage to spectacularely accomodate for the unpredictable
that these clips get brilliant - check out what happened to Menomena.
Each setting is inventive and perfect - St
Vincent strums sexily on an old motel bed like a film
noir vixen, as the cameraman all but mounts her. Malajube
board the subway mid-way through 'La Monogamie' and sing until their
stop, and no one around them seems to notice. Arcade
Fire squeeze ten instruments into a freight lift to perform
'Neon Bible', ripping a magazine as an improvised snare. And a door
is pushed open to reveal
Grizzly Bear crammed into a tiny bathroom, with the guitar
and melodica being played in the bath behind the shower curtain. Dappled
Cities Fly, The
National and The
Shins have all been involved - and click HERE
to find out why we love Beirut. |
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“Not everybody wants to be in with the cool kids. To be honest, being
outside of cool is a cool that's hard to achieve - and that’s where
we like to be. We’re a pirate ship, a community of outsiders just
trying to give people the opportunity to connect.”
Pirates. Cool.
The focus of the festival is on collaboration and community – another
trend we’re happy to be seeing a bit more of these days. TS has supported
a bunch of events where the art, music and popcultural worlds collide
because frankly, it's way more interesting when different circles
celebrate each other than when they compete for the public. As Ray
says, “People
are getting tired of the same old thing these days, that room full
of heads just doing what everyone else is doing. The community-feel
makes art what it should be; something shared, more inclusive and
based on bringing people together.”
It might seem out of step to have the festival co-ordinated by a dude,
but Ray stresses that the whole movement is driven by the femmes.
“The world is ready for something new, and if music & art can propagate
change then we’re doing our job. Whether it's a fad or a long term
thing - well I guess that's up to women.”
Sunday 02 December, 12pm – 10pm
Annandale Hotel
$20 + BF or $25 on the door
buy
tix : WIN
TIX! |
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Chances are you’ve already missed the first installment in this
three-part festival - the premier of Wholphin
IV, the “DVD-Magazine of Unseen Films” that share
an office with McSweeneys
in San Fran. Still, it’s not too late. Dec 1 holds the Australian
branch of the three-part series, a showcase of local short films
curated by Megan Spencer. And Dec 8 celebrates Cyber-born
film, with the screening of digital-phenomenon Four-Eyed
Monsters. Encouraging culture over industry, community over
competition, and artistic inventiveness over commercial compromise,
the festival also hosts panels of film-nerds, actors and directors
debating the opportunities of a changing industry in a digital
age. |
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| Imagine
being shoved on stage and being told to perform a spontaneous
three-minute Shakespearian tragedy underneath an imagined broken
table in a Palestinian coffee shop, with less than a second
to prepare. Now imagine doing it with a brutal ringmaster shouting
out different musical styles for you to adopt every thirty seconds.
Now imagine doing it in front of a sold out Enmore theatre,
filled with a Shadenfreudic audience who will either Laugh or
Not Laugh. There’ll be a mix of comedic celebrities and up-and-comers
at the culmination of this two-month-long comp - the semi-final
we saw was not only hilarious, but judged by Moira.
If you’re one of those sweet empathetic people who get embarrassed
for others, stay home on December 2 and comb your cat or hug
or something. |
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POSTWOOD
@ MONSTER CHILDREN FROM 06 DECEMBER |
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For
their 2007 annual showcase, Monster
Children Gallery have forgone their usual size constraints,
with the only criteria this year being ‘do something with paper’.
“Post-Wood”. Get it? Being internet-based, we’re not really into paper
at all, except maybe for a mouse-pad fill-in]… But we do like good
art, and Post-Wood features the work of 56 big local and international
names - including the above-left submission from LA’s pyschadelia-inspired
Steven
Harrington, and the piece from T-Shirt King Kevin
Lyons (above right). We’ve made a list of our favourites,
linking each name to the best online sampling of their work we could
find – there’s a few, and it kind of took us a while. So please, take
advantage, and have a browse.
POST-WOOD FEATURES: the vaguely deranged Pourous
Walker, photographer Peter
Sutherland, ubiquitous Kill
Pixie, NY-resident (but Australian-owned) Anthony
Lister, WeBuyYourKids’ Biddy
Maroney and Sonny
Day, the woodsmith Sam
Smith, eerie ethereal Lilly
Piri and Mel
Kadel, Modular/Ksubi king Jonathan
Zawada… and TBC… |
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LET'S
PLAY THEODORE UNIT!
Tell
your crew to be easy - now you can act out all of the Ghosts'
stories of downtown hustlin', Miami stash runs and ghetto love
lost with your very own pocket sized Pretty Toney! Don't leave
this figure of action near the Barbies though, boy be pimped
in a Ghostdini robe, fitted Yankee cap and 14 carat bling. With
four catchphrases recorded by the Iron Man himself, it's "like
a Wu Tang Eight Ball!" |
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BRAG XMAS PARTY
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01 December
If it wasn’t for our Brag-and-Coffee session every Monday morning,
we’d really be a tiny bit lost. So it's only fair to give them
a shout-out for the Xmas shenanigans they’ve got planned, when
they take over each of the venues that have stolen your memories
through the various weekends of 2007 - Spectrum, 34B, Vegas
and QBar. Shirking off the laws of punctuation and capitalisation
are headline acts bluejuice and teenagersintokyo,
as well as Fait Accompli, The Tongue,
Seabellies and Kobra Kai – with S.Y.L.K
busting in with their early-nineties beats and understated attire.
And yes, DJs will keep us all dancing well into the 2nd - Health
Club DJs, Vivienne Kingswood, Kato, PhDJ, Mixtape Mafia and
more TBA. |
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COFA
ANNUAL 2007
College of Fine Arts |
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28 November Launch, runs until 7 December
The Community
of the Freakishly Attractive has a showcase each
year exhibiting the creations of over 350 freshly-graduated
artists and designers. Featuring brand new animation, design,
interactive media, prints, installations, video and photography,
for some students it's their first show, but for most it'll
be their last before they enter the terrifying world of full-time
work as artists, designers, critics and teachers. There’s an
end of semester party after the showcase launch at QBar
afterwards - with Nick Sun, Tennis, Cassette Kids and the Pet
Cemetery DJs who, if our calculations are correct, should probably
be DJing at Pet Cemetery... |
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CHASER'S
BORE ON EVERYTHING Uni
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UNSW
Roundhouse 04 Dec + USYD Manning Bar 05 Dec
“Come and pay outrageous prices to hear the team behind The
War On Everything and our new book bang on about ourselves!
We guarantee a 100% self-indulgent gabfest where we chat through
the year that was and answer questions until you’re sick of
the sight of us and awkwardly try to sneak out the rear exit!
And then, to add blatant exploitation to injury, we’ll hang
around to pressure you into buying our crappy mechandise so
we can sign it to boost our already obscenely overinflated egos.”
We quoted that straight off their promo material with a happy
recognition that we couldn't say it any better. These events
sold out last year, so get in quick. |
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POSTWOOD
@ MONSTER CHILDREN FROM 06 DECEMBER |
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…So
yeah okay, we said there were a few… above left is the Post-Wood offering
from Michael
Perry, who founded Brooklyn’s MidwestIsBest design house,
and above right is the submission from Susan Wright. The exhibition
also features pieces from Bondi resident Trent
Whitehead, storybook illustrator Kelly
Murphy, Never Now and the Serpents founder Tristan
Ceddia, his co-founder of Serps Press Thomas
Jeppe, the plush-making Kevina-Jo
Smith and papercraftsman Nathan
Gray – who you might recognise from Architecture In Helsinki
merch.
There’s a bunch more too, just as good, but... you can find them yourself.
See you there. |
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THE
BLACK LIPS |
| With
an album-title inspired by The Shangri-Las,
you automatically get the impression the 'Lips fifth album might
be borrowing a few ingredients from 60’s pop – and it kind of
does. ‘Veni, Vidi Vici’ has an infectiously sneaky pace and
‘Oh, Katrina’ has all the fuzz of The Who.
Add to this a live show which includes chickens, vomiting and
band members kissing, and its no wonder Vice Records has snatched
them up as their latest buzz band. As much as I’d like to diss
them for this reason alone, the album is actually a hell of
a lot of fun. (AP) |
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RECORDS 21 NOVEMBER |
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I'M
NOT THERE
Official Soundtrack |
| Too
easily written off as your parents' car trip music, Dylan
has had a topsy-turvy career and life as the organic Americana
flipside to Bowie's self consciously cosmic
reinventions. The upcoming movie, and this accompanying soundtrack,
look to do his life justice; 39 tracks and 29 voices cover Dylan's
career, with artists as diverse as Stephen Malkmus,
Cat Power, Tom Verlaine and
Mark Lanegan playing with Dylan's wit, lyricism
and vocal cadences. They don't all hit the mark, but to be honest
Dylan doesn't always either - so this stands as a well above
average testament to a highly influential artist. (MR)
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MUSIC 30 OCTOBER |
>
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PNAU
Pnau |
| Album
three sees the boys treading into mid 80’s synth-pop territory,
much like Devo in ‘Lover’, before it takes
a turn towards 90’s techno and acid house that’ll induce extreme
yelling-along to rave-like chorus’s while you try not to get
too tangled in the laser lights. ‘Wild Strawberries’ is the
stand out single, though worth a note is ‘Embrace’ which features
Pip Brown of Teenager. If 2005’s ‘Again’ lacked
the album flow that Nick Littlemore and partner Peter Mayes
are capable of then this album makes up for it, strengthening
their status as one of Australia’s leading dance acts. (AP)
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ETC
ETC 10 NOVEMBER |
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BOYS
NOIZE Oi
Oi Oi |
| German
producer Alexander Ridha has some stellar remixes
under his belt – that was his work with Feist’s
‘My Moon My Man’ on Kitsune Maison 4… Sheer brilliance.
So his lack of creativity on this debut album is an unfortunate
surprise. It’s hard hitting, pulsing electro and yeah, it sounds
good – but each song is much the same as the last. ‘Shine Shine’
offers a different taste with its house paced synth and beat,
and we’re reminded of his skill – though more variation is needed
to make it an album you’ll repeatedly listen to from beginning
to end. (AP) |
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BOYSNOIZE
RECORDS 25 OCTOBER |
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GORILLAZ
G
Sides |
| While
disk 2 of this two-disk set has big names like Soulwax,
Hot Chip and DFA remixing
2005’s Demon Days’, the real joy of this release are
the oddities contained within the first CD; a sprawling collection
of musical styles that didn’t fit on their last album - some
finished, some purposely loose-ended. The real gem is ‘Hong
Kong’ with its its risky use of Asian instruments which ultimately
pays off in an uncharacteristically layered track, offset by
Damon Alarn’s raw vocals. (AP) |
| RELEASED
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EMI
17 DECEMBER |
>
MYSPACE |
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