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Today.

Today I am sick. Today I am also going to the opera for the first time. This is not the best of combinations.

Wunderkammer

The website’s not so dandy, but oh my. oh my. I found out about Wunderkammer tonight from a little book about ‘secret spots in Melbourne’. It’s like natural history museum/shop. oh my oh my. Now I just need to find me a free weekend (whimper). …and maybe I should’ve been an Entomologist? Image by John [...]

Sufjan Stevens Melbourne

Sufjan Stevens was quite indescribable. It was absurd and beautiful, moving and joyful. He played for close on 2hrs, much of it was from his most recent The Age of Adz. Points of interest: Impossible Soul goes for just over 25 minutes and he played the whole thing, and it was gobsmackingly amazing. The Age [...]

Finders Keepers Melbourne

Yesterday proved the discovery of something alarmingly enjoyable. Twitter announced ‘Finders Keepers‘ and their first Melbourne market and the day was unusually empty of other activity, so I roped in a friend and went along. Having being a little disappointed with the ‘State of Design’ festival… I was hoping for something at very least better [...]

Eucatastrophe

Despite all of the marvelous design specific publications out there, I find myself consistently drawn to a little Victorian publication about fresh Australian writing. Harvest is excellent. It is varied, it is pretty, it is emotive and contains some truly brilliant work and some rather nice illustration. I took Harvest on the train with me [...]