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Melburnin by Inga Walton
June 30, 2013 | troublemagFounded in 1861, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia’s oldest public art gallery. Many of its significant and diverse holdings are due, in part, to the greatest benefactor in Australia’s visual arts history, Alfred Felton (1831-1904). The residue … Read More
Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
June 20, 2013 | troublemagIn another coup for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces program, Hollywood Costume is at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) until 18 August, 2013. An initiative of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London, its season there (20 October, … Read More
ACTease by Courtney Symes
June 2, 2013 | troublemagThe talk of the town in Canberra this month has been Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhale hot-air balloon. This unidentifiable half bird/half beast has Canberrans divided. Ian Warden of the Canberra Times eloquently summaries Canberra’s bewilderment: “Now whole classes of Canberrans (like, … Read More
Greetings from Hackensack N.J. by Ben Laycock
June 1, 2013 | troublemagLots of squirrels, most of them squashed, plenty of rain and sleet and mist and fog but no snow. It’s Christmas 2006. This is the first year since 1860 that it hasn’t snowed by Christmas time. The people are a … Read More
Greenwish #15 by Robyn Gibson (designs by Horse)
June 1, 2013 | troublemagStraw Skyscrapers It could be something from a Star Wars movie, the bottom of the sea, a futuristic manifesto, or a hairdresser’s nightmare … But it’s actually a concept for an extension to an existing building in Stockholm, from Belatchew … Read More
Stralian Stories: Squizzy Taylor by Neil Boyack
June 1, 2013 | troublemagMy dad said to me once that his dad (a person I never met), was a gangster. He would have been alive and kicking around the time of Squizzy Taylor, and if he was a gangster he definitely would have … Read More
Dear Dreamboat
June 1, 2013 | troublemagDear Dreamboat
The dream centres on a woman. I’ve known her for decades. She is married and has children, lives somewhere between London, Somalia and the coast of Taiwan. She is an eccentric, maternalistic blonde with the body of a … Read More
Greetings From Huanchaco by Ben Laycock
May 1, 2013 | troublemagOk, so we left Lima on a high note, but our arduous journey was not quite over. We had set off some months ago, you may recall, from the Atlantic coast of Brazil, and our quest would not be complete … Read More
Greenwish #14 by Robyn Gibson + Horse
May 1, 2013 | troublemagRubberised Keyboards for the musician with a festish Roli’s ‘Seabord’ is a new patent-pending rubberised keyboard lets you bend and twist the keys as you play to affect the way it sounds! It’s like bending a guitar string as opposed … Read More
Stralian Stories by Neil Boyack
May 1, 2013 | troublemagI speak as a novice on the world of mining, yet I know that mining is a heated, daily discussion in numerous political, professional, community and social media circles. Mining affects communities and individuals in many basic ways. It affects … Read More