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Dumb Ways to Die and The People Who Died Doing Them
November 20, 2012Melbourne, Australia’s Metro train system hired McCann advertising agency to create a campaign ensuring we’re all in agreement that “trains are big, fast and not to be messed with”. Metro specifically wanted to reach the people who “just don’t get … Continue reading
Goth Cat Looks like Siouxsie Sioux
November 7, 2012While my cats are now all adopted, there are still countless kitties that need our help! I was following along with @cats_of_instagram (as I am wont to do) taking note of the #adoptsundays hashtag (don’t you judge me), when I … Continue reading
New Work by Ben Frost Examines Capitalism and Consumerism
September 17, 2012San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery is showing a new collection of confrontational pop art paintings by Australian artist, Ben Frost. In See Inside Box for Details, Frost lays bare the bedfellows of capitalism and consumerism. As a Lichtenstein-looking woman beckons from a … Continue reading
The Scopophilia Chair by Fiona Roberts
August 27, 2012Australian designer, Fiona Roberts, has created a chair upholstered in lush red velvet with 300 plastic eyeballs. The chair is called “Scopophilia,” or “the love of looking,” and it is ”the phobic object of a subject suffering from its antithesis, scopophobia, the fear … Continue reading
Troy Emery’s Pom-Pom Taxidermy
August 22, 2012Speaking of “crafty,” check this out: Troy Emery is an Australian artist who creates colorful animal sculptures by covering taxidermy foam with pom-poms. Pom-poms as a medium for art began as a lark and an inquiry when Emery asked himself: “What … Continue reading
Friday 04-27-12 Instagram Roundup
April 27, 2012This is my 8th week curating a niche-specific Instagram Roundup, and it’s the biggest one yet. (You people make awesome stuff, and take excellent photos.) Today, we find ourselves on a global adventure of toys, art, cats, and um, a … Continue reading
Light Reading is Heavy Lifting for Australian Artist
April 11, 2012Melbourne-based artist Daryl Fitzgerald occupies a unique career crossroads of “bibliophile” and “bricklayer”. While his subjects may be heavy in content, Fitzgerald’s objects are heavy in form. What I’m trying to say is: Light Reading turns bricks into books. For … Continue reading
Yayoi Kusama’s Dot Matrix
March 7, 2012This isn’t brand new, but it’s still happening (through March 11th in Brisbane), and yesterday’s post about Tilt’s Panic Room jogged my memory. Looking like a joyous explosion of Wonderbread packaging, Yayoi Kusama let her dots loose upon Australia in … Continue reading
Little Deities: Customized Gods
February 27, 2012Speaking of deities, Daniel Atkinson is curating an exhibition in Australia called Little Deities. The show features 60 artists and 60 (customized) Gods (dolls). The artist roster is different from the usual suspects of the customized toy scene, and the … Continue reading
Look Muscular While Wearing Tights
February 13, 2012These very visceral leggings designed by James Lillis for Black Milk leave nothing to the imagination. The woman who wears these laughs in the face of your crude camel toe commentary. Try harder, homeboy. Next time you see her, yell: … Continue reading
