Books - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Sydney and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Butt Magazine's 2010 Calendar
Plenty of guys and girls like the pole and the hole when it comes to sexy times. I'm pretty much the same, except as a confirmed ‘mo I prefer them both belonging to a hot piece of the male persuasion.
So when Santa breaks into my house Law and Order: SVU-style while I'm all tucked up in bed this Christmas eve, I'm hoping that he has a copy of Butt magazine's 2010 calendar stuffed in his bulging sack.
Pretty Telling I Suppose
As Gert Jonkers (of Fantastic Man and BUTT) says in his introduction to Pretty Telling I Suppose, Sam Hodge's photography has an honest and candid quality about it that's not easy to come by.
His photographs offer fragmented memories of his daily life, including unmade beds, hysteric laughs, erections, peeling sunburn, ex-lovers and everything in between.
Natural Selection Magazine
Growing up in the quiet, beautiful and boring confines of New Zealand, I find myself feeling an unhealthy affinity for the place now I don't live there. This affinity has grown to include anything at all that touches the hands of any Kiwi. NATURAL SELECTION is one of those things, not that it isn't absolutely justified.
Recycled Ed Libris Journals
Post Moleskin introduced us to the $25 plus bracket for plain notepads, these marvels may be one for the vault. Destructed and meticulously rebuilt by some clever library geeks, here is a journal to satisfy those with a penchant for sumptuous stationary.
The story begins with an ex-library original hardback cover, sporadic pages of the original story, illustrations, stamps and pockets alongside new blank pages on which one may scribble or pen a new tale, sketch or collage general journalings.
Free Comic Book Day
No doubt comic books will soon snake down to the bottom of the cultural ladder again, but for now, nicely-bound graphic novels are available in credible bookshops. Why would you enter the lowly, unwelcoming comic store? Four words and an exclamation point: Free Comic Book Day!
Once a year, publishers pick a single issue to give away in an attempt to lure new customers into the crack-like addiction of monthly comic buying.
Mag Nation online
There's no longer any reason to be JALOUSE of the Kiwis and the Melburnians, because now you can shop at mag nation online.
THIS IS A MAGAZINE Mecca. With over 1200 mags now available to buy at a click of a mouse, and 4000 in total set for upload in the next two months, mag nation is the MONOCLE of the mag retail world.
My Penguin
We're not quite sure how Penguin arrived at this genius marketing ploy, but we can speculate that it was one of the following incidents:
1) The copyright on stock images of neo-classical and renaissance paintings expired.
2) The marketing honchos at Penguin were so obsessed with their new Adicolor sneakers that this was the next logical step.
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