Tag Archives: Melbourne

Stop the Press!

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Top Aussie guys Knock Knock Magazine have just dropped their 4th issue. We’re big fans of homegrown talent, so wanted to give a quick big up to the Knock Knock crew and make a little noise about their new mag.

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Issue 4, the ‘travel’ issue features some household names and some great emerging talent including: Ben Quilty, Mark Drew, Geoffrey Lillemon, Dave Cragg, Sobekcis, Sheryo & The Yok, Onur Gulfidan, Rosek, Haribow, Maaden, Beatrix Curran, Kate Florence Knowlden, Val Kelmer, Jess Howell, Robyn Aubrey, Arman Nobari, Embassy, Spoonty and DoubleTrouble.

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Check their website: knock knock magazine

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Children of the Iron Snake

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Carbon – Friday

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Tonight marks the start of Carbon Festival in Melbourne. Kicking things into play for the weekend comes a special 30th Anniversary screening of seminal hip hop documentary, Style Wars – a movie that switched a world full of rebellious teenagers on to the expressive artform of graffiti.

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Original documenters of the scene, Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant will be in attendance (if they’ve recovered from jetlag in time) to host a Q&A session on the movie. The screening, which itself is presented by Aussie paint brand, Ironlak, is exclusive to Carbon ticket holders.

The rest of the weekend encompasses a series of talks from the top independent creative minds from around the globe. Forums focus on four main areas of discussion:

Building a Brand, Contemporary Art & Design, New Media, Film & Photography

Other highlights include the Adidas’ Colliderscope on the Saturday – a chance for creatives to collide under the influence of music from Swick (Mad Decent) and visuals from Eness – and New Era are hosting a Sneaker Freaker swap meet on the Sunday.

www.weareallcarbon.com

Shida – Ecstasy In The Abyss

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Returning to Melbourne after a huge worldwide expedition touring four continents, Shida is currently working on his latest installation at Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne. Exploring fractal, cataclysmic colours and a constantly evolving mythology, Shida weaves an intense mythology in his work.

Congruous with his work, Shida’s name embodies flow, movement, and vivid colours. Enhanced by graphic lines, he pushes ideas of socio-sexual aspects of the body, his characters sprawling across buildings, wrapped in chaotic embraces, manic laughter spilling from their lips.

Ecstasy in the Abyss opens on the 19th April at:

Backwoods Gallery.
25 Easey street
Collingwood
Melbourne
Australia.

www.backwoodsgallery.com

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Australia’s premier contemporary style and culture event, CARBON festival, kicks off its third year of forums this April with a lineup of inspiring creative entrepreneurs and artists hand-picked from all over the world.

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Speakers flying in from around the globe to share their stories of struggle and success include founder of the acclaimed streetwear brand, Stussy; the one and only Shawn Stussy, who, apparently, has spent the last 12 or so years surfing in Hawaii, as well as the recently-turned septuagenarian senator of street art reportage, Martha Cooper.

Joining the melee will be the best daredevil duo since Batman and Robin, Dabs & Myla, and www.booooooom.com creator, Jeff Hamada, as well as Aussie artist and one-man social glue factory, Mark Drew, graffiti powerhouse, Barry Mcgee, and a whole host of other amazing minds.

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Our old favourites New Era’s Australian brothers and sisters will be getting down and Adidas are slinging some weight behind the organizers at Acclaim Magazine too, so it looks like a monster weekend in Melbourne is to be had.

We’ll be down there bringing you daily round ups in between our daily beer intake and naps.

More info below:

CARBON Festival
Saturday April 13 – Sunday April 14, 2013
RMIT Storey Hall Auditorium, Melbourne CBD.

Tickets ‘here’.

Website ‘here’

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Organized Chaos

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Organized Chaos – Slicer – Backwoods Gallery

Founding member of Melbourne’s AWOL Crew, Slicer, kicks off a solo show at Backwoods.

A hectic mash of paint, paper, canvas and burnt wood, the show explores an emotive landscape of violent graffuturism.

Organized Chaos will be opening on Friday the 15th of March at Backwoods Gallery and running until Sunday the 31st. Private viewing: Thursday the 14th of March.

Inquiries: info@backwoodsgallery.com

www.backwoodsgallery.com