Interview with Sam Jinks (NSFW)

Within 48 hours of the dust storm that turned Sydney orange last week, Derek Powazek had published Strange Light, a magazine featuring beautiful photos of this rare event. “Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales and Queensland, turning everything an eerie shade of amber. At [...]

This is a nice idea by Louise Hawson: “I’ve lived in Sydney for over 30 years but I’ve never set foot in most of its 637 suburbs. Time to dust off  the street directory, grab my camera and venture out into the great unknown. My plan? To nose around one new suburb every week for [...]

Rilla Alexander, of Rinzen fame has some lovely stuff on her site byrilla. You can also check out our old interview we did with her here.

Frankie magazine and Nine Lives Gallery have teamed up to exhibit some of Australia and New Zealand’s most talented female illustrators in ‘Hand Drawn’ put together by local Brisbane artist, designer and curator Mel Baxter. Opens October 2nd, Nine Lives Gallery: 330 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley. Via Finders Keepers.

Really nice piece for SBS One’s First Australians, commisioned by Qube Construct and worked on by Matt Ditton.

City of Sydney is celebrating sustainable food and living in Redfern and Waterloo this October with the fifth annual Danks Street Festival. New in 2009 is the Live Green Kitchen featuring sustainable cooking demonstrations from leading local chefs. The Festival will also feature the new “Handmade” market, selling handcrafts, sweet treats and more to support [...]

Prickly Pixel have launched their new website. We posted about the updated showreel, which you can see below. Some great work.

New spot by Sydney based Umeric. MTV also entered Umeric’s Organic rebrand into Promax BDA in New York. Out of the 8 categories entered it won 7 gold and 1 silver.

New book by Shaun Tan. via CMIS.

Melbourne artist Matthew Quick has in the last few weeks been nominated as a finalist in both the $25,000 2009 Whyalla Contemporary Art Prize and the $15,000 2009 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award. He is also heading to Art Sydney 09, to be held at Moore Park, Sydney from 22 – 25 October 2009. The [...]

“What if there was a Billboard Charts for the music people really listened to and talked about on the Web. We Are Hunted wants to be that definitive online music chart. The service monitors the most popular songs on iLike, BitTorrent, Last.fm, MySpace Music, and other Web music services, as well as discussions on Twitter, [...]