Author results: Alice Fenton
McSweeney's Book Release Club
I've been visiting The McSweeney's Store a lot lately because I heard that occasionally they'll offer huge bargains on their subscriptions just because they feel like it. You never know when it's going to happen though, so you have to be VIGILANT. While I was there, clicking refresh like a deranged mouse in a science experiment, not finding any bargains, I found something else.
Five Dials
Issue 11 of Five Dials begins with a note on lists, and how useful they can be as effective slices of biography, hinting at what's going on in a person's life at the time of list writing.
If I showed you my current list you might dislocate your jaw from yawning so hard ("Remove apostrophe from 'you're'", "Change photo background to white") so I thought instead I'd write a list of the things that went through my head while reading Five Dials:
1) Heh.
Portable presents: Refinery29
Piera Gelardi and Philippe von Borries have excellent names. They are also very clever, and are the two key people behind one of New York's most forward thinking online fashion publications, REFINERY29.
Followed by millions every month, REFINERY29 caters to an international fashion audience through a range of online avenues, including designer shops, interactive trend reporting and style guides.
Hipster Doofus Party
What:
Hipster Doofus Party
Where:
PACT Theatre Sydney, 107 Railway Pde, Erskineville
When:
Fri Mar 5, 8pm-11pm
How much:
Free
Description
Being mean to hipsters is fun. Exhibit A: This, Exhibit B: This. It's also a cinch, especially when some fluoro-loving party-starters, who claim to sound like 'crushing up rose quartz and smoking it in a double headed crack pipe' do most of the work for you. All you have to do is dress with a strong Surry slant.
Event: Party
Stimulus: Hot artsy types
First Draft re-opens!
What:
First Draft re-opens!
Where:
116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills
When:
Exhibition opens Wed Mar 3, 6pm
Runs until Sun Mar 21
How much:
Free
Description
The renovations are finished and First Draft are feeling pretty schmick. Schmick in that new home way where you want everyone to come over and inspect your corners and run their fingers over surfaces ("See NO DUST! No human debris whatsoever! We are the freshest people in the universe.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: art
That other place - Zoe McMahon
Zoe McMahon's is an instinctual approach to photography. She doesn't plan, she waits and she looks and she travels. And every so often she finds a space that feels familiar, a space that induces tenderness, a space that speaks, and she doesn't photograph it so much as have a brief, heart wrenching affair with it.
The Chippendale Fresh Food Co-op
Lately, in my world at least, there seems to be a strong movement towards thinking about what you eat. Not in a 'will this make me fat?' way, but in a ‘what had to happen to get this on my plate?' way. It's possible that we all just read this book, and once Mr Safran Foer's words fade from our minds we'll go back to grabbing whatever we can (be that greasy burgers, horsey-doovers from art openings or lollies from babies), but it's also possible that we're growing up a bit, and realising that our eating habits can effect change on a societal level as well as a personal one.
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