Observation in Memory
Art Jason Ocampo Art Jason Ocampo

Observation in Memory

I’m never aware of the full picture, only vague figures, shapes, and colours remain. Countless moments pass by me, blurring and distorting themselves from realistic form.

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Let's Bring Ostracism Back!
Culture Hunter Finigan Culture Hunter Finigan

Let's Bring Ostracism Back!

Sometimes I worry that I'm him. But I’m not really. I’ve mastered authenticity. So have you. Well, maybe you don’t like this person because they’re kind of fake. This poser has fooled everyone into thinking they’re genuine. Isn’t that unfair?

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Play the Game
Art Bipasha Chakraborty Art Bipasha Chakraborty

Play the Game

“With each card played, the hands dealt are stained with blood.”

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Exiles
Culture Nicholas Osiowy Culture Nicholas Osiowy

Exiles

“Exile is ultimately what a gaoler calls freedom, and we are far too often our own prisoners.”

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Handpicked
Literature Cate Chapman Literature Cate Chapman

Handpicked

Last night I occupied the bathroom and its blue fluorescence, soaking it up like a greedy phantom. My reflection taunted me in this harsh light.

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Big bird blog (blog)
Art Lauren Maccoll Art Lauren Maccoll

Big bird blog (blog)

With our fingers progressively morphing into letter keys with every digital exchange encountered, there is also an opportunity and a drive to ‘opt out’, play, and discover new ways of approaching traditional formal constructs of design.”

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Unreal Estate
Culture Chloe Atkinson Culture Chloe Atkinson

Unreal Estate

What makes a space?

“Just like anyone else with a Pinterest board dedicated to vintage furniture, Levy’s mental exercise resonated with me. But I am an inheritor of a different world.”

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Neon Webs
Literature Arwen Beaumont-Lee Literature Arwen Beaumont-Lee

Neon Webs

“Sometimes I wish I had a million followers. I want people to listen to the songs I post. To think about the lyrics and how they might relate to me. Relate to me!!! So I can figure out who I am.”

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A Boiler Room with a View
Reviews Pulp Editors Reviews Pulp Editors

A Boiler Room with a View

Boiler Room was last weekend’s confused lover, trying its best to be intimate, but couldn’t do the work to make it so (even though you both really wanted it to).

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Magritte - Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art, Reviews Lameah Nayeem Art, Reviews Lameah Nayeem

Magritte - Art Gallery of New South Wales

Both eerie and peaceful, the final room is shrouded in a velvety green amongst which his final paintings whisper rumours of Magritte's transformation. At this point, one cannot help but think back to the self-portrait that greeted them, now at odds with the viscerality of The happy donor and Man and the forest. 

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Edible Women
Food Chloe Atkinson Food Chloe Atkinson

Edible Women

As she transforms her home into a marketable domain, Smith transcends the traditional role of homemaker to establish herself as a personal brand. The nails, the couture, the gentle speaking voice? Each of these elements are curated and deployed by Smith in her content to appeal to her audience and indicate her marketability to brands – and it’s working.

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Isaac Julien's 'Once Again...(Statues Never Die)'
Reviews, Art Akshaara Agarwal Reviews, Art Akshaara Agarwal

Isaac Julien's 'Once Again...(Statues Never Die)'

As soon as you enter the space, you find that the dialectic of light and darkness is already at play. Then begins the piano, and notes that echo cavernously, consuming the space. In a haunting, projecting boom, Alice Smith begins vocalizing the words, “once again…”

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Lace Monster
Art Estelle Vigouroux Art Estelle Vigouroux

Lace Monster

“I reckon if I picked flowers the star power sucked from the ground like a naughty talisman — maybe the PH of the soil is altered by the amount of celebritydom decomposing, would my hydrangeas blush prudent pink?”

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Rest in Pieces Bin Weevils
Comedy China Meldrum Comedy China Meldrum

Rest in Pieces Bin Weevils

“Move over Club Penguin, there’s a new horrifically laggy, slightly problematic, bug-riddled, deeply iconic flash game to crash your parents' 2012 HP Spectre on.

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The Children Yearn for the Bakery
Comedy Clive Meldrum Comedy Clive Meldrum

The Children Yearn for the Bakery

“I now sported my shiny new Bakiez management badge, and became the perfect power-tripping 12 year old, telling off all the other inferior 12 year olds. I was no longer the trainee, I was the trainer.”

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