Ahhhhh collage. What would we do without collage? How would we have started the demi-art of Scrapbooking? How would the Bauhaus art movement have existed? How would our lockers have been decorated? How would decoupage exist? I love decoupage. Everything should be decoupaged. What would Franz Ferdinand and Goldfrapp and Spod and whoever have used for video art? NOTHING THAT'S WHAT. Or maybe pictures of cats. BUT JUST CATS AND NOTHING ELSE because you couldn't combine them without the wonder of COLLAGE.

But really guys, really, collage can be pretty kickass and not just school-locker kickass, either. Presser, who was in Gerling, who's not in Gerling now because Gerling went on a massive hiatus, has transposed his mix-and-match skills from the decks and beats to the scissors and page. He takes old magazines from the 60s to the 80s and turns them in to kind of super-transformer-looking things - he takes all kinds of awesome and remixes them in to super-awesome. MART Gallery, who are devoted to showing art that crosses over with music in some way, are showing Presser's newest exhibition 'Life Dust'. His last show got people all hyped up and sold out in one night.

The show opened on the 26th of Feb and runs until the 13th of March at MART gallery.

Posted by amelia in Art, Events

Tags: cats, collage, franz ferdinand, gerling, Goldfrapp, life dust, mart gallery, music and art, presser, SPOD

DISCLAIMER: So I am kind of managing this band at present. But rest assured that if I wasn't I would blog this anyway, because they are possibly the best band in the world*, and because I have a blog.

Shady Lane used to be called Jordy Lane, and used to just be just the one guy until he grabbed himself a band at the end of last year, and changed the band name at the beginning of this one. He's been making with the musics for quite a while now - you've probably heard 'Galileo' on FBi or Triple J over the past year or so - but he's finally (FINALLY) put an album together: Here We Go, Down The Black Hole. [nb: the titular comma comes and goes, depending on whether or not someone's dumbass manager was as professional a copy-checker as she really should have been if she wanted to be taken seriously in this hell-hole of an industry.]

The album can be filed under 'Postal Service', 'Aphex Twin', 'indie-pop-electronicawesome', and 'the best music in the world*'; and the launch is at Curious Works on August 22. You'll hear more about that later, but it's time for the music now: the first single is 'Absolute Truth', but another track has been reserved specifically for the internets to get their interpaws on before the rest: 'Oh, Reality'. Find both after the jump...

Posted by steph in Daily, Music

Tags: Here We Go Down The Black Hole, Jordy Lane, Rice Is Nice, Seekae, Shady Lane, SPOD, Talons, traps, We Buy Your Kids

The only drawback of being a total party cat (see: Party Cat) is that every morning that you plan to get up and do something other than feel hungover and eat a million pieces of toast you end up sleeping through it. I mean sure you do get some exercise with all the dancing and sex and stuff but really when you walk up a flight of stairs to go to an interview where you have to wear clothes you just don't quite fit in to sometimes you just feel a tiny bit ashamed.

But today, I can leave that lifestyle behind and start a new one now that SPOD is organising it for me.

SPOD's plan to get fit is going to include a weekly mix of tunes for you to run to, three times a week. And not only that, but SPOD will make jams of different speeds for walking, jogging, running, etc. So, like most people, even if you dislike exercise you will probably like SPOD, so go find a bumbag and some sweatbands already and Fantasyze with SPOD

July 23 UPDATE:

Posted by amelia in Daily, Music

Tags: exercise, fantasyze, fantasyze with spod, party cat, running, SPOD

We were basically 85% sure that no-one was going to come to our party. We figured that everyone had said yes just to be polite but were actually going to go do more important things, like knit a tiny jumper for the tiny cat they knitted for their real cat. So when we got numbers the next day of the ridiculously large amount of people who came, we were pretty surprised. And hugely delighted...

Posted by amelia and steph in Reviews, Your Face

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids

We're having a party this Wednesday night to launch this here blog. It's another Ears Vs Eyes shindig - the first was a fundraiser art auction last year, where we nabbed $3000+ for Heaps Decent by selling art from people like EAMO, Beastman, We Buy Your Kids, Greedy Hen, and Simon Degroot. This one is a digital techy audiovisual extravaganza, because blogs are for nerds. That's right, we're calling you names already.

Anyway, the party is being held at our BFF's house. Our BFF is The Wall, every Wednesday at the World Bar. For all you arty farty party types, the Wall let you exhibit your work for free in a delightful room upstairs, while a party happens around you and below you. They don't take commission, they help you promote it, and goddamn do they know how to party.

But this Wednesday it's all about us, because It's Our Birthday - and you're invited too. More info, and an uncharacteristically oversized image, after the jump.

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids, You Are All Nerds

Sydney's favourite electro-hip-hop-sex-god Spod has returned from a lengthy hiatus with a brand-new 7inch 'concept EP' entitled Aminals (sic.). CONRAD RICHTERS caught up with Spod, aka Brent, over a few beers to talk animals, vinyl and just being awesome.

HILARITY ENSUED.

Posted by steph in Features, Music

Tags: Archive, cats, SPOD